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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9433025814814816

How ChatGPT adoption has expanded

New OpenAI Signals data shows how ChatGPT adoption is growing globally, with users increasing usage, exploring more capabilities, and driving growth across regions and languages.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Inside Genebench-Pro

Latest item from OpenAI News.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Core dump epidemiology: fixing an 18-year-old bug

OpenAI engineers used large-scale core dump analysis to debug rare infrastructure crashes, uncovering both a hardware fault and a long-standing software bug.

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OpenAI News Jun 30 Score 0.9283025814814816

Introducing GeneBench-Pro

Introducing GeneBench-Pro, a new benchmark testing AI performance in genomics, biology, and scientific research using complex, real-world datasets.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8932543333333333

Quoting Anthropic

We’ve received notice that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5. We'll begin restoring access tomorrow, and will share an update soon. — Anthropic , on Twitter Tags: anthropic , claude , generative-ai , cla

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8904024814814814

Nano Banana 2 Lite

Nano Banana 2 Lite Also known as Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image ( gemini-3.1-flash-lite-image in their API ), this is the "fastest and cheapest Gemini image model, engineered for velocity and scale". I used AI studio to run this prompt: Do a where's Waldo style i

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Foreign Policy Jun 30 Score 0.8893827574074074

Anti-Immigrant Marches Held Across South Africa

Demonstrators had given undocumented migrants until Tuesday to self-deport or face consequences.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8889427592592591

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5

What's new in Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 came out this morning . I always head straight for the "what's new" developer docs because they tend to have more actionable information than the official announcement post. Anthropic say of Sonnet 5 that "its

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Foreign Policy Jun 30 Score 0.8876739611111111

Washington’s Cuba Policy Is Self-Sabotage

The U.S. blockade is destroying Havana’s chances of becoming stable and democratic.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8827302592592592

The AI Compass

The AI Compass This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit. I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 30 Score 0.8814816481481481

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today's shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I've written before about the imp

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Schneier on Security Jun 30 Score 0.8734681120370369

The Realities of AI Video Surveillance

The Financial Times has a good article on how AI is changing the capabilities of video surveillance, with information from both Israel/Iran and Russia. I wrote about this sort of thing a few years ago, how AI enables mass spying in the way that computers and n

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The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.819721063888889

Meta is adding ridiculous 'rate limits' and a soft paywall to its smart glasses

Would you pay $20 a month for access to AI hardware you already own? That appears to be one of Meta's next bets. This week, it quietly announced that your glasses' Conversation Focus feature will soon be limited to three hours of use per month, unless you pay

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BleepingComputer Jul 1 Score 0.819281512962963

Anthropic to restore Claude Fable access on Wednesday

Anthropic has confirmed that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude's two most powerful models, Fable 5 and Mythos 5. [...]

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The Verge Jul 1 Score 0.8184118046296297

Anthropic's long-sidelined Fable 5 is greenlit to return

After weeks of negotiating with the Trump administration, Anthropic is finally going to be able to bring Claude Fable 5 back online. In a post on X, Anthropic said it plans to begin restoring access tomorrow. Anthropic: We've received notice that the Departmen

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The Verge Jun 30 Score 0.8162715268518519

Dish files for bankruptcy, but not shutting down

Dish, the company that operates Dish TV and Sling TV, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy," as reported earlier by Reuters. The plan will allow the EchoStar-owned company to continue to wind down its wireless operations after "unforeseen delays" held back its

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BleepingComputer Jun 30 Score 0.8147028092592593

New BioShocking attack manipulates AI browser into data theft

A new prompt injection attack dubbed "BioShocking" could trick AI-powered browsers into treating real-world risky actions as part of a fictional scenario, causing them to ignore any safety guardrails. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Jun 30 Score 0.8146937055555556

Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product

At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers on Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a major new product intended to support scientific research in the same way that Claude Code supports software engineering. Like Claude

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BleepingComputer Jun 30 Score 0.8138611425925927

Microsoft accelerates quantum-safe roadmap as risks grow

Microsoft announced today that it is accelerating its quantum-safe security roadmap, saying advances in quantum computing are bringing the need to replace today's encryption standards sooner than previously expected. [...]

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The Verge Jun 30 Score 0.813859026851852

Amazon fined $2.25 million for failing to help identity theft victims

The Federal Trade Commission fined Amazon $2.25 million to settle claims that the company failed to help customers who fell victim to identity theft, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. In its complaint, the FTC accuses Amazon of refusing to provide customers wi

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BleepingComputer Jun 30 Score 0.8133838277777778

Malicious PyPI packages give hackers control of Telegram bot servers

A campaign active since last November has been targeting Python developers building Telegram bots with trojanized Pyrogram forks that allow attackers to read arbitrary files on compromised servers. [...]

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The Verge Jun 30 Score 0.8116363416666668

Acer's Swift Go 16 is a lot of laptop for $900

As high memory and storage prices have driven up the cost of everything from consoles to computers, finding a competent laptop for under $1,000 has become a challenge. Thankfully, the Acer Swift Go 16 AI is on sale for $899.99 at Best Buy, a steep discount fro

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The Guardian — World Jun 30 Score 0.8090425000000001

‘Tonnes of rubble’: 58,000 buildings estimated destroyed in Venezuela earthquakes

Preliminary analysis of satellite data suggests magnitude of natural disaster could dwarf official estimates More than 58,000 buildings may have been damaged and destroyed by the twin earthquakes that hit Venezuela last week, according to a preliminary analysi

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War on the Rocks Jun 30 Score 0.8079044069444445

The Shifting Fortunes of the Kurds

The Kurds' fortunes have ebbed and flowed in recent years, but the fall of the Assad regime in Syria in December 2024, the 2025 decision by the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to dissolve and engage in talks with the Turkish government, and the 2026 U.S.-Israel

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MIT Technology Review Jun 30 Score 0.8076585203703704

Roundtables: Longevity's Next Frontier: "Reprogramming" Your Body

Listen to the session or watch below Billions of dollars are flooding into efforts to reverse aging as scientists explore ways to return cells to a younger state. But how far off are these experimental treatments? Will they really work? Watch a conversation ex

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The Guardian — World Jun 30 Score 0.8067100925925926

Six feared dead after ‘bizarre’ sinking of charter boat off Canadian coast

The vessel, thought to have been carrying 10 people, did not issue a mayday call before sinking in the strait of Georgia Search teams in Canada have launched a recovery effort for six people believed to have drowned in a “bizarre” sinking of a fishing charter

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Microsoft Research Blog Jun 30 Score 0.8063592449074075

SkillOpt: Agent skills as trainable parameters

AI agents often fail because their instructions, or skills, are manually modified with no guarantee of improvement. Learn how SkillOpt turns skill editing into a training process, making agent behavior more reliable without changing model weights. The post Ski

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Wired Jun 30 Score 0.8038066175925926

New York Is About to Feel Hotter Than Phoenix

Extreme heat coupled with humidity will make it feel like 109 degrees Fahrenheit as the holiday weekend approaches.

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MIT Technology Review Jun 30 Score 0.7985807425925927

The Download: AI “coworkers” and stratospheric internet

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. AI agents are not your “coworkers” Imagine coming in to work to learn that a new underling will report to you. The worker

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MIT Technology Review Jun 30 Score 0.7983029648148149

Agriculture is ready for AI, but its data isn't

Artificial intelligence is transforming what is possible in agriculture, but industry leaders should be wary of investing in AI without first laying the groundwork.  The use cases are promising, especially for an industry navigating volatile fertilizer co

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7983027037037038

StoneFly Storage Concentrator

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to gain broad unauthorized access, execute arbitrary commands with root privileges, steal sensitive data, and perform actions on behalf of legitimate users across intercon

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7983027037037038

Schneider Electric EcoStruxure IT Data Center Expert

View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its EcoStruxure™ IT Data Center Expert. The EcoStruxure™ IT Data Center Expert product is a scalable monitoring software that collects, organizes, and distributes critical device information p

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7983027037037038

Mitsubishi Electric MELSOFT Update Manager SW1DND-UDM-M

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a local attacker to tamper with or destroy information in the affected product, cause a denial-of-service condition in the affected product, or execute arbitrary code when a special

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7983027037037038

OFFIS DCMTK Toolkit

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to write files, access unauthorized information, exhaust memory, or crash affected DCMTK client or server processes. The following versions of OFFIS DCMTK Toolkit are af

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 30 Score 0.7983027037037038

Schneider Electric EasyLogic T150 and Saitel DP RTU

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can allow an attacker to cause unauthorized access and exposure of sensitive information when the unauthenticated attacker accesses credentials stored within firmware or system files. The follo

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MIT Technology Review Jun 30 Score 0.7956224092592593

Building tech in the world’s secret R&D hub

Apple. Anthropic. Disney Research. Google. Meta. Microsoft. NVIDIA. OpenAI. Few places outside Silicon Valley can claim R&D hubs from all of these companies. Fewer still are concentrated in a city of just over 400,000 people—roughly half the size of San Fr

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The Guardian — World Jun 30 Score 0.7955489814814816

Police units deployed across South Africa before anti-immigration marches

Government fears repeat of anti-migrant violence in 2008 that led to looting and resulted in deaths of 62 people South African authorities have deployed police units to towns and cities around the country before planned demonstrations against undocumented fore

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jun 30 Score 0.7941761731481483

June 2026 Apple Updates, (Tue, Jun 30th)

Apple released updates for iOS/iPadOS, macOS, and Safari on Monday. There have been no updates for other Apple operating systems (visionOS, watchOS, tvOS). Usually, Apple updates all products at the same time.

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War on the Rocks Jun 30 Score 0.7916395921296298

Mapping America's Domestic Drone Supply Chain

The extent of China's drone dominance — and how to decouple from it — has long been a source of debate and anxiety in Washington. Last month, the Wall Street Journal reignited controversy by publishing a visual analysis of military quadcopter compo

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 1 Score 0.7487367814814815

The "Father of the Internet" is finally retiring

Vinton Cerf, one of the creators of the protocols underlying the internet, will step down as Google's chief internet evangelist next week.

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Jul 1 Score 0.7449745148148148

Phantom Squatting: AI-Hallucinated Domains as a Software Supply Chain Vector

Attackers can exploit LLM domain hallucinations through phantom squatting to target supply chains. Read the analysis to learn more. The post Phantom Squatting: AI-Hallucinated Domains as a Software Supply Chain Vector appeared first on Unit 42 .

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CyberScoop Jun 30 Score 0.7395981527777777

Citrix patches a new NetScaler flaw with echoes of CitrixBleed

The bulletin includes six NetScaler issues, but attention is centered on a high-severity flaw with similarities to earlier actively exploited bugs. The post Citrix patches a new NetScaler flaw with echoes of CitrixBleed appeared first on CyberScoop .

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NASA News Jun 30 Score 0.7364829731481481

NASA’s Chandra Reveals ‘Red, White, Blue’ Universe for US 250th

In celebration of the 250th birthday of the United States, NASA has unveiled four cosmic images from its Chandra X-ray Observatory rendered in red, white, and blue that represent the wonders of the universe the agency explores. The images are accompanied by a

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NASA News Jun 30 Score 0.7357255657407408

A Day of Flight Testing at NASA Armstrong

Flight testing is a team sport. For nearly 80 years, teams at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, have used flight testing to push the limits of aerodynamics and advance aviation. Earlier this year, NASA’s Crossflow Attenuated Natur

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NASA News Jun 30 Score 0.734660287962963

NextSTEP-3 B: Moon Base Demonstrations

Notice ID: Coming Soon NASA's Human Spaceflight Mission Directorate is seeking innovative ideas from industry partners through a new solicitation appendix under the NextSTEP-3 Omnibus Broad Agency Announcement. Appendix B: Moon Base Demonstrations calls for in

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NASA News Jun 30 Score 0.7346403805555556

NASA Awards More Moon Base Science, Previews New Opportunities

Editor's note: This release was updated on June 30, 2026, to clarify the engineering development version for the PROMISE rover. NASA announced Tuesday the selection of three companies to land four new missions on the Moon in late 2028 as part of the agency’s M

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New Scientist Jun 30 Score 0.7333292731481481

The world's fastest spider tops 3.5 metres per second

The most comprehensive database ever compiled of how fast arachnids can run has shown how leg anatomy and evolutionary history influence spiders’ running speed

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GitHub Blog Jun 30 Score 0.7324211189814814

How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies

Explore how the Open Source Program Office uses GitHub’s new license compliance product to manage open source dependencies at scale. The post How GitHub maintains compliance for open source dependencies appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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New Scientist Jun 30 Score 0.7299899212962963

The most detailed survey of the universe ever conducted starts now

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile is beginning its extraordinary survey of the southern sky, which will use the largest camera ever built to map the solar system, the galaxy and beyond

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New Scientist Jun 30 Score 0.7299723287037037

This physicist is hunting for the biggest black hole in the universe

Astronomers have recently started looking for black holes bigger than galaxies. Brian Lacki explains how these “stupendously large black holes” might be used by alien civilisations, and what makes them such an intriguing possibility

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InfoQ Jun 30 Score 0.7276076180555555

Presentation: Trustworthy Productivity: Securing AI-Accelerated Development

Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan discusses industry-converging patterns for securing autonomous AI agents in production. He explains the critical vulnerabilities hidden inside the ReAct loop across context, reasoning, and tool execution. He shares how to mitigate ris

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InfoQ Jun 30 Score 0.7249687291666667

Elastic Open-Sources Atlas Agent Memory Based on Cognitive Science

Elastic open-sourced Atlas, a system built on Elasticsearch that maintains three categories of memory for agents. Atlas integrates with agents via MCP and maintains per-user isolation of memories. When evaluated on question-answering capability, it scored 0.89

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InfoQ Jun 30 Score 0.7185520625

AWS Launches Lambda MicroVMs for Isolated Agent and User Code Execution

AWS launched Lambda MicroVMs, a new serverless compute primitive that runs each user session or AI agent in its own Firecracker virtual machine with hardware-level isolation, snapshot-based rapid launch, and state preservation for up to eight hours. Reddit com

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 30 Score 0.7155553513888889

Scientists may have finally found how Alzheimer's spreads through the brain

A common brain protein may be giving Alzheimer’s disease an unexpected way to spread, carrying toxic Tau proteins from damaged neurons into healthy ones. By blocking these harmful protein packages before they reach new cells, researchers believe it may one day

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 30 Score 0.7141067402777778

Scientists say creatine may help fight depression

Creatine is best known as a muscle-building supplement, but scientists are now investigating whether it could also help treat depression by boosting the brain's energy supply. A new review examined five randomized clinical trials involving 238 participant

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Nautilus Jun 30 Score 0.6999694578703702

Watch Bison Fend Off a Wolf Attack on a Newborn Calf

They’re not usually considered prey for wolves The post Watch Bison Fend Off a Wolf Attack on a Newborn Calf appeared first on Nautilus .

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Nautilus Jun 30 Score 0.6983027912037036

Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs?

Five million years of evolutionary history were hidden in a museum drawer The post Was the Saber-Toothed Cat Doomed by Its Signature Fangs? appeared first on Nautilus .

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 30 Score 0.695801761574074

Conversational analytics in BigQuery brings trusted agentic reasoning to everyone

Businesses run on fast decisions, but the teams who hold the answers are often buried under a backlog of routine requests, leaving users waiting in line for insights they need now. Today, we are bringing Conversational Analytics in BigQuery to general availabi

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 30 Score 0.6924684282407406

How Schrödinger sped up molecular discovery by 4x with Alphaevolve

Computational chemistry researchers have traditionally faced a frustrating trade-off when simulating molecular interactions: use fast classical force fields that sacrifice precision or rely on accurate quantum-mechanical methods that run too slowly on large jo

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