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OpenAI News Jul 27 Score 0.9278164180555556

How AI is expanding what people do at work

New OpenAI research shows how AI is expanding what workers do, with ChatGPT users taking on tasks across roles and reshaping job boundaries.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 27 Score 0.8864015018518517

moonshotai/Kimi-K3

moonshotai/Kimi-K3 As promised earlier this month , Moonshot have released the weights for their excellent 2.8 trillion parameter Kimi K3. They're a hefty 1.56TB on Hugging Face. Kimi introduced their own janky modified version of the MIT license with K2 back

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 27 Score 0.883535298148148

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff

An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff It's interesting watching the evolution of Ethan Mollick's guide over time. A year ago it was still all about chat - ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini - with o3, Claude 4 Opus, and Gemini 2.5 Pro as the models and Deep

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Quanta Magazine Jul 27 Score 0.8714549268518518

A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere

An organelle discovered inside a microbe inside a cow’s gut helps explain how livestock burps contribute to warming our planet. The post A New Way That a Cow’s Inner World Shapes Earth’s Atmosphere first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jul 27 Score 0.8654416893518517

Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell Surveillance Van

Yet another Israeli mass surveillance company : Made by Israeli surveillance company Cognyte, the tech simulates a mobile phone tower, which forces nearby phones to connect to it. That enables cops to keep tabs on any phones in the vicinity ­ whether they’re o

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 28 Score 0.8248291212962964

AutoIT Payload Injector , (Tue, Jul 28th)

For a long time, AutoIT[1] has been pretty common in the malware ecosystem. Threat actors still use it because it's easy to write and powerful. Indeed, it can perform all the required actions to inject a payload into a remote process as you'l

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War on the Rocks Jul 28 Score 0.8244872944444445

The First Waves of Amphibious Assault Will Be Unmanned

In the Pacific War, the U.S. Navy's underwater demolition teams prepared the way for U.S. and allied amphibious landings on enemy-held islands. Through beach reconnaissance, obstacle breaching, mine clearance, and other missi

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War on the Rocks Jul 28 Score 0.8240780351851853

How Orbán’s Fall Changed Serbia’s Political Future

In the speech announcing his invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, Vladimir Putin took only minutes to arrive at the original sin in his catalogue of Western crimes. Before Iraq, before Libya, before Syria, came Belgrade: "First a bloody military operation was

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Wired — Security Jul 28 Score 0.8211494462962964

Hugging Face Has a Deepfake Nudes Problem

Researchers tested top image editing models on Hugging Face and found they could easily create explicit deepfakes—and 1,000 image editing prompts show how people use the software.

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Foreign Affairs Jul 28 Score 0.8186497842592593

The Hidden Path to Regime Change in Iran

Ending the war can strengthen the prospects for democracy.

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BleepingComputer Jul 27 Score 0.8116981546296297

Hackers target US firms in FastJson RCE zero-day attacks

Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the FastJson open-source Java library, allowing remote code execution without user interaction or elevated privileges. [...]

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The Verge Jul 27 Score 0.8089355370370371

X Money is launching in the US starting today

X Money, a core part of Elon Musk's mission to turn X into an "everything app," is rolling out starting today, 9to5Mac reports. The payment platform offers a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payments similar to Venmo, along with a metal Visa card users can embl

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The Verge Jul 27 Score 0.8077985000000001

Razer’s analog Huntsman V3 Pro is over 20 percent off

Gaming keyboards have evolved over the years to add RGB LEDs, extra knobs, and buttons with screens, but one feature has remained fairly consistent: the mechanical switch. That’s slowly changing, with brands introducing adjustable optical switches that are mor

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BleepingComputer Jul 27 Score 0.8072125064814816

New Dysphoria DDoS botnet spreads to 200k devices worldwide

A botnet called Dysphoria has compromised around 200,000 devices across the world and is using them for distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and traffic relay operations. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jul 27 Score 0.806994913888889

New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains

A proof-of-concept exploit for "Certighost," a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. [...]

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The Verge Jul 27 Score 0.8051447962962963

Xbox’s huge outage even blocked games on disc

An extended Xbox outage that began Sunday evening didn't just cause issues for people trying to play digital games - it blocked people from playing their disc-based games, too. Xbox's status page initially reported the outage on Sunday at about 11PM ET, and it

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The Verge Jul 27 Score 0.8043415555555556

Nanoleaf's colorful pegboard and shelf kit is half off

Nanoleaf's Blocks Combo XL Smarter Kit is a fun back-to-school buy that can add pops of customizable light and storage to your wall. It combines colorful smart lighting panels with a low-profile shelf and pegboard, and right now you can buy the kit for half of

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MIT Technology Review Jul 27 Score 0.8019827342592594

OpenAI called the Hugging Face attack unprecedented. But we’ve been here before.

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Reading OpenAI’s account last week of how some of its models broke their containment and hacked into the computer sys

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The Verge Jul 27 Score 0.8000892407407408

Why China is giving away its best AI models

Silicon Valley has spent much of the past week on red alert, digesting the arrival of Moonshot AI's Kimi K3, a Chinese AI model that can allegedly beat some of the best systems built by US companies at a fraction of the cost. Its performance alone would have b

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MIT Technology Review Jul 27 Score 0.7960021787037037

How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors

Outside the small town of Paducah, Kentucky, a wealth of uranium is locked away in thousands of storage cylinders filled with waste material from a now-closed nuclear enrichment facility. Lasers could help get it out. A company called Global Laser Enrichment (

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MIT Technology Review Jul 27 Score 0.7922605120370371

The Download: lasers for nuclear fuel, and organ preservation advances

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. How lasers could help provide fuel for nuclear reactors  Nuclear power provides about 9% of global electricity today,

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jul 27 Score 0.7919833444444445

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-68686 Fortinet FortiOS Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor Vulnerability CVE-2026-16812 Aris

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MIT Technology Review Jul 27 Score 0.7919827342592594

The path to artificial superintelligence

Imagine a healthcare system made up of multiple AI agents: one that manages symptom assessment, another scheduling, a third insurance, and a fourth pharmacy. Each is an expert in its domain. But they all have their own distinct knowledge and objectives. Today

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MIT Technology Review Jul 27 Score 0.7914345861111112

Closing the data loop in AI-driven drug discovery

Drug discovery is a high-cost, high-risk endeavor that is under growing pressure from a market increasingly defined by first-mover advantage. Since the 1950s, the cost of developing new pharmaceuticals has roughly doubled every nine years—a phenomenon known as

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SANS Internet Storm Center Jul 27 Score 0.7887846768518519

Java Spring Boot "heapdump" scans, (Mon, Jul 27th)

Spring Boot exposes the endpoint "/actuator/heapdump" to collect debug information. By default, the endpoint will return a file heapdump.hprof, which includes a binary heapdump that can be used to analyze the current state of the application. Non-Java readers

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jul 25 Score 0.7681769648148147

Quoting Boris Cherny

More than any of these eval scores, what is most exciting to me is something else: Opus 5 is our least prompt injectable model yet. It is a bit buried in the system card, but across PI evals and red teaming, Opus 5 is very hard to prompt inject successfully. &

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GamesIndustry.biz Jul 27 Score 0.7655924129629631

Atari signs 10-title film deal with Universal

Atari has signed a deal with Universal Pictures to develop 10 of its game IPs into feature films. Read more

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
Schneier on Security Jul 24 Score 0.7621500226851851

Friday Squid Blogging: Illex Squid Catch in the Falklands

Lower catch this year . 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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GamesIndustry.biz Jul 27 Score 0.7614868574074075

CodeDev launches optimisation division The Performance Guys

UK co-development house CodeDev, also known as The Unreal Guys , has launched a specialist optimisation division called The Performance Guys, built explicitly to tackle project-critical optimisation work. It contains exclusively engineers and technical artists

Gaming gamingindustrybusinessdevelopment
InfoQ Jul 28 Score 0.749038037962963

AWS Launches Amazon GuardDuty Investigation Agent to Automate Threat Triage

AWS released a public preview of the GuardDuty investigation agent, which correlates findings, 90-day activity logs, and resource topologies into structured reports with risk ratings, confidence scores, and MITRE ATT&CK classification. It is reachable through

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NASA News Jul 28 Score 0.7436778162037037

Smoke Blankets Oregon

Lightning storms have ignited dozens of fires in central and eastern Oregon.

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Platformer Jul 28 Score 0.7390009101851852

A big week for AI denialism

In the wake of OpenAI’s cyberattack against Hugging Face, few seem ready to acknowledge the implications

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Econbrowser Jul 28 Score 0.7373577171296296

Reducing Employment Growth

One of the explanations for the "new normal" in employment growth is not deficient aggregate demand, but deficient labor force growth. The NYT article "Employers Fear Labor Shortage as Many Immigrants Lose Protected Status" lays it out: … on Monday, abou

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New Scientist Jul 27 Score 0.7292328199074074

Peptides are the latest wellness trend – but do they work?

A drug advisory committee in the US has recommended approval for several experimental peptides. But there have been no large-scale tests of these new compounds in humans, finds columnist Grace Wade

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New Scientist Jul 27 Score 0.728649486574074

Mystery hominin left big footprints at ancient lake in Africa

Over 1.4 million years ago, a group of eight ancient hominins walked across a shallow mudflat, but their footprints don’t match those of Paranthropus boisei or Homo erectus

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NASA News Jul 27 Score 0.7283537421296297

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams to Discuss Space Station Mission

NASA astronaut Chris Williams will recap his recent eight-month mission aboard the International Space Station during a news conference at 2:45 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Aug. 4, from the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston. NASA will stream this event live throug

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NASA News Jul 27 Score 0.7270176310185186

NASA Science Soars During August Total Solar Eclipse

Each time the Moon covers the Sun during a total solar eclipse — darkening daytime skies and briefly revealing the Sun’s ethereal outer atmosphere, the corona — it presents new opportunities to better understand our star and its influence on Earth. On Wednesda

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GitHub Blog Jul 27 Score 0.7269826032407407

The harness is all you need (mostly)

A practical GitHub Copilot workflow for prototyping, planning, implementing, and reviewing software without chasing every new AI tool. The post The harness is all you need (mostly) appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Jul 27 Score 0.7250046680555555

NASA Astronaut Chris Williams Returns to Earth

NASA astronaut Chris Williams is all smiles in this July 26, 2026, photo taken shortly after he landed with Expedition 74 Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, and Sergei Mikaev in Kazakhstan. This was Williams' first mission. Williams spent eight months

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New Scientist Jul 27 Score 0.7243073569444445

Getting a bit more gas from the North Sea doesn't matter climate-wise

Climate campaigners are angry at reports that the UK government is set to allow oil and gas drilling projects to go ahead, but the focus must be on ending fossil fuel consumption, not production, says Michael Le Page

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NASA News Jul 27 Score 0.7238338347222222

NASA’s Swift Sees ‘Wandering’ Mega Black Hole Shredding Star

NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory captured an “orphan” black hole lighting up as it devoured a star on the outskirts of a faraway galaxy. These phenomena are rare to begin with, and none had ever before been seen so far outside of a galaxy’s core. “We were

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GitHub Blog Jul 27 Score 0.7236492699074074

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started

New to the GitHub Copilot app? Learn how to start projects, work with AI agents, explore canvases, and streamline your development workflow. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: Getting started appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Jul 27 Score 0.7222324824074075

Microsoft Releases .NET 11 Preview 6 With Language and Framework Updates

Microsoft has released .NET 11 Preview 6, with updates across C#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Entity Framework Core. C# adds extension indexers and built-in union support types. ASP.NET Core brings async validation, automatic CSRF protection, and OpenAPI 3.2

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jul 27 Score 0.7196805625

These insect submariners survive depths that should crush them

Lake fly larvae plunge more than 200 meters into Lake Malawi each day to hide from predators, using tiny air sacs to control their depth. A rubber-like material called resilin lets them expand or shrink the sacs by changing their pH. Their toughness challenges

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FRED Blog Jul 27 Score 0.718649312962963

Productivity growth, as seen in 1996

The recent AI boom has renewed debate about how official statistics capture changes in productivity growth and how any lags or limitations might impact monetary policy. For example, in the 1990s, some believed that low measures of productivity weren't capturin

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Marginal Revolution Jul 28 Score 0.7107307949074073

The AEA presidential election

AEA is the American Economics Association, and a new president is needed, here is the candidate and likely winner: PINELOPI (PENNY) KOUJIANOU GOLDBERG, William Nordhaus Professor of Economics and Global Affairs, Yale University. Statement of Purpose: I am hono

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Marginal Revolution Jul 28 Score 0.7077252393518517

The Confucian fertility paradox

Total fertility rates in East Asia have fallen to levels without historical precedent, even though the region’s Confucian heritage long placed extraordinary emphasis on family continuity and large families. We argue that this “Confucian Fertility Paradox” diss

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Marginal Revolution Jul 27 Score 0.6909655171296295

*Liberal Worlds: James Bryce and the Democratic Intellect*

A very good book, here is one excerpt that bears directly on a conversation I was just having: He [Bryce] regretted the low quality of the Indian Civil Service: they were hard-working and motivated by a desire to promote the welfare of the Indian people, but '

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 27 Score 0.6869820199074073

Announcing general availability of SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery

Traditional data replication techniques often struggle to deliver the data freshness that modern workflows require. To help organizations overcome this challenge, SAP and Google Cloud are announcing that SAP Business Data Cloud Connect for BigQuery is now gene

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Marginal Revolution Jul 27 Score 0.6862382023148147

Monday assorted links

1. Cameroonian prison with its own record label. 2. Noah on what will AI do for us exactly. 3. The impact of the sewing machine on women. 4. Will GPTVoice boost labor supply? 5. Smart phones in North Korea. 6. SSI update. 7. "There is still time for interested

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Google Cloud Blog Jul 27 Score 0.686148686574074

Cyber Snapshot Report: Go beyond the toolchain and build enterprise resilience

Even as machine-speed attacks dominate the headlines, Mandiant’s view from the frontline reveals that the vast majority of successful intrusions still stem from fundamental human and systemic failures. This operational break-down shows up pointedly in research

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