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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 28 Score 0.8899051499999999

Quoting Jon Udell

Human Agent in the loop I dislike the phrase “human in the loop” because it cedes authority to the machines. Let’s flip the narrative. It’s our loop, we work the same way we always have, now we recruit agents to join the team. An agent-assisted process need no

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 28 Score 0.8856968166666666

Hack Your Summer

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who want to build something real this summer. You’ll learn how to id

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The Verge Jun 28 Score 0.8144929032407409

China’s Z.ai claims it can match Mythos on cybersecurity

China's Zhipu AI (Z.ai) released its open-weight GLM-5.2, and some researchers have claimed that it matches Mythos in certain bug-finding and cybersecurity scenarios. While GLM lags behind models from Anthropic and OpenAI in other, more general tasks, it seems

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The Verge Jun 28 Score 0.812402625462963

Suno launches Spark incubator program to feed independent artists to its AI machine

Suno has ambitions to be more than just a toy to churn out AI slop, it also wants to be a streaming destination and to break new artists. Spark is their new incubator program for independent artists that provides grants, mentorship, and marketing support. To a

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OpenAI News Jun 25 Score 0.8116357606481482

How agents are transforming work

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

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The Verge Jun 28 Score 0.8072188291666668

China claims the world's fastest supercomputer

Despite trade restrictions, China has reclaimed the title of the world's fastest supercomputer for the first time since 2018. LineShine has pushed El Capitan out of number one on the TOP500 ranking. That's despite strict limits on what high-powered computing c

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The Verge Jun 28 Score 0.805802625462963

The Cube is Jim Henson’s little-known proto-Black Mirror masterpiece

I'm sure we're all familiar with Dark Crystal, so we know that Jim Henson can be weird and tackle slightly more mature subject matter. But there is little in his oeuvre that is quite as mind-bending as the Muppetless The Cube. This 1969 teleplay was produced f

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BleepingComputer Jun 28 Score 0.8020177384259259

Data breach exposes up to 14.2 million email logins at six ISPs

Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI Corporation disclosed a data breach where threat actors gained access to one of its email systems used by five other internet service providers (ISPs) in the country. [...]

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The Verge Jun 28 Score 0.8019720699074074

Prosecutors used ChatGPT logs as evidence in the Palisades fire trial

Jonathan Rinderknecht was facing arson charges for setting a fire on New Year's Day in 2025, which became one of the deadliest wildfires in LA history. To make their case, prosecutors turned to location data from his iPhone, security camera footage, and witnes

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The Guardian — World Jun 28 Score 0.7942124041666667

Venezuelan earthquakes test Trump’s new western hemisphere policy after gutting of USAID

Marco Rubio is scrambling to provide effective disaster response to country whose president US deposed in January This week’s dual earthquakes in Venezuela are a test for the new era of American power in the western hemisphere, as the Trump administration scra

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Schneier on Security Jun 25 Score 0.7617256074074072

AI and Liability

Earlier this month, a German court ruled that Google is liable for its AI search summaries. Rejecting defenses like "users can check for themselves," and that they generally know "that information generated with AI should not be blindly trusted," the court hel

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Quanta Magazine Jun 25 Score 0.7564812953703703

What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere?

Lauren Williams tells 'The Joy of Why' how studying a fundamental object in algebraic combinatorics led to a career full of surprises. The post What Is the Positive Grassmannian and Why Does It Show Up Everywhere? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 25 Score 0.7523010703703703

Interesting Paper Exploring Prompt Injection

This is a fascinating explotation of how LLMs fall for prompt injection attacks. It turns out that they learn to recognize the style of text in different role/instruction blocks, and not just the tags. Their conclusion: Role tags were a formatting trick that b

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Al Jazeera — World Jun 29 Score 0.7484008351851852

Putin says Ukraine proposed halt to deep strikes

Russian President Vladimir Putin says Ukraine has proposed a mutual halt to long-range strikes

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Politico Europe Jun 29 Score 0.7483016222222222

Europe’s strategic autonomy starts on the road

As the EU pursues resilience and competitiveness, one critical enabler is being overlooked: commercial road transport.

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Politico Europe Jun 29 Score 0.7466349555555556

Why the EEAS is fighting for its future

With a week of major articles looking at the EU's foreign policy branch, POLITICO asks whether budget constraints, a lack of tools and a turf war with the European Commission is threatening its survival.

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SRE Weekly Jun 29 Score 0.7461788796296296

SRE Weekly Issue #523

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Buildkite: More places to run, more scale to manage and maintain, usually means more blind spots; not here. Buildkite's control plane holds the live state of every job, agent and queue, regardless of throughput

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Risky Bulletin Jun 29 Score 0.7459673717592593

Risky Bulletin: White House asks OpenAI to restrict GPT 5.6

The White House asks OpenAI to keep a tight grip on ChatGPT 5.6, the US Secret Service made some appalling OpSec mistakes, AMD has reintroduced a CPU security feature after consumer backlash, and an Iranian APT operator has been arrested in Montenegro. Show no

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Risky Bulletin Jun 29 Score 0.7452678347222222

Sponsored: Corelight’s blueprint for AI-era defence

In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Corelight’s VP of Product Vijit Nair about defence strategies for the AI era. When agents can find and exploit vulnerabilities at machine speed, you need to balance between proactive and reactive measures. On

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TechCrunch Jun 28 Score 0.7301084689814815

TechCrunch Mobility: All eyes on Tesla FSD

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, how AI is playing a part.

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InfoQ Jun 28 Score 0.7166336777777778

Swift 6.4 Brings New Language Features and Swift Testing/XCTest Interop

Currently available as a beta in Xcode 27, Swift 6.4 introduces a range of enhancements: better C interoperability, simplified OS availability check, fine-grained warning control, async support in defer, efficient iteration for non-noncopyable types, up to 4x

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 28 Score 0.7147996300925926

Hawaii is turning ocean plastic and fishing nets into roads

Hawaii researchers are giving old fishing nets and recycled plastic a second life by mixing them into asphalt roads. Early tests found these roads didn't release more plastic particles than standard pavement, with tire wear overwhelming any plastic signal

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InfoQ Jun 28 Score 0.7131614555555555

AWS Previews FinOps Agent for Cost Analysis and Optimization

Amazon has released AWS FinOps Agent in public preview, a managed service that automates several common FinOps workflows. The agent can investigate cost anomalies, correlate spend changes with AWS activity data, and integrate with tools such as Slack and Jira

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 25 Score 0.6849691467592594

Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanations and experiments

Researchers introduce generative causal testing, which translates black box models into clear hypotheses and verifies them in the scanner, revealing what specific brain regions respond to in language. The post Understanding the brain with AI-driven explanation

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MIT Technology Review Jun 25 Score 0.6822743680555556

Repositioning retail for the AI era

Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping retail, but not in the ways consumers might immediately notice. The biggest transformation may not be flashy virtual try-ons or chatbot shopping assistants, but in how decisions are made behind the scenes: how produ

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MIT Technology Review Jun 25 Score 0.6785803865740742

The Download: Europe's heat wave hits the grid, and IBM's chip targets Moore's Law

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. Europe’s extreme heat is shutting down power plants Europe is in the middle of a record-breaking heat wave, and the grid i

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 25 Score 0.6783017060185186

OHIF Viewers DICOM

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability in a custom integration version could allow an attacker to steal an authenticated clinician's token via a crafted link. The following versions of OHIF Viewers DICOM are affected: OHIF DICOM W

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 25 Score 0.6783017060185186

Delta Electronics DTM Soft

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. The following versions of Delta Electronics DTM Soft are affected: DTMSoft vers:all/*  CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.8 Delta El

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 25 Score 0.6783017060185186

Daktronics Controller Firmware

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could could provide an unauthenticated user with complete root-level access and control of the system. The following versions of Daktronics Controller Firmware are affected: VFC-DMP-5000 VFC-DM

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 25 Score 0.6783017060185186

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-12569 PTC Windchill and FlexPLM Improper Input Validation Vulnerability CVE-2026-20230 Cisco Unified Communi

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MIT Technology Review Jun 25 Score 0.674969275462963

What Europe’s heat wave means for the power grid

It’s been hard to look away from headlines about the European heat wave this week. Temperatures are breaking records across the continent, and the weather is threatening lives, shutting down schools, and in one particularly ironic case, forcing the cancellatio

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Phys.org Jun 29 Score 0.6685803407407408

Lost megalodon vertebrae resurface, confirming 80-foot size estimate

An associated set of gigantic vertebrae belonging to the iconic extinct megalodon, or megatooth shark, that had been missing in action since the 1980s was discovered, providing new information about the shark's lifestyle. Two Museum of Southern Jutland st

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Hacker News Jun 28 Score 0.6680494893518519

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Phys.org Jun 28 Score 0.6666358962962964

Human activity has driven retreat of Antarctica's fastest melting glacier

Human-driven climate change significantly intensified the retreat of one of the most important glaciers in Antarctica during the 20th century. The Pine Island Glacier, which drains a large part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Amundsen Sea, is one of t

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Phys.org Jun 28 Score 0.6633118222222223

The solar gravitational lens could map white dwarfs and black holes

It feels like every few months we get to report on another academic paper singing the praises of the Solar Gravitational Lens (SGL). Partly, this is due to Dr. Slava Turyshev's astounding productivity in pumping out academic articles, but partly because s

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Quanta Magazine Jun 22 Score 0.6381039805555555

A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns

Recent observations suggest that dark energy is changing over time. Theorists wonder if dark matter is, too. The post A Dark Dimension Could Link Two of the Universe’s Great Unknowns first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jun 25 Score 0.6199924194444444

CL-STA-1062 Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Critical Infrastructure

Government entities and critical infrastructure were targeted for espionage in SE Asia by attackers using a hybrid toolkit, including custom TinyRCT backdoor. The post CL-STA-1062 Targets Southeast Asian Governments and Critical Infrastructure appeared first o

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CyberScoop Jun 25 Score 0.6104222541666666

Federal court rules Trump election-focused executive order illegal

Provisions setting up federal voter lists for each state and restricting mail ballots through USPS were declared unconstitutional. The post Federal court rules Trump election-focused executive order illegal appeared first on CyberScoop .

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SecurityWeek Jun 26 Score 0.6099683009259258

In Other News: Chinese Mythos-Like AI, Tata Electronics Breach, Snyk Layoffs

Other noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia used Cellebrite to hack activist’s phone, Five Eyes issue urgent AI threat warning, macOS Gaslight backdoor, Scattered Spider guilty pleas. The post In Other News: Chinese Mythos-Like AI,

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CyberScoop Jun 25 Score 0.6071736430555555

Minnesota man known as ‘Snoopy’ sentenced in DraftKings hack

Nathan Austad, who sold access to compromised accounts through a criminal storefront, is the third and final defendant sentenced in the 2022 breach The post Minnesota man known as ‘Snoopy’ sentenced in DraftKings hack appeared first on CyberScoop .

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Towards Data Science Jun 28 Score 0.578302850462963

Tail Control: The Counterintuitive Engineering of Reliable Agentic Workflows

Behind a customer's API, a high-quality answer isn't enough. It has to be usable, which means on time. Delivering that consistently is a problem about variance, not speed, and the fixes are counterintuitive. The post Tail Control: The Counterintuitive Engineer

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Towards Data Science Jun 28 Score 0.5749695171296297

I Pitted XGBoost Against Logistic Regression on 358 Matches. The Boring Model Won.

A concrete bias–variance lesson: why the smallest model had the best cross-validated fit, and how to know when to reach for the big hammer. The post I Pitted XGBoost Against Logistic Regression on 358 Matches. The Boring Model Won. appeared first on Towards Da

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Kubernetes Blog Jun 24 Score 0.573300250462963

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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