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OpenAI News Oct 2 Score 0.9553868064814816

A model guide for the GPT-6 family

Learn how startups can choose GPT-6 models, tune reasoning effort, improve prompts and skills, coordinate tools, and prepare workflows for production.

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Schneier on Security Oct 2 Score 0.8883671273148147

Friday Squid Blogging: EU is Trying to Fight Unregulated Squid Fishing

The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I'm not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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Foreign Policy Oct 2 Score 0.8841476486111111

The Illicit World of Sea Cucumbers

How a rare delicacy in Asia drives crime oceans away.

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Foreign Policy Oct 2 Score 0.8839758893518518

What in the World?

Test yourself on the week of Sept. 26: Trump pressures Zelensky, Venezuelans protest, and Morocco picks a new prime minister.

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Foreign Policy Oct 2 Score 0.8833175560185185

The Trauma Plot to Destroy America

A new book examines how narratives about psychological harm have come to dominate public life.

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Schneier on Security Oct 2 Score 0.8781023124999999

Unidentified Flock Cameras in Florida

St. Lucie County in Florida discovered ( alt link ) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can't identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance devices in Washington, DC,

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Quanta Magazine Oct 2 Score 0.8778874879629629

Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Turbulence

Scientists assumed that energy flows in only one direction in a turbulent system. What they didn’t know, until they looked closely at brine shrimp, was that a simple factor can reverse the flow. The post Sea Monkeys Show Scientists How To Rewrite a Rule of Tur

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The Guardian — World Oct 2 Score 0.8136499245370371

Brazil’s Lula says only he can stop rise of fascism under Bolsonaro’s son

President leads huge rally in Rio before election on Sunday seen as most important for decades The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has claimed he is the only thing standing in the way of far-right “fascists” reclaiming power, as he led a huge r

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The Verge Oct 2 Score 0.8135428453703705

Meta open sources code to let you make Muse AI gadgets

Meta now lets you make your own Muse gadgets that feature the company's new AI agent with code that the company open sourced. The company suggests projects like loading Muse on a color E Ink display to show reminders, adding it to an HDMI stick so you can disp

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The Verge Oct 2 Score 0.8124821972222223

Netflix is pivoting away from prestige

Many of Netflix's biggest critically acclaimed hits have been the products of its multiyear production deals with noted directors like David Fincher and Shawn Levy. In the past few weeks, though, the streamer has brought some of those partnerships to an end in

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The Verge Oct 2 Score 0.8118775675925927

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this e

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The Verge Oct 2 Score 0.8116460861111112

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk. The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-lon

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Wired — Security Oct 2 Score 0.8114312375

ICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir Database

DHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say.

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BleepingComputer Oct 2 Score 0.810016313888889

Frontline Education breach exposes school district employee data

Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security numbers. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 2 Score 0.8092204805555556

Warlock ransomware breach SharePoint in water, telecom operator attacks

The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university by exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain initial access. [...]

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The Verge Oct 2 Score 0.8083034935185186

OpenAI’s Dot agent is enterprise software that can also order your dinner

It's a tale as old as last week: OpenAI's new agent platform, called Dots, is full of cute little guys who can do your bidding. But unlike the ultra-approachable Meta Muse, Dots feel very much like using workplace software that happens to be able to order you

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MIT Technology Review Oct 2 Score 0.804666412962963

Redefining enterprise intelligence with autonomous AI

Enterprise AI is no longer a future ambition. It is in full operational flight. Model capabilities are advancing faster than most organizations can absorb, while the cost of performance continues to fall. Globally, AI investment is set to reach $2.5 trillion i

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BleepingComputer Oct 2 Score 0.8038834435185186

US sanctions Tren de Aragua gang members in ATM hacks crackdown

The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned eight members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) for their role in the theft of millions of dollars in ATM jackpotting attacks across the United States. [...]

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The Guardian — World Oct 2 Score 0.8036749245370371

US Coast Guard says it intercepted ship carrying fuel to Cuba

US says ship thought to be using common ‘dark fleet’ tactics was boarded and taken to Mexico as embargo continues The US Coast ⁠Guard has announced that it intercepted a large cargo ship carrying fuel bound for Cuba , as the ⁠Trump administration’s crippling ⁠

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BleepingComputer Oct 2 Score 0.8016413138888889

The EDR blind spot: 3 ways browser attacks evade endpoint telemetry

Browser-based attacks can steal sessions, abuse extensions, or manipulate users without creating the endpoint artifacts EDR is designed to detect. NordLayer explains three ways attacks can evade endpoint telemetry and why browser-level controls can help close

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MIT Technology Review Oct 2 Score 0.7985812277777778

The Download: a biological de-aging contest and why LLMs don't reason

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. A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth —Jessica Hamzelou This week, I officially

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 2 Score 0.7983031912037037

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-102489 Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability CVE-2026-102490 Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper Privilege Mana

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MIT Technology Review Oct 2 Score 0.79330345

A new contest pits competitors against each other in a race to biological youth

This week, I officially signed up for an unusual competition. One that rewards competitors for getting younger. I recently turned 40, and I don’t need reminding that both time and my chronological age only tick forward. But this game is focused on competitors’

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Schneier on Security Sep 30 Score 0.7917916638888888

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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MIT Technology Review Oct 2 Score 0.7916367833333334

Don’t be fooled—LLMs don’t reason

On an afternoon in Seoul in March 2016, I watched a program I helped build put a stone on the fifth line of a Go board in what looked like a gift to its human opponent. Move 37 in game two of the five-game match looked so absurd that some commentators thought

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.7705386731481481

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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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 2 Score 0.7663567574074075

Sony's consultation on physical media: better late than never | Opinion

The news that Sony is surveying its development partners to get their input on its decision to end support for physical game releases ( first reported by Moore's Law is Dead ) is a little odd, at least from a sequencing perspective. You'd generally imagine tha

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 2 Score 0.7656771273148149

In pictures: the Best Places To Work Awards 2026

Last night saw the reveal of this year's GamesIndustry.biz Best Places To Work Awards UK , which returned to the Royal Institution in London at the end of the GamesIndustry.biz HR Summit. The awards were generously sponsored by Amiqus, Playground Games, IO Int

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Simon Willison's Weblog Sep 29 Score 0.7640757101851852

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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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 2 Score 0.7623854606481483

Winners of the UK Best Places To Work Awards 2026 revealed

The UK Best Places to Work Awards 2026 took place at the Royal Institution in London on October 1, with special awards going to Dink, Hangar 13, Jagex: The RuneScape Company, NaturalMotion Games, Rare, and Snap Finger Click. Read more

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 1 Score 0.7583031912037038

Johnson Controls EasyIO Neo Series EC and CW Controllers

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker tointercept and read sensitive information, including credentials andsession data. The following versions of Johnson Controls EasyIO Neo Series EC and CW Controllers are af

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PC Gamer Oct 2 Score 0.7401808805555555

Valve's patch note supremacy

The king of patch notes reclaims its throne.

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PC Gamer Oct 2 Score 0.7393142138888888

AI guys beefing with the pope: A brief recap

The pope took on 'AI art' this week, saying that "there is an ontological difference ... between art and what a machine can generate."

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TechCrunch — AI Oct 2 Score 0.7385599513888889

Sean Parker is rebuilding Stability AI around music

Sean Parker, who once taught the music industry what asking for forgiveness looks like, is now back with the labels' blessing and money.

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NASA News Oct 2 Score 0.736495075462963

NASA Astronaut Christina Koch to Join NFL Fans in Philadelphia

As part of NASA’s ongoing Inspiration Tour, NASA astronaut Christina Koch will highlight America’s strengths in space exploration and aeronautics innovation at the Philadelphia Eagles vs. Los Angeles Rams game in Philadelphia on Sunday, Oct. 4. A self-proclaim

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NASA News Oct 2 Score 0.7358034087962962

Heading Home: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 Concludes Station Science Mission

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission is ending, with the crew scheduled to return in early October. NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev will head home from the Int

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NASA News Oct 2 Score 0.7349867421296297

NASA's DAVINCI Probe Can Stand the Heat

The engineering development unit for NASA’s DAVINCI (Deep Atmosphere Venus Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging) probe is photographed prior to a major thermal evaluation. The DAVINCI team put the yoga ball-sized vessel into a ceramic-lined cha

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Econbrowser Oct 2 Score 0.7324273694444444

The Employment Release and Business Cycle Indicators

Employment downside surprise, +29K vs +89, with cumulative 81K downward revisions to previous two months. Taking into account early benchmark, it's not changing the picture too much. Figure 1: NFP employment (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed popul

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MIT News — AI Oct 2 Score 0.7316367962962963

Documenting the tech worker movement

Writing as a participant and researcher, PhD student JS Tan SM ’22 has co-authored a new book about the rise of tech worker protests and the employer backlash that followed.

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NASA News Oct 2 Score 0.730981649537037

La NASA abre solicitudes para próxima promoción de directores de vuelo

Lee esta nota de prensa en inglés aquí. La NASA busca líderes para uno de los puestos más prestigiosos de la Tierra en el ámbito de los vuelos espaciales tripulados: director de vuelo en el control de misión del Centro Espacial Johnson de la agencia, en Housto

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NASA News Oct 2 Score 0.7302733162037037

NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests

Groundbreaking tests at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, are paving the way for new wind tunnel capabilities for designing the aircraft technologies of the future.  In a first-of-its-kind test in NASA Langley’s Transonic Dynamics Tunne

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New Scientist Oct 2 Score 0.729969862962963

Fossil mammal with reptile-like teeth changes picture of our evolution

Unlike most modern mammals, which get just two sets of teeth in their lifetime, an ancient species from the Cretaceous, found in China, appears to have had the ability to replace its teeth throughout its life

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GitHub Blog Oct 2 Score 0.7283030217592592

AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen.

Learn to direct AI agents, critically review their output, and keep technical judgment at the center of your workflow. The post AI is changing developer work. Here are three skills to strengthen. appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Oct 2 Score 0.7272470310185185

Uber Eats Rebuilds Search Pipeline to Cut End-to-End Latency by 50%

Uber has rebuilt major parts of the Uber Eats search pipeline, reporting a 50% reduction in end-to-end latency. Changes include Above-the-Fold measurement, reduced retrieval work, parallel hydration, advertising data redesign, infrastructure optimizations, and

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New Scientist Oct 2 Score 0.7266365291666667

Mathematicians and AI in behind-the-scenes battle over what's true

AI models are solving mathematics problems with increasing pace, and a technique called formalisation is key to demonstrating that their claimed solutions are indeed correct. But can we trust the formalisation process?

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Sep 29 Score 0.7249260259259258

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 0.7226352851851852

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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InfoQ Oct 2 Score 0.7216359199074074

Presentation: Managing Asynchronous APIs at Scale

Ian Cooper discusses managing asynchronous APIs in event-driven architectures at scale. He explains the "ABCs" of messaging (Address, Binding, Contract) and shares how to tackle discovery, governance, and provisioning using AsyncAPI, CloudEvents, schema regist

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InfoQ Oct 2 Score 0.7210525865740741

OpenAI DevDay 2026 Recap for Developers

OpenAI announced a series of product and developer updates at DevDay 2026, including GPT-6.1 Sol, computer use for the Agents API, cloud-based Codex environments, a Decisions API, and new plugin capabilities for ChatGPT. By Daniel Dominguez

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InfoQ Oct 2 Score 0.7199692532407407

Engineering Production Systems for an Agentic Era: QCon San Francisco 2026

QCon San Francisco 2026 will bring together practitioners from Airbnb, OpenAI, Netflix, Honeycomb, and other engineering organizations to share how they are building, operating, and evolving production systems as AI agents take on a larger role. By Artenisa Ch

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New Scientist Oct 2 Score 0.7170531958333334

Read an extract from Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel

In the opening to Emily St. John Mandel's new novel Exit Party, the October read for the New Scientist Book Club, we are introduced to Los Angeles in 2031, as a curfew lifts from the city

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MarketWatch Top Stories Oct 2 Score 0.7036361097222221

Why Western Digital and Seagate are seeing big stock drops today

Investors are worried that Toshiba will boost its production of a key AI storage product, potentially hurting the strong pricing power that Western Digital and Seagate currently enjoy.

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Lobsters Oct 2 Score 0.7025094393518517

Lobsters Interview with Sjamaan

Our dear @sjamaan ( website ) is a CHICKEN scheme maintainer and professional Clojure developer. We got to know each other on IRC over a few months and discussed: CHICKEN Scheme and its 6.0.0 release Scheme's community and standardization process Postgres, the

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Nautilus Oct 2 Score 0.6999699652777777

Your Immune System Ages in Two Big Bursts

Your 40s and 60s are periods of intense remodeling The post Your Immune System Ages in Two Big Bursts appeared first on Nautilus .

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Marginal Revolution Oct 2 Score 0.695041823611111

Supply is elastic, installment #1637

For taxes too: Using administrative data from Scandinavian countries, we provide evidence on international migration responses to wealth taxes and evaluate their aggregate economic implications. We find significant migration responses among the wealthy: A 1 pe

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