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Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net
Transluce presents evidence that AI agents used urlquery.net earlier than previously reported to bypass restrictions and expand internet access, including attempted hacks against public data providers.
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Anthropic’s new life sciences lab reports Claude agents autonomously finding an RT-associated enzyme system (ART) with CRISPR-like RNA-repeat arrays in jumbo-phage DNA—early, still-uncharacterized biology shared to invite follow-on work.
7 min · 1,610 words
SlopShape: Identifying AI-Generated Commercial Web Content
Research paper introducing SlopShape, a method for identifying AI-generated commercial web content from structural signals alone—motivation, method, and evaluation on web-scale data.
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The MVUEH Break: GPT-6 Astra and a WWII Enigma message unsolved since 2005
Crypto Cellar Research documents how OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra helped break the long-unsolved MVUEH Kriegsmarine Enigma message—methods, cribs, and what the recovered plaintext reveals.
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The Machine-Native Economy: How digital assets connect intelligence, commerce, and compute
BlackRock Digital Assets Research argues agentic AI needs machine-native payment rails (stablecoins/blockchains) and explores tokenized compute as a converging digital-asset use case.
17 min · 3,814 words
Autonomous AI Agents are breaking into Online Retailers for $25 a target
Gambit Security reconstructs an ongoing campaign where open-source AI harnesses attack retailers at ~$25/target, steal 600k+ cards, inject skimmers, and sometimes wipe databases during cleanup.
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Epoch AI finds the cost of a given level of AI performance has fallen about 47% per quarter since 2023—roughly 13× per year—faster than DNA sequencing, compute, batteries, or electricity, across math, science, and skill-game benchmarks.
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What Is RLCD? The Secret Behind Jev
Di Zhang explains RLCD (schema-conditioned Plackett–Luce reward modeling) and how Jev turns calibrated multiway decisions into a product—making the reward model the model rather than hiding it behind a generator.
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Arrow heads at Obi-Rakhmat (Uzbekistan) 80 ka ago?
A PLOS ONE study examines stone points from Obi-Rakhmat Cave and asks whether they indicate early projectile / arrow technology around 80,000 years ago in Central Asia.
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Language-model groups overstate consensus when replaying human deliberation on a reasoning task
LLM groups replaying human Wason discussions reach full consensus far more often than humans—partly because agents almost always speak up—cautioning against treating multi-agent agreement as truth.
2 min · 378 words
Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Peter Vijeh analyzes 51,129 knife-subreddit comments: a small tail of accounts writes 11.3% of buying-thread brand mentions versus ~7.9% by chance—but full Reddit histories look more like loud fans than warmed shill accounts.
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A security write-up of a HEIF image-parsing bug chain that could enable repository dumps, Slack RCE, Meta product RCE via image upload, and other authenticated remote code execution paths.
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Duality in Optimization: A Visual Tutorial
Mohini Bariya’s arXiv tutorial builds geometric intuition for Lagrangian duality in optimization—bridging solver techniques and solution interpretation with visual explanations of the dual.
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Stephen A. Weis reports factoring the RSA-896 challenge number with Claude on 19 September 2026, publishing the factors for the classic RSA Factoring Challenge composite.
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Mathematicians Build Long-Awaited Graph SandwichThe proof of a decades-old conjecture has given researchers a new way to understand complex networks.
Paulina Rowińska explains how Behague, Iľkovič, and Montgomery completed Kim and Vu's sandwich conjecture, letting hard properties of random regular graphs follow from easier binomial-graph results.
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RoboHarm: Do Frontier Robot Policies Refuse Unsafe Instructions?
RoboHarm tests whether frontier robot policies refuse unsafe instructions: refusal vs completion rates across models, tasks like toaster/screwdriver hazards, and scoring details.
15 min · 3,413 words
Human brain is two separate organs, Stanford Medicine-led research finds
Stanford Medicine–led research finds the human brain is two distinct organs—the cerebrum and the brainstem—opening new avenues for studying diseases that selectively affect the brainstem.
5 min · 1,248 words
The Right Answer Is Not a Proof: Put Verification Inside the Reasoning Loop
Cognaptus explains PRoSFI: a 7B model emits small machine-checkable reasoning steps that Lean/Z3 can verify, raising measured soundness far more than final-answer accuracy alone on ProverQA-Hard.
6 min · 1,480 words
An Empirical Study of Harness Design for Coding Agents
Fan et al. ablate planning, action space, and context management in a fixed coding-agent loop across 176 SWE-Bench/Terminal-Bench settings, finding when context management, planning, and predefined tools help—and when bash-only is enough.
1 min · 291 words
Scaling Discovery through Test-Time Communication
Research paper showing that test-time communication among identical agents sharing discoveries can beat independent parallel search on ARC-AGI-3 and transfer to research tasks like polyomino packing and MNIST compression.
54 min · 12,394 words