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Foreign Policy Jul 27 Score 0.8936468800925925

The Kremlin’s Easy Money Is Gone

Russia still has assets to tap for its war, but the political costs are growing.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 26 Score 0.8778308601851851

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud

An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud Fascinating investigation by Matt Lenhard into the market that has grown up around reselling LLM tokens at a discount by pooling API keys from various sources. This looks to be mostly a thin

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Jul 26 Score 0.8313279587962963

Oil markets are on edge again

The bombing may have paused, but energy supplies are precarious

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War on the Rocks Jul 27 Score 0.8236509814814815

Taiwan’s Tech Hurdles Threaten Military Capability and Potential Coalition Defense

Taiwan produces the world's most advanced semiconductors, yet the island's own military is only in the opening stages of adopting artificial intelligence systems. This mismatch bears directly on Taiwan's ability to deter Chinese aggression.Beijing is pushing t

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The Guardian — World Jul 27 Score 0.8219884555555557

Uganda begins emergency food handouts after 19 die from hunger

Government move follows months of drought and crop failures in Karamoja, with 1.5m people facing malnutrition Uganda has launched emergency food relief distribution after at least 19 deaths from hunger were reported in an area of prolonged drought in the east

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Foreign Affairs Jul 27 Score 0.8169726736111111

Can Renewables Industrialize Africa?

The Iran war is driving the continent toward Chinese-backed green energy.

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The Verge Jul 26 Score 0.8059755527777779

Champagne and Bullets belongs on the Mount Rushmore of bad movies

There's something about a movie like The Room, Troll 2, or Fateful Findings that I find irresistible. These sorts of "so bad they're good" films are marvelous curiosities where ambition far outstrips resources, ability, and self-awareness to become something m

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The Verge Jul 26 Score 0.8029899046296297

Apple is banking on privacy to set its smart glasses apart

According to Mark Gurman, Apple is planning to reveal its first smart glasses at WWDC next June, with an expectation that they'll launch by the end of 2027. Part of the hold-up may be around the company's efforts to get its privacy features and messaging in or

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The Verge Jul 26 Score 0.8015787935185186

The US is charging an American citizen for wiping his phone at the border

The government is prosecuting US citizen Sam Tunick for allegedly providing authorities with a "duress password" that wiped his phone when they tried to seize it at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson airport on January 24th, 2025. Federal agents detained Tunick at t

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OpenAI News Jul 23 Score 0.8003059944444445

Launching Health in ChatGPT

Health in ChatGPT now lets eligible U.S. users securely connect medical records and Apple Health to get more personalized insights and better understand their health.

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The Verge Jul 26 Score 0.796234812037037

Carrie is just trying to make a friend in the new trailer

Mike Flanagan's latest Stephen King adaptation, Carrie (this will be his fourth), is slated to make its debut on Amazon Prime on October 7th. The new trailer dropped at Comic-Con 2026 and doesn't contain many surprises. If you're familiar with Carrie at all, i

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 26 Score 0.7960349087962963

Scans for ESAFENET CDG 3 Document Management System Weak Logins, (Sun, Jul 26th)

ESAFENET&#;x26;#;39;s CDG showed up in our data before. The company focused on secure document management and data leakage prevention solutions. The "CDG" stands for "Content Data Guard", and the product appears to be mostly targeti

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The Verge Jul 26 Score 0.7953056453703704

You can get three months of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate for almost half off

Subscribing to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on a recurring basis has been tough to justify recently, even after Microsoft reduced the monthly cost from $29.99 to $22.99. But you can get a better deal on a three-month subscription (valued at $69) by grabbing a digit

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BleepingComputer Jul 26 Score 0.7940187453703704

GitHub, PyPI add time-based defenses against supply chain attacks

GitHub and PyPI (Python Package Index) have introduced a time-based mechanism in the Dependabot dependency management tool to protect against supply-chain attacks and to limit their impact. [...]

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Wired Jul 26 Score 0.787916787962963

The Best Motorola Phones, From Razr to Moto G (2026)

Motorola phones may seem old-school, but their reasonable prices, colorful designs, and simple software make them good, wallet-friendly Android smartphones.

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NBER New Working Papers Jul 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Trading Off Openness: Economic Information and Immigration Policy Preferences -- by Cristina Cattaneo, Daniela Grieco, Nicola Lacetera, Mario Macis

We conducted a survey experiment with over 8,000 participants in Germany, Hungary, and Italy to examine how information about the economic impact of immigration affects the support for more open immigration policies. Respondents who received projections showin

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NBER New Working Papers Jul 27 Score 0.7875000000000001

Self-Fulfilling Credit Scores -- by Victor Duarte, Julia Fonseca

A decline in credit scores can worsen the borrower's financial position, making default a self-fulfilling prophecy. We estimate the causal effect of credit scores on default using a rule that counts multiple inquiries within 14 days as one, moving scores witho

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Wired Jul 26 Score 0.7869723435185186

Best GoPro Camera (2026): Compact, Budget, Accessories

You’re an action hero, and you need a camera to match. We guide you through all the models, plus accessory recommendations and hidden software tricks to try.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 23 Score 0.7634484527777776

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?

The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt? Martin Alderson's commentary on the OpenAI accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face includes a couple of details I hadn't considered. First, Hugging Face offers a truly rich target if you're

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.7501325935185185

How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding?

One of the most contested issues in astrophysics is our understanding of the Universe’s expansion. Adam Riess discusses why there is disagreement and what might resolve it. The post How Fast Is the Universe Really Expanding? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.7492094453703703

Fields and Abacus Medals 2026

Every four years, the math world’s preeminent awards are given to the finest minds of a generation. The young winners — all under 40 on the first day of the year — have reshaped mathematics and theoretical computer science. Here are their stories. The post Fie

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.7491487972222222

A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path

Shayan Oveis Gharan has won the Abacus Medal for using tools from across mathematics to boost the power of algorithms. The post A Master of the Traveling Salesperson Problem Finds His Own Path first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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New Scientist Jul 27 Score 0.7486390013888888

How ultra-processed foods may damage your long-term brain health

An increasing number of studies have linked ultra-processed foods with depression, anxiety and even dementia. Columnist Helen Thomson explores how strong the evidence is for the brain effects of a diet full of these foods

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.7485251861111111

Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle

Focus, commitment, and insight resulted in a “once in a century” proof. Hong Wang is now just the third woman to win a Fields Medal. The post Living Fully in the Math World Means Threading the Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Quanta Magazine Jul 23 Score 0.7482969453703703

Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else

Determination and effort propelled Jacob Tsimerman to the top of the math world. But now that he’s won a Fields Medal, he worries that the field is in jeopardy. The post Sometimes Being First Means Seeing the End Before Anyone Else first appeared on Quanta Mag

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InfoQ Jul 27 Score 0.7478886023148148

Netflix Details Its In-House LLM Serving Platform with Triton and vLLM

Netflix has described the production lessons behind bringing LLM inference into its internal serving platform, including the challenges of supporting different model sizes, hardware requirements, and rapidly evolving inference engines. By Matt Foster

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Risky Bulletin Jul 27 Score 0.7461005578703703

Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world

A JSON bug is about to rock the Java world, scam compounds continue in Myanmar despite the junta crackdown, and Google has a new APT naming scheme. Show notes Risky Bulletin: A JSON RCE bug is about to rock the Java world

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Schneier on Security Jul 23 Score 0.7437460518518517

End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”

New paper: " Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the 'Going Dark' Debate ": Abstract : This Article updates and expands on 2012 research on encryption and globalization, analyzing what the authors call "Rou

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SRE Weekly Jul 27 Score 0.7374089824074074

SRE Weekly Issue #527

View on sreweekly.com A message from our sponsor, Planetscale: Most database incidents start with one expensive query, not the database being down. PlanetScale gives SRE teams high-availability Postgres and MySQL with automated failover, query insights, and Da

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 27 Score 0.7358399356481482

Are brain waves the next unlock for physical AI?

Forget YouTube videos—frontier physical AI models need multiple camera angles, dense annotation, and soon, brain wave readings.

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Risky Bulletin Jul 26 Score 0.7330718541666666

Sponsored: How AI is putting pressure on EDR

In this sponsored interview James Wilson chats with Airlock Digital co-founders David Cottingham and Daniel Schell about how attackers are using LLMs to enumerate EDR detections. LLMs dramatically reduce the time and specialist labour needed to extract ruleset

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TechCrunch — AI Jul 26 Score 0.7281098430555556

Making sense of the panic over Chinese AI

On the latest episode of Equity, we discussed why Moonshot AI's Kimi seemed to panic Silicon Valley and Wall Street.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 26 Score 0.7175001689814815

The best way to save giant sequoias may be more fire

Giant sequoias are built to withstand ordinary fires, but recent extreme wildfires killed thousands of trees that had survived for centuries or even millennia. A new analysis of about 26,400 sequoias found that trees in areas treated with prescribed burns were

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NASA News Jul 26 Score 0.7136321736111111

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams, Crewmates Return from Space Station

Concluding an eight-month science mission aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Chris Williams returned to Earth on Sunday alongside Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov and Sergei Mikaev. The crew made its safe, parachute-assisted landin

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Marginal Revolution Jul 27 Score 0.7105463777777777

Could our preoccupation with mental health be part of the problem?

Could our preoccupation with mental health be part of the problem? In some ways, encouraging people to think and talk more about their mental health is a good thing. There is now less stigma around mental illness, and more people who can benefit from professio

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BAIR Blog Jul 26 Score 0.7103058375

Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction

--> --> Overview of ABBEL compared to traditional recursive summarization. Beliefs replace the full interaction history as the agent’s working context, and belief grading improves performance by supervising the contents of each belief state.. As task horizons

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 26 Score 0.7091001689814815

Inside the Backrooms: The internet’s creepiest place is becoming a tourist attraction

The Backrooms began as a single eerie image of empty yellow rooms, but internet users transformed it into a vast fictional world that feels disturbingly real. Through videos, games, maps, survival guides and social media stories, audiences do more than watch t

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 26 Score 0.7074071134259259

Hidden genetic diversity helped inbred brown tree snakes conquer guam

A notorious snake invasion that devastated Guam’s native birds may have succeeded because the reptiles carried hidden genetic advantages. Using advanced long-read DNA sequencing, researchers uncovered more than 19,000 large genetic differences in brown tree sn

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Lobsters Jul 27 Score 0.7068404814814814

Being Linux Torvalds

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SecurityWeek Jul 27 Score 0.7059042407407407

MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals

The PEAR ransomware group claimed to have stolen 3 TB of information from the medical business management company. The post MCBS Data Breach Affects 1.2 Million Individuals appeared first on SecurityWeek .

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Marginal Revolution Jul 27 Score 0.7049912851851851

The Decline in the Transmission of Scientific Ideas

We document that the diffusion of new scientific ideas beyond their field of origin has declined substantially over the past four decades. This contraction is closely linked to increasing specialization in scientific language: research that employs more techni

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 26 Score 0.7039307240740741

Scientists trace the shocking origin of human eyes to an ancient “cyclops”

Researchers say a tiny one-eyed ancestor that lived nearly 600 million years ago may have shaped the evolution of every vertebrate eye, including our own. They also found that its ancient median eye lives on today as the pineal gland, which helps synchronize o

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Jul 23 Score 0.703057125462963

A brief history of Luddism

States ultimately decide how fast technology is adopted

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Jul 23 Score 0.7029108291666666

Can China dominate AI exports, too?

Robotaxis offer an early test case

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Lobsters Jul 26 Score 0.6901983518518517

Teaching Kids Forth

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.6703062064814815

Rockwell Automation ThinManager

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an authenticated attacker to write arbitrary files to restricted system directories outside of the application's intended directory. The following versions of Rockwell Automation

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 23 Score 0.6703062064814815

Weintek cMT3092X

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow a non-privileged user to escalate privileges or view the credentials of other users. The following versions of Weintek cMT3092X are affected: cMT3092X firmware EasyWeb CVSS Vendor E

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MIT News — AI Jul 24 Score 0.6219726328703703

Working to automate nuclear plant operations

PhD student Lauren Fortier is building on the experience she gained operating a nuclear plant for the Navy to solve a critical hurdle in the wider adoption of the energy source.

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Towards Data Science Jul 26 Score 0.5703058467592593

How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code

Maximize your efficiency with Claude Code The post How to Efficiently Prompt Claude Code appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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Towards Data Science Jul 26 Score 0.566972513425926

How to Give an LLM Agent a Browser

Building a browser-use agent with OpenAI Agents SDK and Playwright MCP The post How to Give an LLM Agent a Browser appeared first on Towards Data Science .

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