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OpenAI News Jun 12 Score 0.9430866657407408

New OpenAI Academy courses for the next era of work

OpenAI introduces three Academy courses that help people build practical AI skills, create repeatable workflows, and apply agents in everyday work.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 13 Score 0.8931379351851851

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 Well this is nuts : The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 12 Score 0.8912277499999999

OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context

OpenAI WebRTC Audio Session, now with document context I built the first version of this tool in December 2024 to try out the then-new OpenAI WebRTC API for interacting with their realtime audio models. Last month OpenAI introduced a brand new model to that AP

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Schneier on Security Jun 12 Score 0.8865604597222221

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid-Inspired Fluid Pump

This fluid pump was inspired by the way squids propel themselves through the water. 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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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.8864199990740742

OpenAI to acquire Ona

OpenAI plans to acquire Ona to expand Codex with secure, persistent cloud environments, enabling long-running AI agents across enterprise workflows.

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OpenAI News Jun 11 Score 0.8864199990740742

BBVA puts AI at the core of banking with OpenAI

Learn how BBVA scaled ChatGPT Enterprise to 100,000 employees and partnered with OpenAI to accelerate AI-powered banking transformation worldwide.

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Foreign Policy Jun 12 Score 0.8855779263888888

Trump’s Big Weekend Could Derail the G-7

With or without a deal, the Iran war looms large over the three-day leaders’ summit.

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Foreign Policy Jun 12 Score 0.8830932041666666

Russia, Land of the Unpredictable Past

A new censorship law restricts what Russians were ever allowed to have sung, written, or published.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 12 Score 0.8816800648148148

Quoting Andrew Singleton

Jenny owns a crematorium. John’s propane company gives her a $20 billion investment in return for 5 percent of her operation. Jenny throws $10 billion into the incinerator, then pays John $10 billion to buy propane to burn that money to ashes. John reports tha

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Quanta Magazine Jun 12 Score 0.874873787037037

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself.

At first, scientists thought Earth’s water came from comets. Then, asteroids. Now, they wonder if Earth’s water is homegrown. The post Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself. first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 12 Score 0.8698447189814814

Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked : "Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 11 Score 0.8507337680555555

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive

After two days of experience with Claude Fable 5 I think the best way to describe it is relentlessly proactive . It knows a whole lot of tricks and it will deploy pretty much any of them to get to its goal. I'll illustrate this with an example. I was hacking o

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 11 Score 0.837165249537037

datasette 1.0a33

Release: datasette 1.0a33 This alpha is a significant step on the road to a stable 1.0, finally extending the ?_extra= pattern I introduced in Datasette 1.0a3 to cover queries and rows in addition to tables. That pattern is also now documented ! I wrote a whol

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Quanta Magazine Jun 11 Score 0.8341242499999999

What’s the Future of Gene Editing?

In the first episode of the new season of ‘The Joy of Why,’ Nobel Laureate Jennifer Doudna discusses how she discovered CRISPR’s genome-editing power, the breakthroughs and hurdles during its explosive growth, and what lies ahead for this groundbreaking techno

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The Guardian — World Jun 13 Score 0.8195107648148149

Trump says leader of Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang killed in US strike

President says Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores killed in ‘swift and lethal’ military strike with help from Venezuela The US military has killed a leader in the Venezuelan street gang Tren de Aragua, Hector Rusthenford Guerrero Flores, with the help of Venez

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The Verge Jun 13 Score 0.8189842412037037

Valve just imported 13 tons of VR headsets in one day

On June 10th, the German container ship Posen docked in Los Angeles after a two-week voyage from Shanghai. As Valve watcher Brad Lynch notes, it was almost certainly carrying the first mass production shipments of the Steam Frame, Valve's new gaming headset. I

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 12 Score 0.810608700925926

Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen

Project Ire examined a timely malware sample and determined its intent through reverse engineering—identifying LOTUSLITE characteristics even as most major EDR tools did not detect it. The post Ire identifies another LOTUSLITE specimen appeared first on Micros

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BBC News — World Jun 12 Score 0.8104862541666668

Fans on concourses instead of in seats, claims Fifa

Fifa says numerous empty seats were visible in the near-sell-out Group A match between South Korea and the Czech Republic because of fans remaining on concourses.

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The Verge Jun 12 Score 0.809831463425926

Nothing CEO says phone prices are going to keep going up

If you're thinking about upgrading your phone, "the best time was yesterday," according to Nothing CEO and co-founder Carl Pei, echoing a message we heard during MWC. As Android Authority reports, Pei said in a post on X that the RAM shortage has already impac

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BleepingComputer Jun 12 Score 0.8090183430555556

Maine disables data breach notification portal after fake disclosures

Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state's website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future. [...]

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The Verge Jun 12 Score 0.8077166486111111

The world’s first trillionaire is a killer

Elon Musk's SpaceX IPO will probably make him the richest person to ever walk the planet. And while his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk's actions directly led to the deaths of

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BleepingComputer Jun 12 Score 0.806963713425926

phpBB forum fixes auth bypass bug lurking for a decade

A 10-year-old authentication bypass vulnerability discovered in the phpBB forum software allows an attacker to log in as any user, including administrators. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 12 Score 0.806659375925926

Canada police investigate whether Toronto police death linked to global terror attacks

Constable Marc Pinizzotto, 43, was killed while executing search warrants related to a shooting at US consulate Authorities in Canada are investigating whether the killing of a Toronto police officer while he was executing search warrants related to a shooting

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The Verge Jun 12 Score 0.8052277597222223

Siri is good now??

You'd be forgiven for thinking this day would never come. Siri has spent a decade and half somewhere between "sort of useful at a few things" and "utterly disastrous, why did I even try, can it honestly not even set a timer." But the wildest thing just happene

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The Verge Jun 12 Score 0.8038226671296297

A trillion dollars is a stupid amount of money

Elon Musk is now officially the world's first trillionaire. That is a colossal amount of wealth (and by proxy, power) for one individual to have. Its scale - a thousand times more than a billion - is difficult to fathom for those of us who aren't among the 3,3

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BleepingComputer Jun 12 Score 0.7997863986111112

Early Warning Signs of Supply-Chain Attacks Live in the Dark Web

GitHub access sales, leaked repositories, and stolen API keys can all become supply-chain attack footholds. Flare explores how underground forums expose early signals tied to software supply-chain risk. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 12 Score 0.7981075240740741

An ideological tug-of-war: the pressures facing Iran’s World Cup squad in US

Flag bans, travel headaches and a religious regime video among bumps in road, as team prepares to be first to play in country with which it is at war Iran will present a major challenge to Fifa’s “football unites the world” slogan on Monday by becoming the fir

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MIT Technology Review Jun 12 Score 0.7966980847222223

The Download: “reprogramming” aging, and the hidden sense of interoception

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 “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech c

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 12 Score 0.7964200708333334

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-2026-35273 Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability This type o

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MIT Technology Review Jun 12 Score 0.7930869736111111

You do your own time

There we were, a regular murderers’ row of librarians. Little Jo. Eustace. And me. Turning around in the nave of our library to greet the sound of footsteps, pistols leveled in case whoever was coming in didn’t respect sanctuary. Little Jo had a stack of books

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MIT Technology Review Jun 12 Score 0.7914203069444445

Inside interoception: The hidden sense of how you feel inside

MIT Technology Review Explains: Let our writers untangle the complex, messy world of science and technology to help you understand what’s coming next. You can read more from the series here. Your brain lives in the dark space of your skull. Yet it kn

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MIT Technology Review Jun 12 Score 0.7914203069444445

Why “reprogramming” is the buzziest approach to reversing aging right now

Earlier this week, Life Biosciences, a biotech company focused on reversing age-related diseases, announced that it had dosed its first volunteer. A person with glaucoma has had an experimental treatment injected straight into their eyeball. The idea is to try

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War on the Rocks Jun 12 Score 0.7889373731481482

The Gulf Arab States Need a Shield Built for Limited Trust

Missiles, drones, and maritime disruptions do not stop at national borders. Gulf defense architecture still too often waits for national permission to act. The Gulf Cooperation Council has spent decades building defense institutions, diplomatic forums, and a l

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Foreign Affairs Jun 12 Score 0.7830866310185186

China’s Edifice Complex

Why Beijing can’t stop wasteful spending.

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 11 Score 0.7564200703703704

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-2026-10520 Ivanti Sentry OS Command Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for mal

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 11 Score 0.7564200703703704

Brickcom Cameras

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to live video feeds, retrieve sensitive visual information from affected premises, and obtain administrative control of

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 11 Score 0.7564200703703704

Naxclow IoT Platform

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to impersonate devices, intercept or manipulate communications, harvest sensitive credentials at scale, or gain unauthorized access. The following versions of Naxclow Io

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 11 Score 0.7564200703703704

Yarbo Android/iOS Mobile Application and Cloud Infrastructure

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain hard-coded credentials, gain access to telemetry data, and potentially send operational commands to the robot fleet. The following versions of Yarbo Android/iO

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 12 Score 0.7401768078703703

SpaceX IPO: Live updates on everything you need to know

TechCrunch has followed SpaceX's start, struggles, and successes from the early days. And we're here for what happens next too. This package of SpaceX IPO coverage includes who stands to win (and maybe some who won't), pre-IPO deals, and what's tucked inside i

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GitHub Blog Jun 12 Score 0.7388194564814815

How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation

Better orchestration, fewer handoffs, faster progress, without a single new knob. The post How we made GitHub Copilot CLI more selective about delegation appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jun 12 Score 0.738093263425926

Tracing Digital Intent: New MacOS Tahoe 26 Artifact Discovered

Unit 42 has discovered a new macOS Tahoe 26 forensic artifact that tracks user menu selections across the operating system. Learn more here. The post Tracing Digital Intent: New MacOS Tahoe 26 Artifact Discovered appeared first on Unit 42 .

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CyberScoop Jun 12 Score 0.7379891273148148

FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses

Outsider provided phishing kits and infrastructure for cybercriminals to scam victims with lures claiming they missed packages, had unpaid tolls or parking violations. The post FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses a

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Dark Reading Jun 12 Score 0.7354903842592593

ShinyHunters Uses Oracle Zero-Day to Rampage Higher Ed

A major bug in Oracle's ERP software disproportionately affected American universities, and hackers have capitalized by stealing gobs of data.

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The Hacker News Jun 12 Score 0.7340149953703704

Over 400 Arch Linux AUR Packages Hijacked to Deploy Infostealer and eBPF Rootkit

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it land

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New Scientist Jun 12 Score 0.7297808796296297

The relationship recession is even bigger for Gen Z than we thought

We know that members of Gen Z are less likely to be in a steady relationship than millennials were at their age, but previous research missed out an important factor that actually widens the relationship recession

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NASA News Jun 12 Score 0.7273341509259259

NASA to Cover 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission Space Station Departure

NASA and its international partners are set to receive scientific research samples and hardware as a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to depart the International Space Station on Tuesday, June 16, for its return to Earth. Watch NASA’s live undocking cover

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NASA News Jun 12 Score 0.7247512805555556

Black Eye Galaxy

This March 20, 2026, image of Messier 64, or the Black Eye Galaxy, is a composite view from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope. It shows Messier 64 captured at near- and mid-infrared wavelengths by Webb, while Hubble’s image shows the

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InfoQ Jun 12 Score 0.7239194972222223

Angular's Official Agent Skills Helps AI Coding Tools Write Modern Angular

Google's Angular team has released a repository called angular/skills, focusing on Agent Skills that enhance AI coding agents' ability to write modern Angular code. The repository includes skills for generating code and scaffolding applications, reinforcing cu

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 12 Score 0.7234565226851852

These tiny holes could change how the world cleans water

A new nature-inspired membrane uses perfectly uniform one-nanometer pores to filter molecules with remarkable precision. The technology could transform industries such as pharmaceuticals and textiles by reducing energy consumption, improving water reuse, and d

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New Scientist Jun 12 Score 0.72143875

Quantum computer quickly mines cryptocurrency while using less energy

A superconducting quantum computer is part of a network that is mining an experimental cryptocurrency called Quip, and it is able to do it faster and with better energy efficiency than conventional machines

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NASA News Jun 12 Score 0.7207211879629629

Hubble Sees Swarm of Galaxies

Looking somewhat like a swarm of bees returning to their hive, this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features the galaxy cluster MACS0329-0211.

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Quanta Magazine Jun 8 Score 0.7168960092592591

How Terry Tao Became an Evangelist for AI in Math

With automated proof-checkers, a problem can be broken up into small chunks, solved bit-by-bit, then reassembled with confidence that every piece is correct. For some, this heralds a new area in mathematical research. The post How Terry Tao Became an Evangelis

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 12 Score 0.7168560597222222

The missing notebooks that solved a 55-million-year-old fossil mystery

A spectacular fossil fish discovered on a remote cliff in New Zealand nearly 30 years ago has finally revealed its full story thanks to an unexpected discovery: the original collector’s long-lost field notebooks. The 1.2-meter fossil, preserved in stunning thr

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New Scientist Jun 12 Score 0.7164433796296297

How to sparkle in conversation with strangers

In the face of loneliness, many people are turning to AI chatbots for companionship – but research shows it can’t replace human connection. Columnist David Robson explores how beneficial it can be to talk to strangers, with evidence-based tips on how to get th

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New Scientist Jun 12 Score 0.7164243981481482

First working nuclear clock heralds a new era in timekeeping

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could eventually beat the accuracy of today’s best atomic clocks

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 12 Score 0.7131676337962963

A legendary golden fabric lost for 2,000 years has returned

Researchers in South Korea have recreated the legendary “sea silk” once prized by emperors, using fibers from a clam cultivated in Korean coastal waters. They discovered that its famous golden shine comes from tiny protein structures that reflect light rather

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 12 Score 0.7101268925925925

Ancient DNA shared with Neanderthals may explain human language

A tiny set of ancient genetic “switches” may have played a surprisingly large role in making human language possible. Researchers found that these DNA regions, which act like volume controls for genes involved in brain development, have an outsized influence o

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GitHub Blog Jun 11 Score 0.6972601972222222

GitHub availability report: May 2026

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

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 12 Score 0.6905860916666666

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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GitHub Blog Jun 11 Score 0.6880865856481482

Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale

Alerts are more trustworthy and actionable when noise is reduced. See how we improved the verification step with context-aware LLM reasoning. The post Making secret scanning more trustworthy: Reducing false positives at scale appeared first on The GitHub Blog

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