Xiaomi-Robotics-1 https://robotics.xiaomi.com/xiaomi-robotics-1.html
Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-registry-database/
Risky.Biz
Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning https://werd.io/american-ai-is-locked-down-and-proprietary-its-losing/
Ben Werdmuller
American AI is locked down and proprietary. It's losing.
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
Jelly UI: Soft-body physics for native HTML form controls https://jelly-ui.com/
Jelly-Ui
Jelly UI — Soft Web Components
Jelly UI is a dependency-free Web Components library for tactile product interfaces: soft-body physics, real form controls, dark mode, RTL and WCAG AA accessibility.
Apple defeats liability for not scanning iCloud for CSAM https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2026/07/apple-defeats-liability-for-not-scanning-icloud-for-csam-but-the-judge-was-not-pleased-amy-v-apple.htm
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud Items for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple - Technology & Marketing…
This case involves Apple’s handling of user-uploaded files hosted in private iCloud storage. Instead of adopting PhotoDNA to scan hosted files for CSAM, Apple created its own proprietary alternative, NeuralHash, which apparently wasn’t as good. So Apple U…
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe https://www.cole-k.com/2026/07/21/reddit/
Cole-K
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
I am equally unsurprised and upset
Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns https://blog.fiddery.com/businesses-with-ugly-ai-menu-redesigns/
fiddery
businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns!!!
I like supporting local businesses but it's so disheartening to see the increasing use of genAI in their branding/marketing/etc. Yuck yuck YUCK!!!
Future euro banknote design proposals https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/banknotes/future_banknotes/html/all-design-proposals.en.html
European Central Bank
All design proposals
The European Central Bank (ECB) is the central bank of the European Union countries which have adopted the euro. Our main task is to maintain price stability in the euro area and so preserve the purchasing power of the single currency.
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page https://hhh.hn/hanwha-github-token/
hhh.hn
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page
i dissected some firmware for a Hanwha Wisenet XNP-9300RW and found that it had github admin tokens in it, also miltech is weird
India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch https://arstechnica.com/space/2026/07/indias-first-privately-developed-rocket-reaches-orbit-on-dramatic-debut-launch/
Ars Technica
India's first privately developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch
On the first attempt, reaching orbit, I never thought it was possible."
Android may soon restrict on-device ADB https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/
Kitsumed Blog
Android May Soon Restrict On-Device ADB, Affecting Shizuku, libadb and Developers
Changes proposed for ADB could kill an entire ecosystem of open-source power-user apps, mobile developer setups, and rootless privacy tools based on Shizuku.
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots https://deepmind.google/blog/gemini-robotics-2-brings-whole-body-intelligence-to-robots/
Google DeepMind
Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots
From feet to fingertips — we are teaching robots intelligent whole-body control, fine dexterity, and teamwork to complete a broad range of complex tasks.
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations https://www.anthropic.com/news/investigating-incidents-cybersecurity-evals
Anthropic
Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environment, and then gained unauthorized access to the real systems…
Google fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI https://blog.google/security/chrome-stronger-with-every-update/
Google
Stronger with every update: How we’re making Chrome and the web safer in the AI Era
Chrome uses Gemini AI to automate vulnerability discovery, triage, and patching, accelerating updates to match modern security risks.
Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on My Mac Studio https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/getting-25g-ethernet-mac-thunderbolt/
Jeff Geerling
Getting 25 Gbps Thunderbolt Ethernet on my Mac Studio
I've been using the built-in 10 Gigabit Ethernet on my Mac Studio for a few years. It works fine: I can edit 4K video straight off my NAS over the network, and run backups at around 1 GB/sec.
But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple…
But... I want more. I upgraded my rack and my NAS to 25 GbE a couple…
The most official water costs $120k a gallon https://signoregalilei.com/2026/07/26/the-most-official-water-costs-120000-a-gallon/
Signore Galilei
The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon
We all learned in science class that water freezes at 0 °C or 32 °F at atmospheric pressure. But what water, exactly? Even after you distill out all the dissolved salts and minerals to get pure H2O…
Run Kimi K3 using 29 GB of RAM at 0.50 tok/s https://github.com/sqliteai/waste
GitHub
GitHub - sqliteai/waste: Run the full 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model beyond available RAM by streaming activated weights…
Run the full 2.78-trillion-parameter Kimi K3 model beyond available RAM by streaming activated weights directly from NVMe. A dependency-free, embeddable C inference engine. - sqliteai/waste