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Foreign Policy Jun 8 Score 0.891460499074074

Trump Is Doing What FDR Could Not

But the president’s success at purging his party could cost the GOP in the long term.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 7 Score 0.8846491888888888

datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0

Release: datasette-agent-edit 0.1a0 I'm planning several plugins for Datasette Agent which can make edits to existing pieces of text - things like collaborative Markdown editing, updating large SQL queries, and editing SVG files. Agentic editing of text is a l

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War on the Rocks Jun 8 Score 0.8230912564814815

The Lawmakers Fighting to Modernize the Pentagon

Congress rarely moves fast, but Reps. Rob Wittman and Pat Ryan are trying to change that. The two lawmakers founded the bipartisan House Defense Modernization Caucus in 2024 and have driven reforms through two consecutive defense authorization acts, targeting

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War on the Rocks Jun 8 Score 0.8222546824074075

What Beirut’s Port Scanners Miss About Militant Supply Chains

At the Port of Beirut, the new scanners did exactly what they were built to do. They saw the lithium batteries. They saw the drone propellers. They saw the fiber optic cable. They matched the scans against the paperwork, found no obvious deception, and cleared

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BleepingComputer Jun 8 Score 0.8197550592592593

Over 20,000 Instagram accounts stolen in Meta AI support hack

Meta has revealed that over 20,000 Instagram users had their accounts hijacked in a recent incident where attackers used Meta's AI-powered support system to reset passwords. [...]

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Wired — Security Jun 8 Score 0.8197426800925927

All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology

A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 8 Score 0.8164090347222223

The Day After in Cuba

What American military force can and cannot do.

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Foreign Affairs Jun 8 Score 0.8164090347222223

Greeted as Liberators?

How Americans think about U.S. military interventions.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 6 Score 0.812134374074074

micropython-wasm 0.1a2

Release: micropython-wasm 0.1a2 I added a CLI to micropython-wasm ( issue #7 ), inspired by the first draft of the blog entry when I realized it would be a great way to illustrate the Try it yourself section. Tags: python , sandboxing , webassembly , micropyth

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 6 Score 0.8112306703703702

Running Python code in a sandbox with MicroPython and WASM

I've been experimenting with different approaches to running code in a sandbox for several years now, but my latest attempt feels like it might finally have all of the characteristics I've been looking for. I've released it as an alpha package called micropyth

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BleepingComputer Jun 7 Score 0.8086323740740742

Hands on with Intelligent Terminal, an AI-powered Windows Terminal

Microsoft has created an open-source fork of Windows Terminal called "Intelligent Terminal," and it allows you to use AI directly inside Terminal without interfering with the regular session. [...]

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Foreign Policy Jun 6 Score 0.8076331842592591

Armenians Vote Under Russia’s Shadow

Trump and Putin are backing different players in a contested country.

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The Verge Jun 7 Score 0.8068728083333334

NASA will wear high-tech Prada long johns to the Moon

We've seen Axiom Space and Prada's collaboration on the Axiom Extravehicular Mobility Unit (AxEMU) spacesuit. Now the company has revealed the Liquid Cooling and Ventilation Garment (LCVG) that astronauts will wear underneath it when Artemis IV returns humans

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 5 Score 0.8046501148148147

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode

OpenAI Help: Lockdown Mode OpenAI first teased this in February , but now it's live and "rolling out to eligible personal accounts, including Free, Go, Plus, and Pro, and self-serve ChatGPT Business accounts": Lockdown Mode is designed to help prevent the fina

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The Verge Jun 7 Score 0.8010079935185186

The 7 biggest storylines from Summer Game Fest 2026

The 2026 edition of Summer Game Fest just wrapped up, and it was surprisingly hectic. The nearly week-long event came at a challenging time for the games industry, and for the most part the big keynotes were used as a chance to show some strength through major

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The Verge Jun 7 Score 0.7997616972222222

Persona 6 exists, and that’s all we know

This year's Summer Game Fest turned out to be a good one for fans of Japanese RPGs. First, the conclusion of the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy was announced at SGF Live, and now we have the long-awaited return of the Persona series. Atlus confirmed Persona

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Foreign Policy Jun 5 Score 0.7994665175925925

The U.S. Economy Is Proving Remarkably Resilient

Even in the face of tariffs and an energy crisis, the jobs report shows an economy that’s still humming.

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The Verge Jun 7 Score 0.7993482712962964

Microsoft’s Xbox 25th anniversary console comes in translucent green

Microsoft has created a special edition Xbox Series X to celebrate 25 years of the console. The Xbox 25th-anniversary console takes design cues from the original Xbox console, with both the console and controller featuring a translucent green design. "For the

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The Verge Jun 7 Score 0.7993376231481482

Minecraft Dungeons 2 gets a September release date

Minecraft Dungeons 2, a sequel to Microsoft's dungeon crawler spinoff Minecraft Dungeons, will be released on September 29th. The company originally revealed the game in a brief trailer in March, promising a fall 2026 release window. Here's how Microsoft descr

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Foreign Policy Jun 5 Score 0.7987410546296295

Zelensky’s Pen Pal Diplomacy

Zelensky offers in-person peace talks in a rare open letter to Putin. Moscow isn’t interested.

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BleepingComputer Jun 7 Score 0.7933346888888889

Silent Ransom Group targets law firms with fake IT support calls

The Silent Ransom Group extortion gang is actively targeting U.S. law firms and professional services organizations in social engineering attacks that often lead to data theft within hours of initial contact, according to a new report by cybersecurity firm Man

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Quanta Magazine Jun 5 Score 0.7886679203703703

Are Memories Transferable — or Edible?

In the 1960s, worm-training experiments and their strange implications captivated the nation. Columnist Claire L. Evans follows the neuroscientists who attempted to recapture the magic. The post Are Memories Transferable — or Edible? first appeared on Quanta M

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Schneier on Security Jun 5 Score 0.7870032050925925

AI Worm

Researchers have prototyped an AI-powered internet worm . The coolest thing about the prototype is that it carries its own LLM with it, and runs it on computers that have been broken into. This is the closest to John Brunner's original 1975 conception of a com

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 5 Score 0.7833561333333332

Quoting Andreas Kling

We will no longer accept public pull requests. [...] A substantial patch used to imply substantial effort, and that effort was a reasonable proxy for good faith. That assumption no longer holds. [...] Whether code was typed by hand is beside the point. What ma

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The Guardian — World Jun 7 Score 0.7780868490740741

Peru’s discontented voters face straight left-right choice in election runoff

Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of 1990s leader Alberto, is vying with a congressman to become country’s ninth president in a decade Peruvians go to the polls on Sunday in an election runoff that pits a perennial rightwing candidate, Keiko Fujimori, against a lef

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InfoQ Jun 8 Score 0.748908524074074

Article: The Technology Adoption Curve, Twenty Years On

Today, June 8th, InfoQ celebrates 20 years. This is not a comprehensive history, but a deliberately selective look at the technologies and practices InfoQ identified early, where they sit on the adoption curve in 2026, and how that curve may evolve over the ne

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InfoQ Jun 8 Score 0.7480751907407407

Terraform 1.15 Closes Gap to OpenTofu on Dynamic Sources and Deprecation

HashiCorp has released Terraform 1.15, introducing dynamic module sources, a formal deprecation mechanism for variables and outputs, a new inline type conversion function, type constraints for output blocks, and native Windows ARM64 support. The release addres

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InfoQ Jun 8 Score 0.7480751907407407

Microsoft Launches Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026

Microsoft announced Logic Apps Automation at Build 2026, a new SKU at auto.azure.com packaging workflows, AI agents, knowledge services, and model access into a managed SaaS experience. Agents integrate via agent-loop orchestration, Foundry agents, and managed

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InfoQ Jun 8 Score 0.7477696351851851

Zero Reaches 1.0, Marking the First Stable Release of Rocicorp's Web Sync Engine

Rocicorp has released Zero 1.0, a stable version of its sync engine after two years of development. This update introduces a schema change hook for Supabase and includes bug fixes. Zero operates by pairing a client library with a read-only Postgres cache. Comm

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The Hacker News Jun 8 Score 0.7475054236111112

UNC3753 Used Vishing and Physical Intrusions in U.S. Data Theft Extortion Campaign

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign that has targeted dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the U.S. between January and May 2026. The activity has be

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The Hacker News Jun 8 Score 0.7449850532407407

VS Code Adds 2-Hour Extension Auto-Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

Microsoft has announced that Visual Studio Code (VS Code) will apply a two-hour delay before extensions for the integrated development environment (IDE) are updated automatically to a newer version in an attempt to tackle software supply chain threats. "When a

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Schneier on Security Jun 4 Score 0.7431911680555554

Hacking Meta’s AI Chatbot

Hackers are convincing Meta's AI support chatbot to let them take over other peoples' accounts: A video posted on X showed the step-by-step process to hack someone's Instagram account. The hacker allegedly used a VPN to spoof the targets' presumed location to

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Risky Bulletin Jun 8 Score 0.7379788555555555

Risky Bulletin: RubyGems adds dependency cooldowns to counter supply chain attacks

RubyGems adds dependency-cooldowns to counter supply chain attacks, AT&T and IBM are accused of hiding foreign hacks, Cisco warns of a new SD-WAN zero-day, and Google layoffs hit security teams. Show notes Risky Bulletin: RubyGems adds dependency cooldowns to

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SRE Weekly Jun 8 Score 0.7370183967592593

SRE Weekly Issue #520

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, BigPanda: Your team solved this incident last month. Why is it back? Because you fixed the symptom, not the cause. BigPanda surfaces the pattern behind repeat incidents and tells you what to fix so the next on-

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 7 Score 0.7288042643518519

Is this the dawn of the Tokenpocalypse?

We're likely to see more price increases as the big AI companies plan to go public.

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TechCrunch Jun 7 Score 0.7180760236111111

Hacked, leaked, and held for ransom: the worst breaches of 2026 so far

From a massive DOGE data breach and the hacking of critical energy and water systems to the hack of an FBI surveillance system, here are the most damaging security incidents and data breaches of 2026.

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SecurityWeek Jun 8 Score 0.7114870782407406

OpenAI Rolling Out ChatGPT Account Security Controls

The Active Sessions and Lockdown Mode features are being made more broadly available by the AI giant. The post OpenAI Rolling Out ChatGPT Account Security Controls appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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SecurityWeek Jun 8 Score 0.7103662449074073

SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Unauthenticated attackers can exploit the flaw via specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service. The post SolarWinds Serv-U Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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MIT Technology Review Jun 5 Score 0.7100204453703705

The Download: AI hacking beyond Mythos, and chatbots' impact on our brains

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 Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos On Monday, reports emerged that attackers had used Meta’s AI c

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 5 Score 0.7097424615740742

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-28318 SolarWinds Serv-U Uncontrolled Resource Consumption Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent atta

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Krebs on Security Jun 1 Score 0.7089879412037038

Hackers Used Meta's AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began circulating on Telegram showing how to trick Meta's "AI

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 7 Score 0.7079467361111111

Scientists finally complete Schrödinger’s 100-year-old color theory

Researchers have finally resolved a key problem in a 100-year-old theory of color, showing that the qualities we perceive in colors are intrinsic to the mathematics of color space itself. The discovery sharpens our understanding of human vision and could lead

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Lobsters Jun 8 Score 0.7059512731481481

How do I get SEO Email Spam to stop?

I run a tiny static site, https://kgugeler.ca , with a grand total of one blog post (I may revisit it...) I've recently gotten incessant spam (about once a day) about 'SEO optimizing my site'. How do I prevent this spam? Obfuscating my email?

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MIT Technology Review Jun 5 Score 0.7047426675925926

The Meta hack shows there’s more to AI security than Mythos

On June 5, 404 Media reported that attackers had been using Meta’s AI customer support agent to steal Instagram accounts. Their approach was simple: They asked the agent to link the accounts to email addresses that they controlled, and the agent complied. One

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MIT Technology Review Jun 5 Score 0.7047426675925926

Are AI chatbots making us lose control of our brains?

This week I’ve been at SXSW London. There’s been music, film, and a lot—and I mean a lot—of talk about AI. I also had the opportunity to sit down with Gloria Mark, a psychologist at the University of California, Irvine, who has spent the last 30 years studying

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Lobsters Jun 8 Score 0.6999239583333332

In Defense of YAML

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 6 Score 0.677198125

Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs linked to 30% lower breast cancer risk

A large study found that women taking GLP-1 drugs, the medication class behind Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, and Zepbound, were about 30% less likely to develop breast cancer. Researchers say the findings are promising but not yet proof, and clinical trials are n

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 6 Score 0.6770884027777778

Tiny X-ray telescope could unlock the Moon's hidden chemistry

A lightweight new X-ray telescope could finally give scientists something they’ve never had before: a complete chemical map of the Moon. Researchers used detailed mission simulations to show that a compact telescope orbiting the Moon could identify key element

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 6 Score 0.676473587962963

Scientists found a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states

A team at the University of Chicago has discovered a surprisingly simple way to create powerful quantum states that are normally difficult to produce. By making small adjustments to the energy levels of atoms inside an optical cavity, researchers can generate

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Phys.org Jun 8 Score 0.6747433356481481

Antibiotics drive resistance in waterways—even after they break down

Antibiotics continue to drive resistance in bacteria, even after they are broken down in wastewater treatment plants and discharged into rivers and seas, new research published on World Oceans Day has shown for the first time.

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Techmeme Jun 8 Score 0.6741872000000001

Notice: Meta says ~20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack that abused an AI-powered account recovery support tool to reset passwords (Eduard Kovacs/SecurityWeek)

Eduard Kovacs / SecurityWeek : Notice: Meta says ~20,000 Instagram accounts may have been hacked in a recent attack that abused an AI-powered account recovery support tool to reset passwords   —  The social media giant has informed authorities

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Hacker News Jun 8 Score 0.6739881208333334

The Cypherpunk Library

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Phys.org Jun 8 Score 0.6666873171296297

Solar panels on rewetted peatland could be a climate and nature win–win

Researchers in Germany have found that solar panels on rewetted peatland provide a unique habitat for bird species along with generating green energy and potentially locking up carbon. Installing solar panels on rewetted peatlands is a new type of land use, pr

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NASA News Jun 5 Score 0.6493245703703704

NASA's X-59 Aircraft Flies Supersonic for First Time

NASA’s experimental X-59 aircraft marked a major milestone Friday, June 5, when it flew faster than the speed of sound for the first time, setting the stage for demonstrating its quiet supersonic

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NASA News Jun 5 Score 0.648553274074074

NASA Announces Winners of 2026 University Innovation Competition

NASA announced the Massachusetts Institute of Technology project, Exploration-Class Lunar Integrated Power SystEm, as the first place winner for the 2026 Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts – Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition, which challenges studen

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