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A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Matt Burgess | tags: access, hackers, researcher

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OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Matt Burgess | tags: atlas, browsers, instructions

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Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: agents, ai agents, real

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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Matt Burgess | tags: abuse, child, library

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The Most Dangerous AI Hacking Techniques Still Have Humans in the Loop (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lily Hay Newman | tags: findings, kettle, models

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Jeff Dean and other top AI researchers are leaving Google to launch their own startup (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Lucas Ropek | tags: dean, discovery, google

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Google’s AI Search Reportedly Told Users That Flock Cameras Are a Goldmine (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: ai search, cameras, cameras goldmine

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Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery (wired.com)

2026-08-05 | by Matt Burgess | tags: abuse, child, library

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Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sundar Pichai | tags: demis, gemini, jeff

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The next chapter of our AI momentum (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sundar Pichai | tags: demis, gemini, jeff

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Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-05 | by Sarah Perez | tags: billion, finkelstein, merchants

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These Are the Sharpest Images Ever Taken of the Sun, and They Might Solve a Decades-Old Mystery (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: date, hawaii, hawaii researchers

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The Sun Looks So Hot Right Now (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-05 | tags: date, hawaii, hawaii researchers

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Apple Is So Overwhelmed With AI-Generated Bug Reports That It’s Turning Away Security Threats. One Big One Almost Slipped Through the Cracks. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-05 | by Jonathan Small | tags: apple, bugs, bynario

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Uncovering the mechanism of female restitution in sugarcane hybrids (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Zhu | tags: bioinformatics, et al, genome

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Why science must reinforce its social contract (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-05 | by Gluckman | tags: political, public, research

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This Plant Has Been Hiding a Killer Secret. Darwin Called It 150 Years Ago (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: saxifraga, darwin, plants

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Your daily Diet Coke habit could be negatively affecting your brain, new study suggests (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: diet coke, artificial sweeteners, memory decline

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Stephen Wolfram's Wife Has Died (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: stephen wolfram, wife, death

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Apple caps bug bounty program due to deluge of AI submissions (engadget.com)

2026-08-04 | by Anna Washenko | tags: apple, bug bounty, ai submissions

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Don’t Wait for a Crisis to Happen Before You Start Managing Your Reputation. Here’s What That Really Costs You. (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-04 | by Paul M. Wilson | tags: reputation management, search engine optimization, online reputation

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When AI Benchmarks Plateau: A Systematic Study of Benchmark Saturation (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai benchmarks, benchmark saturation, systematic study

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Earth Has a Billion Years Left. This Plan Could Stretch It to 9 Quadrillion (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: earth, engineered safeguards, habitability

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Global Warming Is Rapidly Accelerating, New Paper Finds (futurism.com)

2026-08-04 | by Joe Wilkins | tags: geophysical research letters, global warming, climate change

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Commerce AI has a measurement problem no one is talking about (venturebeat.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: ai platforms, digital commerce, adobe analytics

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PC cooling outfit Arctic reverses tariff-era price hikes after US government refund — lowers prices across lineup, including coolers and case fans (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Kunal Khullar | tags: arctic, liquid freezer iii pro, us government

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Chinese ship spotted lurking over Taiwan-US undersea cables — 'research vessel' seen loitering above the 8,000-mile Pacific Light Cable Network fiber-optic system (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-04 | by Mark Tyson | tags: pacific light cable network, undersea cables, windward maritime analysis

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NSF rolls out ‘industry PhD’ programme — joining a global trend (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Ahart | tags: nsf, industry phd, university of illinois

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Tiny patch of Amazon probably holds 40,000 insect species — many new to science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | by Lenharo | tags: amazon, insect biodiversity, dna barcoding

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What’s missing from the White House plan for the future of US science (feeds.nature.com)

2026-08-04 | tags: white house, vannevar bush, artificial intelligence