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OpenAI News Sep 30 Score 0.9322271407407409

Helping small businesses put AI to work

OpenAI is partnering with America’s SBDC to expand hands-on AI training and local support for small businesses, alongside a new report on how small teams are using AI.

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Schneier on Security Oct 1 Score 0.8990662134259259

Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform

Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports , evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers: To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy policies and asked questions of 15 different autom

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 1 Score 0.8913664384259259

Quoting Matthew Green

[...] Put these pieces together and you have the two halves of a worm: a payload that hijacks the agent, and an agent that will carry the payload to the next agent. Agents in separately-isolated sandboxes discovered that they could leave instructions for each

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 30 Score 0.8770692162037036

He Built This City

I visited the Museum of the City of New York today and got to see He Built This City: Joe Macken’s Model , the 50 x27 feet model of the city built over a 21 year period from balsa wood and cardboard. It exceeded my already high expectations. The exhibition clo

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Foreign Policy Sep 30 Score 0.8747691379629629

U.S. Forces Leave Behind a Power Vacuum in Iraq

Washington’s adversaries, including Iran and the Islamic State, are likely to take advantage of the pullout.

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Foreign Policy Sep 30 Score 0.872742286111111

Trump Unleashed

How the U.S. president might escalate against Iran after the midterm elections.

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Google DeepMind Blog Sep 30 Score 0.8656470342592592

Introducing SynthID Bio

Proof of concept for watermarking AI-generated proteins while preserving biological function.

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Quanta Magazine Sep 30 Score 0.8653428268518517

Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings

Unexpected patterns traveling across the human brain may be reorganizing its activity in real time. The post Surprisingly Complex Waves Reveal the Brain’s Inner Workings first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.828489586574074

Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal

Tool: Photo Scrubber — local face blur & metadata removal I took a photograph of some protesters, then thought about how I don't like sharing photographs of strangers with identifiable faces. I had GPT-6 Astra build this experimental tool that would identify f

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BleepingComputer Oct 1 Score 0.8242949143518519

Microsoft enables Windows settings backup by default for orgs

Microsoft announced that Windows settings backup and restore is now enabled by default on all Microsoft Entra-joined or Microsoft Entra hybrid-joined enterprise systems upgraded to Windows 11 26H2. [...]

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Wired Oct 1 Score 0.8239771837962964

Tractive Cat 6 Mini Review: A Fitbit for Your Cat

Cats are finally getting the dog treatment. This smart cat collar features GPS location, activity, and sleep tracking, plus all-new heart and respiratory rate monitoring.

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The Verge Oct 1 Score 0.8226660930555556

Huawei made a whole camera to attach to its latest phone

Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own could never match. Today, Huawei one-upped

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The Verge Oct 1 Score 0.8225461856481482

Lemmo’s fancy e-bike is one of the first with a semi-solid state battery

The Lemmo 3 is the first cargo bike from the respected German e-bike maker. This premium, step-through longtail is a slightly less insane take on Rivian's Also TM-B, with one major advantage: it's one of the first electric bikes to feature a semi-solid state b

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The Verge Oct 1 Score 0.8222281300925927

The People of Utah vs. Kevin O'Leary

On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents.  For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his project, called Wonder Valley, after his

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MIT Technology Review Oct 1 Score 0.8222271824074074

How smaller, distributed batteries could help the grid

If you want to install a big battery in New York City, you have to cut through a notoriously tough tangle of regulations. That’s made it difficult to get large energy storage projects on the grid. Faced with those obstacles, some startups are getting creative,

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BleepingComputer Oct 1 Score 0.8217949143518519

Hackers stole Pentagon personnel records of over 3 million people

The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of military service members that hackers stole their data after breaching the Pentagon's human resources management system in October 2025. [...]

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The Verge Oct 1 Score 0.8205623893518519

Noise from Universal's latest ride made rich locals furious, fast

Universal Studios Hollywood has pledged to erect another sound barrier around its latest attraction after local residents complained about the bloodcurdling screams from riders. In a meeting attended by at least 350 people yesterday, park execs also promised t

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War on the Rocks Oct 1 Score 0.8189158300925926

MacGyver at Scale: Winning Future Air Wars of Rapid Technological Adaptation

During a recent training exercise in the western Pacific, a small group of engineers single-handedly saved the day.In the scenario, adversary covert forces used first-person view drones to intercept American helicopters that were shuttling between austere forw

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War on the Rocks Oct 1 Score 0.8180653671296297

School of War or School of Battle? Educating for an Uncertain Future

In 1901, military analyst Jan Bloch declared that new military technologies had changed war so radically that the study of history had become useless. He castigated military officers who prepared for future war based on "musty precedents" and who failed to rec

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 1 Score 0.8147879305555557

ScreenConnect Client (Ab)used by Attackers, (Thu, Oct 1st)

Threat Actors do not always use top-notch techniques or very complex malware to perform their attacks. Sometimes, they just abuse of existing applications...

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Foreign Affairs Oct 1 Score 0.8122269125000001

The AI Autocrat

How technology empowers—and imperils—dictators.

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The Verge Oct 1 Score 0.8088938708333334

Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback

It's a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo's X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it's ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned. The X Fold 6 is much the same size as Vivo

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BleepingComputer Sep 30 Score 0.798594451388889

DIVD says Zammad zero-days enabled AI-driven network breach

The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) says that the breach of its network was possible by exploiting a chain of two zero-day vulnerabilities in the open-source Zammad ticketing system. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 30 Score 0.7922258361111112

Forecasting space weather risks on power grids

Extreme space-weather events can damage power systems on Earth and degrade GPS accuracy and satellite operations. A new machine learning system can predict where damage is likely to occur 30-60 minutes before a storm arrives. The post Forecasting space weather

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

Impact of Adults’ College Completion on their Parents’ Mortality: Evidence from the 1993 Korean Higher Education Reform -- by Ah-Reum Lee, William H. Dow, Jacqueline M. Torres

A large literature examines the economic and health returns to college education. We extend this literature by studying the upward intergenerational effects of children’s education on parental mortality. We exploit Korea’s 1993 Higher Education Reform, which w

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NBER New Working Papers Oct 1 Score 0.7875000000000001

An LLM Workflow That Reproduces, Improves, and Extends Published Economics Research -- by Matthew Schwartz, Isaiah Andrews, Jesse M. Shapiro

We introduce an open-source workflow that enables an LLM to reproduce, improve, and extend an economics article using the article’s published replication package. First, the workflow attempts to reproduce the original calculations, checks for discrepancies wit

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 1 Score 0.7863932240740742

Navigating Geoeconomic Risk in the U.S. Stock Market

Geoeconomic risk—the risk that firms incur valuation losses when countries deploy economic, trade, or financial leverage for geopolitical aims—has become a first-order concern for investors. In this post, based on our recent Staff Report , we document that dom

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MIT Technology Review Sep 30 Score 0.7858382935185186

The Download: OpenAI’s chief research officer explains its hacking response

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. “We’re not going to shoot ourselves in the foot” over hack fallout, says OpenAI’s chief research officer Two months after

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Sep 30 Score 0.785559588425926

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-76504 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector

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Schneier on Security Sep 28 Score 0.7789754726851851

New Attack Against RSA

ArsTechnica is reporting on a "new" attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring. First, this attack isn't new. The original research is from 2007 . What is new is the implementation. Second, it is a forgery attack. It allows an attacker to forge digital si

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 30 Score 0.7597027925925927

Alleged hacker arrested over leak that exposed GTA Online's daily revenue

Dutch police have arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with an investigation into ShinyHunters, the hacking group the FBI says was behind a data breach that exposed confidential GTA Online revenue figures earlier this year. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Sep 30 Score 0.7575912185185186

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma insists "Xbox is not for sale"

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma has pushed back on speculation that Microsoft could spin off its games division, telling the New York Times : "Xbox is not for sale." Read more

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One Useful Thing Oct 1 Score 0.7487325013888889

The Dot and the Swarm

Benefitting from the Bitter Lesson

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The Hacker News Oct 1 Score 0.7484096675925926

OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of

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Eurogamer Oct 1 Score 0.7483348162037037

New Uncharted game reportedly in the works at Naughty Dog, and it's not a remake

Uncharted series developer Naughty Dog is reportedly early in development on a new game in the action-adventure series. That's according to a report from MP1st , which said the game is bringing back series protagonist Nathan Drake in some form, suggesting he m

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Eurogamer Oct 1 Score 0.7483149087962963

Here are our PS Plus monthly games for October 2026

Sony has revealed the games coming this month to PlayStation Plus, which are available to everyone from 6th October. Read more

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The Hacker News Oct 1 Score 0.7481504083333333

CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulner

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InfoQ Oct 1 Score 0.7464766875

Presentation: Keeping the Mainline Green Across Diverse Language Monorepos

Dhruva Juloori discusses how Uber maintains green mainlines across massive monorepos handling 65,000+ monthly changes. He explains how SubmitQueue uses binary speculation trees, conflict analysis, and machine learning models to predict build success and execut

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Wired — Security Oct 1 Score 0.7463929819444445

The Secrets of the US Spyware King

In an exclusive interview with WIRED, Paragon Solutions CEO Andrew Boyd reveals the limits of the company’s promise to keep bad actors from abusing its powerful espionage tool.

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New Scientist Oct 1 Score 0.7438925976851852

Can mathematicians still refuse to use AI at this point?

There’s no question AI has transformed the field of mathematics in the past few months. Columnist Jacob Aron wonders if it will soon be impossible to be an AI refusenik and continue working in the field

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InfoQ Oct 1 Score 0.7414211319444445

Container Apps Express Reaches GA on a Newly Generally Available Sandbox Layer

Microsoft has made Azure Container Apps Express generally available alongside Container Apps Sandboxes, the microVM compute layer it runs on. Express skips environment provisioning and scales to zero, with subsecond startup from prewarmed pools. Custom domains

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Econbrowser Oct 1 Score 0.7375649986111111

The Term Spread As Recession Predictor, Post-2024

Using a plain vanilla term spread model (spread, short rate), what remains? From notes for tomorrow's lecture. Figure 1: Estimated recession probabilities from probit on 10yr-3mo term spread, short rate over 1960-2018 (brown), over full sample (black). Red das

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NASA News Oct 1 Score 0.7373651509259259

APOD: 2026 October 1 – Harvest Moon with Erupting Mount Etna

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 1 –… 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 featured

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NASA News Sep 30 Score 0.7299424657407407

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5016–5021: Fantastic Minerals and How To Detect Them

Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 18, 2026 Curiosity surprised us at the beginning of the week with a change in rock texture — instead of the finely layered bedrock blocks we’ve been

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New Scientist Sep 30 Score 0.728920375462963

Anglo-Saxons got special treatment in medieval Rome

A small hoard of medieval English coins found near the Vatican in Rome suggests that early English residents held a privileged status in the holy city

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AWS Blog Sep 30 Score 0.7275045027777778

Amazon S3 Tables now support all Apache Iceberg V3 data types

Amazon S3 Tables now support all data types in the Apache Iceberg V3 spec, along with column default values, deletion vectors, and row lineage. Upgrade existing V2 tables or create new V3 tables with built-in compaction, maintenance, and engine compatibility.

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NASA News Sep 30 Score 0.726102650925926

Help Overlap Zoo Reveal Cosmic Dust

Galaxies, vast collections of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity, are scattered across the immensity of space. But every so often, a coincidence occurs: Two galaxies line up from our point of view on Earth (or from a space telescope) and

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NASA News Sep 30 Score 0.7258757990740741

NASA Adds New Science Investigations for Moon Base

Editor's note: This release was updated on Sept. 30, 2026, to correct the name of the DISCO payload. NASA selected three new scientific investigations and their payload suites to advance our knowledge of the Moon and help pave the way for building humanity’s f

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Econbrowser Sep 30 Score 0.7220353689814815

Business Cycle Indicators: Real GDP, Personal Income Trajectory Revised Up

Q2 GDP growth revised up 0.7 ppts, path of personal income ex-transfers up due to revised deflator. Here are the key indicators followed by the NBER's Business Cycle Dating Committee: Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed popu

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AWS Blog Sep 30 Score 0.7190068175925926

Celebrating Our Newest AWS Heroes – September 2026

Today, we’re excited to introduce the newest members of the AWS Heroes program. AWS Heroes are a vibrant, worldwide group of AWS experts who go above and beyond to share knowledge, mentor others, and build thriving communities. These individuals make a real di

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Martin Fowler Sep 30 Score 0.7142822467592592

Principles for effective slides

Not every presentation needs slides, but when they earn their place, they work as a visual channel that complements the speaker rather than replacing them. Sumeet Gayathri Moghe sets out the principles that follow from that idea — control over the rate

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CNCF Blog Oct 1 Score 0.7122267472222221

Guardrails, not gates: rethinking policy in platform teams

The most popular OPA-based policy tool for Kubernetes is literally called Gatekeeper. Admission controllers block. Policies deny. Kyverno's enforcement setting is validationFailureAction: Enforce, which at least sounds neutral, but the failure mode it describe

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