New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

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WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds. @apnews.com apnews.com/article/mili...

AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents

An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.

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Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.

Sean Duffy’s Road Trip Sponsors Spent $100 Million Lobbying Congress Last Year

Summer’s almost over and Sean Duffy’s controversial road trip reality series has yet to launch, leaving corporate sponsors out millions of dollars and critics asking what the money was really for.

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"A software flaw in popular cryptocurrency storage devices allowed 'numerous' hackers to steal more than $100 million in bitcoin" www.forbes.com/sites/tylerr...

Hackers Stole $100 Million in Bitcoin—Here’s How

A software flaw resulted in thousands of compromised crypto wallets, a crypto research firm found.

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Future of Crew Dragon weighs on commercial spaceflight industry While SpaceX says there is a “significant” amount of life left in its Crew Dragon fleet, the company has hedged on how long it will continue flying the spacecraft....

Future of Crew Dragon weighs on commercial spaceflight industry

While SpaceX says there is a “significant” amount of life left in its Crew Dragon fleet, the company has hedged on how long it will continue flying the spacecraft.

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We're giving away 25 copies of SANDMAN SLIM over on Goodreads! Just stop by and mash the button. (US only) www.goodreads.com/book/show/70...

Sandman Slim (Sandman Slim #1)

Supernatural fantasy has a new antihero in Sandman Slim…

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No early success for Moderna’s norovirus vaccine in phase 3 trial The vaccine maker said its investigational mRNA norovirus vaccine did not meet statistical criteria for early success. Read more: https://bit.ly/3TEgD8Y 📷: CDC/Alissa Eckert

🦠 Australia confirms first mass mortality event from H5 bird flu in native seabirds – Testing confirmed the mass death is due to H5N1 influenza – "Australians should expect to see more spread and larger numbers now of wildlife being affected." Reuters story at RNZ: www.rnz.co.nz/news/world/8...

Australia confirms first mass mortality event from H5 bird flu in native seabirds

The first mass mortality event in Australia from H5 bird flu has occurred in a large group of native seabirds in the state of South Australia, the federal government said on Monday.

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5:49:39 PM on Friday, July 31, 2026, over the Caribbean Sea.

7:41:52 PM on Thursday, July 30, 2026, over the North Pacific Ocean.

8:56:40 AM on Wednesday, July 29, 2026, over the Arabian Sea.

IMPACT: that company that was offering to buy books for AI companies’ training data — and probably destroy them in the process — says it will no longer offer this service following 404 Media’s exposure of it www.404media.co/ai-company-t...

Company Offering Printed Books to Train AI Stops After 404 Media Coverage

Citing backlash, ISBNdb removed its webpages about training AI, denied ever buying, scanning, or selling a book for AI training, and said the site was a "test of market interest."

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happy birthday to the GOAT Arnold Schwarzenegger

priscilla page@priscillapage.bsky.social · last yr.

can't remember whether I've ever shared my Predator essay here, but it feels like a good time to do so

Nobody.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 6d ago

If not Matt Damon, who is you alternative Odysseus?

You take the REINS not the REIGNS. Also it's CHAMPING at the bit not CHOMPING.

Sanjay Srivastava@sanjaysrivastava.com · 6d ago

What is an extremely nerdy/obscure/specific thing you hate with a white-hot wrath?

The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed more than 1,500 people in just over two months, and it is spreading much faster than previous outbreaks, the nation’s health ministry reported on Thursday.

Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Second-Deadliest Ever, and in Record Time

The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have ever recorded.

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ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

ICE detains Hopkins public health researcher as agency expands airport arrests

A Johns Hopkins public health researcher and former Fulbright scholar was detained by immigration agents while boarding a domestic flight this week, the university confirmed, as the Trump administration...

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Seriously, if you haven't read @mariadahvana.bsky.social 's translation of Beowulf, I highly recommend it. I caught myself reading it aloud to myself more than once - such a compelling and rhythmic version.

Alex Knapp@thealexknapp.bsky.social · 6d ago

*standing up on the plane* Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days,   everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only   stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times...

*standing up on the plane* Bro! Tell me we still know how to speak of kings! In the old days,   everyone knew what men were: brave, bold, glory-bound. Only   stories now, but I’ll sound the Spear-Danes’ song, hoarded for hungry times...

Christopher Bird@mightygodking.com · 6d ago

*standing up on the plane* Call me Ishmael. Some years ago--never mind how long precisely--having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen

U.S. Coast Guard rescue crews can suffer brain injuries from the relentless pounding of waves. The service has never studied the hazard that waves may pose to the brain and knows little about the force of the hits or the consequences of years of exposure.

Rescue Boat Crews Show Signs of Brain Injuries, but Coast Guard Isn’t Looking

Untreated and undiagnosed, the crews that save lives in the roughest seas face the relentless pounding of waves.

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Machine learning lets lenders predict who's profitable, boosting margins 7–9 percentage points, but cuts out women and poorer borrowers. Heterogeneous treatment effects on borrowers inconclusive, from Athey, Fava, @deankarlan.bsky.social, Osman, and Zinman www.nber.org/papers/w35521

"It is impossible to make large language models fully secure against hacks because of a fundamental flaw in how they work, a team of researchers argue" www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/30/1...

A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack

It makes it easy to trick them into doing things they shouldn’t, such as telling you how to sabotage an aircraft’s navigation system.

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5:12:16 PM on Monday, July 27, 2026, over the Caribbean Sea.

In this week @forbes.com InnovationRx newsletter w/ @thealexknapp.bsky.social: —the company using AI to make better hearing aids —a startup getting family caregivers paid —the first gene editing IPO in 2-1/2 years —J&J’s $5.5B talc settlement www.forbes.com/sites/innova...

The Startup Using AI To Make Hearing Aids Better

In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Fortell’s efforts to make a better hearing aid, Abby Care’s business getting payment for caregivers, J&J’s $5.5 billion talc settlement, Scribe Thera...

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Some thoughts on chemical onshoring of all kinds, from nitrile gloves to pharmaceutical intermediates. It ain't going to be easy, nor fast, nor will it be cheap. That combination makes it an unlikely prospect for this administration to succeed at it:

Chemical Onshoring of All Kinds

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I'm not counting the Odyssey yet because I need to see it a couple more times, so right now it's: 1. Oppenheimer 2. The Prestige 3. Memento

☀️ Starshine@starshine.bsky.social · last wk.

lets keep this discourse going. rank your top 3 nolan films

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

Elon Musk’s company sues Minnesota over new law to bar manipulated images to fake nudity

Minnesota’s anti-nudification law is supposed to take effect on Saturday. It is being challenged in federal court by a company led by Elon Musk.

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SCOOP: Internal Microsoft records reveal a "mad dash" inside the world's largest software maker as engineers and managers scramble to patch vulnerabilities identified by Anthropic's new AI model, Mythos: www.propublica.org/article/anth...

Anthropic’s New AI Model Can Identify More Software Bugs Than Ever. Microsoft Is Struggling to Fix Them Fast Enough.

Anthropic’s Mythos has flagged bugs faster than Microsoft can fix them. Documents reviewed by ProPublica reveal the tech giant's “mad dash” behind the scenes to patch holes before hackers can find and...

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👀 About 92 million Microsoft shares are currently sold short, representing 1.27% of the company’s public float, according to S3 Partners. That marks the largest short interest as a percentage of float since May 2015 and the largest increase in short interest among the Magnificent Seven stocks.

Two physicists won the Nobel Prize for the 2012 discovery of the so-called “God particle.” Under a new rule proposed by the Trump administration, American scientists might be forced to watch similar discoveries from the sidelines.

How Trump’s “America First” Administration Could Shut U.S. Scientists Out of the Next Nobel-Worthy Discovery

A proposed White House rule would give political appointees unprecedented control over scientific funding. One physicist, who helped discover the Higgs boson, explains how the rule would’ve stifled th...

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