OpenAI and Molecule.one show how a near-autonomous AI chemist using GPT-5.4 improved a key drug-making reaction, advancing medicinal chemistry research.
The US disputed Iran's claim the waterway is shut, a move Tehran says was a response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon.
The annual Fête de la Musique celebrations draw millions to the streets but the most serious heatwave warnings have been issued for 35 of the country's departments.
A left-wing senator who backs talks with armed gangs faces an outsider endorsed by Trump.
The Israeli military accused Ahmed Wishah of being a "Hamas sniper operative", without providing evidence.
Atlantic reporter Alex Reisner recently uncovered four datasets of music being used to train AI models and made them fully searchable for the public. Two of the sets are absolutely enormous at 12 million and 9 million tracks. The other two are much smaller, bu
Introducing LifeSciBench, an expert-authored, expert-reviewed benchmark for evaluating how AI systems handle real-world life science research tasks and decisions.
Mona Khalil, who had refused to leave the beach she had spent years protecting, died from her injuries after the Israeli strike.
A new ransomware operation named 'Prinz Eugen' prioritizes recently modified files for encryption and leaves no ransom note on the system. [...]
Stefan Paul Goetsch, better known as Hainbach, is a German experimental composer, artist, and YouTuber who is perhaps most famous for making music with laboratory equipment and scientific instruments. He describes it as being like the "Dark Souls of synthesis.
Microsoft has attributed a recent Mastra AI supply chain attack that compromised more than 140 npm packages to the North Korean hacking group Sapphire Sleet, also known as BlueNoroff. [...]
From its opening minutes, Moves of the Diamond Hand is upfront about what it offers: You're going to have a lot of strange conversations, and you're going to roll a lot of dice. Get on board with this proposition, and the reward is one of the most creative rol
Colombians will choose on Sunday between two men whose lives have been very differently shaped by the militias, and whose visions for the country are poles apart Whoever wins Sunday’s presidential runoff vote in Colombia, the country’s next leader will have a
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 133, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, happy belated Juneteenth, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I've been reading abo
After adding one to my home, here's why you might want a home battery, how they work, and what to look for, plus some installation tips.
We’ve trawled the depths of Amazon to find the best deals on gear we’ve tested.
I did the research and taste-testing to find the best greens powders worth your money. Bloom Nutrition’s Superfood Greens Powder is my tried-and-true pick.
The new Siri AI is conversational, omnipresent, and actually helpful.
Plus: Gay bars in San Francisco using face scanners, France quits Palantir, Apple plans to change its private email, and more.
I can't remember the last time I got excited about a fan. Normally, I just buy whatever Vornado or Dreo model fits my budget, but that was before I started testing the battery-powered Standing Circulator Fan from SwitchBot. As the name indicates, the SwitchBot
Chinese AI lab Z.ai released GLM-5.2 to their coding plan subscribers on June 13th, and then yesterday (June 16th) released the full open weights under an MIT license. Similar in size to their previous GLM-5 and GLM-5.1 releases, this is 753B parameter, 1.51TB
What happened in 2025 was this: the economics of code production were turned upside down . Instead of being very hard, time-consuming, and expensive to generate code, it became effectively free and instant. Lines of code went from being treasured, reused, care
A decades-old proof showed that seven shuffles are enough to mix up a deck of cards. But it requires you to cut the deck with the precision of a professional magician. A new proof gets around that obstacle. The post Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of C
On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The l
The 2026 FIFA World Cup knockout stage format, criteria and rules for qualification. Find out who's in and who's out.
'If he starts ... or if he gets substituted, it's fine - it is his role as a player,' Egypt coach Hossam Hassan says.
Eloy Room's incredible goalkeeping helped Curacao make history in a goalless draw in a Group E match in Kansas City.
Bystanders captured the moment police arrested a machete-weilding man, suspected of anti-Muslim stabbing rampage.
Talks come as Iran says it is closing the Strait of Hormuz over Israel's deadly attacks on Lebanon.
"These are not your friends. These are not conscious beings. These are not sentient interlocutors.”
So ... what's your In the Weights score?
Shinkei makes a refrigerator-sized robot called Poseidon to kill fish quickly and humanely.
Tehran did not provide a timeline for the planned closure of the channel.
Jumper isn't the only big name leaving Google DeepMind.
The case against Begoña Gómez involves charges of embezzlement, misappropriation of funds and influence peddling.
The Netherlands’ sports minister is hoping the Netherlands’ famous fan walks will leave behind a footprint.
The U.S. retreat from the global stage is an opportunity for South Korea.
While it's not flashy like Apple’s new Siri AI and Apple Intelligence upgrades, there are still a number of additions to iOS 27 worth looking at.
The post Charai for The National Interest: JD Vance Is Wrong: Israel Is Not Just Another Ally appeared first on Atlantic Council .
Atlassian details the Forge billing platform built for usage-based pricing across its cloud ecosystem. It processes large-scale usage events with correct attribution, deduplication, and aggregation using a streaming pipeline, idempotent processing, and layered
Scientists have discovered that a gene normally considered a DNA-protecting "good guy" can become dangerous when cells make too much of it. The gene, EXO1, acts like molecular scissors that help repair DNA, but when overproduced it starts cutting DNA it should
Tests of age-verification technology show the risks of life-altering errors.
At WWDC 26, Apple announced the Core AI framework, the official successor to Core ML. It is designed to allow developers to run large language models and generative AI entirely on-device, supporting both custom-converted PyTorch models and pre-optimized open-s
Threat actors are exploiting a recently patched security flaw impacting Gravity SMTP, a WordPress plugin that's installed on about 100,000 sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-4020 (CVSS score: 5.3), is a medium-severity information disclosure flaw th
Using Claude Fable 5 or Mythos 5 on Amazon Bedrock requires opting into provider_data_share, sending prompts and outputs to Anthropic for 30-day retention with human review. Previous Bedrock models kept inference data inside the AWS boundary. Three days after
a quiet day lets us promo AIE one last time
AWS recently introduced Amazon Cognito multi-region replication, which automatically replicates user identities and user pool configurations from a primary region to a secondary one. This enables applications to continue authenticating users from a replica reg
Animals from different species often rely on surprisingly sophisticated communication to work together, whether finding food, cleaning parasites, or gaining protection. New research suggests these interspecies “conversations” are flexible, evolved, and far mor
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The best Stratechery content from the week of June 15, 2026, including Anthropic, e-commerce in the age of AI, and the NBA Finals being a perfect 10.
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm.
China's consumer-tech brands keep gaining ground.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Research in “Nature” shows our conversational AI system matches primary care physicians in complex disease management.
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French President Emmanuel Macron urged the world’s wealthy democracies to work together on regulating advanced AI systems. The post French President Urges US to Share Cutting-Edge AI and Democracies to Cooperate on Regulation appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine's boot sequence.
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
Gregory Zuckerman / Wall Street Journal : A look at Jane Street's push to supercharge trading with AI and become a major AI investor; it invested $1B in CoreWeave in April and has a stake in Anthropic — The firm has surged from a handful of
With the advent of affordable 2.5 Gbit, 5 Gbit, and 10 Gbit consumer networking gear, more and more people are taking advantage of these higher networking speeds, with [This Does …read more
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A study published by Food Research International analyzed the triple effect of climate change on soybean quality—increased carbon dioxide (CO₂), high temperatures and drought. Using predictive modeling powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and based on exper
Dana Goldstein / New York Times : A look at “humanizer” and “autotyper” apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic — Big tech companies and s
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Frightened bat rays produce a chemical cue to warn other rays of danger, a well-known anti-predator strategy for bony fish that has not been documented in cartilaginous fish until now. Oregon State University researchers found the behavior of bat rays changed
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As humans, we live out our lives on a planet that is constantly sweeping through a cosmic ocean littered with ancient debris from the formation of the solar system. For the most part, our world glides silently through space, shielded by Earth's thin atmos
Animal pairs engage in mutual signaling by simultaneously performing a diverse repertoire of behaviors. A famous example is the sophisticated dance (mutual displays) performed by bird pairs.
This is the sun's time to shine: Sunday is the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere.
On Episode 215 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and guest co-host Susan Karlin talk with bestselling sci-fi/sci-fact author Dr. David Brin.
Thousands of everyday websites were cleaned as part of a global operation targeting the malware network behind fake browser update scams.
A technique called echo mapping suggests supermassive black holes, like that at the heart of the Milky Way, are surrounded by clusters of dark matter.
Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Android TV botnet Popa linked to Israeli firm, Velvet Ant maintained decade-long stealth, unpatched GCP Config Connector flaw enables takeover. The post In Other News: Apple Patches Beats Eavesd
Klue's Battlecards is now the third integrated application that has been compromised to steal customers' Salesforce data, and victims include Huntress, the cybersecurity vendor.
The threat group’s remarkable success targeting open-source software was inevitable and fueled by the industry’s decision to prioritize code shipping over security. The post How software development's speed obsession enabled TeamPCP’s chaos crusade appeared fi
The consulting giant’s majority stake in Dragos, along with the purchase runZero and NetRise, marks its first major push into operational technology software as AI-driven threats to critical infrastructure intensify. The post Accenture shells out $4.18B on thr
Apple has patched a year-old Bluetooth vulnerability that could have let nearby attackers listen through Beats Studio Buds' microphone.
An asteroid has been named after Smith, who died in 2003 at the age of 34.
As NASA pushes to build a sustained human presence on the moon, one expert says what's needed is a lunar building code.
CryptoBandits uses a local SOCKS5 proxy for traffic routing, blending data theft with remote code execution. The post CryptoBandits Malware Doubles as a Backdoor, Abuses Tor appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The large-scale credential theft campaign hit roughly half of the internet-accessible Fortinet firewalls and VPNs. The post FortiBleed: 86,000 Fortinet Device Credentials Compromised appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Artist Morry Kolman will be livestreaming feeds of the NBA champions’ ticker-tape parade from NYC’s traffic cameras—and this time, the city’s Department of Transportation isn’t demanding he stop.
A California-based company will design, build and launch a spacecraft for NASA's Aeolus mission to orbit around Mars, where the probe will be the first to provide daily measurements of the planet's global environment.
A United States Army Lieutenant was the first to forecast the deadly storms in the late 1800s. Then he was told to stop. The post In the Midst of Tornado Season, a Surprisingly Short History of Predicting Twisters appeared first on Nautilus .
Slow-healing lesions — common in diabetics and burn victims — can lead to lingering infections that resist antibiotic treatment. A new approach using light-activated therapies may offer a solution.
A conversation with an expert in geomythology about a wild idea The post Can “Dante’s Inferno” Tell Us Something About Space Rocks? appeared first on Nautilus .
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings.
How GitHub Copilot is making more of each session go toward useful work, so your credits go further. The post Getting more from each token: How Copilot improves context handling and model routing appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Researchers show that for certain kinds of games, an overlooked class of algorithms performs much better than expected.
What data teams need to build with AI to make self-healing data architecture a practical reality The post 7 Crucial Barriers Between Data Teams and Self-Healing Data Architecture appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #5sexies] - image_df tells you where every picture is. Turning the few that matter into searchable text is a separate, cost-ordered job The post Making a PDF’s Images Searchable for RAG, Without Paying to Read Them All a
Five surfaces collapsed into one declarative layer. Here's the full story of Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric - from syntax to the new GA capabilities The post Materialized Lake Views in Microsoft Fabric: When Your Medallion Fits in a SELECT Stateme
It's a one-way door and we weren't ready for it.
