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OpenAI News Jul 31 Score 0.9472584851851853

Building abundant intelligence

A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.

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OpenAI News Jul 31 Score 0.933925151851852

Univé builds an AI-ready workforce

See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.

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OpenAI News Jul 31 Score 0.9222584851851853

Disrupting a Criminal Scam Operation

OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 Score 0.8872509671296296

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 Score 0.8859630041666666

Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)

Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first launched, and has also served to r

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 Score 0.8856968004629628

llm-mcp-client 0.1a0

Release: llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 See this blog entry . Tags: llm , model-context-protocol

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 Score 0.8831810597222222

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 31 Score 0.8826856893518518

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses

smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The r

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Schneier on Security Jul 31 Score 0.8824466263888888

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Helps Discover New Marine Species

The Squid is a new scientific machine : One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. "That opens up a w

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Foreign Policy Jul 31 Score 0.882242361574074

France’s Wildfires Are Swallowing Its Politics

The country’s next presidential election is more ominous in the glow of its latest environmental disaster.

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Schneier on Security Jul 31 Score 0.8762382930555555

Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection

The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5

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Quanta Magazine Jul 31 Score 0.8719857629629628

Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons?

The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. The post Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jul 31 Score 0.8658345893518518

Facial Recognition at Madison Square Garden

Last month, the story broke (alternate link ) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition software on everyone entering the facility, and—among other groups—flags activists that oppose using facial recognition. Turns out that the system was

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Federal Reserve Press Releases Jul 31 Score 0.833091624537037

Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank "insiders"—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank's lending decisions

Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank "insiders"—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank's lending decisions

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 1 Score 0.8245511958333334

Phishing Campaigns Targeting AI Solutions Providers, (Sat, Aug 1st)

Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose "something": money, access to information, ... Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT.

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BBC News — World Aug 1 Score 0.8217728962962964

Fifa scraps controversial World Cup investment plan

Football's world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president Gianni Infantino's proposal.

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BleepingComputer Jul 31 Score 0.8093892416666667

Amgen says cloud data breach exposed patient health, proprietary info

Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 31 Score 0.8083179453703704

Arch Linux disables AUR package adoption to stop malware flood

The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 31 Score 0.8075202601851853

Online ad firm Adform’s script compromised to steal cryptocurrency

Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jul 31 Score 0.8063431305555556

The Atlantic Brief: The Strait of Hormuz and the Future of Free Navigation

In February 2026, the United States and Israel initiated a war in the Middle East against Iran. Since then, the warring sides have oscillated between strikes, a fragile ceasefire, and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz. Open hostilities resumed in mid-July.

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The Verge Jul 31 Score 0.8049179217592594

Apple’s new AirTags are back down to their best price

We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that's still live, but if you're an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest AirTag. Right now, you can pick up a four-pack for $89 ($10 off) at Amazon and Target, matching the bundle’s all

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The Verge Jul 31 Score 0.8042994032407408

Google Earth's AI deepfake tool only lasted one day

Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for

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The Verge Jul 31 Score 0.8031929217592593

The NHTSA is investigating 1.2 million Tesla vehicles over suspension failure reports

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause "a loss of vehicle directional control," as reported earlier by Reuters. The prelimin

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The Verge Jul 31 Score 0.8030193106481482

Google might launch a ‘Pixel Tag’

Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a "Google Pixel Tag" that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing about the Pixel T

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The Guardian — World Jul 31 Score 0.8020414388888889

At least 57 people die as tens of thousands cross to Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco

Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco i

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BleepingComputer Jul 31 Score 0.8015804453703704

Hacker uses DeepSeek AI to autonomously attack vulnerable servers

A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jul 31 Score 0.7927026013888889

The Download: Montana's new experimental drug rules

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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies who

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MIT Technology Review Jul 31 Score 0.7872581569444446

Montana’s new “right to try” law can’t come soon enough for some

Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When B

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Game Developer Jul 31 Score 0.7610276023148149

Xbox CEO declares priorities after 'reset'

Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out a plan to get Xbox back on track after the latest round of layoffs.

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GamesIndustry.biz Jul 31 Score 0.7603527555555556

Xbox is (probably) not for sale | Opinion

For much of this year, each new week has brought with it a new impetus for a rash of articles on Microsoft’s Xbox misfortunes. From deep wounds like layoffs and project cancellations, to stinging papercuts like internal memos, poorly received public stat

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GamesIndustry.biz Jul 31 Score 0.7564059962962963

Unity announces dedicated engine support for Netflix Games

Unity has launched dedicated engine support for Netflix platforms , making it easier for developers to ship titles on the streaming platform's ecosystem. Read more

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Liberty Street Economics Jul 31 Score 0.753091526388889

Stablecoins and (Non)Crypto Shocks: A 2026 Update

Stablecoins are digital assets whose value is pegged to that of a fiat currency, typically the U.S. dollar at a peg of $1.00 per token. In a previous blog post , we described the rapid growth of stablecoins through early 2025, highlighted changes in stablecoin

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 30 Score 0.7522586125

Schneider Electric IGSS

View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its IGSS Definition module for the IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) product. The [IGSS](https://igss.schneider-electric.com/) product is a state-of-the-art SCADA system used for monit

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 30 Score 0.7522586125

Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. Thi

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InfoQ Aug 1 Score 0.7452857805555556

AWS Introduces Free Sandbox Environments for Workshops

AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and remov

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NASA News Aug 1 Score 0.7440642314814815

APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck Moon and Belt of Venus

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is feat

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PC Gamer Aug 1 Score 0.7389523273148149

Palworld 1.0 review

A squirrel with a rifle is the least interesting thing about it.

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NASA News Jul 31 Score 0.7349142314814815

What’s Up: August 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA

A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus at its brightest in the evening sky, and

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TechCrunch Jul 31 Score 0.7339248712962962

Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn't.

AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.

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NASA News Jul 31 Score 0.7324855277777778

NASA to Host Florida Event Celebrating American Air, Space Leadership

NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital creators are invited to attend in person. The announcement, held in the XLV Hangar at the Shuttle Landing Facility

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NASA News Jul 31 Score 0.7311369166666667

NASA's Newest Wind Tunnel Opens at NASA Langley

On Friday, July 31, 2026, NASA leadership and Virginia government officials opened NASA's first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The state-of-the-art faci

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NASA News Jul 31 Score 0.7290758055555555

TB 26-04 Webbings for Use in Elevated Oxygen Environments

Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian missions. Testing demonstrated that a webbing composed of 60%

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InfoQ Jul 31 Score 0.7272580027777777

Terraform Introduces tfpolicy, an HCL-based Policy-as-Code Framework

HashiCorp has introduced tfpolicy, a new HCL-based policy-as-code framework for Terraform, now available in public beta within HCP Terraform. It is designed to simplify and modernize infrastructure governance by integrating policy creation and enforcement dire

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Econbrowser Jul 31 Score 0.7251850643518518

Economic Sentiment Stabilizes

Michigan final sentiment and Conference Board confidence near pre War levels. But still 2.2 to 2.4 standard deviations below pre Trump. Gallup confidence 1.1 standard deviations below. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence

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New Scientist Jul 31 Score 0.7244709819444445

How Europe can make its landscapes more fire-resilient

Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some experts are calling for a change of strategy

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GitHub Blog Jul 31 Score 0.7239247370370371

Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed

How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Kubernetes Blog Jul 31 Score 0.7239246879629629

Kubernetes v1.37 Sneak Peek

As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for the Kubernetes v

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New Scientist Jul 31 Score 0.7223163523148148

Could eating less protein slow ageing?

Protein is everywhere, but studies – mostly in non-human animals – suggest that limiting our intake could extend our lifespan

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Jul 28 Score 0.7211041125

Retail investors should beware perpetual futures

These peculiar products, popular in the crypto world, are hitting the mainstream

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Martin Fowler Jul 31 Score 0.7202577791666667

The Conductor Developer

TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve framed AI as a pr

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Rest of World Jul 31 Score 0.7189247407407408

Can we train AI to choose safety over speed?

Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.

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InfoQ Jul 31 Score 0.7155913361111111

Presentation: The Free-Lunch Guide to Idea Circularity

Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing

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InfoQ Jul 31 Score 0.7122580027777777

Article: Virtual Threads After JDK 24: What Changed for Production Java

JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: The bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This

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Marginal Revolution Aug 1 Score 0.7111034685185185

Immigration and Macroeconomic Outcomes in OECD Countries

OECD countries experienced declining native population growth and rising net immigration over 1990-2024. We compile a new dataset of net immigration rates to OECD countries from all origins and show that most of the increase came from non-OECD countries and wa

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Marginal Revolution Aug 1 Score 0.7071108759259258

Emergent Ventures India, 18th cohort

Adithyan Madhu, 14, an independent researcher, received his grant to study early writing systems, applying computational linguistics, pattern analysis, and structural methods to the Indus Valley script. Aparajeet Shadangi, 17, received his grant to explore con

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 31 Score 0.6864241291666666

What’s new in AI infrastructure and orchestration this month

At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google Cloud Code and Google Cloud Assist). We make software framewo

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