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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 12 Score 0.8857843712962962

Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)

Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI) I went looking for a definition of "Directly Responsible Individuals" and the best I found was in the GitLab handbook. Apparently the term originated at Apple, where it's used to describe the person who is "ultimately acc

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 12 Score 0.8854964083333332

shot-scraper 1.11

Release: shot-scraper 1.11 Some minor improvements, mainly around command option consistency and making the server: mechanism used by both shot-scraper video and shot-scraper multi work if the server takes longer than a second to start serving traffic. server:

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 12 Score 0.8814200194444444

Fable gets another bump

One of the consequences of GPT-5.6 Sol being clearly a Fable/Mythos class model is that Anthropic have, once again, bumped the date that Fable stops being available in their Claude Max plans: We're extending Claude Fable 5 access on all paid plans, as well as

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 12 Score 0.880736223148148

sqlite-utils 4.1.1

Release: sqlite-utils 4.1.1 Mainly a fix for an edge case that regular Claude chat spotted while experimenting with the 4.1 release to answer a question about ON DELETE. table.transform() now raises a TransactionError if called while a transaction is open with

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War on the Rocks Jul 13 Score 0.8233778189814815

An Unlearned Lesson: The Sorry Record of Regime Change Operations in the Middle East

On Feb. 28, 2026, President Donald Trump announced the commencement of Operation Epic Fury, a joint U.S.-Israeli military operation against Iran. Among the mission's goals was the overthrow of the Islamic Republic. "When we are finished," Trump told the Irania

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Foreign Affairs Jul 13 Score 0.8175283342592593

Senegal Is on the Brink

The IMF, the World Bank, and the debt crisis that imperils West Africa.

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OpenAI News Jul 9 Score 0.8175277972222224

GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty

Details about the OpenAI Bio Bounty program

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OpenAI News Jul 9 Score 0.8175277972222224

ChatGPT is now a partner for your most ambitious work

ChatGPT Work is an agent that can take action across your apps and files, stay with a project for hours if needed, and turn a goal into finished work.

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BleepingComputer Jul 13 Score 0.8121039935185186

OpenAI temporarily relaxes GPT-5.6 Sol usage limits

OpenAI is temporarily relaxing GPT-5.6 Sol usage after demand for the company's most powerful model surged over the past 48 hours. [...]

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The Verge Jul 12 Score 0.8044815546296297

Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are ‘not sexy’

Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to speak out against AI glasses. While she didn't specify any brands in particular, it's likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has

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Wired Jul 12 Score 0.8040732449074075

Uber’s Autonomous Vehicle Strategy: Slow Their Adoption

In at least two places, Uber has pushed a policy that could give it an advantage over developers of self-driving cars. The company says it’s fighting monopolies.

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The Verge Jul 12 Score 0.8036394250000001

Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? is hypnotic, healing, and hopeful

Matmos are an incredibly accomplished duo between their own solo records like the masterpiece A Chance to Cut Is a Chance to Cure and production classic Bjork records like Vespertine. But Drew Daniel, one half of Matmos, is fiendishly prolific. When he's not l

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Interconnects Jul 12 Score 0.7988528402777778

6 months to live for open models

The most serious test to date of open source AI's viability is happening right now.

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The Verge Jul 12 Score 0.7982810916666667

Apple’s failed self-driving car program left a legacy of powerful AI chips

Apple's self-driving car program never really got off the ground, but it may have been what made the company's chips the powerful AI performers they are. Early in the development of the self-driving platform, Apple realized that it would need powerful on-devic

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The Verge Jul 12 Score 0.7958616472222223

One of SteelSeries' best gaming headsets is over $100 off

SteelSeries has the Arctis Nova Pro Wireless gaming headset on sale for $239.99 (currently between $300 and $350 at other retailers). The Xbox version that supports a host of other platforms including PlayStation, PC, and Switch is available in both black and

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The Verge Jul 12 Score 0.7952509990740741

How Philips Hue got the smart home right

The state of the smart home can be frustrating, because it is just so obvious how things ought to work. You should be able to control everything from everywhere. Your spaces should adapt to what you're doing and how you're feeling. Making your home smart shoul

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BleepingComputer Jul 12 Score 0.7949595490740742

RedHook Android malware now uses Wireless ADB for shell access

A new version of the RedHook Android malware abuses the Android Wireless Debugging (Wireless ADB) mechanism in a novel way to gain shell-level privileges without requiring a computer connection. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jul 12 Score 0.7842005467592593

First patients enrolled in record-breaking Ebola treatment trial in DRC

Two drugs are being trialled in the Ituri region in a programme set up just six weeks after the outbreak was declared, with hopes it will reduce mortality rates There is no approved drug to help the medical teams scrabbling to save lives in the Ebola outbreak

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Quanta Magazine Jul 9 Score 0.7486173953703703

Will We Ever Find Alien Civilizations?

Astronomer David Kipping discusses why claims of extraterrestrial life keep dissolving under scrutiny, why we need a more statistically grounded approach to searching for life beyond Earth, and why it’s rational to believe that we may be alone. The post Will W

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Politico Europe Jul 13 Score 0.7485797226851851

What does Starmer’s last week look like?

The political week starts with the shockwaves from the murder of Reform politician – Ann Widdecombe – which has put MPs' security back in the spotlight. Sam Coates and Anne McElvoy have the latest on the police investigation, Nigel Farage's respons

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Meduza — English Jul 13 Score 0.7484310888888889

Russian strikes hit Odesa’s ports and Zaporizhzhia’s apartment blocks overnight

Russian forces struck Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region overnight on July 13, Russia’s Defense Ministry said. The ministry claimed the strikes targeted port infrastructure in Chornomorsk that had been used to store military cargo.

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The Hacker News Jul 13 Score 0.7451956337962963

iCagenda and Balbooa Forms Joomla Flaws Reportedly Exploited as Zero-Days

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation

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Schneier on Security Jul 9 Score 0.7442155263888888

The Language of AI Could Change How Humans Speak

Because of the way they are trained, large language models capture only a slice of human language. They're trained on the written word, from textbooks to social media posts, and our speech as captured in movies and on television. These models have minimal acce

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SRE Weekly Jul 13 Score 0.7385637634259259

SRE Weekly Issue #525

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

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 13 Score 0.7372021212962963

Future moon landings could wipe out clues to how life began on Earth

A new study suggests spacecraft exhaust could quickly contaminate the moon's most scientifically valuable regions, potentially masking ancient clues about how life began on Earth. Researchers say future lunar missions should consider new ways to reduce an

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 12 Score 0.7355775842592592

Spider-like creatures help uncover the surprising origins of fatherhood

Citizen scientists have helped researchers solve a long-standing mystery about how parental care evolved in harvestmen. Using photos and observations from iNaturalist, scientists more than doubled the known cases of egg-guarding behavior and discovered that ma

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TechCrunch Jul 12 Score 0.7227228

TechCrunch Mobility: A robotaxi ultimatum

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

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 12 Score 0.7173391583333333

Alzheimer's tau protein has a surprising secret role in memory

Researchers found that tau is essential for turning new experiences into lasting memories by helping organize the brain's memory-storing cells. The mouse study also revealed how abnormal tau may contribute to Alzheimer's by disrupting both the format

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 12 Score 0.7166581398148149

Physicists recreate black hole energy extraction in the lab

Researchers have recreated the physics of extracting energy from a spinning black hole using a stationary device that produces synthetic ultrafast rotation. The achievement transforms a long-standing theoretical idea into a practical experiment and could inspi

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 12 Score 0.7162757324074074

Deep-sea life has a secret food source scientists never expected

Scientists discovered that extreme deep-sea pressure squeezes valuable nutrients out of sinking organic particles, providing an unexpected food source for ocean microbes. The finding could rewrite our understanding of both deep-ocean ecosystems and how carbon

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SecurityWeek Jul 13 Score 0.7119927222222221

Centers Laboratory Data Breach Affects 540,000 Individuals

The WorldLeaks extortion group claimed to have stolen 720 GB of data from the healthcare testing and laboratory services provider. The post Centers Laboratory Data Breach Affects 540,000 Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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MIT Technology Review Jul 9 Score 0.6848189777777778

Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts

The AI firm Anthropic has developed a technique that has given it the clearest glimpse yet at what’s really going on inside large language models as they answer questions or carry out tasks. What they found ranges from the mundane to the unnerving. Researchers

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Phys.org Jul 13 Score 0.6747517199074075

Heat wave smashes records across central US

A record-breaking heat wave baked the central United States on Sunday, smashing temperature records from the northern Plains to the Rocky Mountain region.

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Techmeme Jul 13 Score 0.6743341268518519

Docs: Uber lobbied for a "phased transition" to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights (Aarian Marshall/Wired)

Aarian Marshall / Wired : Docs: Uber lobbied for a “phased transition” to AVs, giving it an edge over self-driving developers; Uber says AV industry proposals overlook drivers' rights   —  In at least two places, Uber has pushed a p

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Techmeme Jul 13 Score 0.6738230157407408

Eating disorder therapists say patients are increasingly using AI chatbots for advice, while AI also appears to be directing more patients to helplines (Julie Jargon/Wall Street Journal)

Julie Jargon / Wall Street Journal : Eating disorder therapists say patients are increasingly using AI chatbots for advice, while AI also appears to be directing more patients to helplines   —  Even a chatbot trained on nutrition and fitness re

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MIT Technology Review Jul 9 Score 0.6711393481481482

The Download: a nuclear landmark, and China eyes Nvidia chips

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. Four nuclear reactors hit a big milestone in the US —Casey Crownhart I was really looking forward to July 4, and not just

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Hacker News Jul 13 Score 0.6710891518518519

Backtrack-Free Cursive

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 9 Score 0.670861275

Schneider Electric Easergy MiCOM Px40 Series

View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its Easergy MiCOM Px40 Series products. The [Easergy MiCOM Px40](https://www.se.com/ww/en/product-subcategory/4725-easergy-micom-px40-series/?filter=business-6-medium-voltage-distribution-and-

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 9 Score 0.670861275

OpenPLC v3

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to write arbitrary files to the filesystem and escalate this into arbitrary native code execution through the normal OpenPLC program compilation process, pote

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 9 Score 0.670861275

Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow attackers to overwrite critical files, forge or inject malicious log data, gain unauthorized account access, trigger denial‑of‑service conditions, truncate or alter logging informat

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Techmeme Jul 13 Score 0.6701674601851852

A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal : A look at ADI Predictstreet's troubled launch, marked by tiny trading volumes, withdrawal bugs, and other issues, as it tried to challenge Kalshi and Polymarket   —  ADI Predictstreet bungled a World Cup ticket giveaway, u

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Hackaday Jul 13 Score 0.6692009421296297

CGI Motion Capture with only a Camera

Computer-generated imagery (CGI) has largely replaced physical models in major film productions these days, but the transition didn't exactly happen overnight. For a time there was an effort to blend …read more

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Schneier on Security Jul 7 Score 0.6637409893518518

Google Is Suing Chinese Scammers Who Are Using Gemini

Not sure this will have any effect, but I support the effort: According to Google's legal filing, Outsider Enterprise operates through Telegram. The group offers phishing-as-a-service to individuals who may not be technically savvy enough to set up fraudulent

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Phys.org Jul 12 Score 0.659195238425926

Trees for hotter cities: New approach can bolster community input in meeting targets

Efforts to plant more trees in cities could be boosted thanks to a new tool for planners and community groups, published by an international group of researchers. Residents, policymakers and tree officers in Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Edinburgh, York and Camden w

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Hacker News Jul 12 Score 0.6548359111111112

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Risky Bulletin Jul 10 Score 0.6215152199074074

Risky Bulletin: NSA Tailored Access Operations is back

The NSA’s Tailored Access Operations team is back, India bans an app used to hack e-rickshaws, Accenture has another data breach, and a leak exposes a suspected Chinese cyber contractor. The Risky Bulletin newsletter and podcast will be on an editorial break u

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Risky Bulletin Jul 10 Score 0.6207166087962963

Sponsored: Why Sublime doesn’t toss AI at every email

In this Risky Business sponsored interview, Tom Uren chats with Sublime Security Product Manager AJ Williams about how the company targets its AI use. Rather than throwing its AI agents at everything, Sublime gives them the time-consuming email security tasks

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GitHub Blog Jul 9 Score 0.6033509328703703

How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

GitHub had over 14,000 repositories. Fewer than half had clear ownership. Here's how we gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed. The post How GitHub gave

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MIT News — AI Jul 9 Score 0.6022501888888889

Tiny robot boats build floating structures

MIT researchers developed FloatForm, a swarm of small aquatic robots that snap together like ants forming a raft, assembling into reconfigurable structures on the water.

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CNCF Blog Jul 9 Score 0.5729457810185185

Navigating the ingress-NGINX retirement

1. The Post-March 2026 landscape ⚠ The CatalystAcknowledge the March 2026 retirement of the Kubernetes SIG Network ingress-nginx controller. Staying on this controller introduces severe operational risks, including unpatched CVEs and a complete halt of feature

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Towards Data Science Jul 12 Score 0.5708612129629631

RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each

Two techniques, two different problems, and why the question is not really "which one wins" The post RAG vs Fine-Tuning Explained: What They Actually Do and When to Use Each appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Jul 12 Score 0.5675278796296297

How to Orchestrate 100+ Agents With Claude Code

Run 100+ agents in parallel The post How to Orchestrate 100+ Agents With Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 9 Score 0.5658591726851852

Safely run AI-generated code in Cloud Run sandboxes

Here’s a question we hear often at Google Cloud: How do you safely run AI-generated code or untrusted binaries without putting your host application, data, and cloud credentials at risk? In other words, how do you give AI-written programs a safe space to run —

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