Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models
Catherine Thorbecke / Bloomberg: Chinese AI labs account for nine of Artificial Analysis' top 10 text-to-video models, gaining global adoption and potentially an edge in building world models New la
Sources: as Spotify tests a skip ahead button that lets some Premium users skip publisher-sold podcast ads and filler content, audio networks raise concerns
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Moore Threads reports H1 revenue up 147% YoY to ~$258M, a net loss of $1.72M, says it plans a Hong Kong listing, after its stock surged 420%+ since Shanghai IPO (Bloomberg)
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Privacy Backlash Explodes Against Meta's Smart Glasses
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Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M
Cailey Gleeson / Fierce Healthcare: Tel Aviv-based QuantHealth, a provider of AI clinical trial simulation software, raised a $45M Series B led by Qumra Capital, taking its total funding to ~$70M se
AI Reviews Bring 'New Normal' to Linux Release Candidates: Lots of Bug Fixes
Linux Torvalds expects Linux 7.2 should be released next weekend "unless something really bad pops up," Torvalds said while announcing today's release candidate. But there's something interesting about Linux 7.2-rc7, writes Phoronix. "By the time the Linux kernel typically hits a -rc7 release things have usually settled quite well. But in today's world of AI/LLM coding/review agents, the kernel activity continues at an all-time high." Tons of bug fixes continued to trickle in across the ker...
An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist (ABC)
ABC: An Australian user's OpenClaw agent running Claude exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off, after the user asked it to move him up the waitlist By national AI reporter Cam Wilson
An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist (ABC)
ABC: An Australian user's Claude-run OpenClaw agent exploited a gym API flaw and kicked another member off after the user asked if it could move him up the waitlist By national AI reporter Cam Wilso
Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
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Flock Accused of Reactivating Its Cameras Without Notifying a Town
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California City Declares State of Emergency After Cyberattack
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US data center bans top 500, up from 300+ in late June, as New York and Texas join cities and counties pushing back against data center development
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AI-Powered Browser Just Generates Every Website From Scratch
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The ‘Crawl’ Sequel Has Found Its Gator Chow—I Mean, Stars
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Ask Slashdot: What are the Costs of Switching Between Windows, MacOS, and Chrome?
UI changes, lost productivity, untransferrable knowledge... Long-time Slashdot reader theodp notes the folly of switching to an unfamiliar new environment to be "more productive"... Champions of the switch often insist workers will be able to hit the ground running and get the same or even more work done from the get-go in the new unfamiliar environment because it's 'more productive', a conclusion often shaped by conventional wisdom or their 'gut' feeling. Decision makers may also mistake th...
Rumored, Never-to-Be-Released Apple Feature May Have Been Too Much Truth for Most Consumers
You know Apple has all your data, but do you really want to be made aware of it?
Anthropic is turning Claude Code’s auto mode on by default
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Netflix May End ‘The Witcher’ in 2027
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How to use Claude's voice mode
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Top LLM Observability and Evaluation Platforms in 2026: Langfuse, LangSmith, Braintrust, Arize, and More Compared
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NASA's MAVEN Illuminates New Understanding of Auroras at Mars
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The Tragic Death of Chuck Grassley’s Vacuum Cleaner Is a Moment to Set Aside Partisan Rancor
Let us all grieve as a nation.
Slashdot Reader Builds 'Spaced Linux', a New Devuan-Based, User-Friendly Desktop Distro
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Here's how to format a USB drive on Windows
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OpenAI Announces It's Enhancing Security Controls, Pausing Some Work for New AI Model Astra
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Warner Bros. Still Has ‘Wonka 2’ On the Brain
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In-depth look at OpenAI's model training, dangerous decisions, and cluelessness before the HuggingFace hack; despite delaying Astra, OpenAI still doesn't get it
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Brain Activity Reveals the Melodies That People Imagine
Researchers believe they've found evidence that brain signals reveal the pitches of notes in imagined musical melodies, reports Medical Express: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies. Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches with...
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YouTuber Spends Two Years Making Alcohol From Thin Air, Doesn’t Even Get Wasted
But still: alcohol from thin air!
GNOME Receiving Additional Design Help From Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency Fellowship
The new GNOME Boxes app for accessing virtual systems has reached beta, announced This Week in GNOME. There's also been more work on the Sushi file previewer for Nautilus, and Papers 51 Beta can now add visual signatures to PDF documents. But Phoronix noted one more announcement. "Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency announced earlier this year a new fellowship program and now as part of that, for the next two years GNOME has a fellow dedicated to working on design and community management... paid ...
Michael Mando Says ‘Brand New Day’ Isn’t the End of Scorpion’s Story
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The downsides of switching from iPhone to Android
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The AI safety test is becoming a safety risk
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Roborock RockNeo Q110H Review: A Quiet and Capable Robot Lawn Mower
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The pros and cons of the switch to digital games
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Scammers are enrolling fake students at US community colleges and using AI to collect financial aid
AI-powered cheating is spreading at US community colleges. According to The New Yorker, scammers enroll fake students in courses, use AI to complete their assignments, and pocket the financial aid. Hi
How to Implement Structured Output with Local LLMs
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Trump’s Social Media Team Craves Your Unwilling Participation in Its Weird Fetish
MAGA's clearly getting off on trying to infuse Trump into everything you love.
Flock Camera Vandalism Continues Around America, While 100 Communities Reject ALPRs
Dozens of Flock cameras have been vandalized around Dallas Texas in the last six months, reports a local news station. In Utah, ABC News reports, a county sheriff's office even said Wednesday a Flock camera was even vandalized within days of its being installed. And in the Minnesota city of Winona, "Every Flock license plate reader camera operated by the Winona Police Department has been sawed off and stolen in what investigators believe was a coordinated theft," according to local media: All ...
The Complicated Case of Passing On Your Digital Estate
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4 Best Compression Boots: Therabody, Hyperice, and More (2026)
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The Sequence Radar - Issue 910: Last Week in AI: Google Rewires Its Brain and Meta Hires a Coding Swarm
Jeff Dean leaves, Demis Hassabis moves upstream, and Muse Code turns software development into an orchestration problem.
Meetily Lets You Transcribe and Summarize Meetings Without a Subscription—Here’s How
There are endless ways to record and transcribe your virtual meetings with AI. Here’s an option that’s free and open source.
AI is flooding Britain's employment courts with lawsuits
Britain's employment courts saw 39 percent more claims in the year through March 2026, many written with ChatGPT or Grok. The backlog jumped 55 percent to 64,000 unresolved cases, with AI-generated fi
Google's DiffusionGemma proves you don't need to train from scratch to build a text diffusion model
Instead of training a new model from scratch, Google DeepMind retrofitted Gemma 4 into a diffusion model using less than 10 percent of the original training budget. DiffusionGemma generates 256 tokens
Inside Humanity’s Ancient Obsession With Conquering Time
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The 12 Best Anime to Watch if You Think You Hate Anime
Japan’s strongest media export makes a solid case for your attention span. Here’s what to watch.
TCL Note A1 Nxtpaper Review (2026): A Hybrid Tablet for Taking Notes and Watching Video
TCL’s hybrid tablet-digital notebook tries to be the best of both worlds, and it mostly succeeds.
Quake Celebrates 30th Anniversary: New Official Episode With New Maps and Mechanics
To celebrate Quake's 30th anniversary, Bethesda released "a brutal new episode" a new campaign chapter titled Dawn of the Machine "delivering ferocious combat, labyrinthine level design, and nightmarish realms that twist reality beyond recognition..." Face deadly new twists on familiar foes, including the Rocket Ogre, Demo Dog, Blood Shambler, and more. Each variant introduces lethal new behaviours from overwhelming firepower to explosive death traps forcing you to rethink every encounter. Exp...
8 Best Workout Headphones and Earbuds: Beats, Bose, Apple (2026)
Not every great pair of headphones belongs in the gym. These do, thanks to their secure fit, durable design, and impeccable sound.
These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
These AI Barons Are Ready to Give Away Their Fortunes
A new generation of philanthropists made rich by artificial intelligence are preparing to give away their vast wealth. What should we make of a multi-billion-dollar pinky promise?
AI's energy appetite drives Nvidia and Amazon to pour billions into massive power infrastructure
The AI industry's hunger for power keeps growing. Nvidia is investing up to $3 billion in Lancium, a power infrastructure developer that already has four gigawatts under contract in Texas. Amazon, mea
Tesla Driver Tries the Old ‘I Wasn’t Driving’ Excuse to Get Out of Speeding Ticket
Turns out when you use "Full Self-Driving (Supervised)," that "Supervised" part is important.
RAMageddon? 2027 Memory Capacity Reportedly Sold Out
IGN reports: [A] new report suggests that all three memory manufacturers Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron have collectively sold through their 2027 memory manufacturing capacity to, you guessed it, AI companies. According to a report from Digitimes and spotted by TweakTown, all DRAM and HBM capacity has been sold through for 2027, with no further supply planned. (The companies themselves have not yet confirmed this to be the case.) Of course, that only means that retail prices are going to go u...
Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity
Tim O'Reilly / Asimov's Addendum: Google's AI shakeup suggests it may be prioritizing AI diffusion over frontier-model leadership, betting on AI compute as a bigger economic opportunity SemiAnalysis
Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M (FinTech Global)
FinTech Global: Cape Town-based Moment, a provider of digital payments and billing tools for businesses across Africa, raised a $22M Series A, taking its total funding to $55M Moment, a pan-African
Google Should Still Be Forced To Shed Chrome, Advocacy Group Argues
"Google should be required to divest the Chrome browser, and prohibited from paying Apple to distribute Google's search engine, the nonprofit advocacy group Public Knowledge argues in a new court filing," MediaPost reports, citing a friend-of-the-court brief filed Tuesday in the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals: The group adds that "independent ownership" of Chrome "would open the distribution channel Google controls and allow Chrome to serve browser users when it makes privacy decisions and dete...
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans from Aug. 14, claims it can catch harmful actions better than humans
Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actions
Simon Willison / Simon Willison's Weblog: Anthropic says auto mode will be the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, Team plans, starting on Aug. 14, claiming it's good enough at catching harmful actio
AI Weekly Issue #520: What a week: AI became everybody's decision
For years, artificial intelligence could be covered as one industry. This edition makes that impossible. The important action is now distributed across institutions with incompatible duties, incentive
Slashdot Reader Builds a Photo-Verification App for iPhones
Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app named Veridenz answers a narrower questi...
Slashdot Reader Builds a Free Photo-Verification App for iPhones
Long-time Slashdot reader BrianFagioli is announcing that he's released a new iPhone app that creates a cryptographic witness for photos without uploading the original image. The app hashes the file, signs the hash using a dedicated identity stored in Apple Keychain, and publishes the witness to Nostr relays while keeping the photo inside the app unless the user chooses to export it. Rather than trying to determine whether a scene was genuine, the app named Veridenz answers a narrower questi...
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new ses
New Orleans Will Use AI To Answer 911 Calls Instead of a Human
"If you call 911 in New Orleans, you may hear the sound of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent answering your call instead of a human voice," reports the Shreveport Times: The Orleans Parish Communication District (OPCD) is currently testing out the new tool designed to reduce the volume of calls human dispatchers must handle, which is over a thousand emergency calls a day. New Orleans implemented AI in April to answer 311 calls for non-emergencies. The AI was trained and programmed to provi...
More Police Officers Fired, Investigated, or Arrested for Misusing Flock Camera Systems
In Georgia the Savannah Police Department "terminated four sworn officers and two civilian employees following an internal investigation into misuse of the department's Flock Safety License Plate Reader system," according to a local news report: All six cases are also under independent criminal investigation by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation... Investigators found that employees were running searches on personal acquaintances and family members. One officer was found to have given someone ...
Lionsgate Is Trying to Bring ‘Leprechaun’ Back to Life (Again)
If old horror franchises are coming back, Lionsgate wants to get in on the action with another go at reviving 'Leprechaun.'
America's First Grid-Scale Sodium-Ion Battery Plant Gets Its First Big Test
"In a milestone for energy storage technology, Peak Energy has selected Sacramento, California, as the home of America's first manufacturing facility dedicated to grid-scale sodium-ion battery systems," according to the sustainability news site Intelligent Living. The move "represents the first large-scale test of whether sodium-ion technology can deliver on its promise of cheaper, safer, and more sustainable grid storage at a scale that actually moves the needle for the U.S. electricity syste...
OpenAI acquires presentation startup NextSlide
NextSlide says its team members are now working on ChatGPT.
X Introduces Big, Promising Revamp of Its Program for Paying Content Creators
Credit where credit is due: this sounds much better than the program it's replacing.
It May Be Game Over For the American ‘Squid Game’
Netflix still wants to keep 'Squid Game' around, but the details of what that looks like may not involve a western offshoot.
Paper Goods Company Is Investigating an Alternative to Trees
The Dallas Business Journal reported Monday that the U.S. multinational paper goods company Kimberly-Clark announced "that its researchers identified and advanced patented technology transforming fibers from hesperaloe, a low-water-use plant with pointy leaves that thrives in the southwest region of the country, into material for paper towels." Discovering an alternative to conventional wood fiber "could reshape how the company, and the industry at large, manufactures products," according to art...
How to connect your retro GameCube to a modern TV
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‘Our Retribution Tour’: A Crypto-Inspired Green Energy PAC Is Reportedly Collecting One Republican Scalp After Another
If you like renewables, you might be pleased with these results. You probably won't like the PAC's ads.
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle Expect a Negative Cash Flow of $125 Billion Next Year
The Washington Post shared surprising news this week about five top AI companies. Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta and Oracle "are spending so much on developing AI and delivering it to customers that they're expected to bleed cash in the coming year, according to a Washington Post analysis of data compiled by SandP Global Market Intelligence." Free cash flow, which measures the cash left over after paying expenses and AI infrastructure costs, is now expected to shrink to almost nothing for t...
How to get the best battery life from your retro handheld game console
There's a smarter way to power vintage portable gaming devices. Give these tips a try.
Pokee AI Releases Pokee-Isaac 28B: A 10M-Token Context Agentic Model Built to Run Inside the Customer Boundary
Pokee AI released Pokee-Isaac 28B, a 28B text-only foundation model with a 10M-token context window built to run inside the customer boundary. It scores 93.3% on RULER at 10M tokens, where every basel
Prime Minister Leaves Door Open For Reviewing Policy of No Nuclear Weapons in Japan
At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI. But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculation that her government could review a longstanding ban on allowing nuclear weapons into the country." [Prime Minister Sanae] Takaichi made the remarks Thursday at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the U.S. ...
Wired vs. wireless CarPlay: How are they different and which is better to use?
There are advantages and disadvantages to both connection types. Here's how they compare and when you might choose one over the other.
Before ‘Lanterns,’ Check Out the ‘Green Lantern’ Cartoon
Green Lantern has had a short solo life on TV, and it wouldn't hurt to see what his animated show was all about.
Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal
Hiroko Tabuchi / New York Times: Amazon is backing a 7.65 GW gas plant for an off-grid TX AI data center, potentially the largest single US emissions source, at odds with its 2040 net-zero goal The
Before and After Views of SpaceX Rocket's Moon Crash
A South Korean lunar orbiter has captured the first before-and-after images of the Moon's crash scene caused by a stray SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The Associated Press reports: The Korea Aerospace Research Institute's Danuri spacecraft flew over the impact site soon after the Falcon 9 upper stage inadvertently plowed into the moon on Wednesday. Danuri made multiple passes, snapping photos from lunar orbit that were released by the space agency Thursday. The terrain is noticeably darker where the ro...
Claude Vs ChatGPT: How These AI Assistants Differ
In a practical breakdown of how Claude and ChatGPT AI models differ, one tends to fall short when it comes to quality responses and overall user experience.
Anthropic sets Claude Code to Auto Mode by default to protect developers from bad approvals
Starting August 14, Anthropic will make Auto Mode in Claude Code the default for Pro, Max, and Team plans. The company says it's safer. In tests, the classifier caught 89 percent of dangerous commands
The X-Men Casting Rumors Just Keep on Coming
All eyes are on the next 'X-Men' movie and what actors Marvel will enlist to help fill out its cast.
Mario Kart 64 in VR is not for the queasy
There are worse ways to kill time than Mario Kart 64 in VR -just don't eat beforehand.
Your phone's USB-C port does a lot more than just charge - Here's what else it can do
A USB-C port presents a lot of options for data transfer and connecting to accessories. Let's talk about some of the most useful ways to employ your USB-C port.
Readers rate AI-generated short stories higher than human ones until they learn a machine wrote them
People can't tell ChatGPT-generated short stories from human-written ones, according to a new study. More than 2,500 participants performed no better than chance. The AI-generated texts were actually
Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face Hacker News.I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin poi
Census Proposal Would Stop Counting Undocumented Immigrants—and Ignore Race and Sexual Orientation
A draft rule reviewed by WIRED would prevent the census from counting undocumented immigrants. To protect against “distortions,” it would also bar questions about race and sexual orientation.
South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg: South Korea's AI-driven chip industry boom is reordering the country's society, changing expectations around fairness, careers, and even culture and dating Factory workers with $400,000-p
AI framework rooted in cognitive science could complete tasks more efficiently
In recent years, computer scientists have developed a wide range of artificial intelligence (AI) models that can rapidly recognize patterns in data, generate content and solve other computational prob
The Apple Watch heart rate feature you probably didn't realize existed
Apple has a not-so-obvious heart rate feature that's worth checking out. Here's what it does and how to use it.
Thrift Store Chain Starts Using AI to Price Items (but Denies It’s for Dynamic Pricing)
The AI replaces the work of employees who used to determine prices.
The Sharpest Image Ever Taken of the Sun Reveals a Hidden Phenomenon
The photograph, taken in visible light, made it possible to observe for the first time the tiny plasma vortices that had been predicted for more than a century.
‘The Ribbon Hero’ Is an Infectiously Hopeful Magical Girl Take on a Classic
Studio OUTLINE's reimaigining of Osamu Tezuka's 'The Princess Knight' is a kick-ass anime film whose heart makes up for its whimsically off the rails final act.
Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent
Building a production-ready web interface for a stateful LangGraph agent The post Building a Streamlit UI for My LangGraph AI Agent appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Supernatural's head of fitness on rebooting the VR exercise app after leaving Meta
We chatted with Supernatural's Head of Fitness about the company's plans for its VR exercise app.
