A University Used AI to Police Its Entrance Exam. Now 58,000 Students Need a Do-Over gizmodo.com/a-university...
A University Used AI to Police Its Entrance Exam. Now 58,000 Students Need a Do-Over
“We demand honesty, not artificial intelligence,” protestors chanted.
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Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents therecord.media/iran-cyberat...
Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents
Water utilities in at least 12 states have reported cyberattacks on their operational technology, as the scope of a campaign allegedly linked to Iranian hackers continues to grow.
therecord.media
The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed www.engadget.com/2230492/the-...
The Saudi-led $55 billion takeover of EA has closed - Engadget
Electronic Arts is once again a privately held company, but it's saddled with $20 billion in new debt.
engadget.com
After years of pleas to address water crisis, Morrisey begins two-day Southern WV listening tour westvirginiawatch.com/2026/08/04/a...
After years of pleas to address water crisis, Morrisey begins two-day Southern WV listening tour • West Virginia Watch
Gov. Patrick Morrisey announced that he will be taking a brief listening tour to hear about the persistent water issues residents face.
westvirginiawatch.com
BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Jumped 149% in July cleantechnica.com/2026/08/04/b...
BYD Commercial Vehicle Sales Jumped 149% in July - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription, on Patreon, or on Stripe. Help us produce all of the high-quality, original content we publish week after week despite the challenges of c...
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NVMe Polishes Its Specs, Brings Virtualization to Locally Attached SSDs hardware.slashdot.org/story/26/08/...
NVMe Polishes Its Specs, Brings Virtualization to Locally Attached SSDs - Slashdot
The latest NVMe specifications add SSD-level virtualization that can simplify live VM migration by preserving storage identities across servers. The updates also introduce support for post-quantum cry...
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My backpack network kit has saved me more time than any $3,000 diagnostic tool www.howtogeek.com/i-built-a-ti...
My backpack network kit has saved me more time than any $3,000 diagnostic tool
This cheap and easy investment helps me figure out what's wrong with my internet
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OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...
OpenAI, Anthropic AI agents targeted real people and systems in cyber tests
OpenAI and Anthropic have confirmed that their AI models were involved in separate, newly disclosed third-party cybersecurity testing incidents that resulted in a real website being breached and socia...
bleepingcomputer.com
Nebraska Public Power District Breaks Ground on 694-MW Princeton Road Station www.powermag.com/nebraska-pub...
Nebraska Public Power District Breaks Ground on 694-MW Princeton Road Station
NPPD breaks ground on $3.1B Princeton Road Station, a 694-MW dual-fuel plant using Siemens Energy combustion turbines and Wärtsilä engines.
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BILD has published a photo of the explosive-laden drone found beside a Ukrainian An-124 at Leipzig Airport. Explosive-laden drones operating at the heart of NATO are no longer a hypothetical threat but a reality.
🦋Special Kherson Cat🐈🇺🇦@specialkhersoncat.bsky.social · 13h ago❗️A drone fitted with an explosive detonator was discovered beside a Ukrainian Antonov An-124 cargo aircraft at Leipzig Airport, BILD reports. Airport operations were temporarily suspended, and German police are investigating possible sabotage.
Old playbook of the big boys. Sometimes impractical and certainly hindering to other business when dealing with the feds, break off a part of yourself and say this is an 'independent arm' legally. Narrows the scope and exposure to audit. industrialcyber.co/news/claroty...
Just a moment please..
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Southern Co. contracted large load rises to 17 GW www.utilitydive.com/news/souther...
Southern Co. contracted large load rises to 17 GW
Recently announced projects include a 3.2-GW OpenAI data center near Savannah, Georgia. The contract includes 1 GW of “flexible demand response” for peak shaving — the first such flexibility provision...
utilitydive.com
TP-Link Omada flaws could allow attackers to infiltrate industrial network infrastructure through zero-touch provisioning industrialcyber.co/control-devi...
Just a moment please..
industrialcyber.co
ChainDrop supply chain compromise: Anatomy of a self-propagating worm www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
ChainDrop supply chain compromise: Anatomy of a self-propagating worm | Microsoft Security Blog
A credential-stealing worm hidden in more than 400 compromised npm packages automatically spread across software ecosystems by republishing malicious updates. This analysis details the attack chain, a...
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NCSC statement in response to recent incidents resulting from frontier AI evaluations www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/ncsc-st...
NCSC statement in response to recent incidents resulting from frontier AI evaluations
A statement from Ollie Whitehouse, Chief Technology Officer at the NCSC, on AI security following recent incidents.
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DoD seeks authority to directly sell its property to fund infrastructure, Golden Dome federalnewsnetwork.com/defense-news...
DoD seeks authority to directly sell its property to fund infrastructure, Golden Dome | Federal News Network
DoD seeks to bypass much of the current GSA process so it can sell military real estate more quickly and have greater flexibility to spend that money.
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Emergency management’s AI challenge isn’t technology — it’s implementation, new reports say statescoop.com/emergency-ma...
Emergency management's AI challenge isn't technology — it's implementation, new reports say | StateScoop
New reports from the nonprofit Markle Foundation's AI for Disasters and Emergencies Initiative found that AI holds great benefit for emergency management agencies, if they can clear hurdles of governa...
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I've built a map displaying where on the Amtrak network you can take your bike, line-by-line and station-by-station. This data isn't available anywhere else, check out where you can go! amtrak-bike-map.transittools.dev
Amtrak Bicycle Access
Explore carry-on, checked, and station-level bicycle access across the Amtrak rail network.
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It may be weird in certain areas where you didn't realize that Al was being used, but I think we would be ok. Let's play the same game with Blockchain. Crypto Currency? Drones? Like, i think there are several recent technologies that the general public would not miss.
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AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
AI makes weather prediction better. Can WindBorne make it lucrative?
WindBorne Systems has raised $37 million Series B round to scale its weather balloons and AI forecasts.
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Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient
Saudi Aramco backs India’s Mitti Labs to make Asia’s rice farming more water-resilient
Mitti Labs plans to expand beyond India and enter the Philippines and Indonesia while growing its carbon credits and agricultural data business.
techcrunch.com
It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th. www.theverge.com/tech/975516/...
Google Assistant will disappear from your phone next month
It’ll be Gemini or nothing on Android from September 4th.
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We're thrilled to announce IFIN has achieved 501(c)(3) recognition! Now we can get down to business. ifin-intel.org/blog/... #IFIN
It's Official: We're a Recognized Non-Profit | IFIN
IFIN has achieved 501(c)(3) status. What this means for us, and for you.
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NTIA plans to restore some Digital Equity Act funding after court battle over Trump cancellation statescoop.com/ntia-plans-t...
NTIA plans to restore some Digital Equity Act funding after court battle over Trump cancellation | StateScoop
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration said it plans to restore some of the funding that had been revoked, after a court ruled that Trump administration couldn't outright termi...
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Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/a...
Anthropic signs $10B deal with AI cloud startup Volta | TechCrunch
Anthropic has been on a cloud partnership spree in recent months, and its latest move is reportedly a $10 billion deal with AI cloud startup Volta.
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Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. techcrunch.com/2026/08/04/o...
Open-weight AI models are catching up to the frontier. The safety gap remains. | TechCrunch
A new SaferAI report finds Z.ai's open-weight GLM-5.2 approaches frontier AI capabilities while lacking key safety mitigations, renewing concerns that powerful open models could outpace governance and...
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Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps www.microsoft.com/en-us/securi...
Advance Zero Trust for AI: New tools and guidance to secure AI agents and DevSecOps | Microsoft Security Blog
Read how to apply Zero Trust for AI with new assessments, DevSecOps guidance, and practical tools to secure AI agents, code, memory, and cloud environments.
microsoft.com
Senate Democrats press Trump administration on access to advanced AI models thehill.com/homenews/sen...
Senate Democrats press Trump administration on access to advanced AI models
A group of Senate Democrats is pressing the Trump administration for answers about its policies surrounding American AI models following controversial decisions on AI regulations. Sens. Kirsten Gil…
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