Farmer with straw hat, 1888 #vincentvangogh #postimpressionism
La Era (The Threshing Floor) 1904 (oil on canvas), 1904 #rivera #socialrealism
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The San Francisco Standard
• David Lombardi
As injuries alter 49ers camp, one young receiver is seizing his shot
Junior Bergen, a seventh-round draft pick in 2025, could supplant Jacob Cowing on San Francisco’s depth chart.
WIRED
• Matt Burgess
OpenAI’s Browser Could Be Hijacked to Spam Your WhatsApp Contacts
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
WIRED
• Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg
A Security Pro Hacked North Korean Hackers. He Found They’d Breached Hundreds of Networks Worldwide
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.
Ars Technica - All content
• Dan Goodin
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Mainstream media isn’t talking about it, but bulldozers and construction crews have descended upon Texas’ Big Bend National Park as the Trump administration moves forward with its border barrier project. The project will permanently damage one of our nation’s greatest natural treasures.
“Any information system of sufficient complexity will inevitably become infected with viruses — viruses generated from within itself.” — Snow Crash
Shawn Smucker: ‘Please Use AI’
I find most poetry obtuse, dancing around a point rather than making one sharply. Not this one.
Matthew Green on Anthropic’s New Cryptanalysis Results
blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/07/29/some-notes-about-anthropics-new-results/
Monte Carlo bond, 1924 #dada #duchamp
The schoolmaster, 1954 #belgianart #surrealism
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WIRED
• Jorge Garay
Welp, Nobody Saw SpaceX’s Falcon 9 Rocket Crash Into the Moon
Although no one captured a direct image of the impact, scientists have detected signals confirming the rocket hit the lunar surface. Orbiters could provide the first images of the crash site in the coming days.
Techdirt
• Renee Dudley and Doris Burke
Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling To Fix Them Fast Enough.
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. On an afternoon in mid-May, dozens of Microsoft engineers and their managers gathered online and in a conference room at the company’s Redmond, Washington, headquarters to discuss Project Glasswing. The tech giant was racing to fix weaknesses in its code that a new AI model known […]
Six Colors
• Six Colors Podcasts
(Podcast) The Rebound 610: If You’re a Robot, You Have to Tell Me
Moltz has a can-do attitude but it’s Lex and Dan who get the questions about actually doing things.…
Ars Technica
• Dan Goodin
Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Baseboard management controllers from the world's biggest manufacturers are a security mess.
Trump: When gasoline goes down... we may have to send it up again