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Foreign Policy Jul 1 Score 0.8885649652777777

Bangladesh Sends Signal With China Visit

The two countries announce a “new era” in ties during Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s trip.

Geopolitics geopoliticsforeign-policyanalysis
Quanta Magazine Jul 1 Score 0.8766372449074074

For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides

Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab. The post For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch G

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Schneier on Security Jul 1 Score 0.8714526319444443

Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising

Papa Johns is spying on people's buying activities to predict when they are low on food: The pizza chain recently tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they're low on groceries—and thus mo

Security securitycryptographypolicy
BBC News — World Jul 2 Score 0.8214816782407408

Did this AI anti-drug video make drugs look appealing?

Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department removed a AI-generated K-pop video, after facing backlash that it made substances look too appealing.

Geopolitics geopoliticsbbcworld-news
The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.8160731592592593

Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign

Apple is working on a "revamped" version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on "internal imp

Technology technologygadgetsconsumer
The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.8150703814814816

The funeral for PlayStation discs has begun

Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony's recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. "It's sad to see. This decision is only a

Technology technologygadgetsconsumer
BleepingComputer Jul 1 Score 0.8143419467592593

FortiBleed credential-theft campaign linked to Lynx ransomware

The massive FortiBleed credential theft campaign has been linked to the INC and Lynx ransomware operations, suggesting the stolen Fortinet credentials were intended to fuel future network intrusions. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
Wired Jul 1 Score 0.8124407268518519

Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop

Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.

Technology technologyculturesociety
The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.8119240851851852

Elon Musk denies a report about SpaceX's AI phone prototype

Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is "utterly false." The report, published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, says SpaceX showed off a "handset-like prototype" to some investors before launching its record-breaking initial public

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The Guardian — World Jul 1 Score 0.8118867615740741

Trump refuses to renew US-Canada-Mexico trade pact he once championed

Trump and US officials opted to keep USMCA alive on short leash of annual reviews rather than longer term renewal Donald Trump has refused to renew the North American trade pact he once championed as his signature deal, opting instead to keep it alive on a sho

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
BleepingComputer Jul 1 Score 0.8118646319444445

New ChocoPoC malware targets researchers via trojanized PoC exploits

Multiple weaponized proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits on GitHub were found delivering a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) named ChocoPoC that can execute commands and steal sensitive data in a campaign believed to target cybersecurity researchers. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 1 Score 0.8096645393518519

Four people die in mass fan celebrations in Mexico City after World Cup victory

Three of the victims died from suffocation More than a million people gathered in Mexico City Four people died, three ⁠from suffocation, as thousands of fans crowded Mexico City streets during World Cup celebrations, the capital’s health secretariat ⁠said in t

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
Wired Jul 1 Score 0.8085810046296297

You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly

Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.

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The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.8078972333333334

Krafton settles with Subnautica 2 developer after drawn-out dispute over $250 million

After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing Subnautica 2, and will pay bonuses to the studio's staff, Bloomberg reports. The dispute began last year after Krafton pushed out Unknown W

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BleepingComputer Jul 1 Score 0.8075354652777779

DHS confirms hackers breached HSIN info-sharing platform

The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a cyberattack that compromised the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a sensitive information-sharing platform used by federal, state, local, and private-sector partners. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
War on the Rocks Jul 1 Score 0.807488012962963

From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence

Editor's Note: Rewind and Reconnoiter is one of our weekly members-only newsletters. To access the full archive of Rewind and Reconnoiter as well as our other members-only content, including podcasts, newsletters, and exclusive access to the War on the Rocks a

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The Guardian — World Jul 1 Score 0.8066122245370371

Canada to ​join Eurovision song contest from 2027

Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’ Canada will ​join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new ⁠participant since Australia in 2015, organisers have announced. Participa

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
BleepingComputer Jul 1 Score 0.8064799097222223

Webinar: Why traditional email security is no longer enough

Modern phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks increasingly exploit trusted identities and legitimate business workflows, making them harder for traditional email defenses to detect. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help or

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
War on the Rocks Jul 1 Score 0.80372505

How a Team of Marines Built the Corps' FPV Drone Training Program from a Cold Start

Last fall, the U.S. Marine Corps had virtually no first-person view attack drones. That's changed quickly. This episode is about how a team of marines at Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico went from a cold start to building a Marine Corps-wide first-person

Geopolitics geopoliticsmilitarystrategy
MIT Technology Review Jul 1 Score 0.8026161726851853

LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.

Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. Tha

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The Guardian — World Jul 1 Score 0.7995529652777779

Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says

Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civilians The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to capture El Fasher, Amnest

Geopolitics geopoliticsworld-newsinvestigative
MIT Technology Review Jul 1 Score 0.7985809875000001

The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California's carbon manure math

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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and res

Technology technologyresearchsociety
CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 1 Score 0.7983029907407408

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-45659 Microsoft SharePoint Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a fre

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 1 Score 0.7869231930555556

Why Ask Credentials If There Are Secret Codes?, (Wed, Jul 1st)

This morning, an interesting phishing email hit my mailbox. It targets Metamask[1], a cryptocurrency wallet, available as a browser extension and a mobile app, that lets users store, send, and receive crypto money. It&#x27s pretty popular, so a juicy

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7583029907407408

Frangoteam FUXA SCADA/HMI

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to enumerate all user accounts and role assignments on a FUXA SCADA/HMI instance. The following versions of Frangoteam FUXA SCADA/HMI are affected: F

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NASA News Jul 2 Score 0.743924450462963

What’s Up: July 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings at a new angle. Skywatching Highlights Transcript An early morning hangout with the Moon and planets, a comet swings by, prime time for the Milky Way,

Science sciencenasaspace
MIT News — AI Jul 1 Score 0.7374698509259259

MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America

During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.

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NASA News Jul 1 Score 0.7371179685185185

NASA’s Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length

A new result using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy’s structure. A team of astr

Science sciencenasaspace
Dark Reading Jul 1 Score 0.7362631120370371

And the Winner in Dominant Malware Delivery? ClickFix

Researchers say the highly effective social engineering technique is no longer the exception for malware attacks — it's now the rule.

Security securityenterprisethreats
The Hacker News Jul 1 Score 0.7360835939814815

Unpatched Argo CD Repo-Server Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Kubernetes Clusters

Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component's internal network port. Synacktiv, which found the bug,

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
The Hacker News Jul 1 Score 0.7357507236111112

19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges

A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
CyberScoop Jul 1 Score 0.7356206666666667

Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect

The defect impacts a popular collection of business applications that attackers have hit before in widespread attack sprees. The post Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect appeared first on CyberScoop .

Security securitypolicygovernment
Latent Space Jul 1 Score 0.7350735953703704

How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise

Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.

AI aiengineeringagentsnewsletter
The Hacker News Jul 1 Score 0.7331113717592592

SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT

Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a "massive, multi-domain, multi-language" campaign that distributes malicious installer archives hosted on

Security securityhackingvulnerabilities
AWS Blog Jul 1 Score 0.7322055555555556

Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks

Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk o

IT itawscloud
NASA News Jul 1 Score 0.7303929685185185

NASA Seeks Volunteers for New Yearlong Simulated Moon, Mars Mission

NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Beginning no earlier than August 2027, research volunteers will spend one year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center i

Science sciencenasaspace
GitHub Blog Jul 1 Score 0.7299552120370371

6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week

These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintain

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NASA News Jul 1 Score 0.7288721351851852

LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Observatory

A first-of-its-kind mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Thursday, July 2, 5:09 a.m. EDT (9:09 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pac

Science sciencenasaspace
NASA News Jul 1 Score 0.7283031537037037

NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our own, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets of the universe and our place in it. Billions of years ago, a Sun-like star nearing the end of its life

Science sciencenasaspace
InfoQ Jul 1 Score 0.7216357861111111

Presentation: The Infrastructure Challenge Behind Production AI

The panelists explain the realities of running AI systems reliably at scale. While building models is solved, maintaining production databases under constant pressure is not. They discuss the emerging architectural decisions separating teams that scale gracefu

IT itengineeringarchitecture
New Scientist Jul 1 Score 0.719992025

The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026

Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi horror from Paul Tremblay and a journey to Planet Happy with Riley August

Science scienceresearchsociety
New Scientist Jul 1 Score 0.7190535990740741

Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible

Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2 levels come back down

Science scienceresearchsociety
BAIR Blog Jul 1 Score 0.7183027722222222

2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase

Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 1 Score 0.7122649824074074

Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health

Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connectio

Science scienceresearchdiscoveries
ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 1 Score 0.7079043342592592

Melanoma's secret to cheating death has finally been revealed

Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery by discovering the missing genetic ingredient that helps melanoma cells become effectively immortal. The breakthrough could open the door to new treatments aimed at disrupting one of cancer's most important s

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Nautilus Jul 1 Score 0.7024697222222221

When It Comes to Back Pain, Maybe You Should be Your Own Doctor

Empowering patients to retake control of their back pain produced surprising results The post When It Comes to Back Pain, Maybe You Should be Your Own Doctor appeared first on Nautilus .

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One Useful Thing Jun 30 Score 0.7004754523148148

The twilight of the chatbots

How work changes along the exponential

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The Register — Software Jul 1 Score 0.6999449499999999

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions

'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'

IT itsoftwareindustry
Google Cloud Blog Jul 1 Score 0.6974684319444444

SOCRadar powers rapid threat detection with AlloyDB and Gemini Enterprise

Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its data infrastructure to deliver faster insights to its custo

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 1 Score 0.6958017652777777

AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings

AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leading vector and hybrid search, near 100% accurate natural language-to-SQL capabilities to build convers

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 1 Score 0.6924684314814814

Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud

Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user , and inference stays inside you

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 1 Score 0.6924684314814814

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C

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Lobsters Jul 1 Score 0.6885428898148147

Announcing Box3D

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