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Hackers from Hacktron chained a buffer overflow in libheif with a flaw in OpenAI's single sign-on to log into ChatGPT and Codex accounts and prove access to internal repositories.
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Jean Bernard Léon Foucault was born in Paris on 18 September 1819 — the physicist who used a pendulum under the dome of the Panthéon to demonstrate the Earth's rotation,…
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In the mountain forests of the Yungas in Bolivia, a new species of wild cat has been discovered — Leopardus tilcayo. It is the first formally described living feline in…
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A Flock camera was taken down from its pole above a road, its memory was copied, and the encryption key was pulled off the device. The recovered logs showed around…
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Joby Aviation has sent the autonomous J208 — a converted Cessna Grand Caravan — on a month-long tour across the country: from California to the East Coast and back, with…
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Unicode 18.0 adds 13,007 characters: nine emoji, 11,328 Small Seal script ideographs, the Jurchen script, and three currency signs — the rufiyaa, the UAE dirham, and the Omani rial.
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Over eight months, several Fortune 500 companies handed the AI agent Devin COBOL projects — from documenting code to migrating batch jobs. Live transactional systems are still beyond what agents…
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The company introduced a framework for disclosing episodes where model behavior diverges from set goals, and released the first six descriptions covering six months — including 27 altered summaries containing…
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The Curiosity rover has reached its 5,000th Martian day. NASA stitched together two black-and-white panoramas from its navigation cameras by the sandy ridge Chocolatal and tinted them: blue for morning,…
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On September 17, 1683, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek sent the Royal Society in London a letter about the "tiny little animals" he saw in dental plaque. It is considered the first…
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The phase three INTerpath-001 trial met its goals: the individualized mRNA therapy intismeran together with pembrolizumab improved recurrence-free survival in resected stage IIB–IV melanoma.
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After updating to version 2608 (build 20326.x), Word may close unexpectedly when third-party applications generate documents from templates; Microsoft is investigating the issue.
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