Safety and alignment in an era of long-horizon models
OpenAI shares lessons from deploying long-running AI models, highlighting new safety risks, observed failures, and improved safeguards through iterative deployment.
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Trump Needs to Defy History to End the Iran War
U.S. presidents are virtually never able to end the stalemated wars they start.
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Armenian Democracy Faces a Threat From Within
A predatory opposition, fueled by external support, is gaining influence within the state.
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State Department Frames Cuba as Major Threat via Left-Wing Groups
The report comes amid growing U.S. efforts to overturn Cuba’s government.
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Houthis Declare a Naval Blockade on Saudi Arabia
The move could increase pressure on already-strained global energy markets.
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Reverse-engineering is cheap now
I keep hearing anecdotes from people who used coding agents to reverse-engineer and automate devices in their homes. I think this is an interesting illustration of the impact of the reduced cost of writing code. Prior to agents, it was entirely possible to rev
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The Slow Death of the Global Commons
Hormuz is a sign of worse things to come.
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models? Interesting proposal from Ben Thompson that both addresses the hypocrisy of labs outlawing distillation against their models despite training on unlicensed data, and could help US open models compete more effectively with their
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The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home
Extremophiles that thrive in the most unforgiving environments aren’t just biological curiosities. Understanding their resilience has many implications for us. The post The Organisms That Make Earth’s Harshest Places Home first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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On Flock License Plate Tracking Cameras
A recent story of a writer who was mistakenly identified, tracked, and arrested using data from Flock cameras has gone viral. The New Jersey plates that were allegedly stolen from the LA dealer were 34 03 DTM , not 34 10 DTM . But when the police report was cr
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Learning from the ‘Voyage of the Damned’: The Making of a Russian Naval Disaster
Editorial Note: The dates cited in Eugene Politovsky's account are from the old Russian Orthodox calendar, which is 13 days behind that of the (Gregorian) calendar system used in this article.A recent War on the Rocks article on the failure of the Spanish Rese
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Trump slaps 50% tariffs on Canada and Carney vows to 'intensify' trade talks
The duties mark a major escalation in trade tensions between the North American neighbours.
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US launches fresh strikes on Iran, as Trump warns of retaliation for deaths of soldiers
The US says the attacks were aimed at degrading Iran's capabilities to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
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A scorecard for the AI age
Sarah Friar, CFO of OpenAI, introduces a practical AI scorecard to measure ROI through useful work, cost per successful task, dependability, and return on compute.
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The Gulf’s China Problem
Beijing wants trade but not responsibility.
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The Autocrat’s Worst Enemy
Despots hate cities and the mayors who run them.
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Donald Trump to impose 50% tariff on most Canadian goods, White House says
Turmoil likely as Trump officials say Canada unfairly discriminated against US autos, alcohol and dairy products Donald Trump is imposing 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods in response to the country retaliating against previous US tariffs, the White House ann
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At least 27 dead and 83 missing after passenger ferry capsizes off Guyana
An investigation into the tragedy has been launched, the island's prime minister says, adding he hopes more will be found alive.
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ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, July 21st, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10016, (Tue, Jul 21st)
Latest item from SANS Internet Storm Center.
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‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba
New report denounces Havana and claims ‘campaign of subversion’ has infiltrated highest levels of US government As part of the Trump administration’s continuing attack on left-leaning groups, the US state department has listed several activists and organizatio
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Estée Lauder discloses data breach via Oracle E-Business flaw
Cosmetics giant Estée Lauder is notifying customers of a data breach after hackers exploited a flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite that the company used for human resources (HR) operations. [...]
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SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days to push custom malware
Two recently disclosed SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities were exploited in zero-day attacks for weeks, allowing threat actors to install custom malware on vulnerable VPN appliances. [...]
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Hackers steal $23.7 million in crypto from Ostium in off-chain attack
The Ostium trading platform announced that an attacker stole $23.75 million from its liquidity provider vault last week, after compromising off-chain infrastructure used to feed prices into the protocol. [...]
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Here are the 30,000 songs Sony is suing Udio's AI music generator over
Sony Music Entertainment has filed another lawsuit against Udio, accusing the AI music generator of infringing the copyright of more than 30,000 of its songs, ranging from Elvis Presley's Hound Dog to Beyoncé's Say My Name, and Harry Styles' As It Was. Th
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The FCC is planning to retroactively ban disguised DJI gadgets
Last October, we told you how the FCC had given itself the power to retroactively ban gadgets that have already received its approval to be imported and sold in the United States. Now, the FCC's getting ready to wield that power for the first time, by cracking
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The Odyssey turned me into an IMAX believer
After seeing Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey for the first time early last week, I came away impressed, but somewhat conflicted about two of the film's more fantastical set pieces. While those scenes were beautifully crafted and tremendously acted, there was s
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Nicaragua’s president says country will not hold any more elections
Daniel Ortega, the 80-year-old authoritarian leader, says move will ‘build a wall’ against the opposition Nicaragua’s long-serving president, Daniel Ortega, has said the country will hold no further elections to prevent the opposition from coming to power. The
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Yemen's Houthis announce 'maritime embargo' on Saudi Arabia
The Houthis say the embargo begins immediately and is a response to a Saudi blockade of ports and airports in Yemen.
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Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Antigravity hit by sandbox escapes
Researchers escaped the sandboxes in Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI and Antigravity by having the AI agent write files that trusted host tools later run. Multiple CVEs, patches, and Google downgrading two Antigravity findings. [...]
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JadePuffer agentic attacks now target AI model data with ransomware
The JadePuffer autonomous AI agent has upgraded with custom malware called EncForge that focuses on encrypting AI assets, such as training datasets, vector databases, and model checkpoints. [...]
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Notorious drug cartel leader Ismael Zambada sentenced to life in US prison
Known as "El Mayo", the co-founder the Sinaloa Cartel was also ordered to pay $15bn after he admitted to sending vast amounts of drugs to the US.
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The Galaxy Card Is Samsung’s Answer to the Apple Card
Directly added to your Samsung Wallet account, it’s yet another cash-back credit card, this time tailored for Samsung stans.
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SpaceX in your index fund, explained
Index funds are touted as one of the safest ways to invest. Rather than picking and choosing individual stocks, index funds let you bet on the market as a whole. So what happens when a company like SpaceX - a giant gamble, and, in my opinion, terribly overpric
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The FDA Says It Didn't Apologize to Supplier Linked to Diarrhea Outbreak, Actually
The agency stressed that the July 17 voluntary recall from Taylor Farms still stands. The supplier has been linked to the ongoing cyclospora outbreak.
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Get Borderlands 3, Risk of Rain 2 and 13 other great PC games for $15
The aptly-named “2K Megahits 2026 Bundle” from Humble includes 15 Steam games for $15. It’s a smattering of the publisher 2K’s biggest games of the 2010s, including BioShock Infinite, Risk of Rain 2, Borderlands 3, and XCOM: Enemy Unknown. The bundle will be a
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Fans Flocked to World Cup Host Cities—Causing 80 Percent of the Tournament’s Emissions
The latest estimates reveal that the majority of greenhouse gas emissions from large-scale events such as the FIFA World Cup stem from spectators traveling to host cities.
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Even Mild Sleep Deprivation May Lead to Weight Gain
A recent study suggests that not getting enough sleep increases the risk of weight gain, and thus of conditions like heart disease and type 2 diabetes.
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WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th)
Last week, Searchlight Cyber released details about a vulnerability they are calling "wp2shell". The vulnerability was initially announced without a CVE number. But now has been assigned CVE-2026-63030. Many WordPress plugin vulnerabilities are never assigned
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China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Over the weekend, several current and former advisors to President Donald Trump on AI publicly lobbed insults at the
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Introducing Cosmos 3 Edge
Latest item from HuggingFace Blog.
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Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
The global implications on the AI ecosystem.
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Pay up or not? Ransomware surge has victims facing tough choices.
Governments look at banning ransom payments in face of increasingly sophisticated threats.
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The Download: AI hiring biases, and weather data sabotage
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. AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé befo
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The 35 Best Board Games for Family Game Night
From monsters to kittens to strategy games, these sets will liven things up on nights when everyone is tired of screens.
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AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring
The next time you apply for a job, AI may screen your résumé before any human sees it. But there’s good reason to question whether AI will judge you fairly. Researchers already know that LLMs pick up human biases from their training data. New research suggests
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Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Washing Up on Cape Cod Beach
Lots of articles about this . 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.
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Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind
The biologist’s bold “energetic view of life” looks to the body’s strangest organelles as the link between cells, health, and mind and the foundation of our experience of being alive. The post Martin Picard’s Mitochondrial Theory of Mind first appeared on Quan
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Details of Alan Turing’s Voice Encryption System
Really interesting piece of cryptographic history : In November 2023, a large cache of his wartime papers—nicknamed the "Bayley papers"—was auctioned in London for almost half a million U.S. dollars. The previously unknown cache contains many sheet
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Why Maine’s Sandy Shorelines Turn Jagged
Differences in the underlying bedrock and how rivers distribute sediment make the coastlines west of Portland look unlike those northeast of the city.
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[AINews] not much happened today
a quiet day.
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Anthropic's landmark $1.5B copyright settlement is approved
The final approval settles one case, but it doesn't resolve the broader issue of using copyrighted works to train AI models.
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Colossal Biosciences reportedly in talks to raise new capital at $20B–$30B valuation
The de-extinction startup is looking to double or triple its previous valuation, according to the report.
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Trump's latest AI czar has already resigned
The director role for the Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has become a revolving door since David Sacks left his position as czar.
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DA: Cop covered bodycam to snap nude prisoners on his iPhone—but other cams caught him
Pennsylvania cop charged with oppression and obstruction.
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Firefighting drones in the works as wildfires plague US nearly year-round
California and XPRIZE competition tests whether drones can stop wildfires early.
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'WP2Shell' Opens Millions of WordPress Sites to Remote Takeover
Barely three days after disclosure, attackers are widely chaining together CVE-2026-60137 and CVE-2026-63030 to lob exploit attempts against one of the largest attack surfaces on the Internet.
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Google is working on a new AI chip designed to make Gemini more efficient
Alphabet, Google's parent company, is reportedly working on a new chip designed to make its Gemini models run much more efficiently.
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Judge halts Paramount's $111B purchase of Warner Bros. in win for US states
Judge grants restraining order, saying merger "likely to violate antitrust laws."
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AI's most important protocol is getting a little bit easier to use
Under the new system, the protocol will take a looser, "stateless" approach to session IDs on the server side, similar to how most ordinary websites already work.
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The Space Force is now seeking to buy up to $30 billion in rocket launches
The Trump administration is asking the Space Force to do a lot. This will require more launches.
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Remediating Vulnerabilities With LLMs: Inside Ivanti's Automation Push
Ivanti CSO Daniel Spicer says frontier models have shown surprising effectiveness in early stages; but cost and human-in-the-loop viability remain open questions.
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NASA Sets Briefings for SpaceX Crew-13 Mission to Space Station
NASA and its partners will discuss the upcoming crew rotation mission to the International Space Station during a pair of news conferences on Monday, Aug. 3, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mission leadership will provide an overview of NASA
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Between Two Nerds: What China gets wrong about Russia's cyber war in Ukraine
In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq discuss what mainland Chinese analysts think about Russia’s use of cyber operations in the war in Ukraine. This episode is also available on YouTube . Show notes Cyber Lessons from Russia's War in Ukr
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CISOs Feel the Heat Over AI Risk
Job pressures have increased as companies run headlong into AI adoption, causing 26% of top security executives to consider leaving their position.
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NASA, GE Aerospace Work Enables Hybrid-Electric Flight Demonstration
An aircraft powered by a megawatt-class hybrid-electric engine developed in collaboration with NASA and built by GE Aerospace, demonstrated flight of an innovation that can inform new generations of fuel-saving aircraft power systems. Mounted to a Saab 340B ai
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Java News Roundup: Value Objects, WildFly 41, TornadoVM, LangChain4j, Oracle AI Agent Studio
This week's Java roundup for July 13th, 2026, features news highlighting: a reintroduction of Value Objects (Preview); the GA release of WildFly 41; the July 2026 edition of Open Liberty 26.0.0.7; point releases of TornadoVM, Apache TomEE, Java Operator SDK an
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Attackers Combo Up Evasion Tactics for BEC Phishing
"The TFF Trap" uses fileless techniques and loaders with low detection rates to deploy various RATs and stealers, including Agent Tesla, Remcos, XWorm, and Best Private Logger.
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New NASA Earth Missions Gear Up to Start Science Flights
The first of six new airborne campaigns will hit the skies this summer.
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FakeGit Campaign Uses 7,600 GitHub Repositories to Spread SmartLoader Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered nearly 7,600 malicious GitHub repositories, out of which more than 800 pose as artificial intelligence (AI) skills or Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to deliver a malware family known as SmartLoader as part of an
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AWS Weekly Roundup: One-click Lambda setup prompt, OpenAI GPT-5.6 models on Bedrock, and more (July 20, 2026)
Last week, my team visited Seoul to meet AWS Korea User Group (AWSKRUG) leaders. AWSKRUG is the largest cloud developer community in Korea, with 20 meetup groups organized by topic and area that collectively host over 100 events each year, primarily in Seoul.
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Inhaling high-dose CO2 clears Alzheimer's proteins from the brain
Intermittingly inhaling a high dose of carbon dioxide seems to remove the proteins amyloid and tau, which are implicated in Alzheimer's disease, from the brain by boosting its glymphatic system
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$100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community
Celebrating $100 million contributed by the community to the people who build and sustain open source every day. The post $100 million for open source: A milestone built by the community appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
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From Hampton to Mars: How NASA Langley Helped Land on the Red Planet
Fifty years ago, NASA’s Viking 1 and 2 landers made the first successful landings on Mars, opening a new era in planetary exploration. Behind that achievement was a team at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, whose steady leadership and techni
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AI's solution to 87-year-old riddle takes mathematicians by surprise
Mathematicians have been trying to prove the Jacobian conjecture for nearly a century, but now the Claude Fable 5 AI has apparently found a counterexample that disproves it
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How to maximise the mental health benefits of your vacation
Don’t just hit the beach. Research is revealing how to have a holiday that leaves you mentally restored and refreshed – with long-lasting effect
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DoorDash Uses Envoy and Valkey for a 1.5M RPS Proxy Cache with 99.99999% Availability
DoorDash has developed Entity Cache, a transparent proxy caching platform built on Envoy and Valkey to reduce redundant service-to-service requests across its microservices architecture. Operating within DoorDash’s service mesh, the platform serves over 1.5M r
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Some dinosaurs could rise like giants until they grew too big
Two elephant-sized South American sauropods were unusually well built for standing on their hind legs. Digital tests showed that their robust femurs handled the enormous forces better than those of larger species, especially while the dinosaurs were young. The
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Strange paraparticles could be reality’s missing ingredient
Neither matter nor force, paraparticles would be something else entirely. Fresh hints that they exist are raising hopes that they could explain reality at its deepest level
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Three InfoQ Certification Cohorts Start This August: Meet the Facilitators
InfoQ has opened enrollment for three five-week online certification cohorts starting in August, each led by a senior practitioner applying QCon talk frameworks to participants' own work: architecture with Luca Mezzalira, engineering leadership with Michelle B
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Cloudy skies have slowed global warming – but that may be changing
Low cloud cover has been expanding since 1979, reflecting more sunlight into space, but scientists expect that trend to reverse and accelerate global warming
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Presentation: Platform Engineering for Everyone - Success Can’t Be Coded
Max Korbacher explains why successful internal development platforms cannot be built on tech alone. He discusses the pitfalls of infrastructure-first thinking, the importance of a clear product mindset, and how to measure real value using DevEx and SPACE metri
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Podcast: Strands Agents with Clare Liguori
Thomas Betts talks with Clare Liguori, the technical lead on the open source Strands Agents SDK. The conversation covers how Strands Agents has grown from a Python SDK to a full agent harness running in production. Clare shares some lessons learned from buildi
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Alzheimer’s breakthrough: Scientists restore two hours of sleep without clearing brain plaques
Researchers have uncovered a surprising culprit behind sleep loss in Alzheimer’s disease: the brain’s own immune cells. In mice with amyloid plaques, overactive microglia triggered inflammation that kept the brain from getting enough deep, restorative sleep. T
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An ordinary laptop solved a problem thought to require a quantum computer
A quantum problem once described as impossible for classical computers has now been solved using relatively modest hardware. Researchers used tensor networks to compress the overwhelming wave function created by hundreds of entangled qubits, allowing some calc
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432 Linux kernel CVEs published in the last 24 hours
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95 reasons for having your own website
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Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
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A deep dive into my Forgejo setup
Hello folks! I've recently resurrected my will for tech blogging and I thought someone else out there might also be considering setting up a Forgejo instance so I took the time to write about my journey into it. I'm looking forward to feedback, suggestions, et
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Making highly available, multi-region Cloud Run services just got easier
Application downtime for mission-critical services can directly impact your reputation and bottom line. To avoid that, you need to be able to deploy regionally resilient workloads that detect and automatically recover from failures. But setting up multi-region
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Accelerating automotive innovation with C4A-metal and Panasonic Automotive vSkipGen
As the automotive landscape accelerates toward software-defined vehicles, Cockpit Domain Controllers (CDCs) are becoming the core of next-generation in-cabin experiences. The ability to rapidly develop, test, and validate CDC software in a flexible, hardware-i
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InvisiCaps: The Fil-C Capability Model
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ArgoCon Japan 2026: Meeting the Maintainers, enterprise insights, and the road to Argo CD 3.5
A special half-day ArgoCon Japan (1:30pm – 6:30pm) will be held July 28, 2026 in Yokohama, Japan as a colocated event with KubeCon + CloudNativeCon. This is a chance to hear from and meet both end...
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Why goodput matters more than throughput for LLM serving
When we benchmark an LLM serving setup, the number almost everyone reaches for first is throughput: how many requests per second the system can push through. It is easy to measure, easy to compare, and it...
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The future of development is full-stack
Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” for quick prototypes to agentic engineering for enterprise-ready software, how enterprises can scale govern
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X relaunches a rebuilt Android app after year-long effort
X says the rebuilt version of its Android app is now available globally.
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Following the questions where they lead
Assistant Professor Bailey Flanigan has arrived at complex computational methods for helping democracy thrive.
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How to Run Claude Code Agents for 24+ Hours
Apply long-running coding agents to become a more productive engineer The post How to Run Claude Code Agents for 24+ Hours appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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Loop Engineering with Adaptive Parsing in Action: Parsing Flat Tables with Azure and Figures with a Vision LLM
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #10B] - The LLM as last line of defence, then two real escalations walked end to end: a flat table to Azure, a figure to a vision model The post Loop Engineering with Adaptive Parsing in Action: Parsing Flat Tables with
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Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 12: Byzantine Fault Tolerance
How do you make decisions when you can't trust anyone in the room? The post Water Cooler Small Talk, Ep. 12: Byzantine Fault Tolerance appeared first on Towards Data Science .
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