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Schneier on Security Jul 10 Score 0.8829580050925925

Friday Squid Blogging: “Squidbleed” Vulnerability

In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. 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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Foreign Policy Jul 10 Score 0.8790203666666666

The CIA’s First Failed Coup

Kim Philby, parachute drops, and what really happened in communist Albania.

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Foreign Policy Jul 10 Score 0.8781805518518517

A World of Scams

‘The Yahoo Boys’ shows how con artists can be victims too.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 10 Score 0.8762416259259258

Quoting Nilay Patel

The reality is to make augmented reality glasses, you need to put a camera next to your eyes that is continuously recording everything you see and processing that to put information over it. There is not another way around it. And there's certainly not a chip

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Quanta Magazine Jul 10 Score 0.8725296537037036

We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture.

Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first appeared on Quanta M

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Schneier on Security Jul 10 Score 0.8661482828703703

AI Surveillance and Social Progress

In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it

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The Verge Jul 11 Score 0.8244245314814815

Are you filthy enough for a $700 portable shower?

Hot showers, like electricity, are a luxury that's easy to take for granted. That all changes after a few nights camping at a music festival, a week toiling at a backcountry job site, or overlanding all summer in the great unknown. An itchy scalp and the vague

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The Guardian — World Jul 11 Score 0.8138106703703705

Venezuela quake death toll passes 4,000 as scale of recovery effort looms large

Nearly 17,000 injured and thousands more are listed as missing amid calls by UN and president Delcy Rodríguez for financial help The death toll in Venezuela’s devastating twin earthquakes has topped 4,000, the government said on Friday. At least 4,118 people w

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The Verge Jul 11 Score 0.8130532351851852

No, Flock isn't threatening people for debating surveillance

On Thursday, the Instagram account for a lecture series in Newport Beach, CA posted a photo of what appeared to be a cease and desist letter from the surveillance technology company Flock Safety. Flock has received significant backlash over its technology and

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The Verge Jul 10 Score 0.8104050870370371

The FCC is cracking down on DJI tech that dodged the foreign drone ban

Last year, we told you about Xtra, the company that lets DJI sneak its popular cameras into the US, and Skyrover, a brand seemingly selling DJI drones in disguise. They're just two of the many firms DJI is suspected of starting to skirt the United States' fore

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BleepingComputer Jul 10 Score 0.8093973791666668

New U-Boot flaws could enable stealthy firmware attacks

Six vulnerabilities in the widely used U-Boot bootloader have been discovered that could allow attackers to execute malicious code during device boot, potentially enabling stealthy firmware attacks that compromise security protections and install persistent ma

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The Verge Jul 10 Score 0.808781475925926

Apple sues OpenAI for allegedly stealing hardware secrets

Apple has sued OpenAI, alleging that engineers stole Apple secrets to advance the AI startup's hardware plans. In its complaint, Apple says it uncovered "a pattern of theft of Apple's trade secrets by OpenAI employees who were formerly at Apple." In addition t

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Wired Jul 10 Score 0.8027579087962964

Meet the Battery Startup Taking on China’s Giants

Solid-state batteries are safer and more capable—but harder to mass-produce. They also represent an opportunity for non-Chinese companies to get back in the game.

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BleepingComputer Jul 10 Score 0.8004524717592594

Police suspects Dutch hackers were involved in Odido breach

The Dutch National Police (Politie) says it has found "strong indications" that Dutch hackers have been involved in a February breach at the telecommunications provider Odido. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 10 Score 0.8001510828703704

Progress urges ShareFile admins to shut down servers over “credible” threat

Progress Software is emailing ShareFile customers who use Storage Zone Controllers to immediately shut down their servers after identifying what it describes as a "credible external security threat" targeting the on-premises secure file-sharing software. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 10 Score 0.7991084902777779

Hackers exploit critical auth bypass in Gitea Docker image

Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the official Docker image for the Gitea self-hosted Git service that allows attackers to impersonate any user, including administrators. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jul 10 Score 0.7930356370370371

The Download: Claude's inner workings and OpenAI's "super app"

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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet a

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 10 Score 0.7927574879629631

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-48939 iCagenda Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability CVE-2026-56291 Balbooa Forms Unrestric

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MIT Technology Review Jul 10 Score 0.7877578592592593

Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group

Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-year-old was conceived at a private fertility clinic in the Netherlands using sperm provided by an anonymous donor. After the Netherlands banned anonymous donation in 2004, the doctor who ran the

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The Guardian — World Jul 9 Score 0.7599990962962964

Furore in Nigeria over fake federal agency set up in government HQ

President orders investigation after fictitious body given funding, triggering renewed scrutiny of alleged corruption A fictitious federal entity that was allocated 1.3bn naira (£700,000) in Nigeria’s 2026 budget has precipitated a political storm in Africa’s

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The Guardian — World Jul 9 Score 0.7544078925925927

LGBTQ+ cruise ship refused entry to Egypt days after Turkey turned it away

Scarlet Lady’s 2,000 passengers told of change as one of those onboard says they will ‘sparkle and spend elsewhere’ An LGBTQ+ cruise ship blocked from Turkish waters this week has been refused entry into Egypt. The Scarlet Lady’s 2,000 passengers, including th

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Latent Space Jul 11 Score 0.7425666236111111

[AINews] not much happened today

a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases

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TechCrunch Jul 11 Score 0.7385750356481482

Phia accused of 'cookie stuffing,' taking affiliate credit on purchases it didn't earn

Phia, the shopping startup founded by Bill Gates’ daughter, Phoebe, and her friend Sophia Kianni is under fire for a practice known as “cookie stuffing,” which helped the product receive commissions and credit for sales it did not actually generate, per a Bloo

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.7376222578703704

Meta removes controversial AI feature on Instagram after backlash

"Our intent was to provide a useful creative tool and to give people control over whether their public content could be referenced in this way," the company said in a blog post. "We've heard the feedback that this feature missed the mark, so it's no longer ava

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jul 10 Score 0.7344422351851851

No Manners Here: The Ruthless Rise of The Gentlemen Ransomware

Unit 42 explores The Gentlemen ransomware operations, revealing the affiliate model driving its rapid growth. Learn more here. The post No Manners Here: The Ruthless Rise of The Gentlemen Ransomware appeared first on Unit 42 .

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TechCrunch Jul 10 Score 0.7342000356481482

Bluesky's interim CEO, Toni Schneider, drops the 'interim'

Schneider, who formerly served as the CEO of Automattic and is a partner at True Ventures, says he is "all in" on the unconventional social media platform.

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CyberScoop Jul 10 Score 0.7314644902777778

Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks

Karen Vardanyan faces up to 15 years in federal prison and agreed to pay nearly $1.2 million in restitution. The post Armenian national pleads guilty to Ryuk ransomware attacks appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Ars Technica — Science Jul 10 Score 0.7310778092592592

Check out the first images of Quest shipwreck

The Quest shipwreck is in worse shape than expected, but it has turned into a thriving marine ecosystem.

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NASA News Jul 10 Score 0.7300886282407407

Early Career Faculty (ECF) 2025 Awards

Back to ECF Home Advanced Diagnostics for High-Enthalpy Test Facilities Simulating Spacecraft Atmospheric Entry Planning for Autonomous Spacecraft Using Machine Learning Methods to Enable Onboard Guidance, Navigation, and Control

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Dark Reading Jul 10 Score 0.729648163425926

Jen Ellis: Connecting Cyber Community With Political Machinery

Security Pro File: On the heels of her recent honors as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE), we take a look back at the events that shaped Jen Ellis' advocacy on behalf of security researchers.

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NASA News Jul 10 Score 0.7294488134259259

NASA Volunteers Help Zooniverse Reach 1 Billion Classifications

The Zooniverse, a NASA grantee that runs the world’s largest platform for online people-powered research, has reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 billion classifications contributed by volunteers around the world. This milestone is a celebration of everyone

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CyberScoop Jul 10 Score 0.7292705087962963

CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak

A major credential leak spurred the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to strengthen protections for its sensitive materials, improve how researchers can report agency vulnerabilities and develop plans for similar incidents, the agency said in a

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Dark Reading Jul 10 Score 0.7258564967592592

Cybercriminals Flock to Healthcare Businesses as Attacks Surge

While cyberattacks against hospitals and clinics grew modestly in the first half of 2026, attacks on service providers and other healthcare businesses more than doubled.

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NASA News Jul 10 Score 0.7254307578703704

NASA Photographer Captures Images from F-18 Over Washington

NASA flight photographers capture history from a perspective few ever experience, getting a rare bird’s-eye view of the agency’s missions in action. Their photos document key NASA research and give the public a front-row seat to the work happening behind the s

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The Hacker News Jul 10 Score 0.725229725

Injective Labs GitHub Compromise Pushes Wallet-Key-Stealing npm Packages

Unknown threat actors compromised the Injective Labs SDK project's GitHub repository and leveraged it to publish a malicious package on the npm registry to steal cryptocurrency wallet private keys and mnemonic seed phrases. The compromised version, @injectivel

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GitHub Blog Jul 10 Score 0.724362875925926

Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here's how we actually improved it.

How migrating Copilot code review to shared Unix-style code exploration tools reduced review cost by reshaping agent workflows around pull request evidence. The post Better tools made Copilot code review worse. Here's how we actually improved it. appeared firs

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The Hacker News Jul 10 Score 0.7243473175925926

Six New U-Boot Flaws Could Let Malicious Images Crash Devices or Run Code at Boot

Researchers at firmware security firm Binarly have found six new flaws in U-Boot, the small program that starts up hardware as varied as home routers, smart cameras, and the management chips inside data-center servers. Four of the bugs can crash a de

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InfoQ Jul 10 Score 0.7232021203703703

Cloudflare Introduces Temporary Accounts for Autonomous Worker Deployment

Cloudflare has recently introduced temporary accounts that let AI agents deploy Cloudflare Workers immediately, without first creating or authenticating with a permanent account. If left unclaimed, the accounts and their deployments expire automatically after

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NASA News Jul 10 Score 0.7230071467592593

Waxing Gibbous Moon

The waxing gibbous moon is nestled in the darkness of space in this June 26, 2026, image from the International Space Station. The space station was 264 miles above the Indian Ocean southeast of Madagascar at the time. The waxing gibbous phase comes before the

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InfoQ Jul 10 Score 0.7205910092592592

Presentation: Chaos Engineering GPU Clusters

Bryan Oliver discusses the frontier of AI infrastructure: chaos engineering for large-scale GPU clusters. He shares how engineering leaders can handle complex topologies, network protocols like RDMA, and NUMA misalignments. Discover seven practical fault-injec

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 10 Score 0.7177117694444445

This common pesticide may be quietly wiping out future bumblebees

A next-generation pesticide designed to kill crop pests may also be interfering with the reproductive health of bumblebees. Researchers discovered that low-dose exposure to sulfoxaflor changed gene activity, especially in tissues involved in reproduction, rais

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 10 Score 0.7165626953703703

Europe's most active volcano may have a secret origin

Mount Etna has long puzzled geologists because it doesn't fit any of the three classic ways volcanoes are thought to form. A new study suggests it may instead be fueled by ancient pockets of magma that are pushed upward through cracks created by shifting

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New Scientist Jul 10 Score 0.7127840060185185

The sneaky maths trick for solving problems without answering them

How can you have a proof without proving anything? Mathematicians found a way and, in the process, came to blows over it – but 100 years on, this trick is a common part of modern maths, says columnist Jacob Aron

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 10 Score 0.7078890842592592

The galaxy’s coldest “stars” may actually be alien megastructures

Scientists have identified new clues that could help astronomers spot one of the most famous hypothetical alien megastructures: a Dyson sphere. The study finds that red dwarfs and white dwarfs are the most promising stars to examine, since advanced civilizatio

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CNCF Blog Jul 10 Score 0.6985909981481481

Where should AI workloads run? A sovereign and sensible approach

Opinions on AI range from transformative optimism to deep skepticism, but one thing is clear: AI is becoming an increasingly important part of enterprise technology strategies. Feel free to pick whichever you like. But whatever you...

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Nautilus Jul 10 Score 0.6960909222222221

Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet

Until, that is, large mammal extinctions forced them to diversify their meals The post Early Americans Pioneered the Keto Diet appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 10 Score 0.6885905351851851

Contributing to U.K. financial sector resilience as a critical third party

At Google Cloud, we take our role in the financial ecosystem very seriously. We firmly believe that operational resilience is essential to driving and sustaining responsible innovation. Today, we mark a milestone in our ongoing commitment to the financial sect

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 10 Score 0.6869238685185184

Frontier and Center: Who evaluates the evaluations?

Editor’s note: Some of the most interesting questions in AI are being asked by information theoreticians, around how to provide context to an emerging class of AI agents. A few weeks ago, we waded into those waters with a blog about the Open Knowledge Format ,

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 10 Score 0.6869238680555555

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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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.6544241523148149

Open source AI matters more than ever, according to Hugging Face's Clem Delangue

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fo

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 10 Score 0.6460908189814816

Hugging Face's CEO on why companies are done renting their AI

Open source AI is booming, according to Hugging Face CEO Clem Delangue. The company has grown into something like a GitHub for AI in recent years, where AI builders can share and download open models and datasets, now used by roughly half the Fo

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AI News Jul 10 Score 0.6012136101851852

How to shrink the token budget without shrinking the team

Jensen Huang has a test for whether an engineer is worth keeping, and it comes with a token budget attached. Speaking on the All-In Podcast at the close of GTC 2026, the Nvidia chief executive said that if a $500,000 engineer's annual AI token consumption came

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Towards Data Science Jul 10 Score 0.5727573662037038

PySpark for Beginners: Building Intermediate-Level Skills

A practical next step into partitions, shuffles, joins, caching, and execution plans. The post PySpark for Beginners: Building Intermediate-Level Skills appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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