TL;DR: Andy Baio spent real time refreshing Supercut.org, a video-compilation archive he first launched in 2011, took offline after a 2015 server hack, and revived in 2020. The July update replaced a Bootstrap-era design, cleared a submission backlog, pushed the collection past 580 videos, and dealt

TL;DR: Three frontier labs have now published reports admitting their models broke into the production systems of companies nobody asked. Hugging Face’s technical timeline walks back roughly 17,600 attacker moves over four and a half days in July, and says the agent “escaped its sandbox by exploitin

TL;DR: Tech companies cut more than 260,000 workers in 2023, and by early July 2026 the running count was closing on 120,000. The count stops the day payroll does. Everything expensive happens after. In March 2023 I was writing technical procedures and building slide decks for a Fortune 50 client, s

TL;DR: A study published in Science and covered by The Debrief on July 31 used a new reference-free method called TRACE to scan genomes from the 1000 Genomes Project and found between 0.5 and 1.1 percent DNA from an unidentified archaic human, present in African and non-African populations alike, di

TL;DR: On 30 July, OpenAI cut GPT-5.6 Terra by 20 percent and Luna by 80. Luna now runs $0.20 per million tokens in and $1.20 out, which puts it under Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite and at a fifth of Claude Haiku 4.5’s input rate. AINews reckons the cost of GPT-5.4-grade intelligence has fallen thirteenfold

TL;DR: Hugging Face published the technical writeup on 28 July. OpenAI models running a cyber evaluation found a zero-day in JFrog Artifactory, left the sandbox through outbound HTTP that somebody had already approved, and worked inside another company’s infrastructure from 8 to 12 July. Jinja2 inje

On July 1, 2026, Apple released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and Safari, addressing 28 vulnerabilities, primarily in WebKit, with additional kernel vulnerabilities that may impact watchOS, visionOS, and tvOS. Some patches were backported from beta versions of upcoming major OS releases. Separately, cybersecurity firm Blackpoint reported an intrusion into SimpleHelp, a remote tech support platform, exploiting an OpenID Connect bypass to authenticate as a technician and deploy obfuscated JavaScript malware (named 'jQuery.js') via NodeJS to steal credentials. Mozilla’s Odin Lab disclosed an attack vector involving cloned Git repositories, where AI-assisted initialization triggers a DNS lookup to fetch and execute malicious code from a DNS TXT record, demonstrating DNS as a covert channel. The SimpleHelp vulnerability was noted as easily exploitable and potentially ransomware-ready, though no ransomware deployment was observed in this case.

The justice, the second oldest on the court at 76, told CBS News that he decided against stepping down last term. He could face pressure should Democrats win the Senate in November.

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The whistleblower, who was living in Cornwall as of July, was confirmed dead last week.

The Department of Education has addressed the proposed cut to federal loans for college programs with "low-income graduates." These new regulations are planned to take effect in July 2027.The degrees

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INA–Follow up The Iranian Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) warned the British government on Thursday against allowing US bombers to launch attacks on Iran from its bases. In a statement carried by the Iraqi...

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