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Krebs on Security Jul 14 Score 0.9549299092592594

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last mont

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OpenAI News Jul 14 Score 0.9392991504629631

How to manage AI investments in the agentic era

Learn how enterprises can manage AI investments in the agentic era by measuring useful work per dollar, improving efficiency, and scaling high-value workflows.

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OpenAI News Jul 14 Score 0.9226324837962964

How sales teams use ChatGPT Work

See how sales teams can use ChatGPT Work to create pipeline briefs, meeting prep packets, forecast reviews, account plans, and stalled-deal diagnoses from real work inputs.

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OpenAI News Jul 14 Score 0.9226324837962964

How data science teams use ChatGPT Work

See how data science teams can use ChatGPT Work to build root-cause briefs, impact readouts, KPI memos, scoped analyses, and dashboard specs from real work inputs.

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Foreign Policy Jul 15 Score 0.8943485069444443

NATO Is Splitting in Two

Mark Carney and Mark Rutte offer competing visions for the future of the trans-Atlantic alliance.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.8855097921296295

Quoting GitHub Changelog

Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration. — GitHub Changelog , embracing dependency co

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.8851255328703703

simonw/pedalican

simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, a

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Foreign Policy Jul 14 Score 0.8848336921296296

China Wants to Regulate AI Companions

With the latest rules, Beijing hopes to rein in a booming industry.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.8805264587962962

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite

lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they completed the migration,

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.877754236574074

Quoting Armin Ronacher

The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 14 Score 0.875179236574074

datasette 1.0a37

Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: datasette

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Schneier on Security Jul 14 Score 0.8744331361111111

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA,

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Schneier on Security Jul 14 Score 0.8661562842592592

Vulnerability in FIFA’s Network

FIFA's network was vulnerable to anyone with even minimal access.

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The Verge Jul 15 Score 0.8247838212962963

Starlink’s V5 dish is now available — here’s how it compares

SpaceX's latest residential dish - the Starlink V5 - is now available in "select areas." It's notably smaller and lighter than the V4 dish with improved power efficiency. It'll be available in more places as SpaceX ramps up production to meet global demand. Th

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War on the Rocks Jul 15 Score 0.8247409439814816

Breaking America’s Promise to Pacific Island Veterans

In January, Robson Henry died at the age of 66. Chances are, you have never heard of Henry. He was not famous, rich, or powerful. In many ways, Henry was no different from the thousands of young men and women who, at the age of 18, chose to serve by enlisting

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Foreign Affairs Jul 15 Score 0.8192988958333334

The World Is Giving Up on America

This time anti-Americanism is different.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 15 Score 0.815374764351852

Recent DShield SIEM Update, (Tue, Jul 14th)

The last update to the DShield SIEM [4] was in Sep 2025 which contained some minor tweaks. This update currently is using ELK stack version 8.19.15, contains some additional dashboards and new logs.

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The Verge Jul 14 Score 0.8099778027777779

Nothing’s good-looking Watch 3 Pro smartwatch is just $69

While most fitness trackers are losing the screens to keep the price low, the CMF by Nothing Watch 3 Pro is a bit different. The budget-friendly smartwatch with a 1.43-inch OLED display is even cheaper than usual at Amazon, where it costs $69 in every color (t

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The Verge Jul 14 Score 0.8085231726851853

Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longer

Microsoft just released a long list of improvements for Windows 11 as part of its bigger patch Tuesdays, patching at least 570 security holes, almost triple the number fixed in last month's record-breaking release, according to Krebs on Security. It also inclu

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The Verge Jul 14 Score 0.8083694689814815

OpenAI may announce a ChatGPT smart speaker this year

OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes

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BleepingComputer Jul 14 Score 0.8082826787037037

SonicWall warns of SMA1000 flaws exploited in zero-day attacks, patch now

SonicWall warns that threat actors have been exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, in zero-day attacks and urges customers to install the newly released security updates. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 14 Score 0.8066090675925927

Spanish Police take down €140 million cyber fraud ring, arrest four

The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 14 Score 0.8047238824074074

Nearly 300 GitHub repos pose as legit software to push malware

A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to distribute infostealer malware. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 14 Score 0.8040067527777779

Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update

Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update, which includes the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates for 570 vulnerabilities, along with additional security fixes. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 14 Score 0.8032919953703704

Derision at US chain Chipotle’s plan to sell its Mexican food in Mexico

One social media user described the opening of its first outlet in Monterrey as ‘like the dog teaching a duck to fly’ A US chain’s plan to sell its version of Mexican food to Mexicans with a first branch south of the border has prompted bemusement, skepticism

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BleepingComputer Jul 14 Score 0.8026771231481482

Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes massive 570 flaws, 3 zero-days

Today is Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a record-breaking 570 flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and one publicly disclosed. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jul 14 Score 0.8026400180555556

NATO’s Unity on Paper and Fractures Beneath the Surface

On July 7-8, NATO held its 36th official summit in Ankara, Turkey. There were several consequential topics to discuss at this year's meeting, chief among them the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the uncertain future of European defense and security. We asked five

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Google AI Blog Jul 14 Score 0.7992991675925927

Celebrating 25 years of visual search innovation

Google Images is turning 25. Here’s a look back at some major milestones — and new ways to explore and create visual content.

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The Guardian — World Jul 14 Score 0.793385050925926

New US Ebola patient arrives in Germany for treatment

Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flights A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on

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MIT Technology Review Jul 14 Score 0.7929102027777778

The Download: Claude's inner workings, and the future of world models

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. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O'Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 14 Score 0.792632551388889

ABB Advant Master Online Builder

View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the products versions listed as affected in the advisory, where an incorrect version of Online Builder (ONB) was included in the media. An update is available that resolves the vulnerability, see details i

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 14 Score 0.792632551388889

ABB Ability Edgenius

View CSAF Summary ABB is aware of public reports of a vulnerability CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a publicly reported vulnerability. CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) is a L

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 14 Score 0.792632551388889

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-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appl

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 14 Score 0.792632550925926

CISA Urges SharePoint Hardening After New Exploitations

CISA is aware of active exploitation of vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32201 , CVE-2026-45659 , and CVE-2026-56164 , enabling cyber threat actors to gain unauthorized access to on-premises SharePoint Server instances. These vulnerabilities affect all supported on-pr

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 14 Score 0.792632550925926

ABB T-MAC Plus

View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the products versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves the reported vulnerabilities. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could potent

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MIT Technology Review Jul 14 Score 0.7859657583333334

PsiQuantum has a plan to make a massive quantum computer out of light

The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps t

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The Hacker News Jul 15 Score 0.7468090148148148

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Exploited, One Could Enable Admin Commands

SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-154

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NASA News Jul 15 Score 0.7466743032407407

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4947-4953: Gale Crater Then and Now

Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and came into this week ready to explore some more. We’ve been moving fairly rapidly through different

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NASA News Jul 15 Score 0.7443270810185185

Heat Dome Broils the Western U.S.

A ridge of high pressure fueled record-breaking temperatures in Montana, Utah, and Wyoming on July 12, 2026.

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Latent Space Jul 14 Score 0.7374690226851852

[AINews] not much happened today

a continuation: Codex adding 1M users a day now.

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Platformer Jul 14 Score 0.7374627717592592

The man who tried 200 to-do apps has some advice about AI

The Verge's David Pierce kicks off our new series on staying productive in the AI era — starting with why you should stop trying to stay ahead

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 14 Score 0.736244500462963

Lorde says AI glasses are 'not sexy'

"Increasingly in our world, it gets harder and harder to know what is real," Lorde said onstage.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 14 Score 0.7349213523148148

OpenAI's first hardware device is reportedly a screenless speaker that can move

The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."

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NASA News Jul 14 Score 0.7327293958333333

NASA Invites Media to Serbia Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić and U.S. State Depart

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MIT News — AI Jul 14 Score 0.7316603462962963

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

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NASA News Jul 14 Score 0.7283557847222222

NASA Astronaut Anil Menon, Crewmates Arrive at Space Station

NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz M

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NASA News Jul 14 Score 0.7278145810185185

Hubble Sees Crimson Cloud and Stars

Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits th

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Kubernetes Blog Jul 14 Score 0.7276320138888889

Building a Custom Metrics Exporter for Kubernetes

Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how many active WebSo

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New Scientist Jul 14 Score 0.7226335861111111

Can everyone live a ‘good life’ without destroying the planet?

Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earth’s means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese city is beginning to walk this tightrope

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InfoQ Jul 14 Score 0.7192987370370371

Meta's Noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface Brain2Qwerty Achieves 61% Accuracy

Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieved a wo

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Martin Fowler Jul 14 Score 0.7190486523148149

DSLs Enable Reliable Use of LLMs

LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describes how t

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InfoQ Jul 14 Score 0.718798737037037

Presentation: Lessons Learned in Migrating to Micro-Frontends

Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. He explains the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, outlines a

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InfoQ Jul 14 Score 0.7176320703703704

Linkerd 2.20 Delivers Smarter Traffic Management and Dramatic Efficiency Gains

The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for Kuberne

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New Scientist Jul 14 Score 0.7159655305555556

The US-China AI arms race has taken an unexpected turn

Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders – what changed?

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Rest of World Jul 14 Score 0.7143170625

The Gulf has billions to spend on AI. It still needs Nvidia

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives.

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New Scientist Jul 14 Score 0.7142988638888889

Do we owe our existence to weird ‘virtual’ particles?

When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made of to hang together

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 14 Score 0.7139571564814815

Popular weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy may slow biological aging

Researchers found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, slowed biological aging markers in adults with HIV, marking the first clinical evidence that the drug may influence human aging. Although the findings are encouraging, scientists

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Nautilus Jul 14 Score 0.6969997800925926

Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums?

The record sale of a T. rex skeleton begs the question The post Do Fossils Belong in Mansions or Museums? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jul 14 Score 0.6917993171296295

How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive

Today’s T. rex auction could be cause for concern The post How Dinosaur Skeletons Became So Expensive appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 14 Score 0.686798486111111

Claude at scale on Google Cloud: Frontier AI, built for enterprise production

Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-context requests to serve reliably. Claude on Google Cloud is built for exactly this. Like Monet and w

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Techmeme Jul 15 Score 0.6734661847222223

A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA (James O'Donnell/MIT Technology Review)

James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA   —  The company has drawn governments, a

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Techmeme Jul 15 Score 0.6726333143518519

Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May (The Information)

The Information : Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May   —  Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese

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