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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9419878282407408

Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations

A new analysis from OpenAI reveals issues in SWE-Bench Pro, a popular coding benchmark, raising concerns about reliability and accuracy in evaluating AI models.

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Krebs on Security Jul 8 Score 0.9412006305555557

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a

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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9369878282407408

Helping K–12 educators build practical AI skills

OpenAI Academy and the Walton Family Foundation are bringing hands-on AI Skills Jams to help K–12 educators build practical AI skills for the classroom.

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OpenAI News Jul 8 Score 0.9203211615740742

Introducing GPT-Live

A new generation of voice models for natural human-AI interaction, now powering ChatGPT Voice.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8852476874999999

Rewriting Bun in Rust

Rewriting Bun in Rust Jarred Sumner has been promising this blog post ( since May 9th ) about his Zig to Rust rewrite of Bun for significantly longer than it took him to finish the rewrite. Honestly, it was worth the wait. This is a detailed description of an

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8842324097222222

Introducing GPT‑Live

Introducing GPT‑Live OpenAI finally upgraded the model used by ChatGPT voice mode! I've had preview access for a few weeks in the iPhone app, and the new model is very impressive. It also has the ability to spin off harder tasks to GPT-5.5: For questions that

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Foreign Policy Jul 8 Score 0.8821736129629629

Trump Hands NATO a Mixed Bag

The alliance wanted to look united. In walked Trump.

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Foreign Policy Jul 8 Score 0.8803208351851851

Is the U.S.-Iran Cease-Fire Over?

Trump calls continued peace talks a “waste of time” as strikes resume.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 8 Score 0.8787537060185184

Quoting Kenton Varda

I just declared a moratorium against AI-written change descriptions (e.g. PR and commit messages, also issues/tickets) from my team. AI was writing change descriptions that were worse than useless to me as I tried to review PRs: outlining details of the code t

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Quanta Magazine Jul 8 Score 0.8692547370370369

Is Life Just Different?

The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? The post Is Life Just Different? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jul 8 Score 0.863739985648148

Cybersecurity and the Gap Between Skill and Ability

Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that's the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack in

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War on the Rocks Jul 9 Score 0.8236651935185186

The Pentagon's Sprint to Get Tech Out of the Lab and to the Warfighter

Joe Jewell left academia and his role directing hypersonic wind tunnels to oversee the Pentagon's science and technology enterprise. He wants more researchers to make the same move. He joins Jonathan to discuss the Pentagon's science enterprise, why he thinks

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War on the Rocks Jul 9 Score 0.8232587115740742

The Pentagon’s AI Strategy Has a Funding Problem

In the span of two weeks, the White House issued two of the most ambitious artificial intelligence directives in American history. On June 2, President Donald Trump signed an executive order mandating rapid AI adoption and hardened cyber defense across the gov

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War on the Rocks Jul 9 Score 0.8228438967592593

Victory for al-Qaeda’s Affiliate in Mali Would be a Regional Catastrophe

Mali is not Syria, and Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin is not Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham.While the fall of the Bashar al-Assad regime and the rise of the Ahmed al-Sharaa government in Damascus, Syria can be seen as a net positive for regional security in the L

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BleepingComputer Jul 9 Score 0.8198441310185186

Microsoft patches RoguePlanet Defender zero-day vulnerability

Microsoft has released a security patch to address a Defender zero-day vulnerability known as "RoguePlanet," disclosed after the June 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]

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Foreign Affairs Jul 9 Score 0.8169884486111112

How to Save the UN From Irrelevance

Ending the peacekeeper’s paralysis.

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Foreign Affairs Jul 9 Score 0.8169884486111112

Trump Is Remaking Latin America

The short-term results and the long-term risks of the “Donroe Doctrine.”

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The Verge Jul 8 Score 0.8080278231481482

Meta is reportedly working on smart glasses that would be recording all the time

Meta might be the next company to make an always-on AI wearable. The company is working on prototype "super sensing" always-aware smart glasses that could continuously record audio and snap photos "every few seconds," according to the Financial Times. The wear

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The Verge Jul 8 Score 0.8036551379629631

Get a $30 credit when you reserve Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy phones

Even though they haven’t been officially announced yet, Samsung is giving you a chance to save some cash when you preorder what we’re expecting to be the brand’s updated Galaxy Z Fold phones. The next Galaxy Unpacked event will take place on July 22nd, 2026, a

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BleepingComputer Jul 8 Score 0.8035154273148148

Fake Paysafe, Skrill SDKs on NPM and PyPi steal credentials

Malicious packages on the Node Package Manager (npm) and the Python Package Index (PyPI) delivered stealer malware to developers and users of Paysafe, Skrill, and Neteller payment applications. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 8 Score 0.8018779273148149

Hackers exploit Roundcube flaw to spy on academic researchers

A China-linked threat cluster has been exploiting vulnerable Roundcube servers at U.S. and Canadian universities to steal credentials and deploy backdoor malware. [...]

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The Verge Jul 8 Score 0.8017231935185186

Microsoft's Xbox reset is pivoting Obsidian to make Fallout instead of Avowed

As part of Microsoft's big Xbox "reset," which includes layoffs affecting 3,200 staffers, jettisoning studios, and shifting investments to focus on "higher priority projects," Obsidian Entertainment is changing its plans. The studio, behind games like Grounded

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The Verge Jul 8 Score 0.8002630083333334

America’s cheapest new EV is smaller than a ping-pong table and tops out at 19mph

When searching for an affordable electric vehicle these days, there are always tradeoffs. How much range are you willing to sacrifice, how much leg room and storage space, how many features, in the pursuit of that magic sticker price that won't break the bank?

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War on the Rocks Jul 8 Score 0.7994994523148149

A Fresh Look at the Houthi Threat to Maritime Shipping

 In 2024, Allison Minor wrote, "Solving the Houthi Threat to Freedom of Navigation," where she argued the international response to Houthi attacks on shipping in the Red Sea has so far been inadequate and proposed a U.N.-led solution. Two years later, wit

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The Verge Jul 8 Score 0.7994884712962964

Cockroaches will learn to fear my SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable

A little robotic switch-flipper has become my sidekick in combating cockroaches. Before I got the SwitchBot Bot Rechargeable, I'd tiptoe through the dark every morning, hoping I wouldn't step on one of those terrible bugs scurrying around as I made my way to t

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HuggingFace Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7991014092592593

Data for Agents

Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.

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Microsoft Research Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7969877578703705

Flint: A visualization language for the AI era

Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. The post Flin

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MIT Technology Review Jul 8 Score 0.7905995199074075

The Download: worms fight pollution, and geoengineering faces reality

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. Why worms (and microbes) are catching on as a manure pollution solution Anthony Agueda, a third-generation California dair

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 8 Score 0.7839061240740741

My Stack Simulator, (Wed, Jul 8th)

The stack is a memory region where a program stores temporary data - like local variables and return addresses. Think of the stack as a pile of plates in your kitchen: you can onl

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InfoQ Jul 9 Score 0.748210511574074

AWS Details How One Customer Scaled to One Million Lambda Functions

AWS has outlined how ProGlove, an industrial-wearables manufacturer, was able to scale its SaaS platform to run more than one million AWS Lambda functions spread across thousands of dedicated customer accounts. By Matt Foster

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Risky Bulletin Jul 9 Score 0.7478491819444445

Srsly Risky Biz: US Supreme Court undermines Section 702 intel

Tom Uren and James Wilson talk about a new US Supreme Court decision that puts the current EU-US data sharing agreement at risk. American intelligence collection efforts have been at the centre of legal challenges of these on-again off-again data transfer agre

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The Hacker News Jul 9 Score 0.7475741439814815

Meta's New AI Image Tool Lets Others Use Your Public Instagram Photos in AI Images

Meta has announced that its new artificial intelligence (AI) model Muse Image lets people use public Instagram posts and reels to generate AI content, and it's enabled by default. "You can also @-mention Instagram accounts in the Meta AI app to bring specific

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The Hacker News Jul 9 Score 0.7440722921296297

Top AI Agents Built to Catch Malicious Code Can Be Tricked Into Running It

Ask an AI coding agent to scan open-source code for security holes, and it might run the attacker's code on your own machine instead. That is the finding in a proof-of-concept published Wednesday by the AI Now Institute, an attack it calls "Friendly

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The Hacker News Jul 9 Score 0.7427463662037037

GhostApproval Symlink Flaws Could Let Malicious Repos Run Code in AI Coding Agents

Researchers at Wiz found that a flaw in six popular AI coding assistants lets a booby-trapped code project quietly take control of a developer's computer. The assistant asks permission to edit one harmless-looking file, but the write lands on a sensi

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The Hacker News Jul 9 Score 0.7420384958333334

Fake 7-Zip Installers Turn Devices Into Residential Proxy Nodes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new threat actor dubbed Lurking Lizard that has been operating an end-to-end malicious residential proxy business using an infrastructure comprising more than 230 lookalike domains. The activity dates back

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NASA News Jul 9 Score 0.742016025

Super Typhoon Bavi

The third category 5 tropical cyclone of 2026 crossed the U.S. Northern Mariana Islands and Guam before continuing toward Asia.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 9 Score 0.7399910435185185

Harvard scientists turn a silicon chip into a DNA writing machine

Scientists have created a silicon chip that can write dozens of DNA sequences simultaneously using electricity and water-based enzymes, offering a cleaner alternative to conventional DNA manufacturing. The breakthrough could eventually support portable DNA-wri

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 9 Score 0.7357651175925926

Heidelberg physicists just united two opposing quantum theories

A new quantum theory bridges two rival models of how impurities behave inside many-particle systems, resolving a problem that has challenged physicists for decades. The findings could reshape experiments on ultracold atoms, semiconductors, and other exotic for

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 8 Score 0.7336572472222223

Rare goblin shark filmed alive for the first time in the deep sea

For the first time, researchers have filmed the elusive goblin shark alive in the deep ocean where it naturally lives. The remarkable sightings greatly expand the shark's known range and depth, showing that this 125-million-year-old "living fossil" still

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 8 Score 0.7328632657407408

Scientists used AI to crack one of water's biggest mysteries

Water’s odd behavior becomes even more dramatic when it is supercooled, but scientists have struggled to compare the many different ways of describing its microscopic structure. Researchers at the University of Osaka used an AI model trained on computer simula

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Dark Reading Jul 8 Score 0.7312754421296296

Mexico's New Cyber Plan Faces Its First Real Test

The Latin American nation's cybersecurity plan — still in the expansion phase — has to survive its own knockout round during the FIFA World Cup.

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GitHub Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7306531777777778

Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows

Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The post Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Jul 8 Score 0.7304391731481481

Students Connect NASA Science With Indigenous Knowledge to Study Coastal Erosion

For the Pleasant Point Passamaquoddy Reservation, or Sipayik, the ocean has always been a teacher. Situated in what is known as Downeast Maine, along the shores of Passamaquoddy Bay, generations of Indigenous people have lived along the coast, learning from th

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GitHub Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7279841962962963

GitHub availability report: June 2026

In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: June 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Jul 8 Score 0.7269881888888889

Seeding clouds with seawater could prevent a super El Niño

A modelling study suggests marine cloud brightening could shade the eastern Pacific and reduce a global temperature spike from El Niño, but there could be unexpected consequences

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GitHub Blog Jul 8 Score 0.721988362962963

How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages

Go from an empty repository to a live custom domain with HTTPS in about 14 minutes, without manually editing a single DNS record. The post How GitHub Copilot enables zero DNS configuration for GitHub Pages appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Jul 8 Score 0.719040562037037

Hubble Captures Star-Studded Cluster

This image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope showcases Messier 3 (M3), one of the Milky Way galaxy’s most massive globular clusters, or spherical collections of gravitationally bound stars. Globular clusters are made up of ancient sta

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New Scientist Jul 8 Score 0.7169965222222222

Why Schrödinger's 1944 classic What Is Life? still feels prescient

Pioneer of quantum mechanics Erwin Schrödinger's look at living organisms is one of the most influential popular-science books of the 20th century. So how does it hold up today, asks Karmela Padavic-Callaghan

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Kubernetes Blog Jul 8 Score 0.7153207069444445

Announcing etcd v3.7.0

This article is a mirror of the original announcement Today, SIG etcd is releasing etcd v3.7.0 , the latest minor release of the popular distributed key-value store and core Kubernetes component. v3.7 ships the long-requested RangeStream feature, delivers seve

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Martin Fowler Jul 8 Score 0.7152381143518518

Experiences with local models for coding

Birgitta Böckeler now reports on her recent experiences trying local LLMs for coding. She compares them using two standard tasks, and tries out the most promising model for day-to-day use. more…

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New Scientist Jul 8 Score 0.7144594851851852

Lambs born via IVF using highly immature eggs in major breakthrough

Lambs have been born using an experimental form of IVF that coaxes immature eggs to become mature ones. This could boost the number of eggs available for fertilisation and improve IVF success rates

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Rest of World Jul 8 Score 0.71198835

Data centers should benefit the cities that power them

Cities in Asia, Africa, and Latin America must ensure AI infrastructure development benefits local communities and leads to sustainable economic growth.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 8 Score 0.7084026175925926

Ancient DNA reveals the mysterious collapse of Europe's megalith builders

DNA from a 5,000-year-old French megalithic tomb reveals that the people buried before and after a population collapse were genetically unrelated, pointing to a major migration after a devastating crisis. The shift coincided with new social traditions and the

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Nautilus Jul 8 Score 0.6944881629629629

Can We Geoengineer Our Way Out of a Super El Nino?

A natural experiment in sun-scorched Australia points the way The post Can We Geoengineer Our Way Out of a Super El Nino? appeared first on Nautilus .

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CNCF Blog Jul 8 Score 0.6871520166666666

The CNCF Data Storage in Cloud Native AI White Paper

Deploying Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) workloads at scale has become a primary objective for modern enterprises. However, moving these data-heavy, stateful workloads into cloud native infrastructure introduces massive data bottlenecks

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BAIR Blog Jul 7 Score 0.670321312037037

Intelligence is Free, Now What? Data Systems for, of, and by Agents

... government of the people, by the people, for the people ...     — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the

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