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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 6 Score 0.8941034499999999

sqlite-utils 4.0rc3

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc3 I hoped to release sqlite-utils 4.0 stable this weekend, but as I worked through the backlog of issues and PRs with a combination of Claude Fable 5 and GPT-5.5 the changelog since rc2 kept getting bigger . The biggest new feature i

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Foreign Policy Jul 6 Score 0.8913575393518518

Jimmy Carter Knew What Ails America

One of history’s most misunderstood speeches is also one of its most important.

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Krebs on Security Jul 2 Score 0.8320874018518519

FBI Seizes NetNut Proxy Platform, Popa Botnet

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today it worked with industry partners to seize hundreds of domains associated with NetNut, a sprawling residential proxy service operated by the publicly-traded Israeli company Alarum Technologies [NASDAQ: ALAR].

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MIT Technology Review Jul 6 Score 0.8246556564814815

South Korea’s hottest new bachelors are chip workers

Baek, a 35-year-old manager at the South Korean semiconductor titan SK Hynix, was enrolled in Sunoo, a matchmaking company based in Seoul, a year ago. In a move typical of anxious South Korean parents, his mother signed him up, hoping to find a good wife for h

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War on the Rocks Jul 6 Score 0.8221778574074075

A Catholic Security Scholar’s Case for Responsible Military AI

What do you do when two identities that make up your deepest self find themselves on opposite sides of a moral and spiritual battlefield?I am Catholic. I have been one for over 20 years since I made the life-altering decision to join a friend for Mass one day.

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Foreign Affairs Jul 6 Score 0.8163223439814815

A Better Way to Build AI

America’s dominance depends on getting local communities on board.

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 6 Score 0.8096553597222222

🤗 Kernels: Major Updates

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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The Verge Jul 5 Score 0.8071806805555556

Some of the nation’s rich are letting AI teach their kids

Most Americans don't trust AI. It's proven that it doesn't know what safe toppings for pizza are. People don't even want to listen to AI music. But none of that matters for some of America's wealthy, who are turning to AI to teach their kids instead of traditi

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The Guardian — World Jul 5 Score 0.8028399305555556

Florida Republican says deporting Haitians with TPS would be ‘huge mistake’

‘Haiti is a failed state’, says Carlos Giménez, congressman and Miami Cuban exile, after controversial court ruling Carlos Giménez, a Republican congressman from Florida, broke with the Trump administration on Sunday, calling on the White House to reconsider i

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The Verge Jul 5 Score 0.8004890138888889

Mr. Lif’s Emergency Rations EP is post-9/11 hip hop at its most daring

There was a period in the early aughts when Definitive Jux (nee: Def Jux) seemed like it was going to be the future of hip hop. While the label featured plenty of experimental, boundary-pushing, and politically minded acts, Lif stood out as the most "conscious

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The Verge Jul 5 Score 0.7963223472222223

Where to preorder Grand Theft Auto VI

Rockstar's long-awaited Grand Theft Auto VI is launching November 19th, 2026 for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series S/X consoles. The game will be available digitally at launch, with physical cases containing codes, not discs, so your options for preordering are st

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The Verge Jul 5 Score 0.7936329953703705

Infuriating Google commercial imagines the founding fathers embracing AI

"Group project, but make it 1776." That's how a new commercial for Google Workspace opens. And things only get cringier from there. The clip imagines what it would be like if the founding fathers turned to Google's collaboration tools and Gemini to help them d

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BleepingComputer Jul 5 Score 0.7934017314814815

Flipper Zero firmware development continues with community help

Flipper Devices says development of the Flipper Zero firmware will continue, albeit with a smaller internal team and greater reliance on community contributions. [...]

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The Verge Jul 5 Score 0.792989013888889

The Sourdough Sidekick automates the boring bit of baking

Baking sourdough bread is inherently old-fashioned, relying on natural fermentation and wild yeast instead of the simple, predictable commercial stuff. So it might sound anathema to bring a gadget into the mix. The trick to the Sourdough Sidekick - backed and

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Wired Jul 5 Score 0.7872667888888889

Review: TCL RM9L RGB-Mini LED (2026)

This massive 85-inch model is highly customizable but jaw-droppingly expensive.

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Foreign Policy Jul 2 Score 0.7614297615740739

Angsty in Ankara

Can NATO move past a need to keep Trump happy?

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Foreign Policy Jul 2 Score 0.7605306875

Is Sports Diplomacy Still Possible?

Hard power has left its mark on this year’s World Cup.

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Foreign Policy Jul 2 Score 0.7593589282407407

Russia’s 11-Hour Assault on Kyiv

The deadly missile and drone bombardment was retaliation for recent Ukrainian attacks on critical Russian infrastructure.

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InfoQ Jul 6 Score 0.7496831222222222

Presentation: Practical Robustness: Going Beyond Memory Safety in Rust

Andy Brinkmeyer shares how engineering leaders and architects can use Rust to build failure-proof systems. Moving beyond memory safety, he explains how ownership, enums, and the typestate pattern embed complex runtime protocols into compile-time checks. Learn

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CyberScoop Jul 6 Score 0.7496554175925926

Finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part

AI is surfacing vulnerabilities at a scale the industry has never seen, and most organizations have no way to determine which ones actually matter. The post Finding vulnerabilities was never the hard part appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Quanta Magazine Jul 2 Score 0.7495865060185184

Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s New Universe

Faced with observations of early black holes and galaxies that weren’t expected to exist, scientists have come up with a wealth of new theories to explain them. Now they just need to figure out which ones are true. The post Astrophysicists Puzzle Over Webb’s N

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The Hacker News Jul 6 Score 0.7494026560185185

New TrojPix Attack Leaks Data From Air-Gapped Systems via Video Cable Emissions

Researchers at Shandong University have shown a fast new way to pull data off computers that are cut off from every network. The technique, called TrojPix, tweaks on-screen pixels in ways the eye cannot see, so that the video cable carrying them

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The Hacker News Jul 6 Score 0.7483651560185185

New Java-Based QuimaRAT MaaS Built to Run on Windows, Linux, and macOS

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a novel Java-based remote access trojan (RAT) called QuimaRAT that's capable of targeting Windows, Linux, and macOS environments. According to LevelBlue, the cross-platform malware is advertised under a malware-as-a-servi

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InfoQ Jul 6 Score 0.7479886777777778

AI Model Context Protocol Adds Centralised Auth for Enterprise

The Model Context Protocol team has promoted its Enterprise-Managed Authorisation extension to stable status, adding a centralised way for organisations to control access to MCP servers through their identity provider. The project states the aim is to replace

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The Hacker News Jul 6 Score 0.7470952486111111

Opera GX Flaw Let Malicious Sites Auto-Install Mods to Steal Data From Visited Pages

Researchers found a flaw in Opera GX, the gaming-focused version of the Opera browser, that let a malicious website silently install a browser add-on and use it to lift specific data from the pages a victim visits. In a proof of concept, they reconstructe

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New Scientist Jul 6 Score 0.744674925

Can the biggest problems in AI be solved by philosophy?

AI companies are hiring philosophy graduates to help them understand the nature of consciousness, whether it can be replicated and how their systems can be made better and more reliable

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InfoQ Jul 6 Score 0.7446553444444445

Cloudflare and AWS Embed x402 Agent Payments at the Edge

Cloudflare and AWS both implemented x402 stablecoin micropayments at their edge networks within two weeks. The open protocol under the Linux Foundation revives HTTP 402 for agent-to-service payments with sub-cent transaction costs. Coinbase reports 169 million

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Schneier on Security Jul 2 Score 0.7433147129629629

Cybersecurity Mission Creep in the US

Interesting paper: " Cybersecurity Mission Creep ." Abstract: Cybersecurity is experiencing mission creep. Policymakers are casting more and more problems as issues of cybersecurity. So reframed, wildly different policy issues, from misinformation, to child so

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Risky Bulletin Jul 6 Score 0.7419180685185185

Risky Bulletin: EU official’s phone infected with Pegasus

A European MP’s phone was infected by Pegasus spyware, Android drops its PIN guessing limit from 1,800 attempts to 20, Alibaba bans employees from using Claude at work, and there’s a new vulnerability in the Linux kernel. Show notes Risky Bulletin: Android dro

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SRE Weekly Jul 6 Score 0.7368860689814815

SRE Weekly Issue #524

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Buildkite: More places to run, more scale to manage and maintain, usually means more blind spots; not here. Buildkite's control plane holds the live state of every job, agent and queue, regardless of throughput

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TechCrunch Jul 5 Score 0.7306357902777778

Uber’s European expansion plans may have hit a speed bump

Back in February, Uber announced ambitious plans to launch in seven new European markets in 2026 — but now five of those launches are reportedly on hold.

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TechCrunch Jul 5 Score 0.7287969013888889

Trump memecoin investors lost $3.8 billion, analysis finds

Nearly 1 million people have lost a total of $3.8 billion after buying President Donald Trump’s $TRUMP memecoin, while Trump made $636 million.

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InfoQ Jul 5 Score 0.7095164555555555

AWS Introduces Amazon S3 Annotations

AWS recently announced Amazon S3 Annotations, a feature that lets teams attach rich, searchable context such as summaries, classifications, compliance data, or AI-generated insights directly to S3 objects. Annotations can be updated independently of the object

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BleepingComputer Jul 3 Score 0.6923540458333334

Claude Fable 5 isn’t permanently leaving subscriptions, Anthropic says

Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 won't be accessible via Claude subscriptions after July 7, but it's not a permanent change, and the company expects the model to return outside the usage-based plan soon. [...]

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OpenAI News Jun 29 Score 0.6913218277777778

Mapping Europe’s AI Workforce Opportunity

A new OpenAI report maps how AI could reshape jobs across the EU, highlighting which occupations may face automation, growth, or workflow changes.

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Lobsters Jul 5 Score 0.6862720597222222

Work In Progress Rust

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MIT Technology Review Jul 2 Score 0.675687137962963

Achieving operational excellence with AI

Frameworks like Lean Six Sigma and business process management (BPM) first gained traction because they promised clarity in the chaos—a structured way to bring order to messy, sprawling operations. Lean Six Sigma emphasized statistical rigor and quality contro

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Phys.org Jul 6 Score 0.6746568662037038

Neutral lipids enable precision control over supramolecular polymerization

The formation of supramolecular polymers within living cells is an emerging strategy for regulating cellular functions, and lipid droplets (LDs) are promising environments for such processes. LDs are cellular organelles composed mainly of neutral lipids, such

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The Next Web Jul 6 Score 0.6740442861111111

Shampoo and cookies get an AI makeover as consumer giants rewire their labs

The AI story has mostly been told through chips, data centres, and the companies building the models. It is now being told through the shampoo aisle. The world’s largest makers of everyday goods, the businesses behind the bottles and packets in most kitchens a

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Infosecurity Magazine Jul 6 Score 0.6738219708333334

Researchers Claim First Fully Agentic Ransomware: JadePuffer

Researchers have revealed JadePuffer, the first agentic AI-powered ransomware campaign, highlighting how autonomous agents can automate cyber-attacks

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Phys.org Jul 6 Score 0.6735448291666667

'Major' damage as super typhoon hits US islands

A "super typhoon" with the force of a Category 5 hurricane tore through the U.S. Pacific territories of the Northern Marianas and Guam on Monday, with authorities saying they had received reports of "major" damage on the small island of Rota.

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 2 Score 0.6696553375000001

ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain unauthorized access to device information or cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals are affect

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 2 Score 0.6696553375000001

Gardyn IoT Hub

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated users to access and control IoT Hub managed devices. The following versions of Gardyn IoT Hub are affected: Home Firmware Studio Firmware Cloud API CVSS Vendor Equip

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 2 Score 0.6696553375000001

CubeSpace CW0057 Reaction Wheel

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to upload arbitrary malicious firmware to the device. The following versions of CubeSpace CW0057 Reaction Wheel are affected: CW0057 Reaction Wheel CVSS Vendor Equipment Vu

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Schneier on Security Jun 29 Score 0.6314693425925925

Factoring RSA Keys with Many Zeros

Interesting research on a new class of weak RSA keys: keys with lots of zeros. It turns out that these keys are out in the wild. The badkeys project is an open-source service that checks public keys for known vulnerabilities. While developing this tool, Hanno

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Quanta Magazine Jun 29 Score 0.6279929874999999

What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger

The mechanical process of cell division exerts powerful, if microscopic, forces. How do the molecular machines that power it manage the strain? The post What Breaks a Cell’s Ribs Can Make It Stronger first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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NASA News Jul 2 Score 0.6047208101851852

NASA’s Artemis II Breaks Agency Streaming Record

NASA’s live coverage of the Artemis II mission mission drew unprecedented public interest – including more than 149.4 million views of the launch, lunar flyby, splashdown on NASA-owned platforms, incl

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Towards Data Science Jul 5 Score 0.5663219467592594

PANet Paper Walkthrough: When Feature Pyramids Go Bottom-Up

Understanding how PANet shortens the path between low-level and high-level features The post PANet Paper Walkthrough: When Feature Pyramids Go Bottom-Up appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 29 Score 0.565054175925926

Memora: A Harmonic Memory Representation Balancing Abstraction and Specificity

AI agents can't remember past conversations. They must constantly reload or retrieve context, which grows less efficient as tasks get longer and more complex. Memora solves this with a scalable memory system separating what’s stored from how it's retrieved. Th

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Google AI Blog Jun 29 Score 0.5563219740740741

Ask an AI expert: What exactly is the full stack?

A Google expert explains what it means to take a full-stack approach to AI and why it’s been the foundation of our AI work for so long.

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AI News Jul 3 Score 0.5188216884259259

Takeda signs US$600M AI drug discovery deal with Insilico

Takeda has entered a strategic collaboration with Hong Kong-based Insilico Medicine to use AI in early-stage drug discovery across the Japanese pharmaceutical company’s therapeutic areas. The companies did not disclose which therapeutic areas or disease target

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Towards Data Science Jul 3 Score 0.4921552800925927

AI Agents Explained: What Is a ReAct Loop and How Does It Work?

How agents reason, act, and observe their way to a final answer, one step at a time The post AI Agents Explained: What Is a ReAct Loop and How Does It Work? appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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AI News Jul 2 Score 0.486544373611111

NVIDIA BioNeMo accelerates Anthropic Claude Science

Anthropic Claude Science now integrates the NVIDIA BioNeMo Agent Toolkit to accelerate computational life sciences research. Anthropic has launched the public beta of Claude Science, an AI workbench built for scientific research. The platform enables scientist

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