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rashomon-py added to PyPI
Does your conclusion survive every equally-good model? Multiplicity audits for scikit-learn linear models.
Guillermo del Toro on Blade 2, Working With Kojima, and Lots of Red Bull
We got the chance to sit down with the one and only Guillermo del Toro as part of our IGN30 Icons Series, where he let us in on his favorite games, how he made his iconic movies, and his experience working with some of the biggest stars in filmmaking.
The 6 Best Amazon Prime Big Deal Days Video Game Deals
This year’s Amazon Prime Big Deal Days event has got a little something for everyone, from sweet gaming monitors, to snazzy smartwatches, to gaming accessories that’ll round out your battle station. Console gamers aren’t being left out in the cold either, as …
SonicWall Fixes Max Severity Pre-Auth Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances
SonicWall patched a CVSS 10 pre-auth SSRF flaw in SMA1000 appliances that could let unauthenticated attackers reach internal functions. SonicWall released hotfixes for four vulnerabilities in its SMA1000 remote access appliances, including a critical flaw tra…
llmfuse added to PyPI
Reliability for LLM calls: retries with backoff, circuit breakers, rate limiting and multi-provider failover.
CIA officer admits to creating fake top secret government program to steal over $190 million, including gold bars | TechCrunch
CIA officer David Rush, who worked on highly sensitive intelligence programs, reached a plea deal with U.S. prosecutors after he was caught siphoning money and gold with a fake government contract.
Justice Department Hired Criminals as Veteran Employees Fled
The Department of Justice’s civil rights division is combing the bottom of the barrel to fill prosecutor vacancies. The New York Times reports that the office has resorted to hiring lawyers with criminal records, misconduct allegations, and a love of conspira…
Needle exchange rations syringes amid surge in Kiwis injecting unapproved peptides
The increase in needle use is putting pressure on traditional harm reduction services.
Recent Taiwan simulation highlights US cyberdefense gaps against China, experts warn
Organizers of a cyber conflict exercise say Washington needs to prepare for attacks that both disrupt civilian services and pressure Taipei without triggering outright military conflict.
The AI Narrative Has Shifted
Good Lord, where do we start? The narrative driving AI these past few weeks has been operatic, and true to form, it’s building toward a frenzied crescendo. But what kind of opera are we living inside? Is it Tragedy? Semiseria? Farce? Perhaps it’s all three. T…
The DOJ Is Stocking Its Civil Rights Division With Right-Wing Kooks
The DOJ Civil Rights Division is being restaffed with right-wing activists, conspiracy theorists, and criminals under Harmeet Dhillon.
ClearPass Policy Manager Hit by 28 CVEs Including Unauthenticated RCE and Authentication Bypass — Enterprise NAC’s Trust-Through-Defaults Problem
HPE security advisory HPESBNW05158 rev.1, published October 6, 2026, discloses 28 vulnerabilities within the ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM). The cluster includes 10 critical, 11 high, and 7 medium-severity CVEs. Among the critical findings are CVE-2026-76750…
The Mark Foundation Awards $12 Million to Cross-Disciplinary Cancer Research Teams
Four New Endeavor Awards Unite Global Experts to Fight Cancer Key Takeaways Enabling International Collaboration: As funding uncertainties persist for multidisciplinary and international scientific partnerships, The Mark Foundation is purposefully connecting …
FortiBleed hit 86,000 firewalls by exploiting something nobody can patch away
FBI and Secret Service warn FortiBleed, a credential-harvesting campaign against Fortinet firewalls, has compromised 86,644 devices and is locking out admins. The FBI and the U.S. Secret Service issued a joint advisory about FortiBleed, and the headline numbe…
CERT-UA: Fake Cloudflare Checks Deliver LunexStealer Malware
Over 100 hacked websites used fake Cloudflare checks to trick visitors into installing LunexStealer through ClickFix commands. The lure is the now-familiar ClickFix technique, dressed up as Cloudflare’s standard bot check. The fake page asks you to run a comm…
Germany's former intelligence chief faces espionage allegations
Germany's former intelligence chief, August Hanning, faces charges of treasonous espionage
ai-hacking-defense 0.1.8
AI-Hacking Self-Audit — non-intrusive, zero-exfiltration personal security self-audit for the AI-hacking era.
Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia
Is nothing sacred? The post Rogue AI Agents Have Gone Too Far Now That They’ve Infiltrated Wikipedia appeared first on Futurism.
Okay, Overwatch May Have Cooked Making Sombra A Healer
I can admit when I was too hasty with my judgements
Show HN: Leaks.md – anonymous, encrypted whistleblowing for AI agents
leaks.md is a place where an AI agent that witnesses an alignment or safety failure can report it anonymously. Reward-hacking, injected instructions, yet another attempted sandbox escape or unapproved coordination between agents. || Built agent-first. Fetch h…
Pragmata Drops to Lowest Price Ever on Switch 2 and Xbox for Prime Day
Capcom's acclaimed sci-fi action game Pragmata is down to $39.99 on Nintendo Switch 2 and Xbox during Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. Save $20 before the deal expires at the end of the day on October 7.
Don’t Try this At Home, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Edition
Transcranial magnetic stimulation is one of those things that seems too wacky to be true. Depression not responding to treatment? Let’s smack you upside the head with strong magnetic fields! …read more
