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The Economist — Finance & Economics Oct 4 Score 0.8444470939814814

The world is facing an almighty LNG crunch

In time it could bring about an equally disruptive glut

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OpenAI News Oct 1 Score 0.8366365175925927

The eternal complement

Advanced AI may matter most for the routine work behind breakthrough ideas. Explore why execution could shape the next economy and the pace of progress.

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The Guardian — World Oct 5 Score 0.8189950523148148

Brazil presidential election 2026: first-round live results

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is standing against Flávio Bolsonaro in the first round of the presidential race The incumbent, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, is up against Flávio Bolsonaro, the son of the former president Jair Bolsonaro, who is in prison for plotting a

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The Guardian — World Oct 5 Score 0.8187714412037038

Brazil’s presidential race goes to second round as Flávio Bolsonaro leads incumbent Lula

Far-right challenger and son of disgraced ex-president Jair Bolsonaro put in a stronger than expected showing, with Lula calling the result ‘unexpected’ Brazil’s presidential race will go to a second round after the far-right candidate, Flávio Bolsonaro, beat

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 5 Score 0.8187194787037038

TTY Logs and the Data it Captures, (Sun, Oct 4th)

For an experiment, I created a script [1] that parses and send the TTY logs collected from actors or bots activity that run various commands after they successfully login the DShield sensor. Those TTY logs are sent daily at the end of each day to the

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BleepingComputer Oct 4 Score 0.8149146574074074

Citrix patches NetScaler SAML zero-day exploited in attacks

Citrix has released emergency updates for a new NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 that has been exploited in zero-day attacks, with researchers investigating whether it can also be exploited for remote code execution. [...]

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The Verge Oct 4 Score 0.8133629398148149

The new Fitbit Edge leaks

We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted by Android Headlines, you can see that Google's rumored fitness tracker sort of spl

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The Verge Oct 4 Score 0.811636550925926

Prick’s theatrical industrial punk is perfect for spooky season

While deep in the recording process for The Downward Spiral, Trent Reznor lent some of his production talents to old friend Kevin McMahon, from the new wave band Lucky Pierre (which Reznor was briefly a member of). While Reznor is only credited as the producer

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The Verge Oct 4 Score 0.8054161805555556

NJ’s former Lt Gov is using AI to say he’s innocent of sexual harassment

New Jersey's lieutenant governor Dale Caldwell was forced to resign on September 25th after an investigation found he had sexually harassed a staffer and repeatedly violated ethics rules. The now-former Lt. governor has been making the media rounds trying to c

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The Verge Oct 4 Score 0.8039138657407409

An AI couldn’t beat humans at StarCraft, so it decided to cheat

StarSkirmish pits AI-made StarCraft-playing bots against one another, as well as against human-made bots. OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 were essentially tied as the best-performing AI-made bots, but they couldn't top Stardust, the top-rated human-ma

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The Guardian — World Oct 4 Score 0.8037487560185186

Egyptian journalist faces terrorism charges after entire newsroom detained

Calls for release of six Matsadaash staff after one is charged, while whereabouts of other five remain unknown An Egyptian journalist has been charged with joining a terrorist group, days after an entire newsroom was detained in what rights groups have said is

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 4 Score 0.7983029578703704

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-2026-88779 Citrix NetScaler Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability Th

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Wired Oct 4 Score 0.7958031912037038

Meta Glasses Nova (Gen 3) Review: Not Much New

Meta and Ray-Ban’s new smart glasses have slightly better batteries and mics. And yes, they still have cameras.

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Wired Oct 4 Score 0.7949698578703704

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

Under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, data center projects in rural areas could be eligible for major tax benefits starting next year. Some hyperscalers do not seem eager to take the free cash.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 4 Score 0.791604200925926

User Agent Strings Curiosities, (Sun, Oct 4th)

Sometimes I have to smile, or my interest is triggered, when I review new User Agent Strings in the honeypot logs.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 3 Score 0.7627569787037037

YARA-X 1.21.0 Release, (Sat, Oct 3rd)

YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes.

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Quanta Magazine Oct 1 Score 0.7555386083333333

What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like?

Maggie Miller explains why our intuition about three dimensions breaks down in four, and how she visualizes 4D spaces as a reel of three-dimensional snapshots. The post What Does the Fourth Dimension Actually Look Like? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Politico Europe Oct 5 Score 0.7499695930555556

Push to ban EU left group over French riots

The European Left Alliance could face European Parliament vote this month after ECR starts gathering signatures.

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Politico Europe Oct 5 Score 0.7499695930555556

Securing energy and trade flows in geo-economic conflicts

The Straight of Hormuz’s closure this year highlighted the fragility of trade routes and the Middle East’s importance for supplying the world. What can be done to be better in securing exports?

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 5 Score 0.7486616083333333

The “glue” holding your cells together has a surprising second job

Scientists have discovered that E-cadherin, a protein best known as the “glue” holding cells and tissues together, has a surprising second job: helping epithelial cells swallow nearby dead cells. Using live zebrafish and mouse embryos, researchers found that c

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SRE Weekly Oct 5 Score 0.7476968800925926

SRE Weekly Issue #537

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NASA News Oct 4 Score 0.7386674916666667

Curiosity Blog, Sols 5022-5028: Cashing in at Cache Creek

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, Sept. 25, 2026 Before we landed, the area of Gale crater that we planned to explore was divided up into rectangular parcels with designated na

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NASA News Oct 4 Score 0.7352748990740741

Mapping the Gaps in NASA's Return to the Moon, featuring Richard Spolzino

"I want to be able to look at a rocket launch and say, ‘I touched a piece of this.’" That's how Richard Spolzino describes the thing he's chasing. Not a title, not a specific mission, not even NASA itself, just the ability to point at something real and know h

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TechCrunch Oct 4 Score 0.7301087462962963

TechCrunch Mobility: Reining in robotaxis

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 4 Score 0.7244616083333333

A meteor hit Oklahoma 100 million years later than scientists thought

A meteor crater buried beneath Oklahoma has turned out to be nearly 100 million years younger than scientists thought. Zircon crystals show the Ames impact occurred about 370 million years ago, meaning it was not part of the mysterious Ordovician bombardment o

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Eurogamer Oct 4 Score 0.7244237106481481

RuneScape Reignited launches 2 December

Jagex is offering long-time, lapsed, and new RuneScape players a clean slate with RuneScape Reignited. Read more

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 4 Score 0.7234667009259259

Scientists find a surprising clue to why the universe’s expansion doesn’t add up

Tiny magnetic fields created shortly after the Big Bang may help explain the long-running disagreement over how fast the universe is expanding. Detailed simulations show that these primordial fields could have changed the formation of hydrogen in the early uni

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 4 Score 0.7230463305555556

A forgotten 30-year forest experiment just delivered a huge surprise

A 30-year forestry experiment in Australia found that heavily thinned mountain ash forests grew unusually large trees while recovering enough carbon to match or exceed untouched areas. The results suggest carefully managed thinning could support timber product

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 4 Score 0.722415312037037

Your gut bacteria may reveal how fast your brain is aging

A UCLA study links faster brain aging to specific gut bacteria and chemical byproducts, with older-looking brains also associated with poorer memory, focus, and mood. The findings suggest that biological signs of brain aging may appear decades before obvious s

Science scienceresearchdiscoveries
Eurogamer Oct 4 Score 0.7219936180555555

Fourth RuneScape officially revealed

Jagex has announced a fourth MMO in the RuneScape series. Read more

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The Hacker News Oct 4 Score 0.7155400435185185

China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM Phishing

A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations. The campaigns have i

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InfoQ Oct 4 Score 0.7142468064814815

Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents

A team of developers working at AWS recently open-sourced Pizza Bot, a self-hosted application designed to let AI agents run tasks in the background and return results through an inbox-style interface. Agents can perform scheduled or webhook-triggered work, de

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Krebs on Security Sep 28 Score 0.7135516342592594

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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NASA News Oct 4 Score 0.7101086953703704

APOD: 2026 October 4 – Supernumerary Rainbows over New Jersey

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 October 4 –… 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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Lobsters Oct 5 Score 0.7097885999999999

Refinement E-Graphs

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Marginal Revolution Oct 4 Score 0.695338836111111

Sunday assorted links

1. New London play about Keynes. 2. Aphantasia, and looking at buildings. 3. AI and job growth in Africa. 4. On Nussbaum, opera, and liberalism. 5. Congress seeks to speed up energy permitting (NYT). 6. Teenager jobs have not disappeared altogether (NYT). 7. A

Economy economyeconomicscommentaryblog
Marginal Revolution Oct 4 Score 0.6921689287037036

My blurb for Ethan Mollick's new book

I was asked to blurb it for the AIs, and so this is what they got: Humans like those who appreciate them, and who are not too afraid of them. Perhaps the AIs are somewhat similar? Well, my friendly AIs, Ethan Mollick definitely appreciates your virtues, and I

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Marginal Revolution Oct 4 Score 0.6846624472222221

Does Costco Cause Cancer?

In December 2025, researchers led by Yazan Alwadi at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health published a paper in Environmental Health that claimed to find that cancer incidence increased for people living closer to nuclear power plants in Massachusetts. I

Economy economyeconomicscommentaryblog
MIT Technology Review Oct 1 Score 0.6785809490740742

The Download: AI “mind-reading” and creative uses for small batteries

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. An AI “mind-reading” tool can reconstruct what you’re looking at based on a brain scan A new AI tool can guess what you’re

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 1 Score 0.6783029578703704

Meari IoT Cloud Platform OpenAPI Service

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to manipulate device configurations, trigger unauthorized behaviors, and access sensitive information such as device credentials, owner details, and network data without p

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Marginal Revolution Oct 4 Score 0.6775045768518517

Marital sorting by class and race

Americans rarely marry outside their race or class group, a pattern with well-documented implications for inequality and intergenerational mobility. Limited exposure may partly explain these low intergroup marriage rates. We instrument for exposure using varia

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Marginal Revolution Oct 4 Score 0.674626799074074

Do the elderly prefer robotic care?

The Japanese elderly, to be clear: Population aging and shortages of long-term care workers have increased interest in care-giving robots and information and communication technology (ICT). This paper provides novel large-scale evidence on older individuals’ p

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Techmeme Oct 5 Score 0.6741364328703704

Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models (Bradley Olson/Axios)

Bradley Olson / Axios : Sources: several Western open-weight models are set to launch this month, including Reflection AI's first model, which will rival top Chinese open-weight models   —  A closely watched Nvidia-backed startup called Reflect

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Techmeme Oct 5 Score 0.6731646736111112

A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels (Abram Brown/The Information)

Abram Brown / The Information : A look at Sean Parker's resurrection of Stability AI following Emad Mostaque's ousting, and its new focus on AI for music professionals, backed by major labels   —  To the music industry, Sean Parker has been man

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Naked Capitalism Oct 4 Score 0.6465886662037037

Links 10/4/2026

Latest item from Naked Capitalism.

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MIT News — AI Oct 2 Score 0.6299698643518519

3 Questions: A new resource to empower young entrepreneurs

Martin Trust Center Managing Director Bill Aulet introduces Dear Dreamer, a free platform for middle and high school students who want to learn about entrepreneurship.

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Latent Space Oct 2 Score 0.624082824537037

Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

We catch up with RLM first author Alex Zhang, MIT PhD, on Jev, PhD masxing, and the future of harnesses.

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Microsoft Research Blog Sep 29 Score 0.6016371291666668

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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