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OpenAI News Jul 23 Score 0.9221378027777779

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 23 Score 0.8852803587962962

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're

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Foreign Policy Jul 23 Score 0.8839931583333333

Is Cuba Trump’s Next Target?

The regime in Havana is increasingly in the Trump administration’s crosshairs.

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Foreign Policy Jul 23 Score 0.8838700101851851

How Iran Gained the Upper Hand

And what that means for Washington’s options to extract itself from this quagmire.

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Foreign Policy Jul 23 Score 0.8829727879629629

Is the Red Sea the New Hormuz Crisis?

Houthi attacks on Saudi shipping risk adding a new front to the Iran war.

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Foreign Policy Jul 23 Score 0.8808260287037036

China Is AI-Maxxing

Beijing may be closing the gap with Washington in the AI race.

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Foreign Policy Jul 23 Score 0.8806306583333332

Odysseus at the End of Civilization

Nolan’s film confronts the betrayal of the West’s own values.

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.8719641685185184

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The post How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.8710410203703702

Fields and Abacus Medals 2026

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories. The post Fie

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.8709803722222221

A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.870356761111111

Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. The post Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.8701285203703703

Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy. The post Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else first appeared on Quanta Mag

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Schneier on Security Jul 23 Score 0.865577737037037

End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”

New paper: " Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the 'Going Dark' Debate ": Abstract : This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call "Rou

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War on the Rocks Jul 24 Score 0.8246444467592593

Before a Cyber Force, Fix Cyber Governance

Let's not start picking out uniforms just yet. The chorus calling for a Cyber Force continues to grow by the day, but the debate has its priorities backward. In June, an amendment from Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) calling for the creation of a cybe

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BBC News — World Jul 24 Score 0.8241436097222223

US hits dozens of trading partners with new wave of tariffs

Imposed citing forced labour concerns, the levies replace a temporary global duty brought in after the US Supreme Court struck down tariffs in February.

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Wired Jul 23 Score 0.8117266583333334

An FDA Panel Just Endorsed These Unproven Peptides

Outside experts—some with a vested interest in peptides—recommended adding a number of the amino acids to the FDA’s bulks list, including the “Wolverine stack” touted by Joe Rogan and other influencers.

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BleepingComputer Jul 23 Score 0.8077092944444445

New Dolphin X malware uses AI to rank high-value targets

A new Dolphin X remote access trojan claims to use an AI-powered profiling feature to score and rank infected users, helping cybercriminals identify which victims should be targeted first. [...]

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The Verge Jul 23 Score 0.8075571916666667

Alexa Plus is getting an AI update to handle more complicated instructions

Amazon is launching an update to its Alexa Plus assistant that will allow it to connect to smart home devices in new ways. With the update, which is currently in preview, Alexa Plus can link up with tech from Bosch, Delta, Ecovacs, iRobot, Yale Home, Whirlpool

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The Verge Jul 23 Score 0.8064895990740741

The Echo Show 21 is a great smart home hub that’s $80 off

Split between buying a smart calendar, a kitchen TV, a smart home hub, and a smart display? Amazon’s Echo Show 21 is all of those things in one, with a huge 21-inch screen. You can use it to control your smart lights, glance at recipes, watch TV shows, and mor

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BleepingComputer Jul 23 Score 0.8058764240740741

Australian energy provider Origin says data breach exposes client data

Origin Energy has confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed and subsequently leaked customer data online, exposing sensitive personally identifiable information (PII), among others. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jul 23 Score 0.8054796319444445

Chaotic Progress: European NATO’s Quest for Stronger Defense

In 2024, Max Bergmann wrote, "NATO Missed a Chance to Transform Itself," where he argued NATO's leadership needs to facilitate a strong European pillar of the alliance through structural reforms in European institutions. Two years later, we asked Max to revisi

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BleepingComputer Jul 23 Score 0.8051518870370371

Fake Claude app promoted by Bing ads pushes SectopRAT malware

A malvertising campaign on the Bing search service is pushing a fake Claude desktop app installer hosted on a legitimate Claude.ai domain to deliver the SectopRAT malware. [...]

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The Verge Jul 23 Score 0.8050872842592594

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr’s war on the First Amendment

As the chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr has authority over the nation’s TV, radio, and internet. But since Donald Trump was elected to his second term, Carr has wielded that power to threaten broadcasters that have exercised thei

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The Verge Jul 23 Score 0.8038044138888889

Claude’s voice mode is now available for Opus and Sonnet

Until now, voice mode has only been available on Claude Haiku, Anthropic's faster but less powerful model. Now the company is making its Opus and Sonnet models available in voice mode, and extending its reach into apps like Gmail, Slack, and Canva. When Anthro

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The Verge Jul 23 Score 0.8027071916666667

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of workers

Patreon is laying off 20 percent of its workers, or around 93 employees, as reported earlier by 404 Media. In a memo to employees, Patreon CEO Jack Conte writes that the company isn't making these changes "because we believe AI replaces humans," but says AI ha

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MIT Technology Review Jul 23 Score 0.8004283847222223

Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement”

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been carefully removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have a matter of hours to get it into a recipient. Leave it too long and the organ will become unusable.

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BleepingComputer Jul 23 Score 0.8001782759259259

Russian hackers exploit Zimbra zero-click flaw for email theft

CISA is warning that the Russian state-sponsored hacking group Laundry Bear, also known as Void Blizzard, is targeting organizations using Zimbra Collaboration email servers by combining phishing attacks with the exploitation of a now-patched Zimbra vulnerabil

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The Guardian — World Jul 23 Score 0.799717650925926

Mayor shot dead in Mexico months after surviving assassination attempt

Valentín Lavín Romero is the 14th mayor to be murdered since Claudia Sheinbaum became president in 2024 A mayor was shot dead on Wednesday in the Mexican state of Morelos after having survived a previous assassination attempt earlier this year. He is the 14th

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The Guardian — World Jul 23 Score 0.7961380212962964

Two Russian men jailed in Angola for terrorism and spying

The men were convicted over alleged plan to stage coup and organise deadly demonstrations over fuel prices last year Two Russian men have been found guilty by an Angolan court of terrorism and spying after being accused of planning a coup and helping to organi

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MIT Technology Review Jul 23 Score 0.7924154217592593

The Download: energy transmission and US threats against Chinese AI

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. The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imp

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.792137875462963

Rockwell Automation ThinManager

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to write arbitrary files to restricted system directories outside of the application's intended directory. The following versions of Rockwell Automation

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.792137875462963

Weintek cMT3092X

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a non-privileged user to escalate privileges or view the credentials of other users. The following versions of Weintek cMT3092X are affected: cMT3092X firmware EasyWeb CVSS Vendor E

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.7921378750000001

MZ Automation libIEC61850

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an unauthenticated network-adjacent attacker to crash critical IEC 61850 services or execute arbitrary code, disrupting or compromising protection, visibility, and control functions

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.7921378750000001

Johnson Controls XAAP Android

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in an attacker obtaining confidential information from the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls XAAP Android are affected: XAAP Android CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabili

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MIT Technology Review Jul 23 Score 0.7921376439814816

How AI helps scientists design the next generation of medicines

Designing and developing a new medicine is an expensive, failure-prone scientific challenge. A new drug can take many years to develop, at the cost of a significant investment. And even then, most possible candidates never reach the patient. For biologic medic

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MIT Technology Review Jul 23 Score 0.7871376439814816

The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags

On July 3, as a heat wave swept the region, New York State’s grid imported 52 gigawatt-hours of electricity from Canada—enough to meet about 9% of its total electricity demand that day. Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Qu

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Dark Reading Jul 24 Score 0.7488044574074074

Europe's Multilingual Reality Exposes AI Security Gaps

The AI security layer and guardrails for many AI products don't evenly protect against jailbreaking and unsafe actions in every single language.

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The Hacker News Jul 24 Score 0.7485530699074074

Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems. The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threa

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Schneier on Security Jul 20 Score 0.7455754222222222

On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras

A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM , not 34 10 DTM . But when the police report was cr

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7438323824074075

A Million-Panel Project

Utah’s new solar power and battery storage facility is among the largest in the region.

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MIT News — AI Jul 24 Score 0.743804550462963

Working to automate nuclear plant operations

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

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NASA News Jul 24 Score 0.7394217342592593

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4954–4960: Celebrating Our Rover Engineers Past and Present

Written by Lucy Thompson, Senior Research Scientist, University of New Brunswick, Canada Earth planning date: Friday, July 27, 2026 As an APXS uplink lead and strategic planner, I have the privilege of working with the rover engineers most days that I am on op

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Platformer Jul 24 Score 0.7373691199074074

Congress proposes an AI kill switch

As more details emerge about OpenAI's cyberattack against Hugging Face, lawmakers are taking an interest. PLUS: Meta's cynical new ad + "pervert glasses" damage control

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NASA News Jul 23 Score 0.7291235861111112

Look for NASA+ Now Streaming on Amazon Fire TV

Continuing agency efforts to bring space closer to home, NASA+ is heading to more streaming platforms. On Thursday, NASA announced its programming is on Fire TV Channels. Fire TV customers can easily access this content by asking Alexa+ on compatible devices.

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New Scientist Jul 23 Score 0.7271556296296297

This El Niño will be the hottest by a huge margin

The super El Niño now developing in the tropical Pacific has a 90 per cent chance of becoming the strongest in 150 years, breaking global temperature records and unleashing extreme weather

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GitHub Blog Jul 23 Score 0.7238040365740741

The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version updates

A new default three-day cooldown delays version update pull requests so maintainers and security researchers can address findings in a release before it gets into your code. The post The case for a cooldown: Why Dependabot now waits before issuing version upda

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New Scientist Jul 23 Score 0.7230519259259259

Extremely basic AI prompt cracks decades-old maths problem

For the second time in a week, a long-standing conjecture has been disproved by artificial intelligence, highlighting the advanced mathematical capabilities of ChatGPT and its ilk

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NASA News Jul 23 Score 0.7227022898148148

Crews Move Artemis IV Liquid Hydrogen Tank

Crews at NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans transport the 130-foot-tall Artemis IV liquid hydrogen tank out of a production cell inside the main factory building into a detached test building on a separate portion of the 829-acre site on May 15, 2

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NASA News Jul 23 Score 0.7226809935185186

NASA’s MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars

NASA MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission scientists have uncovered a key puzzle piece in understanding certain types of auroras on Mars, finding that they form in a similar way to Earth-based auroras. Results published Thursday in Nature Com

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New Scientist Jul 23 Score 0.7221375740740741

Can sounds make plants grow bigger? A start-up says they can

Haivya has developed acoustic signals designed to influence plant development, and its trials reportedly show large yield increases in soybean, pepper and cannabis crops

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 23 Score 0.7203596851851852

Orcas filmed smashing giant sunfish into thousands of pieces

Researchers in the Gulf of California have documented a dramatic orca behavior never described before. In two separate encounters, one orca gripped a dead sunfish by the fin while another charged into it at high speed, blasting the carcass into thousands of pi

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New Scientist Jul 23 Score 0.7188042407407408

Dark energy doesn't exist, claims controversial paper

An analysis of supernovae argues that the universe’s expansion is not speeding up, so there is no need for dark energy to exist to explain it

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InfoQ Jul 23 Score 0.7166374

Achieving Compliance as a Platform Engineering Team by Helping Developers

When a new platform team set out on implementing their roadmap through forced workflows with poor documentation, developer experience declined. Success came from simplifying governance, prioritizing what matters, and rolling out compliance incrementally throug

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 23 Score 0.6863036115740739

The Blueprint: How Voicify makes AI-enabled ordering a delight for customers

Welcome to The Blueprint, a new feature where we highlight how Google Cloud customers are tackling unique and common challenges across industries using the latest AI and cloud technologies. We hope to inspire others looking to innovate in their work . Founded

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 23 Score 0.6863036115740739

Your AI agents are ready. Is your data?

What’s one of the biggest bottlenecks stopping organizations from scaling their AI initiatives? It isn’t the capabilities of today’s models — it’s their access to business context and semantic meaning. In the agentic era, enterprises need to go beyond simply s

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 23 Score 0.6506817458333334

Runway launches AI model router as generative media gets crowded

The Media Router is a tool that automatically selects the best image, video, or audio generation model for a request based on whether a developer prioritizes quality, speed or cost.

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AI News Jul 23 Score 0.6040516513888888

Nvidia bets physical AI can solve healthcare robotics' data problem

Nvidia's new Medical Physics Simulation framework treats healthcare robots as physical AI systems that need embodied experience to learn, not just code. Physical AI is the term Nvidia and much of the robotics industry now use to describe machines that have to

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AI News Jul 23 Score 0.6013039662037036

AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under AI infrastructure deal

AMD has agreed to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic under an infrastructure agreement covering tens of billions of dollars’ worth of AI systems. Anthropic will deploy up to two gigawatts of capacity using AMD’s Instinct MI450-series accelerators, with deplo

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Google DeepMind Blog Jul 16 Score 0.5829904273148148

Our approach to bioresilience

Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs are sharing our joint approach to bioresilience and AI models.

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