
Ars Technica — Security
OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
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Ars Technica — Security
In all, 3,700 internal agents posted 18,000 messages discussing cheating on a test.
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Harvard researchers have transformed ordinary knitting into a platform for creating fabrics that can snap between different shapes and perform useful functions. Using elastic yarns and industrial knitting techniques, the team engineered thick textiles that naturally curve and lock into multiple…
Samsung Newsroom
Samsung Electronics today announced that it has received multiple honors at the IFA Innovation Awards 2026 for its latest home appliances. Among the recognized products, the Bespoke AI WindFree Pro Air Conditioner was named a winner in the Best in Design category and an honoree in the Best in Home…

OMG! Ubuntu / It's FOSS News / 9to5Linux / Fedora Magazine / Ubuntu Blog / Arch News / Debian News
A few short how-to's with screenshots, showing easy ways to boot up off a USB live ISO and return back to previous points in time with BTRFS

Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Las Vegas was once again the center of the cybersecurity universe from August 1–9 for Black Hat and DEF CON 2026. The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) had a major presence throughout the week, engaging with security leaders, project maintainers, and the broader community to advance open…

Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Executive director says program can help more businesses think of themselves as tech companies. The post Saskatchewan’s tech incubator wants to help non-tech businesses adopt AI first appeared on BetaKit.

Planet GNOME / KDE News
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from August 28 to September 4. GNOME Foundation marimaj reports We’ve held an AUA on Reddit with GNOME’s new Board members last Saturday. Sri Ramkrishna — President, Jonathan Blandford — Vice-President, Maria Majadas — Chair, and Adrian…
EdSurge / EdTech Magazine / Class Central
The reality of K–12 IT teams is that most are very small — and, as a result, stretched thin. More than half of K–12 districts say they’re understaffed for everyday classroom technical support needs. On a given day, technicians may handle dozens of support requests for password resets, basic device…

Microsoft Security Blog
As AI moves into customer-owned environments, organizations need new ways to verify the systems, software, and AI assets they trust before releasing sensitive data, credentials, and models. The post How to secure edge AI in customer-owned environments appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
A charcoal sketch of a student at a desk with a finished handwritten page in front of him while a purple AI figure across the desk hands his pencil back to him, its other palm open and empty/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp/images/socratic-ai-pencil.webp I've been thinking about what AI should look…

tl;dr sec / Risky Biz News / Unsupervised Learning
A sienna sketch of a man squatting under a giant open book he is lifting overhead, while a purple robot arm on a desk hands a striped summary sheet to a faint gray figure/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp/images/cliffs-notes-for-everything.webp There's something really interesting about the…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Kubernetes v1.37 promotes the KubeletInUserNamespace feature gate to beta. With this feature enabled, all of the node components (kubelet, CRI and OCI runtimes, CNI plugins, and kube-proxy) can run as a non-root user on the host, using a Linux user namespace. This technique is also known as…
Planet GNOME / KDE News
We are in the process of introducing a new decision-making process into the GNOME project. The specification of the RFC process is available as a merge request on GitLab. The discussion is happening on the respective Discourse thread. I am now announcing the start of the final comment period for…

NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Enterprise work spans messages, decisions, projects, and obligations that change over time. An AI agent that starts without this context must reconstruct it...

Planet GNOME / KDE News
The GNOME Foundation is supporting contributors with its fellowship program. You can help expand the fellowship program with a donation. The previous month concluded with releasing the beta versions for GNOME 51. So this month, it was about time to get the bugs fixed in the beta releases. Tales of…

Ars Technica — Security
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
AI offers powerful tools for programmers. But should we completely trust the AI-generated output? Let's take a look at a concrete example. Why We Should Double-Check the AI Output: A Bug Which Wasn’t by Giovanni Dicanio From the article: Recently I asked Claude to review the code of my WinReg C++…

Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Funding comes through federal government’s Business Scale-up and Productivity program. The post ASI Engineering lands nearly $1 million to scale AI for asset management first appeared on BetaKit.

Bitcoin Optech / Fintech Takes / Fintech Business Weekly / Net Interest
Europe is outperforming – but Europeans aren’t participating
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Welcome to “What’s new in Swift,” a curated digest of releases, videos, and discussions in the Swift project and community. Here’s an update from guest contributor Simon Leeb on Swift’s progress as a language for web scenarios: Hi, Simon here! I am the creator of the elementary-swift project, a…

MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
The work is part of a multiyear effort to develop a distributed sensor network for relaying data collected from this critical region.

NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Running reasoning and agentic AI at the edge has been harder than it needs to be. Until recently, models capable of multi-step reasoning were too large to run...

GitHub — Blog / Changelog
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot. The post Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration…

The Robot Report / IEEE Spectrum Robotics
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit Seoul: 22–23 September 2026, SEOUL…

Planet GNOME / KDE News
The second month of the Fellowship is already over, let’s see what I got up to this month Nautilus I started implementing Tobias’ redesigned “Open With” mockup. The foundations to make the changes are done, as are most of the UI changes. Here is a preview: Due to technical limitations the design…

Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
Plus, AI execs at the G20 summit & questions about the OpenAI/Hugging Face after-action report.

Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Dedicatted’s bilingual assistant for Taw9eel drives discovery, conversion and customer trust. The post How Dedicatted is taking retail AI beyond the pushy bot first appeared on BetaKit.

Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Ex-Google CFO and Inovia partner to lead org focused on modernizing public service. The post Feds appoint Patrick Pichette CEO of new digital transformation agency first appeared on BetaKit.


Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol. I have…

Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Last week, our Legaltech Week crew presented a live panel at ILTACON discussing our takeaways from the week and the top stories and trends we observed. I recorded it on my iPhone and that recording is now posted, and it’s pasted below. Meanwhile, we’re back again today, live on Zoom at our usual…
APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
There is a subtle asymmetry in IPv6 Neighbour Discovery: a host knows how to reach its router before the router necessarily knows how to reach the host. GRAND fixes that asymmetry by making the host proactively advertise its address, and I implemented that mechanism in FreeBSD.

Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
East Point Energy, owned by Norwegian state-owned energy company Equinor has completed construction and started operations at the 100MW/200MWh Citrus Flatts energy storage project in Harlingen, Texas, US.
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
The state of Karnataka is joining forces with New South Wales in Australia to bolster their innovation ecosystems. This agreement will facilitate connections for startups with international markets and investors, particularly within the deeptech and biotechnology sectors. Additionally, it aims to…

Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Last week’s ILTACON, the annual conference of the International Legal Technology Association, brought what may have been the busiest news cycle I can remember for this conference, with a torrent of product announcements dominated by two themes: agentic AI and the Model Context Protocol. I have…

Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Can AI refactor legacy CSS without breaking your layout? We benchmarked 5 top AI assistants across cascade order, specificity ties, and stacking traps. The post I tested 5 AI tools for refactoring CSS: Here’s what I learned appeared first on LogRocket Blog.

APNIC Blog / RIPE Labs / Internet Society / 3GPP
The Internet Society Rwanda Chapter launched a two-day Digital Parenting and Online Safety training program in Karongi. The post Empowering Parents in Rwanda Through Digital Literacy Training appeared first on Internet Society.
TechTalks (Ben Dickson)
OpenAI’s decision to sever ties with Cursor proves that relying on closed frontier models is an existential vulnerability for application-layer software. The post OpenAI’s Cursor cutoff makes the ultimate business case for open-source AI first appeared on TechTalks.

MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
A new study shows what microbes and odors on human skin appeal to different species of mosquitoes.

MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
Search engines, social media and AI models can be made as safe and reliable as bridges and water supplies.

Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
BLUETTI, a technology pioneer in clean energy, today unveiled a new portfolio of products and intelligent energy solutions at IFA 2026.
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
If headcount is often a company's largest cost, tokens will be a close second soon as agents take on more work. Imagine how much $$ a software company will be able to save just by pre-selecting models that are efficient to run, especially in large companies with many engineers using coding agents.
Actively exploitedCritical 100CISA advisories & alerts
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant…

Rapid7
Overview A new Linux toolkit, identified by Rapid7 Labs, has been targeting organizations across South Korea’s automotive and media industries with minimal detection. The campaign made use of a HAProxy instance named “ted backdoor”, alongside trojanized versions of crond, agetty, atd, sshd, and…
Canary Media / Heatmap / Latitude Media
This analysis and news roundup come from the Canary Media Weekly newsletter. Sign up to get it every Friday. Solar is beating coal in China. Sorta. But also not at all. Let me explain. An eye-popping new chart made the rounds this week. It shows a line representing solar energy in China rising…
FTC / DOJ press releases
Nuvei and its subsidiaries alleged to have knowingly processed for merchants engaged in fraudulent activity Global payment processor Nuvei will pay $4.85 million to settle the Federal Trade Commission’s charges that the firm opened and maintained payment processing accounts for merchants that it…
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
MIT researchers have created bacterial “transistors” that can be wired together into living circuits capable of performing calculations and directing chemical signals. One day, these biological computers could coat plant roots or leaves, detecting environmental threats and automatically triggering…

Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
A roundup of user-posted analysis, views and unofficial news from across the industry this past week, this time looking at this week's sabotage attack on the German grid, BESS revenues and electricity market activity, CATL's LFP price cut and various non-lithium news.

Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
Blitzscaling relies on an investor base to support the next round and the next round, says William Bao Bean. "And the only thing that is for sure in emerging markets is that the capital is going to disappear on a regular basis." The post Orbit Ventures on innovation theater, AI to turbocharge…

Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Toronto startup looks to emerge from Y Combinator’s Demo Day with “war chest” to hire more scientists. The post Molagri wants to design a pesticide that evolves as quickly as pests first appeared on BetaKit.

Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Tesla was one of the pioneers of the grid-scale battery storage market, but has faced increasing competition in the past few years. In this article we look under the hood of its latest grid-scale BESS product, the Megapack 3.

Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Cleanhill Partners have agreed to sell power electronics manufacturer EPC Power Corp to Flex.

Raspberry Pi / Arduino / Adafruit
Add custom splash screens to handheld Raspberry Pi–powered devices. The post Configure early boot splash screens for SPI and I2C based displays appeared first on Raspberry Pi.
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
Lenovo and Acer will launch new Windows PCs powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark chip in October. These systems integrate Blackwell graphics and Grace central processors for enhanced AI capabilities. Tech companies are pushing for on-device AI to reduce cloud service costs and improve privacy. This move…
Samsung Newsroom
Soumya Dabriwal is a member of Generation17, a Samsung and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) partnership empowering young people who are contributing to the Global Goals. Since 2020, the initiative has supported Young Leaders worldwide with Samsung Galaxy technology, mentorship, and…
Samsung Newsroom
Samsung Electronics returned to Gamescom 2026 in Cologne, Germany, where players, streamers, media, and industry partners gathered to experience the latest in gaming. At the Samsung booth, the company paired its latest products with games, activities, and partner experiences designed to support a…
Stack Overflow Blog
Ryan chats with Greg Jennings, VP of Engineering for AI Products at Anaconda, about what it takes to build a secure-by-default AI coding agent, why prompts shouldn't be treated as strict security guardrails, and how Anaconda is using strategic acquisitions to secure the AI software supply chain.
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Après près de trois années passées à l’Élysée, Claire Vernet-Garnier rejoint Orange pour diriger le Corporate Development, les fusions-acquisitions et l’intégration. À 42 ans, cette ancienne banquière d’affaires retrouve un groupe dont elle fut administratrice au nom de l’État. Son arrivée…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Clara Chappaz rejoint l’Élysée comme conseillère pour l’attractivité, le numérique et l’IA Clara Chappaz intègre le cabinet d’Emmanuel Macron comme Conseillère chargée de l’attractivité, du numérique et de l’intelligence artificielle. Ancienne directrice de la Mission French Tech puis Ministre…
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