Council Post: The New Economics Of Software Security: Discovery Is Cheap; Response Isn't

Aaron Mitchell is CEO of HeroDevs, a company that provides Never-Ending Support for end-of-life open-source software.

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​The recently released "Open Weights and American AI Leadership" letter has reignited the debate over whether increasingly capable open-weight AI models should remain broadly accessible and how they should be governed. But the real story isn't the models themselves. It's what they reveal about how AI is changing the economics of software security.

Afterworld Breaks Paradox Out of its Comfort Zone, but it’s Still Crazy Early in Development | IGN Preview

Key Preview Takeaways:

  • The build I was shown was exceptionally early – shockingly so.
  • There are systems upon systems upon systems, as you’d expect from Paradox.
  • The Ancients are perhaps the most fascinating folk you’ll encounter in the wasteland.

I don't know about you, but my plans for the apocalypse involve hiding in a comfy bunker and playing hundreds of hours more of Paradox grand strategy games like Crusader Kings 3. And now I'll be able to play out the apocalypse during the apocalypse with the studio’s first new grand strategy game franchise since 2019's Imperator: Rome, Afterworld. Set in a not too far future North America that has been devastated by an intentionally vague cataclysm, it combines RTS and grand strategy elements as you rebuild the world in any image you desire – from terraforming to cannibalism. And that's an enticing proposition.

The 50 Most Anticipated Movies of Fall 2026

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Fincher directs Tarantino! Downey Jr. rejoins the MCU! Timothée, Tom Cruise, and the ‘To Catch a Predator’ origin story! Get ready for a wild and crazy moviegoing season

Linux manages to avoid the age verification apocalypse, but SteamOS isn't in the clear yet

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California's Digital Age Assurance Act is due to take effect at the very start of 2027, bringing in sweeping age-verification checks by system providers. As part of it, operating systems will have to do age checks on users to lock down certain functions, which had led some Linux developers to go full crisis mode in response. Well, good news, the Assembly Bill 1856 amendment has just passed and it exempts open-source operating systems from compliance.

Algeria’s president seeks death penalty for those who start forest fires

Abdelmadjid Tebboune’s call comes after wildfires killed at least 12 people and injured 54 in northeastern Algeria.

Algeria’s President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has called for the death penalty for anyone who deliberately starts a forest fire after at least 12 people died in wildfires in the country’s northeast.

Pokémon Go leader counters for Sierra, Arlo, and September in August 2026

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Updated  Sep 1, 2026, 12:01 AM EDT

How to take down the three Team Go Rocket leaders this month

Artwork from Pokemon Go showing the new Team Rocket admins, Giovanni, and a group of shadow Pokemon Image: Niantic/The Pokémon Company

Pokémon Go has its own version of the notorious Team Rocket, called Team Go Rocket. In this Pokémon Go guide, we’ll break down how to find leaders Sierra, Cliff, and Arlo and take them down.