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OpenAI News Oct 6 Score 0.9483034199074075

Sharing AI progress in mathematics

OpenAI publishes new results on open problems in mathematics from an internal frontier model and shares Lean proof formalizations and research details on GitHub.

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OpenAI News Oct 6 Score 0.9449700865740741

Advancing computer use with Ironclad

Learn how OpenAI and Ironclad are training and evaluating AI agents on complex contracting workflows to advance computer use for professional work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 7 Score 0.8937687199074074

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects Given how tempting a target wikis are for rogue agent swarms, it's not a huge surprise that Wikipedia found evidence of that activity once they went looking: The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 6 Score 0.8932738124999999

Quoting Victoria Kim

Since the Medicare breach, OpenAI has put in place additional monitoring to allow “immediate intervention” by staff to stop training if the company’s models access the internet in ways they’re not supposed to, Mr. Kwon [chief strategy officer at OpenAI] said.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 6 Score 0.8917539050925926

llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0

Release: llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 OpenAI released their new Jev-style Decisions API , as previously announced at last week's DevDay. Since I already have an llm-typesafe plugin for talking to Jev, I had GPT-6 Astra read the new OpenAI API documentation and b

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 6 Score 0.8892080717592592

llm-mistral 0.16

Release: llm-mistral 0.16 Adds support for reasoning models, such as the newly released Mistral Large 4 . Tags: llm , mistral , llm-reasoning

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Simon Willison's Weblog Oct 6 Score 0.8876890902777776

EmbeddingGemma 2

My comment on EmbeddingGemma 2 — Hacker News. I really appreciate that EmbeddingGemma 2 is under the Apache 2.0 license. For embedding models in particular, I don't think it makes sense to use a closed, proprietary, hosted-only model. Most applications o

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Foreign Policy Oct 6 Score 0.8873966824074073

How to Avoid Disaster in the Next Iran War

Recent war games highlight how Washington can improve its air defenses so the next round of fighting isn’t worse.

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Foreign Policy Oct 6 Score 0.8867823305555554

Why Chinese Parents Don’t Want Two Kids

Beijing is pushing for bigger families, but the realities of childbirth and early parenting make it a hard sell.

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Schneier on Security Oct 6 Score 0.8718244254629629

Possible Vulnerability in Apple’s Automatic Reboot

404Media is reporting (alternate link ) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security feature. This is the feature that automatically puts an iPhone into a more secure state if it hasn't bee

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Wired Oct 7 Score 0.8183034134259259

Jaguar Finally Reveals Its Biggest Gamble: the Type 01

Following a viral rebrand and two years without selling a new vehicle, the British marque takes the covers off the most divisive electric car yet seen.

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The Verge Oct 6 Score 0.8173765949074074

OpenAI drops another batch of mathematical breakthroughs

OpenAI has revealed solutions to a number of long-standing mathematics problems produced by an unreleased frontier model in a batch of 722 manuscripts, covering 372 result families that group related papers. It extends a run of breakthroughs that have both imp

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Wired Oct 6 Score 0.8168960060185186

You Probably Aren’t Going to Get the Plague

The death of a lab worker in Russia has authorities looking at whether plague played a role. Even if it did, though, the odds of it spreading are very low.

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The Verge Oct 6 Score 0.8153159467592593

Xbox has secured exclusive GTA 6 streaming rights

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft is getting ready to do something around Grand Theft Auto VI that "no other platform holder is doing" during an employee all-hands this morning. According to sources familiar with Microsoft's plans, Sharma's br

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The Guardian — World Oct 6 Score 0.8151383305555556

US man arrested as second suspect in Canada mass school shooting planned with ChatGPT

Justice department detained James Codey Bryant and allege he offered ‘technical advice’ to primary suspect A surprise suspected accomplice has been arrested in connection with a mass school shooting in Canada that was made notorious after an 18-year-old allege

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The Verge Oct 6 Score 0.814970113425926

The best robot vacuum and mop deals during October Prime Day

Spending too much time constantly sweeping and mopping? If you have the money to delegate those chores to a robot cleaner, you could save a lot of personal time. Thankfully, it’s cheaper than usual to buy a robot vacuum / mop hybrid during Amazon’s Prime Big D

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The Verge Oct 6 Score 0.8135872430555556

Sebastian Maniscalco’s SiriusXM channel is hurting up-and-coming talent, comics say

Comedian Sebastian Maniscalco is facing backlash from fellow comics who claim his takeover of SiriusXM's Raw Comedy channel is harming up-and-coming talent, as reported earlier by Deadline. Many established comics, including Patton Oswalt and Margaret Cho, hav

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BleepingComputer Oct 6 Score 0.8133158162037037

Ninja Forms plugin flaw exploited to hack WordPress sites

Hackers are exploiting stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in two unrelated WordPress plugins, Ninja Forms and WPC Product Bundles for WooCommerce, to install backdoors and create rogue admin accounts. [...]

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War on the Rocks Oct 6 Score 0.8123478453703704

Kindling, Catalyst, and Containment: Will the West Bank Ignite?

As violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank has escalated, often with the acquiescence or support of Israel's military, and the Israeli government has increasingly constricted Palestinian daily life, the potential for a new intifada &

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BleepingComputer Oct 6 Score 0.8105778532407408

Hackers exploit 32 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Ireland

On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned $388,500 after exploiting 32 zero-days. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 6 Score 0.8076084087962964

Atlassian warns of critical file-access flaw in Jira, Confluence

Atlassian is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, that can be exploited for arbitrary file-access in multiple self-hosted Data Center products, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Oct 6 Score 0.8060978481481482

Weight-loss drugs show signs of slowing biological aging, say drugmakers

Popular weight-loss drugs may do more than help people shed pounds. They might also melt away the years. Drug giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk say patients taking their drugs age less quickly, according to readouts from molecular “aging clocks.” Such clocks a

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BleepingComputer Oct 6 Score 0.8059116495370371

ASOS confirms data breach after “HACKED” in-app notifications

UK fashion retailer ASOS confirmed a data breach Tuesday after hackers sent unauthorized push notifications through its mobile app while claiming to have stolen customer data from the company's Snowflake environment. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Oct 6 Score 0.8055002805555557

What AI gets wrong and what failure teaches us

Jennifer Neville did not want to go into computer science—but that’s exactly where she landed. Neville discusses the starts and stops that led to her professional sweet spot and her work identifying “surprising failures” making it hard for AI to handle complex

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BleepingComputer Oct 6 Score 0.8037681310185186

Fake ChatGPT, Gemini Sites steal advertising accounts, MFA codes

A new campaign targeting ad account managers uses fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity sites that steal login credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes through browser-in-browser attacks. [...]

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Interconnects Oct 6 Score 0.8022668606481482

The Cyber Risk Discourse is Broken

Open-weights, ideology, and acknowledging trade-offs.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Oct 6 Score 0.8004150819444446

More RMM Tools In the Wild, (Tue, Oct 6th)

It seems that a trend started… I continue my journey discovering more RMM ("Remote Management & Monitoring") tools abused by threat actors! A few days ago, I wrote a diary[1] about ScreenConnect used in the w

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MIT Technology Review Oct 6 Score 0.7985811814814815

The Download: 10 climate tech companies to watch

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. 10 climate tech companies to watch Each year, MIT Technology Review puts together a list of the most promising climate tec

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 6 Score 0.798303200462963

Savannah lwIP SMTP client

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the device being accessed; a buffer overflow condition may allow remote code execution. The following versions of Savannah lwIP SMTP client are affected: lwIP SMTP client 2.2.1 (CVE-20

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 6 Score 0.798303200462963

Hitachi Energy SOI

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ component of SOI product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out various attacks affecting confidentiality,

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 6 Score 0.798303200462963

Johnson Controls EasyIO FG

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain full unauthorized access to the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls EasyIO FG are affected: EasyIO FG firmware CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 7.7 Johnso

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 6 Score 0.798303200462963

Hitachi Energy Asset Suite

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of unauthenticated servlet access vulnerabilities that affect Asset Suite product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to potentially cause confidentiality, integrity and availabilit

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Oct 6 Score 0.798303200462963

Hitachi Energy REB500

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of open-source software vulnerabilities that affect REB500 product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the product. Please refer to th

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GamesIndustry.biz Oct 6 Score 0.762469662962963

Brazil wants to be in "the top five game producers in the world in less than 10 years"

Soft power – a nation exerting power through economic or cultural influence – is something we're all used to in terms of film and TV. Think of the influence that Hollywood has around the world, or the way that anime has spread the recognition of Ja

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Liberty Street Economics Oct 6 Score 0.7591361578703705

How Fast Do Tariffs Pass Through into Consumer Prices?

There has been a lot of interest in how tariffs affect consumer prices (for example, Cavallo et al. 2021 , 2025 ). In this post, we present results from our new research paper that estimates the effects of the 2025-26 tariffs on retail consumer prices. We find

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 7 Score 0.7498308282407408

A new way to fight gum disease without wiping out good bacteria

Scientists discovered that disrupting the chemical messages bacteria use to communicate can push dental plaque toward a healthier microbial balance. The approach could lead to new treatments for gum disease that control harmful bacteria without destroying bene

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Oct 7 Score 0.748939624537037

Humans may not be as hardwired for violence as we thought

A study comparing 100 primate species, including humans, suggests that everyday aggression and lethal violence did not evolve as part of the same simple behavioral spectrum. Species that frequently fight or show mild aggression are not necessarily more likely

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GitHub Blog Oct 6 Score 0.7382456

Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development

We're rebuilding GitHub's Git infrastructure while GitHub keeps running, creating a foundation for agent-scale software development. The post Building Git infrastructure for agent-scale development appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Econbrowser Oct 6 Score 0.7378648412037037

Reconciling AI Expected Revenues to CapEx

Jared Bernstein, along with others, calculates the revenues needed to rationalize the AI capital investment in place and planned. Source: Callum Williams via J. Bernstein. As Bernstein recounts, this amount of revenue is unlikely to occur within a time frame f

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NASA News Oct 6 Score 0.7341829824074074

NASA to Cover Northrop Grumman CRS-24 Spacecraft Departure

After delivering more than 11,000 pounds of supplies, science experiments, and other cargo to the International Space Station for NASA, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL spacecraft is scheduled to depart Friday, Oct. 9, as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply

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NASA News Oct 6 Score 0.7340709453703703

October 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

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NASA News Oct 6 Score 0.733925575

Lunar Grounding Challenge

As an astronaut traverses the lunar South Pole, tribocharging from walking on the lunar surface and plasma charging from the ambient plasma generate electric charge on the spacesuit. This problem is severely compounded when entering lunar shadows and Permanent

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Kubernetes Blog Oct 6 Score 0.733302888425926

The Shift to cgroup v2 in Kubernetes: What You Need to Know

In Linux, cgroups (control groups) are a kernel feature used for managing system resources. Kubernetes uses cgroups to allocate resources like CPU and memory to containers, ensuring that applications run smoothly without interfering with each other. With the r

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NASA News Oct 6 Score 0.733188537962963

NASA Glenn Invites Phase 1 Proposals for Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory

NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is seeking Phase 1 proposals for the design and construction of the Aerospace Power Systems Laboratory. The principal purpose of this procurement is to deliver a laboratory facility to support the testing and developme

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New Scientist Oct 6 Score 0.7316364856481481

The telescope that could reveal what dark matter and dark energy are

The Roman telescope is NASA’s newest space observatory. Every 10 months, it will get the equivalent of about 1000 years' worth of Hubble observations. Will it find the answers to our questions about dark matter and dark energy?

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New Scientist Oct 6 Score 0.7316364856481481

Shoes may change the structure of our ankle bones

Wearing shoes seems to affect the density and volume of a spongy network within a bone in our ankles, which could affect the validity of previous research into the evolution of walking

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AWS Blog Oct 6 Score 0.7302360717592593

All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS

Amazon Prime Day 2026 was exclusively for Prime members and ran June 23–26, 2026 with millions of deals across more than 35 categories. As part of our annual tradition of sharing how AWS powered Prime Day (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 20

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NASA News Oct 6 Score 0.7302260379629629

Astronomers Solve Cosmic Cold Case with NASA Hubble Data

Diligent sleuthing by astronomers uncovered a surprising chemical clue that indicates the white dwarf star HS 0209+0832 may host a second-generation planet. This artist’s concept released on Oct. 5, 2026, depicts that possible explanation. The white dwarf

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Econbrowser Oct 6 Score 0.7295051189814815

Mr. Trump on the US-Iran War

Speaking at a rally in Nebraska (NYT), regarding the Iranians: “They could take out a city,” he said. “Let them take — Let them take out Los Angeles. Let them take out San Diego.” One could take this as just further random ruminations, but it strikes me that t

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InfoQ Oct 6 Score 0.7116079856481481

Cloudflare Introduces CLI for AI Agents, Sunsetting Wrangler

Cloudflare recently launched the open beta of cf, a new open-source, agent-focused command-line interface for interacting with Cloudflare services through a unified CLI. Written in TypeScript, it provides structured output and command discovery to make Cloudfl

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Marginal Revolution Oct 6 Score 0.7035311842592592

Brazil election notes (from my email)

From Diego Costa: "Hi Tyler, If you're still interested in the fallout from Brazil's elections, here are some observations that add texture to the usual narratives: Nine of the 10 candidates who received the most votes for the Lower Chamber are under 40. The e

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Marginal Revolution Oct 6 Score 0.6938779435185184

Tuesday assorted links

1. What is the real rate of Chinese economic growth? 2. An Abundance caucus rolls out a bipartisan agenda. 3. Canada fell to 18th from 9th in global ranking of economic freedom. 4. Will there ever be a Latin Bomb? 5. Why didn't you use an LLM? 6. "Not only doe

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Marginal Revolution Oct 6 Score 0.6845774805555555

Paul Graham Versus the Pope

Pope Leo XIV recently tweeted that there is "an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others." As a description of how today's mo

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