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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Andrew Tate charged with possessing child abuse images

telegraph.co.uk/gift/1f93e0c27e21741d

Social media influencer and brother appear in Miami federal court, where lawyers say they will fight extradition to the UK

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

OpenAI Models Escaped Containment and Hacked HuggingFace

wired.com/story/openai-models-escaped-containment-and-hacked-huggingface/

The cybersecurity-focused models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, broke out of a testing sandbox, exploited a zero-day, and gained access to the open internet to pull off the attack.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

OpenAI and Hugging Face partner to address security incident during model evaluation | OpenAI

openai.com/index/hugging-face-model-evaluation-security-incident/

OpenAI and Hugging Face share early findings from a security incident during AI model evaluation, highlighting advanced cyber capabilities and lessons for defenders.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

US civil rights agency moves to end demographic data collection after 60 years

apnews.com/article/eeoc-discrimination-dei-andrea-lucas-2f521d784a9d0376416499066dc9f178

The Trump administration is seeking to toss aside a 60-year-old requirement for tens of thousands of private sector employers to submit workforce demographic reports each year to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the agency responsible for enforcing anti-discrimination laws in the workpla

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Denmark summons top US envoy over ‘covert operations’ in Greenland

politico.eu/article/covert-operations-greenland-prompt-denmark-summon-top-us-envoy-donald-trump/

“We do not spy on friends,” Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen says.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

How period trackers share your private details

bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details

Some apps are sharing users' health data. New research uncovers which apps lock down your privacy, and which don't.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

'Junk inferences' by data brokers are a problem for consumers and the industry itself

therecord.media/junk-inferences-data-brokers

Data brokers sell inferences about consumers, essentially making predictions about their habits and tastes. A significant portion of the inferences are junk, experts say, and the problem can create serious downstream effects.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Future of Genocide

nytimes.com/2026/07/21/opinion/israel-gaza-palestinians-genocide.html?smtyp=cur&smid=bsky-nytopinion

In 1904, the Imperial German Army began a campaign that nearly wiped out the Herero and Nama peoples in what was then German South West Africa, now Namibia, through fatal expulsions into the desert, incarceration in forced labor camps and outright murder.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Google AI Is Hallucinating Fake ‘Duskbloods’ Bosses Thanks To Reddit Shitposting

videogame.town/2026/07/21/google-ai-hallucinating-fake-duskbloods-bosses-reddit-shit-posting-switch-2-nintendo-from-software/

What a miserable future we are currently living in.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Worst Magazine In America

currentaffairs.org/news/the-worst-magazine-in-america

The Atlantic poses as a magazine of ideas, but its writers get away with terrible arguments. Its ascendance is a sign of the dire state of American intellectual life.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The wireless headset that gets hot-swappable batteries right

theverge.com/tech/967153/glorious-infiniteplay-wireless-gaming-headset-hands-on

Glorious made swapping batteries faster and easier (and more fun) in a $230 headset than its $400 competitors.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The report oil companies are worried about: Climate attribution science

arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/national-academies-climate-attribution-is-maturing-but-still-has-limits/?utm_social-type=owned

New report says our ability to tie weather damages to climate change is improving.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

The Proliferation of Deepfakes Is Profoundly Changing the Way Teenagers Use the Internet

futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/deepfakes-teenagers-internet

AI-generated sexual content, including nonconsensual deepfakes, is rapidly transforming teens' strange new world, a new survey emphasizes.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘Everything I know about evil I learned in that small town’: John Carpenter on terrifying the world with Halloween, The Thing and The Fog

theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/jul/20/everything-i-know-about-evil-i-learned-in-that-small-town-john-carpenter-on-terrifying-the-world-with-halloween-the-thing-and-the-fog

At 78, the king of horror and sci-fi movies is as much of a rebel as ever. He talks about creativity, compromise (he’s not a fan) and how he became addicted to moviemaking

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

DACA renewal costly for single moms who hid from ICE for months

19thnews.org/2026/07/ice-minneapolis-mothers-immigration-daca-renewal/

We’re happy to make this story available to republish for free under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license as long as you follow our republishing guidelines, which require that you credit The 19th and retain our pixel.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

This Is Why Our Fresh Produce Keeps Making Us Sick

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/cyclospora-outbreak-symptoms-lettuce.html

There’s a gruesome food-borne illness going around this summer that can last for weeks and cause severe cramps, nausea and diarrhea.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Not enough water for UK’s datacentre plans, trade body says

theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/21/not-enough-water-for-uks-datacentre-plans-trade-body-says

Industry says government’s failure to address cooling demands means AI growth plans are ‘fatally flawed’

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

As the world embraces EVs, the U.S. hits the brakes

restofworld.org/2026/us-ev-sales-drop-global-outlook/

Canada and the EU opened their doors to Chinese electric cars this year while the U.S. watched from behind a tariff wall.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Homerist Reacts to Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

hyperallergic.com/a-homerist-reacts-to-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey/

“This is a tale of a man affected by trauma, but without any sense that it changed him at all.”

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Faced With Piles of New Paperwork, People Are Losing Food Stamps

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/us/politics/snap-food-stamps-arizona.html

The number of Arizonans getting SNAP benefits has fallen by about half in less than a year, a remarkable drop in nutrition aid that may preview the program’s future nationwide following a landmark law to limit assistance that President Trump championed last year.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Conversation With Vajra Chandrasekera, Author of Rakesfall

reactormag.com/author-interviews-vajra-chandrasekera-rakesfall/

"I think writers, like all artists, have a responsibility to act as human cultural workers in an actual society"

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

I’m a Screenwriter. Hollywood Is in Trouble.

nytimes.com/2026/07/20/opinion/paramount-warner-bros-merger-hollywood.html

An aramzs.xyz post

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Whole Foods Got Worse On Purpose

worseonpurpose.com/p/whole-foods-got-worse-on-purpose

How Whole Foods went from local-sourcing pioneer to Amazon-owned chain, squeezing small suppliers and cutting worker benefits along the way. The full sourced story.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

A Device Hidden in Cars Across the US Leaves Them Vulnerable to Hacking and Paralysis. Patch It Now

wired.com/story/a-device-hidden-in-cars-across-the-us-leaves-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-and-paralysis-patch-it-now/

Dealerships installed alarms in millions of vehicles—and left them in even if the buyer didn’t want them. Now researchers warn they can be hacked to unlock, track, and disable cars.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk.

werd.io/people-are-transcribing-your-conversations-without-asking-that-puts-you-at-risk/

Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

Opaque, Interoperable Passkey Records (and a Go API)

words.filippo.io/passkey-record/

Passkey records are an interoperable format for WebAuthn credentials, similar to password hash strings. I propose a potential crypto/passkey Go API based on them.

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22 Jul 05:24 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

urlref but i wrote my own version of it

bubblegum.girlonthemoon.xyz/articles/urlref-but-i-wrote-my-own-version-of-it

a while ago, i found...

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

‘This is terrifying’: The Colorado River, a lifeline for seven states, is drying up at its source

latimes.com/environment/story/2026-06-25/drying-colorado-river

The source of the Colorado River in the Rocky Mountains is drying up, threatening a critical water lifeline for about 35 million people and 5 million acres of farmland across the Southwest.

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

If His Shitty AI Movie Is What Finally Taught You Neill Blomkamp Is A Hack, Then So Be It

aftermath.site/neill-blomkamp-ai-movie/

It's 13 minutes of nothing

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21 Jul 05:36 • Aram Zucker-Scharff

AI advice made people three times less accurate but twice as confident, researchers found

thenextweb.com/news/ai-advice-suppresses-critical-thinking-wrong-answers-study

A study found that access to AI advice collapsed people's willingness to say "I don't know" from 44% to 3%, while accuracy dropped from 27% to 9%.