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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 …
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| 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.
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| 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.”| Rachyl Jones / Semafor: |
A look at Meta's recent hires for its nascent superintelligence unit, including Pei Sun, who developed two generations of Waymo's perception models — Meta's new hires offer a glimpse into its nascent superintelligence unit, aimed at making the social media company's AI capabilities more competitive with industry leaders.| 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.
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| Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: |
Over the past year, long-time Bitcoin whales have been selling off their holdings, leading to a reshaping of the market as institutions increase their buying — A silent transfer of control is reshaping the $2.1 trillion Bitcoin market. — A steady stream of sales by long-time whales … | 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,” … | Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg: |
The term “superintelligence” is becoming increasingly popular among AI leaders, even as many in the industry question whether it is ill-defined and overhyped — A new AI buzzword is picking up speed in Silicon Valley. — But first.... AGI inflation
More: Forbes and The Economic Times
| Catherine Perloff / The Information: |
Sources: Google told publishers it is hiring new staff to market its ad tech to big advertisers and ad agencies, signaling a renewed focus on publisher ad tech — Google's relations with publishers have suffered lately, as its shift to AI-powered searches has hurt traffic being sent to publishers' web sites.| 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.| France 24: |
The Colombian navy says it has seized an unmanned narco-submarine that was equipped with a Starlink terminal, enabling the sub to be controlled remotely — The Colombian navy on Wednesday seized its first unmanned narco-submarine, equipped with a Starlink antenna, off the Caribbean coast.
More: Tom's Hardware
| MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC: |
A look at the annual Ethereum Community Conference, or EthCC, Ethereum's flagship European event, held in Cannes this year to showcase the network's growth — CANNES — Wall Street's new plumbing is being built on Ethereum and this week its architects took over the same French Riviera villas …
Forums: r/CryptoCurrency and r/ethtrader
| Debby Wu / Bloomberg: |
Foxconn reports Q1 revenue up 15.8% YoY to ~$62B, driven by strong demand for iPhones and AI servers powered by Nvidia chips, meeting analysts' expectations — Revenue totaled NT$1.8 trillion ($62 billion) in the three months to June, largely in line with analysts' expectations, results showed Saturday.
More: Reuters, Cryptopolitan, Focus Taiwan, and iClarified
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