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Grassroots org HumansFirst says it organized 142 protests across 42 US states on July 18 against what it calls the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers — Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort …
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Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| Geraldine McKelvie / The Guardian: |
UK's incoming PM Andy Burnham is expected to scrap Keir Starmer's plans for digital ID cards; last year a petition opposing the cards attracted ~3M signatures — Incoming PM will reallocate unspecified resources from unpopular plan to helping with cost of living
More: Reuters, The Standard, GB News, Mirror, The Sun, and Politico
Bluesky: @leviathanwilde. Forums: r/uknews, r/unitedkingdom, r/LabourUK, r/transgenderUK, r/ukpolitics, and r/gbnews
| AI Security Institute: |
Analysis: recent open weight models lag frontier closed models' cyber capabilities by 4 to 7 months, a narrower gap than the 6 to 10 months through most of 2025 — AISI has tracked the cyber capabilities of frontier AI models since 2023. On our evaluations, the most capable models …
More: Axios, Forbes, Bloomberg, The Decoder, Big Technology, and Financial Times
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Forums: r/singularity and Lobsters
| Transformer: |
Kimi K3 hype shouldn't alarm the US about “losing the AI race” to China; K3 is a good model but not frontier-level and likely lacks dangerous cyber capabilities — Transformer Weekly: NY data center moratorium, NDAA export controls and Amodei's $1m to safety super PAC
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| Ann Davis Vaughan / The Information: |
Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more — Building an AI supercampus increasingly means paying more than you bargained for. Oracle's attempt to salvage a proposed $165 billion project …
More: Motley Fool
| 9to5Mac: |
Analysis finds 60+ “jacket apps” on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses — An investigation by 9to5Mac reveals dozens of apps that disguise gambling platforms as simple games and utilities.
More: Digital Trends, iThinkDifferent, AppleInsider, and Voice Of Emirates
| Ann Cao / South China Morning Post: |
Alibaba open-sources its chip software, following similar plays from Huawei and Moore Threads, as Chinese GPU makers try to break the dominance of Nvidia's CUDA — The firm's chip unit T-Head aims to lower migration barriers to Zhenwu AI computing architectures, following similar initiatives by Huawei and Moore Threads| Haley Zimmerman / Financial Times: |
Big US pizza delivery chains are struggling as apps such as DoorDash and Uber Eats give independent pizzerias and other restaurants greater market access — Large corporate chains lose their edge as services such as DoorDash and Uber Eats level the playing field| Joshua Cohen / Ars Technica: |
A look at AI's potential impact on insurance-coverage decisions like prior authorization as the Trump admin starts to pilot using AI to evaluate Medicare claims — If you're like me, you or a loved one has struggled through the process of gaining pre-approval for the medical care that your physician has recommended.| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions — While conducting espionage against powerful sheikh's tech company, Jonny Gannon helped Gulf country quash Washington suspicions about China ties| Wall Street Journal: |
Prediction market political betting on insider info spreads in DC; sources: WH lawyers raised alarms over anonymous Polymarket bets on the Iran ceasefire timing — White House officials are grappling with how deeply political betting has worked itself into fabric of government
More: The Independent, Washington Examiner, and Raw Story
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| Antonio G. Di Benedetto / The Verge: |
A review of Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop shows 8GB of RAM is not enough for a good Windows 11 experience; PC makers have unveiled upcoming 8GB laptops — Last year, Microsoft's 13-inch Surface Laptop quickly became one of my favorite thin-and-light Windows notebooks.
More: Neowin and Windows Central
Bluesky: @modestholdings.com. Mastodon: @kim_harding@mastodon.scot. Forums: r/pcmasterrace, r/Surface, and r/technology
| Leo Schwartz / The Information: |
How the Trump administration shifted from a “light-touch” approach to AI policy to an interventionist stance that led to restrictions on top AI models in the US — In January 2025, just three days after entering office for his second term, President Donald Trump signed … | Reuters: |
SEC filing: GameStop says it owns 9.8% of eBay, signaling its intent to press ahead with a bid for the company after its unsolicited $56B offer was rejected — Videogame retailer GameStop (GME.N) owns nearly 10% of e-commerce company eBay, the company said in a regulatory filing late on Friday …
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