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The Verge Jun 20 Score 0.8096034916666668

The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI

Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, bu

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OpenAI News Jun 17 Score 0.8083031916666668

Introducing LifeSciBench

Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.

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The Verge Jun 20 Score 0.8038590472222222

Musician and YouTuber Hainbach on ‘Breath of the Wild’ and Swiss Army Knives

Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis.

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BleepingComputer Jun 20 Score 0.8018954615740741

Microsoft links Mastra AI supply chain attack to North Korean hackers

Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. [...]

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The Verge Jun 20 Score 0.8016368250000001

Moves of the Diamond Hand is an unfinished, irresistibly weird dice-based RPG

From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative rol

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The Guardian — World Jun 20 Score 0.7983036310185185

Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote

Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart Whoever wins Sunday’s presidential runoff vote in Colombia, the country’s next leader will have a

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The Verge Jun 20 Score 0.7983034916666667

Toy Story has the right take on tech

Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading abo

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Wired Jun 20 Score 0.7958312365740742

16 Best Greens Powders (2026): Taste-Tested for Months

I did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.

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The Verge Jun 20 Score 0.7899701583333334

SwitchBot’s Standing Circulator Fan is worth fighting for

I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.7732659782407406

GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM

Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 17 Score 0.7619891263888888

Quoting Charity Majors

What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, care

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Quanta Magazine Jun 17 Score 0.757625085648148

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle. The post Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of C

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Schneier on Security Jun 17 Score 0.7517495555555554

AI Use by the US Government

On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The l

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Politico Europe Jun 20 Score 0.7290503768518518

The Dutch diplomatic playbook in Texas

The Netherlands’ sports minister is hoping the Netherlands’ famous fan walks will leave behind a footprint.

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TechCrunch Jun 20 Score 0.7283034699074074

Every new iOS 27 feature that's worth knowing about

While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 20 Score 0.7240692782407407

This DNA repair gene went rogue and exposed a cancer weakness

Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help repair DNA, but when overproduced it starts cutting DNA it should

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InfoQ Jun 20 Score 0.7216360074074074

Apple Launches Core AI for Apple-Silicon Optimized On-Device Generative AI

At WWDC 26, Apple announced the Core AI framework, the official successor to Core ML. It is designed to allow developers to run large language models and generative AI entirely on-device, supporting both custom-converted PyTorch models and pre-optimized open-s

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The Hacker News Jun 20 Score 0.7198606527777778

Hackers Exploit Gravity SMTP WordPress Plugin Bug to Expose API Keys

Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw th

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InfoQ Jun 20 Score 0.7183860074074074

Claude Fable 5 on Bedrock Requires Sharing Inference Data with Anthropic

Using Claude Fable 5 or Mythos 5 on Amazon Bedrock requires opting into provider_data_share, sending prompts and outputs to Anthropic for 30-day retention with human review. Previous Bedrock models kept inference data inside the AWS boundary. Three days after

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InfoQ Jun 20 Score 0.7160804518518519

AWS Adds Multi-Region Replication to Amazon Cognito Identity Service

AWS recently introduced Amazon Cognito multi-region replication, which automatically replicates user identities and user pool configurations from a primary region to a secondary one. This enables applications to continue authenticating users from a replica reg

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 20 Score 0.7122965930555556

The secret language behind animal cooperation

Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these interspecies “conversations” are flexible, evolved, and far mor

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Lobsters Jun 20 Score 0.6944690013888888

OCaml 5.5.0 released

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Stratechery Jun 19 Score 0.6916367180555556

2026.25: The Stuff of Myth(os)

The best Stratechery content from the week of June 15, 2026, including Anthropic, e-commerce in the age of AI, and the NBA Finals being a perfect 10.

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Interconnects Jun 17 Score 0.6824451240740741

State of the blog, mid-2026

About 3 years since I started writing weekly.

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Techmeme Jun 21 Score 0.6720538365740741

A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic (Gregory Zuckerman/Wall Street Journal)

Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal : A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic   —  The firm has surged from a handful of

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Hackaday Jun 21 Score 0.6716367472222222

Autopsy of a Freshly Cooked 10Gbit SFP+ Network Adapter

With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does …read more

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Phys.org Jun 21 Score 0.6683041055555556

Climate change boosts soybean production but worsens bean quality

A study published by Food Research International analyzed the triple effect of climate change on soybean quality—increased carbon dioxide (CO₂), high temperatures and drought. Using predictive modeling powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and based on exper

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Phys.org Jun 20 Score 0.6658045685185185

Bat rays employ a chemical cue to warn others of danger

Frightened bat rays produce a chemical cue to warn other rays of danger, a well-known anti-predator strategy for bony fish that has not been documented in cartilaginous fish until now. Oregon State University researchers found the behavior of bat rays changed

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Dark Reading Jun 18 Score 0.6513327828703703

Salesforce Data Thefts Continue via Klue App Compromise

Klue's Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers' Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor.

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.6490130259259259

How software development's speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade

The threat group’s remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry’s decision to prioritize code shipping over security. The post How software development's speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade appeared fi

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.6484435814814815

Accenture shells out $4.18B on three companies in big industrial cybersecurity push

The consulting giant’s majority stake in Dragos, along with the purchase runZero and NetRise, marks its first major push into operational technology software as AI-driven threats to critical infrastructure intensify. The post Accenture shells out $4.18B on thr

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SecurityWeek Jun 19 Score 0.6446830134259258

CryptoBandits Malware Doubles as a Backdoor, Abuses Tor

CryptoBandits uses a local SOCKS5 proxy for traffic routing, blending data theft with remote code execution. The post CryptoBandits Malware Doubles as a Backdoor, Abuses Tor appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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SecurityWeek Jun 19 Score 0.643806624537037

FortiBleed: 86,000 Fortinet Device Credentials Compromised

The large-scale credential theft campaign hit roughly half of the internet-accessible Fortinet firewalls and VPNs. The post FortiBleed: 86,000 Fortinet Device Credentials Compromised appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Wired — Security Jun 18 Score 0.6416366171296296

How to Watch the Knicks Parade on NYC Traffic Surveillance Cameras

Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.

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Towards Data Science Jun 20 Score 0.5816368055555556

7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture

What data teams need to build with AI to make self-healing data architecture a practical reality The post 7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Jun 20 Score 0.5783034722222223

Making a PDF’s Images Searchable for RAG, Without Paying to Read Them All

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5sexies] - image_df tells you where every picture is. Turning the few that matter into searchable text is a separate, cost-ordered job The post Making a PDF’s Images Searchable for RAG, Without Paying to Read Them All a

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