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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 25 Score 0.8849255023148147

Ruff v0.16.0

Ruff v0.16.0 Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new default Ruff checks and my unpinned "ruff" dev dependency. From Br

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OpenAI News Jul 22 Score 0.8220343962962964

Advancing the next era of national science

OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.

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The Guardian — World Jul 26 Score 0.8203691990740741

Venezuela men sue aviation firms who flew them to notorious Salvadorian jail

Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdown Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transpor

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OpenAI News Jul 22 Score 0.811201062962963

Introducing OpenAI Presence

Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.8024120921296297

Google basically confirms the Pixel 11 is getting a price hike

Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, t

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BleepingComputer Jul 25 Score 0.7976221087962964

Malicious sites use JavaScript to build malware in browser memory

A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. [...]

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.7974509810185186

Synth historian Oli Freke will spend big on a good bicycle

Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He's even written a book

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.7970343143518519

Teenage Engineering’s unique music machines are 30 percent off

With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. These grooveboxes, as they’re often called, are capable of helping you produce songs in real time from a single

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BleepingComputer Jul 25 Score 0.7958244236111112

ShinyHunters data leaks fuel $2,000 sextortion email scam

Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. [...]

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.7955120921296297

Warner Bros. is suing Amazon for poaching employees

Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-esta

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The Verge Jul 25 Score 0.7937009810185186

Is this e-reader case a gun?

Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun

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BleepingComputer Jul 25 Score 0.7878998865740742

OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide

ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. [...]

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 23 Score 0.7751065208333332

Quoting Seth Larson

The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects

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InfoQ Jul 26 Score 0.7471450175925926

Amazon EKS Adds Kubernetes Version Rollback Within 7 Days of an Upgrade

Amazon EKS has recently introduced support for Kubernetes version rollbacks, letting practitioners revert a cluster's control plane to its previous Kubernetes version within 7 days of an upgrade if issues arise. The feature reduces the risk of in-place cluster

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Schneier on Security Jul 22 Score 0.7454355412037036

First-Person Identity Theft Story

Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address. But the real story here is how, for many of us, the security of

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TechCrunch Jul 25 Score 0.7310407912037037

The hacker who humiliated spyware makers and was never caught

An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?

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The Hacker News Jul 25 Score 0.7283882231481481

Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable

A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campai

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 25 Score 0.7203840611111111

Scientists put the “recycling is a distraction” claim to the test

Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly 2,800 Australians found that these habits neither increased nor reduced later political engagem

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 25 Score 0.7191748023148148

The Universe can outrun light without breaking Einstein’s rules

Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they emitted when they were much closer. Eventually, accelerating expansion will push nearly every galaxy beyond our Local Group out of sight, mak

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The Hacker News Jul 25 Score 0.7184988712962963

Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available

Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the J

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 25 Score 0.7163141537037037

Oral GLP-1 drugs may quiet the brain’s food craving circuit

Newer oral drugs related to semaglutide medications such as Ozempic reduced pleasure-driven eating in mice by quieting a deep brain reward circuit. The finding could open new avenues for understanding food cravings and potentially treating substance use disord

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The Hacker News Jul 25 Score 0.714102112037037

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git

Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.3 server that has not taken the update. Any authenticated u

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InfoQ Jul 25 Score 0.7120339064814815

AI Root Cause Analysis Shifts from Model Reasoning to Context Engineering

Engineers are increasingly arguing that modern LLMs can already reason through root cause analysis once given correctly prepared context, shifting the hard problem to the pipelines that correlate telemetry. A Coroot experiment across eleven models offers early

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War on the Rocks Jul 23 Score 0.7053798162037037

America Needs an Off-Ramp Between Doing Nothing and Shutting AI Down

For 18 days in June, two of America's most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 mode

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War on the Rocks Jul 23 Score 0.7049756495370371

The King of Cool: Mobile Refrigeration and the Remaking of Global Logistics

Editor's note: This is the fifth article in a limited series celebrating American defense technologies born from wartime and their effects on broader national security, politics, and society. This series will run for several weeks to commemorate America's 250t

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 25 Score 0.7025710981481481

Venus may be tearing itself apart from within

Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within. Advanced 3D simulations indicate that some of the planet's giant rift valleys formed relatively recently and could still be expanding. The results suggest Ven

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Stratechery Jul 24 Score 0.6853674564814815

2026.30: The Copium Wars

The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet.

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 22 Score 0.6813554333333334

Rondo Meets Geoserver, (Wed, Jul 22nd)

This isn't a new attack, but something I saw "pop-up" in our logs this week:

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Rest of World Jul 24 Score 0.6787008435185186

Why state-owned AI won’t solve inequality

Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.

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Dark Reading Jul 24 Score 0.6783752157407408

Default Azure Automation Setting Enables Cross-Tenant Identity Takeover

Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's identity and access others' data, credentials, and cloud workloads.

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Google AI Blog Jul 22 Score 0.6737010277777778

3 Google updates from Galaxy Unpacked 2026

We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.

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Hacker News Jul 26 Score 0.6669182300925927

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Phys.org Jul 25 Score 0.6595353703703705

New research shows how language experience shapes human communication

A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior language experience, offering new insights into how humans learn and use language.

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Phys.org Jul 25 Score 0.6570358333333334

Unwritten social rules, not government oversight, help keep forest land sustainable

Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, and for decades it has been blamed for the destruction of the world's rainforests. However, a new study of more than 18,000 forest

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Nautilus Jul 24 Score 0.6505209180555555

How an Inbred Snake Invader Took Over an Island Paradise

Hidden genetic diversity may have given it an advantage The post How an Inbred Snake Invader Took Over an Island Paradise appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jul 24 Score 0.6478676773148148

When Stupid Was a Diagnosis

A dark history that is in danger of returning as support for people with disabilities withers The post When Stupid Was a Diagnosis appeared first on Nautilus .

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Space.com Jul 25 Score 0.6473526041666667

This Week In Space podcast: Episode 220 — First on Mars

On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars.

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Latent Space Jul 23 Score 0.6256241300925925

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.

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Docker Blog Jul 24 Score 0.6109118833333333

Agentic AI Needs Guardrails, Not Guesswork

Docker brought together enterprise security leaders to tackle agentic AI's biggest challenge: how to govern AI agents without slowing developers down. Here's what they said.

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GitHub Blog Jul 22 Score 0.6087006657407408

Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for?

Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it. The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Stack Overflow Blog Jul 24 Score 0.6087006393518519

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In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer. ​​​​‌ ‍ ​‍​‍‌‍ ‌ ​‍‌‍‍‌‌‍‌ ‌‍‍‌‌‍ ‍​‍​‍​ ‍‍​‍​‍‌ ​ ‌‍​‌‌‍ ‍‌‍‍‌‌ ‌​‌ ‍

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GitHub Blog Jul 22 Score 0.6037006657407408

Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program

GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience working with the GitHub team. The post Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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CNCF Blog Jul 23 Score 0.6012007050925925

Sustaining OpenTelemetry: What a 10-week contributor cohort actually looks like

A follow-up to our earlier post: "Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship" *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg's Open Source Program Office came tog

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Towards Data Science Jul 25 Score 0.568700963888889

The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Solve the Fluid Equations

I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here's how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there instead, derived from first principles, implemented in C++, and run on a supercomputer. The post The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Sol

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