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• John Amato
WIRED
• Matt Burgess
San Francisco Orders Meta to Stop ‘Allowing’ AI Child Abuse Ads
The City Attorney’s Office has asked Meta to explain how the harmful ads repeatedly ran on Facebook and Instagram. The company claims the ads are not under the city’s jurisdiction.
The Editorial Board
• John Stoehr
Trump's 9/11 lies are stolen valor, not 'a bit of weirdness'
What do you expect from a criminal president?
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Bobby Welber
Here’s What New York’s Fall Weather Will Look Like This Year
New expert data is revealing what weather New Yorkers should expect to see for the Fall. Continue reading…
WIRED
• Hugo Lowell
A Year After Charlie Kirk's Death, Turning Point Plans to Spend Big on the Midterms
Turning Point will spend tens of millions on ads and turnout, sources say, with a focus on New Hampshire, Arizona, and Nevada.
SCOTUSblog
• Amy Howe
States, civic groups urge Supreme Court to leave order in place prohibiting Trump administration from implementing parts of mail-in ballot rule
Six Colors
• Dan Moren
The iPhone Duo: Tradeoffs, but fewer than feared
Apple’s events are always a deluge of information, delivered by smooth-talking presenters who are probably trying to hypnotize you with their soothing hand motions. So it can take a little bit of time after watching the presentation to come back to reality, and sift through the details.…
René Magritte, On the Threshold of Liberty, 1937 #modernart #artinstituteofchicago
Noah and the Rainbow, 1963 #surrealism #chagall
The Wolf – Hudson Valley’s New Country
• Sterling Whitaker
Country Stars Who Left Nashville
They're not afraid to buck the system. Continue reading…
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
Whatever
• John Scalzi
The Big Idea: K. Ancrum
One of the eternal question in speculative fiction is: Is this fantasy? Or is this science fiction? And does the answer matter? For Adam, Mine, author K. Ancrum takes a stab at this question, using one of the most durable tales in literature as inspiration. K. ANCRUM: The moment of conception in Mary Shelly’s Frankenstein […]
Whatever
• John Scalzi
Photo of a Cat, Annoyed That He Was Made to Go to the Vet
Cheer up, Saja. It happens to all the cats, sooner or later. Also, fun fact: Saja has officially been with us for just over a full year now. We fostered him for a couple of weeks and then decided to keep him, and his official naming day was September 1. I was traveling that day […]
News – The White House
• The White House
President Trump Delivers Historic Results for the American People in Under Two Years
In less than two years, President Donald J. Trump has driven the most consequential stretch of governing in modern American history. He inherited a disaster — and turned it into a historic comeback. President Trump sealed the border, drove violent crime to historic lows, unleashed American energy, cut taxes for working families, focused Washington on […]
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Cybersecurity expert Kevin Mandia joins Amazon's Board of Directors
Mandia is the founder and CEO of Armadin, Inc. and the co-founder and general partner of Ballistic Ventures. He also founded and previously served as the CEO of Mandiant, Inc.
Claude did best on a new benchmark for agents that build agents. It still passed fewer than a quarter of the tests.

AI models now power all manner of agents, from coding assistants that write and debug software to customer service systems
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
OpenAI gave an AI the power to block its own engineers’ code

Every pull request submitted by an OpenAI engineer now goes through an automated security review, and the AI model doing
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The New Stack | DevOps, Open Source, and Cloud Native News
• Amanda Caswell
“It could kill us all”: what Anthropic’s own researchers really think about superintelligence

On Tuesday evening, Anthropic pretraining researcher Jacob Coxon announced on X that he’d resigned. Within hours, two of his colleagues
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An "L" has fallen off the podium at the Republican midterm convention
The San Francisco Standard
• Jillian D’Onfro
SF is full of dumb billboards. This lawyer bought one to remind us we’re all gonna die
Estate planner Susanna P. Lichter decided to consider the cold embrace of infinity with her new eye-catching ad.