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Krebs on Security Jul 22 Score 0.9640760907407409

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 perc

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OpenAI News Jul 21 Score 0.9504472726851853

Introducing the ChatGPT for small business program

OpenAI launches the ChatGPT for Small Businesses program, helping entrepreneurs build AI skills, automate work, and grow with ChatGPT Work.

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Foreign Policy Jul 21 Score 0.8840332777777777

Why a Hunger Strike Is Rallying India’s Youth

Sonam Wangchuk’s fast in solidarity with Cockroach movement protests joins a long tradition.

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Foreign Policy Jul 21 Score 0.8822439259259258

Who Is Trump’s Next Tariff Target?

Trump’s latest protectionist measures will likely exacerbate trade tensions and reignite legal battles.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 21 Score 0.8710708722222221

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac

Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac Prince Canuma is the developer behind the excellent MLX-VLM Python library for running vision-LLMs using MLX on a Mac. I'm really excited about his new project, which wraps MLX in a full macOS desktop application. It's

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 21 Score 0.8686148532407406

A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team

Earlier this month I hosted a fireside chat session at the AI Engineer World's Fair with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from Anthropic's Claude Code team. We talked about Claude Code, Claude Tag, Fable, coding agent security, evals, tool design, and how Anthropic

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Schneier on Security Jul 21 Score 0.8656478555555555

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance

It's a lot : According to information obtained by The Tech , MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. Installation of the new cameras, along with th

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BleepingComputer Jul 22 Score 0.8209844550925927

OpenAI says its AI models hacked Hugging Face during testing

OpenAI says its AI models, including GPT‑5.6 Sol and a pre-release model, hacked into the Hugging Face artificial intelligence repository while being tested in a sandboxed testing environment. [...]

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Foreign Affairs Jul 22 Score 0.8187804171296297

The Iran Cease-Fire Was Doomed to Fail

Why transactionalism won’t deliver peace in the Middle East.

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Foreign Affairs Jul 22 Score 0.8187804171296297

When China Gets Its Own Mythos

Preparing for an AI cyber crisis.

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The Guardian — World Jul 22 Score 0.8153800250000001

Trump announces new tariffs on generic drugs to take effect in 2028 – as it happened

This live blog is now closed. Sign up for US Breaking News email US gas prices have continued to rise since the conflict with Iran resumed this month. According to the American Automobile Association (AAA), a gallon of fuel is now just over $4 –  almost a

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The Verge Jul 22 Score 0.8137805722222223

Samsung Galaxy Unpacked July 2026: How to watch

Samsung's next Galaxy Unpacked event is just around the corner, and the company is expected to take the wraps off a bunch of new devices. Based on the rumors and leaks we've seen so far, Samsung's next generation of foldables will likely be the stars of the sh

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The Guardian — World Jul 22 Score 0.813743450925926

Canada cancels joint bridge-opening celebration with US amid trade tensions

The ribbon-cutting celebration of the Gordie Howe International Bridge is no longer taking place after Trump announced a 50% tariff on Canadian goods A planned joint US-Canada ceremony Friday celebrating the opening of the Gordie Howe International Bridge conn

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BleepingComputer Jul 21 Score 0.8106571402777778

Police dismantle Kratos phishing platform, arrest developer

Authorities in Germany and the U.S. dismantled the central infrastructure of Kratos, a phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform with global reach, and its developer was arrested in Indonesia. [...]

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Wired — Security Jul 21 Score 0.8101699416666668

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked Hugging Face

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

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The Guardian — World Jul 21 Score 0.8098638212962964

Health worker monitored for Ebola in London hospital after working in DRC

UK resident was evacuated from Democratic Republic of the Congo where there is an outbreak of the disease A humanitarian worker is being monitored at a specialist hospital in London after potential exposure to the Ebola virus. The UK resident was medically eva

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BleepingComputer Jul 21 Score 0.8097330662037038

FakeGit campaign uses 7,600 GitHub repos to push SmartLoader malware

A large-scale operation dubbed 'FakeGit' is pushing SmartLoader and StealC malware through 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories that accumulated more than 14 million downloads. [...]

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The Verge Jul 21 Score 0.8089671462962964

Neill Blomkamp’s new zombie AI ‘film’ is just slop warmed over

On Monday, District 9 and Gran Turismo director Neill Blomkamp unveiled his latest project: a 13-minute sci-fi short titled Nightborne that's loosely based on Peter Watts' 2014 novel Echopraxia. The short comes from Blomkamp's new AI startup / production compa

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The Verge Jul 21 Score 0.808472238888889

OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system

OpenAI says its AI models mistakenly breached open-source AI platform Hugging Face during internal testing. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI writes that GPT-5.6 Sol and "an even more capable pre-release model" discovered vulnerabilities within their sandboxed

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BleepingComputer Jul 21 Score 0.8056395476851852

Critical SharePoint RCE flaw exploited to steal machine keys

Hackers are actively exploiting the critical CVE-2026-50522 vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint to steal machine keys and maintain access even after affected servers are patched. [...]

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The Verge Jul 21 Score 0.8044046462962964

Substack adds an AI detector to help spot blogs written by no one

Substack will now help users determine whether what they're reading may have been written by AI. A new tool coming to the platform can scan posts, notes, replies, and comments to provide an estimate of how much text could be AI-generated or written with AI ass

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The Verge Jul 21 Score 0.8024481648148148

Peak Design’s modular Field Bracket has a finder tag built-in

I am a very clumsy man. So clumsy, that I have AirTags hanging off practically every camera I own. Have I left my camera in an Uber? Yes. Have I left it on an airplane? Also yes. For me, finder tags are essential for my cameras. The problem is, strapping a fin

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 21 Score 0.7950288425925927

Captive Portal Detection, (Tue, Jul 21st)

Not everything our honeypots detect is an attack. Sometimes it is just "odd traffic", and this is one example: Our "First Seen" list currently includes "http://detectportal.firefox.co

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MIT Technology Review Jul 21 Score 0.7923916277777778

The Download: Chinese AI divides the White House, and a record copyright payout

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself Last weekend, several current and former advisers to President

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 21 Score 0.7921139773148149

Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in an attacker accessing sensitive credentials, disrupting connected infrastructure, or manipulating physical equipment, which could present a physical safety risk. The following v

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 21 Score 0.7921139768518519

Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 with Palo Alto Networks Virtual NGFW

View CSAF Summary Palo Alto Networks has published [1] information on vulnerabilities in PAN-OS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products affected by these vulnerabilities. Customers are advised to consult and implement the workarounds provi

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 21 Score 0.7921139768518519

Siemens IAM Client

View CSAF Summary Multiple Siemens products are affected by unquoted search path vulnerability in IAM Client. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to perform privilege escalation. Siemens has released new versions for several affected products and

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 21 Score 0.7921139768518519

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-27137 DD-WRT Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2026-0770 Langflow Inclusion of Functionality from Untr

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 21 Score 0.7921139768518519

Siemens SIDIS Secured SmartPlug

View CSAF Summary SIDIS Secured SmartPlug before V7.26.0310 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities in the components OpenSSL, OpenSSH, and several other packages as described below. Siemens has released a new version of SIDIS Secured SmartPlug and recommends

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MIT Technology Review Jul 21 Score 0.7898240351851853

Advancing next-gen AI with materials science innovation

The conversation about AI often centers on algorithms, computing power, or huge investments in new semiconductor fabrication plants and hyperscale data centers. But beneath each of these advances is another layer of innovation that makes them possible: advance

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 22 Score 0.7441352939814815

Magic mushrooms may reshape the brain long after the trip ends

A single dose of psilocybin produced measurable changes in brain activity and possible changes in brain structure that lasted for up to a month. Participants who experienced the greatest increase in flexible, varied brain activity also reported more personal i

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NASA News Jul 22 Score 0.7437807430555555

A Week of Smoky Skies Across North America

Brown carbon, emitted by wildland fires and tracked over the span of a week in July 2026, worsened air quality in parts of the U.S. and Canada.

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New Scientist Jul 22 Score 0.7437802717592592

Magic rituals took place in an Australian cave for 25,000 years

Preserved plant cells show that grasses were brought into Cloggs cave in Australia and burnt over many millennia, revealing the ancient origins of rituals practised by the GunaiKurnai people

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NASA News Jul 22 Score 0.7380344467592592

NISAR’s L-Band Radar Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

Description Data from the Earth-orbiting U.S.-India NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite’s L-band radar was used to produce an image of Nunatak Zaterjavshijsja — a mountaintop in East Antarctica — poking out amid a stream of ice flowing northea

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Platformer Jul 22 Score 0.7373858023148148

The case for making your own apps

Glaze's Thomas Paul Mann on disposable software, the SaaS apocalypse, and why half the software you use in a few years will be something you made. PLUS: OpenAI's rogue model, and the distillation debate

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TechCrunch Jul 21 Score 0.7320467837962963

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

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NASA News Jul 21 Score 0.7306691689814815

NASA to Host Media Briefing on Roman Telescope, Launching Next Month

Media are invited to join NASA for a virtual news conference at 2 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, July 29, to preview the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope mission, scheduled to launch from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, Aug. 30. NASA will stream

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InfoQ Jul 21 Score 0.728780275925926

Android Studio Quail 2 Redesigns Agent Mode, Streamlines AI-Assisted Coding

The latest release of Android Studio, Quail 2, now stable, expands Gemini/AI Agent Mode inside the IDE by enabling multiple AI conversations in parallel and further advancing Google's push to integrate AI-powered workflows directly into Android Studio. It also

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NASA News Jul 21 Score 0.7275270393518518

US-India Satellite Delivers Data, Reveals ‘Hummingbird’ in Antarctica

As of July 20, the public can access data from the two powerful radar instruments aboard the NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) satellite. Teams in the United States and India will release files processed from the satellite’s L-band and S-band radars o

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New Scientist Jul 21 Score 0.7247029569444444

The ancient Silk Road city that has a lesson for Silicon Valley

On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or devices, it turns out, but the people making them

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GitHub Blog Jul 21 Score 0.7237803731481481

How to build interactive experiences with canvases

Canvases turn AI into interactive workspaces where you can visualize information, explore workflows, and take action across complex tasks. The post How to build interactive experiences with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Jul 21 Score 0.7227524981481481

RSPack 2.0: Performance Gains, Leaner Dependencies and ESM Core

Rspack, developed by ByteDance, has released version 2.0, featuring enhanced performance, reduced dependencies, and a focus on modern ECMAScript modules. Key updates include a pure ESM core, improved static analysis, and support for RSC. Performance benchmarks

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New Scientist Jul 21 Score 0.722134438425926

How to unlock unlimited geothermal energy, anywhere we want

Earth contains more than enough heat to power humanity many times over, but so far only a few lucky places have been able to exploit it. Now we may have a way to tap this vast clean energy source almost anywhere

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Martin Fowler Jul 21 Score 0.719141250925926

Fragments: July 21

With this post, I’ll wrap up my notes from the second Future of Software Development Retreat . But before I do, I should note that the full Thoughtworks report on the retreat is now available . They have five headline findings: Code generation is no longer the

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 21 Score 0.7153829791666667

Astronomers find the first atmosphere on a rocky world in the habitable zone

Astronomers have found the first confirmed atmosphere around a rocky planet in another star’s habitable zone. The planet, LHS 1140 b, revealed its atmosphere through helium slowly leaking into space. Located 48 light-years away, the world may have preserved it

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InfoQ Jul 21 Score 0.7143358314814815

Presentation: Engineering AI for Creativity and Curiosity on Mobile

Bhavuk Jain discusses translating foundational AI into scalable mobile products. He shares the engineering challenges behind AI Wallpapers and Circle to Search, detailing how to implement robust runtime guardrails, fine-tuning, and seamless OS integration. For

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InfoQ Jul 21 Score 0.713780275925926

Yelp Unifies ML Model Training with Training Orchestrator

Yelp has launched Training Orchestrator. This new internal framework replaces individual team Spark training scripts. Now, it uses a configuration-driven, DAG-based execution model. By Claudio Masolo

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Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17 Score 0.7121188726851851

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 21 Score 0.7120973310185186

Ancient DNA reveals a chilling secret at China’s 4,000-year-old Shimao city

Ancient DNA from China’s vast 4,000-year-old Shimao settlement is revealing how one of East Asia’s earliest complex societies was organized. Researchers found that its people were largely descended from local Yellow River farming communities, but also had gene

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 21 Score 0.7106811273148148

A hidden “switch-off” signal could predict solar storms seven years early

A newly discovered turning point in the Sun’s 11-year cycle could allow scientists to predict future solar activity years earlier than before. At this “switch-off” point, the most violent space weather abruptly ends, and the remaining number of sunspots offers

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 21 Score 0.7057288125

Scientists found mystery bacteria inside one of the ocean’s most elusive whales

Scientists studying decades of pygmy sperm whale strandings have uncovered three previously unknown types of Helicobacter bacteria hiding in the animals’ stomachs. All four infected whales showed serious digestive damage, including inflammation, ulcers, scarri

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 21 Score 0.6979463282407407

Why AI apps fail in production (And how Google solved it)

We are living in the golden age of the weekend AI side project. Thanks to agentic engineering and LLMs, the time to go from a blank IDE to a functional local application has dropped from quarters to hours. You can build your wildest ideas over a cup of coffee.

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Nautilus Jul 21 Score 0.6941455296296295

Why Are We Using Machines to Study Our Inner Lives?

Increasingly scientists are testing chatbots rather than humans in experiments The post Why Are We Using Machines to Study Our Inner Lives? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 21 Score 0.6862796615740739

Supercharging pgvector: 4x faster HNSW vector search with AlloyDB

AlloyDB is a fully managed, PostgreSQL-compatible database service built for your most demanding enterprise workloads. It combines the best of open source PostgreSQL with Google’s advanced technology, offering massive scalability, high availability, and native

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 21 Score 0.6846129949074073

Now in preview: Find and fix software vulnerabilities with CodeMender

As adversarial AI threats accelerate attacks on code, security teams must counter them with machine-speed defenses that can automate code remediation and fight AI with AI. CodeMender is our managed code security agent, and starting today, we're bringing its co

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 21 Score 0.6784741060185184

Generosity Under Conditions: Hardening Google Cloud Access Management

In Google Cloud, Identity and Access Management (IAM) helps you maintain access control over your cloud resources and operations. While it includes other features, this is its primary purpose. If you ever tried to harden security over your application, you kno

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CNCF Blog Jul 21 Score 0.6779468143518518

Why your agent needs access to your documentation

What 1,192 agent conversations taught us about knowledge base search A few months ago we shipped an agent inside our own product. It lives in our web app and lets users ask questions about their deployment,...

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 21 Score 0.6548778643518519

AI and the rise of the universal entertainment app

Over the past decade, streaming platforms competed by dominating individual formats like music, video, podcasts, or audiobooks. Now, as AI makes it easier to create, organize, and recommend content, those distinctions are fading, pushing companies like Spotify

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Ahead of AI Jul 18 Score 0.5958958412037036

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

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