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OpenAI News Sep 28 Score 0.9476496736111112

Towards safety cases for frontier AI training

Our early guidelines for safety cases in frontier AI training cover technical safeguards, operational practices, and investigating misalignment incidents

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OpenAI News Sep 28 Score 0.9476496736111112

How we will do better for Australia

OpenAI apologises for incidents involving Australian government websites and outlines stronger safeguards and support to strengthen Australia’s cyber defences.

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Krebs on Security Sep 28 Score 0.9412309152777779

Dutch Police Arrest 'Reformed' Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest, remaining ShinyHunters me

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OpenAI News Sep 28 Score 0.9159830069444446

Basis completes a tax workbook 2x faster with GPT-6 Astra

GPT-6 Astra completed a 50-tab tax workbook twice as fast as GPT-5.6 Sol, and its stronger understanding of user intent gives Basis more confidence in real-world use.

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OpenAI News Sep 28 Score 0.9159830069444446

Are you a Codex Original?

We’re collecting real stories of builders, tinkerers, researchers, and creators who are using Codex to do incredible things. If you want to be a part of the next chapter of the Codex Originals program, tell us more about your story and project below.

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Schneier on Security Sep 29 Score 0.8993800837962962

Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal

Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability: Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their accounts on other devices, such as laptops o

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8975643138888888

The True Meaning of Russia’s Sham Election

Even rigged elections used to be an outlet for discontent. That avenue is now closed.

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8959948694444444

Turkey Is Turning Its Breadbasket Into an Oil Hub

As wars disrupt traditional export routes, Ankara is moving quickly to capitalize—at the expense of the last standing heartland of the Fertile Crescent.

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8936337583333333

Why Nobody Can End the War in Ukraine

It’s in everyone’s interest to stop the fighting. That’s still not enough.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 28 Score 0.8778615648148147

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Claude Sonnet 5.5 New Sonnet model from Anthropic today. They say it "runs 30%+ faster, and costs up to 30% less for most work" - it's priced the same as Sonnet 5 but appears to beat it on every benchmark, and should be cheaper to run as well. Here are some pe

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Foreign Policy Sep 28 Score 0.875437462037037

What Xi Actually Thinks of Trump

China’s president has likely concluded that the U.S. under Trump has lost its way.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 28 Score 0.8729745277777777

Quoting @joedaroo

To say that we were surprised at the jump and suddenness of the capabilities of our models when it came to “cyber” or “swarming” or “message boards” or anything else related to the incidents is an understatement. Security posture takes time to develop. It’s no

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Quanta Magazine Sep 28 Score 0.865297437037037

Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture

After a long hiatus, the problem, which was likely inspired by juggling, has finally been resolved by a group of young mathematicians. The post Mathematicians Harness Randomness To Crack a 55-Year-Old Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Krebs on Security Sep 25 Score 0.8322230449074075

U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay

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MIT Technology Review Sep 29 Score 0.8243163671296297

Coming soon: Our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch

Earlier this month, the UN announced the planet will tip past 1.5 ˚C of warming, “likely within the next few years,” squashing any lingering hope that nations would cut emissions fast enough to achieve the loftiest goal of the Paris climate agreement. In the U

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Wired Sep 29 Score 0.8238996699074075

How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry

Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.

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MIT Technology Review Sep 29 Score 0.8238649782407408

Making AI an asset, not an expense

When customers talk about AI costs, the conversation usually starts with token prices and ends with access to the latest, most capable model in the cloud. Do they always need that level of capability? Not necessarily. But that is often where the conversation g

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Wired Sep 29 Score 0.8236598550925927

OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns

The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.

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The Verge Sep 29 Score 0.8226496587962964

Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think

You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively

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War on the Rocks Sep 29 Score 0.8193286166666668

The Unhedgeable Bet: What the Future Combat Systems Can Teach Us About Acquisition

The Pentagon describes Golden Dome for America as a "system of systems," an integrated air and missile defense architecture that combines space-based sensors, orbital interceptors, ground systems, and a command network designed to defeat any aerial attack

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War on the Rocks Sep 29 Score 0.8180869500000001

The Manhattan Project Mindset: How Nuclear Analogies Are Steering AI Policy Off Course

Analogies for artificial intelligence abound. In recent years, analysts have likened the development of AI to the advent of electricity, the Industrial Revolution, contact with extraterrestrials, and at least fifty other things. One analogy, however, appears t

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The Verge Sep 29 Score 0.8076496583333334

Nothing’s new flagship Headphone 1 Pro put you in the studio

Nothing has been on a bit of an audio tear this year, releasing the solid Headphone A and the surprisingly good Ear 3A earbuds. The Headphone A released at $199, while the earbuds are under $100, leaving room for something fancier. That something is the Nothin

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 28 Score 0.8036374476851853

Apple Emergency Patch for iOS 26, macOS26, macOS15 (CVE-2026-86950), (Mon, Sep 28th)

Apple today released patches for all of its operating systems. However, only patches for older branches include a security fix. The vulnerability being addressed in iOS 26, macOS 26 and macOS 15 is already being exploited. iOS and macOS 27 are not affected. To

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MIT Technology Review Sep 28 Score 0.803125162962963

Roundtables: The Deadly Failures of The Virtual Border Wall

Listen to the session or watch below The US has spent billions building a “virtual wall” of surveillance towers along its southern border over the past 25 years, promising they will help detect and apprehend border crossers and save lives. But a groundbreaking

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The Verge Sep 28 Score 0.8018603064814815

AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion

AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months.

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BleepingComputer Sep 28 Score 0.8008930750000001

Japan's Keio confirms ransomware attack disrupted business systems

Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 28 Score 0.7990148342592593

Dutch police confirm arrest in ShinyHunters hacking investigation

Dutch police have confirmed that a 24-year-old Amsterdam man arrested earlier this month was detained as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]

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The Verge Sep 28 Score 0.7985218805555556

Bose starts adding Auracast to its headphones

A new firmware update for the $449 Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 adds support for Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast as beta features. The flagship Ultra headphones are the first from Bose to support the audio sharing technology, which the company plan

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The Verge Sep 28 Score 0.7972329916666667

OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up

OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 29 Score 0.7868159250000001

Follow the Cash! Microstructure of Repo Markets

The repo market in the U.S. is a mosaic of segments with distinct participants and various settlement and clearing practices. Why do large cash lenders typically settle their trades through a third-party agent? Why does the interdealer market clear through a c

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Schneier on Security Sep 25 Score 0.7562111023148147

Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee

I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Center. Designed for curious learners of al

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Eurogamer Sep 29 Score 0.7484130268518518

Wardogs early access review

It took me four attempts to successfully parachute into a Wardogs match. On the first try, I opened my parachute far too early, and was promptly sniped from the sky by one of the many sharpshooters that populate Wardogs' battlefield. The second time, I pulled

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Sep 29 Score 0.7476712555555556

OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture

We introduce OperTraitor, a tool to audit privileges of Kubernetes operators, identify excessive RBAC risks, and secure non-human identities. The post OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture appeared first on Unit 42 .

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 29 Score 0.7475932944444444

The ice blasting from Saturn's moon Enceladus is stranger than scientists realized

Enceladus may naturally separate and concentrate chemicals from its hidden ocean as droplets slowly freeze and shatter on their way into space. The process could explain Cassini’s puzzling ice-grain chemistry while giving future spacecraft a powerful advantage

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InfoQ Sep 29 Score 0.7463714509259259

Presentation: From Staff Platform Engineer to a 16z Founder: What I Wish I'd Known

Gonzalo Maldonado explains how technical leaders can translate engineering skills into startup success using his "VC Abstraction Layer Knowledge" (VALK). He shares hard-won lessons on finding product-market fit, structuring pitches like technical docs, avoidin

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InfoQ Sep 29 Score 0.7459825620370371

Cloudflare Worker Previews: Per-Branch Environments for Workers

Cloudflare has introduced Worker Previews. This feature allows each Git branch to have its own isolated, production-like environment for a Worker. Each environment has a stable URL. It also has its own configuration and unique state for each branch. Plus, ther

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InfoQ Sep 29 Score 0.7459825620370371

Atlassian Rebuilds Metrics Pipeline Around OpenTelemetry at Massive Scale

Software company Atlassian has published an account of its migration from gostatsd to OpenTelemetry, replacing the internal workings of a metrics platform that receives data from about 100,000 hosts across 14 regions. The existing service had a 99.95% SLO, so

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Quanta Magazine Sep 25 Score 0.7454386407407406

Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality?

The biggest breakthrough in modern theoretical physics is the discovery that gravity can collapse the dimensions of space. Physicists don’t yet understand the implications. The post Gravity Seems Holographic. What Does That Mean for Reality? first appeared on

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The Hacker News Sep 29 Score 0.7452925550925926

Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation

Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," t

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 29 Score 0.7395594981481481

Earth’s day isn’t exactly 24 hours. The reason may lie deep inside the planet

Scientists may have solved why the length of Earth’s day changes by a few milliseconds over decades. Subtle shifts in the inner core appear to tug on the mantle, revealing a surprisingly dynamic world thousands of kilometers beneath our feet.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 29 Score 0.7387284796296296

NASA’s Crew-13 could go from Florida to the ISS in under 9 hours

NASA and SpaceX could launch four astronauts to the International Space Station on October 1, with the Dragon spacecraft reaching orbiting outpost less than nine hours after liftoff. Crew-13 will join Expedition 75 after teams complete a final round of intensi

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7377878685185185

APOD: 2026 September 29 – Sh2-188: The Shrimp Nebula

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 29 –… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featu

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7376767574074075

Fire Cloud with a Pileus on Top

Scientists captured rare observations of an ephemeral pileus cloud hovering over a smoke-infused cloud that rose above a wildfire in Montana.

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MIT News — AI Sep 29 Score 0.7376496185185185

Who we become when we talk to machines

Professor Sherry Turkle’s new book, “Artificial Intimacy,” offers a withering critique of chatbots and the antisocial dynamics she believes they encourage.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 29 Score 0.7372502388888889

This suitcase-sized spacecraft could hear the universe before stars existed

CosmoCube will use the far side of the Moon as a shield from Earth’s radio noise to search for a faint signal from the universe before the first stars existed. The suitcase-sized satellite could reveal how the cosmic dark ages ended and how dark matter helped

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Sep 29 Score 0.7363261648148148

Scientists expected these Galápagos sea turtles to wander. They stayed put

Yellow-morph green sea turtles in the Galápagos surprised scientists by staying remarkably close to home instead of making the long journeys typically associated with sea turtles. Satellite tracking showed that none left the marine reserve during the study, re

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7334230537037038

Mars Has Its Charmes

Written by Athanasios (Thanos) Klidaras, Ph.D. candidate at Purdue University Sept. 21, 2026 After a long hiatus, the Perseverance rover updates page is back. A lot has happened on Mars in the meantime, and with regular updates now resuming, there is plenty to

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NASA News Sep 28 Score 0.7290082388888889

October’s Night Sky Notes: Spooky Stargazing

The Ghoul Located within the constellation Perseus lies a star called Algol, also known as ‘Demon Star’ or ‘The Ghoul’. You can spot this star during the autumn months, along with Cassiopeia and Andromeda in the northeastern sky, beginning after 9 PM. In Greek

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Econbrowser Sep 28 Score 0.7289806481481481

Yields Up (Again), Yield Curve Steepening

As of today's close: Figure 1: Change since 2/27 in ten year Treasury yields (blue), in ten year TIPS (red), in %. Source: Treasury. Yields all along the spectrum have risen since the start of the US-Iran war.   Figure 2: Treasury yields, %. Source: Treas

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GitHub Blog Sep 28 Score 0.7226494407407408

How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent

A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app. The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent appeared fi

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GitHub Blog Sep 28 Score 0.7199702740740741

Highlights from Git 2.56

The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub's look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. The post Highlights from Git 2.56 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Econbrowser Sep 28 Score 0.7176014814814815

Bond Yields: Two Pictures

Over 5.2%: Part of the reason?   Source: NABE Policy Survey, 28 Sep 26. Who would'a thunk a massive tax cut, open ended war, and slamming the economy with mass deportation, tariffs and uncertainty would result in this outcome?

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FRED Blog Sep 28 Score 0.7126492212962963

What is the Treasury general account?

The takeaway When you hear commentary on the federal government's financial situation, the information is often based on the money flowing into and out of the Treasury general account. The US government's checking account As with any household or business, 

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Lobsters Sep 29 Score 0.7086941578703703

CoW — a stacking window manager for Wayland

A stacking window manager using River as the compositor. The aims of CoW are to represent the 90s look-and-feel of FVWM and MWM, while also allowing for more modern styles as well. (...) CoW is developed in C, (...). Why is this called Cow? Because originally,

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Marginal Revolution Sep 29 Score 0.7049709203703702

Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences Revisited

Also known as Why I Do Not Believe in the Housing Theory of Everything: Development accounting is the search for proximate sources of cross-country income differences. This article describes how knowledge in this field has evolved over the two decades since th

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Marginal Revolution Sep 29 Score 0.7015385129629629

The Macroeconomic Effect of AI through software engineering

We measure how artificial intelligence (AI) affects the economy through its impact on software engineering productivity. We use information from financial markets to develop a forward-looking measure that is available in real time. We estimate the sensitivity

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Google Cloud Blog Sep 28 Score 0.680148973148148

Why your startup needs open models alongside frontier APIs

Every week, I talk with founders who are building at an unbelievable pace. Teams are moving from inception to product-market fit faster than ever, with foundation models wired deeply into their core product workflows. Yet as startup architectures mature, a cle

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