Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the software giant fixed in its record-smashing Patch Tuesday release last mont
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Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the default and requires no configuration. — GitHub Changelog , embracing dependency co
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Simon Willison's WeblogJul 14Score 0.8851255328703703
simonw/pedalican Clearly I wasn't paying attention when these were first announced back in May, but today I accidentally activated a "pet" in Codex Desktop - a little animated robot, reminiscent of Clippy - and then learned you can create your own. So I did, a
lobste.rs is now running on SQLite Community site Lobsters has been planning a migration away from MariaDB since August 2018 - originally targeting PostgreSQL, but last year they decided to investigate SQLite instead. This weekend they completed the migration,
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Simon Willison's WeblogJul 14Score 0.877754236574074
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely
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Simon Willison's WeblogJul 14Score 0.875179236574074
Release: datasette 1.0a37 A minor release. Performance and documentation improvements to the permissions system, plus I reverted a cosmetic API change which caused almost every existing plugin test suite to break. Tags: datasette
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Schneier on SecurityJul 14Score 0.8744331361111111
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking (virtually) at the Policy-Relevant Privacy Research Workshop in Calgary, Canada, on Monday, July 20, 2026. I’m speaking at Boston Leadership Exchange in Boston, Massachusetts, USA,
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Schneier on SecurityJul 14Score 0.8661562842592592
SpaceX's latest residential dish - the Starlink V5 - is now available in "select areas." It's notably smaller and lighter than the V4 dish with improved power efficiency. It'll be available in more places as SpaceX ramps up production to meet global demand. Th
In January, Robson Henry died at the age of 66. Chances are, you have never heard of Henry. He was not famous, rich, or powerful. In many ways, Henry was no different from the thousands of young men and women who, at the age of 18, chose to serve by enlisting
Epic Games and Google have just jointly withdrawn their attempt to retroactively settle the lawsuit that's changing how Android app stores work in the United States - and that means Google will be forced to carry rival app stores inside of its own. In fact, Go
The last update to the DShield SIEM [4] was in Sep 2025 which contained some minor tweaks. This update currently is using ELK stack version 8.19.15, contains some additional dashboards and new logs.
While most fitness trackers are losing the screens to keep the price low, the CMF by Nothing Watch 3 Pro is a bit different. The budget-friendly smartwatch with a 1.43-inch OLED display is even cheaper than usual at Amazon, where it costs $69 in every color (t
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Ars Technica — Tech LabJul 14Score 0.809876813888889
Microsoft just released a long list of improvements for Windows 11 as part of its bigger patch Tuesdays, patching at least 570 security holes, almost triple the number fixed in last month's record-breaking release, according to Krebs on Security. It also inclu
OpenAI's first device is set to be a smart speaker that lets you talk with ChatGPT, according to a report from Bloomberg. The device apparently won't have a screen, but will use a camera and additional sensors to "understand" your environment. The report comes
SonicWall warns that threat actors have been exploiting two SMA1000 vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, in zero-day attacks and urges customers to install the newly released security updates. [...]
The Spanish Police dismantled a cybercrime and money-laundering organization that made €140 million ($160 million) from investment fraud and business email compromise (BEC) attacks. [...]
A threat actor has published hundreds of fake GitHub repositories impersonating legitimate software and security projects to distribute infostealer malware. [...]
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SANS Internet Storm CenterJul 14Score 0.8047150421296297
This patch Tuesday includes a staggering&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;622 vulnerabilities, not including another 427 vulnerabilities in Chromium, affecting Microsoft&#;x26;#;39;s E
Microsoft has released the Windows 10 KB5099539 extended security update, which includes the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates for 570 vulnerabilities, along with additional security fixes. [...]
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The Guardian — WorldJul 14Score 0.8032919953703704
One social media user described the opening of its first outlet in Monterrey as ‘like the dog teaching a duck to fly’ A US chain’s plan to sell its version of Mexican food to Mexicans with a first branch south of the border has prompted bemusement, skepticism
Today is Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes security updates for a record-breaking 570 flaws, including two zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in attacks and one publicly disclosed. [...]
On July 7-8, NATO held its 36th official summit in Ankara, Turkey. There were several consequential topics to discuss at this year's meeting, chief among them the wars in Ukraine and Iran and the uncertain future of European defense and security. We asked five
Aid worker flown to Berlin as Trump administration bars Americans from traveling to US on commercial flights A US national who contracted Ebola in the Democratic Republic of the Congo has arrived in Germany for treatment, the health ministry in Berlin said on
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MIT Technology ReviewJul 14Score 0.7929102027777778
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. What Anthropic’s latest AI discovery does—and doesn’t—show —James O'Donnell When Anthropic announced last week that it had
View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the products versions listed as affected in the advisory, where an incorrect version of Online Builder (ONB) was included in the media. An update is available that resolves the vulnerability, see details i
View CSAF Summary ABB is aware of public reports of a vulnerability CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a publicly reported vulnerability. CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) is a L
CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-15409 SonicWall SMA1000 Appliances Server-Side Request Forgery Vulnerability CVE-2026-15410 SonicWall SMA1000 Appl
CISA is aware of active exploitation of vulnerabilities CVE-2026-32201 , CVE-2026-45659 , and CVE-2026-56164 , enabling cyber threat actors to gain unauthorized access to on-premises SharePoint Server instances. These vulnerabilities affect all supported on-pr
View CSAF Summary ABB became aware of vulnerability in the products versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves the reported vulnerabilities. An attacker who successfully exploited any of these vulnerabilities could potent
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MIT Technology ReviewJul 14Score 0.7859657583333334
The machine that could change the world will be housed in a room that looks like a data center crossed with an ice cream factory. Inside will be some 100 stainless-steel cabinets, each about six feet tall and connected to a supply of liquid helium that keeps t
SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to achieve arbitrary command execution. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-154
Written by Alex Innanen, Atmospheric Scientist at York University, Toronto Earth planning date: Friday, July 10, 2026 Curiosity had a successful long weekend and came into this week ready to explore some more. We’ve been moving fairly rapidly through different
The device is weirdly described as involving "mechanical elements that can move on their own" and the Bloomberg report includes the detail that the device is designed to "feel like a companion and become a physical manifestation of OpenAI’s ChatGPT."
The Google Cloud Workbench Notebooks extension for VS Code is a new tool that enables developers to connect their local IDE directly to managed Jupyter notebook environments on Google Cloud. By Sergio De Simone
The Republic of Serbia will sign the Artemis Accords at 5 p.m. EDT Thursday, July 16, during a ceremony at NASA Headquarters in Washington. NASA Deputy Administrator Matt Anderson will host Serbia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Marko Đurić and U.S. State Depart
Through research and entrepreneurship, Professor Devavrat Shah is helping to design methods that can handle constant decision-making using limited computational resources.
NASA astronaut Anil Menon, along with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina, arrived safely at the International Space Station Tuesday, bringing the orbiting laboratory’s crew to 10 for about the next two weeks. The trio launched aboard the Soyuz M
Blue and white stars shine brilliantly against a crimson background of glowing gas in this July 3, 2026, image of stellar nursery LH 95 from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. LH 95 is a region in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy that orbits th
Kubernetes ships with built-in awareness of CPU and memory, but most real-world scaling decisions depend on signals that live entirely outside that narrow window: how many messages are waiting in a queue, how long the last batch job took, how many active WebSo
Cutting back on our use of energy and materials so that we live within Earth’s means can seem like an insurmountable challenge. But after a decade grappling with these problems, a historic Portuguese city is beginning to walk this tightrope
Marine bristle worms have jaws made from a mix of proteins and metal ions that may constitute a whole new kind of material, with possible applications in engineering
In some parts of the world, the probability of rain rises with every day it doesn’t rain, and communities in these places are more likely to carry out rain-making rituals
Google and industry partners announced Agentic Resource Discovery (ARD) Specification, an open standard for publishing, discovering, and verifying AI tools, APIs, and agents. ARD introduces a discovery layer built on catalogs and registries, enabling dynamic c
Meta recently open-sourced Brain2Qwerty v2, a noninvasive Brain–Computer Interface (BCI) that can decode sentences from thoughts using electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG) signals from the brain. In evaluations, the system achieved a wo
LLMs generate code incredibly fast, but to ensure they generate exactly what is intended, they need clear boundaries. Abstractions and Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) provide a strong harness that guides LLMs right from the start. Unmesh Joshi describes how t
Luca Mezzalira shares proven learnings from guiding hundreds of teams through the migration from monolithic web applications to distributed frontend architectures. He explains the core architectural difference between components and micro-frontends, outlines a
The Linkerd community has announced the release of Linkerd 2.20, introducing a series of performance, observability, and traffic management enhancements that further strengthen the CNCF-graduated service mesh's position as a lightweight alternative for Kuberne
Powerful artificial intelligence models built by Chinese companies have gone from inducing widespread panic to being met with a shrug of the shoulders – what changed?
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are trying to diversify their AI supply chains, but geopolitical constraints and Nvidia's technological lead leave them with few viable alternatives.
When considering what makes up a human body, a physicist drills down beyond the atomic level. Columnist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explores the not-exactly-real particles that allow the stuff we’re made of to hang together
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ScienceDaily — Top ScienceJul 14Score 0.7139571564814815
Researchers found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, slowed biological aging markers in adults with HIV, marking the first clinical evidence that the drug may influence human aging. Although the findings are encouraging, scientists
The countdown is officially on. In just a few weeks, the cloud-native ecosystem meets in Yokohama for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Japan 2026. Taking place on Tuesday, July 28 from 09:00 – 12:30, KeycloakCon Japan brings together...
The developing brains of boys and girls light up differently when shown a face The post Can a Preteen’s Reaction to a Face Predict Their Future Social Lives? appeared first on Nautilus .
For years, we’ve built with a clear priority: putting the practical needs of the enterprise first. Long before generative AI dominated the headlines, we were focused on building the global infrastructure, security frameworks, and data platforms that power the
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Ars Technica — ScienceJul 14Score 0.6893538157407406
Running frontier AI in production is demanding — accelerators to manage, latency to hold steady across continents, regulated data to keep in-region, and long-context requests to serve reliably. Claude on Google Cloud is built for exactly this. Like Monet and w
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The Register — SoftwareJul 14Score 0.6851799921296295
James O'Donnell / MIT Technology Review : A profile of PsiQuantum, which raised $1B in 2025, is building a quantum computer with photonic chips made by GlobalFoundries and is closely monitored by DARPA — The company has drawn governments, a
Bloomberg : As China's rules for humanlike AI interaction take effect, many users are bemoaning the loss of the virtual companions they had created on Chinese AI platforms — For days, 19-year old student Yan Yongqi has been consumed by grief
The Information : Sources: DeepSeek's annualized revenue recently reached $400M to $500M as it seeks to raise ~$7.4B at a ~$74B valuation, up from ~$50B after raising ~$7B in May — Strong revenue growth at DeepSeek is empowering the Chinese