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EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
The California legislature passed Assembly Bill 1709 (A.B. 1709) today, which functions as a sweeping ban on social media use for young people under the age of 16. This well-intentioned, but deeply flawed piece of legislation, cuts young people off from essential information and experiences…
Huntress
Bad actors are abusing Faronics Deploy in phishing campaigns to run PowerShell, deploy ScreenConnect, and evade detection by using trusted tools.
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
Graduate student Lyonel Tanganco investigates how to improve public policy interventions and address challenges in nutrition, climate, and development.
Podcasts: Practical AI / TWIML / No Priors / Dwarkesh
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LATAM: Contxto / Startupi / LAVCA
Technology was a key ally in supporting Venezuelans following the devastating 7.2- and 7.5-magnitude earthquakes. Initiatives that combine artificial intelligence with data provided by citizens became ideal platforms for finding information not only when the earthquakes struck on June 24, but also…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon EC2 R9g and R9gd instances powered by AWS Graviton5 are now generally available, delivering up to 25% better compute performance than R8g, ideal for databases, in-memory caches, and real-time analytics.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
The history of technology is rife with copyright panics. In the 1980s, major rightsholders ran to Congress and the courts, claiming that videotape recorders (VTR) were “to the American film producer and the American public as the Boston strangler is to the woman home alone.” Then, the Supreme Court…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
The Institute welcomes its first cohort of QMIT Fellows this fall to advance interdisciplinary quantum research.
Canada: BetaKit / MobileSyrup
Tech and innovation event is also introducing new programming tracks focused on sovereignty and emerging trends. The post Kyle Lowry, Cohere and Reddit leaders, and more to headline Elevate Festival 2026 first appeared on BetaKit.
Planet GNOME / KDE News
It’s hard to evaluate the security of open source projects when security bug reports remain private forever. Users deserve to see security bug reports, so please remember to unset issue report confidentiality when you’re done handling an issue. There are very few good reasons to keep an issue…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Doxxing, also known as the deliberate sharing of personal information to harass or endanger someone, is a tricky thing to protect against. It often happens by some ill-intentioned person accessing publicly available information, then sharing that information more widely in the hopes it will…
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
New research offers support for the possibility that complex biological molecules could exist in the highly acidic environment of Venus’s cloud layer.
MIT News (research) / Quanta / The Conversation
Climate scientist Sai Ravela is using games to help coastal communities find creative adaptations to climate change.
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk doing it is often able to use legal and accessible means to do so. The odds are stacked against…
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
TRIC Robotics deploys a fleet of autonomous robots that apply UV-C light to tackle mites, mildew, and mold, coupled with bug vacuums. The post 🎥 TRIC Robotics scales to 1,500 strawberry acres with 15-robot fleet appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
I am excited that storage version migration (SVM) has graduated to General Availability (GA) in Kubernetes v1.37! After a number of releases of work and testing, the built-in StorageVersionMigration API (storagemigration.k8s.io/v1) and control plane controller are now fully stable and enabled by…
SEC / CFTC press & enforcement
The Securities and Exchange Commission and the Food and Drug Administration today announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) designed to assist the agencies in carrying out their respective missions of ensuring the…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
Let’s say we did the hard part.
IEEE Spectrum
For many high school students, summer vacation is a time to unplug. For Ruchira Shree, a rising sophomore at West Windsor–Plainsboro High School South, in New Jersey, the break allows her to ramp up her extracurricular pursuits. Much of her time is spent assisting with IEEE Princeton Central Jersey…
Google — The Keyword / AI / Research / DeepMind / Developers
Data Management
Artificial Lawyer / LawSites / Legaltech News
Newcode, an Oslo-based legal AI company that sells law firms a configurable AI harness rather than a finished assistant, has raised a Series A led by OnDean Forward, the investment firm founded by Relativity founder Andrew Sieja. The round brings the company’s total capital raised this year to $20…
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
Bonsai Robotics has a vision-based autonomy stack that can turn 2D camera images into a scaled 3D understanding of the farm environment. The post 🎥 From 2D images to 3D worlds: Bonsai bets on AI-powered farm robotics appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Framework blogs: Next.js releases / Svelte / Angular / Django / Rails / Laravel / Spring / React Native / Flutter
How Laravel Boost uses an agent skill to find existing project conventions and record the useful ones as scoped rules.
Tenable Research
GCP Apigee PE to Service Agent with API Proxy Tenable Research has identified and responsibly disclosed a privilege escalation vulnerability in Google Cloud Apigee. This vulnerability allowed an attacker with restricted Apigee permissions to exfiltrate the OAuth access token of the privileged…
Stripe / Shopify Eng / Netflix TechBlog / Dropbox Tech / Slack Eng / Spotify Eng
Our cookie auditor acts like a privacy-conscious user by visiting web pages and checking that they only load cookies consistent with that user’s preferences.
Language blogs: Rust / Go / TypeScript / Swift / Kotlin / Java / .NET / Ruby / PHP / Elixir / ISO C++
Registration is now open for CppCon 2026! The conference starts on September 12 and will be held in person in Aurora, CO. To whet your appetite for this year’s conference, we’re posting some upcoming talks that you will be able to attend this year. Here’s another CppCon future talk we hope you will…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
Regulating commercial location tracking has reached a turning point. Last year, we published our rubric for what comprehensive and protective location privacy laws should look like, outlining the baseline standards states should meet to shield individuals from pervasive location surveillance. Since…
Ars Technica — Security
In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
Agentic AI is changing how research is done. AI scientists can read papers, propose hypotheses, call models, and determine which experiments to prioritize next....
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
Sur GOOGLE MAPS, le lac Ontario change désormais de nom à la frontière GOOGLE MAPS affiche désormais « Lake America » aux utilisateurs situés aux États-Unis, « Lake Ontario » au Canada et les deux appellations dans le reste du monde. GOOGLE dit appliquer la nomenclature du GNIS américain, modifiée…
NVIDIA — Blog / Technical Blog / Newsroom
A perception stack is shaped by the vehicle that carries it. Move the same software to a new carline—for example, from an SUV to a sedan or another vehicle...
Android Developers Blog
Posted by Rob Orgiu, Developer Relations Engineer, Adaptive Apps, Android Adaptive app development is fundamental on Android, but making sure everything looks good and every feature works the way it should require multiple tests on multiple devices. Or does it? Well, yes… and no! While Android…
Microsoft — Official / Windows / Azure Updates / Research
What if pathology foundation models could do more with less? GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash cut computational demands while maintaining strong performance, opening the door to larger studies and broader exploration. The post GigaPath-Flash and GigaTIME-Flash: Toward population-scale discovery…
EFF Deeplinks / noyb / Access Now
This post is adapted from a video recorded by EFF and the Trevor Project. Head over to our TikTok or Instagram to watch! EFF answers all the queer digital rights questions you submit to us through our LGBT Q&A. You asked us: What’s one thing I can do today to improve my safety and security online…
Tenable Research
WordPress - Kubio AI Website Builder DoS The REST endpoint `GET /wp-json/kubio/v1/enable-theme` passes the client-supplied `name` parameter directly and without validation into WordPress core's `switch_theme()`: // lib/api/colibri.php function kubio_enable_theme( WP_REST_Request $data ) {…
The Pragmatic Engineer / ByteByteGo / Architecture Weekly
In this article, we are going to look at this entire journey in detail.
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
The journey to create a polyfill for the upcoming CSS random() function that works in all browsers. Let’s Use the Emergent CSS random() Function in all the Browsers originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks. You should really get the newsletter as well.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
The news that interested me the most last week was the DuckLabs acquisition. AWS has signed a definitive agreement to acquire DuckLabs, the Amsterdam-based company behind DuckDB, the popular open source analytical database that runs in-process and executes SQL directly against files like Parquet…
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
ET had first reported on March 20 about ITC Infotech potentially looking to pick a stake in Happiest Minds. On August 29, ET reported details of the proposed transaction, including a merger through a share swap that will effectively result in the backdoor listing of ITC Infotech.
Payload (space) / CTVC (climate) / Newcomer (VC)
CTVC and Elemental Impact surveyed 100+ founders. This is what they said
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Well, that’s a wrap. No, not a flex-wrap, but rather today marks a new day, week, month, season, aaaand new edition of What’s important (#18), bringing you the best content that developers have produced over the last couple of weeks or so. What’s !important #18: <geolocation>, Syntax…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews de Google : ces interfaces IA sont devenues un point d’entrée vers l’information … et les marques. Pour les directions communication et marketing, une question s’impose : que dit l’IA de vous, et comment influencer ses réponses ? En chiffres 58 % des…
IEEE Spectrum
This story was originally published by Tech Policy Press. The European Union’s push for technological sovereignty faces an uncomfortable contradiction. As the E.U. rolls out AI factories, gigafactories, and new data centers, it is creating a surge in demand for the advanced semiconductors that…
Huntress
The Huntress API has grown from six read-only endpoints into a full integration and automation platform. See what’s new, including webhooks and MCP support.
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
US President Donald Trump has banned the import of inverters, transformers and other power equipment that pose a potential risk to US grid security.
Modern Retail / Digital Commerce 360 / AgFunderNews
We caught up with Carbon Robotics founder Paul Mikesell to discuss the economics of laser weeding and the firm's path toward an IPO. The post 🎥 Carbon Robotics: $100m+ revenue, new machine and a path to IPO appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
Rural and distributed battery energy storage system (BESS) projects could be emerging as critical infrastructure in the US as grid reliability risks intensify nationwide.
Import AI (Jack Clark)
Plus, a live event with Robin Sloan!
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Scientists have uncovered hidden complexity inside two ultrathin superconductors that seemed much simpler than they really are. Niobium diselenide and tantalum disulfide appeared to have a single superconducting state, but highly sensitive measurements revealed that each actually contains two…
Phys.org / ScienceDaily (tech)
Physicists have demonstrated a new way to entangle distant quantum bits without the constant measurements and active control normally required. The team created a “quantum bath,” a shared environment filled with correlated microwave photons that automatically pushes separated qubits into an…
Smashing Magazine / CSS-Tricks / web.dev / Chrome for Developers / LogRocket
Learn how to use Google's LiteRT.js to build a browser-based OCR receipt scanner with WebGPU acceleration and on-device LLM structuring via LiteRT-LM. The post Building a browser-based receipt scanner with LiteRT.js appeared first on LogRocket Blog.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
The newest worker on your team builds with whatever it finds and never asks what deserves your trust. Our answer is a hardened foundation and a boundary built for agents.
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Fin (formerly Intercom) CTO Darragh Curran set a public goal to double engineering productivity—and nearly tripled it. In the first episode of Leading With Observability, he talks with Charity Majors about AI-driven PR review, hands-on leadership through the transition, and why observability is the…
Cloudflare Blog
Bot operators have historically had the economic advantage, bypassing static, deterministic detection rules with cheap proxies and retooling. Cloudflare's new Adaptive Intelligence engine flips this dynamic by autonomously learning from the meta-signals of live traffic and deploying disposable…
Databricks / ClickHouse / DuckDB / Supabase / Neon / PlanetScale
Choosing a database instance size before you know the workload is an old building pattern. Lakebase Postgres omits the sizing experience altogether thanks to autoscaling.
Actively exploitedCritical 70CISA advisories & alerts
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-81578 PaperCut NG/MF Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability CVE-2026-82078 PaperCut NG/MF Unsafe Reflection Vulnerability These types…
Planet GNOME / KDE News
I realized that deleting local copies of files early and often is better than keeping them forever. I'm the kind of person who will work on something, share their work, and then just let the file I had linger around indefinitely. You never know, it's better to have a local copy, it can save the…
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The Starship Enterprise is one of the best known science-fiction spaceships, but in Japan another vessel is just as famous. Dwayne Day examines the story of Space Battleship Yamato and explains how both it and the Enterprise illustrate how the US and Japan addressed their postwar legacies.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
The growth of the commercial space industry is seen by some as a way to help the US government to do more with less. Charles Galbreath discusses how commercial space capabilities, while offering benefits, also have some problems that must not be overlooked.
SpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review
Many in the public see space as primarily a playground for billionaires. Kelsie Goddard argues that while that reputation is not undeserved, the role of wealthy private actors in commercial space may signal a predictable stage of technological development rather than a dystopian one.
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