The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a postmortem on a data leak in which a contractor published dozens of internal CISA credentials -- including AWS Govcloud keys -- in a public GitHub repository for almost six months before
TIL: Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way I finally found a cache-friendly recipe for using uvx tool-name in GitHub Actions workflows that I like. The trick is setting a UV_EXCLUDE_NEWER: "2026-07-12" environment variable at the start of the wor
DOOMQL Peter Gostev built this using GPT-5.6 Sol. This is a lot of fun: DOOMQL started with a deliberately unreasonable question: what if SQLite were the game engine, not merely the place where a game stores data? The result is a small, original Doom-like game
datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub Out of curiosity I decided to see if I could find a useful illustration of the impact of coding agents and Opus 4.5 class models on my own output. The best I've found so far is this GitHub chart of frequency of code cha
The White House vows to charge all commercial ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Kyiv’s drone offensive against Russian oil facilities has found a sixth gear.
It was a milestone for Beijing’s nuclear forces—but not necessarily the provocation many analysts have made it out to be.
New allies bring powerful assets—whatever Donald Trump thinks.
An invisible difference in 10% of humans poses deep mysteries in several fields at once. The post Why Am I Left-Handed? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Google and AIM launched ATL Saathi, a Gemini-powered AI tool empowering Indian educators in robotics labs.
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . Opposition to AI data centers has emerged as a primary theme in US politics, one that—surprisingly—doesn't fall along party lines. We applaud people coming tog
Brazil’s president is democratic, successful, and globally respected.
Nineteen weeks ago, Iran faced the combined might of the most powerful country in the world and the most advanced military in the Middle East. Today, it is dictating the terms of the peace.When the memorandum of understanding was signed last month, President D
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
Private companies are making Beijing look good in the developing world.
A new use for Russia’s old playbook in Ukraine.
Survivors and first reporters reported doors being locked and the lack of signage marking emergency exits.
Other US fast food brands have struggled to succeed in the countries their dishes originated.
Police hope the images could jog memories that will help them find the body of Peter Falconio.
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
It comes less than a week after an undocumented migrant was fatally shot in Houston by an immigration agent.
How Deutsche Telekom is becoming an AI-native telco with OpenAI-transforming customer service, employee workflows, network operations, and the future of voice.
Claudia Sheinbaum says Mexicans ‘outraged’ over killing last week of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo by agents in Houston Claudia Sheinbaum announced on Monday that Mexico would be filing criminal complaints in the US for the deaths of more than a dozen Mexican migrant
Microsoft is testing a cleaner version of the Windows 11 search menu that strips it of recommended content and ads. In a blog post on Monday, Microsoft announced that it's rolling out the decluttered Search Box to Windows Insiders in the Experimental channel a
OnePlus and its parent company, Oppo, plan to announce in the coming days that OnePlus brand will be leaving the US and European markets, according to a machine translation of a WinFuture report. Should the exit actually happen, it will mark a conclusion to mo
Smartphones these days have incredible cameras that are capable of taking smooth, sharp video, but the microphones are often lacking, to say the least. A wireless lavalier microphone can dramatically improve the audio quality of your videos, whether you’re the
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
Noise-canceling earbuds are great for flights and focusing, but they're not always ideal for outdoor workouts. The last-gen Shokz OpenRun Pro's open-ear design lets you enjoy music while staying aware of approaching cars, cyclists, and other potential hazards,
This year's Google Pixel 11 lineup might come in a bunch of funky colors. A series of now-deleted Amazon listings spotted by 9to5Google show what appear to be placeholders for Google's upcoming Pixel 11 in hot pink Fuchsia (Hibiscus), vibrant green Moss (Pista
Japan's largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, announced that its systems were compromised in a cyberattack, forcing the company to shut down part of its infrastructure. [...]
The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm package that has been downloaded almost 1,500 times. [...]
A new macOS information-stealing malware called CrashStealer pretends to be Apple's crash-reporting tool to steal credentials, keychain data, and crypto wallets. [...]
Welcome to The Ukraine Compass, a weekly digest of Ukrainian commentary and analysis from across the political spectrum only for War on the Rocks members. Each Monday, we bring you a curated selection of articles from Ukrainian media offering in
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Anthropic—currently the world’s most valuable AI company, with a nearly $1 trillion valuation—has a reputation for publish
Learn how to use ChatGPT, start your first conversation, and discover simple ways to write, brainstorm, and solve problems with AI.
Cryptographic code supports vital protections in modern computing systems. Learn how a new method helps verify code as developers write it while preserving speed and adaptability as it gets implemented and evolves. The post Verifying Rust cryptography in SymCr
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are exploiting vulnerabilities in the iCagenda and Balbooa Forms extensions for Joomla to achieve remote code execution through arbitrary file uploads. [...]
"Context bombing" tricks hacking agents into shutting down before they can do harm.
German discount supermarket chain Lidl notified customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that attackers stole their personal information in a breach at a service provider. [...]
Exclusive: Three men killed in incidents over past year allegedly involving G4S guards, who replaced in-house team after previous deaths Bereaved families and politicians have raised alarm about continued killings on Del Monte’s pineapple farm in Kenya despite
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. Sperm donors need limits, says a European fertility group Ties van der Meer doesn’t know how many siblings he has. The 47-
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2008-4128 Cisco IOS Cross-Site Request Forgery Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for ma
Russian Government-Sponsored Activity Targets Poorly Configured and Vulnerable Devices Across Critical Sectors Executive summary Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Center 16 cyber actors continue to exploit poorly configured and vulnerable networking devic
In a rare combined cybersecurity/squid post, a twenty-nine-year-old squid proxy bug can leak HTTP requests. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Blog moderation policy.
Researchers thought that what enabled complex fluids to break apart was their elasticity. But a crack in a nonelastic simple fluid has them questioning that idea. The post We Know Simple Fluids Can Flow. Turns Out, Some Can Fracture. first appeared on Quanta M
A fossilized Edmontosaurus skull with a Tyrannosaurus tooth still embedded in its face has given scientists rare evidence of a dramatic predator-prey encounter. The discovery suggests the giant carnivore delivered an incredibly powerful face-to-face bite, offe
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw in the platform. The way in has been the trust the organization had al
NASA's Perseverance rover has reached an impressive new milestone on Mars, completing the equivalent of a full marathon by driving 26.2 miles (42.195 kilometers) across the Red Planet. It accomplished the feat in just five years and four months, reaching
In the near future, AI -powered surveillance systems will be able to track everything we do in public, and much of what we do in private. And if we do something wrong—shoplift, litter, jaywalk, you name it—the system will notice, retain it, tie it
NASA is ramping up its lunar ambitions by awarding nearly $600 million for four commercial Moon landings planned for late 2028. Each mission will carry the same trio of science instruments to improve lunar navigation, study dangerous dust kicked up during land
Sediment eroded from ice-capped mountains splays out across a broad river valley on Russia’s Severny Island.
They're rolling up their sleeves again, seemingly out of fear of missing AI's defining moment and, presumably, the irresistible allure of making even more money -- potentially a lot more.
a quiet day lets us fact check some numbers against the sound of silence of Claude Code reporting...
This flight will put Starship under higher pressure and test out new Starlink satellites in orbit.
Researchers have discovered that the retina uses an unexpected communication network that lets separate visual pathways cooperate instead of working alone. A newly identified "commander" cell appears to coordinate this system, helping the eye detect faint deta
Written by Deborah Padgett, MSL Operations Product Ground System Task Lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory Earth planning date: Thursday, July 2, 2026 Curiosity spent the week leading up to the Fourth of July holiday approaching a geologic boundary between
Uber Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal walks TechCrunch through the company's financial-services ambitions, its increasingly complicated relationship with Waymo, its new AV Labs data operation, and how AI is starting to show up in ways riders and drivers wil
200 economists and AI leaders say something big is happening. What should we do about it? Plus: Apple sues OpenAI
With the cash, the company aims to expand its world model offering and reach customers across geographies.
The social media site says it will amplify posts made by users' mutual followers' to give the feed more of a communal feel.
The company is raising at least $75 million, led by Robot Ventures, with significant participation from USV and other prominent investors.
Hieroglyphs on the wall of a Maya building record calculations concerning the orbits of Earth, Mars and Venus, as well as the name of a mathematician who wrote the text around 1200 years ago
The man is said to be doing well in a Frankfurt hospital.
No one wants to get into an uncomfortable aircraft. NASA research could help the emerging industry of air taxis —small, vertical-takeoff-and-landing aircraft meant for short trips — understand the relationship between comfort and willingness to fly. That’s whe
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss just how important exploits are for cyber operations using data published in a new paper authored by two members of Ukraine’s cyber security agency. This episode is also available on YouTube .
In a first, the UK and the EU jointly impose sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.
Election officials are facing an impossible choice: follow federal directives they don’t trust, or risk becoming targets of a criminal investigation. The post States are building their own election defense networks as federal support evaporates appeared first
Ukraine’s drone blitz halted Russia’s Sea of Azov shipping in under a week.
Kubernetes has quietly become the default platform for AI and machine learning. Whether you run notebook servers for data scientists, schedule distributed training jobs, tune hyperparameters, or orchestrate multi-step ML pipelines, those workloads increasingly
There's a separate $1,750 rebate for used EVs, but both rebates have a price cap.
Students from the MIT Cybersecurity Clinic help local governments and other vulnerable organizations defend against digital threats.
“SceneSmith” system uses collaborative AI agents to create realistic 3D environments of places like kitchens, hotels, and living rooms, where robots can simulate everyday chores.
My keynote at ICML 2026
In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity — and its threat.
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On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between
1. Before you start: know what is changing Kubernetes Dashboard and Headlamp both show what is running in a cluster, but they work differently. When Headlamp runs on the desktop, it uses your existing kubeconfig to connect to one or more clusters and can be ex
Artistic representations of ancient humans often show large men with bulging muscles – but our ancestors were actually smaller than us, in both height and body mass. Columnist Michael Marshall reveals surprising details about the short kings of prehistory
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AWS Builder Center turned one year old last week. Launched on July 9, 2025, the platform has grown from a community hub with Wishlist voting, community profiles, and a toolbox into a full ecosystem with sandbox environments, workshops, Spaces, and a Builders’
Some more of my notes from Thoughtworks Future of Software Development Retreat . When we had our first retreat in Utah early this year, nobody had heard of Harness Engineering . This time we had a whole session on it. When comes to the guide side of harnesses,
NASA astronaut Anil Menon poses in a spacesuit for a portrait at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on Jan. 8, 2026. Menon will launch aboard the Roscosmos Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft to the International Space Station on Tuesday, July 14, accompanied by
Researchers have long suspected early life may have been helped by sugars brought to Earth by asteroids – now a sugar found in raspberries has been spotted in a cosmic cloud nearly 27 light years away
Sustained heat stress is bad for our health and can be deadly. But we’re discovering that heat therapies like sauna, when used in the right way, have surprisingly wide-reaching benefits for health
A panel on data ownership challenged the definition of "ownership," arguing it must extend beyond simple account control to include structural independence, interoperability, and community governance. Speakers like Zenna Fiscella, Paul Frazee, Boris Mann, and
DoorDash details the architecture behind Ask DoorDash, its AI-powered conversational shopping assistant, combining LLMs, specialized AI agents, MCP-based tooling, and an intelligence layer with persistent consumer memory and live backend data. Early results sh
Astronomers using archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
This week's Java roundup for July 6th, 2026, features news highlighting: the GA release of TornadoVM 5.0; point releases of JHipster, Keycloak and Google ADK; maintenance releases of GraalVM Native Build Tools and Micronaut; the OmniFish Build of Payara and in
Davide de Paolis discusses the realities of rolling out cloud infrastructure compliance without fracturing developer relations. Drawing from a real-world platform team reboot at Sevdesk, he explains how to implement "minimum viable governance" on AWS, utilize
When a series of regional outages forced a rethink of a multi-region AWS API, the team discovered that an obstacle to global failover was hiding in plain sight: a pre-flight discovery call baked into every client session years earlier as the only available opt
If Meta complies or modifies its app for India, it risks creating a “slippery slope” that emboldens governments worldwide to demand changes to encrypted messaging apps.
Apple is suing AI for stealing trade secrets; there is one guilty employee, but this mostly feels like lashing out.
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This past Saturday, @pushcx and I deployed the SQLite pull request to production. We were waiting till this morning to see how it would react to the Monday traffic spike before making this post. Needless to say, SQLite seems to have passed with flying colors:
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In 2026, the public sector is no longer defending a traditional perimeter. Instead, they are defending a complex web of interconnected trust relationships against adversaries that now operate at machine speed. We recently published the 2026 Public Sector Threa
The figure that seems to have finished the programme off is not a cost. It is a ratio: more than 100,000 companies in the American defence supply chain needing an independent cybersecurity audit, against roughly 100 accredited assessors licensed to carry one o
Dan Goodin / Ars Technica : Researchers detail “context bombing”, where defenders use prompt injections to trigger guardrails of attackers' LLMs, cutting AI hacking success rates by ~90% — Prompt injections, the malicious command
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. Anthropic found a hidden space where Claude puzzles over concepts The AI firm Anthropic has got the clearest glimpse yet a
Of all the debates raging about the potential downsides of AI, there is one worry causing the most hand-wringing among AI enthusiasts in Silicon Valley — that the giant AI labs that sell proprietary models are somehow acting like Trojan horses.
a quiet day after a week of nonstop model releases
