CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years
https://www.ft.com/content/d8da9877-a5d0-4ac2-87cd-236ff33d7269
https://www.ft.com/content/d8da9877-a5d0-4ac2-87cd-236ff33d7269
Ft
CEO pay at top US companies accelerates at fastest pace in 4 years
Median package for S&P 500 bosses was $19mn in 2024, pay advisory calculates
Warp sends a terminal session to LLM without user consent
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953470
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44953470
Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC's Tech Scene Is Not
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-executives-new-york-zohran-mamdani/
https://www.wired.com/story/tech-executives-new-york-zohran-mamdani/
WIRED
Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not
New York City tech leaders aren’t rattled by the prospect of a Mayor Mamdani. In fact, many of them welcome it.
Show HN: OpenAI/reflect – Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life
https://github.com/openai/openai-reflect
https://github.com/openai/openai-reflect
GitHub
GitHub - openai/openai-reflect: Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life
Physical AI Assistant that illuminates your life. Contribute to openai/openai-reflect development by creating an account on GitHub.
Tiny Microbe Challenges the Definition of Cellular Life
https://nautil.us/a-rogue-new-life-form-1232095/
https://nautil.us/a-rogue-new-life-form-1232095/
Nautilus
A Rogue New Life Form
A tiny microbe discovered by accident challenges the definition of cellular life
Copilot broke your audit log, but Microsoft won't tell you
https://pistachioapp.com/blog/copilot-broke-your-audit-log
https://pistachioapp.com/blog/copilot-broke-your-audit-log
Pistachio
Copilot Broke Your Audit Log, but Microsoft Won’t Tell You
Avi Loeb: Is 3I/Atlas Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i-atlas-our-turing-test-by-a-superior-alien-intelligence-32bfd838a9f2
https://avi-loeb.medium.com/is-3i-atlas-our-turing-test-by-a-superior-alien-intelligence-32bfd838a9f2
Medium
Is 3I/ATLAS Our Turing Test by a Superior Alien Intelligence?
In 1949, Alan Turing came up with the imitation game, a test of a machine’s ability to show artificial intelligence equivalent to that of a…
We’re Not So Special: A new book challenges human exceptionalism
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/were-not-so-special/
https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/78/were-not-so-special/
Democracy Journal
We're Not So Special
A new book boldly challenges the concept of human exceptionalism.
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-troubling-lines-that-columbia-is-drawing
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-troubling-lines-that-columbia-is-drawing
The New Yorker
The Troubling Lines That Columbia Is Drawing
By adopting an overly broad and controversial definition of antisemitism, the university is putting both academic freedom and its Jewish students at risk.
China blocked all HTTPS connection abroad for 1 hour in midnight
https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditional_rst_20250820/en/
https://gfw.report/blog/gfw_unconditional_rst_20250820/en/
GFW Report
Analysis of the GFW's Unconditional Port 443 Block on August 20, 2025
The Great Firewall of China (GFW) conducted a large-scale, unconditional block targeting TCP port 443 on August 20, 2025. This report documents the measurements and analysis we conducted of that event.
Ask HN: Why does the US Visa application website do a port-scan of my network?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959073
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44959073