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Security researchers have identified a scam operation dubbed 'Phantom Deal' that targets large enterprises by impersonating merger and acquisition activity. The attackers conduct deep research into target companies before approaching midlevel employees with fabricated deal scenarios designed to authorize large financial transfers.
Researchers analyzed immune responses from over 150 non-human primates infected during a prolonged Shigella outbreak at a research facility, identifying specific bacterial molecules and antibody binding sites linked to protective immunity. The findings, published in Science Translational Medicine, pinpoint precise structural targets that could inform vaccine design against multiple Shigella strains.
OpenAI has released GPT-6 Astra, a model trained on over 100,000 GPUs at its Texas Stargate site, marking the first time OpenAI used other AI models to help supervise training. President Greg Brockman described it as a 'generational leap' and hinted it could mark the arrival of artificial general intelligence. The model will roll out first to select partners in OpenAI's Daybreak Access program before reaching ChatGPT Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and API users.
Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, an upgrade to its AI weather model that generates hourly forecasts on a 5-kilometer grid, five times finer than its predecessor. The improvement comes from feeding the model live satellite imagery and sparse weather station readings instead of relying mainly on lagging numerical prediction data.
Google DeepMind has released WeatherNext 3, a new AI-driven global weather model that the company says improves precipitation forecast accuracy by up to 50% for predictions made a day or more ahead. The system is positioned as an upgrade over prior AI weather tools and traditional forecasting methods.
Market Street, once San Francisco's bustling commercial core, has become a largely deserted stretch lined with boarded-up storefronts and a barren, car-free roadway used mainly by buses. The decline followed the city's 2019 decision to ban private vehicles from the street, compounded by a wave of pandemic-era crime and looting and the mass shift to remote work that emptied downtown offices. Because San Francisco's downtown is zoned mostly for offices rather than housing, the pandemic-driven exodus left the area far emptier than mixed-use downtowns common in Europe and Asia.
A new repository presents a Lean 4 formal proof deriving the bound liminf(p_{n+1}-p_n) ≤ 186 for consecutive primes, building on the Maynard-Tao style DHL[40,2] admissible-tuple framework. The proof chain is conditional on three explicit input axioms covering Kloosterman sum bounds and related estimates, which have not themselves been formalized as Lean proofs despite being backed by established results like Deligne's theorem via Katz's monograph.
Nolan Lawson notes that several prominent frontend web development educators—including Axel Rauschmayer, Salma Alam-Naylor, Josh W. Comeau, Kent C. Dodds, Addy Osmani, Rachel Nabors, and Lydia Hallie—have either scaled back their work or pivoted toward AI-related topics. To illustrate the shift, Lawson tested Claude Sonnet on a nuanced Chrome performance debugging scenario involving high 'Style Calculation' costs, a problem that has historically tripped up even experienced developers, and found the AI's answer impressively accurate.
Apple is overhauling the Calendar app's interface in iOS 27, focusing on the event details view and the event creation/editing screens. The updated layouts add icons, group information under clearer headings, and reorganize content so more details fit on screen at once.
OpenAI has unveiled GPT-6 Astra, a new flagship model succeeding last year's GPT-5, bringing major gains in computer use, browsing, software engineering, and scientific reasoning. The company reports near-perfect scores on benchmarks like FrontierMath Tier 4, ARC-AGI-3, and ExploitBench, and says Astra is its best model yet for coding tasks. Astra also introduces a new memory system for Codex that lets it retain notes across long coding sessions instead of relying solely on context summarization.
Snap plans to release its Specs smart glasses on September 16 priced at $2,195, a project CEO Evan Spiegel has championed for years. His public appearances promoting the device, including wearing them throughout a CNBC interview, drew mocking reactions online over their appearance and cost.
France's data protection authority CNIL has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 after a 2025 breach exposed data belonging to over 727,000 people, including more than 524,000 patients and roughly 202,000 people listed as trusted contacts. Investigators found the hospital allowed external users to log in without VPNs or multi-factor authentication, gave a single compromised account access to all patient records, and had no real-time monitoring to catch the intrusion as it unfolded over several days.