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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8985229671296295

Quoting Matteo Wong, The Atlantic

Katie Moussouris, a cybersecurity expert and the CEO of Luta Security, told me that Anthropic shared with her a copy of the White House’s report on the Fable jailbreak to get her appraisal. (She said that she is not being paid by Anthropic.) The report, Mousso

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 16 Score 0.8939035222222221

Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand

TIL: Cloudflare CAPTCHA on at least one ampersand I'm using Cloudflare's CAPTCHA (they call it a "Web Application Firewall > Custom rules > Managed Challenge" these days) to prevent crawlers from aggresively spidering my faceted search engine on this site, but

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Foreign Policy Jun 15 Score 0.8823852050925926

Iran Hawks Side-Eye Trump’s Deal

The president will feel criticisms from this group most keenly.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 15 Score 0.8821771333333333

datasette-agent 0.3a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.3a0 New tool, execute_write_sql , which requests user approval and then writes to a database - taking user permissions into account. #27 I added a mechanism for asking user approval in datasette agent 0.2a0 . The new execute_write_sq

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Quanta Magazine Jun 15 Score 0.8785250300925925

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 15 Score 0.8782354666666666

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline

"They screwed us": Personality clashes sent Anthropic's models offline Lots of "source familiar with the administration's thinking" and "source close to Anthropic" in this Axios piece, which is the best collection of behind-the-scenes gossip I've seen abo

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OpenAI News Jun 12 Score 0.8249698518518519

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

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BBC News — World Jun 16 Score 0.8248088111111112

Trump may release US-Iran deal before Friday, Vance says

The US vice-president says the agreement is "about a page and a half" and "very general", meaning many details will be worked out later.

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The Verge Jun 16 Score 0.8233035314814815

Inside the fight over Claude Mythos 5

As the rest of the country celebrated the USA's first World Cup win and the New York Knicks championship, Anthropic spent its weekend fighting the Trump administration over its latest model release. At 5:21 PM on Friday, the company received a US export contro

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BleepingComputer Jun 15 Score 0.8148844125000001

DOJ seizes CFAKE, SOCFAKE deepfake nude sites under TAKE IT DOWN Act

The U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday that it has seized the CFAKE.com and SOCFAKE.com websites, which allegedly hosted nonconsensual AI-generated nude images and videos of women, in what appears to be the first publicly announced domain seizure unde

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The Verge Jun 15 Score 0.813723901851852

Facebook’s new AI Mode search gets its info from public posts

Your public Facebook posts could help inform AI-generated results in Meta's new AI Mode. When you search on Facebook, the "AI Mode" option will appear alongside the usual search modes like "People" and "Marketplace." It's one of several new AI features Meta is

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The Verge Jun 15 Score 0.8136808462962963

Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory

Xbox is closing down Ninja Theory, the studio behind the Hellblade series, a source tells The Verge. Staffers were told on a call on Monday about the closure, but they are hoping the studio will find a buyer. The closure comes as "several" Xbox studios at Micr

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BleepingComputer Jun 15 Score 0.8118274680555556

SimpleHelp bug lets hackers create rogue remote support accounts

A vulnerability in the SimpleHelp remote management software allows unauthenticated attackers to create privileged technician accounts on servers using the OpenID Connect (OIDC) authentication protocol. [...]

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The Verge Jun 15 Score 0.811761401851852

Fox wants to take over your TV — and the tech inside it

Fox is about to take over the TVs in more than 100 million homes worldwide. On Monday, Fox announced that it's acquiring Roku, the streaming middleman that serves as a portal for viewers to hop into services like Netflix, Disney Plus, Hulu, and more. The $22 b

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Wired Jun 15 Score 0.8115720166666668

TCL A65K Soundbar Review: Small Size, Big Sound

Don’t be fooled by the compact size of this soundbar. It’s a solid option for smaller TVs or spaces without having to sacrifice sound quality.

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The Verge Jun 15 Score 0.8108998277777778

Amazon's Smart Thermostat is on sale for just $58

If your electricity bill climbs every summer, a smart thermostat could help keep cooling costs in check. The Amazon Smart Thermostat is an excellent option for its price, especially today. It's down to just $57.99 at Amazon as a part of Amazon’s early Prime Da

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MIT Technology Review Jun 15 Score 0.8095849699074075

Why do South Koreans love AI so much?

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. When I landed in Seoul after a grueling 12-hour flight from San Francisco, I walked through an unmanned immigration checkp

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The Guardian — World Jun 15 Score 0.8093286967592593

Canada eliminates human rights watchdog that oversees companies operating abroad

Mark Carney says Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise office hasn’t been ‘effective’ since its 2019 setup Canada is eliminating a watchdog that investigates alleged human rights violations committed by Canadian companies operating abroad, after Mar

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BleepingComputer Jun 15 Score 0.8076677458333335

OptinMonster WordPress plugin hacked in CDN supply-chain attack

WordPress plugins OptinMonster, TrustPulse, and PushEngage have been compromised in a supply-chain attack impacting Awesome Motive-s content distribution network (CDN). [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 15 Score 0.8071851782407408

Woman, 21, dies after being thrown from Brazil rope jump bridge without harness

Instructors hurled Maria Eduarda Rodrigues de Freitas into 40-metre abyss without attaching safety equipment A 21-year-old woman who died when two rope-jumping instructors threw her from a bridge without first harnessing her to security equipment has been buri

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War on the Rocks Jun 15 Score 0.8070747648148149

Can Bankova Muster Political Will to Make Institutional Reforms During War?

Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering in

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BleepingComputer Jun 15 Score 0.8069895050925927

Cisco fixes SD-WAN vManage flaw exploited in zero-day attacks

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, tracked as CVE-2026-20262, that was exploited in attacks to escalate to root privileges. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 15 Score 0.8067263819444445

South African jazz pianist Abdullah Ibrahim dies aged 91

The accomplished musician, who recorded over 70 albums in his career, died peacefully in Germany after a short illness The South African jazz composer and pianist Abdullah Ibrahim has died at the age of 91. His family announced his death in a statement release

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BleepingComputer Jun 15 Score 0.8060029310185186

Council of Europe investigates ShinyHunters data breach claims

The Council of Europe, the continent's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing claims of a data breach made by the ShinyHunters extortion group over the weekend. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jun 15 Score 0.8036497847222223

This man with ALS is "the first power user" of a brain implant that lets him speak

Casey Harrell has had a set of electrodes embedded in his brain for almost three years. Harrell, who has amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and is paralyzed, first used his brain-computer interface (BCI) to “speak” sentences with the help of a research team i

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The Guardian — World Jun 15 Score 0.802195363425926

Argentinian activist who spent 50 years looking for disappeared son dies

Outpouring of public grief for Lidia ‘Taty’ Almeida, leader of group of mothers that has marched every week since 1977 The human rights activist Lidia “Taty” Almeida – who spent more than half a century searching for her son after he was forcibly disappeared b

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MIT Technology Review Jun 15 Score 0.7985812662037037

The Download: cutting AC emissions, and nature’s drug designer

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. These new solid-state ACs promise a cool future. Scientists aren’t so sure. After three years of record-­breaking heat and

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 15 Score 0.7983032662037037

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20262 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Directory or Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2026-54420 LiteSpeed cPanel Plugi

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Foreign Affairs Jun 15 Score 0.7849698717592594

How to Beat an Autocrat

The real lessons of Orban’s defeat.

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Schneier on Security Jun 12 Score 0.7684436597222222

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Fluid Pump

This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.

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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.7683031851851853

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

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Quanta Magazine Jun 12 Score 0.7567569745370369

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 12 Score 0.7517279189814814

Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked : "Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic

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NASA News Jun 16 Score 0.7442636328703703

Explore JPL to Take Place Oct. 10, 11

Celebrating its 90th anniversary this year, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory invites the public to its campus at the base of the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California for an open-house event, E

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jun 15 Score 0.7416454560185185

Inside the Modern SOC: The 72-Minute Race

Attackers can move from access to exfiltration in 72 minutes. Learn how modern SOC teams close the speed gap with Unit 42's AI-driven automation, threat hunting, MDR and Managed XSIAM. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The 72-Minute Race appeared first on Unit 4

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 15 Score 0.7397021087962963

The US government's Anthropic models ban was never about an AI jailbreak

The Trump administration's decision that forced Anthropic to pull its latest cybersecurity models could be reactionary, retaliatory, or both, but the message is clear: The AI industry isn't immune from U.S. government interference.

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Risky Bulletin Jun 15 Score 0.7384928800925926

Between Two Nerds: Why NATO and cyber don't mix

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about how NATO is set up to deter conventional conflict, and how that approach is fundamentally unsuited for ongoing, everyday cyber operations that are intended to confound adversaries. This epi

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InfoQ Jun 15 Score 0.7383027287037037

Xcode 27 Extends Agent Integration, Revamps UI, and Introduces DeviceHub

At WWDC 2026, Apple introduced Xcode 27, which makes it easy to kick off tasks with coding agents, iterate on new project ideas, and customize the workspace. It also introduces DeviceHub for unified simulator and device management, along with enhancements to O

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InfoQ Jun 15 Score 0.7381638398148148

Anthropic Explains How Claude Builds Its Own Execution Harnesses

Anthropic has published additional details about the orchestration system behind Claude Code's recently introduced Dynamic Workflows, highlighting how the feature generates custom execution harnesses designed to coordinate teams of AI agents for complex tasks.

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GitHub Blog Jun 15 Score 0.7370675115740741

GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands

GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Learn how to use slash commands to control your terminal AI agent. The post GitHub Copilot CLI for Beginners: Overview of common slash commands appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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The Hacker News Jun 15 Score 0.7361949606481482

Chinese Hackers Abused Google Workspace Rules to Steal Research and Defense Emails

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense email. The way in was a backdoor on their REDCap research servers that stole login

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The Hacker News Jun 15 Score 0.7358829236111111

North Korean Hackers Are Turning Developer Tools Into Malware Delivery Channels

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Famous Chollima, HexagonalRodent, and Void Dokkaebi). According to a report publishe

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Dark Reading Jun 15 Score 0.7357420268518519

Copilot 'SearchLeak' Attack Allows 1-Click Data Theft

The critical, three-stage attack is now patched, but it's part of a new group of AI prompt-injection issues that use hidden URLs and other variables.

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NASA News Jun 15 Score 0.7345719662037037

NASA’s Chandra Finds Unexpected Fireworks in Aftermath of Stellar Explosions

The aftermath of a supernova, a stellar explosion, is usually a slowly fading cloud of hot gas. So when astronomers pointed NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory at the nearby galaxy Messier 83 (M83), they did not expect to find a population of supernova remnants,

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 15 Score 0.7341525717592593

SpaceX is public: Everything you need to know post-IPO

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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NASA News Jun 15 Score 0.7334784476851852

NASA Astronauts to Answer Questions from New Jersey Students

Students in New Jersey will hear from NASA astronauts Chris Williams and Jessica Meir as they answer prerecorded STEM questions while aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will begin at 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, June 18, and will

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NASA News Jun 15 Score 0.7324701143518518

NASA’s SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon Returns Packed with Space Station Science

Scientists await a big splash in the Pacific Ocean as one of the most research-packed Dragon spacecraft to date returns, completing the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Biological and materials samples, along

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Dark Reading Jun 15 Score 0.7312471194444444

Most CISOs Report Pressure to Bury Bad Security News

Executive leaders may not be saying it aloud, but business objectives and priorities don't always promote timely disclosures.

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NASA News Jun 15 Score 0.7306224291666666

Frontiers Forum Speaker Series

Voices Shaping the Future of Space Members of the public are invited to join some of NASA’s brightest minds as they discuss agency missions and current topics in aerospace technology, science, and innovation. Each event will feature NASA experts, and the serie

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New Scientist Jun 15 Score 0.7299863078703703

Sperm have been made magnetic to allow IVF inside the body

IVF could be done inside the body using sperm that have been magnetised, allowing them to be directed to an egg while getting around the need for invasive egg retrievals and embryo transfers

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New Scientist Jun 15 Score 0.7299557523148148

The social media ban is an experiment – here’s how it will be studied

Scientists have long grappled with how to measure the effect of social media on children. Now, the UK government has announced a total ban for everyone under 16, and researchers are rushing to design rigorous studies before it comes into effect

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New Scientist Jun 15 Score 0.726653900462963

Are useful and error-free quantum computers only two years away?

Quantum computing firm QuEra says it plans to make a fault-tolerant quantum computer and offer it to users through the cloud in 2028, which will require a real leap in engineering

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InfoQ Jun 15 Score 0.7253027287037037

Presentation: Practical Performance Tuning for Serverless Java on AWS

AWS Hero Vadym Kazulkin explains how to overcome Java’s enterprise hurdle on AWS Lambda: cold starts and memory footprints. He shares a technical deep dive into performance tuning, comparing fully managed AWS SnapStart (with pre-snapshot priming hooks) against

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 15 Score 0.7231566314814815

This strange material can become strong or fall apart in seconds

Scientists have found that staple-shaped particles can tangle together to create a material that is both strong and flexible. Unlike conventional materials, these particles can be locked into a sturdy structure or rapidly unraveled using vibrations. The unusua

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 15 Score 0.7182232981481481

Scientists turned red lettuce green and something surprising happened

Researchers used genome editing to block the production of red pigments in lettuce, causing other beneficial plant compounds to build up instead. The lettuce continued to grow normally, pointing toward a new way to create crops with customized nutritional prof

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Quanta Magazine Jun 11 Score 0.7160074374999998

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking techno

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 15 Score 0.6941346046296295

What’s new in data agents: Supercharging your AI workflows

The rise of AI agents is fundamentally disrupting applications and analytical systems. Generic AI platforms don't usually have access to the context stored within enterprise databases. This is because traditional data architectures often lack context for agent

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 12 Score 0.6924920282407407

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Micros

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 15 Score 0.6924679374999999

Cloud CISO Perspectives: The 4 lessons that guided AI Threat Defense

Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for June 2026. Today, we introduce Chris Betz as the new CISO of Google Cloud. For his first Cloud CISO Perspectives, Chris shares four key lessons we learned about using AI to the defender’s advantage while buildin

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