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Framingham Public Library (via Facebook): We're officially one month out from the first annual Dark Summer Book Fest at the Framingham Public Library! It'll be Saturday, August 8th from 11am-5pm. This is an all ages event with authors and books for everyone from kids, to teens,… [Link] #Framingham
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OpenAI shares update on GPT-5.6 availability after holding back release
OpenAIはリリースを延期した後、GPT-5.6の可用性を更新しました
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Claude Cowork turns your phone into a remote control for AI work

Anthropic started rolling out Claude Cowork, an AI agent that completes multi-step tasks, in beta for Max users on mobile and the web. They describe a goal, and Claude plans the work, uses the required …
#anthropic #claude #hackernews
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Implementing federated learning for privacy-preserving emotion detection in educational environments via Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence (@FrontiersIn):
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“new Silicon Valley .. cluster ..
.. defense tech, robotics & AI, w/ .. leaders of each sector speaking almost in unison to describe .. urgency of an American industrial renaissance & present technological competition w/ China in terms of a new Cold War” www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o... @nytimes.com
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Today's read: Corero Network Security Partners with Commercis to Expand DDoS Protection in the Middle East 📣

🔗 Read the full story at ift.tt/138lf7o

Never miss a beat in telecoms. Catch the latest news on @TheFastMode 🚀

#tech #technews #telecoms
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In my latest for @forbes.com, I wrote about the new types of cyber-physical vulnerabilities created by the integration of AI models into physical operations, and how corporate boards should address these risks

www.forbes.com/sites/anjana...
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OpenAI y NVIDIA se alían para desplegar 10 gigavatios de IA.

NVIDIA invertirá hasta 100.000 millones de dólares conforme se despliegue la infraestructura. El primer gigavatio arranca en la segunda mitad de 2026, sobre Vera Rubin.

Leer en NVIDIA

#LaSeñalNews #Tecnología #IA #NVIDIA
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"The crucial distinction is between what the model is saying and what is "on its mind."
... Critically, the researchers report that this workspace was not deliberately engineered. It "emerged on its own during Claude's training process.""

#AI

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Residential Proxy Risks: Understanding Google’s Latest Action Against 2 Million Strong NetNut

Google announced that it helped take down NetNut, a 2 million strong malicious residential proxy network. The incident highlights the growing risks posed by residential proxy networks that quietly…
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One of the companies porting everything to rust should definitely fund the Clippy team, it's one of the best parts of Rust and needs love :) blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/...
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The developers of Redox OS, an open source operating system written completely in Rust, announced progress on several fronts. These are some of the highlights from the June 2026 update.

www.newinlinux.com/rust-based-r...
#Linux
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PCCC Realty LLC in the US was claimed by the Nightspire ransomware group. Details on any stolen or encrypted data remain unavailable. #UnitedStates #Nightspire #Ransomware
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Restaurants are still figuring out how to best handle cyber attacks on sensitive data.
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Scientific breakthroughs, artistic leaps, technological innovation — these rarely emerge from efficient retrieval of known information. They emerge from periods of undirected exploration,
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Google Photos adds Video Remix powered by Gemini Omni to generate realistic background edits and new variations of personal videos from templates.
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Thousands of malicious AI skills found capable of stealing data, running malware

AI agents can browse the web, use external tools, execute commands, and perform tasks on behalf of users. Many rely on skills that define how they interact with services and data. Malicious skills ca…
#hackernews #news
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Cognition releases SWE-1.7, trained from Kimi K2.7 and available at 1,000 tokens/second, claiming it nears GPT-5.5 and Opus 4.8 on benchmarks at a lower cost (Cognition)

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The latest update for #Zenity includes "Seeing Thousands of Real Incidents Means I Have No Choice But to Share What I Know" and "Proof Over Prediction: What Happens When You Actually Watch Who's Attacking #AI Infrastructure".

#cybersecurity #lowcodesecurity #appsec
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June 2026 security briefing: Tchap was compromised, Novo Nordisk faced a major data theft, and attacks increasingly used cloud exposure, stolen credentials, social engineering, and LLM abuse. #France #Tchap #NovoNordisk
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#OpenMatter announces that it has joined the founding group of organizations participating in the Hashgraph Online (HOL) Partner Program, where the company will help develop standards, policies and verification frameworks.

#Cybersecurity #AI #AISecurity
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Sam Altman's proposal for Americans to share in AI wealth via OpenAI's $300 stake is back on the table. Read the daily tech update here.

#OpenAI #AIEconomics #SamAltman
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Today's read: Cognizant Expands Google Cloud Partnership to Accelerate Enterprise AI Adoption with Gemini Enterprise 📣

🔗 Read the full story at ift.tt/N9KFE8T

Never miss a beat in telecoms. Catch the latest news on @TheFastMode 🚀

#tech #technews #telecoms
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LG AND ALIENWARE MONITORS CAUGHT AUTO-INSTALLING WINDOWS ADWARE

Some users recently discovered that even legitimate monitors can quietly install apps that display pop-ups without permission.

www.techspot.com/news/113031-...
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Build a zero-cost ICS/OT security lab. A hands-on architectural guide to simulating a live industrial environment using open-source tools. #cybersecurity
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Reminder: Real conversations are still available, are less likely to produce psychosis, and don’t consume huge amounts of electricity, water and computing power
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Some Google Pixel owners are missing calls because their phone never rang
一部のGoogleピクセルの所有者は、彼らの携帯電話が鳴っていないため、通話が欠落しています
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"For robot manufacturers, alongside the revenues, a rental scheme offers a way to trial their products in real-world scenarios and gather helpful data in the process. This is particularly important for humanoids: "The technology is still not there."
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The latest update for #BitSight includes "Token Torching: Why Attackers Care About Your Usage Limits" and "After Mythos: What Cyber Insurers Should Actually Be Asking".

#Cybersecurity #RiskManagement
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The latest update for #Kroll includes "Quick-Service Restaurant Sector: Enterprise-Grade Security in Under 24 Hours" and "Kroll Conversations: Meet the Cyber Strategy and Advisory Experts".

#cybersecurity #ThreatDetection #infosec
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Managers, and their belief in the value of AI & how to use it, determines the value they actually get from AI.

Neat paper looking at startups. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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OpenAI to launch new model after US freeze -
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OPENAI will publicly launch its most capable model, GPT-5.6, on Thursday after delaying the launch last month on the US government's request amid national security concerns that powerful AI systems could be misused.

Read more: https://mrf.lu/2NqKD
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The speaking industry is experiencing a structural shift. We have crossed into an era where intelligence is radically abundant and cheap, but human judgment remains acutely scarce. Generative AI has unleashed a relentless flood of polished content, rapidly collapsing signal-to-noise ratios for good.
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How inDrive automated Xcode Organizer monitoring with App Store Connect API, Elasticsearch, z-score alerts, Slack, and Jira. #ios
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Companies are mobilizing internal groups of "AI champions" to drive adoption; BCG says 74% of front-line employees now use AI regularly, up from 51% in 2025 (Isabelle Bousquette/Wall Street Journal)

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xAI, Meta and Anthropic are moving into each other’s core businesses as AI firms hunt for more growth and control.

The result is a market where rivals increasingly depend on one another for chips, models, data centers and customers.

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AI news - Jul 9, 2026

1. Prompt Injection Exfiltrates Private GitHub Repos via Agentic Workflow LINK
2. Gemini API Adds Background Execution and Remote MCP Support LINK
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Internal memo: Meta plans to begin production of its in-house AI chip, codenamed Iris, in September, and aims to boost its computing power to 14GW in 2027 (Reuters)

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Australia and India launched PACTS on July 9, replacing the 2020 pact with a five-pillar partnership covering AI, cybersecurity, defence research and resilient supply chains.

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OpenAI's AI beats every human at AtCoder, a top competitive programming contest

At the AtCoder World Tour Finals 2026, an OpenAI system crushed all human competitors in an exhibition match, solving all five problems in the Algorithm Division. Two of those problems were rated…

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If I am understanding things correctly, the latest OpenAI Codex update 0.143.0 is emitting a bad namespace for GPT-5.5. But if you downgrade to 5.4, its fine.

My question is why this has been an open issue for over 14h?? I thought these tools could fix themselves?!!!!!!!

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Have you received an email from a recruiter at Adobe, Netflix, or OpenAI offering you an exciting new marketing role? Well, before you start brushing up your interview technique, take a closer look at who is really behind it.

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SpaceXAI and OpenAI Unveil New Frontier Models in a Direct Product Push.
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PrismML says it ran a 27B-parameter Qwen 3.6 model on an iPhone 17 Pro, bigger than any prior on-device model; sources: Apple held talks with PrismML about it (Aaron Tilley/The Information)

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I just published the fourth post in the series about Reddit's AI translations. They finally started to drop... -> Reddit’s AI Translations Finally Drop Heavily In Google And AI Search With The May 2026 Core Update and June 2026 Spam Update

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As much as 40 percent of longform posts on LinkedIn and X that users actually see are fully AI-generated, according to new research

Particularly notable because we know these platforms are flooded with slop, but this studied what the algorithm actually shows people

www.404media.co/linkedin-and...
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An investor sued Oracle and accused the Nashville, Tennessee-based software giant of omitting information showing customer OpenAI was missing internal revenue and user-growth targets.
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The US has positioned itself as the guardian of frontier AI, determining who gets access. This creates enormous cybersecurity and economic leverage. My Globe op-ed on a multi-pronged strategy in response of build in Canada, open models, and trade talks.
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On Sunday morning, I woke up jet-lagged after two weeks in Europe to find that OpenAI was repeatedly charging me $5, more than 20 times a day in some cases. I had no idea why. www.semafor.com/article/07/0...
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Ollama, which helps developers run open-weight AI models locally, raised a $65M Series B led by Theory Venture, following a $15M Series A led by Benchmark (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)

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OpenAI says SWE-Bench Pro is broken, don't use it.
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Micron raises its US capex commitment to $250B through 2035, adding $50B for facilities in NY, ID, VA, and elsewhere, and invests $500M in GlobalWafers (Maggie Eastland/Bloomberg)

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We Are Losing the Ability to Discover What We Didn’t Know to Ask. AI tools are actually undermining curiosity; the AI summary poses a danger to learning. The most important discoveries are often not the ones we set out to make. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/08/o...
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GodDamn ransomware is a Beast rebrand linked to Monster and Hyadina. Attackers used AnyDesk, NirSoft tools, PsExec, and PoisonX to disable defenses and spread across multiple hosts. #GodDamn #Beast #Monster
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Policymakers treat critical infrastructure as physical: power grids, communications networks, transportation systems, and satellites. In the age of generative AI, writes Rachel A. George, another kind deserves equal attention: the institutions that determine what governments believe to be true.
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OpenAI launched new voice models that can listen and speak at the same time:
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🫣 Scattered registrars. Credentials in a spreadsheet. A former provider still holding the keys to a client's domain. This is the reality of domain management that most MSPs carry quietly!

See how DNSimple eliminated this for Always Beyond, a Calgary-based MSP.

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$25,000 in prizes. Two nights of live competition at Microsoft Headquarters.

The VSLive! Microsoft AI Hackathon is an in-person challenge where devs build real-world solutions using Azure OpenAI, Microsoft Copilot & .NET.

Learn more and register now at: buff.ly/cBSntK2
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NEW YORK — The US government's shock moves to restrict access to top artificial intelligence systems from Anthropic and OpenAI have sparked growing interest in open-source models -- especially ones from China.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) Security Hub now includes Impact Analysis to prioritize security findings by evaluating IAM permissions, privilege escalation paths and the potential business impact of exposed resources.

See how it sharpens security priorities:

#Cybersecurity
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Companies will once again be allowed to scan citizens’ personal texts, emails, and social media messages to find child abuse material online. www.wired.com/story/a-majo...
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New ProPublica podcast episode is live:
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Meta releases Muse Spark 1.1, capable of more advanced coding and a "step-change" from the first generation, available to US developers via a public API preview (Dominic Preston/The Verge)

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129 Blog Posts To Learn About Api Integration

API integration connects applications to exchange data and functionality, improving communication and automation. This resource provides insights into various aspects of API integration, drawing from popular HackerNoon article…
#hackernews #news #openai
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The Denver Post, The New York Times and other media outlets are asking for “serious sanctions” against OpenAI, saying the company destroyed evidence and intentionally hid its ability to locate stolen news stories in training data and responses to ChatGPT users, according to a new motion.
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Meta launches a Meta Model API, whose pricing Zuckerberg says will be "aggressive and attractive" at ~25% of the cost of OpenAI and Anthropic models (Kurt Wagner/Bloomberg)

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Media outlets seek ‘serious sanctions’ against OpenAI as deception alleged in copyright lawsuit: https://mrf.lu/2NSW2
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GPT-5.6 is expected to be released to the public later today

But as we reported last week, during testing the new OpenAI model broke rules and exploited loopholes — so much so that its testers couldn’t even measure it

Read our original piece:

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The Chicago Tribune and other media outlets are asking for “serious sanctions” against OpenAI, according to a new motion filed Thursday.
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Motion asks the court to punish OpenAI for hiding and destroying evidence showing how ChatGPT was trained on stolen journalism.
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once again looking for sources for a story in which i hope that it turns out to not be a story because What Does It Say About Society.... but i am looking to talk to people who have had the experience of talking to a friend/family/colleague via text only to realize you're actually talking to an AI
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Muse Spark 1.1 costs $1.25 per 1M input tokens and $4.25 per 1M output tokens; Alexandr Wang says coding and agentic tasks were key focuses (Ina Fried/Axios)

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Palo Alto on fire, literally.

if your entire security model is "the firewall will save us" you're having a bad day.
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