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Wednesday, July 15, 2026
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Prism▲ 518

Bonsai 27B: A 27B-Class model that runs on a phone

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Vancouver Police Department▲ 208

Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history

Vancouver Police Department Partnering with our community for excellence and innovation in public safety. Partnering with our community for excellence and innovation in public safety. Learn More Got a question about our services? Call us : 1.800.123.4567 VPD News Nothing Found

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Mindgard▲ 309

Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left

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Fortune▲ 152

Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B

A PJM market watchdog calls the shift a "massive wealth transfer" to tech companies, but there's a peak-demand loophole.

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GitHub▲ 145

Dependabot version updates introduce default package cooldown

Dependabot now waits until a new release has been available on its registry for at least three days before opening a version update pull request. This cooldown is now the…

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Fabiën Sanglard▲ 189

Jurassic Park computers in excruciating detail

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Starfleet Mathematics▲ 99

Solving 20 Erdős Problems with 20 Codex Accounts Running in Parallel

An AI system that solves open mathematics problems using Lean 4 — every solution kernel-verified and downloadable.

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Tailscale▲ 98

TS-2026-009: Insecure argument handling in Tailscale SSH permitted root access

Security notifications affecting the Tailscale client and service Read our incident disclosure and notification policy. If you’re directly affected by a security issue in Tailscale, and we…

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Benjamin Bai▲ 73

LeMario: Training a JEPA World Model on Super Mario Bros

A from-scratch JEPA world model trained on Super Mario Bros. to study action-conditioned prediction and reward-free planning.

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Brian Krebs▲ 82

Microsoft Patches a Record 570 Security Flaws

Microsoft Corp. today released software updates to plug at least 570 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, almost triple the number of vulnerabilities the…

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HN — Best of the Week

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GitHub▲ 494

European "age verification" "app" forcing everyone to use Android or iOS

In the README, the following is listed: App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation I would like to strongly urge to abandon this plan. Requiring a depe...

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Jola Dev▲ 474

How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing

Hack the text output of Claude Code to make life a little bit sillier.

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GitHub▲ 413

Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts

What version of Codex CLI is running? Upstream main after #26210 (Encrypt multi-agent v2 message payloads, merged 2026-06-05). This appears to affect versions that include that change and…

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Artfish AI▲ 407

Are we offloading too much of our thinking to AI?

Reflections on autonomy and the value of thinking for ourselves

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Lucumr Pocoo▲ 402

The Tower Keeps Rising

Vibecoding and the possible collapse of a shared language.

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Supercar Blondie▲ 723

Japan develops a method to recover up to 90% of lithium from used EV batteries

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Marco Nett▲ 356

Measuring Input Latency on Linux: X11 vs. Wayland, VRR, and DXVK

I built a device to measure end-to-end input latency, then used it to find out what actually moves the needle.

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Deutsche Welle▲ 257

Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act

Critics fear the reforms could weaken government transparency by curbing civil society's access to official information and limiting requests from foreigners.

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