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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.

[…]

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

WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk

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.

Read more:
Jon Voight Spent Months Courting Trump on Tax Help for Hollywood
Paramount to Settle Lawsuits, Paving Way for Warner Bros.

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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

WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk

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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Nominated Podcast of the Year - Society of Editors News Podcasts Awards 2026

Nominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs - British Podcast Awards 2026

The Telegraph, Winner Podcast Publisher of the Year 2026 - Publisher Podcast Awards 2026

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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.

Show Links:

• Lead Inspector General Report on Operation Epic Fury, DOD Office of Inspector General, September 14, 2026.

• Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations in Iran, Congressional Budget Office, September 15, 2026.

• 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.

• Ellen Milligan, Michael Neinaber, and Andrea Palasciano, US Warns Allies of Missile Delivery Delays Due to Shortage, Bloomberg, September 18, 2026.

• Eric Schmitt, Cost of Iran War Estimated at $43.6 Billion, New York Times, September 18, 2026.

• Robert Klemko, X post, September 17, 2026.

• James Paterson, Speech to the Submarine Institute of Australia, September 22, 2026.

• 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.

• Jack Goldsmith, Glenn Fine, Jen Patja, What Does the Inspector General Do?, Lawfare podcast, December 10, 2024.

• 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,  

• September 22, 2026.

• Richard Gowan, "Shrink the UN: The Next Secretary-General Must Get Back to Basics," Foreign Affairs, September 21, 2026.

• 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.

• "The Second Trump-Xi Summit: Takeaways from the US, China, and Russia," Online Event, Stimson Center, September 28, 2026.

• The Sandra Day O'Connor–Washington Union Debate Series at George Washington University, October 3, 2026.

• Tom Karako, "Sing Missile Muse: America's Most Fearsome Weapons Need Better Names,"  War on the Rocks, June 7, 2021.

• Josh Hawley, "Why I wont Vote to Add Finland and Sweden to NATO," The National Interest, August 1, 2022.

• Tom Cotton, "Speech on the Senate Floor", August 3, 2022.

• Tom Karako and Mark Cancian, "Munitions Shortages after Epic Fury," CSIS, August 5, 2026.

• Amy B. Wang and Alexei Koseff, "Jon Kyl, a former top Republican in the Senate, dies at 84," Washington Post.

• Chris Lunday, Germany Plans a €12 Billion Missile Program to Deter Putin, Politico Europe, August 21, 2026.

•  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.

Read more:
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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Produced by Gwyn Rhys Davies. A BBC Studios production for Radio 4.

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!

Joining Alexandra is Ben Paites from Colchester Museums, Kate Sumnall from London Museum, and archaeologist Lexi Diggins.

For a map, images, further reading recommendations, primary sources and a transcript, head to our dedicated episode webpage.

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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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/19/riyadh-sounds-first-air-raid-alerts-since-houthi-escalation/

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/18/satellite-images-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.

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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.

Blog moderation policy.

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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/17/pentagon-exposes-mass-us-aircraft-losses-and-base-damage-fr/

CSIS: China Upgrades Its Military Base in Djibouti

https://features.csis.org/hiddenreach/china-djibouti-base-upgrade/

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Audio Producer: David Dargahi 

Video Producer: Max Bower

Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh

Studio Operator: Andy Watson

Executive Producer: Venetia Rainey 

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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-18 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.

Read more:
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

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/17/four-ways-houthis-major-military-power-yemen-iran-weapons/

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

https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-countering-091026.pdf

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Nominated Best News, Politics and Current Affairs - British Podcast Awards 2026

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Video Producer: Max Bower

Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh

Studio Operator: Andy Watson

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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

Sound editing: Chris Maclean Production Coordinator: Asha Osborne-Grinter Executive Producer: Pete Strauss Recorded at the Sound Company

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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Video Producer: Max Bower

Researcher and Social Producer: Anna Hindmarsh

Studio Operator: Andy Watson

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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

Fake CAPTCHA Scams

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

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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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Tickets for DjangoCon Europe 2027 are now on sale.

Come spend five days learning, sharing, meeting fellow Djangonauts, and enjoying everything the Django community has to offer.

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DjangoCon Europe is a community-run conference, and volunteers play an important part in making it happen.

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

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:

• I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 5 PM ET.
• I’m speaking at CanSecWest 2026 in Vancouver, Canada. The conference runs September 30–October 1, 2026; the time of my talk is TBD.
• I’m giving a talk on “Free Speech and the Preservation of Democracy” at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, USA, at 2 PM ET on Tuesday, October 6, 2026.
• I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21...

From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-14 17:07:46

Using AI for Weapons Development

Last week, Anthropic released a long and detailed document describing current misuses of their Claude models. I’m still reading it, but I wanted to flag this:

We identified a cell of threat actors based in northern Yemen running three weapons development programs: a guided rocket that used a commodity phone-class flight computer with final-phase homing guidance; a multi-stage ballistic missile with a stated range goal above 2,000 km; and a multi-variant missile (referred to as the “R2000” set) that included a hypersonic glide vehicle variant...

From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-14 16:35:24

Strikes close key Saudi oil pipeline after Houthis ask Trump not to bomb them (media.mp3)

A strike from militants in Iraq has knocked out Saudi Arabia’s vital East-West oil pipeline, as Donald Trump reveals Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels called him asking the US not to get militarily involved. 

On today’s episode of Iran: The Latest, Roland Oliphant talks to chief foreign affairs commentator David Blair to break down how Saudi Arabia has been left in a tricky place amid a lack of allies to help it deal with the lightning Houthi offensive to seize control of the Red Sea. As oil prices continue to rise and Houthis bomb a Saudi air base, the latest news suggests the war is escalating across the Middle East with unintended consequences. 

Plus, a deadly IRGC gun battle with Baluchi militants, a rogue Iranian hardline faction reportedly launched strikes on ships in the Strait of Hormuz to sabotage summer peace talks, and a US Air Force pilot describes how he was downed behind enemy lines back in April.

Highlights

• Iraq-based strikes close key Saudi East-West oil pipeline
• Trump says Houthis ‘asked US not to bomb them’

CONTRIBUTORS:

Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant

David Blair, chief foreign affairs commentator @davidblairdt

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

IRGC soldiers gunned down in street clashes in Iran

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/14/irgc-soldiers-gunned-down-in-street-clashes-in-iran/

Houthis give Trump yet another Middle East headache

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/12/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

Microsoft’s Patching

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

v6.5.1

<p>To install this version with npm, run <code>npm install govuk-frontend@6.5.1</code>. You can also find more information about <a href="https://frontend.design-system.service.gov.uk/staying-up-to-date/#updating-to-the-latest-version" rel="nofollow">how to stay up to date</a> in our documentation.</p> <h2>Fixes</h2> <p>We've made fixes to GOV.UK Frontend in the following pull requests:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-frontend/pull/7375">#7375: Fix Service navigation example with right aligned Language navigation</a> – thanks to <a class="user-mention notranslate" href="https://github.com/peteryates">@peteryates</a> for reporting this issue</li> </ul>

From Odd Lots at 2026-09-14 09:00:00

OpenAI President Greg Brockman on Doing Business in the Wake of Hugging Face (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)

According to OpenAI President Greg Brockman, the models that escaped their sandbox and hacked into Hugging Face's servers had yet to go through alignment training. That they were able to break free of the testing environment was not a surprise to OpenAI, but what has happened since has forced them to rethink some things. Today, we talk to Brockman about what OpenAI has learned since the hacking incident and we discuss why he thinks the conversation around model development has to change. We also talk about how OpenAI collaborates and communicates with competitors like Anthropic, how he thinks models should be evaluating what counts as “good writing,” and, of course, we get his thoughts on how seriously we should be worried about the AI doomsday scenarios.

Read more:
OpenAI Is Open to Slowing Cutting-Edge AI, CEO Sam Altman Tells Staff
Tech’s New Rich Are Suffering From ‘Sudden Wealth Syndrome’

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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-14 00:05:00

705. Queen Victoria’s Revenge: The Mad Emperor of Abyssinia (Part 1) (GLT8608697296.mp3)

Who was Emperor Tewodros II, the colourful and controversial Emperor of Abyssinia? Why did he brutally imprison a number of British emissaries, and how did Queen Victoria respond? And, how would this spark one of the most ambitious expeditions undertaken by the British Empire…? Join Dominic and Tom as they launch into one of the most extraordinary military expeditions in all world history.   Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to every series and live show tickets, a members-only newsletter, discounted books from the show, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at the⁠⁠restishistory.com⁠⁠. To read our new newsletter, sign up at: ⁠⁠therestishistory.com/newsletters⁠⁠ _______ Advertise with us: ⁠Partnerships@goalhanger.com⁠ _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton  Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude  Senior Producer: Callum Hill   Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-13 08:00:00

US fears Iran war could drag into 2029. Trump insists it’s ‘worth it’ (media.mp3)

Donald Trump has admitted the US-Iran war will last beyond the November midterm elections - some think it will last well into 2029 - with Republicans now facing the possibility of losing the House and the Senate as oil prices surge towards $110/barrel.

On today’s bonus episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey chats to Washington correspondents Connor Stringer and Benedict Smith about Trump’s spectacular gamble to convince Republicans the Iran war is not a big deal at the Republican Midterms Convention.

From threatening strikes on Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain nuclear site to offering voters an unprecedented $5,000 cash dividend if they vote Republican, his speech was “vintage Trump”. 

Plus, is Iran interfering in the US midterms to boost the Democrats?

Highlights

• Trump insists economic pain ‘worth it’ to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapon
• Inside the colourful Republican Midterms Convention

CONTRIBUTORS:

Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey

Connor Stringer, chief Washington correspondent @connorstringer

Benedict Smith, Washington correspondent @bsmithjourno

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

The answer to Trump’s midterm woes? Make the campaign all about him

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/10/trump-republican-midterms-convention-address-analysis/

‘Common sense’ Democrat praises Trump at Republican midterm convention

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/10/democrat-john-fetterman-praises-trump-republican-convention/

Trump: I’ll give $5,000 to every American if we win midterms

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/10/trump-convention-speech-promise-5000-dollars-midterms-win/

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

12/09/2026 (p0p96tvk.mp3)

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

My Talk at DEF CON

Last month, I gave a talk at DEF CON on AI hacking: what happens when AIs become hackers. It’s a combination of the potentialities I raised in my 2022 book A Hacker’s Mind and the lessons we’re learning from current AI models engaging in hacking behavior. I’m really proud of the talk, and the fact that it gained over 100K views on YouTube in just a few days.

Also online is an interview with me in the AI Village.

From The Incomparable Mothership at 2026-09-11 17:00:00

834: Dial-a-CIA-computer (933b7475-3970-4e6c-bcfe-3d2753b8ccc3.mp3)

The Summer of Sundance continues with the paranoid thriller, “Three Days of the Condor.” A devastatingly handsome nerd goes out to buy sandwiches for the office, and the next thing he knows he’s on the run and kidnapping Faye Dunaway…...

From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-11 16:54:13

Trump’s Houthi Red Sea crisis, Pentagon chaos and 9/11’s legacy: Gen Ben Hodges on the US-Iran war (media.mp3)

“The inability or unwillingness of the Trump administration to connect the dots on what is going on, from the Persian Gulf to the Red Sea, is a reflection of the lack of really good deep strategic thinking.”

On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Venetia Rainey is joined once again by former Commanding General of US Army Europe, Gen Ben Hodges, to discuss the US-Iran war as it nears the 200-day mark.

The Iran-backed Houthis have seized Yemen’s entire Red Sea coastline including the strategic Perim Island, giving them control of the vital Bab al-Mandeb Strait. And despite pleas from Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) to intervene as oil prices surge toward $110/barrel, Donald Trump has refused to launch strikes, offering up intelligence assistance instead.

Gen Hodges analyses the strategic drift that has marked the war, the Pentagon and US policy in the Middle East. 

Plus, why mass lie-detector tests and personnel purges signal China-style paranoia inside the Pentagon, what news of damage to US fighter jets in Jordan says about US military preparedness, and the hard lessons from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars 25 years on from the 9/11 attacks.

Highlights

• Trump refuses Saudi plea for strikes as Houthis seize Red Sea
• US Gen Ben Hodges on the US-Iran war, Pentagon chaos and 9/11

CONTRIBUTORS:

Venetia Rainey, co-host and executive producer @venetiarainey

Gen Ben Hodges, former Commanding General US Army Europe @general_ben

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Trump refuses MBS pleas to stop Houthis’ rapid advance

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/09/11/trump-refuses-mbs-pleas-to-stop-houthis-rapid-advance/

Rubio and Vance ‘think Iran war could last beyond the end of Trump’s term’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/10/white-house-iran-war-trump-term/

Pentagon forces staff to take lie detector tests over Iran war leaks

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/05/pentagon-lie-detection-polygraph-tests-military-iran-leaks/

RUSI UK Security in a Post Aid World: https://www.rusi.org/explore-our-research/projects/uk-security-post-aid-world

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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-11 12:30:58

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

Simplicity—combined with the difficulty of getting stuff done—makes ClickFix ideal.

From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-11 12:09:55

Cliff Stoll’s DEF CON Talk

In August, Cliff Stoll gave a talk at DEF CON, remembering the wily hacker he stalked forty years ago.

Great fun.

From School of War at 2026-09-11 10:00:00

“We Are Going to War”: McMaster Remembers 9/11, 25 Years On (CBS6182609120.mp3)

Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster was on the phone with the Pentagon when the plane struck the building on September 11, 2001. “I thought, Okay, we are going to war,” he recalls. Twenty-five years after 9/11, McMaster joins Aaron MacLean to discuss the wars that followed. Drawing on his experience as a wartime commander and national security adviser, McMaster explains why he considers Afghanistan a self-defeat, how American withdrawal helped enable the rise of ISIS in Iraq, and why he thinks the latest Iran ceasefire was “a big mistake.” 4:39 McMaster on 9/11 7:27 Adapting to Iraq 12:33 Lessons From Iraq 15:13 Counterinsurgency’s Legacy 21:19 The Post-9/11 Wars 23:23 Afghanistan’s “Self-Defeat” 25:07 When America Leaves 29:53 Sustaining Afghanistan 32:14 Defending the Afghan Mission 35:37 The Axis of Aggressors 44:41 Trump’s Messaging About the War 49:07 Politics in the Military This episode of School of War is brought to you by Maven Smart System, the builder platform for the American warfighter, fielded across the force and live on the frontline today. Learn more at palantir.com. This episode of School of War is also brought to you by Stratolaunch, a leading pure-play hypersonics company. Stratolaunch helps the U.S. and its allies move new hypersonic technologies from concept to capability, faster and cheaper. Learn more about how Stratolaunch is accelerating the future of hypersonics at Stratolaunch.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From Odd Lots at 2026-09-11 09:00:00

Why Bridgewater's CIO Says AI's Human Extinction Risk Is Real (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)

Greg Jensen was one of the earliest backers of both OpenAI and Anthropic, and at Bridgewater Associates, where he is the managing chief investment officer, he leads the hedge fund’s AI strategy. As an early adopter of the technology, he has a lot of thoughts on where things stand right now in terms of model capability and safety, as well as the broader economic impacts of AI. Just recently, he published an op-ed in the New York Times that proposes a “token tax,” to help mitigate the job losses that AI might cause. (Bridgewater predicts as much as 18% of US jobs might be displaced in five years.) We last spoke with Jensen in 2023, and so much of what we discussed then (like AI hallucinations) seems quaint now that models have come so far — capable of lying, cheating, and much worse. On this episode, Jensen tells us how Bridgewater is currently using AI, why there needs to be a stronger AI regulatory state, and why it feels like the AI discourse is starting to resemble the months before Covid-19 took over the world in 2020.

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From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-10 15:50:09

Iran’s Houthis seize key Red Sea port as $100 oil threatens global economy (media.mp3)

The Iran-backed Houthis have seized the strategic Red Sea port city of al-Mokha - apparently at the direction of the IRGC - as fighting in Yemen and Saudi Arabia escalates.  

On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Sophia Yan speaks to Jerusalem correspondent Henry Bodkin about the pressure the war is putting on the Bab al-Mandeb and Strait of Hormuz as oil prices pass the $100/barrel threshold for a second day. US President Donald Trump is clearly feeling the pressure, claiming the war will end following November’s midterm elections, and promising $5,000 cash payouts if Republicans retain Congress.

Plus, news that Iranian missile strikes damaged multiple US F-15 fighter jets in Jordan, Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu denies being warned about Hamas’s October 7 attack by the UAE, and MSF’S Charlene Silvin shares her first-hand experiences of wartime destruction in south Lebanon. 

Highlights

• Iran’s Houthis seize key Red Sea port as $100 oil threatens global economy
• MSF’S Charlene Silvin on wartime destruction in south Lebanon

CONTRIBUTORS:

Sophia Yan, senior foreign correspondent, @sophia_yan

Henry Bodkin, Jerusalem correspondent @HenryBodkin

Charlene Silvin, MSF Project Coordinator in Lebanon

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CONTENT REFERENCED:

Trump: I’ll give $5,000 to every American if we win midterms

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2026/09/10/trump-convention-speech-promise-5000-dollars-midterms-win/

Revealed: Netanyahu Received an Explicit Warning Days Before Oct. 7. He Didn't Brief Israel's Security Chiefs

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-security/2026-09-08/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/netanyahu-got-an-explicit-warning-before-oct-7-he-didnt-brief-security-chiefs/000001a0-7a3b-d7d5-a9fc-7eff3d0f0000

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From The Django weblog at 2026-09-10 12:00:00

PyCharm & Django Fundraiser Extended to September 14

The second half of our annual JetBrains fundraiser has been extended through September 14, 2026. Thank you to JetBrains for the extra time. You still have time to renew your PyCharm license or give it a try. You get PyCharm at 30% off, and JetBrains donates 100% of your purchase or renewal to the DSF. This is one of the DSF's bigger fundraisers of the year, and we appreciate everyone who takes a look.

The Executive Director search also closes on September 14, and we are curious to see who reaches out.

JetBrains has been a steady sponsor for years, and it was great to see the chatter around the Django Developers Survey 2026 results we released with them last month. The full report is on the JetBrains site. If you are shopping for an IDE, AI-focused or not, they have a solid product.

If you would like to help with our fundraising goals, we would love to hear from you or your company. The board is happy to talk with individuals too, if you have ideas. Whatever you can do to support us, we appreciate it.

Ways to help

• Renew or start a PyCharm license through the fundraiser before September 14.
• Have your company sponsor the DSF directly.
• Donate on our website or give through GitHub Sponsors.
• Reach out to the board if you want to donate, sponsor, or volunteer, or if you have fundraising ideas.

From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-10 11:40:35

AIs Compress Exploit Timeline

Give an AI agent a mere rumor of an exploit, and it’s enough for them to find it.

What’s worse, I found I could use my own agents to find the exploit just by knowing roughly what it was about and so could have been exploiting it well before the public patch was available! Given that just the rumour of a security issue seems enough to give attackers enough info to find new exploits, we’re going to need to change the way we deal with security responses in open source.

Simon Willison comments:

Anil points out that this rate of discovery appears incompatible with existing open source embargo practices for new issues. If an issue can become an exploit this fast, we need to figure out new processes for keeping our communities safe...

From Net Assessment at 2026-09-10 11:00:00

Lessons Learned (and Unlearned) from the GWOT (Net_Assessment_-_10_September_2026_v1.mp3?dest-id=808287)

In this show, the Net Assessment crew ponders the Global War on Terror (GWOT). Twenty-five years after 9/11 and five years after the disastrous withdrawal from Afghanistan. what lessons have we learned about warfare? Does our experience in Afghanistan, and now in Iran, demonstrate that the American military has an outsized fixation on lethality?

To better prepare for future conflicts, how should strategists think about how adversary human networks behave? Attas for former Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau, and grievances for Argentina's Javier Milei threatening to retake the Falklands.

*The Net Assessment Podcast is hosted by the Stimson Center and produced by University FM.

Show Links:

• Jonathan Schroden, What Have We Learned from the 9/11 Wars? Not Nearly Enough, War on the Rocks, August 17, 2026.

• Gregg Jaffe, Why the United States Can't Quit Its Wars, New York Times, August 30, 2026.

• Evan Cooper, The Shadow of 9/11 on Future US Foreign Policy, Stimson Center, September 3, 2026.

• Christopher Preble and Michael Cohen, The Perils of Lethality, Stimson Center, June 24, 2025.

• Greg Myre, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll resigns after clashes with Defense Secretary Hegseth, NPR, September 1, 2026.

• Power Politics: Thucydides to Trump. The Exercise of Power Internationally through the Ages, The Hellenic Centre, September 22, 2026.

• Javier Milei's Outburst over the Falklands is a Mark of Weakness, The Economist, September 4, 2026.

• Nancy A. Youssef, Missy Ryan, and Michael Scherer, Dan Driscoll's Parting Shot, The Atlantic, September 1, 2026.

• Jason Dempsey, Coming to Terms with America's Undeniable Failure in Afghanistan, War on the Rocks, February 11, 2019. 

• U.S. Department of State, "Promoting Pacific Prosperity: U.S. Engagement at the Pacific Islands Forum", September 1, 2026.

From Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics at 2026-09-10 09:00:00

Medea (p0p6cm9q.mp3)

Natalie tells the story of Euripides' Medea, the sorceress who enacted the ultimate revenge on the husband who betrayed her, to a rapt audience at the Hay Festival.

'Rockstar mythologist' Natalie Haynes is the best-selling author of Divine Might, Stone Blind, A Thousand Ships and No Friend to This House as well as a reformed comedian who is a little bit obsessive about ancient Greece and Rome.

Producer Beth O'Dea

From Odd Lots at 2026-09-10 09:00:00

The Rise of Organized Retail Crime at Big Box Stores (audio.mp3?utm_source=Podcast&in_playlist=982f5071-765c-403d-969d-ae27003a8d83)

If you walk into a local pharmacy in New York City, more likely than not, lots of the merchandise is locked behind closed doors as a measure to mitigate shoplifting. So how big is the “retail shrink” problem really? And why are stores willing to sacrifice customer experience to protect their inventory? According to today’s guest, the Home Depot’s VP of Asset Protection Scott Glenn, shoplifting is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to retail theft. What is really bedeviling companies like the Home Depot is something called organized retail crime — heists by criminal outfits that seek to nab large quantities of merchandise that eventually ends up in the black market. Today, we speak with Glenn about the in-and-outs of organized retail crime, the retail shrink problem, and what stores are doing to bring down theft right now.

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From The Rest Is History at 2026-09-10 00:05:00

704. Roman Civil War: Master of the Republic (Part 4) (GLT9669112656.mp3)

Who was Gaius Marius’ son, and how did he set out to bring down his father’s rival, Sulla? Which two rising stars in Sulla’s faction, Crassus and Pompey, would go on to bring down the Republic, with Julius Caesar? And, how did a momentous battle in the East see Sulla elevated to the master of Rome? Join Tom and Dominic as they reach the climactic conclusion to the remarkable rise of one of Rome’s greatest generals: Lucius Cornelius Sulla, a man who would destroy his rivals, win victories in the east, and ruthlessly change the destiny of the Roman Republic forever.   Join The Rest Is History Club: Unlock the full experience of the show – with exclusive bonus episodes, ad-free listening, early access to every series and live show tickets, a members-only newsletter, discounted books from the show, and access to our private Discord chatroom. Sign up directly at the⁠⁠restishistory.com⁠⁠. To read our new newsletter, sign up at: ⁠⁠therestishistory.com/newsletters⁠⁠ _______ Advertise with us: ⁠Partnerships@goalhanger.com⁠ _______ This episode is sponsored by Anthropic, the team behind Claude. Try Claude for free today at http://Claude.ai/restishistory. _______ Twitter: @TheRestHistory @holland_tom @dcsandbrook Video Editors: Jack Meek, Harry Swan + Adam Thornton  Social Producer: Harry Balden Producers: Tabby Syrett & Aaliyah Akude  Senior Producer: Callum Hill   Executive Producer: Dom Johnson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-09 21:55:02

4 groups caught using the same Chrome and Windows exploit kit

A patch gap and the hastened pace of AI-based vulnerability discovery are likely contributors.

From GoodFellows: Conversations on Economics, History & Geopolitics at 2026-09-09 21:27:36

California’s War on Wealth—and America’s War on Terror (GoodFellows_2026-09-08_-_Josh_Rauh_wip03_podcast_19iyat.mp3)

The rubber meets the road in California this fall when a proposed one-time 5% tax on the state’s billionaire class – wealth taxes being a longtime progressive hobby horse – faces a public vote in the form of Proposition 40. Joshua Rauh, the Hoover Institution’s George P. Shultz Senior Fellow in economics and author of a data analysis of Prop 40’s fiscal and economic impacts, explains why the measure would be a “disaster” if enacted and whether the policy battle marks the beginning of more public engagement on the part of the wealthiest Californians or instead will speed up their exodus from the Golden State. After that: the fellows reflect on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on America – where they were that fateful day and 9/11’s legacy as it pertains to the war on terror, social divides and global alliances (if a similar attack happened today, would Vladimir Putin still be the first world leader to offer assistance to the American president?). Finally, in the “Lightning Round”: the pros and cons of an ascendant world senior population; the merits of “financial engineering” as governments spend and borrow more; disorder in the ranks as more of America’s military leaders part ways with the Pentagon; young conservatives’ “Nixonmaxxing” (and revising presidential history). Subscribe to GoodFellows for clarity on today’s biggest social, economic, and geostrategic shifts — only on GoodFellows.

From Iran: The Latest at 2026-09-09 17:19:08

Trump blitzes Iranian oil tankers & how Russia supercharges Iran’s weapons (media.mp3)

The US has destroyed five Iranian oil tankers near Kharg Island after the IRGC fired ballistic missiles at a Navy warship twice this week. Is this Iran’s new military doctrine in full swing?

On today’s episode of Iran: the Latest, Roland Oliphant talks to Nikolay Kozhanov, former attaché at the Russian embassy in Tehran and now at the Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University, about the escalating US-Iran missile attacks and how Moscow is helping Tehran. From advanced missile technology to specialised hardware for electronic jamming, Nikolay explains how Vladimir Putin is fuelling the war to help drain the US military and distract from Ukraine.  

Plus, Iran claims to capture an advanced US Navy undersea drone in the Strait of Hormuz,  Brent crude oil prices breach $100 a barrel, and Donald Trump shrugs off Israel’s fury after the UK imposes unprecedented sanctions on West Bank settlements. 

Highlights

• US blitzes Iranian oil tankers off Kharg Island
• How Russia supercharges Iran’s weapons

CONTRIBUTORS:

Roland Oliphant, co-host and chief foreign affairs analyst @RolandOliphant

Nikolay Kozhanov, Gulf Studies Center of Qatar University @KozhanovNikolay

WATCH US ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJnf_DDTfIVAif-vifC6F2aoPB8GIw6dk

CONTENT REFERENCED:

Iran fires new electro-optical missiles

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2026/09/09/us-forces-destroy-five-iranian-oil-carriers/

UK gas prices hit four-year high as US-Iran conflict escalates

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2026/09/09/uk-gas-prices-hit-four-year-high-as-oil-tops-100/

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From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-09 17:05:00

Driver’s License Data for Sale

A database of 153 million drivers licenses is for sale on the dark web. Brian Krebs has more detail.

From Schneier on Security at 2026-09-09 12:08:26

Claude Fable Solves a Historical Cipher

Claude Fable 5.1 solved a 370-year-old cipher in forty-four minutes.

This tracks with what I wrote about AIs doing mathematics: It’s good at things that involve lots of searching and testing.

From More or Less at 2026-09-09 09:00:00

Why are so many ex-prisoners being sent back to prison? (p0p8lnjk.mp3)

Tim Harford investigates some of the numbers in the news. This week:

(00:38) The number of people being recalled to prison after early release in England and Wales is rising sharply. Why?

(07:37) Is the UK millionaire an endangered species? We ask Duncan Weldon - he’s like David Attenborough, but for economics.

(14:21) A viral graph seems to show that Europe is having a record low year for wildfires. How can we reconcile this with this summer’s shocking coverage of fires in France and Spain?

(21:36) We all know seagulls are low-life thieves - but can they really be responsible for £171m worth of robbery? Prepare for five minutes of public service journalism at its finest.

Guests: Cassia Rowland, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Government Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data Duncan Weldon, economist and author of Blood and Treasure

Presenter: Tim Harford Series Producer: Tom Colls Reporter: Lizzy McNeill Producers: Nathan Gower, Phoebe Keane, Josh McMinn Editor: Richard Vadon Programme Coordinator: Brenda Brown Sound Engineer: James Beard

From Ancient History 101 at 2026-09-09 05:00:00

The Sicilian Expedition (media.mp3)

Roel Konijnendijk returns for some more military adventures, this time to tell of an expedition borne of hubris that would go terribly, tragically wrong.

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From Biz & IT - Ars Technica at 2026-09-08 22:11:46

Why this month's Microsoft patch release is a doozy

Security gnomes are pumping out patches ahead of an expected onslaught of AI-assisted attacks.

From The Django weblog at 2026-09-08 20:27:14

Call for volunteers: Fundraising Working Group

The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group.

This is a particularly interesting time to get involved.

The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls, community events, Djangonaut Space, infrastructure, and the many other things that keep the Django ecosystem going. It also gives the DSF the room to do something new: hire its first Executive Director.

You can read more about the DSF's fundraising goals for 2026 in this post.

Getting there will take more than asking people to donate. We need to think about how we build relationships with companies that depend on Django, how we make sponsorships meaningful, how we find new ways for organisations to support the project, and how we communicate the value of investing in Django.

That is where the Fundraising Working Group comes in.

The DSF is hiring an Executive Director who will bring dedicated, day-to-day leadership to the Foundation, including sponsorship development and partner relationships. The Fundraising Working Group will have an opportunity to work closely with the person in this role as we build out our fundraising efforts.

Who are we looking for?

We'd love to have people who have done this before.

If you have experience with fundraising, sponsorships, partnerships, business development, sales, donor relationships, or building relationships with companies, there is plenty of scope to put that experience to work. We need people who can help identify opportunities, open doors, develop ideas, and turn them into actual fundraising initiatives.

But you don't need to be a fundraising expert to join.

Maybe you've never worked on fundraising before, but you know how companies make decisions about supporting open source. Maybe you have ideas for how Django could engage organisations that rely on it. Maybe you are good at building relationships, telling a compelling story, organising initiatives, or simply getting things moving.

Those perspectives are useful too.

We're looking for a group that can bring both experience and fresh ideas; people who can help drive the work as well as people who are excited to learn and contribute.

The working group meets monthly and works asynchronously between meetings. You can read more about how the group operates in the Fundraising Working Group charter.

Interested in joining?

Apply to join the Fundraising Working Group

Whether you have years of fundraising experience or are completely new to it but ready to help, we would love to hear from you.