Release: sqlite-utils 4.1 The first dot-release since 4.0 a few days ago , introducing a number of minor new features. sqlite-utils insert and sqlite-utils upsert now accept a --code option for providing a block of Python code (or a path to a .py file) that de
The strikes follow an attack on a Cyprus -flagged vessel travelling through the critical waterway.
Nearly two million people are evacuated from eastern Zhejiang province, with the city of Wenzhou close to the path of the storm.
A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and convicted felons whose most recent ventures included fake intelligence companies and a
Discontent with Trump-backed government mounts as Chávez heirs struggle to respond to disaster for which they seem ill-prepared Even before two powerful earthquakes reduced the OPPE 25 government housing project to an anarchy of shattered concrete and broken l
Police say two people exchanged gunfire in shooting that mayor called an ‘irresponsible act of violence’ in festival attended by families A shooting near a Toronto street festival killed two men and wounded four other people on Saturday evening, police said, a
Police say there was an exchange of gunfire between two individuals at the festival, and two firearms had been recovered from the scene.
Tabassum Khan has been facing online abuse after convicting 14 Hindu men in a lynching case.
A 67 million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex will go on sale in New York with a pre-sale value of $30m.
After setting the music gear corner of the internet on fire back in 2023 with the first glimpse at the Nopia, creators Martin Grieco and Rocío Gal are almost ready to bring it to market. The duo brought it to the MusicRadar offices for an in-depth first l
Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield had been seeking documents from Paramount related to its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery. Rayfield also asked a state circuit court judge to delay the closing of the deal by 60 days so that his office could review the do
If you’re the type of person who could always use a little extra positive affirmation, or you have a weakness for weird gadgets, the Talking Flower might be of interest. I’m only kind of serious. The toy is based on a character from Super Mario Bros. Wonder th
If you're a music maker of a certain age, then you probably once dabbled with a pirated copy of a little app called Fruity Loops. These days it's called FL Studio, and Constantin Koehncke, is the man responsible for shepherding the pioneering digital audio wor
Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb will head the UAP Science Advisory Council established by the White House, the Pentagon, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the FBI, and "the intelligence community." The Council will provide scientific reports
The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) issued an alert about a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable content management systems (CMS) and plugins. [...]
Vigilantes also took part in the fight that raged all night and the following morning, residents say Nigerian soldiers killed more than 300 members of kidnapping and cattle bandit gangs in the north-western state of Zamfara this week, according to a government
The AquaSense X brings self-cleaning technology to pool robots for the first time, but is it worth nearly twice the price of Beatbot’s flagship cleaner?
The Skylight has become the informational and organizational hub of my household. My touchscreen-native kids have also gained more agency over our family activities.
There’s a new fleet of TVs using new mini and micro RBG display tech, and Samsung’s R95H model isn’t as impressive as it should be.
Plus: The Pentagon is training amateurs to become part of its hacker army, a Flock license plate reader error led to cops surrounding a car reviewer, and more.
More dog owners have begun cooking for their canine companions in recent years. When my own dog fell ill, I became part of this growing group.
Wireshark release 4.6.7 fixes 12 vulnerabilities and 16 bugs.
A PNG hiding a prompt injection could steal your repo's secrets, researchers demonstrate. The technique, dubbed 'Ghostcommit,' slipped past AI code reviewers CodeRabbit and Bugbot, which never open image files at all, then convinced a coding agent to read a re
The stack is a memory region where a program stores temporary data -&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;like local variables and return addresses. Think of the stack as a pile of plates in your kitchen: you can onl
The idea of ‘biological agency’ — that life devises its own goals and behaves accordingly — complicates our understanding of what it means to be alive. But does it serve a scientific purpose? The post Is Life Just Different? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The senator had been a been a fixture in Republican politics both in South Carolina and in Washington.
European football titans France and Spain meet in a blockbuster FIFA World Cup 2026 final four matchup in Dallas.
IRGC vows ‘crushing response’ to any further US attacks
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Cloudflare recently documented how its development team identified and fixed a rare bug in the widely used Rust HTTP library hyper that could silently truncate large HTTP responses while still returning a successful 200 OK status. The issue had existed for yea
Descendants of enslaved Africans say symbolic apologies cannot repair generations of loss and injustice.
The Father Emir oversaw the meteoric rise of the small gas-rich nation.
Last week, national security agencies from the Five Eyes—that's the rich, English-language-speaking countries club—jointly released a statement warning of the increasing cyber risks of AI models: in particular, their ability to autonomously hack in
Gold may have a secret self-defense system that helps it resist tarnishing. Researchers discovered that atoms on gold surfaces reorganize themselves into patterns that block oxygen from reacting with the metal, suppressing oxidation by up to a trillion-fold. B
Groups that advocate for reporters and Democratic senators roundly criticized the U.S. Justice Department’s move.
When we last sat down with Jobs at TechCrunch Disrupt nearly three years ago, his firm Yosemite was brand new and biotech was still reeling from its post-pandemic crash. Now, the venture outfit has a team of 17; a cluster of blockbuster drugs are all losing pa
A 28-year-old British national was taken into custody in South Yorkshire Saturday evening on suspicion of the murder, the police said.
Last weekend's brutal NYC heat wave had me craving a frozen drink almost every afternoon. Normally, that would mean sweating through a walk to 7-Eleven for a slurpee. This time, though, I stayed home and put the new Ninja Slushi Twist to the test. Ninja's late
The jscrambler npm package was compromised, and simply installing its 8.14.0 release runs an infostealer on your machine. Published on July 11, 2026, the malicious version carries a preinstall hook that drops and executes a native binary, o
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of sustained cyber espionage activity against several Pakistani law enforcement organizations undertaken by suspected China- and India-aligned threat actors between February 2024 and April 2026. "At Balochistan
The glasses are targeted at people who might be constantly in meetings, giving presentations, and traveling to countries where different languages are spoken.
ChatGPT is hiring a dedicated product manager to build experiences for families, caregivers, and older adults, according to a job posting.
Two striking Asian praying mantis species that have rapidly spread across Europe have now been officially classified as invasive, raising new concerns about their impact on native wildlife. Boosted by climate change and urban environments, these fast-breeding
It's unclear how the planet avoided its star's bloated red giant stage.
For the first time since 1995, the Bureau of Land Management is rewriting its grazing regulations.
Zimbra is urging customers to apply updates to address a critical security vulnerability impacting the Classic Web Client that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability has been described as a case of stored cross-site scripting (XSS) that co
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Many of the body's biggest flaws are the result of evolution building on old designs instead of starting over. Our spine, eyes, teeth, pelvis, and even certain nerves all reveal compromises that worked well enough for survival but still leave us prone to
Scientists have discovered a previously unknown fossil goose that challenges a decades-old theory about the evolution of New Zealand's birds. The find suggests the country's giant flightless geese evolved from much more recent arrivals, revealing a f
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Multiple campaigns are using ghost accounts to map GitHub organizations, including their repositories and members. The post Ghost Accounts Abuse GitHub API in Mass Recon Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The best Stratechery content from the week of July 6, 2026, including a word from Mark Zuckerberg*, pulling the plug on XBOX, and toilet talk.
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
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Organizations, and possibly ATMs, are at risk of compromise, thanks to holes in a Microsoft BitLocker security wrapper.
Age restrictions on accounts may be more of a stopgap because industry compliance is already falling short. Tech giants are struggling to follow the laws without affecting users.
AI-generated singers, children, and even virtual lovers are providing seniors with comfort and companionship.
AI coding tools cost $19-$200/month/user, but security scanning, remediation, and false positives add hidden costs. Are the productivity gains worth it?
Short chart specifications are easy to write, but often produce uninspiring results. Flint is an open-source visualization language that offers a middle path, letting AI agents create expressive charts from compact, human-editable specifications. The post Flin
Zusha Elinson / Wall Street Journal : A look at the growing anti-AI movement in the Bay Area, as the disappearance of Sam Kirchner, co-founder of a hard-line activist group, has the movement on edge — The resistance to artificial intelligenc
Financial Times : AirDNA: during the FIFA World Cup group stage, platforms such as Airbnb saw 52K+ new listings in US host cities, while hotel bookings fell short of expectations — Hotel bookings fall short of expectations as price-conscious
Targeted towards refined female gamers unlike the savagery of the mainstream game consoles of the era, 1995's Casio Loopy was a bit of an oddity of a game console. Despite …read more
During the winter of 2025–2026, 24% of Dutch honeybee colonies were lost. The upward trend observed in recent years therefore continues. This is the fourth consecutive year in which winter mortality has exceeded 20%. The figures are based on the annual survey
"HalluSquatting" weaponizes LLMs' inability to say "I don't know."
The average life span for Americans hovered around 40 years for the first 100 years of the nation's existence. But after 1880, breakthroughs in modern medicine and public health resulted in a dramatic rise in life expectancy. By 1930, the average American
Virtual fences could make managing grazing livestock on farms more flexible and more efficient while improving animal welfare. A new study by the University of Göttingen shows that virtual fences trigger behavior in cattle similar to that caused by conventiona
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As the adoption of electric vehicles continues to grow, so does the need for the safe and permanent storage of battery materials and industrial chemical waste. Certain waste streams require disposal in what are known as Category IV landfills, which impose part
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More than half a century ago, Sir Roger Penrose envisioned a scenario in which energy could be extracted from a black hole spinning at extreme speeds. He proposed that a particle entering its ergosphere—a region of space dragged around by a rotating black hole
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It’s vibes The post Here’s Why Some Humans Can Hear Super Low-Frequency Sounds appeared first on Nautilus .
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A half a billion years ago, this organism preferred to bend to the right The post Was This Fossil Creature the First Right-Hander Ever? appeared first on Nautilus .
A new dog collar with GPS tracking enabled by SpaceX's Starlink direct-to-mobile network promises connectivity from almost anywhere.
On Episode 218 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik discuss NASA's new moonbase plans with planetary scientist Dr. Pascal Lee.
The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims of various social-engineering scams. The post Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries appeared first on CyberScoop .
SpaceXAI continues to move faster than any other frontier lab on earth.
2 years after our first coverage, we return with Modal's other cofounder to explore why Agent Experience is working now, and everything they have learned building the new agent cloud.
Explore how the Aspire team turns merged product changes into SME-reviewed docs pull requests, closing the gap between release and documentation. The post Automating cross-repo documentation with GitHub Agentic Workflows appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
In June, we experienced six incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: June 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Searching for work sucks; AI combs the internet and sucks it all up. Combine the two and let 'er rip with this Python project
Linux distro accuses former contributor of deleting years of work and pushing a package that could have broken installs
Vendor drops reinstatement fees and caps back-maintenance charges ahead of the ECC support cliff
But the devices could "easily be reflashed."
LLMs don’t fail because they forget—they fail because they remember too much. As conversations grow, prompts accumulate redundant and low-value tokens, driving up cost and latency while silently degrading output quality. This article introduces a deterministic
The best AI models still hallucinate. These hallucinations are sometimes funny, and sometimes cause actual damage. In this post we will consider recent tales of AI hallucinations, and then look under the hood to understand why they happen. The post That Is Emb
The professor of physics and inaugural director of the NSF AI Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Fundamental Interactions will lead LNS and continue his research in particle physics.
... government of the people, by the people, for the people ... — Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The cost of AI is dropping rapidly. GPT-4-class capabilities cost roughly $30 per million tokens in early 2023; today the
A recent AWS GraphRAG deployment reduced drug research and development cycles in pharmaceutical environments by 87 percent. This acceleration is achieved by integrating previously separated proprietary databases into a unified and queryable knowledge graph. Hi
PhD student Rachel Sava, winner of the Envisioning the Future of Computing Prize, explores transformative improvements and dystopian risks of neural technology.
Vector databases are a temporary bridge. Discover why the next AI infrastructure revolution relies on persistent neural state and strict latency budgets, not on vector databases. The post RAG Was Always a Temporary Workaround. What is Next? appeared first on T
Several NHS hospitals are preparing to use an AI-powered blood test to help assess women referred for possible womb cancer before invasive checks are carried out. According to The Guardian, around 90,000 postmenopausal women in England are referred by GPs each
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Insilico Medicine is advancing to Phase III human trials for testing a drug identified by AI targeting idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). This progression supplies the computational drug discovery sector with empirical test cases, advancing an AI medicine pa
