OpenAI shares new results on long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, including advances in geometry, cryptography, and complexity.
A full-stack approach to making advanced AI more capable, more affordable, and more widely useful.
See how Univé built an AI-ready workforce with ChatGPT Enterprise by combining leadership, responsible governance, and employee-led innovation to transform work at scale.
OpenAI disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation using ChatGPT to support investment, romance, gambling, and impersonation schemes.
deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its weight. Artificial Analysis rank it
Tuesday was Stateless MCP day - the rollout of MCP 2.0, or the 2026-07-28 Model Context Protocol specification to use the more formal but less memorable name. This is the most significant change to the MCP spec since it first launched, and has also served to r
Release: llm-mcp-client 0.1a0 See this blog entry . Tags: llm , model-context-protocol
Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can stand toe-to-toe with proprietary
smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses I've been working with Jesse Vincent's Prime Radiant applied AI research lab building out this evals framework to help answer questions about the capabilities of different models. The r
The Squid is a new scientific machine : One of the technological breakthroughs was the onboard use of a spinning wheel confocal microscope, nicknamed the Squid, which uses lasers to scan microscopic details of how organisms are put together. "That opens up a w
The country’s next presidential election is more ominous in the glow of its latest environmental disaster.
Some 60,000 people from Morocco surged into the Spanish exclave of Ceuta.
The corruption crisis may be the most important source of rot in the U.S. system.
The epic poem describes events around the sacking of Troy.
‘On the Psychology of Military Incompetence’ examines the narrow minds of petty men.
The chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5
The idea that artificial intelligence can “reason” is more intuitive than ever. But intuitions can be wrong, and the science is far from settled. The post Is AI Reasoning Right for the Wrong Reasons? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Last month, the story broke (alternate link ) that Madison Square Garden uses facial recognition software on everyone entering the facility, and—among other groups—flags activists that oppose using facial recognition. Turns out that the system was
Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize rules for mutual banking organizations
Federal Reserve Board requests comment on a proposal to modernize its rule governing the extension of credit to bank "insiders"—bank executives, board members and major shareholders who could potentially influence a bank's lending decisions
Most phishing campaigns rely on the fact that the victim is afraid to loose "something": money, access to information, ... Many brands have been impersonated by campaigns but I spotted some phishing emails that focus on AI services like ChatGPT.
Poor weather has been hampering the search for seven still missing after Thursday's avalanche on Broad Peak.
The attack comes as Moscow escalates deadly ballistic missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital.
Football's world governing body Fifa abandons plans to sell off stakes in its major competitions after widespread opposition to president Gianni Infantino's proposal.
Settler violence against Palestinians is on the rise in the West Bank, as settlements and outposts expand.
Ollanta Humala had been convicted of money laundering offences alongside his wife in 2025.
Pharmaceutical company Amgen says it suffered a data breach after threat actors stole corporate data and patient information stored in multiple cloud systems operated by third-party service providers. [...]
Sharge, the company that makes delightful retro Mac-shaped chargers and see-inside batteries, is finally impressing me with a portable SSD. I couldn't recommend the Sharge Disk, Disk Plus, or even the Disk Pro, but I'd be happy to own the new Disk Pro 2 Ultra.
The Arch Linux project has temporarily disabled adoption of Arch User Repository (AUR) packages after a surge in malicious takeovers of existing packages. [...]
Online advertising firm Adform suffered a supply-chain attack that delivered cryptocurrency-stealing scripts to websites using its ad platform, replacing wallet addresses copied to visitors' clipboards with ones controlled by an attacker. [...]
Had the hacks used conventional methods, someone would likely go to prison.
In February 2026, the United States and Israel initiated a war in the Middle East against Iran. Since then, the warring sides have oscillated between strikes, a fragile ceasefire, and the blocking of the Strait of Hormuz. Open hostilities resumed in mid-July.
We spotted a great deal on Tile trackers earlier this week that's still live, but if you're an iPhone owner, we ultimately recommend Apple’s latest AirTag. Right now, you can pick up a four-pack for $89 ($10 off) at Amazon and Target, matching the bundle’s all
Google has shut down Google Earth feature it launched Thursday that allowed users to edit satellite images with text prompts using AI. The tool essentially let users create AI deepfakes of the real world using text prompts; Digital Digging's Henk van Ess, for
OpenAI says it has reduced the price of two GPT-5.6 models, cutting Luna's API price by 80% and Terra's by 20% as it works to make its models more efficient. [...]
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is probing nearly 1.2 million Tesla vehicles after receiving complaints about a suspension failure that could cause "a loss of vehicle directional control," as reported earlier by Reuters. The prelimin
Google is seemingly working on an item tracker that might compete with Apple's AirTag. 9to5Google obtained an image of something called a "Google Pixel Tag" that has a small oval shape. The publication also linked to a Slovenian store listing about the Pixel T
Pedro Sánchez decries ‘violation of territorial integrity’ as other EU countries criticise Madrid over incident At least 57 people have died trying to reach the Spanish enclave of Ceuta after as many as 50,000 migrants entered the tiny territory from Morocco i
A Chinese-speaking threat actor is using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers with limited human involvement. [...]
The AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” than the humans.
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. Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward As of this week in Montana, biotech companies who
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Kris DeVault is desperate. His son, Brody, was born in March 2023. It wasn’t long before he started to show signs of developmental delay, says DeVault. As time went on, Brody started missing key milestones in speech, movement, and coordination, he says. When B
Saudi Arabia's divisive EA buyout looks set to go through next week.
Xbox CEO Asha Sharma lays out a plan to get Xbox back on track after the latest round of layoffs.
For much of this year, each new week has brought with it a new impetus for a rash of articles on Microsoft’s Xbox misfortunes. From deep wounds like layoffs and project cancellations, to stinging papercuts like internal memos, poorly received public stat
Acclaimed actor Samantha Beart joins us for this month's edition of GDC Side Quest on the Game Developer Podcast.
Asha Sharma has outlined key priorities to help Xbox recover after it reported a $1.7 billion decline in revenue last year . Read more
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Plus: The developer of Buckshot Roulette launches a horror subversion of Mario Party.
Unity has launched dedicated engine support for Netflix platforms , making it easier for developers to ship titles on the streaming platform's ecosystem. Read more
Sony reported flat sales in its Games & Network Services (G&NS) segment for its first quarter, but operating income rose 37%, primarily due to US tariff refunds. Read more
Stablecoins are digital assets whose value is pegged to that of a fiat currency, typically the U.S. dollar at a peg of $1.00 per token. In a previous blog post , we described the rapid growth of stablecoins through early 2025, highlighted changes in stablecoin
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of a vulnerability in its IGSS Definition module for the IGSS (Interactive Graphical SCADA System) product. The [IGSS](https://igss.schneider-electric.com/) product is a state-of-the-art SCADA system used for monit
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker with access to the same network segment to tamper with communication data in the affected product by sending specially crafted packets under specific timing conditions. Thi
The $55 billion acquisition of Electronic Arts is set to close on August 4 following approval from all required regulatory bodies. Read more
Hello, pinch, punch and all that, and welcome back to our regular feature where we write a little about the games we've been playing. This week, Marie goes thrifting, Connor discovers the virtues of oxcarts, Dom goes back to an all-time favourite, and Kelsey g
AWS Builder Center now offers free, time-limited sandbox environments for workshops, so developers no longer need to use their own AWS account and credit card or worry about unexpected charges. This has been a long-standing request from the community and remov
APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 1 – Buck… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is feat
apart from DeepSeek V4-Flash 0731, a quiet day.
A squirrel with a rifle is the least interesting thing about it.
Back when Sony still liked discs *and* publishing games on the PC.
OpenAI has reportedly found evidence of additional agent misbehavior as it looks into the incident that occurred with Hugging Face.
A solar eclipse, the Perseids, bright Venus after sunset, and a deep partial lunar eclipse highlight August’s skywatching. Skywatching Highlights Transcript A solar eclipse, one of the year’s best meteor showers, Venus at its brightest in the evening sky, and
Some group with no modern descendants contributed a lot to our genomes.
Also has big plans beyond the TM-B. The startup mostly refers to itself as a "vehicle" company and has plans to make four-wheel pedal-assist cargo vehicles for Amazon.
AI tools have democratized the opportunity to build, shortening the timelines of success and enabling more young people to start successful companies without stepping foot inside a Big Tech company.
The term "Milwaukee Shoulder Syndrome" was coined in 1981, based on cases in four women.
Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.
Reddit advances lawsuit accusing Perplexity AI of conspiring with web scraper.
NASA will hold a news conference at 2:30 p.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 14, live from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and media and digital creators are invited to attend in person. The announcement, held in the XLV Hangar at the Shuttle Landing Facility
India's app market generated a record $345 million in Q2.
On Friday, July 31, 2026, NASA leadership and Virginia government officials opened NASA's first major new wind tunnel in more than 40 years, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia. The state-of-the-art faci
A tool that allowed anyone to generate fake AI-generated imagery and superimpose it over real Google Earth maps quickly spurred backlash.
Flammability test results for commercial-off-the-shelf webbings that meet NASA flammability requirements are reported for use in elevated oxygen environments anticipated for future lunar and Martian missions. Testing demonstrated that a webbing composed of 60%
HashiCorp has introduced tfpolicy, a new HCL-based policy-as-code framework for Terraform, now available in public beta within HCP Terraform. It is designed to simplify and modernize infrastructure governance by integrating policy creation and enforcement dire
Michigan final sentiment and Conference Board confidence near pre War levels. But still 2.2 to 2.4 standard deviations below pre Trump. Gallup confidence 1.1 standard deviations below. Figure 1: U.Michigan Economic Sentiment (blue), Conference Board Confidence
Paradoxically, suppressing wildfires has also made European countries more vulnerable to huge blazes like those seen in France and Spain this week. With global warming also amplifying the danger, some experts are calling for a change of strategy
How a branch-free loop and byte-space arithmetic let GitHub case-fold every byte of code search at >45 GiB/s on a single core. The post Don't stop early: Case-folding source code at memory speed appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
As we get closer to the release date for Kubernetes v1.37, the project develops and matures, features may be deprecated, removed, or replaced with better ones for the project's overall health. This blog outlines some of the planned changes for the Kubernetes v
Global warming may make it too hot for malaria-carrying mosquitoes to survive in parts of Africa, but could also shift the problem to less affected areas
Protein is everywhere, but studies – mostly in non-human animals – suggest that limiting our intake could extend our lifespan
Dropbox has integrated Model Context Protocol (MCP) with its internal knowledge platform, Dash, to surface security design context during AI assisted code reviews. The system retrieves threat models and security requirements for pull requests, helping reviewer
These peculiar products, popular in the crypto world, are hitting the mainstream
TL;DR Why I think software development is starting to feel a little more like conducting an orchestra. There’s a shift happening in software development that I don’t think we’re talking about clearly enough. For the last couple of years we’ve framed AI as a pr
Delivery platforms use sophisticated weather algorithms to profit from storm demand, while shifting all the physical risk onto workers trapped by pay incentives.
Surgery that aims to enhance the clearance of Alzheimer's-associated proteins from the brain has been banned in China, but only after thousands of people had the procedure
The total solar eclipse on 12 August will only be visible to a lucky few, but eclipses happen all over the world – here are the next ones to look out for, wherever you may be
Holly Cummins discusses why "nothing is new under the sun" in tech. She maps historical architectural tradeoffs to modern cloud, microservices, and AI hype cycles. She connects financial debt (post-ZIRP) and technical debt to epistemic and sleep debt, showing
JDK 24 removed the monitor-related carrier-thread pinning that stalled Netflix and similar teams on Java 21. What has replaced it on JDK 25 LTS is downstream-resource saturation: The bottleneck moved and now demands explicit bounding in application code. This
OECD countries experienced declining native population growth and rising net immigration over 1990-2024. We compile a new dataset of net immigration rates to OECD countries from all origins and show that most of the increase came from non-OECD countries and wa
Adithyan Madhu, 14, an independent researcher, received his grant to study early writing systems, applying computational linguistics, pattern analysis, and structural methods to the Indus Valley script. Aparajeet Shadangi, 17, received his grant to explore con
“Part of me jokes that paying for a death certificate would be like buying a lottery ticket.”
“Delaying Social Security until 70 results in an increased monthly payment — and that comes with proportionally higher cost-of-living adjustments.”
Investors are seeing more signs that the bottom is near, if not already in.
There are more similarities between the two hedge-fund blowups than one might expect.
Ferguson Enterprises’ stock was rallying more than 8% after news the Newport News, Va., company will be joining the S&P 500 index, edging out better-known names for inclusion.
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At Google, AI is a soup-to-nuts endeavor. Obviously, we make leading AI models like Gemini and Nano Banana. We incorporate AI into the tools you use every day (think Gmail, BigQuery, AlloyDB, Google Cloud Code and Google Cloud Assist). We make software framewo
