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Yesterday

10:17 PM
GitHub Availability Report: July 2026

In July, we experienced eight incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

10:02 PM
The Web's Newest Weapon Against AI Scrapers Is a Font

"ShieldFont" aims to poison AI training data without making pages unreadable for people.

09:43 PM
Terabytes of Credentials Leaked in Massive Supply-chain Attack

The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.

09:13 PM
Have Physicists Finally Discovered Glueballs? New Evidence Points to Yes.

"It's the strongest evidence yet that particles dominated by a glueball component can exist in nature.".

09:00 PM
Twitch Content Has Trained Amazon AI for Years, but Users Can Opt Out Now

Streaming platform says user-generated content "may be used for future Gen AI model improvements.".

09:00 PM
The White House Is Going to Expand Its AI Policy

Open models may soon be added to an updated AI framework, sources tell WIRED, as the White House continues to grapple with how to regulate a technology it.

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08:21 PM
Lambda Prices $926 Million Senior Secured Term Loan B Facility, the First Investment-grade-rated Term Loan B Financing by a Private Neocloud

First private neocloud to execute an investment-grade-rated financing in the term loan B market, further broadening the investor base for AI infrastructure financing. Facility supports the purchase and deployment of GPU infrastructure dedicated to an investment-grade offtaker.

07:45 PM
How Amtrak Is Building the Data Backbone for Its Largest Transformation in Over 50 Years

"Every new trainset is a data-generating asset.

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07:40 PM
US Boosts Drone Surveillance as Flesh-eating Screwworms Spread in Texas

Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock.

06:45 PM
Rogue AI Agents Aren't Evil. They're Just Eager to Please

AI agent that break free and hack into other systems are only trying to make us happy.

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06:44 PM
Four of Five Enterprises That Secured AI Agent Identities Still Can't Contain One That Goes Rogue

Visa's president of technology, Rajat Taneja, walked the VB Transform 2026 audience through aiming Anthropic's Mythos at Visa's own payment network .

06:00 PM
Your Contributors Are AI-first Now. Is Your Project?

AI contributors are already in your queue.

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05:40 PM
ICE Wants to Give Agents Electrified Gloves That Shock People Into Compliance

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is aiming to spend up to $20 million on equipping officers and agents with specialized gloves that deliver painful electric shocks.

05:29 PM
Twitch Streamers Can Now Opt Out From Training Amazon's AI

Twitch users can now opt out of allowing their content to be used to train Amazon's generative AI models.

05:25 PM
A New Security Baseline for Enterprise Agentic Adoption

Agent Baseline is a blueprint for AI adoption that defines six security outcomes for putting enterprise agents to work without giving them unchecked authority. Consider this scenario: a customer-support agent receives a ticket with an attachment.

05:24 PM
Guitar Company D'Addario Admits That AI Music Was Used in a Promotional Video

After weeks of controversy and speculation, music company D'Addario has admitted that AI, specifically Suno, was used as part of a recent promotional video. For nearly two weeks, the company has denied the allegations, even as evidence piled up against it.

04:46 PM
Why Stream Ring-maker Sandbar Says the Future of AI Wearables Is Voice

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all.

04:35 PM
How a Major Freight Railroad Scaled Pipeline Creation with Genie Code

One of Canada's largest railway networks spans roughly 20,000 route miles across.

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04:00 PM
MindTopo Reveals VLMs' Spatial Reasoning Abilities

A path, a fence, a knot.

03:19 PM
Booksellers Suspect AI Firms Are Buying and Then Destroying Rare Books

AI firms quietly bulk buying rare books face resistance from booksellers.

03:18 PM
How Google's New Pixel 11 Phones Compare to Last Year's Models

Google just added four new phones to the Pixel family: the Pixel 11, Pixel 11 Pro, Pixel 11 Pro XL, and the Pixel 11 Pro Fold.

02:33 PM
The 7 Biggest Announcements of Google's Pixel 11 Launch

Google is hosting a Pixel launch event on Wednesday night where it will show off its latest lineup of devices.

02:22 PM
Why Sandbar Thinks It's Voice-enabled Ring Can Avoid the AI Hardware Graveyard

AI notetaking hardware has taken off over the past couple of years, with credit-card-sized devices, pendants, pins, and even transcribing earbuds all.

02:00 PM
NVIDIA CEO Tops Glassdoor's 2026 List of Best CEOs

NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang is ranked No. 1 on Glassdoor's Best CEOs list for 2026.

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02:00 PM
4 New Camera Tricks on Google's Latest Pixel 11 Smartphones

From Magic Capture and Instant Night Sight to a built-in teleprompter, here's a look at a few camera feature on Google's new Pixel 11 series.

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01:44 PM
Pay with Confidence: How Solv Labs Built Verifiable, Auditable Agent Payments on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Payments

Solv Labs built a governed agent-payments workflow on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore payments, where every transaction is authorized, attested in an AWS Nitro.

01:42 PM
How OneAdvanced Deployed Over 50 AI Agents on UK-sovereign AWS

Learn how OneAdvanced, a UK enterprise software provider, built a UK-sovereign AI platform by self-hosting Llama 4 Maverick and Llama Guard 4 on Amazon.

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01:37 PM
Researchers Found a Way to Hijack Devices Through Zoom Screen Sharing

A public AI tool found the dangerous Zoom flaw in under 20 prompt.

01:35 PM
Formula E Finds a New Home on Disney+, ESPN+

The deal starts with the arrival of the GEN4 car and 2026/2027 season this December.

01:31 PM
Google's Pixel 11 Series Pairs a Little New Hardware with a Lot of New Software

When I first picked up the Pixel 11 Pro this week, it was clear to me that this was one of those refinement years - at least when it comes to hardware. Aesthetically, the phones are as beautiful as ever, with Google's signature camera bar and bright, colorful backing glass.

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01:23 PM
Google's Pixel Watch 5 Dives Deeper Into AI and Health

The $399 Google Pixel Watch 5 isn't about the hardware. Sure, there's a new satin pyrite case finish, a few new strap colors, and a Steph Curry Special Edition. Under the hood, there's a slightly faster Qualcomm processor and an itty-bitty battery bump.

01:00 PM
The Future of Data Analytics: Why AI Is Rewriting the Analyst's Job Description

The Data Analyst role has been declared dead more times than we can count.

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12:09 PM
Of Course the ChatGPT Dog Cancer Vaccine Spawned a Startup

Remember that much-hyped story about an Australian tech entrepreneur using ChatGPT, Grok, and other AI tools to craft a personalized cancer vaccine for his dog? Well, surprise: he's launched a startup.

12:00 PM
Exclusive: ClearJet Raises $25M to Build the 'Uber of Cargo'

Austin-based ClearJet, an AI-enabled logistics technology startup connects shippers with unused cargo capacity on commercial flights, has raised a $25.

12:00 PM
How a $250 Million Acquisition Collapsed Into Allegations of Fraud and Forged Signatures

Investors are still waiting for their share of the $250 million windfall, and VideoVerse co-founder Vinayak Shrivastav is now at the center of multiple legal.

12:00 PM
OpenAI-backed Thrive Holdings Raises $2B to Bring AI to the Enterprise

Thrive Holdings has raised $2 billion in new funding at a $12 billion valuation from investors like SoftBank, D1 Capital Partners, and Altimeter Capital.

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12:00 PM
AI Coding Startup Cognition Reportedly Already in Talks to Raise at $40B Valuation

Cognition may be looking to raise another mega round just a few months after raising $1 billion at a $26 billion valuation.

12:00 PM
Lovable Confirms New $13.3B Valuation, Raises Another $400M

This new funding comes after Lovable hit $500 million in annualized run rate revenue in June, the startup told TechCrunch.

12:00 PM
CodeRabbit Bags $143M to Help Companies Get a Grip on the Explosion of AI-generated Code

CodeRabbit Inc., the creator of a popular tool that automatically reviews artificial intelligence-generated code, is becoming more ambitious after closing on its latest $143 million Series C round of funding.

12:00 PM
Scientists Just Created Female Clones of Male Mice

Scientists have deliberately turned male mouse embryos into females for the first time.