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Introducing MA-S2: Mission Assurance Security Standard for Software. AI is accelerating vulnerability discovery. Adversaries are moving faster than any human team can respond. Institutions need autonomous remediation, attack path modeling, and domain awareness. The bar has changed. MA-S2 is our proposed standard for software security — one we're actively working towards, and publishing as our responsibility to every enterprise that wishes to secure its own digital footprint and ecosystem. Learn more:

Building high-assurance smart contracts on Liquid is now easier. Simplex, the Simplicity development framework built by @Arvolear at @blksresearch, handles witness generation, regtest integration, and transaction signing so developers can focus on the contract logic.

A Rockstar Games quality assurance analyst reveals the intense working conditions as development on Grand Theft Auto 6 enters its final stages. In an anonymous review, the employee described how normal tasks are now compressed from 5 or 6 months into just 2 or 2 Overtime has become the expectation in recent weeks, with some team members staying until 3 AM. The analyst claimed significant impacts on physical and mental health despite raising concerns with management. This comes as Rockstar aims for a November 19, 2026 release date for GTA 6. The company has a documented history of crunch culture, most notably during Red Dead Redemption 2. After widespread criticism, Rockstar pledged to improve work-life balance on future titles, and the game was delayed in part to reduce extreme overtime. GTA 6 remains one of the most highly anticipated games in history, but this is what usually happens in massive productions like this.

Exclusive: Hours after India made public assurances last week that its ethanol-blended petrol was safe, the country's main auto lobby withdrew a complaint about fuel contamination it had sent to the government a week earlier. The group said some figures needed more checks. But separate communications between industry executives, reviewed by Reuters, showed that in the preceding days, top automakers Maruti Suzuki, Tata Motors and Mahindra discussed their concerns about contamination of petrol blended with 20% ethanol, called E20. The carmakers' emails show for the first time how they are privately worried about contaminants in E20, like chloride and moisture, which they say are hurting vehicles, even as they publicly back the government's rollout of the fuel