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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 صوت …
| Reuters: |
The grassroots group HumansFirst is organizing protests against the “unaccountable” buildout of data centers across 125 US locations on July 18 — Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers plan to hold protests on Saturday in at least 125 locations across the United States …
More: Detroit Free Press, Cowboy State Daily, WKU Public Radio, The Straits Times, and Washington Post
X: @amykremer, @zenhoneycutt, @andrewcraft, @realhumansfirst, and @1zzyzyx1
Bluesky: @cortneymckee, @virginiaheffernan, and @cortneymckee
Forums: r/politics and r/technology
| 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: Forbes, Axios, 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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X: @deanwball, @dan_jeffries1, @joshua_saxe, @davidsacks, @semianalysis_, @teortaxestex, @xeophon, @scmallaby, @deanwball, @scaling01, @counternotions, @shakeelhashim, @emollick, @emollick, @rsalakhu, @ctjlewis, @negligible_cap, @zephyr_z9, @agupta, and @shakeelhashim. Bluesky: @deanbaker13. Forums: 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, Politico, and Metro.co.uk
Forums: r/uknews, r/unitedkingdom, r/LabourUK, r/transgenderUK, r/ukpolitics, and r/gbnews
| 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
| 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
X: @joshconstine, @bobbyallyn, and @travisakers
| 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
| 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.| 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 … | Claude / @claudeai: |
Anthropic says Claude Fable 5 will be included in Max and Team Premium plans at 50% of limits from July 20 and via usage credits for Pro and Team Standard users — Beginning July 20, Claude Fable 5 will be included in all Max and Team Premium plans, at 50% of limits. Pro and Team Standard users will continue to have access to Fable via usage credits, and will receive a one-time $100 credit. Demand for Fable has been challenging to
More: Tech Times, The Decoder, The Economic Times, and Simon Willison's Weblog
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Forums: r/singularity and r/ClaudeCode
| 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 …
More: Kotaku, Bloomberg, HotHardware, Bloomberg, Bloomberg, This Week in Videogames, and Benzinga
| Meir Orbach / CTech: |
Data infrastructure startup Cribl acquires CardinalOps, which offers AI-powered threat detection tools and had raised $40M, sources say for around $100M — The U.S. telemetry company will establish a Tel Aviv office after buying the AI-powered detection engineering startup.| David Shepardson / Reuters: |
Memo: the DOJ says federal employees can now download TikTok on government devices, citing TikTok US' transfer of control, lifting a 2022 congressional ban — The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday that federal employees can now download the short-video app TikTok on government devices.Sponsor Posts
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