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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8900956541666666

Open Source AI Gap Map

Open Source AI Gap Map Current AI is "a global partnership building a public option for AI", founded as a non-profit at the AI Action Summit in Paris in February 2025 and backed by serious capital ($400m already committed). They launched their Gap Map a couple

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8890220430555554

Quoting Josh W. Comeau

I just launched my third course, Whimsical Animations, and so far, it’s on track to sell roughly ⅓ as many copies as a typical course launch. It’s a similar story with my two existing courses. Sales are down significantly from last year. There are likely a lot

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8847229689814814

Fable's judgement

One of the most interesting tips I got from the Fireside Chat I hosted with Cat Wu and Thariq Shihipar from the Claude Code team at AIE on Wednesday was to let Fable (and to a certain extent Opus) use their own judgement rather than dictating how they should w

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 3 Score 0.8780488949074073

June 2026 newsletter

The June edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here . This month: Claude Fable 5, GPT-5.6, and US export restrictions GLM-5.2 is the new best open weights model Tokenma

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Foreign Policy Jul 3 Score 0.8733278282407406

Venezuela’s Bungled Earthquake Response

Natural disasters have accelerated political change elsewhere in the region.

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Schneier on Security Jul 3 Score 0.8720649574074073

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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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8233031620370371

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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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8083031620370371

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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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.8083031620370371

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 0.8083031620370371

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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BleepingComputer Jul 3 Score 0.8080274722222223

NetNut proxy network disrupted, 2 million infected devices cut off

A joint operation involving Google has disrupted NetNut, a residential proxy network that gave access to millions of compromised Android devices, including smart TVs and streaming boxes. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jul 3 Score 0.8075983814814816

A device that revives eyeballs from dead donors could make eye transplants possible

It’s not easy to transplant a whole human eye. The surgery is difficult. And the eyes themselves start to degenerate as soon as they’ve left the body. When surgeons attempted it a few years ago, the newly-transplanted eye wasn’t able to see. But researchers be

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The Verge Jul 3 Score 0.8075789976851853

Amazon updated 2023’s Fire HD 10 tablet with 4GB of RAM

The Fire HD 8 that launched in 2024 was the last new addition to Amazon's budget-minded tablet lineup, but the company has quietly updated the Fire HD 10 that debuted the year before. In 2023 it was offered with multiple storage configurations that each came w

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Wired Jul 3 Score 0.8058035055555556

Google DeepMind Unionization Talks Are Off to a Rocky Start

During negotiations on Wednesday, employees voiced frustrations with what they consider an unwillingness among executives to engage meaningfully with the prospect of unionization.

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The Verge Jul 3 Score 0.8033035347222223

While you’re watching the World Cup, the feds may be watching you

It's a big year for America. It's the semiquincentennial, otherwise known as America250, and the United States is cohosting the World Cup. But spectators at these events - and the millions of people who live in the cities hosting them - may not realize that th

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The Verge Jul 3 Score 0.8030711273148149

This slim camera has a transparent LCD screen for a viewfinder

Despite the fact that smartphones have become impressively capable shooters, standalone point-and-shoot cameras are enjoying a renaissance. The tiny Kodak Charmera is still wildly popular, while influencers are scrambling to find aging Canon cameras on eBay. G

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The Verge Jul 3 Score 0.8027808495370371

I finally got my Trump phone

Where's the Trump phone? We're going to keep talking about it every week. One year on, our phones have finally arrived. 12 months, 16 days, 21 hours, and 54 minutes after I first heard about Trump Mobile's T1 Phone 8002 (gold version), I'm finally holding one

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BleepingComputer Jul 3 Score 0.8019802500000001

ARToken PhaaS exposes EvilTokens' Microsoft 365 phishing toolkit

A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform dubbed "ARToken" appears to operate as an affiliate of the EvilTokens phishing platform, giving researchers a glimpse into an extensive toolkit designed to compromise Microsoft 365. [...]

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The Verge Jul 3 Score 0.8016368680555557

Hydration isn’t complicated: Just drink water

This is Optimizer, a weekly newsletter sent from Verge senior reviewer Victoria Song that dissects and discusses the latest gizmos and potions that swear they're going to change your life. Opt in for Optimizer here. Europe is melting, the eastern US is current

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MIT Technology Review Jul 3 Score 0.7985812518518519

The Download: a smoking "endgame" and a new Elizabeth Bear story

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. The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway. —Jessica Hamzelou As the parent of two little

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Wired Jul 3 Score 0.7958312833333334

7 Best Phones You Can’t Buy in the US (2026)

Avoid phone FOMO with our favorite smartphones that aren’t officially sold stateside but are available in markets like the UK and Europe.

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MIT Technology Review Jul 3 Score 0.7933034740740741

The UK’s generational tobacco ban might not work. I’m supporting it anyway.

As the parent of two little girls, I often think about how their childhood is different from mine. The seven-year-old is learning about AI at school. The five-year-old is given internet-based homework every week. And they are both absolutely repulsed by the id

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War on the Rocks Jul 3 Score 0.7916373837962963

The Integrated Circuit and the Future of AI Leadership

Editor's note: This is the first article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America's 250t

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War on the Rocks Jul 3 Score 0.7908216430555556

Misguided and Misunderstood: Trump’s Approach to U.S. Troops in Europe

For many observers, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's speech on the future of NATO, delivered in Brussels on June 18, 2026, constituted a perfect example of how the Trump administration is angrily abandoning the longstanding U.S. commitment to European secur

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Foreign Affairs Jul 3 Score 0.7849698824074075

The Military and the Republic

What America’s armed forces can—and cannot—do for democracy.

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Schneier on Security Jun 30 Score 0.753468661111111

The Realities of AI Video Surveillance

The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia. I wrote about this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and n

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Politico Europe Jul 4 Score 0.7466365833333334

America's accountability crisis is coming for Europe too

While the immediate cause for fraying relations can be found in American politics and policy, a contributing cause lies in the continent’s weakness and self-delusion.

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 3 Score 0.7388590643518519

The only AI glossary you'll need this year

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

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The Hacker News Jul 3 Score 0.7371787898148148

Unpatched Flaws Disclosed in Filesystem Bundled Into Millions of Embedded Devices

Security firm runZero has disclosed seven vulnerabilities in FatFs, a small filesystem library that lets a device read and write the FAT and exFAT formats used on USB drives and SD cards. The flaws matter because FatFs is nearly everywhere. It s

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The Hacker News Jul 3 Score 0.7360815675925926

New "Bad Epoll" Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Unprivileged Users Gain Root, Hits Android

A newly disclosed Linux kernel flaw called Bad Epoll (CVE-2026-46242) lets an ordinary user with no special access take full control of a machine as root. It affects Linux desktops, servers, and Android, and a fix is out. Bad Epoll sits in the same small stret

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New Scientist Jul 3 Score 0.734987687962963

‘Hobbit’ hominins scavenged meat left over by Komodo dragons

An experiment that involved feeding a dead goat to a Komodo dragon as well as an analysis of thousands of ancient bones suggests that Homo floresiensis was neither a skilled hunter of big game nor a master of fire

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The Hacker News Jul 3 Score 0.7348422157407407

New Avalon Malware Framework Packs CrownX Ransomware Capabilities

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a previously undocumented modular malware framework codenamed Avalon that's distributed by means of a multi-stage phishing chain capable of bypassing traditional security controls. Avalon combines credential collection

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TechCrunch Jul 3 Score 0.734095175462963

The Dune keypad device can be your meeting controller and more

The gadget has three buttons, and it changes context based on what app you are looking at. For instance, in meeting apps and sites, it could be toggle mic, toggle video, and bring window to the front.

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The Hacker News Jul 3 Score 0.7301713824074074

North Korea-Linked npm Packages Mimic Rollup Polyfills to Steal Developer Secrets

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been linked to a fresh set of malicious npm packages that masquerade as Rollup polyfill tooling to facilitate remote access and data theft. According to JFrog, the packages "rollup-packages-polyfill-core" and "rollup

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New Scientist Jul 3 Score 0.7286849101851852

A volcano has erupted remnants of Earth's primordial magma ocean

Earth was once covered by a global magma ocean, which later cooled and crystallised – now traces of this primordial event have been found in magma from a young volcano in the Indian Ocean

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The Hacker News Jul 3 Score 0.7259852712962963

Armored Likho Targets Government Agencies, Power Sector with BusySnake Stealer

A previously undocumented threat actor known as Armored Likho has been attributed to cyber attacks targeting government agencies and the electric power sector across Russia, Brazil, and Kazakhstan. "Armored Likho blends financially motivated campaigns targetin

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InfoQ Jul 3 Score 0.7233027236111111

OpenTelemetry Graduates to CNCF's Highest Maturity Level

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) has announced the graduation of OpenTelemetry, elevating the project to the foundation's highest level of maturity and formally recognizing it as production-ready for enterprise use. By Craig Risi

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InfoQ Jul 3 Score 0.7216360569444444

Mini book: Agentic AI Architecture

In this eMag, we try to establish agentic AI architecture as a new type of software architecture that will likely dominate the industry for years to come. The articles, written by industry experts, cover various elements and aspects of agentic AI architecture.

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CyberScoop Jul 3 Score 0.7116366861111111

Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware

Citizen Lab says the phone of a member of Europe’s PEGA Committee was infected twice with Pegasus, the NSO Group spyware that gave the panel its name. The post Someone infected a spyware probe overseer with spyware appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Risky Bulletin Jul 3 Score 0.7100887708333333

Risky Bulletin: FatFs bugs enable physical access attacks on a load of devices

FatFs bugs enable physical access attacks on industrial equipment, a clever password spraying attack bypasses M365 MFA, an AI agent is deploying ransomware in live attacks, and a webinar platform sues two security firms over bad IOCs. Show notes Risky Bulletin

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Lobsters Jul 3 Score 0.7048348379629629

Magit 4.6 released

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New Scientist Jul 3 Score 0.7034580583333333

Evocative photos of Canadian Arctic win New Scientist Editors Award

Natalya Saprunova's photo series exploring coastal erosion and permafrost thaw across Inuvialuit territories in Canada has won the New Scientist Editors Award at the Earth Photo 2026 competition

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Lobsters Jul 3 Score 0.7021760416666666

My favorite keyboards

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Lobsters Jul 3 Score 0.6895427083333332

Fourteener Lobsters

Hey folks, Once more around the sun, today is 14 years since Lobsters launched in 2012. Like the the American fourteeners , our activity charts have been busily sloping upwards. We now have 20,412 users who've submitted 127,589 stories, written 696,054 comment

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CyberScoop Jul 2 Score 0.6890927046296297

Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US

Peter Stokes boasted on social media about the luxurious globetrotting life he enjoyed while he was still a child. The post Alleged longstanding member of Scattered Spider extradited to US appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 30 Score 0.6863596064814815

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights. The post Ski

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CNCF Blog Jul 3 Score 0.6841364592592591

How data sovereignty is changing cloud native infrastructure design

The core issue isn't where your server sits. It's who can be compelled to hand over what's on it. For years, cloud providers treated sovereignty as a geography problem. Pick a region. Choose a country. Keep...

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Phys.org Jul 4 Score 0.6721925810185185

AI must be built with Indigenous Knowledges, not against them

As Australia marks 50 years of NAIDOC Week, honoring the world's oldest living culture, humanity's newest technology has yet to reckon with a simple principle: "nothing about us, without us." The concern is that artificial intelligence (AI), like so

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Phys.org Jul 4 Score 0.6694148032407408

Insect-borne diseases in the Amazon linked to land use and rural economies

Diseases spread by insects in the Brazilian Amazon are not randomly distributed but form distinct regional patterns linked to land use, rural economies and environmental change, according to new research led by the Environmental Change Institute (ECI) at the U

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Phys.org Jul 3 Score 0.6660814699074075

Plug-and-play single-photon source can work at room temperature

The Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science (KRISS) has developed a room-temperature single-photon source built into a compact 19-inch rack-mounted device that operates without cryogenic cooling. Designed as a plug-and-play system that works as soon

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