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OpenAI News Aug 7 Score 0.9400183319444445

How HSP GRUPPE builds AI capabilities for tax advisory

Discover how HSP GRUPPE uses ChatGPT Enterprise to boost productivity, improve work quality, and create more capacity for tax advisory and client service.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 8 Score 0.8903145430555555

Quoting John Gruber

Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare , per se, but they’re occasional . If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 7 Score 0.8899062097222221

Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face

OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" ( previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it pr

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Schneier on Security Aug 7 Score 0.8852147833333333

Friday Squid Blogging: Arctic Bobtail Squid Video

Nice video of the Arctic bobtail squid. 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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Foreign Policy Aug 7 Score 0.882949460185185

The Middle East Tries Its Hand at a NATO-Style Pact

Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey pledge mutual defense in the face of aggressive Iranian and Israeli operations.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 7 Score 0.8821890800925924

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)

Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5 , where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years

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Foreign Policy Aug 7 Score 0.881788349074074

Why China’s Elites Still Want to Leave

Social callousness pushes even the prosperous to seek new lives overseas.

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Foreign Policy Aug 7 Score 0.8811411268518518

The Straits Are Not OK

After Hormuz, global waterways will return to being sites of bloody contention.

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Foreign Policy Aug 7 Score 0.8805777009259258

There’s No Going Back

Thomas Wright on the post-Cold War order.

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Foreign Policy Aug 7 Score 0.8800230712962962

An ‘Odyssey,’ From a Dog’s Perspective

Plus, a satire about a Nigerian on holiday, and more international fiction in August.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 7 Score 0.8772085245370369

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI

The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th: “We’re seeing from some of the data internally at

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Quanta Magazine Aug 7 Score 0.8732276810185184

Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle

A global constellation of neutrino detectors is creating a never-before-seen view of the radioactive elements that power Earth’s tectonic heat engine. The post Neutrinos From Deep Inside Earth Provide a New Picture of the Mantle first appeared on Quanta Magazi

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Schneier on Security Aug 7 Score 0.8674263574074074

ICE Is Buying Access to Credit Card Records

Through data brokers, ICE is buying the information you provided to open a credit card.

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The Guardian — World Aug 8 Score 0.8233688800925927

‘I couldn’t breathe’: the deadly health burden of wildfire smoke

Scientists race to untangle complex links between exposure and mortality as fire weather grows more prevalent A thousand kilometres from the infernos gorging on northern Ontario’s boreal forests, Erin O’Connor watched the sky above Canada’s biggest city turn a

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The Guardian — World Aug 8 Score 0.821915639351852

US promises $1bn in security aid to Colombia as new rightwing president pledges drugs crackdown

Trump ally Abelardo De La ‌Espriella vows to start ‘profound transformation’ of country’s destiny as he is sworn in The ​Trump administration plans to provide $1bn in security assistance to the ⁠government of Colombia’s new ​rightwing ‌president, the US state

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The Verge Aug 7 Score 0.811827288425926

The gaming site sponsored by Walmart lays off its editorial staff

Restart, a games media website launched in late 2024 that was sponsored by Walmart, has laid off its "entire editorial team," according to a Friday post from Brandy Berthelson, the site's former editor-in-chief. Other staffers have also posted about being laid

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The Guardian — World Aug 7 Score 0.8112582324074075

Spain to introduce temporary border checks on visitors from Italy

Move comes in response to Rome imposing similar measures after mass migration rush to Ceuta Spain has announced it will introduce temporary border checks on visitors from Italy in response to Rome imposing similar measures after a mass rush of people from Moro

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BleepingComputer Aug 7 Score 0.808762076388889

Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks

A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. [...]

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The Verge Aug 7 Score 0.808402751388889

Fenix Flexin isn’t even denying using AI to make ‘Rubberz’ anymore

It took long enough, but now LA rapper Fenix Flexin appears to have admitted using AI for the 80s synth pop-themed song "Rubberz." His comments follow the producer Medasin's videos claiming that an AI tool called Treblo (formerly Sonauto) was used to make the

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BleepingComputer Aug 7 Score 0.8075375393518519

Unlimited Technology Systems breach impacts 3.8 million people

Healthcare software company Unlimited Technology Systems reported that more than 3.8 million people were impacted by a data breach incident that occurred in October 2025. [...]

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The Verge Aug 7 Score 0.8066782143518519

Watching Roku’s AI channel is like eating from a trough

The appeal of free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) channels has always been the way they make it easier to (re)discover classic films and series. But Roku's latest experiment in the FAST space has less to do with traditionally produced entertainment a

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Wired Aug 7 Score 0.8065198958333334

The Chinese Philosopher Americans Can’t Stop Fighting About

Yiyang Zhuge was already an intellectual celebrity in China. Her viral interview with Christopher Nolan made her famous in the US—and quickly turned her into a political Rorschach test.

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The Verge Aug 7 Score 0.8061448810185186

OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it's supposedly too powerful

OpenAI says it is pausing "internal activities" around an in-development AI model, Astra, because it doesn't yet meet new security standards the company is putting in place. The announcement follows its recent disclosure that OpenAI models accidentally hacked

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The Verge Aug 7 Score 0.8051328439814815

The only instant cameras worth your money

There’s something magical about using instant cameras that smartphones can’t match. You can capture a moment, print it out, and then give the photo as a gift or hold onto it. Image quality won’t be all that good, but imperfections are part of the allure. We te

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Wired Aug 7 Score 0.8030277662037038

The 7 Best TV Shows to Stream This Month

Lanterns, Dark Matter, and the original Star Trek are just a few of the TV shows you should be watching right now.

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MIT Technology Review Aug 7 Score 0.7989068398148149

The Download: a censorship conspiracy theory and the first virus created by AI

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 ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy For years, narratives about a “censors

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Wired Aug 7 Score 0.7987388773148149

Scientists Used AI to Create 16 New Viruses

The use of AI systems to create viruses opens up new possibilities for combating bacterial resistance. It also raises concerns about the pace at which technology is outstripping regulation.

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BleepingComputer Aug 7 Score 0.7983565208333334

Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains

Gen's H1 2026 Threat Report examines two separate attack chains. One used compromised business inboxes and browser manipulation in a banking-malware campaign, while the other used clipboard hijacking to redirect cryptocurrency payments. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 7 Score 0.7983512842592593

How ideas of a vast censorship network moved from the online fringe to Trump policy

This article was produced in partnership with Type Investigations, with support from the Wayne Barrett Project. One morning in April 2025, employees of a small office in the US State Department got the email many of them had been dreading.  For months, El

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BleepingComputer Aug 7 Score 0.7976481875000001

North Carolina Ports confirms cyberattack disrupting operations

The North Carolina Ports Authority has confirmed that a cyberattack disrupted IT systems and slowed operations at Port of Wilmington, Port of Morehead City, and Charlotte Inland Port. [...]

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 7 Score 0.7950184972222223

CPDLC over ATN-B1 Vulnerabilities

View CSAF Summary ATN-B1 CPDLC relies on legacy clear text unauthenticated radio frequency links. Research demonstrates that these characteristics allow unauthorized message injection, denial-of-service conditions, and forced session resets. These vulnerabilit

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 7 Score 0.7950184972222223

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation.   CVE-2026-8037 Progress LoadMaster Command Injection Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vecto

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 7 Score 0.7873092282407408

Linux Shell Forensic: Let?s Dive Into Atuin!, (Fri, Aug 7th)

UNIX systems (including Linux) are well-known to record a lot of activities in many different locations. But there is one domain where they definitely lack of "modern" logging: shells. Most shells provide an historization of the typed commands through a flat f

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 7 Score 0.7623407805555557

Investors hate Roblox’ new direction – but a reversal may be impossible | Opinion

When Epic Games announced major layoffs back in March, it become clear that Fortnite – once regarded as holding a near-unassailable market position – was facing a serious slump, if not a lasting decline . One common response was to claim that the d

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Schneier on Security Aug 4 Score 0.7617096907407407

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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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 7 Score 0.7610329101851853

Analyst: AI-focused M&A deals are "weakening" the games investment landscape

A new M&A report from analyst S&P has indicated a weakening investment environment for games, with available funding increasingly going to businesse models relying on recurring engagement, platform leverage or alternative monetization. Read more

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NASA News Aug 8 Score 0.7468240027777778

APOD: 2026 August 8 – A Messier Moment for Tempel 2

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 8 – A… 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 feature

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Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) Aug 7 Score 0.7383523768518518

Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door

Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door appeared first on Unit 42 .

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TechCrunch — AI Aug 7 Score 0.7380291412037037

OpenAI says it slowed Astra model development over security concerns

OpenAI said this model, which is still in development, reached its "critical cybersecurity threshold," meaning it could independently identify and carry out cyberattacks against traditionally well-protected real-world systems.

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InfoQ Aug 7 Score 0.7350177222222222

Cloudflare Launches Persistent, Stateful, Computer-like Environments for Agents

Cloudflare has introduced Cloudflare Computer, a new open-source runtime designed to give AI agents something closer to a real "computer" instead of just ephemeral containers. It leverages Cloudflare isolates for fast serverless execution, making agents cheape

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NASA News Aug 7 Score 0.7316175212962963

2026 IGARSS Hyperwall Schedule

IGARSS 2026 Join NASA in the Exhibit Hall (Booth #100) for Hyperwall Storytelling by NASA experts. Full Hyperwall Agenda below. MONDAY, AUGUST 10 3:00 PM Technology Enabling the Future of Earth ScienceMike Seablom3:15 PM Discovery Earth: New Missions & Te

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The Hacker News Aug 7 Score 0.7313595888888889

Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer

A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly genera

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TechCrunch — AI Aug 7 Score 0.7271333078703703

Cloudflare launches Kitesurf, a browser built for AI agents

Kitesurf is a cloud-hosted browser designed for AI agents instead of people. It uses less computing power than Chromium for common automation tasks, helping developers build browser-based AI agents more efficiently.

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NASA News Aug 7 Score 0.7241179842592592

NASA's IXPE Studies Magnetar

Scientists using NASA’s IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) conducted more than 140 hours of observations of the magnetar 1E 1547-5408, shown in this Aug. 5, 2026, artist's concept, between March and April 2025. In doing so, they may have captured empty

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New Scientist Aug 7 Score 0.7218445388888889

Postbiotic supplement boosts body's own GLP-1 and weight loss

A small trial suggests a supplement containing dead bacteria could offer a cheaper alternative to weight-loss drugs such as semaglutide, but further evidence is needed

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 7 Score 0.7210879157407407

New autism therapy shows surprising benefits even in adult mice

Blocking the glycine transporter SLC6A20 restored important brain signaling and improved social, communication, and repetitive behaviors in autism-related mouse models. The treatment also worked in human brain organoids and showed lasting effects in adult mice

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New Scientist Aug 7 Score 0.7184811129629629

SpaceX crash site on moon revealed by South Korean orbiter

An out-of-control SpaceX rocket that crashed into the moon earlier this week did, in fact, leave an impact crater, according to images from a Korea AeroSpace Administration lunar orbiter that caught before-and-after photographs

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InfoQ Aug 7 Score 0.7183510555555556

Presentation: Rewriting All of Spotify's Code Base, All the Time

Jo Kelly-Fenton and Aleksandar Mitic explain how Spotify created "Honk," an AI coding agent, to handle complex fleet-wide codebase migrations. They share key architectural insights on decoupling CI verification runtimes from AI agents, dealing with automated p

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 7 Score 0.7173758787037037

Earth’s molten core suddenly reversed direction — and scientists don’t know why

Earth’s molten iron core unexpectedly reversed direction beneath the Pacific, revealing a dramatic change in the hidden engine that creates our planet’s magnetic field. Satellite data suggest the surge is already weakening, raising the possibility that the dee

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New Scientist Aug 7 Score 0.716467687037037

Drought and heat push Europe's power grid to breaking point

High temperatures and low water levels have forced several countries to shut down nuclear reactors just as citizens turn up their air conditioning, forcing energy prices to spike and raising the threat of blackouts

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InfoQ Aug 7 Score 0.7150177222222223

Article: InfoQ Culture and Methods Trends Report - 2026

This report summarizes how the InfoQ Culture and Methods editorial team sees the ongoing and emergent trends in the culture and methods space in 2026. By Shane Hastie, Ben Linders, Vanessa Formicola, Shawna Martell, Rafiq Gemmail, Craig Smith, Phillip Mortimer

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Marginal Revolution Aug 8 Score 0.7103868949074074

What I've been reading

1. Mike Jay, Wireheads: An Unnatural History of Technology in the Brain. Much of this story is told through the lens of the accompanying science fiction and non-neuro trends in other parts of science. An excellent book, substantive on every page, and it will m

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 7 Score 0.6908505162037036

Zero-code, low-cost data ingestion: New BigQuery DTS capabilities

In a fast-paced digital economy, data is your most critical engine. Yet, many enterprises find themselves trapped in a costly paradox, spending over 100 hours a week building and fixing fragile, in-house ETL pipelines or wrestling with unpredictable third-part

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 7 Score 0.689183849074074

How Google Cloud detects, contains, and protects against emerging threats

At Google Cloud, securing your data and business systems is our foundational commitment. We empower our customers with the tools, governance, and infrastructure needed to securely deploy workloads and maintain long-term trust. We approach security from a share

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 7 Score 0.689183849074074

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google C

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 7 Score 0.689183848611111

Unifying Structured and Unstructured Data Insights with BQ Search Innovations

Modern enterprises possess a vast amount of unstructured data, yet they frequently encounter significant challenges in managing and extracting value from it. Historically, unlocking the insights hidden within PDFs, audio files, images, and unstructured text re

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