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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 19 Score 0.8958201504629629

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making

AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making Here's an entertaining perspective from Nik Suresh on the AI mania that is overwhelming the large companies that he consults with. It's crammed with spicy anecdotes from anonymous sources. In one extreme case, I

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 19 Score 0.8938145949074073

Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now

In Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner made the following claim: Claude Code v2.1.181 (released June 17th) and later use the Rust port of Bun. Startup got 10% faster on Linux but otherwise, barely anyone noticed. Boring is good. I decided to have a poke at my

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 18 Score 0.8761761689814814

SQLite Query Explainer

Tool: SQLite Query Explainer Julia Evan's, in Learning a few things about running SQLite : Maybe one day I’ll learn to read a query plan. Big same.... which inspired me to have Fable build this interactive explain tool, which runs SQLite in Python in Pyodide i

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The Guardian — World Jul 19 Score 0.8189843370370371

São Tomé and Príncipe heads to polls in tense presidential election

Incumbent Carlos Vila Nova hopes to defeat his former party and secure second term as independent Voters in São Tomé and Príncipe go to the polls for a presidential election on Sunday as one of Africa’s least populous countries seeks to burnish its democratic

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OpenAI News Jul 15 Score 0.8189770041666667

GPT-Red: Unlocking Self-Improvement for Robustness

Explore GPT-Red, OpenAI’s automated red teaming system that uses self-play to improve AI safety, alignment, and prompt injection robustness.

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.8071631564814815

Dave Eggers told OpenAI staff that ChatGPT was ‘silencing an entire generation’

Last year, Sam Altman invited author Dave Eggers to give a talk to around 200 OpenAI staffers. The man has written countless novels, screenplays, pieces of journalism, started McSweeney's, and founded multiple schools and nonprofits that support writers and th

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BleepingComputer Jul 18 Score 0.8048670462962964

Update now: 7-Zip fixes RCE flaw exploitable with malicious archives

7-Zip version 26.02 was released to fix a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow attackers to execute malicious code by convincing users to open specially crafted compressed files. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 18 Score 0.8042885037037037

Flash flood warnings strike north-east US amid wildfire smoke from Canada

Poor air quality from wildfires continues to plague New York City as several neighborhoods hit by thunderstorms Saturday is delivering a double dose of dangerous weather across the north-eastern US, with smoky skies from Canadian wildfires giving way to severe

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.8030085268518519

Google might not kneecap the Pixel 11a with an old processor

Mystic Leaks suggests that the Pixel 11a will return to featuring a flagship-grade processor with the Tensor G6. Rather than the Tensor G5 found in the Pixel 10 and 10 Pro, the Pixel 10a shipped with the previous generation Tensor G4. That was a huge disappoin

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BleepingComputer Jul 18 Score 0.8012767685185186

WordPress Core "wp2shell" RCE flaws get public exploits, patch now

Public exploits have been released for the critical "wp2shell" remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting WordPress Core, making it imperative that administrators patch their sites immediately. [...]

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.8001136194444445

Google is open-sourcing its 3D emoji

Now, if you want to, you can use Google's 3D emoji in your own creations. The company shared some details about how it went about designing the little pictograms and why, as part of World Emoji Day on Friday. Things you might not necessarily worry about in a 2

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.7973103782407408

GoPro's discounted Max 2 bundle includes $100 worth of accessories

A 360-degree camera is a great way to ensure you capture every bit of the action, but prices tend to be on the high end for models worth your attention. That’s why it’s notable that the GoPro Max 2 accessory bundle is discounted to $369 at Amazon (a dollar mor

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The Verge Jul 18 Score 0.7964770449074074

The Guardian’s Carter Sherman fondly remembers being terrified by Ocarina of Time

Carter Sherman has been covering sex, gender, and the complex personal and national politics that accompany them for years. She was a senior reporter for Vice and has written for Elle, Ms. magazine, and Los Angeles magazine as well. Along the way, she's garner

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BleepingComputer Jul 18 Score 0.7961249166666667

Microsoft warns of surge in ACR Stealer attacks on customers

Microsoft has observed a surge in attacks using the ACR Stealer malware to steal browser-stored passwords, authentication tokens, and sensitive documents from its enterprise customers. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 18 Score 0.7944050092592593

The Future of Age Verification: Your Face Never Leaves Your Device

As age verification laws expand worldwide, organizations face growing pressure to protect users' privacy while meeting regulatory requirements. Incode explains how on-device age estimation verifies age without transmitting or storing facial images, reducing bi

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The Guardian — World Jul 18 Score 0.7943922074074075

Cuba edges toward breakdown as power cuts and US meddling push society to brink

As Cuba swelters under six-month oil blockade imposed by US, tempers are fraying and unrest is growing When Cuba’s national grid collapses, as it did for the third time in 10 days on Tuesday, a collective groan spreads across its cities and people wonder, agai

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Wired — Security Jul 18 Score 0.789810414351852

Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You

Plus: Russian cyberspies turn to infrastructure hacking, DHS repeatedly fails to realize it’d been hacked, a breach exposes an AI music generator’s scraping ways, and more.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 15 Score 0.7529923217592591

Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow

Today’s computers need safeguards against random energy fluctuations. Thermodynamic computers would put those fluctuations to use. The post Thermodynamic Computers Go With the (Energy) Flow first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Meduza — English Jul 19 Score 0.7498138490740741

Ukrainian drones hit Wildberries warehouses near Moscow, killing one person and injuring 61. Meduza republishes an on-the-ground report filed as the fire burned.

A Ukrainian attack on Wildberries warehouses in Elektrostal and an oil depot in Noginsk killed one person and injured 61 others. Nine of the injured are in serious condition, and 31 are in moderate condition. Most were diagnosed with shrapnel and blast injurie

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InfoQ Jul 19 Score 0.7472821425925926

AWS Introduces CloudFormation Express Mode for Faster Infrastructure Deployments

AWS has recently introduced CloudFormation express mode, a deployment option that can reduce infrastructure deployment times by marking stack operations complete once resource configuration is applied, rather than waiting for full resource stabilization. By Re

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Al Jazeera — World Jul 19 Score 0.7458750898148148

US bombs Iran for eighth-straight night

The US has launched a new wave of strikes on Iran after two American soldiers were killed by Iranian strikes in Jordan.

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Schneier on Security Jul 15 Score 0.7457577703703703

A Video Screen That Is Also a Camera

Amazing : Researchers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland, however, managed to create a new type of pixel that can simultaneously do both. This hypercharged pixel, called a Fourier pixel, can generate and sense arbitrary light fields and tap into a pixel's full pot

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War on the Rocks Jul 17 Score 0.7456533000000001

The Blood Bank and the Logistics of Wartime Medicine

Before the twentieth century gave armies antibiotics, the leading killer of American soldiers in wartime was neither enemy fire nor shrapnel. Two-thirds of the roughly 620,000 deaths in the U.S. Civil War came from diseases like typhoid and dysentery. Spread t

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 19 Score 0.7445882791666667

Scientists identify the rare meteorite that killed the dinosaurs 66 million years ago

The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was likely an exceptionally rare CO chondrite from a distant region of the solar system. Its unusual chemistry suggests that planet-cooling dust and debris, rather than sulfur inside the asteroid, may have delivered th

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 19 Score 0.7405202236111111

Common antidepressant may ease long COVID’s crushing fatigue

A low-cost antidepressant may offer new hope for people struggling with long COVID fatigue. In a randomized clinical trial involving 399 adults, fluvoxamine significantly reduced fatigue and improved quality of life compared with a placebo, making it one of th

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 18 Score 0.7287303199074074

Kimi: Threat or menace?

Chinese company Moonshot AI released a new version of its Kimi model this week, prompting concern about "full AI communism."

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 18 Score 0.7205313347222222

Popular sugar substitutes linked to faster brain aging

Several popular sugar substitutes may not be as harmless as they seem. Adults who consumed the most artificial sweeteners showed substantially faster declines in memory and thinking, especially if they were under 60 or had diabetes. The highest intake was link

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 18 Score 0.7189924458333333

A shattered asteroid may have bombarded Earth 800 million years ago

A catastrophic asteroid breakup may have triggered a huge wave of impacts across the inner solar system about 800 million years ago. The debris was launched from near a gravitational gateway controlled by Jupiter, sending fragments toward Earth, the Moon, and

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 18 Score 0.7183118902777778

Earth’s biggest volcanic event transformed an entire oceanic plate

Seismic waves have revealed that the oceanic plate beneath the Ontong Java Plateau was dramatically transformed by the colossal volcanic activity that created it more than 100 million years ago. Researchers found a complex structure of horizontal layers cut th

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Ahead of AI Jul 18 Score 0.7160923245370371

Controlling Reasoning Effort in LLMs

How LLMs Learn Low-, Medium-, and High-Effort Reasoning Modes

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Stratechery Jul 17 Score 0.6856435731481482

2026.29: Mainframes and Main Characters

The best Stratechery content from the week of July 13, 2026, including the end of the mainframe, the continuing adventures of OpenAI, and answering the question, "Is Netflix Washed?".

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CyberScoop Jul 17 Score 0.6810044972222222

Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 months in jail

Thalha Jubair and Owen Flowers led and directed many attacks attributed to the hacker subset of The Com. U.S. authorities previously accused Jubair of participating in at least 120 attacks. The post Leading members of Scattered Spider sentenced in UK to 66 mon

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Rest of World Jul 17 Score 0.6789770319444445

Can AI beat a goldfish at calling the World Cup?

As chatbots compete to forecast the tournament, an unlikely rival from a Toronto fish tank continues to outperform them.

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jul 17 Score 0.6739883074074074

Three Steps to the Terminal: A Siemens ROX II Zero-Day Trilogy

A technical analysis of three chained zero-day vulnerabilities in Siemens ROX II OT switches that allow privilege escalation and persistent root access. The post Three Steps to the Terminal: A Siemens ROX II Zero-Day Trilogy appeared first on Unit 42 .

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Hacker News Jul 19 Score 0.6633775486111112

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Phys.org Jul 19 Score 0.6623088601851852

Students create chemical safety model for everyday exposures

In just one course, Georgia Tech student Diya Godavarti helped develop a tool that could improve workers' responses to chemical spills or open containers. Godavarti, then a second-year chemical and biomolecular engineering (ChBE) student, joined a course

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Hacker News Jul 18 Score 0.6613219930555556

Codex Resets

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 15 Score 0.6550526037037038

Recent DShield SIEM Update, (Tue, Jul 14th)

The last update to the DShield SIEM [4] was in Sep 2025 which contained some minor tweaks. This update currently is using ELK stack version 8.19.15, contains some additional dashboards and new logs.

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Phys.org Jul 18 Score 0.6539755268518519

How virtual reality can transform behavioral science and enhance reproducibility

In a new paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of 41 authors from around the globe argue that virtual reality has the potential to do the same for behavioral science and help solve the reproducibility crisis.

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Hacker News Jul 18 Score 0.6515506967592593

The Kimi K3 Moment

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CyberScoop Jul 16 Score 0.6494859787037037

Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw little use

The number of people who got approval to be in the Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce program was in the single digits, GAO found. The post Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw little use appeared first on CyberScoop .

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GitHub Blog Jul 15 Score 0.606463474537037

GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials

New to GitHub? This beginner's guide explains version control, repositories, and pull requests—plus everything else you need to start working confidently on GitHub. The post GitHub for Beginners: Your roadmap to mastering the GitHub essentials appeared first o

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AI News Jul 17 Score 0.5714906513888889

Bunkerhill raises $55M to scale agentic AI across health systems

Bunkerhill Health has raised $55 million to scale its agentic AI platform, Carebricks. The closing of the company’s Series B round, announced today, folds in continued participation from Sequoia Capital, Felicis, Optum Ventures, and Y Combinator. However, a fu

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MIT News — AI Jul 14 Score 0.5713382430555556

Helping AI models to meet the real world

Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.

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