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OpenAI News Aug 10 Score 0.9414630370370372

Expanding Daybreak as the Cyber Defense Window Narrows

Meet GPT-5.6-Cyber, OpenAI’s cybersecurity-specific model available through Daybreak Red for authorized vulnerability research, exploit validation, and security testing.

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Foreign Policy Aug 11 Score 0.8965112759259258

What Morocco Was Saying to Spain in Ceuta

The migrant crisis has underscored Madrid’s increasingly tenuous geopolitical position.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Aug 10 Score 0.8896865194444443

Introducing Muse Glimmer

Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.0 license (a step up from the janky Llama licenses of old). They claim to have optimized it for exactly the kind of things I'm looking

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Foreign Policy Aug 10 Score 0.8818705351851851

Netanyahu Nixes Trump’s Gaza Deal

Another weekend with no resolution to the Middle East’s wars.

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Quanta Magazine Aug 10 Score 0.8747010958333332

Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

A simple scaling law brings order to the chaos of flowing water, rock, and sediment. New findings have extended the law even further. The post Why Are Rivers So Mathematical? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Aug 10 Score 0.8681976101851852

Python Now Has a Post-Quantum Encryption Library

This is good : Post-quantum cryptography is now one pip-install away for the entire Python ecosystem. With funding from the Sovereign Tech Agency , we implemented support for ML-KEM, the NIST-standard key-establishment primitive, and ML-DSA, the NIST-standard

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Foreign Policy Aug 10 Score 0.8664811833333332

Europe’s Summer of Nightmares

Punishing heat and wildfires have cost billions and displaced hundreds of thousands of people.

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The Guardian — World Aug 11 Score 0.8240224023148148

Colombia quake leaves more than 110 dead – as it happened

This blog is now closed – a full report is here People remain trapped in Cali, one of Colombia’s largest cities, ​after more than two dozen structures ‌collapsed, mayor Alejandro Eder said. ‌ He added that the city had asked authorities in Bogota and Medellin

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Foreign Affairs Aug 11 Score 0.821463025925926

China’s Hunger Games

How Beijing turned its food insecurity into geopolitical leverage.

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The Guardian — World Aug 11 Score 0.818533513425926

Scores dead in Colombia after powerful earthquake strikes west of country

Quake of 7.4 magnitude collapses and severely damages buildings in several major cities, including Cali and Pereira More than 100 people died after a powerful earthquake struck western Colombia, collapsing and severely damaging scores of buildings in major cit

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BleepingComputer Aug 10 Score 0.8133342046296297

Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year

Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]

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The Verge Aug 10 Score 0.8114626814814816

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t understand how to live

Recently, a man I was rock climbing with told me about how he'd used AI to make a motivational poster for himself, which he'd hung on his bedroom wall: a bear, walking a slackline over a canyon, holding a sign that said, "Do cool shit." I made what I hoped was

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The Verge Aug 10 Score 0.8103029592592593

Anker's travel charger works in almost any country and is down to $20

If you’ve got international travel coming up, an adapter is essential for keeping your phone, earbuds, power banks, and other gadgets charged. Anker’s Nano Travel Adapter is one of our picks from our guide to the best gadgets for summer travel because it can c

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BleepingComputer Aug 10 Score 0.8101346675925927

BdThemes plugins supply-chain hack creates rogue WordPress admins

A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]

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MIT Technology Review Aug 10 Score 0.8081293148148149

AI professors are negotiating the new realities of academic research

This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week, I headed 30 miles south of San Francisco to a hotel in Mountain View, California, to join some of the most acco

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The Verge Aug 10 Score 0.807208051851852

Bluesky now lets you hide reposts from that annoying person you follow

Bluesky has added a new feature that lets you hide reposts from a specific person in your feeds. The tool might be helpful if you want to stop seeing reposts from that one person who clogs up your feed with reposts of things you don't care about. If you follow

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The Verge Aug 10 Score 0.8068640703703704

Costco's great Switch 2 console bundle includes over $100 in free stuff

The cost of the Nintendo Switch 2 is going up by $50 on September 1st, 2026, resulting in a $499.99 price tag for just the console. We’re just weeks away, but Costco is offering a fantastic $499.99 bundle for its members that includes a Nintendo Switch 2, a 25

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BleepingComputer Aug 10 Score 0.8042967046296297

New StormEncryptor ransomware used by former Medusa affiliate

A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]

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The Verge Aug 10 Score 0.8039626814814815

What to expect from Google’s 2026 Pixel hardware launch event

It's that time of year: On Wednesday, Google is set to host its annual Made by Google hardware launch event for Pixel gadgets. Google itself has already teased new slab-style and foldable Pixel smartphones, but leaks also indicate that the company could announ

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SANS Internet Storm Center Aug 10 Score 0.802150750925926

Scans for Solana (Surfpool?) Endpoints, (Mon, Aug 10th)

Solana is a crypto platform known for speed. Developers like it to develop distributed applications or to implement crypto payments. To interact with the blockchain, APIs are provided for developers. These APIs will either "speak" JSON or gRPC. One implementat

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The Economist — Finance & Economics Aug 9 Score 0.799592387037037

China is now the world’s great oil power

Forget OPEC. The Chinese Communist Party calls the shots

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BleepingComputer Aug 10 Score 0.7990892972222223

CISA: SonicWall SMA1000 flaws now exploited by ransomware gangs

CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]

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Google AI Blog Aug 10 Score 0.7989629837962964

Evolve your marketing with new AI tools

Learn how new AI and agentic experiences across Google Ads and Google Analytics can simplify your marketing workflow.

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MIT Technology Review Aug 10 Score 0.7950737592592593

The Download: AI agents for science, and the "censorship-industrial complex"

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. AI for science needs reasoning, not just data —Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google and the cofounder of Schmidt Science

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Aug 10 Score 0.7947965916666667

#StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware

Advisory at a Glance Title #StopRansomware: Gunra Ransomware Original Publication August 10, 2026 Executive Summary Gunra is a ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) used by affiliates to target government, critical infrastructure, and other organizations. The Gunra r

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MIT Technology Review Aug 10 Score 0.7897959814814816

These startups are chasing the next big thing in LLMs

MIT Technology Review’s What’s Next series looks across industries, trends, and technologies to give you a first look at the future. You can read the rest of them here. Way back in the summer of 2017, AI researchers at Google put out a paper called “Atten

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MIT Technology Review Aug 10 Score 0.7897959814814816

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

Every few decades, someone announces that science has reached its end. In 1903, the revered physicist Albert Michelson wrote that the “facts of physical science have all been discovered.” In the 1980s, Stephen Hawking predicted that theoretical physics might b

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NBER New Working Papers Aug 11 Score 0.7875000000000001

Do Children's Genes Evoke Educational Expectations? Direct Genetic Effects on Parents' and Teachers' College Encouragement -- by Philipp Dierker, Dalton Conley

Parents’ and teachers’ expectations and aspirations are critical drivers of educational outcomes, yet what causally shapes these expectations remains unclear. In the present study, we address this question by deploying the random experiment of meiosis: namely,

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 10 Score 0.7669090921296298

Valve confirms Steam hardware buyers' data exposed in CEVA Logistics cyberattack

Valve has begun notifying European customers who ordered Steam hardware that their personal information may have been exposed following a cyberattack on CEVA Logistics, the company that handles Steam hardware deliveries across the region. Read more

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GamesIndustry.biz Aug 10 Score 0.7659072402777779

HandyGames rebrands as THQ Nordic Mobile

HandyGames has rebranded as THQ Nordic Mobile, with the publisher shifting its focus toward bringing premium PC and console titles to mobile platforms. Read more

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Schneier on Security Aug 7 Score 0.7649929805555555

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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Liberty Street Economics Aug 10 Score 0.755629189351852

Stripping STRIPs Trading Activity

In March 2020, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) began reporting aggregate trading volume for securities issued by the U.S. Treasury Department. The public data do not, however, include information about the trading activity of Separate Tradi

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Quanta Magazine Aug 7 Score 0.753005725

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 0.7472045546296295

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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NASA News Aug 11 Score 0.7466022435185186

APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six Moons of Saturn

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 11 – Six… 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

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NASA News Aug 11 Score 0.7464911324074074

Bountiful Roebuck Bay

Tidal and seasonal shifts leave their mark on this crescent-shaped, productive bay in Western Australia’s Kimberley region.

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Platformer Aug 11 Score 0.742435137962963

Superintelligence is a dragon

What Mark Zuckerberg misunderstands about powerful AI

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TechCrunch Aug 10 Score 0.7372099685185185

Now Rippling is counter-suing tiny startup Runlayer

This lawsuit follows one filed last month by Runlayer that accused Rippling of stealing its product ideas. It's a seller- and buyer-beware market warning.

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InfoQ Aug 10 Score 0.7331290310185186

CloudFlare Previews Automatic WebMCP Support for Web Pages

Cloudflare announced a developer preview that lets any website enable a WebMCP (Web Model Context Protocol) interface with a single dashboard switch. This allows browser-based AI agents to interact with unmodified web pages through structured tools instead of

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GitHub Blog Aug 10 Score 0.7322958944444444

Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java

Enterprise Java developers have a new superpower—drive GitHub Copilot from idiomatic Java code with annotations, virtual threads, and more. The post Using the GitHub Copilot SDK for Java appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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NASA News Aug 10 Score 0.7300448361111112

Community College Instructors Bring Astronomy Textbook Into 21st Century

Teaching the beautiful and inspirational science of astronomy using only the conceptual framework offered by a traditional textbook – without incorporating the wealth of incredible resources, images and activities from NASA – falls short of the more modern, ac

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New Scientist Aug 10 Score 0.7281295152777778

What primates tell us about the evolutionary origins of keeping pets

Keeping pets seems to be fairly recent behaviour in the timeline of human evolution. Columnist Michael Marshall turns to the latest research on primates to understand how long we’ve had the impulse to adopt furry friends

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NASA News Aug 10 Score 0.7273027064814814

NASA+ Debuts on discovery+, Coming Soon to HBO Max

As NASA+ continues its expansion across multiple streaming platforms to bring space closer to home, NASA announced Monday programming is next heading to discovery+ and HBO Max. A continuous live feed of NASA+ programming is streaming on discovery+ live channel

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New Scientist Aug 10 Score 0.7247961819444444

The shock revelation that light bulbs are wrecking your metabolism

Since the 2000s, our light exposure has changed drastically as we make our buildings more energy-efficient. Now, we’re discovering how this may mess with our mitochondria, contributing to diabetes, dementia and more

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InfoQ Aug 10 Score 0.7240179199074074

Project Valhalla's First Preview: JEP 401 Redefines == for Java Objects

JEP 401, integrated into JDK 28, introduces value objects. These new class instances feature final fields, altered behavior for equality checks, and stricter construction and synchronization rules. It aims to enhance efficiency and reduce memory allocation cos

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NASA News Aug 10 Score 0.7231300212962963

Lion Nebula Roars to Life With NASA’s Webb

Observing across the starry “plains” of space, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has taken new images of NGC 2392, nicknamed the Lion Nebula. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope previously viewed this planetary nebula in 2000, imaging the lion face-shaped target in

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New Scientist Aug 10 Score 0.7231295152777778

Your running style changes when you’re short of sleep

There are measurable changes in the way we run when we are short of sleep, which give us a clearer picture of how a lack of shut-eye affects our risk of injury

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New Scientist Aug 10 Score 0.7214628486111111

Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions

A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close to those that may be found just under the Martian surface

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FRED Blog Aug 10 Score 0.7214627037037037

Can small business owners access the credit they need?

The takeaway Small businesses with lower credit risk tend to receive all the financing they seek more often than businesses with higher credit risk, which may be newer, smaller, and more in need of financing.   Small business credit Fed … Continue r

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Aug 10 Score 0.7205605652777778

Scientists discover a hidden switch inside silver nanocatalysts

Silver nanocatalysts have been found to switch where they perform their most important reactions depending on whether a solid oxide cell is making electricity or hydrogen. The discovery could enable smarter catalyst designs that boost clean power generation wh

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Marginal Revolution Aug 11 Score 0.7098181814814813

Who enters Congress?

We trace the family origins of Members of Congress (MC) born between 1830 and 1950, linking each MC, their parents, and their brothers to the complete-count censuses. Future MCs have always been economic outliers. By 1940, close to 60 percent of MCs aged 18

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CNCF Blog Aug 10 Score 0.7018235717592591

Learning Cloud-Native Engineering Beyond Tutorials Through LFX

I joined the LFX mentorship expecting to spend three months writing documentation. A few weeks later, I was deploying OpenTelemetry Collectors across AWS EC2 instances, debugging networking problems between machines, and trying to understand why a...

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Google Cloud Blog Aug 10 Score 0.6989619324074073

Introducing the Developer Device Platform for agentic mobile app development

Most enterprises connect with their customers through a device. Whether it’s using a mobile app to order a product, contact customer service, view content, or manage their account, the customer experience depends on how well an app can run locally on the custo

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