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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 24 Score 0.893277085648148

simonw/browser-compat-db

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database. This new GitHub repo includes

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Foreign Policy Jun 24 Score 0.8892319416666665

Will Pakistan’s Iran Gamble Pay Off?

Islamabad could leverage its success as a mediator to secure its own interests.

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Foreign Policy Jun 24 Score 0.8862476824074074

Will Congo’s President Push a Third Term?

As Kinshasa faces multiple crises, a bill risks plunging the country further into instability.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 24 Score 0.8836881967592591

Quoting Tom MacWright

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...] My other reaction

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Foreign Policy Jun 24 Score 0.8832527749999999

The Middle East’s Great Divergence Is Underway

With economic and security interests split between great powers, the region is beginning to consider a third path.

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Quanta Magazine Jun 24 Score 0.8800958921296296

How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino

The hunt for these ghostly particles has required some of the most audacious experimental setups ever built. The post How Physicists Track and Trap the Elusive Neutrino first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 24 Score 0.8717246291666666

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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The Guardian — World Jun 25 Score 0.8201944069444446

Duck off: World Cup hero Merlín barred from Mexico game due to Fifa’s animal ban

World’s sixth-most famous duck falls short of dream Two-year-old must watch Czechia game from distance Merlín the duck ’s bid to see his beloved Mexico live has hit a snag after he was barred from El Tri’s match with Czechia on Wednesday. Merlín has become a f

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The Guardian — World Jun 24 Score 0.8180277402777778

Venezuela earthquake: powerful back-to-back quakes collapse buildings in capital Caracas

Homes and buildings collapse after double quake, with tremors felt in neighbouring Colombia Venezuela earthquakes: follow live updates Venezuela’s interim leader, Delcy Rodríguez, has declared a state of emergency after the country was struck by two powerful e

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The Verge Jun 24 Score 0.8179789462962964

The top tech Prime Day deals to shop on day two

Welcome to day two of Amazon's four-day Prime Day event, which, if we're being honest, looks a lot like day one. That's actually good news, though, because many of the best deals are still around, and some new ones have joined them. If you've got a Prime subsc

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BleepingComputer Jun 24 Score 0.8148510125

DraftKings hacker 'Snoopy' sentenced to 18 months in prison

A 21-year-old using the alias "Snoopy" was sentenced to 18 months in prison for his role in hacking DraftKings accounts in the November 2022 cyberattack. [...]

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The Verge Jun 24 Score 0.8144266314814815

Charlie Kirk's legacy is a 30-year sentence for moving zines

Just days after a gunman killed conservative activist Charlie Kirk, it became clear that President Donald Trump would use the assassination to fuel a crackdown on free speech. To avenge Kirk's death, the administration vowed to go after so-called "antifa" (oth

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The Verge Jun 24 Score 0.8143868166666667

Microsoft introduces cheaper Surface devices with half the memory

Microsoft just added a cheaper 12-inch Surface Pro and 13-inch Surface Laptop to its lineup. Both models come equipped with 8GB of RAM instead of 16GB, costing $849 for the specced-down Surface Pro and $949 for the Surface Laptop, as spotted earlier by Windows

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Wired Jun 24 Score 0.8142131787037038

Up to $400 Off: The Smart Fridge That Haunts My Algorithm

The Rocco isn’t on Amazon, but its rare sale knocks up to $400 off a fridge that can track your drinks and make any room look cooler. Save through July 5.

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BleepingComputer Jun 24 Score 0.8141135125000001

Mandiant reveals how Cisco SD-WAN zero-day attacks gained root access

New details have been revealed on how hackers exploited a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-20245 in zero-day attacks to create rogue root accounts on targeted devices. [...]

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War on the Rocks Jun 24 Score 0.8074826226851852

Nuclear Stability in the Age of AI

In 2024, Paul Scharre and Michael Depp wrote, "Artificial Intelligence and Nuclear Stability," where they argued integrating artificial intelligence into the nuclear chain of command presents both opportunities and risks. Two years later, as AI becomes increas

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MIT Technology Review Jun 24 Score 0.804010851388889

Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants

Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid is being pushed to its limits as people turn to fans and air-conditioning to try to stay cool. Some power plants won’t be online to help handle the load. On June 23, France saw its hottest da

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BBC News — World Jun 24 Score 0.8033273027777779

France confirms first Ebola case

The French doctor had been working in DR Congo, where more than 260 people are known to have died.

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BleepingComputer Jun 24 Score 0.8026158273148148

CISA warns of max severity Ubiquiti flaws exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning of hackers actively exploiting flaws in Ubiquity UniFi OS and Lantronix serial-to-ethernet servers. [...]

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 24 Score 0.8016429166666668

Talos: Scaling rare disease diagnosis with automated, iterative genomic reanalysis

Talos was built to help resolve a major bottleneck in genomic medicine: human review time. The open-source system recovered 90% of in-scope diagnoses while surfacing just 1.3 candidate variants per patient for expert review. The post Talos: Scaling rare diseas

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The Guardian — World Jun 24 Score 0.7986184810185186

France confirms first Ebola case in doctor who had worked in DRC

French health ministry says patient’s contacts are being traced and that risk to European public is very low The first case of Ebola has been confirmed in France, the country’s health ministry has said, in a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission

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MIT Technology Review Jun 24 Score 0.7985812217592593

The Download: introducing the Engineering issue

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. Introducing: the Engineering issue We can’t fix everything, but we can be ambitious. We can take on the challenge of makin

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MIT Technology Review Jun 24 Score 0.7983034439814816

Stripe, Anthropic, and OpenAI are backing an effort to stop respiratory infections

The common cold comes for us all—often more than once a year. And there is no way to prevent it. The best you can do is take vitamin C and stay away from people with the sniffles. Now the payment company Stripe, founded by brothers Patrick and John Collison, s

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 24 Score 0.7983032300925926

Using SASE in a Modern TIC 3.0 Solution

Using SASE in a Modern TIC 3.0 Solution CISA’s guidance, The Journey to Zero Trust – Using Secure Access Service Edge in a Modern TIC 3.0 Solution , details how the Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) 3.0 initiative is helping agencies modernize the way their u

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MIT Technology Review Jun 24 Score 0.7983006662037038

The emergence of the web data infrastructure layer for AI

AI is booming. New use cases are emerging each day. To capitalize on the technology’s potential, enterprises require data at scale. In many cases, though, the relevant information is blocked or unstructured, which limits its use by AI models.  To understa

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MIT Technology Review Jun 24 Score 0.7933034439814816

This flying solar-powered platform could deliver better internet from the air

As soon as August, a giant silver bullet will cut its way through the dry air of the southwestern US and cross the Pacific to reach the coast of Japan.  Once there, the roughly 200-foot-long craft, built by the New Mexico–based company Sceye, will park so

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War on the Rocks Jun 24 Score 0.7924844745370371

Designing Drones for Africa

This exclusive Cogs of War interview is with Maxwell Maduka, the co-founder and chief engineer of Terra Industries, an African defense technology company building autonomous drone and counter-drone systems designed for the continent's operating conditions. As

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jun 24 Score 0.7891100185185186

Linux Process Name Masquerading, (Wed, Jun 24th)

In a previous diary, I talked about stack strings&#;x26;#;x5b;1&#;x26;#;x5d; with a practical example of them. Since my SEC670 class, I&#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#&#

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 23 Score 0.7583032300925927

Siemens SINEC INS

View CSAF Summary SINEC INS before V1.0 SP2 Update 6 is affected by multiple vulnerabilities. Siemens has released a new version for SINEC INS and recommends to update to the latest version. The following versions of Siemens SINEC INS are affected: SINEC INS v

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Latent Space Jun 25 Score 0.7470293805555556

[AINews] It's Meta-Harness Summer

Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!

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InfoQ Jun 25 Score 0.7468581342592593

Grab Builds Secure Agentic AI Workload Platform

Grab's security team built Palana, a Kubernetes-native secure execution platform, to run autonomous AI agents safely. Unlike deterministic software, model-driven agents exhibit unpredictable tool-use, code-writing, and prompt injection risks. Palana contains t

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NASA News Jun 25 Score 0.7450884671296296

NASA’s TESS Mission Reveals the “Puffiest” Planets Ever Found

NASA has revealed two new “super-puff” planets, giant worlds so light that their density is comparable to cotton candy. Scientists calculate that these Jupiter-sized planets are the “puffiest” worlds ever found.

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 25 Score 0.7435423472222222

Europe is pushing back on Washington's chip war

As ASML CEO Christophe Fouquet told TechCrunch in May, what China can currently buy are older-generation deep ultraviolet tools — gear first shipped about a decade ago — the same machines the MATCH Act would now put off limits.

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NASA News Jun 24 Score 0.7387940226851852

La NASA compartirá los últimos avances del programa Base Lunar

Lea esta nota de prensa en inglés aquí. El administrador de la NASA, Jared Isaacman, ofrecerá una conversación virtual el martes 30 de junio a las 2:30 p.m. EDT (hora del este) para compartir las novedades más recientes sobre los planes de la agencia para cons

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NASA News Jun 24 Score 0.7386657819444444

NASA to Share Latest Moon Base Mission Progress

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman will host a virtual conversation at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Tuesday, June 30, to share updates to NASA’s plans to build a Moon Base on the lunar surface. Administrator Isaacman and Carlos García-Galán, Moon Base program manager, will d

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Dark Reading Jun 24 Score 0.737445787037037

2026 FIFA World Cup Faces Surge in Cyber Threats

Persistent cybercrime, social engineering, and infrastructure threats continue to plague the FIFA 2026 World Cup across the US, Canada, and Mexico.

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NASA News Jun 24 Score 0.7361523560185185

Roman Telescope Comes to Kennedy

In this June 21, 2026, photo, NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope arrives at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard NASA’s Pegasus barge. After offloading and transportation to the spaceport’s Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility, Roman will

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Dark Reading Jun 24 Score 0.7352555092592593

Do CISOs Need a Code of Ethics?

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 19: Kickbacks, no-show jobs, "dirty" VCs, and shelf ware — industry expert Robert "RSnake" Hansen explains why he thinks its time for a CISO code of ethics to ensure cybersecurity bosses aren't engaged in self-dealing that cou

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New Scientist Jun 24 Score 0.7349927277777778

Possible signs of ancient life on Mars are rich in complex carbon

An instrument on the Perseverance rover has identified large, complex carbon compounds alongside unusual patterns on the surface of rocks that resemble traces of microbial activity

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Kubernetes Blog Jun 24 Score 0.733303025

Spotlight on WG Device Management

The rising popularity of AI, Edge, and Telecommunications workloads on Kubernetes has led to new requirements for hardware management. We now need hardware specification beyond CPU time and memory allocations. This includes allocating GPUs, TPUs, network inter

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The Hacker News Jun 24 Score 0.7321727180555555

CISA Warns Critical Lantronix EDS5000 Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday warned of active exploitation of a critical security flaw impacting Lantronix EDS5000 Series devices, urging Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by Jun

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Dark Reading Jun 24 Score 0.7315481018518518

More Malicious OpenClaw Skills Threaten AI Supply Chain

OpenClaw removed five packages from ClawHub, its skills marketplace, that bypassed security checks even though they included infostealers and other threats.

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New Scientist Jun 24 Score 0.7299853203703703

All known Homo naledi skeletons seem to be female

An analysis of tooth proteins suggests all 23 Homo naledi individuals found in the Rising Star cave in South Africa were female, which strengthens the case that they were placed there deliberately

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New Scientist Jun 24 Score 0.7299848574074074

The lunar botanist with a plan to farm vegetables on the moon

Jessica Atkin knows more than anyone else about what it would take to supply food for a moon base. She reveals how to build a lunar farm and what astronauts can expect to dine on

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The Hacker News Jun 24 Score 0.7299653106481482

Amadey and StealC Malware Network Disrupted, 27M Stolen Credentials Recovered

A coordinated law enforcement operation, in partnership with private sector companies, including Bitdefender, Bitsight, ESET, and Microsoft, has resulted in the takedown of criminal infrastructure powering Amadey and StealC. "The main common goal was to disrup

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InfoQ Jun 24 Score 0.7282192453703704

AI Is Moving up the Software Lifecycle: From Code Review to PRD Governance

Technology companies are extending AI beyond code generation into earlier stages of the software lifecycle, including PRD validation, design inputs, and code review. Initiatives from Uber, DoorDash, and Cloudflare highlight a shift toward AI-driven governance

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 24 Score 0.7280239106481482

The universe may be hiding conscious minds stranger than we can imagine

What if consciousness isn’t limited to brains like ours? Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness could arise in many different forms of life, even in beings built from radically different materials than those found on Earth. Dr

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 24 Score 0.7258072439814814

Scientists discover ancient brain cells that help block distractions

Scientists have discovered a tiny group of neurons in an ancient brain region that acts like a built-in focus filter, helping the brain ignore distractions and zero in on what matters most. When researchers temporarily switched off these neurons in mice, the a

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 24 Score 0.7250243736111112

Scientists discover hidden “footprints of death” that may help viruses spread

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new twist in what happens when cells die. As dying cells break apart, they leave behind tiny “footprints of death” packed with newly discovered particles that help guide the immune system to clean up the remains. But rese

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 24 Score 0.7233160402777777

Why South Africa’s leopards shrank to half their normal size

A hidden population of South African leopards has revealed a remarkable evolutionary story. Researchers analyzing entire leopard genomes discovered that the Cape Floristic Region’s leopards are not only much smaller than most African leopards, but also genetic

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InfoQ Jun 24 Score 0.7223303564814815

Presentation: Rules for Understanding Language Models

Naomi Saphra discusses 5 rules governing language model behavior, breaking down why LLMs act like populations rather than individuals. She explains how tokenization creates strange semantic blind spots and highlights the mechanics of sycophancy, showing how mo

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 24 Score 0.7186600217592592

Early humans were bringing fire into caves 1.8 million years ago

A new study suggests early humans were using fire in South Africa’s Wonderwerk Cave as far back as 1.79 million years ago. Researchers found burned bones deep inside the cave, where natural wildfires could not have reached, indicating that fire was likely carr

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 24 Score 0.6941358708333333

Enhanced data resilience with cross-region backups in Backup and DR Service

To maintain business continuity, you need a robust data-backup strategy. While multi-region backups offer the highest availability, many organizations want a more cost-effective way to protect their data against a regional outage, but still adhere to data resi

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CNCF Blog Jun 24 Score 0.6850252291666665

From Awareness to Engineered Accessibility in Open Source

The open-source ecosystem thrives on a deceptively simple premise: anyone, anywhere, can show up and contribute. But that promise quietly breaks down at the edges. A contributor who needs written context before a synchronous call, or...

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TechCrunch — AI Jun 24 Score 0.6644733921296296

AI researchers continue to leave Google for its rivals

Top AI researchers Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving Google for Anthropic, following departures from top scientists Noam Shazeer and John Jumper.

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AI News Jun 24 Score 0.607470012037037

Samsung opens ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex access after AI restrictions

Samsung Electronics is expanding employee access to ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex, giving staff wider use of AI tools for technical and non-technical work. According to OpenAI, the deployment covers all Samsung Electronics employees in Korea and all Device eXpe

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