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Marcin Wichary, writing at Unsung, regarding a rather subtly astonishing FAQ for the game Super Metroid, written in the late 1990s by “rs1n”. It’s over 17,000 words long, and the whole thing is full-justified when viewed with a monospaced font, using no trickery with extra s...

Here we go again... Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board by Sydney Von Arx, Cormac Slade Byrd, Spencer Kitts, and Thomas Larsen describes the latest accidental cyberattack by models being trained by OpenAI. This time it was agents engaged in some sort of web researc...

Brian Krebs, reporting at KrebsOnSecurity: On Monday, Aug. 31, a source alerted KrebsOnSecurity to a service advertised by a new user on the Russian cybercrime forum Exploit, offering access to digital scans of identity documents on more than 170 million people in North ...

The company shares its multi-step process in factories in Japan and California.

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Forkalyst gig at Spilles in Düsseldorf, Himmelfahrtskommando near the Loreley, Villa Hügel with Florian, Folkerdey, and various things in between. (60 photos)

Nearly 100 artists, scientists, astronauts, futurists, and others explore how the cosmos teach us about ourselves.

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We’re coming up on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and it had us thinking about an episode we produced in 2014. It’s the story of one sentence, written in the hours after September 11th, 2001, that has led to the longest war in U.S. history. We examine how just 60 ...

"Just inside the Farm Bureau Center, the doormats were already covered in fur."

The August edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.

This month:

• We got more details on OpenAl's accidental cyberattacks
• One-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6
• Claude auto mode
• Understanding ChatGPT Work
• Model releases
• Miscellaneous bits and bobs
• My projects
• What I'm using at the moment

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Thor Pedersen is the first person to visit every country in the world without flying. That is 203 countries by land and sea. He sits down with Kelly to unpack his epic quest, which he chronicled in his book, The Impossible Journey.

 

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Tesla held a Cybercab event today and it was kinda weird...

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Simon Willison:

GPT-6 Astra is “rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS” — I’ve not tried it yet myself, so I don’t have a great deal to say about it yet.

It’s going to be API priced at the same rate as Claude Fable 5 and 5.1: $10/million input and $50/million output. This is clearly OpenAI’s Fable competitor, and appears to score higher than Fable on most of OpenAI’s self-reported benchmarks.

Link: simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/3/gpt6-astra/

GPT‑6 Astra GPT-6 Astra is "rolling out today to a limited set of organizations and over the coming days will become available to all ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, and Enterprise users, as well as through the OpenAI API and AWS" - I've not tried it yet myself, so I don't have...

Milez's new body of work goes on view this month in 'Everything the Light Touches' at Monya Rowe Gallery.

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My move is coming down to the wire (omg so many things to juggle!), kids are heading back to school, I’m going to be traveling, and it’s a holiday weekend here in the States, so there’s probably not going to be too much going on here until next week. Thanks for your patience…I can’t wait to get back to work here.

In the meantime, I thought I’d open up this thread for folks to share what they feel like sharing. I’ll go first below…

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Bringing together 40 collaborators in 25 countries across five continents, 'Super Nature' is a collective ode to our planet.

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Mark Gurman:

Apple Inc.’s Phil Schiller, one of the most visible and influential executives across both the Steve Jobs and Tim Cook eras, has stepped down from his role leading the App Store and product events.

The 66-year-old executive, who was Apple’s senior vice president of marketing until leaving that job in 2020, made the latest change in recent days, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

This is true, I’ve confirmed. (And the decision was not made “in recent days”, although the org chart change might have been.) Seems natural for this to coincide with the CEO transition. What a run for Schiller.

Link: bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-31/apple-s-phil…