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Foreign Policy Aug 5 Score 0.8950928986111111

El Niño Bakes Southeast Asia

The world’s rice bowl takes a hit.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 4 Score 0.8834288587962962

llm-anthropic 0.26

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32 : New models: claude-fable-5 , claude-sonnet-5 , and claude-opus-5 . #75 , #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch , WebFetch , CodeExecution , and AnthropicMCP , available through LLM's -

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Foreign Policy Aug 4 Score 0.8797711393518518

Will Trump Destroy the Deep Oceans?

Seabed mining is a threat to both ecology and the international order.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 4 Score 0.8786839513888888

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use them to generate up to 15 second video c

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Schneier on Security Aug 4 Score 0.8784267629629628

Iran Cyberattacks Against Minnesota Water Systems

Attribution is preliminary , and so far it seems no real damage. And it seems like this is a campaign that has targeted at least seven states . And, because this is where the US is right now, Trump doesn't believe it's Iran and that Minnesota…I guessR

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 4 Score 0.8755006180555555

llm 0.32

Release: llm 0.32 See my detailed blog post about this release . Tags: llm

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Schneier on Security Aug 4 Score 0.8637901888888888

Some Claude Chats Are Searchable on Google

And it's personal information (alternate link ): The exposed data includes an AI-powered therapy app that someone appears to have vibe-coded, notes on meetings, and a dashboard someone made apparently to analyze medical billing data. Exposed chats reportedly i

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War on the Rocks Aug 5 Score 0.8242580731481483

Why Trump’s Israel Normalization Demand May Kill the Saudi Nuclear Deal

Only days after the Trump administration celebrated what it called a landmark civilian nuclear agreement with Saudi Arabia, the president himself appeared to place the entire arrangement in jeopardy. In a Truth Social post, President Donald Trump declared the

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War on the Rocks Aug 5 Score 0.8234173324074074

Beyond the Output Trap: Haiti and the Future of International Stabilization

Five years after the assassinations in Haiti of Monferrier Dorval, Diego Charles, and Antoinette Duclaire, justice remains elusive. Four years after the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse, accountability is still incomplete. Yet international report

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Wired Aug 5 Score 0.8234018236111111

The AI Notetaker Has Been Invited to All the Meetings

Wispr Flow, a popular dictation tool, has released a live notetaker that transcribes and summarizes meetings. It joins a growing wave of AI notetakers for the workplace.

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The Verge Aug 5 Score 0.8234018212962964

Ted Lasso returns at an important time for Apple TV

2026 is shaping up to be an excellent year for Apple TV. Apple's streaming service has built out an impressive slate that spans returning favorites like Silo and Sugar to all-new hits including OnlyFans-inspired dramedies, terrifying comedies, and paranoid tec

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The Verge Aug 5 Score 0.8231328398148149

SpaceX is coming for T-Mobile, AT&T and Verizon

SpaceX is preparing to build a terrestrial mobile network to "acquire quite a few" of the customers now subscribed to T-Mobile, AT&T, and Verizon. The message to compete head-to-head with the US carriers was delivered by SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell an

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The Guardian — World Aug 5 Score 0.8215937148148149

Wednesday briefing: ​How misinformation and ​a​ hardened immigration policy ​turned Ceuta ​into Europe’s ​latest ​flashpoint

In today’s newsletter: The past week shows how quickly images, rumours and ​right-wing political opportunism can eclipse the facts on the ground Good morning. Last week, an estimated 72,000 migrants began crossing into a tiny Spanish enclave on the tip of Moro

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The Guardian — World Aug 5 Score 0.8184057518518519

Hundreds in Morocco gather near Ceuta border in anxious wait for missing loved ones

People hope to see friends or relatives among those still returning as death toll from mass crossing nears 100 Hundreds of people have gathered in the northern Moroccan town of Fnideq, near the border with Spain’s Ceuta, flashing photos of their missing loved

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BleepingComputer Aug 4 Score 0.8111796138888889

OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests

OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and social engineering attacks against people outside the intended te

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The Verge Aug 4 Score 0.8106499694444446

Don’t screw this up, Marvel

In less than a week, Spider-Man: Brand New Day raked in $1 billion worldwide and had the biggest box office opening weekend in Hollywood history. The feature has been a reminder of why Sony is probably never going to give up the Spider-Man film rights, and hig

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BleepingComputer Aug 4 Score 0.8089115583333334

TP-Link patches Omada ZTP flaws allowing hackers to breach networks

TP-Link has patched 15 vulnerabilities in the zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) mechanism of its Omada network devices that could be chained with previously disclosed flaws to achieve remote code execution (RCE). [...]

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The Verge Aug 4 Score 0.8084786731481483

Now you can securely link multiple phones to one Signal account

You can link more devices with one phone number on Signal now, including an Android phone or iPhone. Signal already supported linking PCs and iPads, but not additional phones. When you link a device on Signal, you can check and respond to new messages across a

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BleepingComputer Aug 4 Score 0.8080022990740742

Phishing service spoofs RingCentral to steal Microsoft 365 accounts

The Greatness phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform has expanded from credential phishing to adversary-in-the-middle attacks and device-code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. [...]

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The Verge Aug 4 Score 0.8066745064814815

AMD's data center business is booming while gaming takes a backseat

Driven by demand for AI capacity, AMD's data center revenue more than doubled year-over-year in its latest earnings report, reaching $6.7 billion. That's up from $5.8 billion in Q1, and jumping 107 percent from the $3.2 billion it reported for the same period

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BleepingComputer Aug 4 Score 0.8031499842592593

77 Open VSX extensions found harvesting developer info

77 extensions on the Open VSX marketplace impersonated legitimate developer tools while transmitting information about the systems and development environments where they were installed. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 4 Score 0.7921240027777778

The Download: US robot restrictions, and ICE's DNA grab

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. Trump’s AI protectionism has come for robotics —James O’Donnell  Humanoid robots usually elicit more cringe than awe:

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 4 Score 0.7917355129629631

CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-9198 IBM Langflow Code Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-18556 N-able N-central Authentication Bypass Using

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 4 Score 0.7917355129629631

Acrisure KARR BT and DR-100

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform unauthorized vehicle control operations. The following versions of Acrisure KARR BT and DR-100 are affected: KARR BT firmware DR-100 firmware CVSS Vendor Equipme

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 4 Score 0.7917355129629631

Thermo Fisher Applied Biosystems Genetic Analyzers

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to modify .fsa/.hid output files, tampering with DNA data and resulting in inaccurate test results. The following versions of Thermo Fisher Applied Biosystems Genetic Analy

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Google AI Blog Aug 3 Score 0.7567353194444445

Inside our 353,000-person vibe coding course

Kaggle’s AI Agents Intensive with Google brought learners together in a no-cost course to build and deploy the next frontier of AI.

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 4 Score 0.7525686129629631

The industry makes great games, but nobody can find them

At the Madeira Games Summit in May, Michal Bujko, senior business development manager at Modma Studios, asked a question: If we were looking back at 2026 five years from now, what should we have fixed when we still had the chance? Read more

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Liberty Street Economics Aug 4 Score 0.7525684648148149

A Window into Bond Investors’ Uncertainty About R‑Star

Monetary policymakers closely monitor the term structure of sovereign bond yields to uncover market participants’ beliefs about the future monetary policy stance, inflation, and activity. A particular object of interest is the natural real rate of return, or “

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The Hacker News Aug 5 Score 0.7463831333333333

QuickFox Supply Chain Attack Delivers FDMTP Backdoor via Trojanized Windows Installer

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed what has been described as a "long-standing supply chain attack" on QuickFox, a virtual private network (VPN) and network acceleration tool designed for overseas Chinese users. According to Fortinet FortiGuard Labs, the

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TechCrunch Aug 4 Score 0.7340684888888889

Lucid's turnaround plan hinges on $1.4B in cash savings, robotaxis

Lucid's new CEO Silvio Napoli listed four must-win priorities, including the successful launch of its midsize EV, finishing a factory in Saudi Arabia, cutting expenses, and robotaxis.

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TechCrunch Aug 4 Score 0.7339157111111111

How to get the best hotel deals for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

We’ve partnered with hotels around Moscone West during Disrupt, taking place October 13 to 15, to secure the best prices available for attendees.

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NASA News Aug 4 Score 0.730075437037037

NASA Will Attempt to Observe Rocket Part’s Lunar Impact

Using ground-based telescopes and space-based assets, NASA and SpaceX are tracking a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5, near the Einstein and Bell craters. The impact poses no danger to Earth a

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MIT News — AI Aug 4 Score 0.7281243060185185

Solving the solvent problem

By focusing on electrolytes, MIT scientists are making sodium-metal batteries a more practical energy storage option.

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Latent Space Aug 4 Score 0.7272973657407408

Unpacking ChatGPT Work: the Agent for a Billion Users

An external reconstruction of how Memory, Proactivity, Scheduling, Browser Use, Plugins, Skills and Tools work in the new ChatGPT Work.

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NASA News Aug 4 Score 0.7268166407407407

NASA’s PUNCH Sharpens Solar Storm Forecasting in First Test

Using continuous imagery from NASA’s PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission, scientists predicted the near-Earth arrival of a solar eruption to within 30 minutes in an initial proof of concept test. The results, presented Tuesday at th

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NASA News Aug 4 Score 0.7252930296296296

Ames Science Stars of the Month – August 2026

The NASA Ames Science Directorate recognizes the outstanding contributions of (pictured left to right) Danielle Lopez, Jennifer Claudio, and Duncan Mifsud. Their commitment to the NASA mission represents the entrepreneurial spirit, technical expertise, and col

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New Scientist Aug 4 Score 0.7250684101851852

The once-impossible black holes that could break thermodynamics

The laws of physics seemed to forbid a strange variety of black holes that could have zero temperature. Columnist Jacklin Kwan explores research that shows these strange behemoths can really exist – and how they could test the limits of thermodynamics

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GitHub Blog Aug 4 Score 0.7247155949074074

Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack

Instead of one huge, un-reviewable pull request, teach coding agents to decompose work into a clean, ordered stack with GitHub stacked pull requests. The post Turn one giant AI-generated pull request to a reviewable stack appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Aug 4 Score 0.7242846962962963

August 2026 Satellite Puzzler

Your challenge is to tell us the location of the satellite image and why it is interesting.

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NASA News Aug 4 Score 0.7238147888888888

NASA Provides Updates on Moon Base Cargo Landers, Tech Demonstrations

NASA is making progress in building the Moon Base, which will become a resilient outpost near the Moon’s South Pole for science, technology, and eventual human operations. To advance lunar surface infrastructure development, commercial partners such as Blue Or

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New Scientist Aug 4 Score 0.7217350768518519

Darwin proved right about gnat-trapping carnivorous plant

Botanists have finally proved what Charles Darwin was unable to nail down – that a genus of plants known to catch insects also digests them, suggesting the extent of plant carnivory has been underestimated

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 4 Score 0.719335974537037

Cancer-fighting chewing gum cuts HPV levels by up to 93%

A specially engineered chewing gum reduced HPV by up to 93% and nearly eliminated two bacteria linked to head and neck cancer. The treatment preserved beneficial mouth bacteria, raising hopes for a safer and more affordable therapy.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 4 Score 0.7189068078703704

518-million-year-old creature reveals the origins of spider fangs

A tiny 518-million-year-old sea creature has revealed the earliest known evidence of the structures that eventually became spiders’ fangs. Hidden inside the fossil were pincerlike limbs and preserved soft tissues that help explain how the ancestors of spiders

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Martin Fowler Aug 4 Score 0.7169570060185185

Fragments: August 4

There’s been a fair bit of publicity of the Open AI “rogue agent” that hacked into Hugging Face . This prompted Anthropic to check what their models were up to and, to my complete lack of surprise, discovered three incidents where models had gained unauthorize

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Marginal Revolution Aug 5 Score 0.7114762685185184

Is this why China finds it so hard to inflate producer prices?

This paper investigates why China’s recurrent credit expansions have coincided with persistently weak inflation. We argue that this pattern reflects the country’s production-oriented monetary regime. At the aggregate level, faster monetary-financial expansion

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Marginal Revolution Aug 5 Score 0.7093697870370369

Victor Niederhoffer, RIP

In addition to his well-known public roles, he worked very hard to help and befriend me when I was younger. Here are the Google searches for Victor. Less well known about Victor is that he had one of the world's best collections of private letters. He also onc

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Marginal Revolution Aug 5 Score 0.7073457129629629

The Value of Behavioral Policies

Behavioral interventions have become central to modern public policy, but their empirical promise remains contested because estimated treatment effects often appear small. We argue that a policy response is economically meaningful only relative to the response

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 4 Score 0.6859010777777776

How Deutsche Bank unlocked agility with an API-ready ecosystem

When people think about digital transformation in banking, they often focus on the visible results: mobile apps and new digital services. But there's an invisible infrastructure making all these services possible: APIs. At Deutsche Bank , we recognized that AP

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