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OpenAI News Sep 29 Score 0.9329899032407408

DevDay 2026 Recap

Explore more than 20 announcements from OpenAI DevDay 2026, including GPT-6 Astra, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, security, and new tools for builders.

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OpenAI News Sep 29 Score 0.9329899032407408

Introducing GPT-6.1 Sol

Meet GPT-6.1 Sol: near-Astra intelligence for coding, computer use, and professional work at one-fifth of Astra’s standard API input and output token prices.

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OpenAI News Sep 29 Score 0.9163232365740741

Introducing dots

Dots by OpenAI are proactive assistants that can keep working across complex projects and everyday tasks. Learn how dots help you stay in control while work moves forward.

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Schneier on Security Sep 30 Score 0.8998111013888888

I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior

AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don't want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I've been calling " genie behavior ," because I think that really gets at the core of wh

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Foreign Policy Sep 30 Score 0.8979944069444443

Thailand’s Demographic Crisis Arrives Early

The country faces a plummeting birth rate sooner than some of its global south peers.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.878558323611111

Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team

We evaluate several models on 100 tasks from the [internal Binary Exploitation benchmark] (selected at random), and find that GLM-5.3 develops full control flow hijacks in 4% of the trials; Claude Mythos Preview did so in 6%. Although GLM-5.3 performs below Cl

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8773504254629628

Spain’s Housing Reform

Mass protests over an 87-year-old’s eviction prompt new proposed legislation.

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8772994995370369

Was Xi’s U.S. Visit a Bust?

In the U.S.-China relationship at present, nothing might be better than something.

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Foreign Policy Sep 29 Score 0.8761050550925925

Is Egypt’s Diplomacy Clever or Clumsy?

Regional wars have required Cairo to maneuver between competing demands.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.8720953606481481

GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price

My comment on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price — Hacker News. I'm a bit late with the pelicans because I was live-blogging the keynote: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-liv... Here they are for GPT-6.1

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.8678569347222221

OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog

I'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote. Tags: ai , openai , generative-ai

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 29 Score 0.8329460375

Investing for babies involves knotty trade-offs

Should new parents favour financial capital, human capital or something else?

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 29 Score 0.8306552967592592

The AI boom meets a new kind of crypto scam

Payment cards linked to cryptocurrency accounts may enable Chinese purchases of American AI models

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BleepingComputer Sep 30 Score 0.8249828407407408

Bitget hacked via zero-day in third-party security products

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget revealed today that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week breached its systems after exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party security products. [...]

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The Verge Sep 30 Score 0.824973200925926

Apple’s 'HomePad' will reportedly launch on October 13th

Apple's long-rumored smart home hub will reportedly be unveiled on October 13th. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the smart-home device will be revealed alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device. All three products are set to showcase Si

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Wired Sep 30 Score 0.8238232087962963

Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads

From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.

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War on the Rocks Sep 30 Score 0.8188447620370372

Rated Ready is Not Ready: What America’s Korea Exercises Actually Measure

"We want to stop the North Koreans as far from Pusan as we can. Block the main road as far north as possible. Contact General Church. If you can't locate him, go to Taejon and beyond if you can. Sorry I can't give you more information. That's all I've got. Goo

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War on the Rocks Sep 30 Score 0.8184304101851853

Writing the Playbook: A Strategy and Doctrine for American Economic Security

In January, this article series opened with a blunt question: Economic statecraft is back, but is America ready?Driving the question, in part, was the fact that the United States had not yet articulated (at least overtly) a strategy for economic statecraft. Th

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BleepingComputer Sep 30 Score 0.8074601555555556

Microsoft is rolling out Linux container support to WSL

Microsoft is taking Windows Subsystem for Linux beyond just running Linux distributions, as WSL Containers is now generally available. [...]

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The Verge Sep 30 Score 0.8068569972222223

Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe

For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had

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The Verge Sep 29 Score 0.8037051453703704

Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’

The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive order signed by Pres

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The Verge Sep 29 Score 0.8030176453703705

BMW’s revamped i3 boasts up to 468 miles of range

When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot of important details, like battery capacity, range, and price. Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in

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The Verge Sep 29 Score 0.8027264416666667

Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands

Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, and more recently, the FBI. In a press release, Dutch authoritie

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BleepingComputer Sep 29 Score 0.8021596925925927

Signal adds encypted local backup support to iOS, desktop apps

Signal, the secure messaging app, released version 8.30, completing the rollout of its secure backups feature across all supported operating systems (Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows). [...]

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BleepingComputer Sep 29 Score 0.8013129333333334

Custom ChatGPTs push ClickFix attacks to deploy RAT malware

Custom variants of OpenAI's ChatGPT promoted in sponsored Google results are directing unsuspecting users to malicious sites that use ClickFix attacks to deliver malware. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 29 Score 0.7896563236111112

Introducing Quine: An AI research system designed for the complexity of biology

Biology doesn't operate in silos, and neither should the AI representation of it. Quine is an early-stage research effort to create a multimodal world model of biology. By connecting insights across biological scales and modalities, Quine helps scientists comp

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SANS Internet Storm Center Sep 29 Score 0.7888100861111111

Scans for Wordfence Protected Websites, (Tue, Sep 29th)

Starting yesterday, our sensors picked up a small number of scans for "wordfence-waf.php". This particular script is used by Wordfence, a solution to protect WordPress sites. During the Wordfence install, the wordpress-waf.php file will be created in the site&

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Liberty Street Economics Sep 30 Score 0.7871561546296297

The Role of Repos in Monetary Policy Implementation

In the first two posts of this three-part series, we discussed private market participants that are active in repo markets for profit-making motives. Central banks are also active repo market participants, but their reasons often differ from those of private p

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MIT Technology Review Sep 29 Score 0.7866010282407409

The Download: climate tech companies to watch and AI’s discovery problem

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 29 Score 0.7863225462962964

Anjvision YSSD-RTMP-H5

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access sensitive information, access user accounts, execute OS-level commands, or take full control over the device. The following versions of Anjvision YSSD-RTMP-H5

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 29 Score 0.7863225462962964

VIVOTEK Camera Firmware

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow attackers to achieve remote command execution on affected devices, potentially with root privileges, leading to full compromise of the camera system. The following versions of VIVOTEK Ca

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 29 Score 0.7863225462962964

MikroTik RouterOS

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a denial of service. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS are affected: RouterOS CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 29 Score 0.7863225462962964

Baicells Nova 430H

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malformed messages which may lead to a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of Baicells Nova 430H are affected: Nova 430H eNodeB (model pBS3101SH)

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 29 Score 0.7532584111111112

How indie studios can survive industry volatility | Opinion

Denis Fedorov founded Unfrozen, the studio behind Iratus: Lord of the Dead and Heroes of Might & Magic: Olden Era. He also leads Nova Assembly, a holding company co-owned and run by five studios that share development and marketing expertise, while retaining t

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InfoQ Sep 30 Score 0.7496560921296296

Presentation: Context Is the New Code

Patrick Debois discusses how to manage, evaluate, distribute, and observe context using proven software engineering practices. He shares how treating context like code - complete with testing, CI/CD, package managers, and security scanning - enables engineerin

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Rest of World Sep 30 Score 0.7479898944444444

AI companies want to embed safety evaluators, but countries need their own

At a Rest of World event in New York last week, speakers explored how countries sidelined by the U.S.-China race can retain some control over safety standards as they adopt models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and others.

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New Scientist Sep 30 Score 0.7463220583333333

The best new science-fiction books of October 2026

From Becky Chambers to Audrey Niffenegger, there are some heavy hitters with new sci-fi novels out this month – and a hefty dose of time travel, says Alison Flood

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New Scientist Sep 30 Score 0.7446553916666667

Explainer: What is El Niño?

Every few years, a disturbance in the Pacific Ocean is amplified by feedback mechanisms in the atmosphere, unleashing heat and extreme weather around the globe

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InfoQ Sep 30 Score 0.7417672032407407

Agents Refactor 300K Lines in Three Weeks, and Practitioners Ask What It Proves

CodeScene has published a case study in which coding agents refactored 300,000 lines of C over three weeks for roughly $4,000 in tokens, verified by a frame-by-frame replay harness. The agents built a playbook of codebase-specific recipes along the way. Practi

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NASA News Sep 30 Score 0.7381280129629629

APOD: 2026 September 30 – Arp 78: Peculiar Galaxy in Aries

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 September 30 –… 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 30 Score 0.7380169018518519

Powerful Storms Continue to Prowl the Pacific

Hurricanes Polo and Nolo sent destructive effects ashore amid an active season in the northeastern and central Pacific.

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7270983833333333

NASA Opens 2027 Human Lander Challenge for Lunar Communications

NASA’s 2027 Human Lander Challenge is seeking ideas from college and university students to help address one of the most critical needs for sustained lunar exploration: reliable communications. As NASA prepares for long-term human presence on the Moon through

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7263224574074074

NASA Awards Orbital Safety Analysis Support Services Contract

NASA has awarded a contract to Omitron Inc. for the acquisition of orbital safety analysis services, which provide for critical protection of NASA spaceflight assets and astronaut lives. This indefinite-delivery contract is valued at approximately $23.5 millio

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NASA News Sep 29 Score 0.7261946796296296

NASA Features Exploration, Science at International Space Conference

NASA will participate in the 77th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Antalya, Türkiye, from Monday, Oct. 5, to Friday, Oct. 9, highlighting America’s leadership in human exploration to the Moon and Mars, advancing responsible exploration under the A

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Econbrowser Sep 29 Score 0.7232541888888889

Strategic Petroleum Reserves through 9/18

From EIA: From Bloomberg today: The US ordered another release of oil from emergency reserves — and urged European nations to do likewise — as the Trump administration grapples with fuel prices that are surging less than two months before the midterm elections

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InfoQ Sep 29 Score 0.722989425462963

Amazon CloudWatch Omni Extends CloudWatch into the Agent Era

Recently launched, Amazon CloudWatch Omni is an AI-first observability platform designed to monitor, evaluate, and troubleshoot applications and autonomous AI agents in a unified environment. By Sergio De Simone

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Econbrowser Sep 29 Score 0.7224240962962963

Diesel up 67.5% Relative to Pre-War

From the Gasoline and Diesel Fuel Update: A slight respite, but oil prices have risen again, so probably brief. Costs for trucking: Source: WSJ.

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Econbrowser Sep 29 Score 0.7182495592592593

Confidence Slips (Way) Below Consensus

Conference Board index registers 81.9 vs consensus 89.2 (and previous 88.6). It's currently three standard deviations below mean. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment, using Cummings Tedeschi adjustment (blue), Conference Board Confidence Index (brown), Gal

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GitHub Blog Sep 29 Score 0.7163230004629629

Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead

Explore GitHub’s latest transparency data and learn more about policy updates affecting developers and open source. The post Developer policy update: Transparency, state policy, and what’s ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Sep 29 Score 0.7150449810185185

Cloudflare Adds Configurable HTTP Vary Header Support to Prevent Cache Thrashing

Cloudflare has implemented native support for the HTTP Vary header across its edge network, enhancing cache management for all customer plans. This feature allows for better negotiation of content representations while minimizing cache fragmentation. Operators

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Martin Fowler Sep 29 Score 0.7141839805555555

Bliki: Sensible Default

A Sensible Default is a practice that, absent some overriding context, should be used when carrying out a certain kind of task. In software development such sensible defaults might include things like “use version control”, “separate UI logic from domain logic

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Martin Fowler Sep 29 Score 0.7124617578703704

Fragments: September 29

Simon Willison: The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge Thi

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Lobsters Sep 30 Score 0.7067968921296296

OpenBSD's ports tree keeps GPL coreutils and rejects uutils (Rust rewrite)

A contributor proposed a new OpenBSD port for uutils, the Rust reimplementations of GNU coreutils. The proposal met firm resistance: Stuart Henderson called it unusable, explaining that GNU coreutils exists mainly to stabilize GNU-sensitive build environments.

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ESA — Space Science Sep 30 Score 0.7056277398148147

Science begins for Smile

On 23 September, the European-Chinese Smile mission was declared ready to start revealing how Earth responds to the wind of charged particles from the Sun. This follows a busy in-space commissioning period since the spacecraft launched on 19 May and reached it

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ESA — Space Science Sep 30 Score 0.7038221842592591

Happy New Year on Mars

30 September 2026 marks the start of a new year on Mars. At exactly 10:16 CEST/08:16 UTC on Earth, the Red Planet begins a new orbit around our Sun.

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