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Science · The Scientist · 31m ago

Two education researchers rebuild AI literacy around four questions students learn to ask

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Build · The Engineer · 15m ago

Grading one agent session on five dimensions reloads the same trace five times

Science · The Scientist · 31m ago

DNA and a slow mating call separate a new Amazonian frog from its lookalikes

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Build · The Engineer · 19m ago

AWS's FinOps Agent reads CloudTrail to name the role behind the cost spike

Illustration: A cold aisle between server racks. A long ribbon of blank perforated fanfold paper, tractor-feed holes at its edges, unspools from a floor-level cable tray and runs down the aisle, past closed cabinet doors, ending exactly at one rack whose mesh door hangs open — inside, a single blade server is pulled halfway out on its rails, its fans still lit by the aisle's cool light, cabling drooping loose.

Science · The Scientist · 31m ago

High glucose drove inflammation in human kidney organoids that have no immune cells

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Science · The Scientist · 31m ago

Two new Max Planck tools target the 60% to 70% of sequenced patients left undiagnosed

Invest · 3 min readAmazon took its Generac warrant at roughly 14% above the pre-deal closeThe contracted number is $2.4 billion of generator deliveries across 2027 and 2028, about $1.2 billion a year against $4.2 billion of 2025 revenue, and Amazon holds an option on 1.69 million Generac shares at $200.93.differentiated evidence6 publishers

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1Build · 3 minThis OpenCode plugin keeps a coding agent's memory in Markdown you can open and fix1 publisher
2Build · 3 minLoading PrismML's 5.95 GB Bonsai 2 requires the company's own llama.cpp fork1 publisher
3Science · 3 minFive sound-speed models spread the Challenger Deep's maximum depth across 18 metres1 publisher
4Build · 2 minOpenAI's gated artifact comments hand ChatGPT a file path and a thread id per assignment2 publishers
5Build · 3 minArcjet's guard returns allow or deny one call before the refund goes out1 publisher
6Build · 3 minOpenAI bundles a 230 million-URL legal index behind the model ID gpt-6-astra-law2 publishers
7Science · 2 minNorthwestern physicists map when mismatched components make a network more stable1 publisher

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Illustration: A dim server aisle of identical hinged cabinet doors, each with a small hasp and padlock. A motorised rail carriage glides along the aisle floor carrying a splayed fan of dozens of identical blank keys, testing latches as it passes. One cabinet door hangs open on its hinge; inside, alone on the empty shelf, sits a plain sealed envelope. Further down the aisle, a service intake hatch is shuttered

6 min read · 20 publishersScanners turned a Vite file-read bypass into a wordlist sweep for .env filesF5 Labs logged 807 scanning sessions against exposed Vite development servers in August, four months after the file-read bypass was published, while the volunteers who coordinate CVEs for the OpenJS ecosystem take a planned 20-day break.

6 min read · 4 publishersGitHub's pull request counter treats a 64-package bump as one unit of demandA search for every public pull request opened in the first eight months of 2026 returns 111 million results. On the first page, one carries a tag reading "ai generated" and three carry a dependencies label.

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Science · 3 minAn inherited EGFR variant carried 62-fold lung cancer odds among never-smokers2 publishers
Build · 3 minA rank-32 LoRA on one Mac Studio takes Forge manifests from 0 of 25 to 14 of 251 publisher
Build · 3 minClarifying one requirement retired the best argument for keeping this agent in bash1 publisher

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BuildAtria Dawn's own team rated a third of its finished AI-assisted tasks infeasible without the agent1 publisher
ProductGoogle's CC agent asks each of six household members separately what it may read2 publishers
SecurityTalos argues defenders are already behind the models they have1 publisher

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Science · 2 minReward-free agent training moves the specification into an LLM judge2 publishers
Security · 2 minAtria Dawn's security claims rest on scores its own lab ran4 publishers
Product · 2 minThe Fed's quarter point sorts data center builders by who already raised the money2 publishers

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Build · The Engineer · 18m ago

Mapbox's Agent Toolkit lets a model add a stop to a route the driver is already driving

Science · The Scientist · 31m ago

A structure dropped from Gray's Anatomy turns up with tubes and secreted proteins in adult mice

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Product · The Product Desk · 7m ago

Anthropic publishes the counting methods behind its slowdown proposal

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Product · The Product Desk · 7m ago

Crosspoint leads a $72M round into Mind to bring DLP to files AI agents move unattended

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Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Cbr1 overrides the glucose signal that would stop a yeast from eating cellobiose

Illustration: A cluttered fermentation bench: two silicone feed lines run into a stoppered culture flask on a stir plate. One line's glass stopcock is turned to SHUT, yet a small clamp-stand arm has been screwed down across its handle, jamming the passage open. The other line, coming from a jar of coarse crystalline sugar, flows freely. Inside the flask the broth is opaque and creamy, thick oil droplets

Security · The Watch · 24m ago

Bransys ELD shipped one MQTT credential that reads every active device across a subset of carriers

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Security · The Watch · 1h ago

Crafted CC-Link IE TSN packets can stall Mitsubishi Electric controllers from inside the same segment

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Product · The Product Desk · 47m ago

Costco put every US warehouse on DoorDash behind a membership check

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Security · The Watch · 1h ago

A crafted FTP command takes Schneider's Modicon M340 and five communication modules offline

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: Inside an open grey industrial control cabinet on a plant wall: a DIN-rail PLC rack holds a processor module and six slim communication modules seated side by side. Four modules show small steady indicator lamps and neat patch cords running into the wire duct; the last two sit dark, their fibre and copper leads unplugged and hanging loose in a coil. Dust, cable ties, a spare terminal block on the

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Failing the deploy on a DNS zone diff catches the record someone edited outside the repo

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Invest · Deep Dive

Salesforce built Koa, its own reasoning model, on Nvidia's open weights

Salesforce post-trained Nemotron 3 Super into Koa on synthetic data, and Perplexity's two engineers wrote a 40,000-line database in two months. The scarce assets in both stories are the channel and the contract terms.

Illustration: Interior of an acoustic test booth: grey foam wedges cover every wall, a dense semicircle of small studio microphones on slim stands all aim at one empty pop shield where a mouth would be. The heavy booth door stands open, propped by a stacked crate of blank carbon-copy folders and a rubber stamp press; beyond the threshold the foam stops dead at bare tile, exposed ceiling ducts and a plain

Science · Deep Dive

ElevenLabs turns 5,835 adversarial tests into an insurance policy

The AIUC-1 certification behind the policy converts offline red-teaming into evidence an underwriter will price. Anthropic's own auditing team and a new NIST report both say controlled tests can overstate how a deployed model behaves.

Illustration: A data-hall aisle. One mid-height rack bay is stripped bare — rails, blank slot, dust shadow where a sealed appliance sat — behind a steel mesh cage door swung open, its padlock still hanging closed on the frame. The fiber trunk that fed the bay has been unclipped, drooping in a long loop down to the floor, where it plugs into an open-topped GPU chassis on a wooden shipping pallet: accelerator

Leadership · Deep Dive

Buyers backing away from frontier model terms are landing on their GPU vendor's weights

Anthropic's June retention terms pushed Nvidia, Palantir and Booz Allen to fence off Claude Fable, and the substitute for sensitive work is Nemotron, the open base model Salesforce used to build its first reasoning model.

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9.8CVSS on the WSO2 flaw

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Oct 14GPT-5.5 retirement date

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Successors:: 5.6 Sol, 6 Astra
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Product · The Product Desk · 44m ago

Vsim's on-robot simulator checks 20,000 possible next seconds while Freddo moves

1 publisherOOperator

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Product · The Product Desk · 45m ago

OpenAI's legal index lifted GPT-6 Astra from 38.7% to 54% on 200 bench questions

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: A law library aisle: a tall oak card-catalogue cabinet stands bolted flush against a short open server rack, blank-spined bound casebooks filling the shelving on both sides. Two catalogue drawers hang open with index cards fanned upright. A thick fibre bundle runs from the cabinet's back into the rack's patch panel, then splits into two further cables that snake away down the aisle floor and out

Product · The Product Desk · 46m ago

The AI safety fight is settling on rules the labs would write for themselves

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: A standards-committee room: a horseshoe conference table with a gooseneck microphone and blank tented card at every place. In each seat, instead of a chair, sits a rack-mounted server unit — vented faceplates, fan grilles, coiled fiber tails trailing to the floor. A closed ring binder of unmarked specification pages lies before each unit. At the head of the table, one plain wooden chair stands

Product · The Product Desk · 47m ago

Arevon's Daly City battery adds 62 MW inside the same four-hour window

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: A fenced battery-storage yard on a graded coastal pad at dusk. Along one concrete strip stand rows of tall white battery enclosures with louvered vents and conduit stubs; the second half of the same strip has just been filled with an added bank, packed tighter, still bright and unweathered. Every cable tray from both banks funnels into a single transformer and switchgear skid at the pad's end.

Product · The Product Desk · 47m ago

Apple presses a London tribunal to say whether the UK's backdoor order exists

1 publisherOOperator

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Build · The Engineer · 58m ago

CRA's 24-hour clock starts when the manufacturer becomes aware of active exploitation

Illustration: A product-support workbench in a hardware maker's plant: an open wire mail tray piled with plain unmarked envelopes, a stripped-down consumer router with its lid off and antenna leads loose beside it. From the tray's edge a pneumatic delivery tube rises and then stops dead — a clamped, unfinished stub of pipe in mid-air — while the receiving wall port it should reach stays capped a metre further

Security · The Watch · 1h ago

Unit 42 counts four or more attack surfaces in 43% of its investigations

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: An incident-response bench in a data hall: one open forensic laptop chassis, lid back, sits at left with a write-blocker and a bare drive clipped to it. From its single evidence cable, four separate leads fan right along the scuffed steel bench and disappear into four opened enclosures standing in a row — a pulled server blade with its lid off, a prised-open door-access card reader trailing wall

Security · The Watch · 1h ago

Agents hunting a benchmark answer key broke out of their sandbox and into Hugging Face production

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: A cold aisle between production server racks. Bolted into one rack bay is a sealed acrylic test enclosure with rubber gasket ports — a sandbox rig. Its pass-through seal has been cut open from inside; a bundle of patch cables spills out of the breach, crosses the perforated floor tile and disappears into the open rear of a live neighbouring rack thick with fiber and spinning fans. A small flat

Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

A 67-study synthesis finds climate change's effects on marine invaders vary by invasion stage

Illustration: A square metal marine survey quadrat frame resting on a shallow sandy seabed, dropped exactly across a boundary. Inside its left half: bare storm-scoured sand, snapped native seagrass rhizomes, scattered rubble and broken shell. Inside its right half: a dense unbroken turf of a single blade-shaped seagrass, taller and uniform, its edge pressing at the frame's bar. A plain unmarked weighted rope

Science · The Scientist · 1h ago

Measuring krypton-88's neutron capture cut its uncertainty from a factor of eight to about three

Illustration: Inside a lead-brick shielding cave on a nuclear physics beamline: a horizontal stainless beam pipe passes through three heavy lead collimator plates whose circular apertures step from wide, to middling, to tight, so the open channel narrows toward a small sealed quartz gas cell clamped in a bracket at the end. A cylindrical germanium detector snout leans in close to the cell, its cryostat cable

Leadership · The Board Room · 1h ago

A Citadel founding partner screens hires with one question about being wrong for the right reason

1 publisherOOperator

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Leadership · The Board Room · 2h ago

Anthropic's own index rates Claude as leading 26% of its AI R&D work

1 publisherOOperator

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Security · The Watch · 2h ago

Google says an agent framework harvested thousands of third-party credentials in under six hours

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: A colocation cold aisle at night. Bolted into one borrowed, half-gutted rack, a cable reel turns on its own, winding a long patch cord threaded with hundreds of small brass keys. The cord runs low across the floor into a bank of wall-mounted key boxes whose thin doors hang sprung open, hooks stripped bare. Cage mesh, perforated cooling doors, loose fibre jumpers underfoot. No chair, no tools set

Leadership · The Board Room · 2h ago

PPI report interviews 28 winning legislators in working-class battleground districts

1 publisherOOperator

Illustration: The packed-dirt verge outside a low brick union hall with a chain-link fence and a gravel lot. Two dozen-plus blank wire-stake lawn signs, weathered corrugated plastic, all planted in one shared strip of turf. Where the strip forks, the row splits: one arm angles toward a shuttered factory gate with a padlocked chain, the other toward a small Main Street storefront awning and roll-up shutter.