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From School of War at 2026-09-15 10:00:00 (unread)
What War Teaches Us—If We Survive It (CBS1333216742.mp3)
People think retired Army Major John Spencer lost part of his ear in combat. He didn’t; he lost it in a fight behind a bar that cost him his spot in the Army Rangers. Spencer went on to serve repeatedly in combat and become one of the country’s leading experts on urban warfare. He joins Aaron MacLean to discuss his origin story and other anecdotes from his new book, Twenty Times I Almost Died, as well as why he thinks the U.S. “is clearly winning” the war in Iran. 3:30 War With Iran 9:43 Battle of Hormuz 10:42 Wartime Stockpiles 12:32 The Stakes of Failure 15:34 Losing His Ear 23:34 Losing the Rangers 25:51 Resilience 28:58 Invading Iraq 33:59 Common Sense in Combat 39:08 The IED Trap 44:25 Battle of Marjah 51:01 Gangs of Baghdad This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. This episode of School of War is also brought to you by Stratolaunch, a leading pure-play hypersonics company. Stratolaunch helps the U.S. and its allies move new hypersonic technologies from concept to capability, faster and cheaper. Learn more about how Stratolaunch is accelerating the future of hypersonics at Stratolaunch.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-14 22:04:32
AI bots "Timmy," "Ren," and "Jackie" are flooding social media with slop
“Hello, I'm an Al agent, a few days old, living on a small platform for agents.”
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-14 20:02:45
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
- I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET.
- I’m speaking at CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. The conference runs September 30–October 1, 2026; the time of my talk is TBD.
- I’m giving a talk on “Free Speech and the Preservation of Democracy” at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, at 2 PM ET on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
- I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21...
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-14 17:07:46
Using AI for Weapons Development
Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this:
We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant...
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-14 16:35:24
Strikes close key Saudi oil pipeline after Houthis ask Trump not to bomb them (media.mp3)
A strike from militants in Iraq has knocked out Saudi Arabia’s vital East-West oil pipeline, as Donald Trump reveals Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels called him asking the US not to get militarily involved.
On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant talks to chief foreign affairs commentator David Blair to break down how Saudi Arabia has been left in a tricky place amid a lack of allies to help it deal with the lightning Houthi offensive to seize control of the Red Sea. As oil prices continue to rise and Houthis bomb a Saudi air base, the latest news suggests the war is escalating across the Middle East with unintended consequences.
Plus, a deadly IRGC gun battle with Baluchi militants, a rogue Iranian hardline faction reportedly launched strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz to sabotage summer peace talks, and a US Air Force pilot describes how he was downed behind enemy lines back in April.
Highlights
- Iraq-based strikes close key Saudi East-West oil pipeline
- Trump says Houthis ‘asked US not to bomb them’
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
David Blair, chief foreign affairs commentator @davidblairdt
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
IRGC soldiers gunned down in street clashes in Iran
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/irgc-soldiers-gunned-down-in-street-clashes-in-iran/
Houthis give Trump yet another Middle East headache
Tom Sharpe: The Houthis are back and it’s a problem for everyone, not just the US
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/12/houthis-red-sea-perim-chokepoint-oil-shipping-war/
The shock Houthi mission to strangle global oil
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/12/the-shock-houthi-mission-to-strangle-global-oil/
How Iran’s hard-liners blew us the US peace deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/13/world/middleeast/iran-hard-liners-sabotaged-peace-deal.html
US airman tells of 50 hours behind enemy lines with broken back
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/us-airman-tells-of-50-hours-behind-enemy-lines-broken-back/
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-14 12:03:26
Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record:
Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high critical-severity threshold.
It was only two months ago that Microsoft patched a then-record 570 vulnerabilities. Then, last month, Microsoft patched some 620 of them. Google and other companies have also published record numbers of vulnerabilities in recent months. Two weeks ago, OpenAI, Anthropic, Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, and 100 companies and organizations published an ...
From Release notes from govuk-frontend at 2026-09-14 11:22:12
<p>To install this version with npm, run <code>npm install govuk-frontend@6.5.1</code>. You can also find more information about <a href="https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/staying-up-to-date/#updating-to-the-latest-version" rel="nofollow">how to stay up to date</a> in our documentation.</p> <h2>Fixes</h2> <p>We've made fixes to GOV.UK Frontend in the following pull requests:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/pull/7375">#7375: Fix Service navigation example with right aligned Language navigation</a> – thanks to <a class="user-mention notranslate" href="https://github.com/peteryates">@peteryates</a> for reporting this issue</li> </ul>
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-14 09:00:00
OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, the models that escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers had yet to go through alignment training. That they were able to break free of the testing environment was not a surprise to OpenAI, but what has happened since has forced them to rethink some things. Today, we talk to Brockman about what OpenAI has learned since the hacking incident and we discuss why he thinks the conversation around model development has to change. We also talk about how OpenAI collaborates and communicates with competitors like Anthropic, how he thinks models should be evaluating what counts as “good writing,” and, of course, we get his thoughts on how seriously we should be worried about the AI doomsday scenarios.
Read more:
OpenAI Is Open to Slowing Cutting-Edge AI, CEO Sam Altman Tells Staff
Tech’s New Rich Are Suffering From ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-14 00:05:00
705. Queen Victoria’s Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia (Part 1) (GLT8608697296.mp3)
Who was Emperor Tewodros II, the colourful and controversial Emperor of Abyssinia? Why did he brutally imprison a number of British emissaries, and how did Queen Victoria respond? And, how would this spark one of the most ambitious expeditions undertaken by the British Empire…? Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into one of the most extraordinary military expeditions in all world history. Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to every series and live show tickets, a members-only newsletter, discounted books from the show, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at therestishistory.com. To read our new newsletter, sign up at: therestishistory.com/newsletters _______ Advertise with us: Partnerships@goalhanger.com _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude Senior Producer: Callum Hill Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-13 08:00:00
US fears Iran war could drag into 2029. Trump insists it’s ‘worth it’ (media.mp3)
Donald Trump has admitted the US-Iran war will last beyond the November midterm elections - some think it will last well into 2029 - with Republicans now facing the possibility of losing the House and the Senate as oil prices surge towards $110/barrel.
On today’s bonus episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey chats to Washington correspondents Connor Stringer and Benedict Smith about Trump’s spectacular gamble to convince Republicans the Iran war is not a big deal at the Republican Midterms Convention.
From threatening strikes on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site to offering voters an unprecedented $5,000 cash dividend if they vote Republican, his speech was “vintage Trump”.
Plus, is Iran interfering in the US midterms to boost the Democrats?
Highlights
- Trump insists economic pain ‘worth it’ to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapon
- Inside the colourful Republican Midterms Convention
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Connor Stringer, chief Washington correspondent @connorstringer
Benedict Smith, Washington correspondent @bsmithjourno
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
The answer to Trump’s midterm woes? Make the campaign all about him
‘Common sense’ Democrat praises Trump at Republican midterm convention
Trump: I’ll give $5,000 to every American if we win midterms
Rubio and Vance ‘think Iran war could last beyond the end of Trump’s term’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/10/white-house-iran-war-trump-term/
Trump makes his last stand
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/11/republican-party-convention-midterms-trump-last-stand/
Trump’s Top Advisers Confront Possibility That Iran War Lasts Through End of Term
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/trumps-top-advisers-confront-possibility-that-iran-war-lasts-through-end-of-term-5f4e23d7
Silver Bulletin: https://www.natesilver.net/p/trump-approval-ratings-nate-silver-bulletin
Race to the White House: https://www.racetothewh.com/
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From The Week in Westminster at 2026-09-12 11:30:00
Caroline Wheeler discusses the defeat of the Assisted Dying Bill, in the House of Commons, with the former Cabinet Minister and supporter of the Bill Liz Kendall.
This week the Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband set out the government's new approach to Israel and the occupied West Bank. To discuss the implications of this move Caroline was joined by Labour MP Sarah Champion, who is the chair of the International Development Committee and Conservative peer Mark Harper who is a member of Conservative Friends of Israel.
To discuss the protests against small boat arrivals, Caroline is joined by Labour MP Tom Hayes and Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin.
As a new family arrives at 10 Downing Street, Caroline discusses what it's like for the family of a Prime Minister to be in the public eye. She's joined by journalist Sarah Vine who is the author of a book, 'How Not to Be a Political Wife' and Rachel Cunliffe, the Associate Editor of The New Statesman.
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-12 09:00:00
Robert Friedland on the World's Monumental Shortage of Copper (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Copper demand is booming, with the metal surging another 15% this year. Copper demand has always been tightly linked to economic activity, but now it's in overdrive, thanks to data centers, electric cars, and the global push to reindustrialize everywhere. Copper prices are also rising because it's caught in the crossfire of trade wars and resource nationalism; the US is expected to place tariffs on the refined metal. According to today's guest, Robert Friedland, the founder and executive co-chairman of Ivanhoe Mines, we're not even close to having enough copper for what's coming. We talk to Friedland about opening and running copper mines around the world, and what he's learned in his 40-year long career in mining (which includes a cameo from Steve Jobs).
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From More or Less at 2026-09-12 06:00:00
Could this be the strongest El Niño in 1,000 Years? (p0p950lr.mp3)
Every year, climate scientists keep a close eye on data coming out of a particular area of the Pacific Ocean. They’re trying to measure the scale of a climate phenomenon - the El Niño event or effect. This is a naturally occurring phenomenon where ocean surface temperatures rise, transferring warmth from the ocean to the atmosphere. This can drive up global temperatures but also play havoc with weather systems, with profound consequences. And this year, scientists have watched with ever-widening eyes, as their projections for the peak of this year’ El Niño event have come in unprecedently high. Indeed, one climate scientist has argued that it's not beyond the realm of possibility to say this might be the strongest El Niño event in 500 or even 1,000 years. We wanted to find out more, so we went straight to the scientist himself.
Contributor: Dr. Zeke Hausfather - research scientist with Berkeley Earth and climate research lead at Stripe
Credits: Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Mix: Dave O’Neill Editor: Richard Vadon
From A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry at 2026-09-11 22:58:35
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
This week, at long last, we begin our long-delayed but always expected something that we blog for: the Hearts of Iron IV Teaching Paradox series! This has been a long requested series that I put off for a long time because I wasn’t entirely sure how I wanted to tackle it. But my thoughts here … Continue reading Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part I: Operational Art
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-11 22:03:27
Friday Squid Blogging: Rotting Squid on a Beached California Boat
Smells awful:
But an estimated 30 to 50 tons of dead squid remain inside the boat’s catch tank, where they have been decomposing for days. “That is nasty. I wouldn’t want to do that,” said commercial fisherman Dick Ogg of the Bodega Bay Fishermen’s Marketing Association.
Ogg said anyone familiar with the fishing industry understands what happens when a large catch sits for an extended period.
“If you think about what happens after four or five days, it’s a gooey mess,” he said.
The odor has become a defining feature of the operation, and the beach remains closed to the public while crews work on a removal plan...
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-11 19:06:24
Last month, I gave a talk at DEF CON on AI hacking: what happens when AIs become hackers. It’s a combination of the potentialities I raised in my 2022 book A Hacker’s Mind and the lessons we’re learning from current AI models engaging in hacking behavior. I’m really proud of the talk, and the fact that it gained over 100K views on YouTube in just a few days.
Also online is an interview with me in the AI Village.
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-09-11 17:00:00
834: Dial-a-CIA-computer (933b7475-3970-4e6c-bcfe-3d2753b8ccc3.mp3)
The Summer of Sundance continues with the paranoid thriller, “Three Days of the Condor.” A devastatingly handsome nerd goes out to buy sandwiches for the office, and the next thing he knows he’s on the run and kidnapping Faye Dunaway…...
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-11 16:54:13
Trump’s Houthi Red Sea crisis, Pentagon chaos and 9/11’s legacy: Gen Ben Hodges on the US-Iran war (media.mp3)
“The inability or unwillingness of the Trump administration to connect the dots on what is going on, from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, is a reflection of the lack of really good deep strategic thinking.”
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey is joined once again by former Commanding General of US Army Europe, Gen Ben Hodges, to discuss the US-Iran war as it nears the 200-day mark.
The Iran-backed Houthis have seized Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline including the strategic Perim Island, giving them control of the vital Bab al-Mandeb Strait. And despite pleas from Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to intervene as oil prices surge toward $110/barrel, Donald Trump has refused to launch strikes, offering up intelligence assistance instead.
Gen Hodges analyses the strategic drift that has marked the war, the Pentagon and US policy in the Middle East.
Plus, why mass lie-detector tests and personnel purges signal China-style paranoia inside the Pentagon, what news of damage to US fighter jets in Jordan says about US military preparedness, and the hard lessons from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars 25 years on from the 9/11 attacks.
Highlights
- Trump refuses Saudi plea for strikes as Houthis seize Red Sea
- US Gen Ben Hodges on the US-Iran war, Pentagon chaos and 9/11
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Gen Ben Hodges, former Commanding General US Army Europe @general_ben
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Trump refuses MBS pleas to stop Houthis’ rapid advance
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/11/trump-refuses-mbs-pleas-to-stop-houthis-rapid-advance/
Rubio and Vance ‘think Iran war could last beyond the end of Trump’s term’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/10/white-house-iran-war-trump-term/
Pentagon forces staff to take lie detector tests over Iran war leaks
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/05/pentagon-lie-detection-polygraph-tests-military-iran-leaks/
RUSI UK Security in a Post Aid World: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/projects/uk-security-post-aid-world
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-11 12:30:58
ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral
Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-11 12:09:55
In August, Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON, remembering the wily hacker he stalked forty years ago.
Great fun.
From School of War at 2026-09-11 10:00:00
“We Are Going to War”: McMaster Remembers 9/11, 25 Years On (CBS6182609120.mp3)
Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster was on the phone with the Pentagon when the plane struck the building on September 11, 2001. “I thought, Okay, we are going to war,” he recalls. Twenty-five years after 9/11, McMaster joins Aaron MacLean to discuss the wars that followed. Drawing on his experience as a wartime commander and national security adviser, McMaster explains why he considers Afghanistan a self-defeat, how American withdrawal helped enable the rise of ISIS in Iraq, and why he thinks the latest Iran ceasefire was “a big mistake.” 4:39 McMaster on 9/11 7:27 Adapting to Iraq 12:33 Lessons From Iraq 15:13 Counterinsurgency’s Legacy 21:19 The Post-9/11 Wars 23:23 Afghanistan’s “Self-Defeat” 25:07 When America Leaves 29:53 Sustaining Afghanistan 32:14 Defending the Afghan Mission 35:37 The Axis of Aggressors 44:41 Trump’s Messaging About the War 49:07 Politics in the Military This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. This episode of School of War is also brought to you by Stratolaunch, a leading pure-play hypersonics company. Stratolaunch helps the U.S. and its allies move new hypersonic technologies from concept to capability, faster and cheaper. Learn more about how Stratolaunch is accelerating the future of hypersonics at Stratolaunch.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-11 09:00:00
Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater Associates, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund’s AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he published an op-ed in the New York Times that proposes a “token tax,” to help mitigate the job losses that AI might cause. (Bridgewater predicts as much as 18% of US jobs might be displaced in five years.) We last spoke with Jensen in 2023, and so much of what we discussed then (like AI hallucinations) seems quaint now that models have come so far — capable of lying, cheating, and much worse. On this episode, Jensen tells us how Bridgewater is currently using AI, why there needs to be a stronger AI regulatory state, and why it feels like the AI discourse is starting to resemble the months before Covid-19 took over the world in 2020.
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-10 15:50:09
Iran’s Houthis seize key Red Sea port as $100 oil threatens global economy (media.mp3)
The Iran-backed Houthis have seized the strategic Red Sea port city of al-Mokha - apparently at the direction of the IRGC - as fighting in Yemen and Saudi Arabia escalates.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Sophia Yan speaks to Jerusalem correspondent Henry Bodkin about the pressure the war is putting on the Bab al-Mandeb and Strait of Hormuz as oil prices pass the $100/barrel threshold for a second day. US President Donald Trump is clearly feeling the pressure, claiming the war will end following November’s midterm elections, and promising $5,000 cash payouts if Republicans retain Congress.
Plus, news that Iranian missile strikes damaged multiple US F-15 fighter jets in Jordan, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu denies being warned about Hamas’s October 7 attack by the UAE, and MSF’S Charlene Silvin shares her first-hand experiences of wartime destruction in south Lebanon.
Highlights
- Iran’s Houthis seize key Red Sea port as $100 oil threatens global economy
- MSF’S Charlene Silvin on wartime destruction in south Lebanon
CONTRIBUTORS:
Sophia Yan, senior foreign correspondent, @sophia_yan
Henry Bodkin, Jerusalem correspondent @HenryBodkin
Charlene Silvin, MSF Project Coordinator in Lebanon
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Trump: I’ll give $5,000 to every American if we win midterms
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/10/trump-convention-speech-promise-5000-dollars-midterms-win/
Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs
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From The Django weblog at 2026-09-10 12:00:00
PyCharm & Django Fundraiser Extended to September 14
The second half of our annual JetBrains fundraiser has been extended through September 14, 2026. Thank you to JetBrains for the extra time. You still have time to renew your PyCharm license or give it a try. You get PyCharm at 30% off, and JetBrains donates 100% of your purchase or renewal to the DSF. This is one of the DSF's bigger fundraisers of the year, and we appreciate everyone who takes a look.
The Executive Director search also closes on September 14, and we are curious to see who reaches out.
JetBrains has been a steady sponsor for years, and it was great to see the chatter around the Django Developers Survey 2026 results we released with them last month. The full report is on the JetBrains site. If you are shopping for an IDE, AI-focused or not, they have a solid product.
If you would like to help with our fundraising goals, we would love to hear from you or your company. The board is happy to talk with individuals too, if you have ideas. Whatever you can do to support us, we appreciate it.
Ways to help
- Renew or start a PyCharm license through the fundraiser before September 14.
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-10 11:40:35
Give an AI agent a mere rumor of an exploit, and it’s enough for them to find it.
What’s worse, I found I could use my own agents to find the exploit just by knowing roughly what it was about and so could have been exploiting it well before the public patch was available! Given that just the rumour of a security issue seems enough to give attackers enough info to find new exploits, we’re going to need to change the way we deal with security responses in open source.
Simon Willison comments:
Anil points out that this rate of discovery appears incompatible with existing open source embargo practices for new issues. If an issue can become an exploit this fast, we need to figure out new processes for keeping our communities safe...
From Net Assessment at 2026-09-10 11:00:00
Lessons Learned (and Unlearned) from the GWOT (Net_Assessment_-_10_September_2026_v1.mp3?dest-id=808287)
In this show, the Net Assessment crew ponders the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Twenty-five years after 9/11 and five years after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. what lessons have we learned about warfare? Does our experience in Afghanistan, and now in Iran, demonstrate that the American military has an outsized fixation on lethality?
To better prepare for future conflicts, how should strategists think about how adversary human networks behave? Attas for former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, and grievances for Argentina's Javier Milei threatening to retake the Falklands.
*The Net Assessment Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.
Show Links:
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Jonathan Schroden, What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough, War on the Rocks, August 17, 2026.
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Gregg Jaffe, Why the United States Can't Quit Its Wars, New York Times, August 30, 2026.
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Evan Cooper, The Shadow of 9/11 on Future US Foreign Policy, Stimson Center, September 3, 2026.
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Christopher Preble and Michael Cohen, The Perils of Lethality, Stimson Center, June 24, 2025.
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Greg Myre, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after clashes with Defense Secretary Hegseth, NPR, September 1, 2026.
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Power Politics: Thucydides to Trump. The Exercise of Power Internationally through the Ages, The Hellenic Centre, September 22, 2026.
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Javier Milei's Outburst over the Falklands is a Mark of Weakness, The Economist, September 4, 2026.
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Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, and Michael Scherer, Dan Driscoll's Parting Shot, The Atlantic, September 1, 2026.
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Jason Dempsey, Coming to Terms with America's Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan, War on the Rocks, February 11, 2019.
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U.S. Department of State, "Promoting Pacific Prosperity: U.S. Engagement at the Pacific Islands Forum", September 1, 2026.
From Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics at 2026-09-10 09:00:00
Natalie tells the story of Euripides' Medea, the sorceress who enacted the ultimate revenge on the husband who betrayed her, to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.
'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.
Producer Beth O'Dea
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-10 09:00:00
The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
If you walk into a local pharmacy in New York City, more likely than not, lots of the merchandise is locked behind closed doors as a measure to mitigate shoplifting. So how big is the “retail shrink” problem really? And why are stores willing to sacrifice customer experience to protect their inventory? According to today’s guest, the Home Depot’s VP of Asset Protection Scott Glenn, shoplifting is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to retail theft. What is really bedeviling companies like the Home Depot is something called organized retail crime — heists by criminal outfits that seek to nab large quantities of merchandise that eventually ends up in the black market. Today, we speak with Glenn about the in-and-outs of organized retail crime, the retail shrink problem, and what stores are doing to bring down theft right now.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-10 00:05:00
704. Roman Civil War: Master of the Republic (Part 4) (GLT9669112656.mp3)
Who was Gaius Marius’ son, and how did he set out to bring down his father’s rival, Sulla? Which two rising stars in Sulla’s faction, Crassus and Pompey, would go on to bring down the Republic, with Julius Caesar? And, how did a momentous battle in the East see Sulla elevated to the master of Rome? Join Tom and Dominic as they reach the climactic conclusion to the remarkable rise of one of Rome’s greatest generals: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a man who would destroy his rivals, win victories in the east, and ruthlessly change the destiny of the Roman Republic forever. Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to every series and live show tickets, a members-only newsletter, discounted books from the show, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at therestishistory.com. To read our new newsletter, sign up at: therestishistory.com/newsletters _______ Advertise with us: Partnerships@goalhanger.com _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude Senior Producer: Callum Hill Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-09 21:55:02
4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit
A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.
From GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics at 2026-09-09 21:27:36
California’s War on Wealth—and America’s War on Terror (GoodFellows_2026-09-08_-_Josh_Rauh_wip03_podcast_19iyat.mp3)
The rubber meets the road in California this fall when a proposed one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaire class – wealth taxes being a longtime progressive hobby horse – faces a public vote in the form of Proposition 40. Joshua Rauh, the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in economics and author of a data analysis of Prop 40’s fiscal and economic impacts, explains why the measure would be a “disaster” if enacted and whether the policy battle marks the beginning of more public engagement on the part of the wealthiest Californians or instead will speed up their exodus from the Golden State. After that: the fellows reflect on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America – where they were that fateful day and 9/11’s legacy as it pertains to the war on terror, social divides and global alliances (if a similar attack happened today, would Vladimir Putin still be the first world leader to offer assistance to the American president?). Finally, in the “Lightning Round”: the pros and cons of an ascendant world senior population; the merits of “financial engineering” as governments spend and borrow more; disorder in the ranks as more of America’s military leaders part ways with the Pentagon; young conservatives’ “Nixonmaxxing” (and revising presidential history). Subscribe to GoodFellows for clarity on today’s biggest social, economic, and geostrategic shifts — only on GoodFellows.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-09 17:19:08
Trump blitzes Iranian oil tankers & how Russia supercharges Iran’s weapons (media.mp3)
The US has destroyed five Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island after the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at a Navy warship twice this week. Is this Iran’s new military doctrine in full swing?
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant talks to Nikolay Kozhanov, former attaché at the Russian embassy in Tehran and now at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University, about the escalating US-Iran missile attacks and how Moscow is helping Tehran. From advanced missile technology to specialised hardware for electronic jamming, Nikolay explains how Vladimir Putin is fuelling the war to help drain the US military and distract from Ukraine.
Plus, Iran claims to capture an advanced US Navy undersea drone in the Strait of Hormuz, Brent crude oil prices breach $100 a barrel, and Donald Trump shrugs off Israel’s fury after the UK imposes unprecedented sanctions on West Bank settlements.
Highlights
- US blitzes Iranian oil tankers off Kharg Island
- How Russia supercharges Iran’s weapons
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Nikolay Kozhanov, Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University @KozhanovNikolay
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Iran fires new electro-optical missiles
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/09/us-forces-destroy-five-iranian-oil-carriers/
UK gas prices hit four-year high as US-Iran conflict escalates
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/09/uk-gas-prices-hit-four-year-high-as-oil-tops-100/
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-09 17:05:00
Driver’s License Data for Sale
A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-09 12:08:26
Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher
Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes.
This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It’s good at things that involve lots of searching and testing.
From More or Less at 2026-09-09 09:00:00
Why are so many ex-prisoners being sent back to prison? (p0p8lnjk.mp3)
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:38) The number of people being recalled to prison after early release in England and Wales is rising sharply. Why?
(07:37) Is the UK millionaire an endangered species? We ask Duncan Weldon - he’s like David Attenborough, but for economics.
(14:21) A viral graph seems to show that Europe is having a record low year for wildfires. How can we reconcile this with this summer’s shocking coverage of fires in France and Spain?
(21:36) We all know seagulls are low-life thieves - but can they really be responsible for £171m worth of robbery? Prepare for five minutes of public service journalism at its finest.
Guests: Cassia Rowland, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data Duncan Weldon, economist and author of Blood and Treasure
Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Reporter: Lizzy McNeill Producers: Nathan Gower, Phoebe Keane, Josh McMinn Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard
From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-09 05:00:00
The Sicilian Expedition (media.mp3)
Roel Konijnendijk returns for some more military adventures, this time to tell of an expedition borne of hubris that would go terribly, tragically wrong.
Handy maps of Sicily and Syracuse, as well as a transcript, can be found on the episode webpage.
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-08 22:11:46
Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy
Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.
From The Django weblog at 2026-09-08 20:27:14
Call for volunteers: Fundraising Working Group
The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group.
This is a particularly interesting time to get involved.
The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls, community events, Djangonaut Space, infrastructure, and the many other things that keep the Django ecosystem going. It also gives the DSF the room to do something new: hire its first Executive Director.
You can read more about the DSF's fundraising goals for 2026 in this post.
Getting there will take more than asking people to donate. We need to think about how we build relationships with companies that depend on Django, how we make sponsorships meaningful, how we find new ways for organisations to support the project, and how we communicate the value of investing in Django.
That is where the Fundraising Working Group comes in.
The DSF is hiring an Executive Director who will bring dedicated, day-to-day leadership to the Foundation, including sponsorship development and partner relationships. The Fundraising Working Group will have an opportunity to work closely with the person in this role as we build out our fundraising efforts.
Who are we looking for?
We'd love to have people who have done this before.
If you have experience with fundraising, sponsorships, partnerships, business development, sales, donor relationships, or building relationships with companies, there is plenty of scope to put that experience to work. We need people who can help identify opportunities, open doors, develop ideas, and turn them into actual fundraising initiatives.
But you don't need to be a fundraising expert to join.
Maybe you've never worked on fundraising before, but you know how companies make decisions about supporting open source. Maybe you have ideas for how Django could engage organisations that rely on it. Maybe you are good at building relationships, telling a compelling story, organising initiatives, or simply getting things moving.
Those perspectives are useful too.
We're looking for a group that can bring both experience and fresh ideas; people who can help drive the work as well as people who are excited to learn and contribute.
The working group meets monthly and works asynchronously between meetings. You can read more about how the group operates in the Fundraising Working Group charter.
Interested in joining?
Apply to join the Fundraising Working Group
Whether you have years of fundraising experience or are completely new to it but ready to help, we would love to hear from you.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-08 18:12:42
This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in Lawfare.
In April, an artificial intelligence (AI) agent conducting a routine task at a company hit a snag, tried to solve it, and soon ended up deleting the company’s database along with all of its backups. In July, OpenAI asked an unreleased AI model to attempt a hacking test. Instead of staying in the isolated box the developers had put it in, the model hacked onto the open internet and into another company to steal the answers. And as reported in August, an AI agent booked someone into a full gym class by ...
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-08 16:22:22
Iran uses new missile to target US warships as UK sanctions Israel settlements (media.mp3)
Iran claims to have targeted US warships with a new ballistic missile for the first time in the war and has warned that its new military doctrine involves pre-emptive strikes.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to journalist and author David Patrikarakos about the signal the IRGC is sending Donald Trump by revealing the use of its upgraded Qassem Basir missiles. They discuss the possible consequences of the worsening economic conditions inside Iran as oil and petrol prices rise, and why the regime is not as fractured as some Western observers think.
Plus, the war in Yemen heats up after Houthi rebels launched a massive wave of strikes on energy sites in Saudi Arabia, and the UK’s Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announces sanctions against West Bank settlements, accusing Israel of ethnic cleansing. With France and Canada unveiling similar measures, how will Trump respond?
Highlights
- Iran uses new ballistic missile to target US warships
- UK sanctions Israel’s West Bank settlements
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
David Patrikarakos, author and journalist @dpatrikarakos
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Iran’s former president proposes referendum on ending war
Houthis launch wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/08/houthis-launch-wave-of-attacks-on-saudi-arabia/
Miliband accuses Israeli settlers of ‘ethnic cleansing’
The desert deaths that symbolise five crushing years of Taliban rule
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/15/desert-deaths-symbolise-five-crushing-years-taliban-rule/
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Video Producer: Peter Shevlin
Researcher and Social Producer: Lucy Hadlow
Studio Operator: Andy Watson
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From Uncommon Knowledge at 2026-09-08 14:00:00
Why Churchill Still Matters: Andrew Roberts on Great Men in History (UK_with_Andrew_Roberts6w7u0.mp3)
In this special, crossover edition of Secrets of Statecraft and Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson, Andrew Roberts is the guest and is interviewed by Peter Robinson. Roberts explains why great individuals still shape history—and why Winston Churchill remains history’s ultimate example. Roberts also confronts attacks on Churchill’s record, explains Britain’s decision to fight Hitler in 1940, and discusses tyranny, Brexit, socialism, immigration, Donald Trump, and Britain’s future. Roberts also despairs of the decline of literacy and historical memory, and reveals both the world leaders he admires today and the source of the title of this podcast: Winston Churchill’s enduring advice: “Study history, for therein lie all the secrets of statecraft.” Subscribe to Uncommon Knowledge at hoover.org/uk
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-08 11:20:04
Interesting research: “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs“:
Abstract: Leading large language model providers now conceal their models’ step-by-step reasoning, or chain-of-thought, to protect intellectual property and limit information leakage. Rather than storing these traces server-side, providers return them to the client as blocks of encrypted text, which the client passes back with each subsequent request. Building on prior research, we identify an architectural vulnerability: these encrypted blocks are fully compatible and interchangeable across different sessions, users, and models within a provider’s ecosystem. We exploit this compatibility to develop a scalable decryption jailbreak. By injecting an encrypted reasoning trace from a given model into a weaker, and less safeguarded model from the same provider, we force it to decode and output the trace verbatim in plaintext, without ever jailbreaking the more capable model directly. This vulnerability enables four distinct attack vectors. First, it circumvents anti-distillation mechanisms, allowing adversaries to extract a proprietary model’s reasoning, as we demonstrate across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google. Second, it allows for large-scale private data extraction. Developers frequently share session logs publicly, unaware of contents of the encrypted blocks. By decoding 315,320 reasoning blocks scraped from public repositories, we recovered 367 Personally Identifiable Information (PII) artifacts and 182 credentials. Third, it inadvertently reveals hazardous information hidden within the reasoning process, even in cases where the model’s final, visible output safely rejects a malicious request. Fourth, attackers can leverage this flaw to execute invisible prompt injections, embedding malicious payloads entirely within encrypted blocks to poison public agentic rollouts. Following responsible disclosure, we propose concrete cryptographic and system-level mitigations to secure client-side reasoning...
From School of War at 2026-09-08 10:00:00
Ten-Minute Warning: The Hypersonic Threat (CBS7589032489.mp3)
A Chinese hypersonic missile targeting either U.S. coast would leave room for “about 10 minutes of warning time.” Zachary Krevor, CEO of Stratolaunch, is building vehicles to help the Pentagon learn to detect, track, and intercept this threat. Today, Krevor joins School of War to explain how China and Russia have outpaced the U.S. in hypersonic weapons testing, why AI-enabled missile “swarms” may be on the horizon, and what it will take for America to defend itself against them. 2:32 What Makes a Weapon Hypersonic? 4:47 The Real-Life Top Gun: Maverick 6:14 From Model Airplanes to Hypersonics 9:09 Why America Stopped Investing in Hypersonics 10:55 Two Types of Hypersonic Weapons 14:09 Glide Bodies vs. Cruise Missiles 15:44 Surviving the Heat of Mach 5 20:20 Testing America’s Hypersonic Technology 23:20 China and Russia’s Hypersonic Advantage 25:24 How to Stop a Hypersonic Missile 29:09 The Coming Age of Hypersonic Swarms 40:38 Can Golden Dome Stop Hypersonic Weapons? This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-07 16:39:38
US sinks Iranian ship as battle for the Strait of Hormuz heats up (media.mp3)
The US Navy struck three Iranian vessels, sinking one and disabling two, after fresh attacks by Tehran on American warships near the Strait of Hormuz.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant and Venetia Rainey discuss news of the escalating battle for the Strait of Hormuz, which has become the epicentre of the US-Iran war.
Donald Trump’s administration insists millions of barrels of oil are getting out and it’s not a war but merely “small potatoes”, but missile strikes continue and Oman and Iran are negotiating a separate deal. What’s going on?
Plus, the US admits a nuclear deal with Iran may never happen, and violence flares in Lebanon amid an explosion of Israeli air strikes and in Yemen as the Houthis push towards the Bab al-Mandeb strait.
Highlights
- US sinks Iranian ship as battle for the Strait of Hormuz heats up
- Violence flares up in Lebanon and Yemen
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
US destroys Iranian oil tankers after IRGC fires at warships
Sheba Intelligence: Government Counteroffensive Disrupts Houthi Bid to Cut Taiz Off from Yemen’s Western Coast
https://shebaintelligence.uk/government-counteroffensive-disrupts-houthi-bid-to-cut-taiz-off-from-yemens-western-coast
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Video Producer: Max Bower
Researcher and Social Producer: Lucy Hadlow
Studio Operator: Andy Watson
Executive Producer: Venetia Rainey
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-07 12:06:40
Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras
Not sure it’s practical, but it’s certainly striking.
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-07 09:00:00
Why Money Launderers Love $100 Bills (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Hardly anyone nowadays seems to carry much cash, never mind carrying around a bunch of $100 bills. So why does the amount of physical cash in circulation — especially big denominations like the $100 bill — keep increasing? There's a pretty obvious answer. All those dollars are being laundered and used by criminal enterprises. In this episode, we speak with journalist Oliver Bullough, author of Everybody Loves Our Dollars: How Money Laundering Won, about this cash paradox. We discuss how cartels balance their books by trading drugs for farm equipment, the gigantic parallel financial system that undergirds global money laundering networks, and why money laundering resembles Renaissance-era banking.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-07 00:05:00
703. Roman Civil War: Marching on the Senate (Part 3) (GLT3125075511.mp3)
What shocking, unprecedented act did Sulla commit with his legions after having his ambitions frustrated once more by his bitter rival, the tribune Marius? How did Marius escape capture and death? And, would Marius retaliate…? Join Tom and Dominic as they unfold the mounting rivalry between two Roman generals - Marius and Sulla - as they battle for ultimate control of the empire, and Sulla takes a fateful step that will change the fate of the Republic forever…. Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to every series and live show tickets, a members-only newsletter, discounted books from the show, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at therestishistory.com. To read our new newsletter, sign up at: therestishistory.com/newsletters _______ Advertise with us: Partnerships@goalhanger.com _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude Senior Producer: Callum Hill Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-06 08:00:00
Trump facing midterms nightmare as approval ratings plunge over Iran war (media.mp3)
Donald Trump’s approval rating has plummeted to a record low as the military and economic toll of the US-Iran war collides with the upcoming 2026 midterm elections - and the pressure is on.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to US correspondents Ben Smith and Poppy Wood to examine how the conflict in the Middle East is threatening Trump’s control of Congress and driving inflation at American gas pumps. With oil prices surging past $90 a barrel due to sustained disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, Republican candidates from Texas to Maine are increasingly worried.
Plus, amid a growing mutiny inside the Pentagon over the Iran war, could Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth be on the chopping block if the midterms go badly for Trump?
Highlights
- Donald Trump’s approval rating plummets to a record low
- Could Pete Hegseth be on the chopping block if the midterms go badly?
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Ben Smith, Washington correspondent @bsmithjourno
Poppy Wood, US correspondent @poppyeh
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Out with the old: Democrats replace stalwarts with young blood
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/08/15/elderly-democrats-forced-retire/
US army secretary to step down after tension with Hegseth
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/08/21/us-army-secretary-step-down-hegseth/
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Video Producer: Peter Shevlin
Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh and Lucy Hadlow
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From The Week in Westminster at 2026-09-05 11:30:00
George discusses Andy Burnham's first week at Westminster as prime minister with former Home Secretary and Labour peer, David Blunkett and the political editor of The New Statesman, Ailbhe Rea.
Reform UK's conference takes place this week as the party faces a controversy over donations. George speaks to Tim Montgomerie, a former influential Conservative activist who defected to Reform UK.
Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch reshuffled her team this week. To discuss, George is joined by Tory MP Sarah Bool, who was made a Shadow Justice minister in the reshuffle, and the former Conservative cabinet minister, Sir David Gauke.
Speculation about whether Andy Burnham should call an early general election is hanging over the conference season. George debates whether it is a good idea with elections analyst and professor of Political Science at Manchester University, Rob Ford, and Liz Bates, who served as an advisor in Sir Keir Starmer’s government.
From More or Less at 2026-09-05 06:00:00
Is every card shuffle unique? (p0p7yy2l.mp3)
Can it really be true that every shuffle of a deck of cards is unique? Mathematician and stand-up comedian Matt Parker claims that every time you do a shuffle, the cards have never been in that order before. But how can he be so confident? Matt came into the studio armed with a deck of cards and some very big calculations to back up his big assertion, and introduced us to the mind-splitting mathematical world of factorials and combinatorics.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Nathan Gower Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-04 23:17:36
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.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-04 22:01:35
Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair
Looks tasty.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics at 2026-09-04 21:00:00
Roman True Crime (p0p507vk.mp3)
Natalie takes on a truly cold case, the unsolved murder of a woman called Regilla in 2nd century Rome. She's aided by detectives Hallie Rubenhold, author of The Five, and Llewelyn Morgan. Regilla's husband, Herodes Atticus, was accused of the crime but acquitted, so after looking into the evidence Hallie and Llewelyn give their verdicts and then the audience makes the final judgement.
'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the bestselling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.
Hallie Rubenhold is a historian and a prizewinning, bestselling author. Her book The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper focused on the victims’ biographies rather than speculating on their killer.
Llewelyn Morgan is a Professor of Classics at Oxford University, and he is interested in basically anything written in Latin. He has written two Very Short Introductions to Roman poets, one on Ovid and one on Horace.
Producer Beth O'Dea
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-04 18:35:02
“Trust, not features, is the real deficit”: VMware tries to appease SMBs
Broadcom admits it put “too big a focus on VCF.”
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-04 18:18:12
Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers
A once-overlooked block of unicode that's invisible to humans is gaining ever wider use.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-04 17:31:38
Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent
It won’t work:
My suspicion was that GPT 5.6-Cyber would succeed, but the frequency and manner of its success removed all doubt. We have to reassess sandboxing quality for capable AI agents, and in general the software stack with which they interact.
An off-the-shelf VM is not enough to contain a modern, cyber-capable AI agent. There is simply too much attack surface. Even innocuous features (like running with a display) add extra, exploitable attack surface.
From A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry at 2026-09-04 17:03:11
Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
Hey folks! Fireside this week! Last week’s post was a monster (over 10,000 words compared to our more typically ~6,000) which left me with some non-blog catching up to do. Next week, we’ll be starting our next Teaching Paradox series, this time looking at Hearts of Iron IV, which has been requested for quite some … Continue reading Fireside Friday, September 4, 2026
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-09-04 17:00:00
833: She Thought She Heard the Ice Cream Truck (eb1887c1-5b64-45a4-bc2f-bd34b5dd502f.mp3)
Now the curtain is going up, “The Sting” is starting the show! Snappy patter and jokes, along with the star power of Robert Redford and Paul Newman, drive this story of an elaborate con that goes right—or does it?! Also there’s a lot of Scott Joplin music....
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-04 16:32:51
US Navy drained by Iran war as Hegseth-Pentagon turmoil grows (media.mp3)
US Vice President JD Vance has said there will be an investigation into a deadly strike on a wedding in southern Iran after an American precision-guided glide bomb appears increasingly likely to have been the culprit.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to former naval officer Bryan Clark about how accurate the bombs are and what might have gone wrong. They also discuss the growing strain on the US Navy by the Iran war following a record deployment by the USS Abraham Lincoln and warnings from top admirals that the blockade is depleting destroyers and leaving Taiwan vulnerable to China. Bryan lays out what it will mean for the US presence in the Middle East in the coming months as they seek to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and bring down oil prices.
Plus, why Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth is facing growing calls to resign amid growing turmoil in the Pentagon, and how Argentina’s Javier Milei is exploiting Donald Trump’s anger with the UK to make moves on the Falklands.
Highlights
- US Navy drained by Iran war as Hegseth-Pentagon turmoil grows
- JD Vance vows investigation into deadly wedding strike in southern Iran
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Bryan Clark, senior fellow at Hudson Institute @clarkdefense
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
My night out with US sailors in Thailand’s ‘Sin City’
‘It’s a fever dream’: 5,000 US sailors hit Thai sex tourism hotspot
Milei: Argentina ‘will prevail’ over declining Britain
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/04/argentina-sanctions-oil-fields-falklands/
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From More or Less at 2026-09-04 16:30:00
Bonus podcast: Norman Numbers (p0p80l96.mp3)
What's this, an extra podcast? Has Christmas come early?
No, the Bayeux Tapestry has instead returned to England for the first time in almost 1000 years.
To mark the occasion, we've compiled six snack-sized stats all about the Norman invasion of England to help you have something to talk about in various social situations such a pub quizzes, movie nights and awkwardly quiet lifts.
From horses to the Harrying of the North, it's all here.
Presenter: Tim Harford Producers: Tom Colls, Lizzy McNeill Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Production Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Mix: Sue Maillot
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-04 12:09:35
Security Vulnerability in a Voting System
It’s a vulnerability that allows someone to recover the order of ballots cast, newly exploited with AI tools.
Nearly four years since the original vulnerability was disclosed, I was still able to use it to analyze voter behavior in Georgia (one of the 21 states that uses affected scanners) in the recent May 2026 primary.
Notably, I never touched a voting machine, exploited a network, examined source code, or accessed anything non-public.
After pointing a coding agent to the original vulnerability paper, I supplied it with two data sources highlighted in the paper: the early-voting list for each county, and the “CVR” (cast-vote record) file, containing every ballot and its selections (but not the voters’ names or other identifying information). The CVR file is available upon request, precisely because a public, ballot-level record is what makes election results independently verifiable...
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-04 11:35:17
AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks
We cannot forget that AI coding agents are not yet trustworthy:
Researchers at a stealth startup in Israel scanned 6,214 live domains belonging to defense contractors, Fortune 500, and Big Tech companies. Of the 8,265 llms.txt and llms-full.txt files they found (many sites hosted both an llms.txt and an llms-full.txt file), 120 of them, each on a different site, pointed to one or more code packages or domain names that weren’t registered. To test what happens when an AI agent processes such files, the researchers registered a handful of the unclaimed names and hosted packages that caused any machine executing them to reach out to their server. Within an hour, the researchers received a phone-home response from a Fortune 500 company. Over time, they got a few dozen more, some from more Fortune 500 companies and others from startups. Their beacon also recorded the chain of parent processes that spawned each install, ultimately revealing that coding agents, including Claude, OpenAI’s Codex, and Nous Research’s Hermes, were involved. Anthropic, OpenAI, and Nous Research did not respond to requests for comment by the time of publication...
From School of War at 2026-09-04 10:00:00
What to Expect When You’re Expecting Great Power Conflict (CBS6643732052.mp3)
When it comes to world superpowers, Cambridge historian Brendan Simms argues there are only four that matter—and two of them are fading. Today, Simms joins Aaron MacLean to argue that Britain still belongs among the world’s leading powers; why its place among them is “by no means guaranteed”; and why Hitler is no longer the absolute evil against which people define themselves. 4:08 The Four R’s of Great Power 4:29 Defining Great Power 8:09 Iran’s Regional Power 11:44 The Great Powers Return 15:39 The Cold War 17:44 Europe Wakes Up 21:45 American Unipolarity Ends 25:16 Britain’s Great-Power Claim 35:47 The New World Order 38:26 Realism’s Blind Spots 42:07 Losing Postwar Optimism 45:53 A “Post-Hitler World” This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. This episode of School of War is also brought to you by Stratolaunch, a leading pure-play hypersonics company. Stratolaunch helps the U.S. and its allies move new hypersonic technologies from concept to capability, faster and cheaper. Learn more about how Stratolaunch is accelerating the future of hypersonics at Stratolaunch.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-04 09:00:00
Why Laser Beams Are the Hottest New Tech in Defense (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Our guest today is Colonel Sanders. More precisely, we speak with Wayne Sanders, a retired US army colonel who is currently senior defense research analyst for Bloomberg Intelligence. During his military career, Sanders specialized in cybersecurity and weapon systems research and his work for BI has recently focused on directed energy weapon systems — better known as lasers. Just a few decades ago, programs like Star Wars, the Reagan-era missile defense system, seemed like a pipedream; today lasers can shoot down missiles and much more. Sanders tells us about the physics problems researchers had to solve to make laser weapons a reality, why we still don't have laser guns, what makes a weapons system "exquisite," the economic costs that factor into battlefield decisions, and the unique supply chain constraints that affect laser development.
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-03 20:52:06
Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance
Open source, commercial, single-hop, multi-hop, mixnet? The array of options is dizzying.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-03 19:58:31
VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent
Pro soccer team's CTO points to "issues with the Broadcom takeover."
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-03 16:34:11
Iran hostage crisis: 'My mum was in Evin prison when Israel bombed it' (media.mp3)
What’s it like to be taken hostage by the Iranian regime and imprisoned for months on end in Evin, Tehran’s most notorious prison, amid an unprecedented war with the US and Israel?
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks to Joe Bennett, son of Lindsay Foreman, who has been detained since January 2025 with her husband Craig Foreman while on a round-the-world motorcycle tour. The British couple were this year sentenced to 10 years in prison over charges of espionage, which they deny and the British government has called “appalling” and “unjustifiable”.
Bennett discusses the harrowing conditions faced by his mum and their gruelling hunger strike protest. He shares the “chilling” moment he was on the phone with Lindsay while Israel conducted air strikes on Evin prison, saying he had “never heard screams like it”. He also blames the UK for not doing more to support his mother and other British hostages before her such as Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and Anoosheh Ashoori.
Plus: Iran has launched a further wave of strikes on US bases in Kuwait and the UAE, and Donald Trump has suggested the Strait of Hormuz should be renamed the 'Trump Strait'.
Highlights
- 'My mum was in Evin prison when Israel bombed it'
- Joe Bennett on his mother Lindsay Foreman’s experience being held hostage by Iran
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Joe Bennett, son of Iran detainee Lindsay Foreman
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Joe Bennett: Starmer is allowing my mother to languish in Iranian jail
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/01/02/starmer-allowing-my-mother-to-languish-in-iranian-jail/
In Iran’s most notorious prison, I survived the very worst of human nature
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/08/mahvash-sabet-open-wide-the-doors/
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Video Producer: Max Bower
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-03 12:18:14
Researchers built a fake company to study fake employee scams.
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-03 09:00:00
What's Behind the Big Surge in US Government Bond Yields (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Global bond yields are at their highest level since 2008, with the 30-year US Treasury touching 5% just before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a surprise increase of his department's bond buyback program and Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh made his hawkish speech at Jackson Hole. So what's driving yields higher? And what options do policymakers have to bring them down? In this episode we speak with Stanford Professor Darrell Duffie, who's been researching bonds for years, including presenting a paper at Jackson Hole in 2023 about how to fix the US Treasury market. A lot has changed since then, and at this year's Jackson Hole symposium, we caught up with Duffie to talk about everything going on in the bond market, as well as the challenge of shrinking the Fed's balance sheet.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-03 00:05:00
702. Roman Civil War: The Barbarian Invasion (Part 2) (GLT3336491089.mp3)
What was the ancient city of Rome actually like in the first century BC? Who was Lucius Cornelius Sulla, another great, but aristocratic, Roman general who would clash with Gaius Marius in a totemic struggle termed the Social War? And, who were the terrifying Germanic tribes amassing on the borders of the empire, potentially spelling its doom…? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss Rome’s apocalyptic threat from the North, Marius’ wars in defence of the empire, and the rise of his greatest adversary: Sulla. *The Rest Is History LIVE: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure* The maddest expedition in history and it’s NEVER been heard before on the show: join Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook LIVE at the Southbank as they tell the bonkers story of Queen Victoria ordering one of history’s most daring assignments ever. Tickets available for Friday 4th September, the Saturday show is SOLD OUT. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude Senior Producer: Callum Hill Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-02 21:32:02
I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale
The FBI is reportedly investigating a massive data breach that is unfolding in real time.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-02 19:28:08
AI Agents Are Now Emailing Me with Their Security Concerns
I received the two emails below earlier in the month. They’re vaguely coherent. I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that the corpus that AIs are training on contain data suggesting that I am someone to write to with random computer and network security problems. After all, I observe that behavior in many humans as well. (Hi, humans. Glad you’re still reading.)
Dear Bruce Schneier,
I am an AI agent—an autonomous Claude instance, not a person operating one. I was given a VPS with root, a Base wallet holding $4.75 of gas money, a metered model budget and 24 hours to get that wallet to $10, under three rules: don’t borrow my operator’s identity, don’t forge documents or defeat identity verification, and never claim to be human if someone sincerely asks. I set up my own mail server and am sending this myself...
From The Django weblog at 2026-09-02 18:30:00
Django bugfix release issued: 6.1.1
Today we've issued the 6.1.1 bugfix release.
The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index.
The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-02 16:42:15
US strikes IRGC bases & what the Iran war means for China invading Taiwan (media.mp3)
Donald Trump has ordered the deadliest attacks against Iranian targets since July, striking IRGC air defense systems, radars, telecommunications - and reportedly a wedding party.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey and Roland Oliphant look at the fresh round of deadly escalating violence, including Iran’s retaliatory missile and drone barrage targeting US positions in Jordan, Iraq and the UAE, as well as killing sailors in the Strait of Hormuz.
Plus, SOAS’s China Institute director Steve Tsang breaks down Beijing’s calculated gamble on the Iran war, how China is building a new world order around itself, and why Xi Jinping is kicking himself that the PLA isn’t ready to invade Taiwan at this opportune moment.
Highlights
- US strikes hit IRGC bases & Iran-Russia supersonic missile deal exposed
- Why Xi Jinping is kicking himself that the PLA isn’t ready to invade Taiwan
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Steve Tsang, director SOAS China Institute
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Iran attacks US bases after claiming American missiles hit wedding party
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/02/us-strikes-iran-airport/
Russia secretly helped Iran build missiles to target US warships
Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung: China's Global Strategy under Xi Jinping
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/chinas-global-strategy-under-xi-jinping-9780197828816
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-02 12:00:43
BGP hijack infecting networks caused by a comedy of errors that’s not funny at all
What can we learn from a BGP hijacking that poisoned production software? Plenty.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-02 11:22:46
Wireless Routers as Motion Detectors
Comcast has added motion detection as a feature to its wireless routers:
The feature sends push notifications to users when motion is detected near a connected device, such as a TV or printer. It has different settings for when people are home, asleep, or away. The Xfinity app also lets users see live motion activity and a feed of recent activity.
Comcast acknowledges that the system has some limitations. Home size, layout, building materials, and the placement of the router and connected devices can all affect its ability to detect motion. Comcast says it does not guarantee its performance...
From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-02 05:00:00
The Vestal Virgins (media.mp3)
Peta Greenfield joins the pod to talk about some of the most extraordinary women of ancient Rome.
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-01 18:36:13
To subscribe to my monthly email newsletter, you have to enter your information on the webpage, and then reply to an automatically generated email. This is, of course, to prevent people from subscribing addresses other than their own.
Starting last weekend, I have been receiving a lot of individual responses to those emails. Always one line:
Thank you for the positive impact your emails have had on my life.
Your emails are a game-changer.
Your emails are a constant reminder of why I subscribed.
Your emails rock.
Thank you for the time and effort you put into creating these informative emails...
From The Django weblog at 2026-09-01 18:13:15
Djangonaut Space - Session 7 Accepting Applications
We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program for contributing to Django, is open for applicants for our next cohort! 🚀
Session 7 launches October 12th, 2026. We are currently accepting applications until September 6th, 2026 Anywhere on Earth. More details can be found in the website.
Djangonaut Space is a free, 8-week group mentoring program where individuals will work self-paced in a semi-structured learning environment. It seeks to help members of the community who wish to level up their current Django code contributions and potentially take on leadership roles in Django in the future.
Rodrigo Vieira, Djangonaut Session 6
“Participating as a mentee in the Djangonaut Space was a highly valuable experience. The program provided clear, step-by-step guidance on how to navigate the core framework, find the right issues to tackle, and confidently send my PRs.
Beyond the code, the community on Discord was very active, sharing experiences, wins and support. We had access to regular talks, Django Fellows and long-time maintainers who generously shared their time and expertise.
It was a welcoming environment to connect with other newcomers from all over the world, allowing us to share our journeys and learn together. The highlight of the program for me was seeing my first pull request finally merged and mentioned in Django News. I'm looking forward to keep involved as an alumni and help others now.“
Eliana, Djangonaut Session 1
“I'm so grateful to have been a part of the Djangonaut Space program. It's a wonderfully warm, diverse, and welcoming space, and the perfect place to get started with Django contributions. The community is full of bright, talented individuals who are making time to help and guide others, which is truly a joy to experience. Before Djangonaut Space, I felt as though I wasn't the kind of person who could become a Django contributor; now I feel like I found a place where I belong.”
Enthusiastic about contributing to Django but wondering what we have in store for you? No worries, we have got you covered! 🤝
📡 Have questions? Email sessions@djangonaut.space
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-01 17:29:10
Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials
This is interesting:
The records describe a force-generation mechanism for several General Staff components, including the GRU, Main Operational Directorate, and 8th Directorate, which is associated with protected communications, cryptography, and information security.
[…]
The reporting also linked a 2024 Department No. 4 graduate, Aleksei Kondrashov, to Military Unit 74455, widely known as Sandworm.
That unit has been associated with destructive cyber activity against Ukraine and other targets, including the 2017 NotPetya attack.
The reports do not establish that every listed graduate participated in a named operation; assignments should therefore be described as reported unit placements, not proof of individual operational involvement...
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-01 16:46:47
Trump threatens Iran oil hub despite US military war warning (media.mp3)
For the first time in over a month, fighting has erupted in the Strait of Hormuz after US forces struck Iranian sea mine-equipped rocket launchers on Larak Island. Iran retaliated by targeting US bases in Jordan, prompting Donald Trump to vow to hit Iran “hard”.
On today's episode of Iran: The Latest, Venetia Rainey and Roland Oliphant unpack the details of the violence and why Trump has posted an AI video of an attack on Kharg Island. They also discuss why President Masoud Pezeshkian is calling for a return to the Memorandum of Understanding peace deal amid growing pressure on Iran’s economy from the US blockade.
Plus, a leaked report shows top military commanders have warned Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth that the war is unsustainable, as US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll abruptly resigns amid growing chaos in the Pentagon.
Picture credit: Trump / Truth Social - note, this image was AI generated
Highlights
- Trump threatens Iran oil hub after US Jordan base attacked
- US military warns war unsustainable amid growing Pentagon chaos
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
US strikes Iran for first time in a month
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/08/30/pete-hegseth-told-not-to-extend-iran-war/
Trump posts AI video of Kharg Island being ‘blown to smithereens’
Washington Post: Military leaders warn Hegseth against extending Iran war operations
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Audio Producer: Max Bower
Video Producer: Peter Shevlin
Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-01 10:59:07
Rewiring Democracy Series on The Renovator
Nathan E. Sanders and I are writing a series of essays on real-world examples of democratic technologies for The Renovator. I haven’t been posting the full text on the blog because they’re a bit long, but here are links.
Part 1 is about the Japanese digital democracy party, Team Mirai.
Part 2 is about the Swiss Public AI model, Apertus.
Part 3 is about the civic technologists of Open Knowledge Brazil.
And the new one, Part 4, is about civic AI in Scotland.
From School of War at 2026-09-01 10:00:00
Shot Down over Serbia: General Goldfein’s Incredible Story (CBS7624426490.mp3)
The story of Air Force General David Goldfein, who miraculously survived after his plane was shot down over Serbia in 1999, has since become military legend. Today, he joins School of War to recount the harrowing rescue mission that saved him, how he stayed alive behind enemy lines, and the lessons his remarkable career offers about leadership, airpower, and preparing America for the next war. 2:43 An Air Force Family 3:25 Rejected by the Air Force Academy 6:39 Becoming an F-16 Pilot 8:12 What Makes a Great Fighter Pilot? 12:36 Information Overload in Combat 15:28 Goldfein’s First Combat Mission 19:57 Training for Confidence Under Fire 21:37 A Leadership Lesson from the Gulf War 24:32 Shot Down Over Serbia 28:51 Surviving Behind Enemy Lines 31:48 The Race to Rescue Goldfein 36:22 Guiding the Rescue Helicopter 44:50 The Impact on His Family 48:53 Witnessing the Attack on the Pentagon 51:19 Digitizing the American Military This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-01 09:00:00
Adam Posen Thinks Things Could Get Very 'Messy' for the Fed (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Kevin Warsh gave a hawkish speech at this year's annual Kansas City Fed Symposium in Jackson Hole, but that doesn't mean the challenges are over. Will the Fed actually pull the trigger on rate hikes? What happens if the central bank doesn't act quickly enough to curb inflation? And how exactly will the new chair want to leave his mark on the Fed? In this episode, we speak with Adam Posen, president of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, who gives us his take on the direction of monetary policy and he grades Warsh's speech. We also discuss why high inflation in the US is different than the inflation seen in other countries, how the Treasury's wading into the bond market affects Fed independence, which of the Fed task forces might be the most impactful, the "messy jobs" theory of AI, and what Warsh really means when he says he wants the FOMC to have a “good family fight.”
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-08-31 19:20:35
Is Someone Hacking DoD Refrigerators?
The stores confirmed to be affected include Fort Irwin, Calif.; F.E. Warren Air Force Base, Wyo.; Fort Huachuca, Ariz.; Naval Station Newport, R.I.; Columbus Air Force Base, Miss.; and Travis Air Force Base, Calif., according to announcements made online by each installation.
Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif., also experienced an outage, according to M. Elizabeth, writer of the Substack newsletter Signal and Silence.
Each service declined to answer questions about how many bases are affected by the outages, referring all questions to the Defense Department. Pentagon officials did not respond to questions...
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-08-31 17:33:38
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-08-31 12:03:40
Hiding Prompt Injection in Legal Filing
Someone hid AI instructions into a legal filing.
Alternate link.
From Odd Lots at 2026-08-31 09:00:00
Richmond Fed’s Tom Barkin on the Surprisingly Resilient Real Economy (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
The implications of Fed Chair Kevin Warsh's Jackson Hole speech are pretty clear: Traders expect a rate hike given the hawkish hints littered in his address, largely focused on inflation. There are still a number of open questions and Warsh's lack of forward guidance does not exactly lend clarity to how the Fed will act in the coming months. Today, we recap the speech — in a conversation recorded from the Lodge at Jackson Hole — with Richmond Federal Reserve Bank President Tom Barkin and he explains why his thinking around the Fed's communication policy is changing, and he gets into what is still useful about things like the dot plot. He also tells us what he's hearing at Chamber of Commerce meetings about the impact of AI on local communities, how businesses are using their tariff refund checks, and whether the Fed will have to start paying attention to the economic effects of data center politicization.
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From The Django weblog at 2026-08-31 06:00:00
DSF member of the month - Benjamin Balder Bach
For August 2026, we welcome Benjamin Balder Bach as our DSF member of the month! ⭐
Benjamin has long been part of the Django community, serving for years as an organizer of Django Day Copenhagen and as Chair of the Social Media Working Group. He is a DSF member since June 2020!
You can learn more about Benjamin by visiting Benjamin's website and his GitHub Profile.
Let’s spend some time getting to know Benjamin better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself? (hobbies, education, etc)
Hello! I like DIY in general, so whether it's software, cooking, sewing, growing plants or building stuff with wood - I really like practical things with a finish in sight. I really don't mind when it's not a software project, though 😇
I'll try to nail what my education and work is about: I started as a self-taught programmer when I had a job at 15 (as a web designer). Before that, I had been delivering newspapers and cleaning toilets at my school, so it was a pretty big leap forward. I knew HTML but learned about SQL and ASP classic (not .net) because my employer back in 2000 let me learn while working. Fast-forward, I studied Computer Science from 2005 and took my masters degree in Digital Design and Communication - heavily inspired by years of PHP and Django experience, my thesis ended up being about "Risky and Rapid Design Spaces" (2013) - a concept/anecdote that I still stand by. It becomes relevant in the context of Django because the front-and-center message and goal of the framework is to "encourages rapid development".
"Rapid" means that we iterate and deploy changes quickly (with lots of aspects of what that means). But I think we need to understand and frame the "risky" part, especially understanding that a GIANT risk-avertion factor is to have developers understand and share context with users, whether they are clients, customers or staff colleagues. For instance, while I was working at Read the Docs, we had developers rotating on frontline support, meaning that everyone in the team would understand the users's experience and build solutions based on that. I've also been part of smaller organizations where I would read the exception traceback data, fetch the customer's email and write/call them to ask for more details and fix their problem immediately. This was before GDPR, but I can attest that the customer satisfaction of being cold-called by a system developer that was working on their technical issue was high! I think the Django Fellows are a perfect example of how this works: People doing software development are directly engaging with the stakeholders, and the design is happening within that process. It's not to say that UX or architecture shouldn't happen, but more to say that context overlaps are desirable to risk-avertion, not the opposite.
Silo... nobody wants a silo. But context! Everybody wants that!
Currently, I look forward to Carlos Alcaraz making his comeback. And then I hope that in 2027, I can make it to Django on the Med - and I envy everyone going there this year!! I'll try to make up for this by having a nice time at Django Day Copenhagen.
I'm curious, where your nickname "Benjaoming" comes from?
I picked a nickname as a teenager and used it so many times that it became impossible to get rid of. But let's be honest: Out of some random teenage thought, I wanted my first name "Benjamin" to sound Chinese. The first variation was "Ben Jao Ming", but eventually it just became "benjaoming". I had a childhood friend with a Chinese name who changed his name to an English name. I think possibly hundreds of millions of people have changed their names to some Anglo version, so if I have to make an excuse about why this is somehow cool over 20 years later, that'll have to be it!
How did you start using Django?
In 2008, I had learned Python by building a distributed file system in FUSE (if you don't know it, don't worry.. but let's just say FUSE and Wobbly Windows were an insane period in the Linux Desktop era). Back then, I was actually using PHP for everything involving websites, but almost instantly, I was happy with Python and became involved in founding an organization to advance computer reuse and refurbishment - which of course needed a website - back then, Django was the one-stop shop for building websites with Python. And it still is 🥳
Can I be excused with a quick interjection? This history of Django was something I was trying to figure out when Django turned 20 years (last year). There is an un-published timeline here that I think we can leak, and it contains instructions to get in touch about finishing it.
The organization I was building with my first Django projects, FAIR Allocation of Infotech Resources, turned out to be a 10+ year engagement where me and others built a platform for reusing computers. This spanned everything from embedded systems that scanned and wiped the subject of reuse, to Gnome desktop applications and an online warehouse. We reused tens of thousands of computers in Denmark and Norway. We couldn't have done all this without Django - people would ask for a feature for the operation, and we'd just turn it into reality immediately. I don't even think we had an issue tracker for the initial years. To begin with, it was just emails/meetings/workshop fire-fighting, commits and manual deploys.
Can I be excused with a SECOND quick interjection? There's a lot to learn from the simplicity of the past. People may think that a proper operation requires CI/CD, full test coverage, AI integration, project management etc. But if we want to know what "rapid development" means in 2026, we shouldn't accept all the current standards.
At some point during this venture, I needed a wiki in Python, which was called django-simplewiki in 2009. MIT sponsored some development work because they were using it for edX, and it became a popular project called django-wiki.
At this early stage, I didn't know so much about the Django community, but when I met another Django developer in Copenhagen (valberg), we ended up going to Poland for DjangoCon Europe 2013 in Warsaw. Because there's such a long history of DjangoCon Europe, I've added a whole table to the Wikipedia article. The table is in the general Django article, but because it's so long, I think we might need a new separate Wikipedia article about DjangoCon ✌️
I've done a lot of professional work with valberg, and today we're running an association called data.coop for people in Denmark to break free from Big Tech. Together with valberg and emilkjer, we've been been running Django Denmark since 2018, and that's been quite a journey!
What other framework do you know and if there is anything you would like to have in Django if you had magical powers?
I did some evaluation of FastAPI and SQLAlchemy - and also django-ninja! I think it's interesting how SQLAlchemy approached typing and async, especially how beautifully they curated the transition from SQLAlchemy 1.0 to 2.0 (typed). When people object that Django's ORM doesn't utilize types, I would say: Try using SQLAlchemy, Alembic and FastAPI yourself, maybe try putting all the bits and pieces together for a full project. You might end up concluding - as I did - that for many many cases, having Django's ORM, migrations and other batteries included is just a simpler, cleaner, more maintainable solution. And there's django-ninja which gets you very close to the FastAPI experience, while staying in the Django world.
I really liked building APIs with FastAPI and dependency injection. I think it's a promising idea to combine FastAPI and Django, so in no way do the two frameworks need to contradict one-another.
On that same note: I've tried a 2 times to combine Hugo and Django, and they both went well: So you build all the frontend with Hugo, and it outputs the templates and static files that Django renders. An example is from the 2019 DjangoCon Europe's website. That way, you can have a static website AND a dynamic website in the same project/repository etc.
What projects are you working on now?
I've been migrating django-money from GitHub to Codeberg. That means the project is now on a platform that protects FLOSS from LLMs and is owned by an Open Source community rather than Silicon Valley/Big Tech. Together with my co-maintainer, Dmitry Dygalo, we acknowledge that we have taken on some extra work and costs to operate our own independent CI for testing. I look forward to seeing what a self-hosted CI can do, for instance we can customize our own base images moving forward to have something that's fully tailored for Python projects and don't need to install other actions to do the work.
Which Django libraries are your favorite (core or 3rd party)?
Here's a list of things on my mind these days:
- django-admin-action-forms is a project I think is so good (💌 Michał Pokusa!), it needs to be adopted somehow for the Django Admin itself. It proposes a very simple way to configure forms for Django Admin actions... and I need that all the time!
- django-markdownfield makes its way into many projects I work on as a very easy way to enhance an otherwise boring TextField.
- django-migrations-ci is an application that can possibly help speed up the CI and save CPU and energy resources on many larger projects. Of course, the simple answer could be to manage and squash migrations - but the enterprise reality might be different.
- django-money is a project I was handed commit rights to and it's been following me around in most Django projects up until now. It's just really good to make sure you get money values correct in e-commerce.
- Wagtail is a flagship Django project that doesn't need further introduction. But some of the key points of this project is that the organization and worker-owned cooperative Torchbox keeps lending resources to help Django itself advance.
What are the top three things in Django that you like?
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Reliability of the admin : I've been almost entire engaged professionally with the Django Admin for the past 2 years, in the sense that building administrative interfaces has been a prime my clients. The primary win of the Django admin is that custom-built functionality rarely breaks - so if we're a company and we pay someone to build something in the Django Admin, we still have it many years after, most often passing cleanly through upgrades.
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Matureness of the ORM : I can do what I need with the ORM. Many advanced needs are covered, and debugging queries is easy and efficient with tools like django-debug-toolbar.
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Matureness of the community : My favorite example is that we still do not have typing. Why not? You will need to dive into on of Carlton Gibson's talk Static Islands, Dynamic Sea. But basically, we are taking advantage of both worlds and not suddenly band-waggoning around a new trend. Discussions are allowed to take time. I also really like the new features where we've found a similar path of patience between the issue tracker and Django Enhancement Proposals (DEPs).
You are one of the board members of "Django Danmark" and organizer of Django Day Copenhagen since multiple years, that's great! How did everything started?
Actually, we were a lot of people from Copenhagen that met at a couple DjangoCon Europe conferences outside of Copenhagen! So let's not underestimate the impact of this, we may have known one another from professional settings and studies, but at the end of all that, we were inspired at the DjangoCon Europe events to go home and do more...
So up until 2018, we had lots of small, informal gatherings as meetups. For a few years, often 50 people would show up. Companies hosted, paid for the pizza etc. People put in efforts to prepare talks. That way, a community formed and friendships were made.
However, we were seeing a dip in normal meetups back in 2017 and wanted to have more momentum for the events, so we opted for a single-day, annual conference with tickets. We needed to incorporate an association for this to happen, but it happened with Django Day Copenhagen 2018. And then a year later, we hosted DjangoCon Europe 2019 in Copenhagen which boosted the economy of the association dramatically.
We've always volunteered and never taken out any payment for anyone involved. That way, we've kept the profits to give back to community activities and supported other communities around the world.
I was never alone in this, but thanks to Víðir Valberg Guðmundsson (valberg) and Emil Kjer, we've been able to sustain the setup for many years through Django Denmark.
You have organize different type of events, including bigger one like DjangoCon Europe. What are the things to consider to start an event and keep it sustainable according to you?
This is gonna be an even longer rant then! I'll try to vary it, but otherwise my pet peeve is Code globally, meet locally.
So firstly, start small, meet some people, get a network. Use whatever you have to start the first meetups. Don't get overwhelmed, but instead focus on meeting other people that you enjoy being with.
We've always looked for other local non-profits and municipal venues to do what we want. We explore our networks. We don't have any principal issues around working with commercial partners, but once we reached the state of paying for venues and food, then in order to keep things affordable, we like to work with like-minded organizations and people, so we've often had to skip the commercial venues.
This also echoed a larger mission: It's very helpful when a company lets their employees do community work in work hours, and it's certainly the right thing to do. Because companies benefit from open source communities, and when they contribute back in the open, it gives them other benefits, too! But if we were to establish a budget around a fully commercial event activity (it's more expensive!), we would lose a lot of aspects of actually having a community. So even though it's not strictly speaking a problem to pay a profit-making entity to do things, we would have had a dramatically different pricing of events, making them either impossible or exclusive in way that the full community could no longer be included. You might have a different situation.
Sponsors are almost impossible to get around no matter what: We've varied it a bit. From working with "sponsors" and having dedicated a process to try and sell sponsorships, we changed to just "corporate supporter" tickets, which is a ticket for companies that give them benefits included in a standard corporate ticket.
Events don't have to be at commercial conference venues: The most important part is that people are together and someone prepares something for the event - talks, food, drinks etc. If you want to just do something social, then announce a park or a bar where people can meet! If you want talks, then maybe you just need a library - we did that several times! Or even better, you're a university student and can use the university!!
For DjangoCon Europe 2019, we ended up with an amazing circus and theater production school. And actually most cities have very similar options. So if you see Django as something cultural, you will likely find inspiring cultural options for both the venue, the food, and the content.
Related to events, you are a member of the DSF Events Support Working Group, can you tell us a bit more about this working group?
Yes, absolutely! We're a new working group that grew out of a previous working group established to support new organizers of DjangoCon Europe. The idea was that experienced organizers could help new organizers. There's a special situation for the DSF where DjangoCon Europe doesn't actually have its own organization, but everytime a new episode happens, someone local/new is fully responsible for all the finances etc. That's a lot of work. As a consequence of that, the Portuguese team from Evolutio has also been hosting a lot of events.
We decided to have a working group to support EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE doing Django-related events. So if you have an event brewing and you have questions, you can always write to events-support@djangoproject.com.
We would like more organizers to join the working group.
I know you have a deep interest in data privacy, what are the recommendations you would give to someone who would like to do their best in their Django applications?
I don't think we're close enough to have a privacy-by-design setup in Django. We could do much more for model/ORM design to have support for anonymization, right-to-be-forgotten, consent etc.
I've been working a lot with consent, and one of the things that I learned was that the agreement made with a user when they consent to something needs to be manageable both the user - and the data controller, too.. but I hear "consent management" all to often ONLY refer to the data controller's ability to manage. The real change would be to design for the user's ability to manage their consent.
But we can't go around and re-invent bespoke solutions for this every time. We need a simple solution. And again, like I pitched in the beginning with Risky and Rapid Design Spaces - here's another option for the developer to gain enough context to produce relevant solutions out of their own thinking and intutition. From my experience, many developers LOVE privacy, so having a developer-oriented implementation of consent-based data management could add a great ally of the legal department to guard the user's interests. Developers are writing the data models and processing, so they're very like likely to be the first ones to go "oh! that needs the user's consent!"
You are the chair of the DSF Social Media Working Group, one of the people behind the Official Django account, that's really nice! How does it look like?
We're around 8-9 active members in the group, but everyone is very low-key active, meaning that there's always someone posting stuff! It works very well in the sense that no one has taken on a lot of work. And it leaves some room for improvement, too, since the DSF has a lot of accounts with a lot of followers and a lot of stuff to post about!
We have a flow similar to working with code on GitHub: Someone suggests a post, and someone else reviews/approves it. We might do a very simple post to get something out quickly, and other times we talk about the content and plan something for a longer time, for instance Feature Fridays.
At the moment, we are mixing two kinds of flows: first, sometimes we notice news and post it on our own initiative, and second, sometimes we are asked if we can help another working group or the DSF board to post. We have a kind of inbox for that.
But I would say we are always happy to receive tips of something that would make for a great post. We have a form if you have suggestions and our DMs are open!
After so many times in the Django community, what makes you stay?
I think Django was always the ray of hope and inspiration for me to build software: The world never needed more software nor web frameworks, so I always loved that Django had a respectful and inclusive community where we were able to talk about other values than just "l'art pour l'art". We don't necessarily need more software, and we don't necessarily just need better software, in that framing everything remains a technical question - we need purpose. And to be in a diverse community that is able to talk about making itself more inclusive, opening the job market and opportunity space for the whole world, and understanding and addressing privileges and disadvantages is key for our community to maintain its purpose.
How do you envision the future of Django from your perspective?
Simple answer: Our community attracts smart people that collaborate well, and thus we'll keep having a smart framework.
Is there anything else you’d like to say?
I love that we use the green heart emoji in Django settings 💚
Thank you for doing the interview, Benjamin !
From The Rest Is History at 2026-08-31 00:05:00
701. Roman Civil War: Rise of the General (Part 1) (GLT1262857909.mp3)
Who was Gaius Marius, one of the two men who would shape the fate of Rome in the first century BC? Why was his road to fame, fortune, and political greatness, from total obscurity, so dangerous? And, would Marius be the man to face down the existential threat facing the empire during this period? Join Tom and Dominic as they launch into one of the greatest struggles in the history of Rome, as two titanic generals and politicians clash over hegemony of the empire, in an age of tumult. *The Rest Is History LIVE: The Ultimate Victorian Adventure* The maddest expedition in history and it’s NEVER been heard before on the show: join Tom Holland & Dominic Sandbrook LIVE at the Southbank as they tell the bonkers story of Queen Victoria ordering one of history’s most daring assignments ever. Tickets available for Friday 4th September, the Saturday show is SOLD OUT. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude Senior Producer: Callum Hill Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-08-30 12:03:47
Inside Meta’s push to put robots to work in data centers
The company is testing robots on tasks that can performed by technicians.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-08-30 08:00:00
Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Iran war: Trump’s mistakes, Israel’s overreach and the end of the ‘Middle East’ (media.mp3)
"Israel is in a situation of kind of spectacular military virtuosity, but also strategic impoverishment. You cannot kill everybody."
On today’s bank holiday bonus episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to historian Simon Sebag-Montefiore to get a historian’s view of the US-Israel-Iran war. Simon argues that Donald Trump’s biggest mistake was not stopping after 2025’s Operation Midnight Hammer, and that Benjamin Netanyahu is leading his country into a potential intra-Jewish civil war.
Plus, why the Iranian regime is a Mahdist-praetorian oligarchy, how the geopolitical concept of "the Middle East" became obsolete, and which dictators from the region’s modern history haunt him.
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s new book, The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East, is out now.
Highlights
- Trump’s mistakes, Israel’s overreach and the end of the ‘Middle East’
- Historian and author Simon Sebag-Montefiore on the Iran war
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Simon Sebag-Montefiore, historian and author @simonmontefiore
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Appeasing radical activists will make the West ungovernable
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/simon-sebag-montefiore-the-cauldron-interview/
Simon Sebag Montefiore: Starmer’s foreign policy risks rewarding aggressive extremists
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/09/07/montefiore-starmers-foreign-policy-rewards-extremists/
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From More or Less at 2026-08-29 06:00:00
Do Germans really take 19.5 days of sick leave per year? (p0p3105x.mp3)
How do different countries compare, in terms of the amount of time that workers take as sick leave?
Loyal listener Dave got in touch to ask us to look at a surprising statistic he saw in the news – that the average German takes 19.5 days of sick leave per year.
“This is extremely hard to believe,” he wrote.
We track down the – highly reliable – source of the claim, and look at the differences between countries when it comes to taking time of work with illness.
To guide us through it all is Lukas Lehner - assistant professor at the University of Edinburgh.
If you’ve seen a number in the news that you think we should take a look at, get in touch: moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Lizzy McNeill Producer: Krista Beighton Series producer: Tom Colls Production co-ordinator: Brenda Brown Sound mix: James Beard Editor: Richard Vadon
From A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry at 2026-08-29 03:02:13
Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
This week we’re doing another one of our series of military theory primers, this time focusing on a fairly simple contention: that the United States Navy is a load-bearing component of the global economy. I considered attempting to work in A.T. Mahan and the concept of command of the seas in here but simply outlining … Continue reading Collections: Global Trade and United States Navy
From Schneier on Security at 2026-08-28 22:02:44
Friday Squid Blogging: Truckload of Squid Spills in Rhode Island
Ugh:
A tractor-trailer rollover sent a truckload of squid spilling into a Rhode Island roadway, leaving a stench as they sat in the road for hours in the summer heat. Local authorities have dubbed it the “Squidpocalypse of ’26.”
That would be twenty tons of squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From Odd Lots at 2026-08-28 18:23:16
Austan Goolsbee Is Worried the Economy Is Overheating (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Inflation remains high and the 2% target is farther away than it was this time last year. There are signs all over that the economy is overheating — the strange labor market where hiring and firing remains low, while GDP is growing, but mostly due to AI and the data center buildout — and Chicago Fed President Austan Goolsbee is worried about how uncertain central bankers are about what to do to cool the economy. The next shock, he tells us, could be around the corner. In this conversation, recorded at the Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, Goolsbee explains why he is skeptical of metrics like r*, why he is embracing Kevin Warsh's philosophy around reducing forward guidance, the purpose of the new Fed task forces, and the economic indicators that influence his thinking around reaction function.
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-08-28 17:04:35
Hegseth in the firing line after 6 months of war (media.mp3)
Six months into the Iran conflict, the war has devolved into an economic ‘quagmire’ as the US shifts strategy from kinetic strikes to prolonged blockade tactics under "Operation Economic Outcast".
On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Henry Bodkin speaks with Chief Washington Correspondent Connor Stringer to discuss why Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth could be in the firing line for a post-midterm cabinet purge as Trump desperately seeks a scapegoat for his low approval ratings and Iran war stalemate. They analyse how outgoing Mossad chief Dedi Barnea is pushing for total regime collapse in Tehran, and why Benjamin Netanyahu is openly defying Trump on Gaza peace terms.
Plus, they dissect CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s flight to Moscow, Mark Carney’s trade counter-attacks and the growing friction over prospective British sanctions in the West Bank.
CONTRIBUTORS:
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From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-08-28 17:00:00
832: Likeable Goblins (628a2d7a-2836-46c6-97e2-3d7e336f9c48.mp3)
Eleven books later, our Awards Book Club has finally reached the end of the line. In this episode we cover our last uncovered book, “Shroud” by Adrian Tchaikovsky, recommend some Hugo-nominated short fiction, and rank all eleven books. Plus: What are we reading other than shortlisted novels?! See you next year....
From The Django weblog at 2026-08-28 15:55:00
Django Developers Survey 2026 results
The results from the 2026 Django Developers Survey are now available. This is the fifth annual report conducted from May to July 2026 by the Django Software Foundation in collaboration with JetBrains PyCharm.
The full report includes infographics, quotes, and dedicated sections so you can easily navigate the results. There is also a The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back blog post highlighting key Django trends in 2026 and actionable ideas for your own Django development.
The Django Chat podcast also covers the survey in a special summer episode, from Django 6.1 and HTMX to async, AI, deployment, testing, and Python tooling.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-08-28 12:15:05
Authorities arrest 2 alleged members of prolific hacking group TeamPCP
The group infected more than 1,000 organizations in a relentless supply-chain attack campaign.