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OpenAI News Jun 22 Score 0.9283027171296298

Codex-maxxing for long-running work

Learn how Jason Liu uses Codex to preserve context, manage complex projects, and help work continue beyond a single prompt.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 22 Score 0.893299823611111

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion

Prompt Injection as Role Confusion First, I absolutely love this: This is a blog-style writeup of the paper. I wish every paper would come with one of these. Academic writing is pretty dry - the impact of a paper can be so much higher if you publish a readable

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 22 Score 0.8928544532407406

Porting the Moebius 0.2B image inpainting model to run in the browser with Claude Code

This morning on Hacker News I saw Moebius: 0.2B Lightweight Image Inpainting Framework with 10B-Level Performance , describing a small but effective inpainting model - a model where you can mark regions of an image to remove and the model imagines what should

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Foreign Policy Jun 22 Score 0.890331511111111

Starmer Resigns as Burnham Eyes Top Job

A decade after Brexit, the United Kingdom is still struggling to stabilize.

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Foreign Policy Jun 22 Score 0.8885555851851851

China Flexes Its Rare-Earth Muscle—Again

New export restrictions underscore Beijing’s supply chain grip in ongoing tensions with Washington.

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Foreign Policy Jun 22 Score 0.8885403074074073

Why Is Alibaba on a Pentagon Blacklist?

Washington doesn’t know how to untangle China’s military-civil fusion.

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Quanta Magazine Jun 22 Score 0.8781047217592591

A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too. The post A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 22 Score 0.8717172537037036

Professional Athletes and Wearables

I haven't thought about the privacy issues surrounding professional athletes and wearables. Wearables present serious privacy issues for "Average Joe" consumers, who are entrusting tech companies to safely store and protect their biometric data. Imagine the st

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Foreign Affairs Jun 23 Score 0.8249693833333334

Heartland vs. Rimland

The battle lines in the war for the next global order.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 23 Score 0.8249693833333334

How to Survive the AI Shock

A policy playbook to avert political crisis.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 23 Score 0.8249693833333334

The Afghanistan Reckoning

Forever wars and the costs of collective forgetting.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 23 Score 0.8249693833333334

Why “China First” Will Fail

The limits and lessons of a transactional foreign policy.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 23 Score 0.8249693833333334

The Broken Nuclear Umbrella

What comes after extended deterrence.

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BBC News — World Jun 23 Score 0.8216264083333334

Ransom note claims Nancy Guthrie died after abduction

The note from the possible kidnappers reportedly stated that they did not mean for her to die and included an apology to the family.

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The Verge Jun 22 Score 0.8173178851851852

Nvidia says its AI data center design runs hotter to use a lot less water

Public pushback against data centers has emphasized their water and energy consumption, and now Nvidia is highlighting its claim that the Rubin generation reference design for a fully liquid-cooled data center has "eliminated massive amounts of power usage and

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BleepingComputer Jun 22 Score 0.8161459652777778

WhatsApp phishing attack uses fake business docs to hack PCs

An ongoing malware campaign is targeting WhatsApp users in multiple countries with deceptive messages that push VBScript files, leading to remote system access. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jun 22 Score 0.8147556875

JaredFromSubway MEV bot hacked in $15 million crypto theft

The JaredFromSubway Ethereum MEV (Maximal Extractable Value) bot suffered a $15 million loss after an attacker manipulated the opportunity-detection logic by creating fake cryptocurrency trading opportunities. [...]

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The Verge Jun 22 Score 0.8135039962962963

Valve describes just how brutal RAM negotiations are in 2026

Valve's Steam Machine finally has a price: a whopping $1,049 for the 512GB configuration or $1,349 for the 2TB version. And those are without bundled controllers, which drive up the cost more. The prices are so high in part because Valve isn't subsidizing the

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BleepingComputer Jun 22 Score 0.8134422615740742

FFmpeg fixes PixelSmash flaw in widely used video decoder

A newly disclosed FFmpeg flaw dubbed 'PixelSmash' could be exploited for remote code execution on Jellyfin servers under certain conditions, and can also trigger a denial-of-service condition in applications like Kodi, Emby, Nextcloud, PhotoPrism, and OBS Stud

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BleepingComputer Jun 22 Score 0.8116649467592594

FortiBleed campaign used custom FortiGate sniffer to steal credentials

Security firm SOCRadar says the large-scale FortiBleed campaign targeting Fortinet FortiGate devices used custom sniffers to harvest authentication secrets from compromised firewalls and steal credentials. [...]

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The Verge Jun 22 Score 0.8116364037037038

AI is cursing renters with the promise of impossible homes

Joyce, a native New Yorker, didn't think finding her first solo apartment in the city would be easy. But she also didn't think it'd be "hell." After looking at a lot of tiny, overpriced places she described as "shitholes," Joyce found her dream apartment: a re

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The Verge Jun 22 Score 0.8083030703703704

The Steam Machine is the start of an even more expensive future for game consoles

It's no secret that just about every aspect of video games is getting more expensive. Game consoles are getting regular price hikes, PC components are spiking in cost, and the golden age of affordable handhelds is over, all largely due to the global RAM shorta

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The Verge Jun 22 Score 0.8083030703703704

The Apple Watch SE 3 is just $199 for Prime Day

The Apple Watch SE 3 is at an all-time low of $199, making the sleeper hit of last year’s Apple Watches an even better value. While the Series 11 and Ultra 3 were iterative updates, the SE 3 was a wide-ranging glow-up that added an always-on display, gestures

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MIT Technology Review Jun 22 Score 0.8083030328703704

Three things to watch amid Anthropic’s latest feud with the government

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. For those of you enjoying your summer unaware of Anthropic’s latest feud with the US government, here’s a recap: In April

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The Guardian — World Jun 22 Score 0.8080226782407408

Montreal mayor calls for end to random police checks amid racial profiling investigation

City’s police force faces investigation of 16 officers accused of disproportionately targeting Black and Arab residents Montreal’s mayor has called for a halt to random police checks as the city’s police force grapples with an internal investigation into racis

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BleepingComputer Jun 22 Score 0.8077894837962963

Microsoft says Windows 11 26H2 is coming soon, details upgrade process

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 11 version 26H2 will be the next feature update and that devices running Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 will be able to upgrade using a small enablement package. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 22 Score 0.8074800856481482

Canadian healthcare staff decry ‘cruel hoax’ after scam email promises paid day off

Unions condemn ‘insensitive’ internal cybersecurity test sent to healthcare workers in Newfoundland and Labrador For years, healthcare staff in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador have felt overworked and underappreciated. Turnover, burnout and

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jun 22 Score 0.801926451388889

Webshells Remain Popular, (Mon, Jun 22nd)

Webshells have been popular for a long time. We already covered this topic across multiple diaries[1][2]. I spent some time to track them[3] and slighly paid less attention to them but today I found another one. It seems to be a n

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MIT Technology Review Jun 22 Score 0.7985808106481482

The Download: record-breaking subsea tunnels and flexible data centers

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. Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel —Niall Firth I’m currently around 1,000 feet beneath the North S

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MIT Technology Review Jun 22 Score 0.7916363662037038

Inside the world’s deepest and longest subsea road tunnel

It’s cold, it’s very, very noisy, and—if I can be quite honest with you—I’m not feeling super relaxed. I’m currently around 300 meters, or 1,000 feet, beneath the North Sea, in a dark, dank cave. It smells weird. And I am increasingly aware of the pressure fro

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Schneier on Security Jun 19 Score 0.7684084574074073

Friday Squid Blogging: Victims of Unregulated Squid Fishing

Dolphins, sharks, turtles, and human workers are all victims of unregulated squid fishing fleets. Another news article . 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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Schneier on Security Jun 19 Score 0.7517334574074073

Anthropic’s Fable and the State of AI

On June 9th, Anthropic released its Fable generative AI model. Three days later, the US government classified it as a dangerous munition, and used its export-control authority to prohibit any foreign nationals from accessing it. Unable to differentiate between

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TechCrunch Jun 22 Score 0.7416349921296296

Tesla pushes back on Autopilot narrative after fatal Texas crash

Whether the Autopilot system was truly active, overridden, or malfunctioning likely won't be resolved until investigators finish combing through the vehicle's data logs.

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CyberScoop Jun 22 Score 0.7401852791666667

Court rules SAVE database illegal, orders it dismantled

A judge said the administration’s database violates the Privacy Act, the Social Security Act and the Administrative Procedures Act. The post Court rules SAVE database illegal, orders it dismantled appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jun 22 Score 0.7399713666666666

The Global Namespace Risk: Universal Bucket Hijacking Technique for Cloud Data Exfiltration

Unit 42 research details how attackers could exploit global name uniqueness in bucket hijacking to redirect cloud data streams across major CSPs. The post The Global Namespace Risk: Universal Bucket Hijacking Technique for Cloud Data Exfiltration appeared firs

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NASA News Jun 22 Score 0.738975199537037

NASA Awards Solutions for Federal Enterprise Procurement Contracts

NASA will begin processing the awards of multiple contracts for the Solutions for Enterprise‑wide Procurement (SEWP) VI Government-wide Acquisition Contract. The contract provides streamlined access to commercial products and services, including hardware, soft

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 22 Score 0.7381136958333333

The AI world is getting 'loopy'

The loop takes agentic AI a step further by authorizing a swarm of agents to work continuously in the background, endlessly.

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NASA News Jun 22 Score 0.7378187180555555

NASA Sounding Rocket to Launch Student Experiments

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is scheduled to launch a sounding rocket carrying student-developed experiments for the agency’s RockSatX and RockOn programs Wednesday, June 24, between 5:30 and 9:30 a.m. EDT, with a backup day on Thursday, June 25.

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Risky Bulletin Jun 22 Score 0.7366365583333333

Between Two Nerds: The PRC vs AI

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss the idea that the People’s Republic of China has mobilised its influence operations against the construction of US data centres and its build out of AI capacity. This episode is also available

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CyberScoop Jun 22 Score 0.7365463902777778

Trump executive orders speed up post-quantum migration, boost industry

The orders accelerate the federal government’s transition to post-quantum encryption and will boost the domestic quantum computing industry. The post Trump executive orders speed up post-quantum migration, boost industry appeared first on CyberScoop .

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NASA News Jun 22 Score 0.7355654773148148

NASA Invites Media to Botswana Artemis Accords Signing Ceremony

The Republic of Botswana will sign the Artemis Accords during a ceremony at 9:30 a.m. EDT Thursday, June 25, at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Botswana’s Minister of Communications and Innovation David Tshere

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The Hacker News Jun 22 Score 0.7333250537037037

ShapedPlugin WordPress Pro Plugins Backdoored in Supply Chain Attack

Multiple WordPress plugins from ShapedPlugin were compromised in a supply chain attack after unknown threat actors managed to tamper with the official release channels and push backdoor code. "Attackers compromised the vendor's build and distribution pipeline,

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NASA News Jun 22 Score 0.7329418662037037

NASA’s Experimental Fabrication Branch Fuels Aircraft Innovation

At NASA, innovation begins well before an aircraft takes flight. The Experimental Fabrication Branch at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, transforms engineering concepts into mission‑ready hardware for research aircraft and techno

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NASA News Jun 22 Score 0.7327367736111111

NASA's Chandra Finds Possible Supernova Remnant

Using data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers may have found a supernova remnant – seen in this June 11, 2026, image – in an intriguing neighborhood in the middle of the Milky Way galaxy. Supernova remnants are the expanding remains of exploded

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GitHub Blog Jun 22 Score 0.732205938425926

From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem

Learn about the progress we’ve made toward our accessibility goals and how you can help make open source more inclusive. The post From pledge to practice: Building a more inclusive open source ecosystem appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Jun 22 Score 0.7299871976851852

New-to-science spider builds trap that flings ants into the air

A spider living in the rainforests of Queensland, Australia, builds a snare trap reminiscent of a Roman-era ballista weapon that it uses to catapult green tree ants into a web 30 centimetres above

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New Scientist Jun 22 Score 0.7294154384259259

‘Fusogenic’ neurosurgery let paralysed pigs walk again – are we next?

Researchers say a surgery that let pigs with completely severed spinal cords walk again may lead to human trials, and then perhaps even full head or brain transplants. Columnist Helen Thomson is intrigued but sceptical of whether the technique can be successfu

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New Scientist Jun 22 Score 0.7289802532407408

A promising natural technique to remove CO2 could backfire

Several start-ups have tried to grow seaweed to remove atmospheric CO2, but this could affect the levels of nutrients in the ocean and hamper other CO2-sucking processes

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 22 Score 0.7243799268518518

Future astronauts could walk across rocks from deep inside the Moon

A colossal ancient collision may have left some of the Moon’s deepest secrets surprisingly close to future Artemis landing sites. By recreating the impact that formed the giant South Pole-Aitken basin—the Moon’s largest and oldest crater—scientists found that

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InfoQ Jun 22 Score 0.7216355837962963

Article: Understanding ML Model Poisoning: How It Happens and How to Detect It

In this article, the author explores data poisoning as a threat to machine learning systems, covering techniques such as label flipping, backdoors, clean-label poisoning, and gradient manipulation. The article reviews real-world incidents, discusses the challe

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 22 Score 0.7208063157407407

Butterfly that barely ages could help unlock longevity secrets

Scientists discovered that Heliconius butterflies have evolved an extraordinary lifespan, living several times longer than closely related species. Even more surprising, some show little sign of physical decline as they age. Their unusual pollen-feeding lifest

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 22 Score 0.7108854824074075

T. rex took 40 years to reach full size, scientists find

Tyrannosaurus rex may have been a much slower grower than scientists realized. A new study of 17 tyrannosaur fossils found that the giant predator likely took about 40 years to reach its full size of roughly eight tons, extending previous estimates by 15 years

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Nautilus Jun 22 Score 0.7033028592592592

This “Roasted Exoplanet” Has a Wild Orbit

And it’s much hotter than previously thought The post This “Roasted Exoplanet” Has a Wild Orbit appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jun 22 Score 0.7016361925925925

Today Was the Day Galileo Caved

On this day almost four centuries ago, the father of modern science was forced to bow to political and religious pressure to save his life The post Today Was the Day Galileo Caved appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 22 Score 0.6941353407407407

Boost BigQuery with Python: Managed Python UDFs now generally available

SQL is the industry standard for high-performance structured data analysis. However, expressing complex procedural logic, scientific computations, advanced string manipulations, or machine learning workflows in pure SQL can be highly challenging, if not imposs

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Interconnects Jun 19 Score 0.6800470152777778

Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake

This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.

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