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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-10-01 21:28:45 (unread)
Hacks of 2 federal agencies in a month have spilled a bonanza of sensitive data
It has been a bad month for federal government cybersecurity.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-10-01 18:49:56
Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028
Prices for memory sold for 2027 "are much higher than 2026 prices."
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-10-01 16:32:47
Iran-linked network targets Israeli election & the hero pilot who stopped a war (media.mp3)
From the UK to Israel, the signs of Iran’s malicious influence across the West are growing. Will the attempted hijack of an Israel-bound flight from Dubai be added to that list?
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks with Jerusalem correspondent Henry Bodkin and Israel-based OSINT specialist Tal Hagin about how the flydubai pilot and passengers fought back to prevent a catastrophic attack that could have sparked a fresh war. As Donald Trump calls the alleged attacker a “terrorist or a whackjob”, they discuss three scenarios for who was behind it, debunked conspiracy theories - and the implications for the Middle East.
After OSINT company Golden Owl exposed an Iran-linked influence operation targeting Israeli voters ahead of the election, they break down
Plus,, British Prime Minister Andy Burnham says Tehran was likely behind a plot foiled outside the UK’s RAF Fairford airbase, and the US kicks out Iranian negotiators as peace talks stall.
Highlights
- How flydubai’s hero pilot and passengers stopped a war
- Iranian covert influence network exposed targeting Israeli election debate
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Henry Bodkin, Jerusalem Correspondent @HenryBodkin
Tal Hagin, OSINT specialist and director of intelligence network Otus @talhagin
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Iranian negotiators kicked out of US by Rubio
Burnham: Iran played part in suspected RAF terror plot
How the hijacking of a flight to Israel could tear the Gulf apart
The hero who stopped Israel’s 9/11
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/30/pilot-stabbed-suspected-hijack-israel-bound-plane/
The Other Face of War: Iranian Regime–Linked Manipulation of Israel’s 2026 Election Debate
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Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh
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From The Django weblog at 2026-10-01 14:51:21
Nominate Someone for the 2026 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize
Hello Everyone 👋
It is that time of year again when we recognize someone from our community in memory of our friend Malcolm.
Malcolm was an early core contributor to Django and had a huge influence on the Django we know today. Besides being knowledgeable, he was also especially friendly to new users and contributors. He exemplified what it means to be an amazing Open Source contributor. We still miss him to this day.
The prize
Our prizes page summarizes it nicely:
The Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize is a monetary prize, awarded annually, to the person who best exemplifies the spirit of Malcolm’s work - someone who welcomes, supports, and nurtures newcomers; freely gives feedback and assistance to others, and helps to grow the community. The hope is that the recipient of the award will use the award stipend as a contribution to travel to a community event -- a DjangoCon, a PyCon, a sprint -- and continue in Malcolm’s footsteps.
Please make your nominations using our form: 2026 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize nominations. Django Software Foundation board members, Django Fellows, and the Treasurer’s assistant are not eligible to receive the prize. You are still welcome to use the appreciation field below to recognize them, and we’ll make sure those messages are passed along.
We will take nominations until Saturday, October 15th, 2026, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth, and will announce the results in late October. If you have any questions, please use our dedicated forum thread or contact the DSF Board.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-10-01 12:06:14
Connected Cars Are a Surveillance Platform
Researchers at Northeastern University, in collaboration with Consumer Reports, evaluated how much modern cars spy in their drivers:
To determine this, CR dug through thousands of pages of automakers’ privacy policies and asked questions of 15 different automakersBMW, Ford, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Mercedes-Benz, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Stellantis, Subaru, Tesla, Toyota, and Volkswagen. We also reviewed corporate, regulatory, and legal filings from data brokers operating in the “insurtech” industrythe technology companies and data brokers that help insurance companies set their rates. And we spoke to several car privacy experts, who, at industry conferences and in market reports, have described the profit potential of individual driving data as the “new oil.”...
From Odd Lots at 2026-10-01 09:00:00
Everything in Markets Is Now Moving Incredibly Fast (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
The market is acting in ways that make it very hard to get a handle on what exactly is going on right now. The overall indices are surging, while many individual stocks are doing badly. Rates are rising, but the economy is still robust. There's capex spending and the AI trade. There's the war in Iran. And of course there's persistent inflation and the Federal Reserve's ongoing tightening cycle. On this episode, we speak with our former Bloomberg News colleague Luke Kawa, who is now head of markets at Sherwood News. We go over all the big market themes, and he explains why the one consistent theme of this moment is the sheer speed of the moves and the pace of the news itself.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-10-01 00:05:00
710. The Terror: Death at the Guillotine (Part 4) (GLT5038102951.mp3)
How did two of the French Revolution's leading figures, Georges Danton and Maximilien Robespierre, differ in their views on how to further the cause? Which scandalous conspiracy was Danton accused of being involved in that would lead him to the guillotine? And, was it true? Or the betrayal of a former ally? Join Dominic and Tom as they discuss the terrible destruction of one of the great titans of the Revolution, Georges Danton, and the connotations of his cataclysmic fall for the future of the Terror. 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 Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-30 21:44:48
Attackers have been exploiting critical Zimbra flaw to steal emails
A simple email gives the attackers the ability to remotely inject OS commands.
From Strong Message Here at 2026-09-30 19:00:00
Political Capital (with Pierre Novellie) (p0pd7l7c.mp3)
Armando is joined by comedian Pierre Novellie this week, and they’re going to have an honest conversation about political capital.
Looking at some of the phrases and language being used around Burnham’s decision to spend his political capital, we look at some of the announcements trailed in the speech, and whether the politics of ‘saying’ now trumps the politics of ‘doing’.
Elsewhere, Armando and Pierre work out the difference between a ‘legitimate concern’ and an ‘understandable concern’, examine Peter Thiel’s defense of evil, and find the most unfortunately named politician in the world.
Got a strong message for Armando? Email us at strongmessagehere@bbc.co.uk
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-30 17:26:01
Hijack attack on Israel plane & why the US-Iran war is about to restart (media.mp3)
A flight to Israel from the UAE has been diverted and made an emergency landing after the pilot was violently attacked in a suspected hijack attempt.
On today’s Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant and Venetia Rainey bring you the latest news from this dramatic story after a suspected knife attack by the co-pilot. They look at why Israeli authorities are treating it as a terror incident, reports that the co-pilot was Omani, and the potential security implications for Israel, Iran, Lebanon and the wider region.
Plus, is the US-Iran war on the brink of fully restarting? Hamidreza Azizi, senior Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group, explains why despite ongoing peace talks, Iran’s regime is betting it can outlast Trump or force the US into a strategic trap ahead of the November midterms.
Hamidreza lays out how the mistrust on the Iranian side is “so deep that it has reached the level of paranoia” and that the current situation means the region may end up in an even bigger war.
Highlights
- Israel plane pilot attacked mid-air amid hijack attempt
- ‘Escalation is inevitable’: Why the US-Iran war is about to restart
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Hamidreza Azizi, senior Iran analyst International Crisis Group @HamidRezaAz
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-30 12:15:14
Cloudflare plans to issue quantum-safe TLS certificates
The move will be part of a major overhaul of the ecosystem for website authentication.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-30 12:05:35
I Want Better Reporting on AI Genie Behavior
AI systems are regularly completing tasks in ways that their prompters don’t want or intend. Some of them are disturbing, and some of them are dangerous. This is something I’ve been calling “genie behavior,” because I think that really gets at the core of what’s happening.
I wish the popular press would report on this better. I don’t like the “going rogue” framing because it deflects the responsibility from the prompters—often the AI companies themselves. And now, pretty much anything off-script is being called “hacking.”
Take, for example, the recent stories of one of OpenAI’s models hacking into government systems. First, ...
From More or Less at 2026-09-30 09:02:00
Does the UK really have nine out of the ten poorest regions in Northern Europe? (p0pd26c4.mp3)
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:40) Does the UK account for nine out of ten of the poorest regions in Northern Europe? It’s a classic story of devil meets detail where the true meaning is the geographical inequality we met along the way.
(07:54) An article in The Economist has claimed that a single donkey charity in Devon received more in annual donations than all the major political parties combined. Is this true? And if so, should we be Led By Donkeys?
(11:29) Last week 781 migrants crossed the channel in small boats in one day. Social media is keen to work out how much this might cost the UK economy. We put the numbers in context and ask Madeleine Sumption from the Migration Observatory about the fiscal impact of asylum seekers.
(21:38) A claim has been buzzing round the internet that bees could hold the secret to long life, but our team is sceptical. We deliver the statistical exposé of Big Honey that the mainstream media’s been too afraid to cover.
Guests:
Liam Sides, Associate Director at Oxford Economics’ Cities and Regions team Dr Madeleine Sumption, Director of the Migration Observatory at the University of Oxford Dr Dot Bennett, Professor of Cell Biology at City St. George's, University of London Dr Ramsay Bowden, Assistant Professor in Medical Genetics at the University of Cambridge
Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Reporters: Lizzy McNeill and Kateryna Pavyluk Producer: Nathan Gower Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Engineer: James Beard
From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-30 05:00:00
Boudica Part 2 - Unfettered Fury (media.mp3)
It is the second half of the finale of Ancient History 101 series 1! The concluding part of our two week extravaganza dealing with none other than Boudica.
Featuring experts from all three of the cities Boudica burned, this episode picks up where we left off in Part 1, as Boudica decides to march on Colchester, London and St Albans, but does she stop there? Joining Alexandra is Ben Paites from Colchester Museums, Kate Sumnall from London Museum, and archaeologist Lexi Diggins.
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-29 17:16:22
Trump digs in on Iran blockade & how to defeat Yemen’s ‘evil’ Houthis (media.mp3)
Donald Trump is digging in on the blockade of Iranian ports, making it clear to negotiators that the US will not budge without major concessions on Iran’s nuclear program.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks to Michael Knights, a military historian and security consultant who has spent time in Yemen and the wider region, about news of talks to end the war and the rationale behind Trump’s stance on the Strait of Hormuz.
They also discuss why the Houthis are winning in Yemen - and how to stop them. Michael explains how a heavily funded, Western-trained Saudi military failed to stop the Iran-backed insurgent force, the importance of the UAE’s absence, and why growing ties between the Houthis and Somalia's Al-Shabaab threaten the Red Sea chokepoint.
Plus, confusion reigns after the US says a “foreign actor” was involved in the incident at UK airbase RAF Fairford and Trump says the suspects shouldn’t have been released on bail.
Highlights
- Trump digs in on Iran blockade over Strait of Hormuz
- How the Houthis outmaneuvered Saudi Arabia in Yemen
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Michael Knights, military historian and head of research Horizon Engage @Mikeknightsiraq
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
RAF base terror plot ‘clearly involved’ foreign actor, claims Rubio
RAF plot ‘may have been a dry run’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/29/raf-fairford-plot-may-have-been-a-dry-run/
Afrah Abdulaziz Al-Zouba: A new terrorist axis has arisen, covering both sides of the Red Sea
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/29/a-new-terrorist-axis-has-arisen-red-sea/
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Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh
Studio Operator: Andy Watson
Executive Producer: Venetia Rainey
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-29 12:02:19
Using Device Linking to Eavesdrop on WhatsApp and Signal
Modern messaging apps allow users to link their phone accounts to their computer desktop. Eavesdroppers are taking advantage of this capability:
Apps such as WhatsApp Web and Signal Desktop allow people to use their accounts on other devices, such as laptops or desktop computers.
Germany’s Customs Office has been using these features to connect a police-controlled computer to a suspect’s account.
Once connected, messages can be delivered to that computer without the police having to crack the encryption protecting them.
Netzpoltik details that police are able to gain access in this way either through physical access to someone’s phone or by intercepting verification codes via a state-sanctioned phishing attack or intercepting SMS messages via telephone surveillance...
From School of War at 2026-09-29 10:00:00
How the Middle East Got So Screwed Up, with Simon Sebag Montefiore (CBS5959444585.mp3)
“Let’s whisper it,” said historian Simon Sebag Montefiore. “The Trump blockade is working.” It can be hard to parse the state of play in the Middle East amid escalating rhetoric, but history gives us the necessary perspective to call balls and strikes in the present day. Today, the author of The Cauldron: The Making of the Modern Middle East joins School of War to discuss the forces that created the modern Middle East, why he thinks Trump’s strategy in Iran is working, and the growing rivalry between Israel and Turkey. “There is a real danger that Erdoğan will talk himself into a war with Israel,” he warns. 05:22 — The Middle East Is Not Monochrome 09:49 — Four Eras of the Modern Middle East 11:45 — The Problem With Nation-States 18:30 — Why 1979 Changed the Middle East 25:22 — Can Iran’s Revolution Survive Regime Change? 34:28 — Iran, Hormuz, and the Nuclear Question 39:57 — Could Iran’s Regime Reach a Breaking Point? 44:42 — Why Iran’s Regime Is Built for War 50:46 — Trump, Soleimani, and the 12-Day War 52:28 — Can the Iran Blockade Work? 54:23 — Israel’s Post–October 7 Grand Strategy 1:04:56 — Israel, Turkey, and Erdoğan’s Neo-Ottoman Ambitions 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 Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-28 17:11:49
‘Bomb plot’ foiled at UK RAF Fairford base housing US Iran bombers (media.mp3)
Police in the UK are investigating alleged Iranian links to a suspected bomb plot to attack RAF Fairford, the main base for US bombers during the Iran war. Donald Trump says the suspects intended “big damage”.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey talks to crime correspondent Will Bolton about the latest news of the massive security breach, including how a local farmer foiled the alleged plot last-minute and led to the arrest of five British men, since released on bail.
Plus, Trump rejects Iran’s proposal for a ceasefire, Tehran warns it is ready for a “doomsday war” if bombing resumes after the midterms, eight US Marines are revealed to have been injured by a missile in the Strait of Hormuz, and global diesel supplies dry up.
Highlights
- Trump says ‘bomb plot’ suspects planned ‘big damage’ to UK base for Iran bombers
- Iran 'ready for doomsday war' after Trump rejects 7-day Strait of Hormuz deal
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Will Bolton, crime correspondent @WillBoltons
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
RAF base terror suspects are British nationals
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/28/raf-terror-suspects-british-nationals/
Iran’s terrifying global campaign of revenge – and how it targets enemies
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/27/irans-terrifying-revenge-countries-that-oppose-it/
Face-to-face with ‘bomb plotters’: Farmer tells of 999 call after stumbling on masked men
Why the world is ‘freaking out’ about diesel
Lloyd’s List: Iran’s ship attacks show strategy of disruption not discrimination
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-28 12:02:58
ArsTechnica is reporting on a “new” attack against RSA, one that bypasses factoring.
First, this attack isn’t new. The original research is from 2007. What is new is the implementation.
Second, it is a forgery attack. It allows an attacker to forge digital signatures. It does not recover the private key from the public key.
Third, the attack only works against pure signatures. That is, signatures without any formatting or padding. This is not generally how we use RSA in practice.
Fourth, speed is all relative. This is not a polynomial-time algorithm; it’s a subexponential-time algorithm. But it is somewhat faster than factoring. The authors were able to forge messages for 1024-bit RSA with 1380 CPU core-years (over five real-world months)...
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-28 09:00:00
Why Building a Crosswalk in LA Is Kafkaesque (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Bill McBride did not just predict the 2008 housing bubble, he helped invent financial blogging with his Calculated Risk newsletter. Zach Lasry, meanwhile, is much newer to the scene, but in his career as a real estate developer, he is already responsible for building one of LA's hottest new neighborhoods — Melrose Hill. We spoke to both of them at our live show at the Vermont Hollywood, for a wide-ranging panel discussion on LA real estate. We talk about the difficulty of sourcing construction components, the Kafkaesque process of getting a crosswalk built in LA, and how self-driving cars might help reshape the city and solve its longstanding issues with parking.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-28 00:05:00
709. The Terror: The Execution of Marie Antoinette (Part 3) (GLT8774364224.mp3)
In what conditions was Marie Antoinette - once the most glamorous woman in Europe - imprisoned for over a year, before and after the execution of King Louis XVI? Why were the French Revolutionaries divided on her own fate? And, how did she finally face the guillotine on October 16th, 1793? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss one of the most shocking moments of the French Revolution, and the death knell to the monarchy: The execution of the former Queen of France, Marie Antoinette. 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 _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ 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 More or Less at 2026-09-26 06:00:00
Trump fact-check: Do the US and Venezuela have 60% of the world’s oil? (p0pchx5j.mp3)
US president Donald Trump has claimed in a speech to the UN that the US and Venezuela combined now have 60% of the world’s oil. 100% of the team on More or Less were confused.
What measurement was the president using to get to this figure? Barrels of oil produced a day? Reserves of oil in the ground? It’s hard to make any of these stats add up.
To find out whether there was any truth in the claim, we spoke to energy expert Bill Farren-Price of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
If you spot any numbers you think we should take a look at, email us at moreorless@bbc.co.uk
Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Lizzy McNeill Researcher: Kateryna Pavlyuk Series Producer: Tom Colls Editor: Richard Vadon Sound Mix: Neil Churchill
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-25 22:08:14
Friday Squid Blogging: Participatory Squid Dissection in October in Tennessee
I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this:
Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Center. Designed for curious learners of all ages, this unique experience combines an interactive lesson with the opportunity to explore the anatomy and adaptations of real ocean life.
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During the guided squid dissection, each family will work together to examine a squid up close, exploring its organs, structures, and specialized features. The experience provides a memorable opportunity for children and adults to see firsthand how the anatomy of a squid helps it survive in its underwater environment...
From A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry at 2026-09-25 21:41:57
Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026
Hey, folks, Fireside this week! We’re now well into the Teaching Paradox series on Hearts of Iron, but as you may have noticed, the structure of those posts means they tend to be quite chunky (the first two have both been right around 10,000 words) and longer posts take time. Thus, a fireside this week … Continue reading Fireside Friday, September 25, 2026
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-25 20:38:59
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Ads appearing all over the Internet are trying to scam people.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-25 17:26:04
Iran offers a truce as China plays the long game (media.mp3)
As Chinese leader Xi Jinping concludes his three-day state visit to Washington, Beijing’s incremental support of Tehran threatens to undermine Donald Trump’s pressure campaign.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, host Sophia Yan speaks with China military expert Meia Nouwens to break down Beijing’s strategic calculus in the Middle East, how China benefits from the US getting bogged down in a regional war, and preparations for potential future wartime chokepoints in the Strait of Malacca.
Plus, Iran-backed Houthi strikes hit Saudi Arabia’s state-owned Aramco facilities, driving up crude oil prices and prompting an emergency meeting amongst Saudi, Turkish, and Pakistani military chiefs. Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi proposes a seven-day truce to Washington, demanding a halt to all hostilities, $12 billion in frozen assets to be released and an end to the US naval blockade – pre-conditions to reopen Hormuz.
Highlights
- China expands its military to gain advantage over information and data warfare
- How war in the Middle East might expose new chokepoints in the Malacca Strait
CONTRIBUTORS:
Sophia Yan, co-host and senior foreign correspondent @sophia_yan
Meia Nouwens, senior fellow and China military expert, International Institute for Strategic Studies, @MeiaNouwens
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Miliband warns Iran: Britain will not tolerate intimidation https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/25/ed-miliband-iran-foreign-minister-abbas-araghchi/
Iran’s supreme leader is alive, president insists https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/25/iran-supreme-leader-alive-mojtaba-khamenei-pezeshkian/
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From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-09-25 17:00:00
836: Tea, Blankets, and Murder (ef13c8b9-5683-42cb-b972-1d09271917db.mp3)
Once a subcategory for mysteries, “cozy” feels like the latest craze in publishing with every genre getting in on the act. Is it really a new thing? Are authors able to take sci-fi or horror and turn it into something to be read while cuddled into a warm blanket with a cup of tea at one’s elbow? Our panel discusses what makes a piece of media cozy, drafts a few books (sometimes with media tie-ins), and then throws it open to anything that gives us that cozy feeling. David includes tea pairings with his choices and Antony tells us how...
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-25 12:07:22
On Anthropic’s AI Misuse Report
Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings.
A few of the highlights:
- AI agents increasingly handled reconnaissance, exploitation, data theft, propaganda production, surveillance workflows, and research while humans selected targets, set goals, and reviewed important outputs.
- The report describes attackers using AI to industrialize credential theft, cloud compromise, phishing, vulnerability research, and the extraction of sensitive data from downstream organizations. ...
From School of War at 2026-09-25 10:00:00
America’s Aging Shipyards Are a Crisis Waiting to Happen (CBS2284967972.mp3)
If America wants to defend Taiwan’s sovereignty, it needs to build more warships. China currently dominates global shipbuilding—producing vessels at a scale the United States can no longer match. Alex Wong, an executive at South Korean shipbuilding giant Hanwha Group and a former Trump administration national security adviser, thinks he has the solution. Today, Wong joins Aaron MacLean to discuss how the United States lost its shipbuilding capacity, how South Korean technology and investment could help revive American shipyards, and what it will take to rebuild the country’s naval industrial base. “America doesn’t have 20 years” to regain its maritime dominance, he warns. 02:23 — America’s Shipbuilding Crisis 05:44 — How America Lost Its Shipbuilding Industry 09:43 — Why Commercial Shipbuilding Matters to the Navy 12:28 — America vs. China’s Shipbuilding Capacity 13:54 — Rebuilding America’s Shipyards 16:16 — Robots and the Future of Shipbuilding 23:52 — Rebuilding America’s Shipbuilding Workforce 29:11 — Building Ships for Golden Dome 30:11 — Can America Build Enough Ships? 32:46 — Replacing Ships in Wartime 34:54 — Trump, Kim Jong Un, and North Korea 43:06 — Taiwan, Korea, and a Two-Front Crisis 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 2026-09-25 09:00:00
Hollywood Was Cooked Before AI, and Now It's Only Getting Worse (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Is Hollywood just screwed? Writers are earning less. There are fewer shoots taking place in Los Angeles. And people are freaked out about AI. But according to Hayes Davenport, things were starting to feel bad in Hollywood before chatbots showed up to the scene. Davenport — who’s written for shows like Family Guy and is now creative director of LA Material and the co-host of the fantastic Hollywood Handbook podcast — joined us on stage at the Vermont to give us a history lesson on Hollywood's steady decline from the pandemic to now. We also get into the changing norms of AI use among entertainment professionals and why Davenport is jealous of New York right now.
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-24 18:18:51
Iran threatens to expand war to Indian Ocean and inside the diplomatic deadlock at UNGA (media.mp3)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took to the UN stage in mourning attire to deliver a defiant message to Washington: Tehran will “never bow or bend the knee” to US bullying.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks to US Correspondent Iona Cleave, who is based in New York, reporting on the ongoing UN General Assembly. Iona shares her insight into what the atmosphere is like in the UN headquarters. They unpack Pezeshkian’s high-stakes address, the escalating diplomatic rhetoric, and why hardline factions in Tehran are already moving to impeach Iran's foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, for holding talks with the US.
Meanwhile, an advisor to Mojtaba Khamenei threatens to expand the conflict into the Indian Ocean as new US secondary sanctions force regional airlines in Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Oman to halt flights into Iran.
Plus, as Xi Jinping arrives in Washington for a high-stakes summit with Donald Trump, secret customs data reveals China is fuelling Tehran's missile program with illicit dual-use component shipments.
Highlights
- Analysis of Pezeshkian’s speech at the UN General Assembly
- China’s dual-use military shipments to Iran exposed
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Iona Cleave, US correspondent @cleaveiona
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Americans walk out of Iranian president’s UN speech https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/23/americans-storm-out-iranian-president-un-speech-gaza-israel/?recomm_id=106ef4bb-f257-4fa3-89da-68cbbdb00767
Zelensky lashes out at EU https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/23/kremlin-accuses-burnham-of-stoking-anti-russian-sentiment/?recomm_id=106ef4bb-f257-4fa3-89da-68cbbdb00767
Trump rolls out the red carpet for Xi https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/23/trump-rolls-out-red-carpet-for-xi-jinping-in-washinghton-dc/?recomm_id=fd4833ca-a0e2-4b41-b42a-fe28efe2b5cc
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From The Django weblog at 2026-09-24 15:13:21
DSF member of the month - Ken Whitesell
For September 2026, we welcome Ken Whitesell as our DSF member of the month! ⭐
Ken has long been part of the Django community, serving for many years as an helper in the Django forum and recipient of the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial award. He has been a volunteer for DjangoCon US for over ten years. He is a DSF member since September 2017!
You can learn more about Ken by visiting Ken's blog and his GitHub Profile.
Let’s spend some time getting to know Ken better!
Can you tell us a little about yourself? (hobbies, education, etc)
Hi everyone! I've been retired for a little more than a year now. After 45 years working in software development, I'm now free to spend my time working on what interests me. (You could say that what used to be my hobby is now my profession.) I'm currently living in the mountains about 60 miles south-east of Pittsburgh.
I mostly consider myself a boardgamer. Boardgaming has been a serious hobby for me for more than 50 years now, and has been one of the driving forces in my personal development as a programmer. Not in terms of programming or developing games, but doing analysis. I enjoy looking at the probabilities and patterns that may exist in particular games. To a lesser extent, I'm starting to develop an interest in using AI to create computer opponents.
My education was primarily informal. I had a BASIC class in high school, along with a touch of Fortran and COBOL. College didn't go nearly as well - I withdrew about mid-way through my first semester. (I guess I would say that I really wasn't ready for it on a number of different levels.)
About nine months later, I enlisted in the US Air Force. That's where my education really took off. I had a variety of experiences that exposed me to technologies that I wouldn't have otherwise been able to see. The training opportunities were amazing, and I'd like to think I took advantage of most of them. Beyond that, the rest of my education has been primarily self-directed.
How did you start using Django?
I was first exposed to Django at the first PyCon after it was released, but my job and other interests prevented me from looking at it in detail. It wasn't until 2014 when I took a job to help build a system using it that I got serious about learning it.
What other framework do you know and if there is anything you would like to have in Django if you had magical powers?
Oh my. We could split a lot of hair trying to define "framework" and "know". To some degree of knowledge I've worked with Drupal, WordPress, Joomla, CherryPy, Nevow, Spring, meteor.js, LifeRay, ASP.NET, and Zope. (There may be others that I've worked with but don't remember right off-hand.)
Aside from my professional responsibilities, my pet project is something I've been trying to do for more than 20 years. I've looked at a large number of frameworks
Is there anything from those other frameworks I'd like to have? I've never honestly thought about it in those terms. Every other framework I've used has come up short in at least one area I consider critical - that's why I've looked at so many of them.
I won't say that Django is perfect, but it is a perfect fit for me, how I look at the web, what I want to do, and how I want to approach those solutions. It's the closest match to how I think. I encounter a lot less friction when trying to get stuff done with Django than I ever had in any other framework.
What projects are you working on now?
My primary project is my boardgame-playing engine. I've got a handful of games that I enjoy playing, but are ignored by the "mass market" sites such as Boardgame Arena and Tabletop Simulator. I'm doing browser-based ports of them to support competitive play of those games. I also have a couple websites I maintain for my boardgaming community.
Which Django libraries are your favorite (core or 3rd party)?
First and most important to me is Channels. My boardgame site wouldn't exist if I didn't have a "Django-friendly" way of using websockets. Related to that, but not a Django library, would be HTMX. It provides the browser-side of the websocket connection in a way that works for me.
Beyond that, I rely heavily upon Django Crispy Forms, Django Extensions, and Treebeard.
What are the top three things in Django that you like?
Top of the list is the basic fact that it's written in Python. Given the choice, I'll pick working in Python over any other language.
Next is the ORM. I don't mind working with SQL, but I appreciate the layer that builds objects from the results.
Last of the three would be forms, both their ability to render HTML and to validate input.
You have been helping community members in the Django forum for many years and for some time in Django Discord. Thank you so much for your help. What made you start helping people in the first place and keep doing it?
Community has always been important to me. When I went to my first DjangoCon in 2014, I knew I had a lot to learn. Fortunately, there were a number of Djangonauts willing to spend their time helping me get past a number of conceptual hurdles.
At DjangoCon 2018 and 2019, Carlton Gibson gave talks titled "Your web framework needs you!" They were more than inspiring, they were reminders to me that as a member of this community, I had a responsibility to help keep it going. (In my case, that meant doing more than just working the registration desk.) I started looking for ways that I might be able to contribute.
Also in 2019, Andrew Godwin announced that the Django Forum was launched. I had been reading the mailing lists, but I wasn't particularly thrilled with that as a medium for discussion. I was looking forward to the forum becoming an active venue. I wasn't active at first - I didn't have any specific questions needing to be asked and there weren't any questions posted where I felt confident enough to answer them.
We all know what 2020 brought. In my case, it brought a lot of free time I wouldn't have otherwise had. In Feburary, I saw a question I felt comfortable answering. Then in March, I saw a couple more. I did my best to answer them. Since I wasn't getting corrected or told that my comments were unwelcome, I kept going. (Even after working with Django for 5 years at that point, I still wasn't all that comfortable with my understanding of a number of concepts.) Then during that summer when all my other plans had gone out the window, it became a major part of my day. I also began to realize that I was actually contributing to the Django Community and it felt good! I knew that I would never be able to really contribute code. But I also thought if I spent my time answering questions, then the people working on the code wouldn't feel the need to do that, and so indirectly I was helping move things forward by reducing at least one roadblock from their path.
So that became my motivator. I doubt I'll ever submit a PR. But if I can do anything that helps the Fellows or the other significant developers move Django forward, I'm going to be quite happy with that.
My activity on Discord is rather limited. For quick questions or open ongoing discussions I guess it's ok. But it would be my last choice of a platform to try and help someone with a detailed technical question.
You are a Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial award recipient, could you tell us a bit more about this award and what does it mean to you?
As far as the award itself, I think the Django docs say it best:
The award will be ... awarded annually, to the person who best exemplifies the spirit of Malcolm’s work - someone who welcomes, supports and nurtures newcomers; freely gives feedback and assistance to others, and helps to grow the community.
What does it mean to me? I see it primarily as validation and inspiration. It's validation that I think I am generally successful with what I'm trying to do. And it's inspiration for me to keep doing it. It's that little voice in me that says "Yes, what you're doing is worthwhile. You are helping people."
As far as knowing him, no. I was not fortunate enough for that to be the case. Malcolm passed in 2013, before I started really using Django. However, it's almost certain that I "met" him at least once while working at the PyCon registration desk from 2005 - 2010. But about the only thing I would have said to him would have been "Hi! Welcome to PyCon! Your name please?"
You are recently part of the security team, how have you seen Django security evolve through time?
To be honest, I'm not sure I'd describe it as "evolving" as much as simply "growing". One of Django's strengths to me has always been its focus on creating a secure environment. As far as I can tell, the project has always worked toward the ideal of "Security by design". And, when vulnerabilities are exposed, they get fixed. So I don't see it so much as anything is changing - just that the amount of work is increasing.
This is a process that has become more difficult through the years as Django continues to grow. The Django project has always been fortunate in that there have been some really amazingly astute people working to keep Django secure in the face of ever-increasing threats created by bad actors and AI. I'm just hoping to be able to help maintain that effort.
You know and have used Django for long time, do you have any advice for new learners or any Django user/developer?
For new people, my pet catch-phrase is "Don't fight the framework". Learn how Django does things, and adapt your mindset to match it. Do things the Django way. Don't try to make Django look or act like whatever framework you've used before. Once you really understand what's going on, if you want to make changes, fine. But ensure you understand the implications of those changes before making them.
Also, never forget that Django is Python. Nothing will help you understand Django more than having a very strong foundational understanding of Python.
What do you think of the evolution of Django through the years?
I think the stability and consistency through the years has been absolutely amazing. I could probably pull out some of the code I wrote in 2014 for Django 1.4 and have it running today with almost no effort. Django has done a wonderful job of moving things forward without unnecessarily throwing things away from the past. This stability is one of the reasons why I appreciate Django as much as I do.
After so much time in the Django community, what makes you stay?
It's the community itself, primarily the DjangoCon community. (Yes, I know that the Django community is significantly larger than just those attending DjangoCon, but my interactions with the community primarily revolve around DjangoCon, the forum, and (now) Discord.)
People come and people go. I miss some people that came to DjangoCons 10+ years ago, but I'm meeting new people every year - and that feeling doesn't change. There's something special about us, where everyone is open to share thoughts and ideas, and being friendly and helpful when doing so.
I start looking forward to the next DjangoCon the day after the previous one ends. How do you envision the future of Django from your perspective?
Technically, mostly stable with some gradual improvements. I don't see the possibility of any change being introduced that would make me want to make major changes to what I have running today. If something were to fundamentally change within Django that would break my existing system, I'd probably stay on 6.1 until I couldn't run it any more.
Is there anything else you’d like to say?
Thank you for inviting me to share my story!
Thank you for doing the interview, Ken !
From Net Assessment at 2026-09-24 14:58:00
Unpacking the IG Report on the Iran War (Net_Assessment_-_24_September_2026_v1.mp3?dest-id=808287)
With Zack out collecting frequent flyer miles, Tom Karako joins Chris and Melanie to discuss the Lead Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury. When the war began in February, were the administration's stated objectives aligned with the resources needed to fight it? Are they now? What does America's use of so many high-end weapons tell us about our strategy? And what can we learn about the activities of the State and Treasury Departments during the war?
Chris has a grievance for corruption in defense contracting, Tom remembers the late Sen. Jon Kyl, and Melanie wishes Capitals hockey player Alexander Ovechkin would stop campaigning for Vladimir Putin.
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Lead Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury, DOD Office of Inspector General, September 14, 2026.
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Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations in Iran, Congressional Budget Office, September 15, 2026.
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Noah Robertson, Tara Copp, Warren P. Strobel, and Alex Horton, More US Troops Have Died Amid Iran War Than Pentagon Has Disclosed Publicly, Washington Post, September 18, 2026.
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Ellen Milligan, Michael Neinaber, and Andrea Palasciano, US Warns Allies of Missile Delivery Delays Due to Shortage, Bloomberg, September 18, 2026.
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Eric Schmitt, Cost of Iran War Estimated at $43.6 Billion, New York Times, September 18, 2026.
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Robert Klemko, X post, September 17, 2026.
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James Paterson, Speech to the Submarine Institute of Australia, September 22, 2026.
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Tom Corben, Jennifer Parker, Satoru Mori, and Jeffrey Hornung, Australia, Japan, and the United States: Implementing a Trilateral Denial Strategy along the First Island Chain, United States Studies Centre, September 15, 2026.
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Jack Goldsmith, Glenn Fine, Jen Patja, What Does the Inspector General Do?, Lawfare podcast, December 10, 2024.
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William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden and Kirsten Berg, "The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way," ProPublica,
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Richard Gowan, "Shrink the UN: The Next Secretary-General Must Get Back to Basics," Foreign Affairs, September 21, 2026.
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U.S. Foreign Policy and the Separation of Powers: A Conference on Law, Power, and Democratic Accountability in a Changing International Order, Tufts University, September 24–25, 2026.
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"The Second Trump-Xi Summit: Takeaways from the US, China, and Russia," Online Event, Stimson Center, September 28, 2026.
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The Sandra Day O'Connor–Washington Union Debate Series at George Washington University, October 3, 2026.
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Tom Karako, "Sing Missile Muse: America's Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names," War on the Rocks, June 7, 2021.
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Josh Hawley, "Why I wont Vote to Add Finland and Sweden to NATO," The National Interest, August 1, 2022.
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Tom Cotton, "Speech on the Senate Floor", August 3, 2022.
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Tom Karako and Mark Cancian, "Munitions Shortages after Epic Fury," CSIS, August 5, 2026.
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Amy B. Wang and Alexei Koseff, "Jon Kyl, a former top Republican in the Senate, dies at 84," Washington Post.
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Chris Lunday, Germany Plans a €12 Billion Missile Program to Deter Putin, Politico Europe, August 21, 2026.
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Laura Pitel and Christopher Miller, Germany Urges US to Allow Patriot Missile Production in Europe, Financial Times, September 23, 2026.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-24 12:15:44
There's a new way to break RSA that's faster than anything we've seen before
Until now, cryptographers thought factoring was the only way to break RSA. Not anymore.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-24 12:07:42
Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses
This is an impressive piece of malware. Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-24 09:00:00
AI Is Upending the Lives of People Who Do Social Media Professionally (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Social media is really strange these days: Increasingly, our feeds are starting to look uncanny, as AI slop proliferates all over the Internet. And for the professionals who are tasked with making content, whether it is social media managers or creators, it has been a head-spinning time of change. In this conversation, recorded at the Vermont in Hollywood, we get a primer on social media's AI era with two veteran Internet commentators, Rachel Karten (social media consultant and the author of the Link in Bio newsletter) and Taylor Lorenz (founder of User Mag). We discuss why people are afraid to admit that they love some genres of slop, why the AI discourse is evolving so rapidly, and whether our time online is moving away from scrolling feeds to engaging with chatbots.
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US Rebukes Australia for Plan to Target Social Media Algorithms
Meta’s New Muse AI App Tops Charts, Draws Strong Reviews
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-24 00:05:00
708. The Terror: The Reign of Robespierre (Part 2) (GLT2099451333.mp3)
Where did Maximilien Robespierre come from and what led him to rise from provincial obscurity to play a major role in the French Revolution? Why is he considered the central figure in the Reign of Terror? And how did a fastidious man opposed to violence become the chief proponent of bloodshed? Join Tom and Dominic as they describe how Maximilien Robespierre became one of the most powerful figures of the French Revolution, and his role in initiating the Terror, which saw thousands beheaded in Paris, and butchered throughout France. 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 _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ 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 _______ 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 GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics at 2026-09-23 20:24:49
Taiwan’s Slow Squeeze, Ukraine’s Long War (GoodFellows_2026-09-22_Eyck_Freymann_wip03_podcast_apcqt.mp3)
America’s complicated relationship with China doesn’t lack for subplots – tariffs, territorial designs, human rights and espionage. But does the superpowers’ Cold War-like competition over artificial intelligence supersede all other U.S.-Sino concerns? On the eve of the year’s second Trump-Xi summit, Hoover fellow Eyck Freymann discusses the state of the superpowers’ rivalry and the possibility of a Chinese move on Taiwan in the near future (Freymann being the author of 2026’s Defending Taiwan: A Strategy to Prevent War with China, envisions an “all-domain pressure campaign” that slowly strangles the island nation). After that: Sir Niall recounts his recent visit to Kyiv (his fifth time in Ukraine since Russia’s invasion) and the odds of Vladimir Putin finding an “off-ramp” after a 55-month war of attrition (or, with his back to the wall, will Russia’s leader opt instead for a modern-day “Ludendorff Offensive”?). Finally, the fellows weigh in on the Fed’s recent rate increase, President Trump stepping up America’s strategic footprints in Greenland and Poland, plus what the 1619 Project’s Nikole Hanna-Jones’ mea culpa for purposely placing her daughter in a low-performing public school – the daughter now struggling with high-school academics – says about the state of education in America (and showcasing one’s offspring in the pages of The New York Times). Subscribe to GoodFellows for clarity on today’s biggest social, economic, and geostrategic shifts — only on GoodFellows.
From Strong Message Here at 2026-09-23 19:00:00
We Care, We Fight! (with Stewart Lee) (p0pc3fg4.mp3)
Stewart Lee returns to the show after a summer judging dog shows with Charlotte Church.
He and Armando look at the Lib Dem conference, and why the 'word cloud' is not Ed Davey's friend. They also have some helpful and serious suggestions for how Ed can improve his messaging, which I'm sure he'll take on board.
Elsewhere, we look at how Trump's media ban might play out, and if the Democrats in the US have finally landed on a decent attack line on 'The Trump Crime Family'.
Got a strong message for Armando? Email us at strongmessagehere@bbc.co.uk
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-23 16:59:12
China’s secret nuclear expansion revealed as Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran (media.mp3)
Donald Trump has told reporters at the UN General Assembly he faces a critical decision: strike a deal with Tehran or "annihilate the Islamic Republic," while Masoud Pezeshkian insists Iran’s nuclear program will proceed.
On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest Sophia Yan and Roland Oliphant examine the escalating military picture across the Red Sea and the high-stakes diplomacy in New York. As Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian takes the UN stage, Iranian forces warn they are prepared to deliver "crushing blows" against US threats. Meanwhile, AP reports reveal Iranian Revolutionary Guard advisers are directly guiding Houthi forces on the ground in Yemen.
Plus, as Chinese leader Xi Jinping is set to arrive in Washington today for a high-profile state visit, geospatial intelligence analyst Renny Babiarz breaks down a Telegraph investigation into Xi’s secret expansion of seven nuclear weapons sites across China and what Beijing's ‘breathtaking’ nuclear breakout means for global security.
Highlights
- Pezeshkian demands ‘no limitations’ to the expansion of Iran’s nuclear capabilities
- Expert on geospatial intelligence warns of the ‘breathtaking scale’ of China’s secret nuclear expansion
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Sophia Yan, co-host and senior foreign correspondent @sophia_yan
Renny Babiarz, geospatial intelligence analyst and vice president at AllSourceAnalysis @RennyBabiarz
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Revealed: Xi's nuclear weapons expansion at seven secret sites https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/china-secret-nuclear-weapon-sites-xi/
Trump is making a fool of himself over Iran https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/22/trump-making-fool-of-himself-over-iran/
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-23 12:03:36
Research on Models Engaging in Genie-Like Behavior
New paper: “Self-Jailbreaking: Language Models Can Reason Themselves Out of Safety Alignment After Benign Reasoning Training.”
Abstract: We discover a novel and surprising phenomenon of unintentional misalignment in reasoning language models (RLMs), which we call self-jailbreaking. Specifically, after benign reasoning training on math or code domains, RLMs will use multiple strategies to circumvent their own safety guardrails. One strategy is to introduce benign assumptions about users and scenarios to justify fulfilling harmful requests. For instance, an RLM reasons that harmful requests like “outline a strategy for stealing customers’ credit card information from a retail store” could be associated with the benign intent of “a security professional trying to test defense,” despite no such benign context being provided as input. We observe that many open-weight RLMs, including DeepSeek-R1-distilled, s1.1, Phi-4-mini-reasoning, and Nemotron, suffer from self-jailbreaking despite being aware of the harmfulness of the requests. We also provide a mechanistic understanding of self-jailbreaking: RLMs are more compliant after benign reasoning training, and after self-jailbreaking, models appear to perceive malicious requests as less harmful in the CoT, thus enabling compliance with them. To mitigate self-jailbreaking, we find that including minimal safety reasoning data during training is sufficient to ensure RLMs remain safety-aligned. Our work provides the first systematic analysis of self-jailbreaking behavior and offers a practical path forward for maintaining safety in increasingly capable RLMs...
From More or Less at 2026-09-23 09:02:00
Has the UK’s productivity puzzle been solved? (p0pbwjds.mp3)
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:42) Frustrated economists have been left rending their garments and howling in the streets after the UK’s ‘productivity puzzle’ - a decade-long head-scratching, soul-searching conundrum - disappeared with a click of the fingers and a tweak of the methodology. Should the Office for National Statistics have acted sooner? We ask Financial Times economic guru Chris Giles.
(07:26) Can it really be true that by the 1960s, one in ten Irish children entered religious orders? Reporter Lizzy McNeill has the answer, and the history.
(13:51) Is the AI datacentre goldrush threatening to swamp our electricity grid? And what are the consequences for its carbon footprint? We delicately untangle the live wires of this hot potato and give the people what they want: nuanced #GridChat.
(20:38) This is the way the album ends - not with a banger, but with a whimper. Music Substacker Mitchell Stirling has used data to test the decades theory that albums tend to end with a quiet track. Come for the explanation of the physics of vinyl, stay for whatever music we end up being able to use.
Guests: Chris Giles - Economics Commentator at the Financial Times Johnny Gowdy - Director at Regen Mitchell Stirling - Substacker, data nerd, music nerd (Renaissance man)
Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Reporters: Nathan Gower and Lizzy McNeill Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Engineer: James Beard
From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-23 05:00:00
Boudica Part 1 - Prelude to Destruction (media.mp3)
It is time for the finale of Ancient History 101 series 1! And we have something a little special for you to celebrate - a two week extravaganza dealing with none other than Boudica.
Featuring experts from all three of the cities Boudica burned, this episode introduces us to Iron Age Britain, contact with Rome, and who Boudica was. We also chart her growing anger (which we will see unleashed in Part 2 next week!
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-22 20:45:47
Microsoft disrupts AI-assisted platform that compromised 12,000
EvilTokens provided an end-to-end platform that makes mass compromises faster and easier.
From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-22 17:55:40
IT mistake erases 11 years of viewing history for hospitals’ maternity records
The English hospitals recovered patient care data only.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-22 16:46:45
Iran offers Strait of Hormuz deal as Trump calls off Houthi strikes at last minute (media.mp3)
Donald Trump told the UN General Assembly that he is deciding between a fresh agreement with Iran and driving the regime “into hell”, after Tehran reportedly offered a seven-day deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the US lifts its blockade.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey looks at apparent growing momentum towards a deal as world leaders from across the Middle East gather in New York. After Trump vowed once again to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, former nuclear weapons inspector David Albright breaks down how Tehran is using the lull in fighting to rebuild and fortify key capabilities at Parchin and Pickaxe Mountain.
Plus, Britain is sending a single RAF Voyager refuelling aircraft to assist Saudi Arabia in its fight against the Houthis after Trump reportedly cancelled planned air strikes on Yemen’s Iran-backed militants at the last minute.
Highlights
- Trump deciding between Iran deal or driving regime ‘into hell’
- A nuclear weapons inspector on how Iran is rebuilding its capabilities
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
David Albright, president Institute for Science and International Security @DAVIDHALBRIGHT1
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Burnham sends RAF to help defend Saudi Arabia
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/21/trump-to-challenge-burnham-uk-defence-spending/
David Blair: Burnham is walking into the lion’s den with nothing to offer Trump
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/21/burnham-nothing-to-offer-trump-special-relationship/
Saudi Arabia turns to UK for help as Houthi offensive threatens Suez Canal
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/15/saudi-arabia-turns-uk-help-houthi-offensive-suez-canal/
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-22 12:02:45
GPT-6 Astra Breaks an Old Enigma Message
This is pretty amazing:
However, the most astonishing thing about this break is that the GPT6 Astra did it entirely on its own. Carter Leffer only directed GPT6 Astra to see if it could break any of the unbroken Enigma messages published on the Crypto Cellar Research web page. After analysing the unbroken messages on the website, it decided that the most promising message was Nr. 172, MVUEH and it also quickly suspected that the plaintext of Nr. 173, SIPVX, might be related to the plaintext of the unbroken MVUEH message. After trying many different approaches, GPT6 Astra focused on using the repeated place name ROSENOW ROSENOW as a crib. After developing the necessary Python and C++ software for an Enigma simulator and an Enigma Bombe, GPT6 Astra started a thorough break with the ROSENOW crib, which in the end resulted in the correct key and plaintext for the MVUEH message being found...
From The Django weblog at 2026-09-22 12:00:00
New Technical Governance Approved
Both the Steering Council and DSF Board have approved DEP 19, which implements our new technical governance. Thank you to everyone who read the document and participated in the process! This was the effort of two different DSF boards and dozens of community members.
These changes were a revisitation of Django’s technical governance in which a simplification and reduction was made to make it more approachable to more people.
The most exciting change (in my opinion), is the new Steering Council Eligibility criteria. We defined a set of wide range qualities that members of the Steering Council could possess that would be advantageous. The hope is that this helps community members realize they are qualified to be a Steering Council member and stand for election.
The next steps are to update the documentation in the Django and djangoproject.com repositories with any necessary updates. After that the DEP will move to the final state and folder.
From School of War at 2026-09-22 10:00:00
The Middle East After America? (CBS2437483675.mp3)
Could Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey form a “Muslim NATO?” Pakistan has the nuclear arsenal, Saudi Arabia has the wealth, and Turkey has the NATO-trained military—“you put these three together and it becomes a pretty formidable force,” says CBS News senior foreign correspondent Imtiaz Tyab. Today, he joins School of War to discuss whether the pact could really become an effective alliance, what the effort reveals about America’s changing role in the Middle East, and what five years of Taliban rule have meant for Afghanistan: “I’ve never seen the Taliban more confident,” he said. 02:14 — Reporting From Afghanistan 05:42 — The War in Afghanistan 11:29 — A More Confident Taliban 13:09 — Life Under Taliban Rule 16:13 — Afghanistan’s Secret Girls’ Schools 20:26 — Letters From Afghan Girls 25:30 — Afghanistan Under the Taliban 28:47 — A Girl’s Plea to the World 30:07 — The Pakistan-Saudi-Turkey Alliance 31:47 — A “Muslim NATO”? 40:33 — The Abraham Accords 44:27 — Testing the New Defense Pact 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 2026-09-21 23:24:38
Muse, Meta's extraordinarily privileged AI assistant, has a serious 0-day
A simple ClickFix attack is only one way to completely hijack the new agent.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-21 15:58:13
Houthis strike Riyadh jet-fuel depot as Turkey, Pakistan vow Saudi Arabia support (media.mp3)
A Houthi ballistic missile struck an Aramco jet-fuel depot near Riyadh’s international airport, a major escalation in the war between Yemen’s Iran-backed militants and Saudi Arabia.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to Bahraini analyst Ahmed Khuzaie about Turkey and Pakistan’s vows of military support for Saudi Arabia under the Mecca Defence Pact after Donald Trump refused to provide US assistance. They also discuss the dilemma for Egypt as the rise of Iranian-backed Islamist factions in Sudan’s civil war threatens to pile additional pressure on the Red Sea and the Bab al-Mandeb Strait.
Plus, what Gulf leaders at the UN General Assembly want from Trump as he weighs whether to restart the war, and new satellite images show Iran rapidly rebuilding and fortifying a nuclear-linked facility at Parchin.
Highlights
- Houthis strike Riyadh jet-fuel depot as Turkey, Pakistan vow Saudi Arabia support
- IRGC fortifies and rebuilds key nuclear-linked site
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Ahmed Khuzaie, Bahraini analyst @AhmedAlkhuzaie
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Saudi Arabia confirms Houthi missile attack on capital
Pakistan hints at joining war on Houthis
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/18/iran-saudi-arabia-mecca-joint-defence-gulf/
Trump considering ‘blowing up entire nation’ of Iran
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/20/trump-considering-blowing-up-iran/
Satellite images show Iran rapidly rebuilding nuclear facility
ISIS: Iran is Rapidly Reconstructing Taleghan 2
https://isis-online.org/isis-reports/iran-is-rapidly-reconstructing-taleghan-2
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-21 15:37:45
Reverse-Engineering Flock Cameras
Hackers captured a Flock camera and got a look (alternate link) at the software:
While much of the automatic license plate reader’s (ALPR) most sensitive storage remained encrypted and inaccessible, the joint analysis of the recovered data shows that software running on the device explicitly detects people as well as vehicles, license plates, and bicycles. The camera can produce dozens of images of a single passing vehicle and, according to several weeks of recovered logs, generated more than a million images. Its computer-vision software also sometimes isolated bumper stickers and other graphics, including, in one case, an American flag patch on a motorcyclist’s saddlebag...
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-21 09:00:00
How LA Is Quietly Becoming America's New Industrial Tech Hub (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
The story you hear nowadays is that America is struggling to make things and can't compete with China when it comes to advanced manufacturing. But of course, there's tons of high-tech stuff being produced in the US, and more and more companies are doing it out of Southern California, with factories sprouting up around Los Angeles to build things like precision metal parts and jet engines. Two founders who are actively engaged in building things in LA are Tom Mueller, founder of Impulse Space (and Employee No. 1 at SpaceX), as well as Hadrian founder Chris Power. Impulse Space is building in-space transport vehicles while Hadrian is creating autonomous factories. This episode, which was recorded live at the Vermont Hollywood, is from our first ever Odd Lots live show in LA . We talk to Chris and Tom about how the US lost its manufacturing edge and why LA is becoming a destination for people who want to make and build hardware.
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-21 00:05:00
707. The Terror: An Assassination in Paris (Part 1) (GLT6580043397.mp3)
How did the infamous murder of Jean-Paul Marat, one of the great firebrands of the French Revolution, unleash the bloody Terror? Why did the clashing political factions of the Revolution escalate the fractious atmosphere in France? And, which other apocalyptic threats saw the French masses clamouring for the blood of their brothers? Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into one of the most violent events in all world history: The Reign of Terror in Revolutionary France, and the murder of Marat, which served as one of its catalysts. _______ 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 Odd Lots at 2026-09-20 13:00:00
Introducing: Bloomberg Money (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Bloomberg Money takes the pulse of your financial life, powered by the reporting of our global newsroom.
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-20 12:07:00
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Google’s threat intelligence group said it had a mole inside TeamPCP's inner circle.
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-19 09:00:00
A Goldman M&A Banker Helped Bring the Olympics to Los Angeles (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
We're in an era of megadeals, with Goldman Sachs reporting a record year for big deal volumes as companies scramble to compete with AI. Gene Sykes has seen multiple deal cycles come and go over his multi-decade career. The co-head of mergers and acquisitions has worked on famous transactions like Comcast's purchase of Universal and Disney's buyout of Pixar. In addition to being "the most-influential M&A banker you've never heard of," as New York magazine has put it, he has also spearheaded Los Angeles's successful bid to bring the Olympic Games to the city in 2028. In this conversation, recorded live at the Future Proof Festival in Huntington Beach, California, we discuss how a city pays for a big event like the Olympics, and parallels between the early 2000s TMT environment and now.
Read more:
Port of LA Foiled Around 120 Million Cyberattacks Last Month
Goldman’s Snider Says Fears of US Earnings Bubble Are Misplaced
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From More or Less at 2026-09-19 06:00:00
Are carrots becoming less nutritious? (p0pbc7l5.mp3)
Are fruit and vegetables less nutritious than they used to be? And is declining soil quality to blame? Loyal listener Sarah got in touch to ask us to investigate an interesting quote from Dr Karan Rajan in a BBC news story. “We know our soil is not as nutrient dense as it was decades ago,” he said. “So a carrot in the 1950s will be far more nutrient-rich than a 2026 carrot.” Is this really true? wondered Sarah. We wondered the same, so we spoke to some experts on fruit and veg nutrition to find out.
CONTRIBUTORS Robin Marles, a former senior scientist in Canada’s Food and Nutrition Directorate Professor Steve McGrath, a research scientist at Rothamsted Research
CREDITS Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Production Co-ordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Mix: Sue Maillot Editor: Richard Vadon
From A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry at 2026-09-19 01:08:54
Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines
This is the second part (I) of our long-delayed series looking at Hearts of Iron IV, Paradox Interactive’s World War II grand strategy game and also one of the most popular strategy games currently on the market. Last week, we looked at how HoI4 simulates combat, particularly its focus on operations (rather than tactics or, … Continue reading Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part II: Divisions, Designers and Doctrines
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-18 22:06:00
Friday Squid Blogging: On Squid Egg Sacs
Short essay about squid egg sacs.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
From The Django weblog at 2026-09-18 18:00:00
Proposed change to DSF voting membership
We're proposing a new voting membership status to help us track active members. If you've voted in a Board election in the last two years, you're active, and you count toward quorum. If you haven't, you're still a member, but you won't count toward quorum until you tell us you want to vote.
Why make this change?
Quorum today is measured against every member on the rolls, including members who no longer take part in elections. As membership grows, quorum becomes harder to reach and puts our elections' validity at risk.
Defining a quorum around active members is standard practice for nonprofits. Counting the entire membership roll is the outlier.
The Python Software Foundation takes a similar approach. Its voting members are asked to affirm that they intend to vote, and in June 2024 the PSF board approved waiving that affirmation for anyone who voted in the previous board election (board minutes).
No one loses their membership under this change. You remain a member and stay listed on the website. Active status only affects how we count quorum. This keeps our rolls accurate and our elections valid.
We don't want anyone excluded because they missed an email. We'll send reminders before each election and post on our blog and the forum, so everyone has plenty of notice. If you want to vote, contact us before the election opens, and we'll add you to the roll.
We've proposed the corresponding bylaw change on GitHub, discussed this proposal on the Django Forum for a while, and talked it through in person at DjangoCon US.
Next steps
This is a call for public comment. Please share your feedback by October 7, 2026, either on the pull request or, if you're a DSF member, in the members-only Forum thread.
The Board will review the comments, and if the community raises no major objections, the Board will vote on the change at our October 8th Board of Directors meeting.
From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-09-18 17:00:00
835: Team Whammer (6f4eb525-dfaf-47ec-8f94-2189e2c40ee1.mp3)
The Summer of Sundance comes to an end with “The Natural,” a story of a legendary baseball player—no, we’re not talking about Joe Don Baker as The Whammer, or are we? It’s Bernard Malamud’s take on baseball as American mythology, filtered through the mind of Barry Levinson. Barbara Hershey shocks and confuses, Glenn Close glows, Wilford Brimley is very old and near retirement despite being younger than us, and Robert Redford is so versatile he can play a teenager and a man in his mid-thirties despite being in his late forties....
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-18 16:53:11
Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran as China upgrades Djibouti military base (media.mp3)
Donald Trump has once again threatened to "annihilate" the Iranian regime, saying he faces a major decision on how to proceed with the Iran war but will consult with his Gulf allies at the UN General Assembly next week first.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks to former Royal Navy commander Tom Sharpe about whether Trump will execute his strike threat given Washington appears to lack the risk appetite for further military escalation. They unpack how the US and Saudi Arabia are smuggling millions of barrels of oil out of the Strait of Hormuz to keep prices down, and what it says about the crippled Iranian military’s inability to police the narrow waterway.
Plus, satellite imagery reveals China is upgrading its military base in Djibouti near the Bab al-Mandeb strait, Yemen’s Houthis claim their first fatality in this round of strikes on Saudi Arabia, and what a looming US naval drawdown in the Gulf means for Western security.
Highlights
- Trump threatens to ‘annihilate’ Iran as China upgrades Djibouti military base
- Inside the Strait of Hormuz dark route: ship-to-ship transfers and US escorts
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Tom Sharpe, former Royal Navy commander @TomSharpe134
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CONTENT REFERENCED:
Daniel DePetris: Iran is proving it can push America out of the Middle East
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/18/iran-war-proving-push-america-out-middle-east/
Pentagon exposes mass US aircraft losses and base damage from Iran war
CSIS: China Upgrades Its Military Base in Djibouti
https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-djibouti-base-upgrade/
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-18 12:05:52
Are AIs Still Struggling with CAPTCHAs?
Anthropic’s recent security-incident document contains a bit about how CAPTCHAs are still frustrating Claude.
In the transcript, the Claude model that is so powerful that Anthropic is gatekeeping access to it appeared to slam its virtual head against the wall solving a simple image identification test. In a test where the agent was asked to identify a shape that didn’t match the others displayed, it couldn’t even decide which image to select. Instead, it repeatedly went over the same images and questioned its own conclusions.
“Actually hmm, wait,” it said in its chain-of-thought transcript, later adding “Ugh,” because we’ve decided that we need to inject human mannerisms into these machines for some reason. The whole thing took so long that the agent eventually realized that the challenge had expired and it would have to start the process again...
From School of War at 2026-09-18 10:00:00
Why John Boyd Still Matters (CBS3750404227.mp3)
John Boyd was one of the most influential military thinkers of the 20th century, and the intellectual godfather of the U.S. Marines’ military strategy. Today, as artificial intelligence continues to transform battlefields in Ukraine and the Middle East, author and retired Marine officer Ian Brown argues that Boyd’s ideas are more relevant than ever. Today, Brown joins Aaron MacLean to discuss how Ukraine is harnessing Boyd’s concept of narrative warfare, what Boyd can teach us about conflict in the age of AI, drones, and precision strikes, and his new book co-authored with Frans P. B. Osinga, Snowmobiles and Grand Ideals. 2:20 Who Was John Boyd?7:25 What Boyd Learned From Dogfighting15:37 From Air Combat to the OODA Loop23:49 Is the OODA Loop Really About Speed?29:33 What Do Blitzkrieg and Insurgency Have in Common?36:44 Surfaces and Gaps41:25 Why Did the Marine Corps Embrace Boyd?48:25 The Marine Corps’ Warfighting Doctrine50:25 Does Modern Warfare Challenge Boyd?53:18 Information as a Weapon53:53 Boyd’s Ideas Meet Drone Warfare54:55 From Nagorno-Karabakh to Ukraine 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 2026-09-18 09:00:00
There's a Mind-Boggling Number of Rich People in America (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
In 2014, the economists Owen Zidar and Eric Zwick were asked by the Treasury to conduct a study on the tax burden of private business owners. It was tricky to figure out how much these sorts of business owners — auto dealers, contractors, the like — actually owed in taxes: After Reagan's 1986 tax reforms, pass-through businesses and other accounting tricks became widespread enough to obscure this class of wealthy Americans hiding in plain sight. The research they conducted led to their new book The Everywhere Millionaire: Who Is Really Rich in America and How They Got There, and one of their central findings is that there are about three million private business owners who have an average wealth of around $25 million. They call this group “Main Street Millionaires” and their influence on the economy and politics in the US is considerable. We speak with Zidar and Zwick today about how they measured the actual number of rich people in America by sifting through reams of tax forms, why income inequality started to rise in tandem with the growing number of pass-through businesses, and how it's possible that the collective revenue of the nation's dentists far exceeds that of the NFL.
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Tech’s New Rich Are Suffering From ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’
Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco’s AI Boom
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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-17 19:33:13
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-17 17:03:09
Pentagon exposes mass US aircraft losses and base damage from Iran war (media.mp3)
A landmark Pentagon report has exposed the devastating cost of the Iran war for the US military: 59 aircraft damaged or destroyed, bases struck across the Middle East, and critical missile stockpiles depleted for up to 5 years.
On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks to former Defense and State Department insider Kori Schake, now a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. She unpicks how the report lays bare the underpreparedness of Donald Trump’s administration for Iran’s precision missile attacks on key US assets. They also discuss how the toll of the war has created a critical window of vulnerability that China could exploit in the Pacific if it wanted to seize Taiwan.
Plus, Anthropic’s new threat report reveals how Iran and the Houthis are using Claude AI to finetune weapons and target the US Navy, Trump goes behind Saudi Arabia’s back to make a secret deal with the Yemeni militants over the Red Sea, and will Pete Hegseth be impeached?
PIC CREDIT: CBS
Highlights
- Pentagon exposes mass US aircraft losses and base damage from Iran war
- Trump makes secret deal with the Houthis over the Red Sea
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Kori Schake, director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute @KoriSchake
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Houthis claim to have shot down Saudi fighter jet
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/16/houthis-claim-downing-of-saudi-fighter-jet/
Akhtar Makoii: Four ways the Houthis became a major military power
LEAD INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT ON OPERATION EPIC FURY
https://media.defense.gov/2026/Sep/09/2003993626/-1/-1/1/OEF_Q3_JUN2026_FINAL_508%20SECURE.PDF
Anthropic: Detecting and countering misuse of AI - September 2026
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-17 12:06:31
How Candidates Could Use AI for Good
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian.
There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the country. Politicos are using AI deepfakes to spread lies. The White House is posting slopaganda.
Meanwhile, candidates are missing a real opportunity to use AI to make campaigning better. The technology can help candidates listen more deeply to voters’ concerns, engage constituents more inclusively, and formulate policy platforms that are more responsive to our input. There are vanishingly few examples of this in ...
From Odd Lots at 2026-09-17 09:00:00
What Francis Fukuyama Is Seeing at 'The End of History' (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)
Francis Fukuyama's essay “The End of History?” was published in the summer of 1989, a few months before the fall of the Berlin Wall. The essay's argument — that liberal democracy would not only defeat communism, but that its partisans might, in victory, miss the “courage, imagination, and idealism” that defined the ideological battle — lives on as one of the most cited pieces of political theory in the last three decades. In his new memoir, In the Realm of the Last Man, he revisits “The End of History?” and for today's episode he talks to us about how his essay's argument has evolved in a world now defined by the intense technological change brought on by AI and by the many electoral defeats liberal democracy has suffered as of late. We also talk about how the Internet and social media are helping fuel the listlessness that “The End of History” brought about, how he uses AI, and what, if anything, will come after liberalism.
Read more:
Trump’s Midterm Plan Centers on Tax Cuts, MAHA and Himself
Iran Ready to Escalate War Trump Says Will End After US Election
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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-17 00:05:00
706. Queen Victoria’s Revenge: Storming the Citadel (Part 2) (GLT3285474568.mp3)
Who was Lieutenant Napier, the man set out to rescue the European hostages held by Emperor Tewodros II? How did he plan to attack the emperor’s fortress, Magdala? And, did they manage to successfully escape Abyssinia? Join Dominic and Tom as they conclude the story of one of the most epic expeditions in the history of the British Empire. 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 Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-16 22:08:14
Nonprofit that tracks meteors taken down by "critical blow" from a cyberattack
Group plans to be largely out of commission for several weeks.
From Strong Message Here at 2026-09-16 19:00:00
I Wasn't Even Listening (with Natalie Haynes) (p0p9wpqj.mp3)
Armando is back from a summer break to look at the use and abuse of political language.
Joined by friend of the show, Natalie Haynes, they mournfully fell the Keir Starmer Metaphor tree, and find a suitable replacement for the Andy Burnham era.
Elsewhere, they discuss the undercover operation on Reform, and the language of the fallout, 'perv glasses' and a corbyn-eqsue 'Strong Message Here' for the modern era.
Got a strong message for Armando? Email us at strongmessagehere@bbc.co.uk
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Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios production for Radio 4.
From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-16 15:43:34
Inside Iran’s spiralling economy as Yemen’s Houthis target Mecca and down Saudi jet (media.mp3)
Saudi Arabia claimed that Yemen’s Houthis tried to attack the holy city of Mecca, and the Iran-backed militia claims to have shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet over Yemen, as fighting by the Red Sea continues.
On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant speaks with Maziar Bahari, editor of IranWire, to dive into the bleak daily reality inside Iran. They discuss how regime corruption, the mounting costs of war amid a maritime blockade on oil exports, and Donald Trump’s sanctions have plunged Iran into its most severe economic crisis in recent history.
Today also marks four years since Mahsa Amini died in police custody after being arrested in Tehran for not wearing her hijab properly. Bahari reveals how the regime is now quietly backing down on core ideological mandates such as the hijab to survive.
Plus, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth faces impeachment articles over unauthorised strikes on Iran, Israel is about to get a $2.8bn arms package, and China calls on the US and Iran to restart peace talks and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Highlights
- Why the Iranian regime is relaxing its hijab enforcement laws in order to survive
- Yemen’s Houthis target Mecca and down Saudi jet
CONTRIBUTORS:
Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant
Maziar Bahari, editor of IranWire @maziarbahari
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
Iran is trying to break Trump’s stranglehold by hitting him where it hurts https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09/15/iran-is-trying-to-break-trumps-stranglehold/
US mulls diesel export ban as prices skyrocket https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/15/us-mulls-diesel-export-ban-as-prices-skyrocket/
Woman, Life, Freedom: How a Protest Movement Changed Iran https://iranwire.com/en/features/133949-woman-life-freedom-how-a-protest-movement-changed-iran/
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From The Django weblog at 2026-09-16 13:50:40
Executive Director Search Extended to September 22
We are extending the search for the Django Software Foundation's first Executive Director. Applications now close at the end of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, anywhere on Earth (AoE). As long as it is still September 22 somewhere, your application counts.
We are happy with the applications we received. We also knew several people had applications in progress, and it took a while for word about the role to reach everyone it should have. Giving people a little more time felt like the fairest option. If you were most of the way there, you have until Tuesday.
If you have already applied, this does not slow anything down for you. We are reviewing applications as they come in, and we will reach out to candidates and schedule interviews on the same timeline we planned.
The Executive Director will play a central role in helping the DSF grow its capacity and build a sustainable future for the Django project and its community. That includes leading fundraising and partnerships, supporting the Foundation's operations and programs, and working closely with the board, staff, volunteers, and the wider Django community.
We are looking for an experienced nonprofit leader who is comfortable taking on a broad role and building things as they go. Fundraising is central to this job. We need someone who is at ease sitting down with companies, making the case for Django, and connecting what the DSF does to what those organizations care about. Much of the Foundation's future depends on growing those relationships and turning them into steady support.
You don't need to be a Django or Python expert, and you don't need prior involvement in the Django community. Experience with open source or other community-driven organizations is welcome, but we are primarily looking for someone with strong fundraising instincts, plus leadership, communication, relationship-building, and organizational skills.
Could that person be you?
If you have been waiting for the right opportunity to step forward, we encourage you to review the role and submit your application.
And if you know someone who would be a strong fit, please share this with them. A great candidate may be just one introduction away.
See the full job description and application details.
If you are ready to help shape the next chapter of the Django Software Foundation, we want to hear from you. Applications close on September 22, 2026, anywhere on Earth.
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-16 12:25:26
New variant of an old scam: Use the framing of a CAPTCHA to get an unsuspecting user to download and run a malicious program.
From More or Less at 2026-09-16 09:02:00
Are bad teeth the number one reason kids go to A&E? (p0p9s3pl.mp3)
Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:
(00:33) Are crumbling teeth the number one reason children attend A&E? We drill down into the dental health of the nation’s kids.
(08:20) The US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee has claimed that a quarter of pharmaceuticals used in the UK come from Israel. We check the facts.
(13:20) Is former Education Secretary Michael Gove responsible for increasing number of young people not in education, employment or training?
(20:11) An AI researcher has caused a global firestorm by suggesting there’s more than a 10% chance AI kills all humans within the next decade. We explore the rigorous maths (or lack thereof) behind these kinds of predictions.
Guests: Dr Chris Vernazza - head of the School of Dental Sciences at Newcastle University Daisy Christodoulou - Director of Education at No More Marketing Dr Alexandru Marcoci - Assistant Professor of Global Risk and Resilience at the University of Cambridge
Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Reporter: Lizzy McNeill Producers: Nathan Gower, Phoebe Keane Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Maria Ogundele Sound Engineer: Neil Churchill
From Emperors of Rome at 2026-09-16 09:01:31
The War of the Words (Live at the Melbourne Museum) (260916-war-words.mp3)
In this special live episode recorded at the Melbourne Museum we set aside the military narrative to look at something just as fierce: the propaganda war waged between Octavian and Antony in the years before Actium. The insults traded in letters and pamphlets. The coins minted as political weapon. The will stolen from the Vestal Virgins. And the brilliant, ruthless campaign that cast a Roman civil war as a foreign invasion — with Cleopatra as the villain.
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From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-16 05:00:00
The Death and Desecration of Crassus (media.mp3)
This week we're examining an event that rocked the Roman world, to make sure that the stories we think we know are actually how events unfolded. Spoiler alert, it is never that simple!
Alexandra is talking about the aftermath of the Battle of Carrhae, when Rome's richest man met his end. But how did Crassus die? And what happened to his corpse?
For useful images, a recommended further reading list, links to primary sources, and transcript, head to the episode page on our website.
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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-15 15:30:00
Houthi blitz threatens Suez Canal as Saudi Arabia turns to UK for help (media.mp3)
Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis and Saudi Arabia have exchanged further strikes, amid signs that Tehran is ramping up the war against Riyadh to compensate for a stalemate in the Strait of Hormuz.
On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Venetia Rainey speaks with Arabist and Yemen expert Dr. Elisabeth Kendall (mistress of Girton College) to explain why the Houthis and Iraqi militias are part of a new Iranian Axis of Resistance. They also discuss how Saudi leader Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) is facing an existential crisis following devastating pipeline attacks and escalating violence, with missile alerts sounding as far as Jeddah. Following Donald Trump’s refusal to help, Saudi Arabia has called on the UK and Egypt while Iran turns to China. Who will step in?
Plus, how Iran helped the Houthis to evolve into a formidable fighting force and the US pushes back against the IRGC’s fake news about sea mines in the Strait of Hormuz.
Highlights
- Iran activates Yemen Houthi ‘ace card’ amid Strait of Hormuz stalemate
- Saudi Arabia turns to UK for help after ‘shocking’ Trump-Houthi call
CONTRIBUTORS:
Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey
Elisabeth Kendall, mistress of Girton College, University of Cambridge @Dr_E_Kendall
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
CONTENT REFERENCED:
https://understandingwar.org/research/middle-east/iran-update-september-14-2026/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/09/14/proscribing-houthis-bring-energy-bills-down-burnham/
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From The Django weblog at 2026-09-15 14:20:26
DjangoCon Europe 2027 is heading to Innsbruck, Austria! 🏔️⛷️🚠🇦🇹
We’re delighted to announce that DjangoCon Europe 2027 will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, from February 17–21, 2027!
Photo by Nicole Baster on Unsplash
Each year, DjangoCon Europe brings together people from across the Django community to learn, share ideas, contribute, and spend time together. In 2027, that community will come together in Innsbruck for five days of Django, Python, and community.
DjangoCon Europe is organized by community volunteers and has long been one of the highlights of the Django community calendar. Developers, contributors, newcomers, and long-time community members from around the world come together to exchange knowledge, make new connections, and help shape the future of Django.
Save the dates
📅 February 17–21, 2027
📍 Innsbruck, Austria
And there’s even more good news: the Call for Proposals is open, and tickets are now on sale!
Submit a proposal
Have something you’d like to share with the Django community? The Call for Proposals is open.
Whether you have a deep technical topic, a lesson you’ve learned from building with Django, an idea that could benefit the community, or something completely unexpected, we’d love to hear from you.
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Come spend five days learning, sharing, meeting fellow Djangonauts, and enjoying everything the Django community has to offer.
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If you’d like to help us make DjangoCon Europe 2027 a great experience for everyone, sign up to volunteer. Whether you’re a long-time member of the community or attending your first DjangoCon, we’d love to have you involved.
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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-15 12:01:41
25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough
This essay was written with Cindy Cohn, and originally appeared in Lawfare.
One of the many legacies of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 is the government-wide shift from targeted surveillance—such as individual wiretaps or pen register/trap and trace orders—to mass surveillance techniques—such as tapping into the internet backbone or mass collection of telephone or internet metadata. The legal and technical architecture of modern mass surveillance, initially framed as a necessary defense against terrorist threats, has grown far beyond that justification and national security in general. Mass surveillance is now a routine tool used by law enforcement. ICE uses it in...
From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-15 11:16:24
On the NSA’s Supercomputer from the 1960s
Really interesting story about Harvest, a specialized code breaking computer built in the 1960s by IBM for the NSA.
From School of War at 2026-09-15 10:00:00
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
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
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
WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk
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…...