The Political Aftershocks of Venezuela’s Earthquakes
The disasters exposed Delcy Rodríguez’s weak grasp on power.
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USMCA Was Once Trump’s Brainchild. Now, It’s a Dead Deal Walking.
The White House hopes that annual reviews will curb the United States’ trade deficit with Mexico and Canada.
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Bangladesh Sends Signal With China Visit
The two countries announce a “new era” in ties during Prime Minister Tarique Rahman’s trip.
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What to Know About Ethiopia’s Debt Breakthrough
Addis Ababa’s debt relief process has highlighted divisions in the global financial system.
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Trans-Atlanticism Isn’t Dead—It’s Being Renegotiated
Reports of NATO’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.
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For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch Grows and Divides
Scientists built a synthetic cell that combines more lifelike properties than ever before — proof of concept that it’s possible to bring nonliving materials to life, or something close to it, in the lab. The post For the First Time, a Cell Built From Scratch G
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Papa Johns Surveillance-Based Advertising
Papa Johns is spying on people's buying activities to predict when they are low on food: The pizza chain recently tapped NBCUniversal, Instacart and the dentsu-owned media agency Carat for help reaching consumers when they're low on groceries—and thus mo
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At least eight killed in major missile and drone strikes on Kyiv
Russia launched its biggest strikes on the city in weeks hours after Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow was planning a "massive" attack.
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, July 2nd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9992, (Thu, Jul 2nd)
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
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Did this AI anti-drug video make drugs look appealing?
Hong Kong’s Correctional Services Department removed a AI-generated K-pop video, after facing backlash that it made substances look too appealing.
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Aunt of Venezuelan boy pulled from rubble tells BBC she will give him 'mother's warmth'
Kleiber Moran, 2, was rescued on Wednesday, six days after last week's deadly earthquakes.
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The Best July 4 Grill and Griddle Deals: Weber, Traeger, Recteq
Fourth of July weekend is the last great grill and griddle sale of the summer, including $250 off my favorite pellet smoker.
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Apple’s entry-level MacBook Pro could be up for a redesign
Apple is working on a "revamped" version of its entry-level MacBook Pro that it could launch as soon as the first half of 2027, Bloomberg reports. The company is also testing four new iPad Pros that are set to launch in the spring with a focus on "internal imp
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From Truman's pension to Trump's billions - a White House windfall unmatched by any president
Historians say Trump's $2.2bn income last year is unprecedented and blurs the line on conflicts of interest.
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Turkish police beat us with iron rods before we lost limbs to frostbite, Afghans say
The young migrants heading to Europe say they were stripped and had their hands tied in freezing temperatures.
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The funeral for PlayStation discs has begun
Cody Spencer, the co-owner of the small games retail chain Pink Gorilla Games, put it well when I asked about the impact of Sony's recent announcement that it will stop making discs for new games starting January 2028. "It's sad to see. This decision is only a
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FortiBleed credential-theft campaign linked to Lynx ransomware
The massive FortiBleed credential theft campaign has been linked to the INC and Lynx ransomware operations, suggesting the stolen Fortinet credentials were intended to fuel future network intrusions. [...]
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Mexico’s Victory Over Ecuador Made the Ground Shake. Was It an Artificial Earthquake?
Fans’ euphoric reactions to the Mexican national team’s recent victory in the 2026 World Cup caused a series of unusual vibrations that were detected by seismic warning systems.
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Kubota says hackers had month-long access to network systems
Kubota North America Corporation disclosed that hackers had access to some of its network systems for more than a month earlier this year. [...]
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Xbox’s ‘reset’: all the news about Microsoft's looming layoffs and studio closures
Xbox is making some big changes — again. On June 10th, a few months after Asha Sharma took over as CEO, she and newly-promoted chief content officer Matt Booty sent a memo to staff warning of an "Xbox reset." The business, they said, is facing significant chal
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Goose, a New Gay Dating App, Appears to Be a Psyop
Touted as a less-hookup-focused Grindr, Goose is an invite-only space for gay men. The problem is the people promoting it don’t seem real.
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Elon Musk denies a report about SpaceX's AI phone prototype
Elon Musk says a report about a SpaceX AI phone prototype is "utterly false." The report, published on Wednesday by The Wall Street Journal, says SpaceX showed off a "handset-like prototype" to some investors before launching its record-breaking initial public
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Trump refuses to renew US-Canada-Mexico trade pact he once championed
Trump and US officials opted to keep USMCA alive on short leash of annual reviews rather than longer term renewal Donald Trump has refused to renew the North American trade pact he once championed as his signature deal, opting instead to keep it alive on a sho
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New ChocoPoC malware targets researchers via trojanized PoC exploits
Multiple weaponized proof-of-concept (PoC) exploits on GitHub were found delivering a Python-based remote access trojan (RAT) named ChocoPoC that can execute commands and steal sensitive data in a campaign believed to target cybersecurity researchers. [...]
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An Explosion Knocked Out Anduril’s Rocket Motor Test Site in Mississippi
The incident could disrupt a key part of the defense company’s rocket motor business, which designs and tests prototype motors for military customers.
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Four people die in mass fan celebrations in Mexico City after World Cup victory
Three of the victims died from suffocation More than a million people gathered in Mexico City Four people died, three from suffocation, as thousands of fans crowded Mexico City streets during World Cup celebrations, the capital’s health secretariat said in t
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The latest AI news we announced in June 2026
Here are Google’s latest AI updates from June 2026.
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You Can Now Sound the Alarm on AI Behaving Badly
Are you worried your AI chatbot is trying to build a bomb or leak personal information about you? There’s a website for that.
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Krafton settles with Subnautica 2 developer after drawn-out dispute over $250 million
After a lengthy legal dispute, Krafton has settled with its subsidiary Unknown Worlds Entertainment, which is developing Subnautica 2, and will pay bonuses to the studio's staff, Bloomberg reports. The dispute began last year after Krafton pushed out Unknown W
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DHS confirms hackers breached HSIN info-sharing platform
The Department of Homeland Security is investigating a cyberattack that compromised the Homeland Security Information Network (HSIN), a sensitive information-sharing platform used by federal, state, local, and private-sector partners. [...]
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From Shin Bet to Mossad, Netanyahu Reshapes Israeli Intelligence
Editor's Note: Rewind and Reconnoiter is one of our weekly members-only newsletters. To access the full archive of Rewind and Reconnoiter as well as our other members-only content, including podcasts, newsletters, and exclusive access to the War on the Rocks a
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Canada to join Eurovision song contest from 2027
Country is first to join since Australia in 2015 as event director says it ‘continues to welcome the world’ Canada will join the Eurovision song contest in 2027, becoming the first new participant since Australia in 2015, organisers have announced. Participa
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Webinar: Why traditional email security is no longer enough
Modern phishing, business email compromise, and account takeover attacks increasingly exploit trusted identities and legitimate business workflows, making them harder for traditional email defenses to detect. This webinar explores how behavioral AI can help or
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NASA inspector general suggests Boeing's Starliner will now be a decade late
Starliner's certification may be delayed to 2027, 10 years later than Boeing's original schedule.
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New York City educators and industry leaders gathered at Google’s offices to shape the future of AI in classrooms.
Google, the New York Jobs CEO Council and Urban Assembly hosted an AI summit for 150 education and industry leaders.
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How a Team of Marines Built the Corps' FPV Drone Training Program from a Cold Start
Last fall, the U.S. Marine Corps had virtually no first-person view attack drones. That's changed quickly. This episode is about how a team of marines at Weapons Training Battalion at Quantico went from a cold start to building a Marine Corps-wide first-person
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LLMs are stuck in a groupthink groove. This startup is trying to get them out.
Let’s start with a game. Open up your chatbot of choice—Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini—and type “Give me a random number between 1 and 10.” You’re going to get 7. Almost always. Now type “Another” and you’ll get 3 or 4. Type “Another” again and you’ll get 8 or 9. Tha
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Sudan’s RSF committed crimes against humanity in El Fasher, Amnesty says
Report accuses paramilitary force of crimes including ethnic cleansing in systemic campaign against civilians The Sudanese paramilitary Rapid Support Forces committed crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing during its campaign to capture El Fasher, Amnest
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The Download: Anthropic launches Claude Science, and California's carbon manure math
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. Claude Science is Anthropic’s newest flagship product At an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and res
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CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-45659 Microsoft SharePoint Server Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a fre
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Why Ask Credentials If There Are Secret Codes?, (Wed, Jul 1st)
This morning, an interesting phishing email hit my mailbox. It targets Metamask[1], a cryptocurrency wallet, available as a browser extension and a mobile app, that lets users store, send, and receive crypto money. It's pretty popular, so a juicy
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Hugging Face and Cerebras bring Gemma 4 to real-time voice AI
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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Frangoteam FUXA SCADA/HMI
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to enumerate all user accounts and role assignments on a FUXA SCADA/HMI instance. The following versions of Frangoteam FUXA SCADA/HMI are affected: F
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What’s Up: July 2026 Skywatching Tips from NASA
A predawn Moon-and-planets meetup, a returning comet, a great chance to see the Milky Way, and Saturn’s rings at a new angle. Skywatching Highlights Transcript An early morning hangout with the Moon and planets, a comet swings by, prime time for the Milky Way,
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Why the tech industry can't keep up with the AI backlash
AI's externalities are growing faster than the industry can address them
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Apple is reportedly planning new iPad Pro and MacBook Pro releases early next year
Apple is readying several new iPad Pro tablets and a budget-friendly MacBook Pro, reports suggest.
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Autoresearch: The feedback loop behind self-improving agents
Introspection co-founder Roland Gavrilescu explains autoresearch, agent "recipes," self-improving loops, and why humans remain central to the software factory.
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Bending Spoons defies SaaS slump, surges 40% on first day of trading
The company has grown rapidly by acquiring and revamping last-generation tech brands like AOL, Eventbrite, Evernote, Meetup, and Vimeo.
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After $18B IPO, Bending Spoons founder says success comes from minimizing luck
The co-founders of Bending Spoons, the Italian company quietly buying beloved, ailing Internet brands, learned big lessons from their own startup's failure.
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WhatsApp usernames are already raising impersonation red flags
Meta says usernames improve privacy, but critics question whether its safeguards can prevent impersonation.
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T-Mobile moving tens of thousands of virtual machines off VMware amid lawsuit
T-Mobile wants Broadcom to keep supporting its VMware perpetual licenses.
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Have scientists really made a living cell from scratch? Not quite
A prototype cell partly capable of replicating itself has been created using 36 existing bacterial genes, but it's not really a living organism – yet
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Crafty Phishing Campaigns Auto-Adapt to Victim's Device, OS
Attackers fingerprint victims through user-agent data to deliver OS-specific payloads, increasing compromise rates and campaign profitability.
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MIT in the media: Innovating and educating for the next 250 years of America
During a "Washington Post Live" panel discussion with ASU President Michael Crow, President Sally Kornbluth explored how universities are preparing the next generation of scientists to lead in America’s rapidly changing technological landscape.
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NASA’s Chandra Examines Milky Way at Arms’ Length
A new result using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer spiral arms in the Milky Way galaxy may reach wider than previously thought. This finding may lead astronomers to adjust their understanding of our home galaxy’s structure. A team of astr
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And the Winner in Dominant Malware Delivery? ClickFix
Researchers say the highly effective social engineering technique is no longer the exception for malware attacks — it's now the rule.
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Unpatched Argo CD Repo-Server Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Kubernetes Clusters
Argo CD, a widely used tool for deploying software to Kubernetes, has an unpatched flaw in its repo-server component that lets an unauthenticated attacker run code, provided they can reach the component's internal network port. Synacktiv, which found the bug,
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19-Year-Old Scattered Spider Suspect Extradited to Face U.S. Hacking Charges
A teenager accused of belonging to the hacking group Scattered Spider has been extradited from Finland to face U.S. charges of conspiracy, computer intrusion, and fraud, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on July 1. Peter Stokes, 19, a dual U.S
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Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect
The defect impacts a popular collection of business applications that attackers have hit before in widespread attack sprees. The post Researchers spot exploitation of another critical Oracle defect appeared first on CyberScoop .
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US home battery installations hit record high on rising electricity costs
Record home battery installations unlock options for grids—and AI data centers.
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How Cursor deploys AI inside the enterprise
Cursor's Pauline Brunet explains how her team of Forward Deployed Engineers help organizations implement agents — essentially setting up software factories.
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Superworms could replace beetles for cleaning skeletal remains
An optimal ratio of 10-15 grams of larvae per gram of specimen minimized cleaning time with no bone damage.
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SEO-Poisoned Software Sites Abuse ScreenConnect to Deploy AsyncRAT
Unknown threat actors are leveraging the ScreenConnect remote access tool as a way to deploy and execute AsyncRAT. Kaspersky said the activity is part of a "massive, multi-domain, multi-language" campaign that distributes malicious installer archives hosted on
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Upgrade Amazon EKS clusters with confidence using Kubernetes version rollbacks
Learn how Kubernetes version rollbacks for Amazon EKS let you reverse cluster upgrades within seven days. This new feature provides a safety net for upgrade failures—no cluster rebuilds required—turning Kubernetes version upgrades into a reversible, low-risk o
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NASA Seeks Volunteers for New Yearlong Simulated Moon, Mars Mission
NASA is recruiting research participants for the agency’s next simulated deep space mission. Beginning no earlier than August 2027, research volunteers will spend one year living and working in interplanetary environments at the agency’s Johnson Space Center i
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6 security settings every GitHub maintainer should enable this week
These six free settings will not make your project unhackable. Nothing will. What they will do is close the easy doors. Turn these on, and your project will be meaningfully harder to attack than it was before. The post 6 security settings every GitHub maintain
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LINK Spacecraft Set for Mission to Boost NASA’s Swift Observatory
A first-of-its-kind mission to raise the orbit of NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is poised for launch no earlier than Thursday, July 2, 5:09 a.m. EDT (9:09 p.m. UTC+12), from Kwajalein Atoll, part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands in the South Pac
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The weirdness of neutrinos could completely rewrite particle physics
A philosopher has put forward an argument for rethinking how particles are defined within the standard model of particle physics
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NASA’s Webb Studies How Planet Survived Death of its Star
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is giving us new insight into the far-future of solar systems like our own, as the agency continues to reveal the secrets of the universe and our place in it. Billions of years ago, a Sun-like star nearing the end of its life
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🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI
Why the Llama lead left Meta for drug discovery, PEARL's zero-shot OpenBind win, and what becomes possible when co-folding finally crosses the accuracy threshold.
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Warp CEO Zach Lloyd on why software factories are the next phase of coding
Warp's founder thinks every major software project will soon run on an automated factory. He discusses why and how engineers should prepare for this shift.
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Instacart Scales Personalized Marketing via Configuration-Driven Multi-Tenant Platform
Instacart redesigned its personalized marketing system using a configuration-driven multi-tenant architecture on Storefront Pro. The system replaces retailer-specific implementations with a shared execution engine, enabling scalable personalization, faster con
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Presentation: Graph RAG: Building Smarter Retrieval Workflows with Knowledge Graphs
Cassie Shum discusses the architectural evolution of GraphRAG and why data foundations are critical for advanced AI workflows. She explains how traditional vector RAG falls short when addressing global context, multi-hop reasoning, and provenance. She shares e
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A type of fibre that stimulates GLP-1 release approved for use in food
A form of fibre that boosts the release of the hunger-reducing hormone GLP-1 has been approved as safe by a European regulator, and could be added to foods within a year
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HeroUI v3 Lands as a Ground-Up Rewrite for React and React Native, Built on Tailwind CSS v4
HeroUI v3 is a redesigned React component library, previously NextUI, offering over 75 components, including 21 new ones, and a new React Native library with 37 components. Built on React Aria and Tailwind CSS v4, it emphasizes accessibility and customization.
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Presentation: The Infrastructure Challenge Behind Production AI
The panelists explain the realities of running AI systems reliably at scale. While building models is solved, maintaining production databases under constant pressure is not. They discuss the emerging architectural decisions separating teams that scale gracefu
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The best new science-fiction novels published in July 2026
Sci-fi fans can enjoy a new Red Dwarf novel – the first for 30 years – this month, as well as sci-fi horror from Paul Tremblay and a journey to Planet Happy with Riley August
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Slowdown of AMOC ocean current may be gradual and reversible
Scientists worry that a surge of meltwater from Greenland could irreversibly collapse the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, but new modelling suggests the weakening of the current could be reversed if CO2 levels come back down
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2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.D. graduates whose curiosity, creativity, and perseverance have pushed the frontiers of artificial intelligence
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Scientists discover a surprising link between vitamin C and brain health
Could something as simple as vitamin C help support a healthier aging brain? In a study of more than 2,000 older adults in Japan, researchers found that people with lower vitamin C levels in their blood also tended to have less gray matter and weaker connectio
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AIEWF Daily Dispatch: Loops, Software Factories & Forward Deployed Engineers
On Tuesday at the AI Engineer World's Fair, there was a lot of talk about loops, agent engineering, and the emergence of software factories. Also a hot topic: open models.
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Melanoma's secret to cheating death has finally been revealed
Scientists have solved a long-standing mystery by discovering the missing genetic ingredient that helps melanoma cells become effectively immortal. The breakthrough could open the door to new treatments aimed at disrupting one of cancer's most important s
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When It Comes to Back Pain, Maybe You Should be Your Own Doctor
Empowering patients to retake control of their back pain produced surprising results The post When It Comes to Back Pain, Maybe You Should be Your Own Doctor appeared first on Nautilus .
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The twilight of the chatbots
How work changes along the exponential
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Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions
'We can’t trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing'
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SOCRadar powers rapid threat detection with AlloyDB and Gemini Enterprise
Editor’s note: SOCRadar is a leading cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence to businesses worldwide. As the volume of cyber threats continued to grow, SOCRadar needed to modernize its data infrastructure to deliver faster insights to its custo
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AlloyDB AI Functions - now with revolutionary performance boosts and cost savings
AlloyDB is an AI-native database—it isn’t just a passive data store, it intelligently understands and processes your data. With AlloyDB, you get industry-leading vector and hybrid search, near 100% accurate natural language-to-SQL capabilities to build convers
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Pidgin 3.0 Alpha 2 (2.96.0) has been released
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Google named a Leader in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms for third year in a row
For the third consecutive year, Google has been recognized as a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms. This recognition comes on the heels of Google Cloud Next 2026, where we feel we showcased a fundament
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Get started with the Claude apps gateway for Google Cloud
Anthropic's agentic coding tool Claude Code has worked with Google Cloud for a while now. An individual developer could easily point CLAUDE_CODE_USE_VERTEX=1 at a Google Cloud (GCP) project, grant the role roles/aiplatform.user , and inference stays inside you
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What’s new with Google Cloud
Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C
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US Supreme Court just blew up EU-US Data Transfers
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Q&A: What is agentic AI today, and what do we want it to be?
Computer scientist Phillip Isola cuts through the hype to explain how AI agents work and what the future might hold for this rapidly advancing technology.
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Latest open artifacts (#22): Zyphra, Cohere, and Poolside are expanding the breadth of the ecosystem
An assessment of the open ecosystem and the motivations behind releasing models
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All Package Management Functionality Moved from Compiler to Build System
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SpaceX has an AI device prototype, and it sure sounds phone-ish
SpaceX reportedly showed investors a "handset-like" AI device before going public. It could be another signal SpaceX wants to expand into wireless.
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Ashton Kutcher leaving Sound Ventures to launch new VC firm with Morgan Beller
Sound built its reputation on concentrated, high-conviction bets in category-leading AI labs, while Kutcher's new fund appears to be chasing the layer underneath those companies — the infrastructure and energy that power them.
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Cloudflare's new policy pushes AI companies to pay for publishers' content
Cloudflare is giving AI companies until September 15 to separate web crawlers used for search from those used for AI training and agents, or risk being blocked by default on many publisher sites.
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Venice AI becomes a unicorn with $65M Series A as its privacy-first AI platform takes off
Venice AI is already profitable, with annualized run-rate revenues of over $70 million, CEO Erik Voorhees said.
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