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Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI’s public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI’s own login system. This was security research, not a real-world attack: the team reported the flaws to OpenAI, proved the access with a harmless pull request, and then stopped. From the first look, that internal access took under 72 hours. OpenAI confirmed a…

In brief A Swedish national wanted under an Interpol Red Notice was arrested in the UAE, with six others detained in Sweden. The network handled about 70 million Swedish krona ($7.1 million) over 10 months. Crypto was used to move and conceal the funds, and tracing it led investigators to other crimes. Police in the United Arab Emirates and Sweden have arrested seven people over an international money laundering network, and say following its cryptocurrency transactions led them to organized crime and contract killings.The alleged leader, a Swedish national who had fled the country and was wanted under an Interpol…

GLP-1 medications such as Ozempic have reshaped treatment for Type 2 diabetes. These drugs can help patients manage blood sugar, lower cardiovascular risk, and, in many cases, lose a substantial amount of weight. But researchers are still trying to determine whether those physical health improvements also extend into other parts of life, such as mental health, relationships, and employment. A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper from University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy economist Robert Kaestner and coauthor Cuiping Schiman examined that question. Among adults with diabetes, the researchers found little evidence that using GLP-1 medications…

Jaques and Paulina Sebastiao were the first residents on their street to rebuild their two-bedroom house two years after Hurricane Michael’s 155 mile-per-hour winds leveled almost every building in Mexico Beach in 2018. Few of their old neighbors in the Panhandle fishing village followed their lead. Some didn’t have insurance, and others battled their insurance companies over claims. Some neighbors just didn’t want to go through the lengthy and expensive headaches involved with building a new house from the ground up under stricter building codes, especially when many of them were in their early 60s.“I think age had a lot…

Reading Time: 14 minutes Editor’s note: This story was produced with financial support from the Education Writers Association’s Reporting Fellowship program. Click here to read highlights from the story Wisconsin’s 2024 Wisconsin Guarantee law automatically admits students in the top 5% of their high school class to UW-Madison and top 10% to other UW campuses if they apply by the required deadlines. Early evidence suggests the program has had little effect on who applies to or enrolls at UW-Madison, despite reducing admissions anxiety for some students. An unpublished UW-Madison study estimates 95% of students admitted through the Wisconsin Guarantee would…

The ideas that Neets (young people not in education, employment or training) simply aren’t trying hard enough to find a job, or don’t want one, are “myths,” Alan Milburn wrote in his interim report on the subject earlier this year – “sometimes cruel ones”. Although 84% of Neets say they want to work, their prospects are unfairly limited by where they live. Rotherham has one suitable vacancy for every 22 young adults. The Cotswolds has one for every four. For too many young people, particularly those in deprived parts of Britain, there simply aren’t enough jobs.This is the finding from…

US President Donald Trump said Friday that his eldest son had reimbursed a Kremlin-linked Russian businessman who paid for two days of wedding celebrations in the Bahamas in May. Donald Trump Jr. and Bettina Trump confirmed on Monday that their “dear friend” Umar Kremlev “very generously hosted two incredible nights”. The lavish gift sparked questions about ethics and foreign influence. “It’s totally allowed but as I understand it, he paid him back,” Trump said when an AFP reporter asked him in the Oval Office if it had been appropriate for his son to accept the gift. “I guess a friend…

Michael Marra has been elected as the new leader of the Scottish Labour party, winning almost two-thirds of the vote to lead the party in Holyrood.The MSP for North East Scotland is Scottish Labour’s 11th leader, replacing Anas Sarwar after his shock decision to resign in July to join Andy Burnham’s new government as a trade minister.In his acceptance speech, Marra said he would spend time reconnecting with Scottish voters. “May hurt so much because we know the SNP didn’t deserve a fifth term in power. But the truth is Scotland didn’t think we would be much better.“Scots know what…

The FCC has announced it’s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company.During Brendan Carr’s tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC, tried to block stations from airing interviews with Democrats, censored late-night TV hosts, and tried to bully journalists. However, it seems to have no qualms with repressive foreign governments owning a significant stake in a giant American media conglomerate.In its ruling, the FCC defended the decision,…

Meta has released Muse for Mac, the first version of Muse that can complete things on a user’s computer. The agent works with local files and native apps, where your data already lives. It adds a desktop layer to an agent that launched on phones, the web and WhatsApp earlier this month. Is it deployable? Yes, for end users. It is a free macOS download today, only available in the US for now. It is a hosted consumer agent, not an open model you can self-host. Mark Zuckerberg announced the Mac app on X, noting that it works across apps,…