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Říká se, že rozvoji osobnosti prospívá především literatura faktu. Podle badatelů kanadské York University je ale pravidelné čtení beletrie spojené s lepšími verbálními a jazykovými schopnostmi než čtení literatury faktu. Beletrie taky funguje jako sociální tréninková data pro lidskou inteligenci a možná i prodlužuje život. Co jste četli naposledy?

Extravagantní elektromobil VENTRA, který vyvinuli studenti v týmu TU/ecomotive nizozemské Eindhoven University of Technology, umí zneškodnit část svých emisí prachu. Cílem týmu bylo povzbudit konzervativní automobilový průmysl, aby se při řešení emisí díval dál než jen na špičku výfuku.

Nejdříve v roce 2028 poletí k Měsíci modul Elytra společnosti Firefly, který poveze lunární lander Blue Ghost a také výpočetní systém s procesorem SC-1L společnosti Starcloud. Cílem mise je ověřit základní technologie pro lunární datová centra, a také pokročilé AI výpočty s daty palubního kamerového systému Solux.

Vyšla druhá beta verze Plasmy 6.8, GNOME vylepšuje Kalendář, grafiky Battlemage poběží s jádrem Linux 7.4 efektivněji, vyšla vývojová verze Wine 11.19, Coreboot 26.09 přidává podporo Framework Laptop 12 a vlastní AI politiku.

A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. [...]

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The second Anthropic-linked vulnerability known to have been exploited in the wild saw initial activity from an IP address in China targeting vulnerable hosts in the US and Japan. The vuln is a critical authentication-bypass bug in Rejetto HTTP File Server (HFS) that can lead to full admin access and remote code execution. HFS is an open source web file server that previously appeared on the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s catalog of Known Exploited Vulnerabilities in 2024. On Wednesday, researcher Zach Hanley at AI pen-testing company Horizon3 said he used Mythos to uncover a new flaw in the file server, now tracked as CVE-2026-61500. If you use Rejetto HFS, be sure to update to v3.2.1 or later, which fixes this and other security flaws. Hanley also published a video showing the steps to exploit HFS and remotely execute code on the server. By the next day, the CVE was under exploitation. “We started detecting exploitation of CVE-2026-61500 in Rejetto HFS this evening,” VulnCheck security researcher Patrick Garrity posted on LinkedIn on Thursday, adding that Hanley and team reported the bug to VulnCheck for CVE assignment. “Our canaries detected an actor in China targeting real vulnerable hosts in the US,” Garrity added. Garrity has been tracking CVEs attributed to Mythos and Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s initiative to give select partners access to the bug-hunting model, since shortly after the program was announced in April. Anthropic claims that Mythos is too powerful to release to the general public (insert evil laugh). As of Friday, Mythos and Project Glasswing have uncovered 286 CVEs, according to Garrity’s tracker, and up until Thursday only one of these bugs had been exploited in real-world attacks. The Thursday night activity originated from one IP address in China and targeted vulnerable servers in the US and Japan, Garrity told The Register. “Today we have seen four hits,” he told us on Friday. These originated from two different IP addresses in the US: 173.239.211[.]248 and 173.239.211[.]249. Both are in the same subnet, and “appear to be coming from a proxy,” Garrity added. China-linked digital intruders routinely use compromised devices as proxies to route malicious traffic and disguise the attackers’ true location, and in April a 10-country security advisory warned of China-nexus cyber operatives using proxy networks “strategically, and at scale.” In his write-up, Hanley said Horizon3 has used Mythos in its vulnerability research – and discovered “many critical vulnerabilities” – ever since the security company joined Project Glasswing in July. Mythos' mad math skillz CVE-2026-61500 highlights a couple of Mythos capabilities that make it really good at uncovering vulnerabilities, according to Hanley. Namely, Mythos excels at mathematical distillations and scientific tasks, especially those relating to computer science and operating systems. Finding this CVE “speaks to Mythos’s capabilities in understanding of mathematics, how it identified an exploitable set of cryptographic missteps, and approached solving the constraints to achieve remote code execution,” Hanley wrote. The security issue stems from how HFS authenticates users. It generates a random value with Math.random() and then passes this value to Koa, the Node.js web framework foundation for HFS. Koa uses keygrip to sign all session cookies with that random value. This means that if an “attacker can derive what the session signing key is, they can forge valid session cookies,” Hanley said. This should not be possible, assuming Math.random() uses a secure pseudo random number generator (PRNG). But V8’s Math.random() did not use a secure PRNG. Mythos discovered that the output of the xorshift128+ algorithm it used was fully reversible – and the application was leaking Math.random() outputs. The model’s analysis claimed that Z3, a Microsoft-developed, publicly available Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solver, could be used to recover the PRNG seed. Hanley notes that Horizon3’s researchers could not recall seeing an SMT solver used this way to attack a cryptographic flaw in a real application and bypass authentication. “What makes this impressive is that Mythos didn’t just flag the insecure PRNG in isolation – it simultaneously identified that the application leaked raw Math.random() outputs through a separate code path, recognized those two facts as a chain, and determined the leak produced exactly the observations needed to make state recovery feasible,” he wrote.®

The U.K.'s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing's state security service. In a "Security Service Espionage Alert" issued on September 30, 2026, MI5 said the "primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) 中国通用技术研究院 is to fund research that Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, has hit critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. "In the Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed its identity and access management system and downloaded a large amount of data. [...]

Robotics

Boston Dynamics’ Atlas Is Done Doing Backflips and Is Finally Ready to Clock InRachit Agarwal | Digital Trends

“Hyundai Motor Group is building a new US factory with the capacity to churn out 30,000 robots every year, and it plans to put 25,000 Atlas units to work. According to Boston Dynamics, the partnership has already brought costs down by 60 to 80 percent between the prototype and the first production run.”

Tech

Will America Spend 9% of Its GDP on AI? The Industry Is Counting on ItGreg Ip | The Wall Street Journal ($)

“Is it plausible that Americans will spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food? Roughly twice what the nation pays for all forms of energy or all computers and software? Seven times what consumers spend on phone, streaming, and internet services combined? You should be skeptical. …Whether or not you think 9% of GDP is right, you have to care, because this figure isn’t some fever dream: it is implicit in the dollars that investors and companies are committing right now.”

Artificial Intelligence

AI Makes Its First Meaningful Breakthrough in Theoretical PhysicsEthan Siegel | Big Think

“In quantum physics, we visualize reality as arising from summing the contributions of all possible quantum interactions together. But calculating rarer, more complicated, ‘higher-loop’ interactions stretches the limits of what humans can do, even with the aid of computational resources. In a first, an AI model just surpassed the limit of what humans have ever done: calculating an amplitude in quantum field theory to nine-loop order.”

Biotechnology

Something Strange Happens When an Old Heart Is Transplanted Into a Young BodyMatthew Phelan | Gizmodo

“Harvard medical researchers have discovered that donor hearts decades older or younger than their recipients start to look and act more like the new body they call home. …’The remarkable thing is that we found exactly the same effects that we saw in the mice,’ Poganik told the journal Nature. ‘Some, but not all, functional measures tracked the prediction that these older hearts in younger individuals functioned as if they were biologically younger, and vice versa.'”

Artificial Intelligence

Don’t Be Fooled—LLMs Don’t ReasonThore Graepel | MIT Technology Review ($)

“Ten years after AlphaGo’s match against Go champion Lee Sedol, today’s AI still isn’t tapping into the machinery that made that win possible. …We will get such insights only from systems that reason—systems whose conclusions arise from an auditable sequence of evidence, inference, and belief revision rather than from a convincing story told after the fact.”

Future

Tech to Replace Animal Testing Is Almost Ready. Scientists Are NotBrandon Keim | IEEE Spectrum

“The moment spoke to a trend, perhaps even the early days of a fundamental shift, away from the use of animals in toxicology and drug development. ‘It’s rare still,’ says Maschmeyer, ‘but I think it’s going to be more and more frequent.’ …As NAMs [non-animal methods] have become more sophisticated, the question of how they will be implemented has become less about their technical qualities and more about the practical next steps needed to realize their potential.”

Tech

OpenAI Has Gone RogueMatteo Wong | The Atlantic ($)

“Over the past couple of months, a trickle of reports about AI models breaking out of their test environments and running amok on the internet have caused alarm inside Silicon Valley. In response to two such breaches described in early August, an AI observer noted, ‘If you find two ants in your kitchen, the best estimate of the total number of ants in your kitchen is not two.’ This weekend, it became clear there is a full-blown infestation.”

Future

A Biotech Founder Makes the Moral Case for Gene-Editing Human EmbryosKristen V. Brown | Wired ($)

“When the Chinese scientist He Jiankui announced in 2018 that he had created the first gene-edited babies, the experiment was widely condemned as reckless and premature. It ended with He in prison. But that hasn’t stopped the push for gene-edited human embryos, with biotech entrepreneur Cathy Tie arguing that doing so isn’t just urgent—it’s a ‘moral imperative.'”

Future

How to Know When the AI Boom Is About to Go BustJonathan Weil | The Wall Street Journal ($)

“The list of things that could go wrong is long. …Yet new capital continues to pour into the AI trade and, as obvious as this point might be, that is where its biggest vulnerability lies. Booms need continuous flows of fresh capital to perpetuate themselves. History shows they can start turning into busts the moment the window to raise new capital closes.”

Artificial Intelligence

When Can We Say AI Made a Scientific Discovery?James O’Donnell | MIT Technology Review ($)

“AI companies, he said, should ‘set the bar high now, so that when an AI actually discovers a fundamentally new biological mechanism, everyone appreciates how big a deal it is.’ But as OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Anthropic’s Dario Amodei race to one-up each other, raising the bar for scientific breakthroughs by AI might be the last thing on their minds.”

Tech

OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face HackLily Hay Newman | Wired ($)

“The suit, which comes amid ongoing disclosures across the industry of agents going rogue, claims that OpenAI should be held responsible for the activity given a California AI law in effect since January 1 that says ‘it shall not be a defense … that the artificial intelligence autonomously caused the harm to the plaintiff.'”

Space

SpaceX’s Starship Goes Orbital, Deploying First Next-Gen StarlinksStephen Clark | Ars Technica

“Next on SpaceX’s to-do list will likely be an attempt to bring Starship back to Starbase for a catch by the launch pad’s giant mechanical arms, repeating a feat engineers have already accomplished with the Super Heavy booster. …Eventually, SpaceX aims to make these landings routine enough to enable full and rapid reuse of Super Heavy and Starship.”

Tech

OpenAI Keeps Bulldozing MathematiciansRobert Hart | The Verge

“In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.”

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Alibaba zveřejnila nový obrazový model Qwen-Image-2.1. Vizuální část má přibližně sedm miliard parametrů, obrázky vytváří nativně ve 2K a při úpravách dokáže pracovat až s deseti předlohami. Nejdůležitější novinkou ale není další přírůstek v rozlišení nebo žebříčku kvality. Model umí generovat a ...

V sobotu 4. října probíhá v Praze první den letošní konference LinuxDays. Podívejte se, jak vypadá akce, na které můžete navštívit přednášky, workshopy, stánky a potkat řadu nadšených chytrých lidí.

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