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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8926306046296295

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions

sqlite-utils is my combined Python library and CLI tool for working with SQLite databases. It provides an extensive set of higher-level operations on top of Python's default sqlite3 package , including support for complex table transformations , automatic tabl

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8924718083333333

sqlite-utils 4.0rc1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 See sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions . Tags: sqlite-utils

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 21 Score 0.8899995861111111

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents

Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI agents The announcement says this is "for AI agents" but (as is pretty common these days) the AI hook isn't really necessary, this is an interesting feature for everyone else as well. Short version: you can now create a Clo

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Krebs on Security Jun 18 Score 0.8376911236111112

'Popa' Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple securi

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OpenAI News Jun 18 Score 0.8266362648148149

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

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The Guardian — World Jun 22 Score 0.8190562490740741

Far-right millionaire Abelardo de la Espriella wins Colombia’s presidential runoff

Leftwing opponent alleges vote count irregularities after Trump-endorsed lawyer secures narrow majority The Trump-admiring far-right millionaire lawyer and self-styled “outsider” Abelardo de la Espriella has won Colombia’s presidential runoff, defeating the le

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The Verge Jun 21 Score 0.8097986689814816

Bose thinks it can be a media company for some reason

The history books are littered with the corpses of corporate record labels started by companies that had no business being in the music industry. Bose thinks it can be the exception to the rule. It thinks it can be Red Bull. And, while Bose has more of a right

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The Verge Jun 21 Score 0.8066519097222223

Cold Court’s debut EP is an infectious, glitchy genre mashup

Cold Court is a brother-sister duo from Philly that seems to love nothing more than shoving all of their influences together in a messy soup that at least superficially resembles the hyperpop you've come to expect from acts like 100 Gecs. But, where songs like

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The Guardian — World Jun 21 Score 0.8028752305555557

Colombians vote in runoff election expected to trigger shift in decades-long armed conflict

Frontrunner Abelardo de la Espriella has vowed to return to full-scale military confrontation with armed groups Ghost of far-right paramilitaries hovers over Colombia’s presidential runoff vote Colombians are going to the polls in a presidential runoff expecte

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The Verge Jun 21 Score 0.8021857060185186

Polymarket reportedly paid people to post fake videos of themselves placing bets

According to a Wall Street Journal investigation, Polymarket has been paying people to film themselves placing fake bets and celebrating fake wins on social media. WSJ identified over 1,100 deceptive clips and talked to creators who, despite not stating as suc

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The Verge Jun 21 Score 0.7991093171296297

How Roomba started a robot revolution

If you had a Roomba, especially in the early days of the robot vacuum, it was in many ways a fairly unsophisticated machine. It would just bump around your house, looking for something to suck up, until its battery died or its (way too small) tank filled up. N

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The Verge Jun 21 Score 0.7983032986111112

Electric air taxis are stuck in the courtroom

This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on aviation, air taxis, and Wi-Fi speeds at 30,000 feet, follow Andrew J. Hawkins. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. O

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Wired Jun 21 Score 0.7966643861111111

Wooting 60HE v2: Peak Keyboard Perfection

Wooting’s 60HE v2 isn’t just a terrific Hall Effect keyboard. It’s a fantastic keyboard period.

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Wired Jun 21 Score 0.7949699416666667

Buying a Used iPhone Makes More Sense Than Ever

With Apple raising prices soon, you can save a lot of money by buying a used handset or upgrading an older device—safe in the knowledge that it’ll last longer than ever.

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The Guardian — World Jun 21 Score 0.7916474527777778

Sweat, tears and camaraderie as 20,000 runners take on world’s largest ultramarathon

For one day every June, South Africa’s searing racial inequality seems to melt away at Comrades race In the early morning dark, thousands of runners waited, jostling with anticipation. South Africa’s national anthem rang out. Then the haunting swell of Shoshol

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The Guardian — World Jun 21 Score 0.7899807861111112

Canada’s policies force asylum seekers into US to face deportation, critics say

Advocates say the Safe Third Country Agreement forces immigrants to head to an unsafe country: the United States It was the threat of gang violence in Honduras that pushed Carlos and Antonia to flee their home. In 2021, with their toddler, Alejandro, and a han

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.7732653268518518

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why . The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-c

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Foreign Policy Jun 18 Score 0.7699516504629629

The Vance Peace Deal

The U.S. vice president has become the face of an unpopular deal.

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Quanta Magazine Jun 18 Score 0.7569818282407407

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. The post Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 18 Score 0.7517480550925926

Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis

At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis. Details : The _index.js payload begins with a large JavaScript block comment containing fake system instructions an

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Politico Europe Jun 22 Score 0.7494150393518518

Die Radikalisierung der Linkspartei

Die Rentenkommission legt morgen nach monatelanger Arbeit ihre Empfehlungen vor. Neben einer kapitalgedeckten Zusatzrente und der Einbeziehung von Selbstständigen und Abgeordneten soll das Eintrittsalter künftig mit der Lebenserwartung steigen. Gordon Opinski

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Politico Europe Jun 22 Score 0.7483030023148148

To build climate resilience, start with food

Decarbonizing food systems: one of the most impactful ways Europe can cut emissions and strengthen food security.

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SRE Weekly Jun 22 Score 0.7474137231481481

SRE Weekly Issue #522

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Bronto: What would an AI SRE choose for their observability stack?We asked AWS DevOps Agent to run a live test comparing Bronto, Grafana Loki, and Elasticsearch against the same OpenTelemetry dataset. Bronto sc

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Politico Europe Jun 22 Score 0.7466363356481481

Keir Starmer faces up to reality

The embattled British prime minister is widely expected to announce a plan for his exit just as his likely successor, Andy Burnham, arrives in Westminster.

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InfoQ Jun 21 Score 0.7312747111111111

Anthropic Reports Claude Now Handles 95% of Internal Analytics Queries

Anthropic recently reported that Claude now handles around 95% of its internal analytics requests, letting employees query business data independently instead of relying on data teams. The company attributes this result less to advances in models and more to d

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 21 Score 0.7260903324074074

As lakes turn brown, trout and bass decline while pike and walleye thrive

Freshwater lakes across North America and Europe are becoming noticeably browner, reducing underwater visibility and reshaping fish populations. Research found that several popular sport fish, including trout, bass, perch, and whitefish, tend to decline in dar

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 21 Score 0.7141523694444445

Scientists discover neurons must break their DNA to build the brain

As newborn neurons make their way through the developing brain, they must squeeze through incredibly tight spaces to reach their final destinations. Researchers discovered that this physical journey routinely causes some of the most severe forms of DNA damage—

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Lobsters Jun 21 Score 0.6990605212962963

What's the advice for LLM poisoning of artwork these days?

My wife doesn't want to put her artwork online as she does not want it to be used to train LLMs. I wonder if this has culminated in any libraries that makes it feasible for me to build her a custom site where the artwork is processed to defeat LLM training. I

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Google DeepMind Blog Jun 16 Score 0.6795953824074074

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

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MIT Technology Review Jun 18 Score 0.6785810351851853

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya's case for going solar

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 search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive par

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.6783030439814816

Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-F Series

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by rapidly establishing a large number of TCP connections to it, resulting in an inconsistency in

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.6783030439814816

Mitsubishi Electric Co.'s MELSEC iQ-F Series FX5-ENET/IP Ethernet Module

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by continuously sending a large number of communication packets to the Ethernet port of the produ

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.6783030439814816

Apollo Pharmacy Blood Glucose Monitoring System APG-01 BT

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive health-related information and prevent legitimate users from establishing a connection with the device. The following versions of Apollo Pharmacy Blo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.6783030439814816

AzeoTech DAQFactory

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to upload malicious .ctl files that may lead to arbitrary code execution. The following versions of AzeoTech DAQFactory are affected: DAQFactory CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulne

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.6783030439814816

CISA Urges Hardening Fortinet Devices After Reports of Credential Exposure

CISA is aware of global reports that malicious cyber actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices across government and private sector organizations using compromised credentials. This activity, referred to as FortiBleed, involves the exposure of

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Techmeme Jun 22 Score 0.6748309657407408

Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers (Henny Sender/Nikkei Asia)

Henny Sender / Nikkei Asia : Sources: ByteDance shares are trading at a $600B+ valuation in gray markets; an IPO is unlikely and its growth continues to benefit its Chinese and US backers   —  Henny Sender is the founder and managing partner of

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Techmeme Jun 22 Score 0.6744147620370371

China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)

Wataru Suzuki / Nikkei Asia : China adds ten US companies, including MP Materials and Teal Drones, to export controls and bars government purchases from 46 US companies, including Anduril   —  BEIJING — China on Monday announced new restr

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Hacker News Jun 22 Score 0.6735626407407408

The Flat Curve Society

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Hacker News Jun 22 Score 0.6718663444444445

Sakana Fugu

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Phys.org Jun 22 Score 0.6691381680555556

The giant viruses that orchestrate life in the polar regions

Viruses play a major role in the functioning of ecosystems. They profoundly influence the dynamics of microbial communities, the flow of matter and global biogeochemical cycles. Yet despite their abundance and ecological importance, many of them have long rema

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Phys.org Jun 21 Score 0.6666367791666667

El Niño is underway, satellite observations show

El Niño, characterized by warmer-than-normal water temperatures in parts of the equatorial Pacific, made its return in June 2026. Observations of sea surface height from the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite that month indicated that the 2026 event was con

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Phys.org Jun 21 Score 0.6655256680555556

Quantum mechanics theory may work without imaginary numbers, new analysis suggests

Physicists from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf (HHU) have examined a fundamental property of quantum mechanics in collaboration with the German Aerospace Center (DLR). In an article published in the journal Physical Review Letters, they show that this th

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Phys.org Jun 21 Score 0.6649701125

If you're feeling down, maybe don't pet your cat, new study suggests

You come home after a stressful day and reach out to your cat for a bit of comfort. It hisses. Maybe takes a swipe. Or simply flicks its tail and saunters off without so much as a meow. A dog, by contrast, greets you as though they've just won the lottery

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Phys.org Jun 21 Score 0.6633043717592593

Engineered bacterial spores reveal new protein targets for enzymes and vaccines

A remarkable quality of bioengineering is that scientists can take biological processes honed by millions of years of evolution and use them to efficiently create drugs, chemicals and other products to improve our lives. Now Tufts researchers have found new wa

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Quanta Magazine Jun 15 Score 0.6385248833333332

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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NASA News Jun 19 Score 0.6247189467592593

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4920-4926: Surveying the Bands

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 12, 2026 Rather than going from stage to stage at a music festival to hear different bands playing different varieties of music, Curiosity has been

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.6200679412037037

Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet

Cybersecurity firms, researchers and officials took down 106 servers and remediated nearly 15,000 sites that were infected with the malware. The post Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet appeared first on CyberScoop .

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.619223113425926

NASA Mission to Study Space Weather Impacts of Earth’s Atmosphere

NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.6171961819444445

Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes

While preventing third parties from profiting off unauthorized deepfakes of artists and performers is a bipartisan concern, some business and digital rights groups are opposed. The post Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes appeared f

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.6170166319444444

NASA Awards Contract for Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition

NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers. Su

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Latent Space Jun 18 Score 0.6124699402777778

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

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