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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 25 Score 0.8887032694444443

Quoting Boris Cherny

More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red teaming, Opus 5 is very hard to prompt inject successfully. &

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 24 Score 0.8871991027777777

Introducing Claude Opus 5

Introducing Claude Opus 5 I've been offline kayaking with sea otters for much of today so I haven't had a chance to put Anthropic's new model Claude Opus 5 through its paces yet. The buzz is positive, and Anthropic's description of it as a "thoughtful and proa

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Foreign Policy Jul 24 Score 0.883407211574074

Trump Swaps Out Tariffs for Even More Tariffs

Foreign leaders accuse the White House of using forced labor allegations as a smokescreen for protectionist measures.

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Schneier on Security Jul 24 Score 0.8826763092592592

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands

Lower catch this year . 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 24 Score 0.8817775819444443

Andy Burnham and the New Manchesterism

The economic philosophy of Britain’s latest prime minister.

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Foreign Policy Jul 24 Score 0.8791961004629629

Riding the Greenland Ferry

Traveling along the coast, Greenlanders explain what the world misunderstands about their island.

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Foreign Policy Jul 24 Score 0.8790664708333332

What in the World?

Test yourself on the week of July 18: Ortega makes an alarming announcement, Zelensky holds cabinet talks, and the Houthis implement a blockade.

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Schneier on Security Jul 24 Score 0.865929087037037

Why AI Needs a “Genie Coefficient”

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in IEEE Spectrum . Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how yo

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Krebs on Security Jul 22 Score 0.8444716412037038

LG to Ban Residential Proxies from Smart TV Apps

The home appliance giant LG Electronics USA said this week it plans to suspend any apps built for its smart TVs that turn one's television into an always-on residential proxy node. The move comes less than a month after researchers found that more than 42 perc

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.8241758810185186

Forget expensive sleepbuds. Buy this pillow instead

Tech companies love to sell us expensive gadgets to solve all of life's little problems. Sleepbuds sold by the likes of Anker and Ozlo are a good example. These miniature marvels of engineering sit flush in the ear, and allow side-sleepers to doze off listenin

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The Verge Jul 24 Score 0.8099471773148149

After backlash, Meta pauses plan to ‘rate limit’ its smart glasses

Remember when Meta was planning to charge a $20 monthly subscription fee for the smart glasses feature that lets people hear each other more clearly - even though that feature runs locally on your glasses and doesn't require the cloud? Meta has paused those pl

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BleepingComputer Jul 24 Score 0.8057045768518519

OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack

OnTrac parcel delivery company is informing that hackers breached its corporate network and may have accessed personal details belonging to its customers. [...]

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The Verge Jul 24 Score 0.8048351402777778

Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses

Meta's smart glasses have been a PR headache for the company. Public backlash has been swift, and fierce; people are concerned about the erosion of privacy and expansion of surveillance. Some especially bad actors are using the glasses to film themselves "pran

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The Verge Jul 24 Score 0.8045754180555557

Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that's bad news for everyone

Qualcomm sent a letter to customers on Friday warning of plans to increase its prices by "a percentage in the double digits," Bloomberg reports. The price hikes will go into effect starting with products shipped after September 1st. Qualcomm claims it has "exh

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BleepingComputer Jul 24 Score 0.8044305027777778

Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry

A threat actor used the open-source Hermes AI agent in unattended "YOLO" mode to automate post-exploitation activity during an alleged breach of Thailand's Ministry of Finance. [...]

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The Verge Jul 24 Score 0.8043693995370371

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star

Midjourney, which has gone from generating AI cat images to full-body ultrasound scans, is getting into a new field: astrology. The AI startup announced on Thursday that it has acquired the personalized astrology app Co-Star, as reported earlier by Bloomberg.

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The Guardian — World Jul 24 Score 0.8024539666666667

Thousands of lightning strikes trigger fresh wildfires in western Canada

At least 90 active blazes in British Columbia in what PM says is one of the country’s most intense seasons on record How dangerous are wildfires and how can we stop them from getting worse? Fresh wildfires have broken out in western Canada and forests continue

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War on the Rocks Jul 24 Score 0.8020936962962963

Global Risks Heating Up

Welcome to The Adversarial. Every other week, we'll provide you with expert analysis on America's greatest challengers: China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and jihadists. Read more below.***IranThe U.S.-Iranian ceasefire agreed in April began deteriorating

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MIT Technology Review Jul 24 Score 0.8009513416666667

The quest to keep organs alive outside the body

This week, I covered a fascinating effort to preserve organs outside the body. There’s a huge shortage of donor organs, and one of the main reasons is time—they survive only a matter of hours outside the body, even when they’re kept on ice. Doctors dream of or

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BleepingComputer Jul 24 Score 0.7986689287037038

Microsoft blames massive Microsoft 365 outage on maintenance bug

Microsoft says a bug in its automated network maintenance request system caused Thursday's massive outage by mistakenly removing IP routes from more devices than intended, disrupting Azure and Microsoft 365 services. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 24 Score 0.7983044296296297

Guyanese authorities confirm death of 72 people in sinking of coastal ferry

Of the estimated 179 people aboard, 76 were rescued as efforts continue to salvage the ship and recover all bodies The confirmed death toll from the recent capsizing of a state ferry off Guyana ’s coast has risen to 72, with more bodies recovered as a multinat

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Wired Jul 24 Score 0.7975092995370371

Silicon Valley Is Completely Divided Over Chinese AI

The AI “startups” worth billions of dollars are raising alarm bells about Chinese AI. The smaller players have a totally different take.

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BleepingComputer Jul 24 Score 0.7959675398148148

Chick-fil-A data breach affects more than 13,000 customers

Chick-fil-A has confirmed that over 13,000 customers had their accounts breached in a wave of credential stuffing attacks targeting its website and mobile app between June 17 and June 19. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 24 Score 0.7956641518518519

Canadian government urged to block Thomson Reuters data deal with US ICE

US agency is to pay Canadian media company US$125m for use of investigative database to detect ‘immigration fraud’ A Canadian federal opposition party leader has called on Mark Carney’s government to block the latest data-sharing deal between US Immigration an

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MIT Technology Review Jul 24 Score 0.7927869898148149

The Download: an organ transplant breakthrough, and homegrown Chinese chips

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. Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”  When it comes to organ donation, ti

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The Guardian — World Jul 23 Score 0.7560099851851853

MoD cancels army training in Kenya over powers to prosecute British soldiers

September exercise called off after Kenya raises concerns over funding and jurisdiction for criminal offences The British army has been forced to cancel training for its troops in Kenya after the Kenyan government refused to ratify a bilateral defence agreemen

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Schneier on Security Jul 21 Score 0.7460434388888888

MIT to Become Hotbed of AI Video Surveillance

It's a lot : According to information obtained by The Tech , MIT is spending over $3 million on more than 500 AI surveillance cameras in academic buildings, residence halls, and outdoor areas along Memorial Drive. Installation of the new cameras, along with th

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Dark Reading Jul 24 Score 0.7333950967592593

CISOs vs. Boards: Myth or Misunderstanding?

Escalating threats are forcing boards to prioritize security, but communication gaps persist. Boards and security teams each say they need more support to bridge the divide.

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CyberScoop Jul 24 Score 0.7324702921296297

Industry's message on CIRCIA: Please ask us fewer questions about cyberattacks

The administration set a target date of September for CISA to finalize the rule, but where the agency is headed remains a mystery to some. The post Industry's message on CIRCIA: Please ask us fewer questions about cyberattacks appeared first on CyberScoop .

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CyberScoop Jul 24 Score 0.7305022365740741

Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow

Roughly 1 in 4 of those compromised IPs are based in the United States, Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs said. Botnets like IPIDEA have also rebounded quickly, surpassing their pre-disruption footprint. The post Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow app

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New Scientist Jul 24 Score 0.727537000462963

Clothes made from living fungi can clean and repair themselves

Researchers have created a textile made from the parasitic fungus Cordyceps militaris, which is biodegradable and can be adapted for different purposes with various microbes

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7271513388888889

NASA’s ESCAPADE Snaps Family Portrait of Earth, Moon

On July 3, one of NASA’s two Mars-destined ESCAPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) spacecraft captured photos of Earth and the Moon in visible and thermal infrared light. At the time, the spacecraft was 363,250 miles (584,600 kilometer

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7253717092592593

New Crew Members Welcomed to International Space Station

From left, Expedition 74 flight engineers Anna Kikina and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos, and Anil Menon of NASA pose for a July 18, 2026, photo while holding a cake celebrating their recent arrival aboard the International Space Station. The trio arrived at the sp

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7251698574074074

NASA Announces New Spacecraft Technology Demonstration Mission at Moon

NASA is working with industry to advance the next phase of cislunar infrastructure for the agency’s Artemis program and Moon Base, including orbital assets and demonstrations. Under a contract awarded to Advanced Space, the agency’s CAPSTONE 02 mission will de

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Bellingcat Jul 24 Score 0.7235952851851852

Shahed-Type Drones Filmed During Mali Village Attacks

Bellingcat has geolocated footage showing Shahed-136 type kamikaze drones in operation in Mali. Defence Blog and France 24 previously published reports that these drones were being deployed on the battlefield in northern Mali. But Bellingcat and Jeune Afrique

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7233527277777778

NASA to Support Blue Origin New Glenn Rocket Testing, Advance Artemis

NASA and Blue Origin announced Friday they recently agreed to conduct second stage hot fire testing for the company’s New Glenn rocket on the B-2 test stand at the agency’s Stennis Space Center near Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. The annex to a reimbursable Space

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New Scientist Jul 24 Score 0.7232254263888889

Earth is heating up faster than at any time in its history

To understand where climate change is heading, we have to look at the planet’s distant past and appreciate the disturbing uniqueness of our situation, says Bill McGuire

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CyberScoop Jul 24 Score 0.723127699537037

Microsoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AI

Other signatories of the letter include Meta, Palantir, Perplexity, Mistral, NVIDIA, Mozilla, The Linux Foundation, Hugging Face, Dell Technologies and IBM. The post Microsoft, tech companies throw weight behind spread of open-source AI appeared first on Cyber

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The Hacker News Jul 24 Score 0.7228591060185185

BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery

The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns design

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7161522648148149

Hubble Spies One-Sided Spiral

This Hubble image features spiral galaxy NGC 4654, located 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo (the Maiden).

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InfoQ Jul 24 Score 0.7125088976851852

Article: The Self-Building Agent: A LangChain4j Experiment

The article discusses an experiment where a code assistant had to design an agentic system using LangChain4j documentation. The assistant created a coding framework capable of writing, testing, and debugging code autonomously. Results showed that two architect

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 24 Score 0.7117003203703703

Sweden’s hidden rare earth deposits could help break China’s grip

Sweden could become an important source of rare earth elements needed for magnets and green technologies. Instead of extracting one target metal, researchers are cataloging everything contained in Swedish mineral deposits. They will then develop magnets using

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 24 Score 0.7105012462962963

China’s Tianwen-1 captures interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS near Mars

China’s Tianwen-1 orbiter captured a faint but remarkable view of 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar comet raced past Mars. The images reveal its tail and glowing coma, offering scientists a glimpse of material born beyond our solar system.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 24 Score 0.7092845796296297

Ancient ape fossil in Egypt challenges the story of human origins

A newly identified fossil ape from northern Egypt is reshaping ideas about where the ancestors of modern apes first emerged. Analyses place it closer to living apes than any known East African species of the same age, pointing to North Africa and the Middle Ea

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 24 Score 0.7075165240740741

APOE2 may protect the brain from Alzheimer’s and aging

The longevity-linked APOE2 gene appears to protect brain cells by reducing DNA damage and helping neurons recover from stress. The finding could open a new path toward treatments that mimic APOE2’s defenses in people at higher genetic risk for Alzheimer’s.

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Lobsters Jul 25 Score 0.7050181851851851

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 24 Score 0.7008063388888889

New giant salamander species discovered in 3.5-million-year-old fossils

Fossils discovered in Japan more than two decades ago have finally been identified as a new genus and species of giant salamander. Limnospondylus ajimuensis lived around 3.5 million years ago in a warmer, wetter Kyushu and may have reached 1.1 meters in length

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Nautilus Jul 24 Score 0.6933428912037036

Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High

Hallucination may have more to do with our shared brain chemistry with snails, insects, and sea urchins The post Psychedelics Might Not Have Evolved to Get Humans High appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 24 Score 0.686675161111111

Open Knowledge format v0.2 tackles agentic trust

When we introduced the Open Knowledge Format (OKF) in June 2026, we asserted that the context that agents need (table schemas, metric definitions, runbooks) should live in a format, not in a proprietary service, and not scattered across unstructured text blobs

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 24 Score 0.686675160648148

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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Google Cloud Blog Jul 24 Score 0.6833418273148147

Updated Cyber Threat Actor Naming System

Introduction Today, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) will begin rolling out a unified naming schema for tracking threat actors. This new naming taxonomy represents an effort to standardize tracking across platforms and public reporting. Why are we Adopt

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CNCF Blog Jul 24 Score 0.6783423157407407

OpenTelemetry has graduated… Now what?

In case you missed it: OpenTelemetry (OTel) has officially achieved CNCF graduated status! It now stands proudly alongside amazing open source projects such as Kubernetes and Prometheus, to name just a few. It’s been a long journey, and we’

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CNCF Blog Jul 24 Score 0.6783423157407407

My LFX mentorship journey with kgateway

Open source has been a defining part of my career for many years. As an engineer working in the cloud native ecosystem, I have spent the last five years building and contributing to technologies around Kubernetes,...

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Hacker News Jul 25 Score 0.6733885773148148

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 24 Score 0.6508427069444445

Anthropic launches Opus 5

Opus 5 will be both cheaper and less restrictive than Fable, likely making it preferable in most use cases.

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AI News Jul 24 Score 0.6121894527777777

Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, and others back open-weight AI

Two dozen companies and organisations signed an open letter urging US policymakers to protect open-weight AI models. The letter, published today (PDF), carries signatures from a list that spans direct commercial rivals and organisations with little obvious ove

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AI News Jul 24 Score 0.609961212037037

OpenAI pushes ChatGPT into patient health records

OpenAI is deploying a Health feature inside ChatGPT, giving users the option to connect Apple Health data and medical records to the chatbot. Logged-in users aged 18 and older can access it now on web and iOS, across the Free, Go, Plus, and Pro tiers. Users li

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AI News Jul 24 Score 0.5983422305555555

OpenAI Presence sells enterprise AI agents with engineers attached

The newest way to buy enterprise AI agents from OpenAI does not involve buying anything online. OpenAI Presence, announced on July 22, is a managed product delivered through a limited general availability programme, and the company states plainly tha

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Google DeepMind Blog Jul 17 Score 0.5925143300925925

Introducing Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber

Google introduces Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, a lightweight cybersecurity model to find and patch vulnerabilities.

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Towards Data Science Jul 24 Score 0.5750092981481483

Tabular LLMs: An Introduction to the Foundation Models That Predict Your Spreadsheet

Tabular foundation models predict the missing column of any spreadsheet zero-shot, the way an LLM completes text — and on the TabArena benchmark they now sit above fully tuned gradient-boosted trees. An introduction to how they work, an independent reproductio

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