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  • John Wick As A DVD Store Operator, A Roguelike Take On Armored Core And Other New Indie Games Worth Checking Out

    Blackwood: Act One Developer: AttritoM7 ProductionsPublishers: IZilla Games, AttritoM7 ProductionsPlatforms: Steam (Windows), with plans for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S at an undetermined date.Price: Usually $25, with a 10 percent discount until September 23. Includes access to acts two and three, which should both arrive in 2027 The debut of Blackwood snuck up on me […] More

  • Scientists discover cells that cheat death and rebuild damaged tissue

    Scientists uncover a cellular survival mechanism that helps severely damaged tissue regenerate and may also reveal why some cancers return after treatment. Tissues such as skin, along with the epithelial layers that cover and line many organs, have a remarkable ability to rebuild themselves after extensive damage. Scientists have known about this response, called compensatory […] More

  • Sliding Window Technique : Solving Subarray and Substring Problems Efficiently

    Why should you care? Many programming problems involve finding something inside a contiguous portion of an array or string. For example: Find the maximum sum of k consecutive elements. Find the longest substring without repeating characters. Find the smallest subarray whose sum reaches a target. Find the number of subarrays satisfying a condition. Find the […] More

  • Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild

    Ravie LakshmananSep 19, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. “Orkes Conductor 3.21.21 before 3.30.2 contains an unauthenticated remote […] More

  • A startup that builds other startups raised $100M and is all-in on physical AI

    Four years ago, a startup lab launched that wasn’t quite an incubator, accelerator program, or venture firm. UP.Labs, as it was called then, built startups designed to solve problems for corporate customers such as Alaska Airlines and Porsche, as well as for the outside world. The firm still has the same mission — albeit with […] More

  • Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI

    Tilly Norwood, an AI-generated “actress,” is having a rough time on its first press tour. The production company that created it, Particle6 Group, has made it available for 75 simultaneous interviews with journalists, and it seems to be making mistakes in all of them. (I was not invited to speak with it, and frankly, I […] More

  • India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos

    India has extended its anti-spam regime to require caller-ID and call-management apps to share users’ spam reports with telecom operators, prompting spam-blocking app maker Truecaller to call the ruling anti-competitive. On Friday, the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI), the country’s telecom regulator, amended rules governing commercial communications, making it mandatory for call-ID and call-management […] More

  • Anthropic’s first embedded evaluator is … Accenture?

    Dario Amodei’s plans to put third-party safety evaluators inside AI labs are taking shape: Anthropic said that staff from technology consulting giant Accenture will begin working inside the company to scrutinize its models and staff. In a blog post, Anthropic said that Faculty, a company Accenture acquired in January to act as its AI division, […] More

  • The specter of AI-enabled bioweapons is a wake-up call for biotech

    “We’ve got a constant back and forth,” says Magnus. “We have to build better surveillance and screening tools, [but] AI is really good at figuring out ways around them.” We’ll probably need to use AI to find ways to restrict the use of AI, he says. I should add here that not all scientists agree […] More

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