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OpenAI News Jun 17 Score 0.9283028615740742

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8932656402777777

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB

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Foreign Policy Jun 17 Score 0.8900251083333333

Trump Defends His Iran Deal

The White House detailed the deal’s terms after Trump defended it at the G-7.

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Foreign Policy Jun 17 Score 0.8899579787037036

U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding: Full Text

Read the agreement that the Trump administration has agreed to with Iran’s leaders to end the war.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8819887884259259

Quoting Charity Majors

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, care

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Quanta Magazine Jun 17 Score 0.8776246495370369

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle. The post Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of C

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Schneier on Security Jun 17 Score 0.8717493064814814

AI Use by the US Government

On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The l

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.8598633254629628

— a still that plays

Tool: — a still that plays A progressive enchantment Web Component that turns this markup: Into a still frame with a click to play button which loads the GIF on demand. For when you don't want big GIFs to be loaded unless people want to play them. Here's an ex

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8491753624999999

datasette 1.0a34

Release: datasette 1.0a34 Quoting the release notes: The big feature in this alpha is tools to insert, edit and delete rows within the Datasette interface. These features are available on table pages, and edit and delete are also available as action items on t

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OpenAI News Jun 14 Score 0.8366361949074075

Introducing the OpenAI Partner Network

OpenAI launches the Partner Network, investing $150M to help global partners accelerate enterprise AI adoption, deployment, and transformation.

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.8208067212962964

Leak confirms OpenAI is testing a ChatGPT for Science subscription

OpenAI appears to be testing a new subscription and experience for science use cases, but it's unclear if it'll be available to everyone regardless of their background. [...]

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BBC News — World Jun 18 Score 0.8207482560185186

What's in the US-Iran agreement?

The 14-paragraph memo includes an end to fighting, an agreement that Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, and a $300bn redevelopment package for Iran.

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The Guardian — World Jun 17 Score 0.8158241541666668

Cannabis commercialisation not decriminalisation drives up usage, study finds

Review reveals rise in users and rates of psychosis in countries where cannabis is sold commercially Decriminalising the possession of cannabis or strictly regulating access to the drug do not appear to drive up usage, but when the drug is sold commercially th

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The Verge Jun 17 Score 0.8144795393518519

Tim Cook says RAM expenses are 'unsustainable' and Apple is going to raise prices

Apple is planning to raise prices in response to the ongoing memory shortage. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Apple CEO Tim Cook says "price increases are unavoidable:" We're doing our best to mitigate the huge increases that are being passed to

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BleepingComputer Jun 17 Score 0.8133780175925927

Google to use UK and EU user IP addresses for ad personalization

From August 3, 2026, Google will use IP addresses from UK, EEA and Switzerland users for ad measurement and personalization. It lands as the ICO weighs new consent rules, and years after Google itself called using such signals to identify devices "wrong." [...

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The Verge Jun 17 Score 0.8102198171296296

Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games

Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theore

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BBC News — World Jun 17 Score 0.8100575152777778

Ex-Nigeria oil minister cleared in UK bribery trial

Diezani Alison-Madueke had been accused of receiving bribes from oil tycoons but was found not guilty by a jury at Southwark Crown Court.

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The Verge Jun 17 Score 0.8091040763888889

Anthropic got hit by export rules nobody understands

Anthropic has spent much of this week fighting to get its newest AI models back online after the Trump administration abruptly ordered the company to cut access for all foreign nationals, including users inside the US and its own employees, forcing Anthropic t

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The Guardian — World Jun 17 Score 0.8089723023148149

Titan sub: design flaws and company groupthink central to catastrophe, report finds

Canadian officials find structural defects in material used for hull and say firm failed to fully test ‘novel’ design Canadian safety officials have issued a damning report on the catastrophic final voyage of the Titan submersible, finding that the US company

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Wired Jun 17 Score 0.8089559064814815

No, I Don’t Want to Watch Your Straight Hockey Show

From Amazon’s Off Campus to Netflix’s upcoming Icebreakers, the recent spate of hetero hockey romances shows Hollywood learned the wrong lessons from Heated Rivalry.

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BleepingComputer Jun 17 Score 0.8036627398148148

FortiBleed leak exposes Fortinet VPN credentials for 73,000 devices.

A newly discovered data leak dubbed "FortiBleed" has exposed what appears to be a collection of Fortinet and FortiGate VPN credentials for 73,932 firewall URLs at organizations worldwide. [...]

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Interconnects Jun 17 Score 0.8024447986111112

State of the blog, mid-2026

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

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BleepingComputer Jun 17 Score 0.8016409805555557

Why Account Takeovers Are Rising and How to Stop Them

Account takeovers are rising as attackers bypass traditional defenses through phishing, session hijacking, and MFA fatigue. Specops Software explores how device trust and continuous verification help reduce account takeover risk. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jun 17 Score 0.800323850925926

India's Telegram ban hit the UAE too. Here's how to get around it

India has banned Telegram until June 22 after the app was used to circulate leaked exam papers. CEO Pavel Durov accuses telecom Reliance of BGP hijacking that disrupted the app as far away as the UAE. Here's what happened, and how to get around the block with

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The Guardian — World Jun 17 Score 0.8001074875

Protesters to rally against World Cup sponsor Hyundai before Mexico game

Focus on business dealings with mining company Guadalajara rally to highlight fate of ‘disappeared’ Hyundai will be targeted by protesters at a rally before the Group A game between Mexico and South Korea in Guadalajara on Thursday, due to the World Cup sponso

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MIT Technology Review Jun 17 Score 0.7985808898148149

The Download: a reality check for geoengineering and the science of interoception

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. Hacking the atmosphere: geoengineering gets a reality check Solar geoengineering, the controversial idea that we could del

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Foreign Affairs Jun 17 Score 0.7982472703703705

The Long Shadow of the Iran War

Trump’s most consequential foreign policy mistake.

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MIT Technology Review Jun 17 Score 0.7933031120370371

Hacking the atmosphere: Geoengineering gets a reality check

Jim Franke pulls away the cover page of a presentation on the wraparound desk in his office, revealing an illustration of an odd-­looking aircraft with massive wings stretching out from a stubby fuselage. The uncrewed plane is soaring thousands of meters highe

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MIT Technology Review Jun 17 Score 0.7933031120370371

Entrepreneurs in Nairobi make the case for going solar

Most of Kenya’s power grid runs on renewables. But with 25% of communities lacking centralized electricity, the nation is looking to off-grid solar to hit its goal of delivering universal electricity access by 2030 without driving up emissions. The ever-­impro

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Schneier on Security Jun 15 Score 0.791666436111111

The FCC Wants to Eliminate Burner Phones

A proposed FCC rule would kill burner phones: phones whose accounts are not attached to a particular person. The FCC plans to do this by legally forcing the country's telecoms to store a wealth of personal information about essentially all phone customers, inc

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jun 16 Score 0.7502254356481483

From a VHDX File to a Remcos RAT, (Tue, Jun 16th)

Yesterday, a reader reported to us a malicious ZIP archive (SHA256: a0104921a2d37ab87482ac9a9f5c3713479c118846c3e999178e75b81620c094[1]). Once unzipped, it contains a VHDX file that discloses a malicious JavaScript after being mounted (which is autom

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 18 Score 0.7456322944444445

How to turn off AI in your Google Docs

Here's what you need to do to get those pesky "write with Gemini" pop-ups to go away.

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New Scientist Jun 18 Score 0.7433382388888888

Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge prototype

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which appears to have been an even older monument for marking the summer solstice

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New Scientist Jun 17 Score 0.7424799055555555

No young women have died of cervical cancer in England for years

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical cancer, and now we have the first evidence it prevents deaths too

Science scienceresearchsociety
NASA News Jun 17 Score 0.7407794324074074

NASA Announces Public-Private Partnership to Advance Mars Science

NASA Wednesday announced a new public‑private partnership to advance Mars science by combining the agency’s scientific leadership with commercial innovation. Under this model, NASA will provide the Aeolus atmospheric‑science instrument payload suite, while Rel

Science sciencenasaspace
TechCrunch — AI Jun 17 Score 0.7375494240740741

Roelof Botha joins SpaceX's board of directors

The former Sequoia Capital leader is filling an "existing vacancy" on SpaceX's board, days after the company went public in the largest IPO ever.

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Dark Reading Jun 17 Score 0.7362588

INC Ransomware Thrives by Mastering the Basics

And one of those basics is focusing on sectors where a ransomware disruption creates immediate pressure to pay up, like with healthcare.

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NASA News Jun 17 Score 0.7360822101851852

Search for Hidden Cosmic Companions in Sun’s Backyard

Some stars have planets. Others are orbited by brown dwarfs, balls of gas too massive to be planets, but too low-mass to be stars. Astronomers love these brown dwarf-star pairs because being paired with a star helps reveal a brown dwarf’s age. Ages of astronom

Science sciencenasaspace
The Hacker News Jun 17 Score 0.7337029523148149

Crypto Clipper Campaign Abuses Fake Reviews, AI Narrators, and VirusTotal Comments

An unknown threat actor has been observed leveraging paid or promoted posts on legitimate news websites to drum up buzz for their warez, according to new findings from Check Point Research. The threat actor also has at their disposal a dedicated WordPress phis

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The Hacker News Jun 17 Score 0.7326492486111111

Microsoft Confirms RoguePlanet Defender Zero-Day, Says Patch is in Development

Microsoft has formally disclosed that it's working to release a patch to address a Defender zero-day codenamed RoguePlanet. The vulnerability has now been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), with the tech giant describing it as a priv

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The Hacker News Jun 17 Score 0.7299955449074074

Junior Hacker Used Tailscale and OpenSSH to Keep Access After His C2 Went Offline

A French-speaking attacker broke into a small French automotive business, planted a keylogger, and stole banking and email credentials. Ordinary stuff, until one move near the end. Before his command-and-control server went dark, he installed OpenSSH and Tails

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New Scientist Jun 17 Score 0.7299942574074074

Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer children

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea that there were no major disease outbreaks before the advent of farming and large settlements

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NASA News Jun 17 Score 0.7281979509259259

Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies

Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image released on June 12, 2026, features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211. Galaxy clusters like MACS0329-0211 are important signposts in the story of how

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 17 Score 0.7273448884259259

Humans may have hidden regenerative powers

Scientists have taken a surprising step toward unlocking regeneration in mammals, showing that the ability to rebuild complex body parts may not be lost after all—it may simply be switched off. Using a two-stage treatment, researchers redirected the body’s nor

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 17 Score 0.7238504439814815

Scientists discover spider that disguises itself as a parasitic fungus

Scientists have discovered a new Amazonian spider with an astonishing disguise: it looks like a parasitic fungus. The species, Taczanowskia waska, mimics both the appearance and behavior of the fungus, helping it stay hidden from predators and potentially catc

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 17 Score 0.7233476662037037

On the brink of extinction, the vaquita gets a digital lifeline

Scientists have digitally preserved the world’s most endangered marine mammal by creating highly detailed 3D models of a vaquita skeleton using advanced imaging technology. The virtual archive provides an unprecedented look at the species and could help inspir

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InfoQ Jun 17 Score 0.7166356694444445

GitHub Copilot Desktop App Targets Parallel Agentic Workflows

GitHub has introduced the GitHub Copilot app, a desktop control centre for agent-native development that aims to keep engineers in charge while AI agents handle more coding work. Mario Rodriguez writes on the GitHub blog that the recent wave of coding agents h

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NASA News Jun 17 Score 0.7099974879629629

Low Water at San Carlos Reservoir

Drought and water releases drained the Arizona reservoir to levels that have led to widespread fish deaths.

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Nautilus Jun 17 Score 0.7011640708333332

The Model for Botticelli’s Venus Died at 23

And researchers have a new theory for her untimely demise The post The Model for Botticelli’s Venus Died at 23 appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 17 Score 0.6983015134259258

Cloud Network Insights: end-to-end observability for the Cross-Cloud Network

In today’s digital landscape, the network is no longer confined to a single data center or even a single cloud provider. Enterprises are increasingly adopting cross-cloud strategies, connecting Google Cloud workloads to on-premises environments, other clouds l

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