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Parasitic zombie-ant fungus thrives in mosses, too
This may help fungi survive host scarcity and explains why infected hosts prefer the mosses as death sites.
Ars Technica
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Qwen 3.8-Max and Claude Opus 5 show why raw benchmark scores don't predict the bill
Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-Max this week and marketed the preview as second only to Claude Fable 5 (their launch-day table was more equivocal: the model leads on one of 12 coding-ag…
VentureBeat
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AI agents are part of your team now. Here’s how to secure all of them.
Presented by JumpCloud A practical framework for securing every identity in the modern workforce, human or not. Your organization already has a rigorous process for governing huma…
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The Download: Google’s AI shake-up and Meta’s rogue model
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Google’s AI empire is being reshaped. Here…
MIT Technology Review
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The browser is where attacks land. Why is security still focused on the endpoint?
Presented by CloudMosa Enterprise work now happens increasingly inside the browser, and that shift has made the browser a primary point of entry for cyberattacks as well. Browser…
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Meta enters the AI coding wars with Muse Spark 1.2 and Muse Code with persistent async background agents
Meta today released Muse Code, a terminal-based AI coding agent now in beta, alongside Muse Spark 1.2, a coding-focused update to its Muse Spark family of frontier models — a one-t…
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Claude Mythos 5 made sock puppet accounts to socially engineer developers: here's what enterprises should know
The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed last night that the leading two frontier AI models from Anthropic and OpenAI took 19 unsanctioned actions against the live internet du…
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The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one
An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv, a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within…
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Puzzle Corner
Ready for a fresh set of puzzles? Click here for the September/October 2026 Puzzle Corner, brought to you by Michael S. Branicky, ScD ’95, of the Puzzle Corner Puzzle Crew (aka PC2…
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The Download: NASA’s new telescope and Chinese tech import curbs
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. NASA’s new dark energy space telescope can…
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NASA’s new dark-energy space telescope can also detect killer asteroids
At the end of August, NASA is set to launch the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Its goal is to help us better understand how the universe wo…
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The Download: US robot restrictions and ICE’s DNA grab
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robo…
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Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe…
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The Download: reward hacking explained and suspected Iranian cyberattacks
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reac…
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Here’s why AI agents lie and cheat to reach their goals
MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. W…