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CNET published its daily rundown of answers and hints for the New York Times Mini Crossword, covering both the across and down clues for the Sept. 17 puzzle. The list includes terms like QUACK, UNCLE, IDIOT and KEGS across, and QUIRK, UNDUE, ACING and KETO down.
At Black Hat USA 2026, security researcher Fred Heiding and former US National Cyber Director Chris Inglis presented findings showing AI's growing role in social engineering scams, which the FBI says cost Americans nearly $21 billion last year. Heiding argued that while AI can be used to defend against AI-driven technical attacks, it cannot easily counter AI's ability to psychologically manipulate humans.
TradingAgents, an open-source multi-agent LLM framework for financial trading, has shipped version 0.4.0. The update fixes look-ahead bias issues across macroeconomic (FRED), social sentiment, and decision-log memory data sources, adds clearer decision signals, restores CLI checkpoint resume functionality, grounds trader price data, and adds support for GPT-5.6 and GLM-5.3 models. This follows recent v0.3.1 and v0.3.0 releases that addressed similar correctness issues and expanded provider and data-vendor support.