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Schneier on Security Jul 7 Score 0.8936918708333332

Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini

Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort: According to Google's legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram. The group offers phishing-as-a-service to individuals who may not be technically savvy enough to set up fraudulent

Security securitycryptographypolicy
Foreign Policy Jul 7 Score 0.8933783458333332

Europe Is Struggling to Lead NATO

Germany and France are at the center of a clash over the alliance’s future.

Geopolitics geopoliticsforeign-policyanalysis
Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 6 Score 0.8757452648148147

tencent/Hy3

tencent/Hy3 New Apache 2.0 licensed model from Tencent in China: Hy3 is a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model with 21B active parameters and 3.8B MTP layer parameters, developed by the Tencent Hy Team. Following the Hy3 Preview launch in late April,

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Foreign Policy Jul 6 Score 0.8739621421296295

Erdogan Has Laid a Trap in Ankara

No matter what happens at the NATO summit, the Turkish strongman wins.

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Foreign Policy Jul 6 Score 0.8718371421296296

What to Expect at the 2026 NATO Summit

It’s a precarious time for the world’s largest military alliance.

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Foreign Policy Jul 6 Score 0.8657376050925925

Are U.S.-India Ties Really Thawing?

As the two sides near a final trade deal, a few sticking points remain.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 6 Score 0.8600881495370369

Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’

When checking that solutions to certain problems are correct, it turns out, you can’t get around the inherent complexity of the quantum world. The post Researchers Reveal the Power of ‘Quantum Proofs’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jul 6 Score 0.8537492782407406

France to Stop Certifying Non-Quantum-Safe Encryption

France is accelerating its transition to post-quantum encryption: France's cybersecurity agency ANSSI said on Tuesday it would stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption, a move that will force government bodies and critical opera

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BleepingComputer Jul 7 Score 0.8241784523148149

The GitHub Actions Attack Pattern Your CI Security Scanners Miss

ActiveState explains how GitHub Actions attack chains can evade traditional CI security scanners, why passing a scan doesn't guarantee a secure pipeline, and how organizations can better govern their CI/CD workflows. [...]

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The Verge Jul 7 Score 0.8241457361111112

iRobot’s newest floor cleaner isn’t a robot

iRobot just announced its first ever non-robotic floor cleaner. The $399 Roomba Electro Plus is a 5-in-1 hard-floor cleaner that combines vacuuming, mopping, and disinfecting, but you have to operate it yourself. The company also announced updates to its line

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The Verge Jul 7 Score 0.8239503657407408

Microsoft fixes storage-hogging Windows 11 folder

Microsoft is addressing a Windows 11 bug that caused a folder to take up several gigabytes of storage space. As spotted earlier by Windows Latest, Microsoft included the patch in its optional June 2026 update (KB5095093), which "improves disk space usage for t

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The Verge Jul 7 Score 0.8224790694444445

Google Search lets creators know more about their reach

Google is going to give content creators and website owners a better idea of how people find their social media profiles and YouTube content through Search. With a new feature in the Google Search Console called "platform properties," Google says that you'll b

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The Verge Jul 7 Score 0.8224790694444445

Solos debuts an even lighter version of its camera-less smart glasses

Solos announced a new version of its AirGo smart glasses, one that forgoes cameras for a sleeker design and an AI assistant that relies on voice interactions. Last year's AirGo A5 weighed 36 to 40 grams depending on the frame style, but the new AirGo A6 weigh

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BleepingComputer Jul 7 Score 0.8211548412037037

Webinar tomorrow: Why modern email attacks require a new approach to defense

Tomorrow's webinar explores how behavioral AI can help organizations detect sophisticated phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks while reducing alert fatigue through automated investigation and response workflows. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jul 7 Score 0.8210901388888889

The Download: your stake in OpenAI, and the Treasury's AI warning

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. Your family’s $300 stake in OpenAI Sam Altman’s proposal that Americans should share in the wealth created by AI is back i

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MIT Technology Review Jul 7 Score 0.8194475462962963

The foundational elements of AI architecture that IT leaders need to scale

With the rapid progress of AI capabilities and the move to agentic systems, organizations are expanding their use cases as the technology continues to grow. That constant evolution also introduces risk, leaving IT leaders to wonder which investments will prove

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The Guardian — World Jul 7 Score 0.8191482199074075

What will define Elon Musk’s legacy? Doge cuts to USAID Ebola programs

Experts say cuts have hindered the response to DRC’s Ebola outbreak and resulted in ‘significant numbers’ of deaths Elon Musk has an Ebola problem. SpaceX stock dropped precipitously after its initial public offering, and Tesla faces a wave of lawsuits. But in

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Wired Jul 7 Score 0.817479038425926

Pete Holmes Is Not Reading Your Email

“You can make a living, you can have a life, and leave 55,000 emails unread with a big fuck off.”

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MIT Technology Review Jul 7 Score 0.8174790277777778

Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution

Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dairy farmer, pulls a rake through a bed of dark, wet wood chips on his family’s land in Hickman, a tiny town in the state’s agricultural heartland. He reaches down with both hands and pulls up a clump of muck, tur

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BleepingComputer Jul 7 Score 0.8169599337962964

Microsoft to enable Windows settings backup by default for orgs

Microsoft says the Windows settings backup and restore tool will be enabled by default on Microsoft Entra-joined or Microsoft Entra hybrid-joined enterprise systems after upgrading to Windows 11 26H2. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 7 Score 0.8144835449074075

BeyondTrust warns of critical flaws in remote access software

BeyondTrust warned customers to patch two critical security flaws in its Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) software that could allow attackers to bypass authentication. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jul 7 Score 0.8141646615740742

Gathering Clouds: Building Digital Strategic Depth in the Compute Age

The wars in Ukraine and the Middle East have exposed a strategic reality that military planners are only beginning to confront: In a data-centric age, digital infrastructure has become part of the battlespace. Data centers and cloud regions are now the digital

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War on the Rocks Jul 7 Score 0.8133331800925927

Sinews of War at Sea: The Armed Services Need a Common Watercraft Family

To sustain future maritime operations, the U.S military will need to run supplies through an environment that spans thousands of miles of open ocean, denied ports, contested straits, and archipelagic chokepoints against adversaries that have spent decades stud

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The Guardian — World Jul 7 Score 0.8116597939814816

Five charged in Liberia after more than 200kg of cocaine seized in drug bust

Shipment discovered at airport in Monrovia and valued at £14.2m had been falsely declared as seasoning cubes Authorities in Liberia have charged five suspects over one of the largest drug seizures in the country’s history, after police found more than 200kg of

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Foreign Affairs Jul 7 Score 0.8074787449074075

How Europe Can Get Putin’s Attention

The continent must overcome its Russia predicament.

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Foreign Affairs Jul 7 Score 0.8074787449074075

Build a Palestinian State

Fulfill the promise of self-determination and stabilize the Middle East.

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MIT Technology Review Jul 6 Score 0.7908123611111112

Your family's $300 stake in OpenAI

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s oft-discussed promise that Americans will share in the wealth AI creates was in the news again las

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 6 Score 0.7866711175925927

PRX Part 4: Our Data Strategy

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 6 Score 0.7834777319444445

RCS and DNS: The NAPTR Record, (Mon, Jul 6th)

Over the last year, with recent updates to iOS and Android, RCS (Rich Communication Services) has become an increasingly used protocol [1]. RCS is supposed to eventually replace SMS, and in addition to richer formatting, provides added (but optional)

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MIT Technology Review Jul 6 Score 0.7824790277777779

The Download: South Korea's hottest bachelors, and advancing eye transplants

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. South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan S

Technology technologyresearchsociety
The Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.7482381106481482

Court Filing Reveals Windows Device ID Helped FBI Trace Alleged Scattered Spider Hacker

U.S. prosecutors linked an alleged Scattered Spider hacker to a break-in at a luxury jewelry retailer using a persistent Windows device ID, according to a newly unsealed federal complaint. Microsoft records tied that ID first to the account the attackers used

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
The Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.7482330180555555

Writer AI Flaw Could Let Agent Previews Leak Session Tokens Across Tenants

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched critical session isolation vulnerability in Writer, an enterprise generative artificial intelligence (AI) platform, that could result in cross-tenant compromise. The one-click vulnerability has

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
Martin Fowler Jul 7 Score 0.7467561189814815

Viability of local models for coding

Birgitta Böckeler recently spent some time trying out running local LLMs for some programming tasks. In this memo she outlines the factors that influence how viable they are for the job. more…

IT itarchitecturepatterns
The Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.7449788513888889

What Changes When Your Software Supply Chain Includes AI Writing Your Code?

Software supply chain security was hard enough. Then AI joined the build pipeline. For five years, "software supply chain security" meant one question: what's in your code? Which open-source packages, which versions, which transitive dependencies three layers

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
The Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.7411135736111111

Suspected China-Aligned Hackers Exploit Roundcube Flaws Against Universities

A suspected China-aligned threat activity cluster has been observed exploiting Roundcube webmail software belonging to physics and engineering departments of U.S. and Canadian universities as part of a new campaign. The activity involves the exploitation of no

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
InfoQ Jul 7 Score 0.739144961574074

How HubSpot Scaled Semantic Search to 20 Billion Vectors

SaaS software vendor HubSpot has described how its semantic search platform grew from a proof of concept into an internal service that now manages more than 20 billion vectors across 38-plus teams. The company says the system now supports agents, RAG, and cont

IT itengineeringarchitecture
InfoQ Jul 7 Score 0.7372282949074074

Node.js 26: Temporal API Enabled by Default, V8 14.6, and a Round of Deprecations

Node.js 26 has been released, featuring the Temporal API enabled by default, an updated V8 engine to version 14.6, and the Undici HTTP client upgraded to 8.0. The release also removes deprecated legacy APIs. Developers should note migration points related to N

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The Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.7369450550925926

CERT/CC Warns of Hidden Admin Backdoor in Tenda Router Firmware

Several versions of firmware released by Chinese network device manufacturer Tenda have been found to embed an undocumented authentication backdoor that enables administrative access to the devices' web management interfaces, the CERT Coordination Center (CERT

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 7 Score 0.7352522689814814

AI just supercharged the race to find room temperature superconductors

Scientists have combined machine learning with quantum physics to discover two new superconductors and create a much faster way to search for many more. The technique could bring researchers significantly closer to the long-sought goal of a room-temperature su

Science scienceresearchdiscoveries
Schneier on Security Jul 3 Score 0.7345738152777777

Flock Cameras Can Surveil Cars Without License Plates

This is from a 2024 company presentation : Officers can also tap into data showing a car's decals, bumper stickers, back and top racks—along with temporary and unique state tags. Flock calls it a "Vehicle Fingerprint" and it's touted as a way for law enf

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Latent Space Jul 7 Score 0.7337257898148148

[AINews] The Field Guide to Fable

a quiet day lets us digest the world's most significant model launch... to date.

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NASA News Jul 7 Score 0.7324789481481482

The World Cup From 250 Miles Up

Over the years, astronauts aboard the International Space Station have photographed several of the cities hosting the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Science sciencenasaspace
New Scientist Jul 6 Score 0.719169236111111

Bumblebee facial movements give clues to their inner lives

A series of experiments shows that bees respond differently to tastes depending on their internal states, hinting that they have something akin to our emotions

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New Scientist Jul 6 Score 0.7191474768518519

Artefacts hint at cultural exchange between Neanderthals and humans

A cave on the Turkish Mediterranean coast was inhabited first by Neanderthals and then Homo sapiens, but the continuity of tools and personal objects suggests there was some sharing of culture between the two species

Science scienceresearchsociety
NASA News Jul 6 Score 0.7168770962962963

NASA Takes Flight For America's 250th

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman leads a flyover featuring his personally owned Northrop F-5 Tiger during the Great American State Fair on July 4, 2026, on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. For 250 years, America has pushed the boundaries of what’s possib

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New Scientist Jul 6 Score 0.712495625

How healthy is your brain? We now know how to find out

In our efforts to keep our brains healthy, how do we know what is working? Helen Thomson explores a new generation of tests that can reveal whether our efforts are paying off

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NASA News Jul 6 Score 0.7117289481481481

NASA Seeks Industry Input on Second Phase of Commercial Space Stations

On Monday, NASA released a draft Request for Proposals (RFP) seeking feedback from American companies on the next phase of its commercial space stations strategy, aimed at ensuring a seamless transition of activities in low Earth orbit from the International S

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NASA News Jul 6 Score 0.7108372814814815

NASA’s CAPSTONE Completes Extended Mission Testing Lunar Technologies

As NASA prepares for a sustained human presence on the Moon, missions will increasingly require spacecraft that can navigate and communicate without a direct connection to Earth. NASA’s Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigatio

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NASA News Jul 6 Score 0.7091456148148149

NASA Webb Uncovers Unusual Galaxy Shaped by Cosmic Collision

In new images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to celebrate its fourth science anniversary, a familiar galaxy transforms into something far richer, and far more complex, than ever seen before. Webb’s unprecedented sensitivity across near- and mid-infrare

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Lobsters Jul 7 Score 0.7091223541666666

Put NetHack on my community app and this 38-year-old game keeps outsmarting me

I added NetHack to my community app a while back, unmodified upstream binary running on a shared box. I thought I was adding "an old roguelike". I was not prepared. :D It shipped multiplayer in the 80s and nobody calls it that. Bones files. Someone dies on lvl

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CNCF Blog Jul 7 Score 0.7074786263888888

Why sandboxing your agent is not enough

The agentic AI space is moving incredibly fast. Not long ago, I learned about a cool project called agent-sandbox, which provides a sandboxed environment for AI agents by leveraging many of the building blocks we have...

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Martin Fowler Jul 6 Score 0.7072838967592593

Fragments: July 6

Last week, Thoughtworks ran a second Future of Software Development Retreat , this time in Europe. As with the previous event, I’ll be sharing some fragmentary thoughts on this. There were five parallel streams, so I could, at best, only attend ⅕ of sessions.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6858120722222223

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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Nautilus Jul 6 Score 0.6849788435185185

The Rabies Vaccine Debuted Nearly 150 Years Ago Today

Pioneering microbiologist Luis Pasteur helped save the life of a dog-bitten boy The post The Rabies Vaccine Debuted Nearly 150 Years Ago Today appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jul 6 Score 0.6833121768518517

See Some of the Best Astronomy Photos of the Last Year

From Earth to the moon to deep space—and back again The post See Some of the Best Astronomy Photos of the Last Year appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jul 6 Score 0.6783121768518517

Speaking More Languages May Help Slow Brain Aging

A new study suggests multilingual people have younger brains The post Speaking More Languages May Help Slow Brain Aging appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 6 Score 0.6749780106481481

Shift into high gear with agents: Securing the software-defined vehicle

The automotive industry is at a pivotal crossroads as it hits the gas on adopting new technology. The era of the traditional connected vehicle has shifted into the age of the software-defined vehicle (SDV), notable for rapid innovation with many new capabiliti

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Hacker News Jul 7 Score 0.6720680712962963

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.6708120722222223

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 6 Score 0.6507077518518519

The 'first' AI-run ransomware attack still needed a human

An AI agent carried out the technical execution of a real-world ransomware attack for the first known time, but new details show a human still chose the victim, set up the infrastructure, and supplied stolen credentials — meaning it wasn't quite the fully auto

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AI News Jul 7 Score 0.6366483768518518

Insilico Medicine advances AI drug for IPF to Phase III trials

Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified by AI targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This progression supplies the computational drug discovery sector with empirical test cases, advancing an AI medicine pa

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