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Russia kills 17 in ballistic missile attacks around Kyiv

Al Jazeera

Russia kills 17 in ballistic missile attacks around Kyiv

At least 17 people were killed after Russia launched an overnight ballistic missile and drone attack on Kyiv.

Al Jazeera

‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse

‘Now, almost every image looks flat or cartoonish’: I saw Reddit arguing that Google’s AI image generator had got worse

Looking through a recent thread on Reddit comparing images created with the same prompt on Nano Banana 2 and ChatGPT, I noticed an interesting trend — users seem to think that Nano Banana 2 has actually gotten worse over time. “Nano 2 had…

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

Ars Technica

D-Wave on rails: Company tests entanglement on its dual-rail qubits

D-Wave is a bit of an oddity in the quantum computing space, having been founded back in the last century. And its initial offering wasn't a quantum computer like those being developed by IBM or Google. Instead, the company built what's…

Ars Technica

The Verge

SpaceX is barely Space and mostly X

Once, I had some questions about why SpaceX, Elon Musk's healthiest company, acquired xAI, his sickliest one. Now I have some questions about why we're calling the whole thing SpaceX. Look, what we have here, by revenue, is primarily a…

The Verge

The world's smallest USB drive has more storage than an iPhone 17

The world's smallest USB drive has more storage than an iPhone 17

At a time when storage space commands a premium price, SanDisk's Extreme Fit drive is worth a look.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

Wired

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

Wired

Deutsche Welle

Germany: Leipzig explosive drone 'new level of danger' — Minister

Germany's Interior Minister Dobrindt, who cut his summer break short to deal with the Leipzig Airport situation, said the incident was being treated as a "hybrid attack scenario." DW has the latest.

Deutsche Welle

SpaceX’s Future Plans Hinge Heavily on Starlink and Grok

CNET

SpaceX’s Future Plans Hinge Heavily on Starlink and Grok

Elon Musk’s rocket, internet and AI company gave investors its first update since its June IPO.

CNET

Xbox's devastating July was inevitable

"It is neither possible nor desirable to own every great independent studio."

Private Internet Access just more than doubled its streaming VPN server network

Private Internet Access just more than doubled its streaming VPN server network

PIA has added 22 streaming-optimized VPN server locations No update, reinstall, or plan change is needed to access new servers Countries getting the label for the first time include France, Spain, Brazil Private Internet Access (PIA) has…

The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

VentureBeat

The Shai-Hulud npm worm didn't fake its security check — it earned a legitimate one

An attacker on Tuesday took over the GitHub account of the developer who maintains keyv , a small key-value storage library that npm serves roughly 127 million times a week. Within hours, poisoned versions of keyv and its sibling caching…

VentureBeat

A Four-Ton SpaceX Rocket Stage Hit the Moon, but No One Saw It

The New York Times