MUFG aims to become AI-native with OpenAI
MUFG uses ChatGPT Enterprise to build an AI-native organization, improve workflows, and deliver new AI-powered financial services at scale.
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Australian Payments Plus moves faster with ChatGPT and Codex
See how Australian Payments Plus uses ChatGPT Enterprise and Codex to move faster through payments complexity. AP+ saves time, improves quality, and keeps human judgment central.
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The Philippines’ ‘Trial of the Century’ Begins
A pall of cynicism hangs over proceedings against Vice President Sara Duterte.
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Explosions in Damascus Won’t Shake Macron’s Faith in Sharaa
France remains committed to bolstering cooperation with Syria.
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The Myth of Chinese Birth Tourism
The United States has recast a small industry as a national security threat.
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NATO Goes Shopping
Alliance members tout defense investments to try to head off Trump’s complaints.
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Xi Is Defining History on His Own Terms
The language of the “new era” leaves real reform behind.
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
This morning I released sqlite-utils 4.0 , the 124th release of that project and the first major version bump since 3.0 in November 2020. In addition to some small but significant breaking changes (described in this upgrade guide ), this version introduces thr
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sqlite-migrate 0.2
Release: sqlite-migrate 0.2 The version that retires the library, instead implementing a compatibility shim against the new sqlite-utils 4.0 dependency. Tags: sqlite-utils
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github-code Web Component
Tool: github-code Web Component An experimental Web Component built using GPT-5.5 and the following prompt : let's build a Web Component for embedding code from GitHub It takes URLs like that, converts them to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/simonw/sqlite-as
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sqlite-utils 4.0
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0 See sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations for details. Tags: sqlite-utils
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc4
Release: sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 The last RC before the 4.0 stable release. Mainly implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5. Tags: sqlite-utils , claude-mythos-fable
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Somali Pirates Are Back — But the Coalition That Beat Them Isn’t Coming
Numerous recent pirate attacks, especially the hijacking of three merchant vessels off the Horn of Africa, are a stark reminder that the conditions for resurgence can return quickly.It took years of sustained, coordinated effort by multinational naval coalitio
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CISA orders feds to patch max severity ColdFusion flaw by Friday
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered government agencies to patch an actively exploited maximum-severity flaw in the Adobe ColdFusion commercial web app development platform by Friday. [...]
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Hackers can use 9 of the most popular AI tools to assemble massive botnets
"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
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US and Iran trade strikes after tankers hit in Strait of Hormuz
The US military says it hit missile sites and command centres while Iran says it attacked US bases.
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Nato allies announce £37bn for new missile project
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will convene around a dozen leaders to discuss the programme in Ankara.
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Russian fuel shortages bite – but will Putin change tack in Ukraine war?
Even in Moscow, authorities are unable to guarantee fuel supplies, but will economic pressure lead to talks or escalation?
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Can the Private Sector Save Vietnam?
Why the Communist Party wants business to boom.
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The Ukraine Lesson Taiwan Keeps Missing
It’s not the drones—It’s everything around them.
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Will Le Pen rise again? French nationalist leader defiant after court's ruling
Within hours of a court of appeal confirming a guilty verdict, Marine Le Pen had already launched her presidential campaign.
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Suspect ate Chick-fil-A and interacted with Charlie Kirk staff before shooting, court hears
The preliminary hearing will determine whether Tyler Robinson, accused of killing conservative activist Charlie Kirk, will stand trial.
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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, July 8th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9998, (Wed, Jul 8th)
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
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Meta’s glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
Amid public backlash over its smart glasses, Meta announced that it will be updating its glasses with a new feature that will disable the camera when it detects that someone has tampered with or destroyed the glasses' privacy LED light. The update is meant to
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Accenture confirms breach after hacker offers stolen data for sale
IT services giant Accenture has confirmed it suffered a security breach after a threat actor claimed to have stolen 35 GB of source code and other data from the company. [...]
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Of course viewers are giving up on Netflix shows
Even though Netflix is the world's most popular paid streaming service, the company has been struggling to keep viewers watching its series after their first seasons. Beef - the streamer's anthology about people locked in feuds - lost 70 percent of its viewers
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Netflix is about to host videos from BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, and other publishers
Starting on August 3rd, Netflix's streaming library will include video content from dozens of digital media brands including BuzzFeed, Condé Nast, Hearst Magazines, People Inc, and Tastemade. As reported earlier by TechCrunch, the deal includes a mix of l
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From Hugging Face to Amazon SageMaker Studio in one click
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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Meta’s new Muse Image model can pull other Instagram users into AI photos
Meta is launching the first AI image generation model made by its Superintelligence Labs division. The Muse Image model now powers the image-making tools across the Meta AI app, Instagram, and WhatsApp, and it's coming soon to Facebook and Messenger, according
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Chinese hackers develop LONGLEASH malware to expand ORB network
Chinese hackers tracked as 'UAT-7810' are actively evolving their malware to expand their Operational Relay Box (ORB) network by compromising internet-facing networking devices, primarily unpatched Ruckus routers. [...]
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X says top accounts steal videos from other users as it announces new video tools
Nikita Bier, X's head of product, said in a post on Monday that "[m]any videos from top accounts are simply stolen from other users, sometimes 5 years after they originally went viral," while noting that videos on the platform "make up close to half the impres
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More Odd DNS Records: NIMLOC, (Tue, Jul 7th)
Yesterday, I talked about NAPTR records and how they are related to RCS. But there is another "odd" record that shows up in my DNS logs. This one isn&#;x26;#;39;t new, but I don&#;x26;#;39;t think I ever
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Hidden backdoor in Tenda router firmware grants admin access
A hidden authentication backdoor has been found in multiple Tenda router firmware versions, potentially allowing an attacker to gain administrative access to the device's web management panel. [...]
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Spain arrests suspected member of pro-Russian hacktivist groups
The National Police in Spain have arrested a man who is suspected of being an active member of the CyberArmy of Russia Reborn (CARR) and Z-Pentest, both pro-Russian hacktivist groups. [...]
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Hugging Face Models on Foundry Managed Compute
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds
Researchers testing a cheap, homegrown oil in Uganda found what cats knew all along – it worked as well as the artificial chemical used globally A homegrown catnip lotion has proven “just as effective as Deet” as a mosquito repellant in trials carried out in U
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French prosecutors investigate racist abuse of Kylian Mbappé by Paraguayan senator
Celeste Amarilla could face charges after French Football Federation complains about social media posts over World Cup match Prosecutors in France have opened an investigation into the racist attack on Kylian Mbappé by a Paraguayan senator, with officials weig
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Labcenter Proteus 9
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could disclose information and allow a malicious user to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. The following versions of Labcenter Proteus 9 are affected: Proteus 9.1_SP4_Build_4291
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Hitachi Energy e-mesh EMS
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of a buffer overflow vulnerability that affects e-mesh EMS product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to a buffer overflow condition, potentially resulting in app
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CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-48908 JoomShaper SP Page Builder Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability CVE-2026-55255 Lan
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Digi International PortServer TS, Digi One SP IA
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authentication and gain access to restricted resources, obtain credentials, and inject malicious scripts. The following versions of Digi International PortServ
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Hitachi Energy PROMOD V
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of insecure HTTP transmission vulnerability in PROMOD V product versions listed in this document. This vulnerability could allow attackers to intercept or manipulate sensitive data in transit, potentially leading to cr
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Expanding Managed Agents in Gemini API: background tasks, remote MCP and more
We’re announcing new capabilities in Managed Agents in Gemini API so developers can build reliable, production-ready agents.
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Run AI workloads on any cloud, store on Hugging Face: zero-egress storage with SkyPilot
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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‘Living like this is agony’: Cuba suffers third nationwide blackout in six months
Impoverished island was already struggling to keep the lights on before the US imposed a blockade in January Cuba on Monday suffered its third nationwide power outage since the start of the year, the state electricity company said. The impoverished island was
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AI chip maker SambaNova raises $1B at $11B valuation, 5 months after last mega round
AI chip maker SambaNova has raised at an $11B valuation months after Intel was rumored to be trying to buy it for about $1.6 billion.
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15-Year-Old GhostLock Flaw Enables Root and Container Escape on Most Linux Distros
Researchers at Nebula Security have disclosed GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499), a 15-year-old Linux kernel flaw that lets any logged-in user take full root control of a machine that has not been patched. The vulnerable code has shipped by default
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CISA Adds 4 Actively Exploited Adobe, Joomla, and Langflow Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-48282 (CVSS scor
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Risky Bulletin: DHS IG investigates forced CISA reassignments
The DHS inspector general will investigate forced CISA reassignments, Canada hacked a ransomware gang, Taiwan charges two executives with helping Chinese hackers, and new vulnerabilities can disable Hoymiles solar panels. Show notes Risky Bulletin: All new car
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Cottonwood Fire Chars Utah
The blaze burned more than 150 square miles and swept through parts of a ski resort.
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[AINews] Lilian Weng summarizes 35 papers on Harness Engineering for RSI
a quiet day lets us read some condensed insight
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Schrödinger’s anthill: Quantum entanglement found in a crystal large enough to hold
A centimeter-sized crystal has revealed clear signs of quantum entanglement, showing that large, everyday objects can display surprisingly deep quantum behavior. The discovery could help solve the mystery of strange metals while opening new possibilities for u
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Vibe coding has escaped the terminal
Adventures with Raycast’s new app-making app, Glaze
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Incredible new material makes heat programmable
A newly developed material can control and "program" heat, allowing it to direct thermal radiation, switch modes, and remember its settings without continuous power. The innovation could lead to smarter infrared sensors, better energy technologies, and memory
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Final extension: Startup Battlefield Australia applications now close July 20
If you're building something ambitious, this is a fast track to the people who can move your startup forward.
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Michigan sees explosive outbreak of diarrheal parasite with over 700 cases
Cases have risen quickly as officials are working to identify a common source.
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Meta just launched a new AI generator, Muse Image, and users are already pushing back over use of their photos
The new image-generating model has numerous use cases, including advertising and decorating, and creator-based opportunities.
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Vidar Stealer Unmasked: Code Signing Abuse, Go Loaders and File Inflation
A cybercrime campaign combined a loader-as-a-service framework and DLL sideloading via a Go-compiled fake MpClient.dll, a novel evasion layer combination. The post Vidar Stealer Unmasked: Code Signing Abuse, Go Loaders and File Inflation appeared first on Unit
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Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Russian hacktivist campaign
Authorities didn’t name the man or file formal charges, but accuse him of participating in attacks linked to Cyber Army of Russia Reborn and NoName. The post Spain arrests suspected hacker linked to Russian hacktivist campaign appeared first on CyberScoop .
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Data centers’ energy demand threatens Trump’s “Made in America” plan
Squeeze on Rust Belt electricity bills threatens Trump’s manufacturing plan.
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Surprisingly large number of people may have marker for tick-linked meat allergy
There's still a slew of questions about why some people develop alpha-gal syndrome.
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SCOTUS lets Texas enforce app store law that Big Tech calls "censorship regime"
Texas win at 5th Circuit left in place as attempts to overturn age law continue.
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Why the rise of open source AI isn't hurting Anthropic … yet
Open source models’ success isn’t coming at the expense of frontier labs. Instead, they each seem to capture two phases of the same life cycle.
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Switching from PostgreSQL to ClickHouse for Improved Performance and Scalability
Momentic, the company behind an AI-driven software testing platform, recently rearchitected its caching system to handle over 2 million queries per day across 20 billion total entries, while maintaining an average response latency of around 250 ms. This improv
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Microsoft joins AI cost-cutting trend by relying more on its own models
Microsoft is the latest Silicon Valley giant to cut back on its AI spending.
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Peter Shor’s algorithm could break the internet – but he's not worried
Few people have invented an algorithm with the potential to spark a worldwide crisis, so why is quantum computing pioneer Peter Shor so unconcerned? Karmela Padavic-Callaghan spoke to him to find out
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Does time come from the entire universe running computations?
Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist Stephen Wolfram has a radical proposal for where it comes from. He discussed his ideas on time – and what they mean for free will – with
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NASA Transfers ‘Hundred Acre Wood’ to Patuxent Research Refuge
NASA ceremonially transferred ownership of about 105 acres of wooded land at its Goddard Space Flight Center’s Greenbelt, Maryland, campus Tuesday to the adjoining Patuxent Research Refuge, managed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The property, formerly
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NASA’s New Horizons Spacecraft Wakes from Hibernation in Good Health
Following its longest hibernation period ever of nearly a year, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has emerged in good health and is ready to begin transmitting science data gathered in the distant Kuiper Belt far beyond Pluto. On June 23, flight controllers at th
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How novice coders can develop AI programs for military applications
A USAF cadet and a Lincoln Laboratory researcher found AI chatbots can help nontechnical service members produce viable software applications for their unique problems.
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Artemis II Crew and Apollo 14 Moon Tree
In this photograph, the Artemis II crew participates in the dedication of the Apollo 14 Moon tree at the Lunar Receiving Park at NASA's Johnson Space Center on June 25, 2026. This tree is a second-generation Apollo Moon tree of the loblolly pine species. The o
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The strange metals forcing us to rethink how electricity really works
Some 40 years ago, physicists noticed certain metals were conducting electricity in a bizarre way no one could explain. New answers to how and why this happens are forcing us to question how electricity flows
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Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide
New Innovation Graph data shows global developer communities growing faster than ever, with collaboration reaching new highs across many economies. The post Q1 2026 Innovation Graph update: Open source collaboration is accelerating worldwide appeared first on
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July 2026 Satellite Puzzler
Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.
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Salt batteries are about to shake up EVs and grid storage
Today, most rechargeable batteries are made from lithium ions, but sodium-ion alternatives could make battery tech much cheaper and offer other advantages
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Chris Packham: 'I'd throw myself in front of a T. Rex to be consumed'
As Chris Packham gears up for his new TV show, Evolution, he tells Penny Sarchet why understanding the latest evolutionary science is so important if we are to truly appreciate the natural world - and how he would happily die at the hands of a Tyrannosaurus re
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China's AI boom is creating a different kind of entrepreneur
Backed by the state, Chinese workers are using AI to deal with limited resources and drive innovation to compete with Silicon Valley.
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A Script for Mark Zuckerberg
A script for what Mark Zuckerberg should say on Meta's next earnings call.
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OpenBSD through 7.9 has a use-after-free allowing local privilege escalation to root (CVE-2026-57589)
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Childhood Trauma Echoes Through Romantic Relationships
Abuse, neglect, and loss can reverberate in a partner’s behavior The post Childhood Trauma Echoes Through Romantic Relationships appeared first on Nautilus .
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The Loving Embrace of the Milky Way
Researchers have discovered that our galaxy’s outermost spiral arms are wide open and farther away than we thought The post The Loving Embrace of the Milky Way appeared first on Nautilus .
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Here’s Just How Disgusting Your Kitchen Sponge Is
There may be illness lurking just to the right of the faucet The post Here’s Just How Disgusting Your Kitchen Sponge Is appeared first on Nautilus .
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Avoid AI atrophy - new tool promises to reverse vibe coding skills decay
Want big muscles? Keep working out. Want big coding skillsets? Flex your dev skills with the Atrophy CLI app before they wither away
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Modern Humans and Neanderthals May Have Shared a Cave-Dwelling Culture
A cave in southern Türkiye is spilling its ancient secrets The post Modern Humans and Neanderthals May Have Shared a Cave-Dwelling Culture appeared first on Nautilus .
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New tool gives CLIs a warm and GUI feeling instead
Fed up with forgetting flags? Let Instagui read --help output and build a browser GUI instead
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Report: 83% of organizations need to upgrade their infrastructure to support agentic AI
For years, enterprise AI has been synonymous with conversational AI — the customer service bots and digital assistants we interact with every day. But today, the market has shifted. We’ve officially moved from moving from AI that answers through simple chats,
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20 questions for the Agentic Enterprise (and how Agent Platform can help)
If you’re an IT leader, you might be getting a lot of questions about how to build and deploy agents. The pressure to move fast is intense, but the engineering reality is incredibly complex. Where do your teams even begin? How do you untangle a fragmented mess
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Drive proactive security, prioritize risks with Google Threat Intelligence and Wiz ASM
Being more proactive continues to be a leading goal for security organizations. As AI accelerates the pace of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, organizations will rely on the personalization of their security investments to help prioritize their defens
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BGP route policies: Top 3 use cases by customer demand
When we first made BGP route policies for Cloud Router generally available over a year ago, our goal was to give network administrators deep, programmable control over how network paths are evaluated and propagated. Since then, we’ve been watching closely how
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A developer's guide to publishing agents in Gemini Enterprise and Google Cloud Marketplace
Software-as-a-service (SaaS) is evolving into Agents-as-a-service (AaaS). Instead of isolated applications, developers are creating AI agents that interoperate using standardized open protocols such as the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol and can be orchestrated thr
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Two months of Open Community Groups
Two months ago, the CNCF launched Open Community Groups (OCG, ocgroups.dev), an online meetup platform that's open source. This wasn't a weekend project that happened to ship, it was almost two years in the making before...
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Court tosses Microsoft's appeal in pre-owned software licenses battle
ValueLicensing celebrates while Redmond considers next steps
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China's web novel platforms embraced AI. Now they are fighting it
Sites from Tencent, ByteDance, and Baidu set curbs like daily word limits for authors and stricter standards to combat poor-quality automated fiction.
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Meta says it will disable the camera on its glasses if you tamper with the recording LED
Meta answers people's privacy concerns about its smart glasses in an FAQ.
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A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever (Andrew Fedorov/New York Magazine)
Andrew Fedorov / New York Magazine : A look at effective altruism's fall after SBF's arrest and how the soon-to-be rich from upcoming AI IPOs give the movement a chance to return larger than ever — Out of the spotlight, the movement has been
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Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent (Financial Times)
Financial Times : Palantir insiders and investors fear the company's enthusiastic embrace of President Trump's policies could drive away corporate clients and engineering talent — Pushback to the tech group's politics may threaten the core o
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GitLost: We Tricked GitHub's AI Agent into Leaking Private Repos
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What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in?
Ryan is joined by Rosemary Wang, Developer Advocate at IBM, to explore what infrastructure as code looks like once AI starts writing and deploying it.
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How to Build a Minimal ZFS NAS Without Synology, QNAP, TrueNAS (2024)
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