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July 5, 2025, 7:50 PM

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Nikkei Asia:
Investigation: preprint research papers on arXiv from 14 academic institutions in eight countries had hidden prompts telling AI tools to give positive reviews  —  Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review  —  TOKYO — Research papers …
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Source: an ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a ransomware attack from SafePay, which has become one of the more active operations of 2025  —  An ongoing outage at IT giant Ingram Micro is caused by a SafePay ransomware attack that led to the shutdown of internal systems, BleepingComputer has learned.
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Indragie Karunaratne / My Portfolio:
A developer details how he shipped Context, a native macOS app that was almost 100% built using Claude Code  —  I recently shipped Context, a native macOS app for debugging MCP servers.  The goal was to build a useful developer tool that feels at home on the platform, powered by Apple's SwiftUI framework.
Jesse Coghlan / Cointelegraph:
House GOP leaders announce a regulatory Crypto Week from July 14 to July 18 to consider three key crypto bills, including the Senate-led GENIUS Act  —  US Republican leaders say the House will look to pass bills on stablecoins, crypto market structure and CBDCs in mid-July in what they've dubbed “Crypto Week.”
Marina Temkin / TechCrunch:
Cluely says its ARR hit $7M after signing a public company; a startup called Pickle says it built Glass, an open source, free product similar to Cluely  —  Cluely's revenue has skyrocketed to about $7 million in ARR since it launched its new enterprise product a week ago, founder Roy Lee told TechCrunch.
Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Two dormant Bitcoin wallets, each holding 10,000 “Satoshi era” BTC since 2011, transferred the coins to new wallets using a modern, lower-fee address format  —  All of these moved coins are among the rarest class of BTC: mined or transacted during the “Satoshi era,” …
Shadma Shaikh / MIT Technology Review:
A look at India's push to compete in the global AI race, as the country's vast linguistic diversity poses a core challenge to building foundational AI models  —  In Bengaluru, India, Adithya Kolavi felt a mix of excitement and validation as he watched DeepSeek unleash its disruptive language model on the world earlier this year.

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