Ruff v0.16.0 Astral shipped a significant new version of their Ruff Python linting tool a few days ago on July 23rd. I noticed today because my various CI jobs all started failing thanks to new default Ruff checks and my unpinned "ruff" dev dependency. From Br
More than 340,000 people have now been evacuated from wildfires in France and Spain.
News organizations are using AI to strengthen reporting, grow audiences, and improve business operations, with OpenAI tools supporting journalists and publishers worldwide.
OpenAI announces Project Camellia in Effingham County, Georgia, with commitments to responsible energy, community investment, jobs, and access to Codex.
OpenAI outlines its commitment to advancing American science working with the U.S. Department of Energy and national labs to use frontier AI to accelerate discovery.
Exclusive: CSI Aviation and GlobalX accused of violating civil rights as part of Trump immigration crackdown Venezuelan men sent last year to a notorious Salvadorian terrorism prison by the Trump administration are suing the US aviation companies that transpor
Introducing OpenAI Presence, a proven enterprise AI agent platform that helps organizations deploy trusted voice and chat agents for customer and internal workflows.
Steam discussion forums are being abused in ClickFix attacks that pretend to be fixes for game and computer problems but actually infect devices with cryptominers. [...]
Google's Vice President of Devices and Services, Shakil Barkat, all but confirmed in an interview with 9to5 Google that its next Pixel phone would cost more than the Pixel 10. Considering the ongoing RAM supply issues due to the explosion of AI data centers, t
The CJP protest has been the most visible expression of public anger against PM Narendra Modi's government in recent years.
A massive malvertising campaign is using fake Solana, Luno, and TradingView webpages with malicious JavaScript that instructs browsers to assemble malware directly in memory. [...]
Oli Freke is a musician and journalist whose works have appeared in Sound on Sound, The Quietus, and Mixmag. This has included using math to explore the melodic potential of the Western 12-tone scale and deep dives on effects plug-ins. He's even written a book
With elements from synthesizers, loopers, and effects pedals, Teenage Engineering’s devices lie somewhere between musical instrument and modern art. These grooveboxes, as they’re often called, are capable of helping you produce songs in real time from a single
Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. [...]
Warner Bros. Discovery has filed suit against Amazon, accusing it of illegally poaching employees, including Pia Barlow, former senior VP for originals marketing. In the complaint, Warner says that "Amazon has chosen to ride on the coattails of other well-esta
The event celebrated press freedom after the first dinner was cancelled by a shooting in April.
Is an e-reader case as dangerous as a Glock 19? Last month, Louisville, Kentucky-based creator Luke The Maker showed off a bizarre, 3D-printed, pistol-shaped case design for the popular minimalist Xteink X4 e-reader. The X4 lies vertically atop the plastic gun
Friendly hobby machine or serious production tool? Here’s how to know which one is for you.
These e-readers are more useful in their old age than you might think.
I packed these Leatherology totes with laptops, chargers, and everything else my workday demands. Months later, they’re still the bags I keep reaching for.
Plus: Russian hackers are trying to steal US nuclear scientists’ emails, the State Department bans known scammers from entering the United States, and more.
I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here's my advice on how to find the right laptop for you.
ChatGPT, the famous artificial intelligence chatbot that allows users to converse with various personalities and topics, has connectivity issues worldwide. [...]
The Python Package Index (PyPI) now rejects new files being uploaded to releases that are older than 14 days. This restriction was put in place to prevent old and long-stable releases from being poisoned in case publishing tokens or workflows of PyPI projects
Google commits $40M in AI tokens and credits for the Genesis Mission
The suspected attacker is considered "to be part of Berlin's Islamist scene," according to police.
Israeli settlers set fire to Al-Rahma Mosque in Qusra, near Nablus, as Israeli forces arrested dozens of Palestinians
The 40-year-old goalkeeper made global headlines after starring in Cape Verde’s historic run at the World Cup.
Anthony Joshua survives two knockdowns by Albania's Kristian Prenga before winning the fight in the second round.
Amazon EKS has recently introduced support for Kubernetes version rollbacks, letting practitioners revert a cluster's control plane to its previous Kubernetes version within 7 days of an upgrade if issues arise. The feature reduces the risk of in-place cluster
Documentary follows children under occupation and the couple who run a holistic primary school as Israel's war persists.
Noul hit southern Guangdong province and neighbouring Hong Kong, bringing strong winds and heavy rain to the region.
Harrowing story of an identity theft victim. Yes, the person made a mistake—they gave the scammer a two-factor authentication code that allowed the scammer to take over their email address. But the real story here is how, for many of us, the security of
A running look — in reverse chronological order — at the bigger tech companies that have announced significant layoffs this year with AI as a stated factor.
The lawsuit will likely renew debates about whether term employment agreements are enforceable under California. law
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An awe-inspiring hacktivist who hacked two controversial government spyware makers may be the most prolific hacker to have never gotten caught. What do we know about Phineas Fisher?
Elon Musk's tunneling startup is reportedly in talks for a major new funding round.
A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campai
SpaceX will likely attempt to catch Starship back at the launch pad on its next flight.
Kalshi claims the trailer is “defamatory” and contains “both fabricated documents and false and misleading statements.”
Romanian fighter jets shot down drones in separate incidents on Friday and Saturday.
The temporary signage, to be placed outside the National Museum of American History, will caution the public about “inaccurate” programming.
Recycling, greener diets, and other personal climate choices do not seem to distract people from supporting major environmental reforms. A four-year study of nearly 2,800 Australians found that these habits neither increased nor reduced later political engagem
Cosmic expansion allows distant galaxies to move away faster than light, while still letting us see ancient light they emitted when they were much closer. Eventually, accelerating expansion will push nearly every galaxy beyond our Local Group out of sight, mak
For days, France and Spain have been fighting raging wildfires.
Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the J
Will the alliance between MAGA and Hungary’s far right survive defeat?
Newer oral drugs related to semaglutide medications such as Ozempic reduced pleasure-driven eating in mice by quieting a deep brain reward circuit. The finding could open new avenues for understanding food cravings and potentially treating substance use disord
Museums are embracing data-driven curation and a shifting technology landscape.
Researchers say TikTok, X, and Meta aren't providing data they're legally required to.
Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.3 server that has not taken the update. Any authenticated u
For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attackers collected the credentials, and accounts were compromised later when an opportunity arose. That mode
Threat actors linked to the Cl0p (aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest) ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC Windmill and FlexPLM deployments as part of a new data extortion campaign. "Attackers chain a pre-
Engineers are increasingly arguing that modern LLMs can already reason through root cause analysis once given correctly prepared context, shifting the hard problem to the pipelines that correlate telemetry. A Coroot experiment across eleven models offers early
For 18 days in June, two of America's most capable AI models went dark worldwide, not for technical or business reasons, but because the U.S. government ordered it. On June 12, 2026, the Commerce Department informed Anthropic that its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 mode
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Scientists have uncovered new evidence that Venus may still be tearing itself apart from within. Advanced 3D simulations indicate that some of the planet's giant rift valleys formed relatively recently and could still be expanding. The results suggest Ven
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The best Stratechery content from the week of July 20, 2026 including Chinese models and frontier futures, what happened to Hugging Face, and the NBA and its second apron bet.
This isn&#;x26;#;39;t a new attack, but something I saw "pop-up" in our logs this week:
"This is day one for cybersecurity in the age of agents," Hugging Face CEO says.
A porous API endpoint exposes, names, email addresses, country, and site status, all of which can be easily gleaned by anyone with a browser.
Government ownership of AI companies may promise shared wealth, but it risks weakening oversight and accountability.
Microsoft addresses a public-by-default configuration and chain of code flaws in Azure Automation that could have let attackers seize another tenant's identity and access others' data, credentials, and cloud workloads.
A podcast with Florian Brand.
Analysis of satellite images of Myanmar shows dozens of alleged scam compounds have appeared in recent months, despite a purported crackdown on the criminal organizations.
We shared how Samsung users can boost productivity and get time back on new foldables, watches, and glasses coming soon.
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In the words of a former Antarctic tour guide we interviewed: "You'd see massive glacier calvings, and you'd just want to cry. But all the guests would be cheering. And you'd be like … 'can you not put two and two together?'"
A Taiwan–led study of Mandarin-speaking learners shows that the sounds we hear and produce are deeply shaped by our prior language experience, offering new insights into how humans learn and use language.
When Amy posts a photograph of herself on Instagram, she knows what will attract attention. A picture of her in a bikini may receive thousands of views. A post explaining the realities of living with a stoma (an opening in her abdomen that directs waste to a b
Swidden agriculture—often called "slash-and-burn"—has been practiced on every inhabited continent throughout human history, and for decades it has been blamed for the destruction of the world's rainforests. However, a new study of more than 18,000 forest
Dozens of archaeological sites were destroyed by looting during Syria's civil war, which began in 2011 and lasted until 2024. Because the last comprehensive analysis was published in 2017, the extent of more recent damage to cultural heritage sites since
Hidden genetic diversity may have given it an advantage The post How an Inbred Snake Invader Took Over an Island Paradise appeared first on Nautilus .
Google's AlphaFold can help ID what parts of a gene editing protein enable mistakes.
'I believe that we, as a crew, saved space station Mir that day'
At libraries around the country, "Avoiding AI" workshops have elicited unprecedented demand.
A dark history that is in danger of returning as support for people with disabilities withers The post When Stupid Was a Diagnosis appeared first on Nautilus .
On Episode 220 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik are joined by Dr. Pascal Lee and astrobiologist Dr. Penny Boston to mark the 50th anniversary of Viking 1's landing on Mars.
A close call in Northern Virginia revealed just how poorly data centers respond to grid disruptions. Here's how to fix the problem.
a quiet day lets us highlight a new neolab win.
Poolside's co-CEO on how his small team of top researchers built a model factory capable of training Laguna S - a 118B MOE beating Thinky's ~1T open weights model... and this is just the beginning.
Docker brought together enterprise security leaders to tackle agentic AI's biggest challenge: how to govern AI agents without slowing developers down. Here's what they said.
Copilot now bills usage at listed API rates. Compare direct model access with the coding workflow, policy, and harness work around it. The post Copilot vs. raw API access: What are you actually paying for? appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
In this No Dumb Questions, Stack's Director of Data Science Michael Foree teaches Phoebe about AI context, context engineering, and what she can do to become a better context engineer.
GitHub is making some significant changes to its bug bounty program, shifting its focus to give researchers a better experience working with the GitHub team. The post Next chapter: Restructuring GitHub's bug bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
A follow-up to our earlier post: "Sustaining OpenTelemetry: Moving from Dependency Management to Stewardship" *** In April 2026, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the OpenTelemetry (OTel) project, and Bloomberg's Open Source Program Office came tog
Architecting cost-effective infrastructure by navigating the latency and storage trade-offs of HNSW, SPANN, and DiskANN The post How to Optimize Vector Search When RAM Gets Too Expensive: On-Disk vs. In-Memory ANN Indexes appeared first on Towards Data Science
I generated a Kármán vortex street without solving a single fluid equation. Here's how the Lattice Boltzmann Method gets there instead, derived from first principles, implemented in C++, and run on a supercomputer. The post The Fluid Simulator That Doesn’t Sol
