Meta building cloud business to sell excess AI capacity
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-sell-excess-ai-computing-capacity-via-cloud-business-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-07-01/
https://www.reuters.com/business/meta-sell-excess-ai-computing-capacity-via-cloud-business-bloomberg-news-reports-2026-07-01/
OpenAI: In early talks to give 5% stake to US Government
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/02/openai-stake-us-government-ai-sam-altman
the Guardian
OpenAI ‘in early talks to give 5% stake to US government’
CEO Sam Altman argued move would share benefits of AI and it would involve other firms doing similar, report says
Is One Layer Enough? A Single Transformer Layer Matches Full-Parameter RL Train
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.01232
arXiv.org
Is One Layer Enough? Training A Single Transformer Layer Can Match...
Reinforcement learning (RL) has become a central component of post-training large language models (LLMs), yet little is understood about how RL adaptation is distributed across transformer layers....
AI fake news complaining about how AI fake news is the death of real news
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/07/now-were-getting-ai-fake-news-complaining-about-how-ai-fake-news-is-the-death-of-real-news/
Hazel (YC W24) Is Hiring for Our Largest Government Contract
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/hazel-2/jobs/3epPWgu-full-stack-engineer-ts-sci
Y Combinator
Full Stack Engineer (TS/SCI) at Hazel | Y Combinator
Note: This role is exclusively available to U.S. citizens who can obtain and maintain a U.S. government-issued Top Secret security clearance with full-scope polygraph. There are no exceptions.
Who We Are:
Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We…
Who We Are:
Our mission at Hazel is simple and powerful. We…
Show HN: CLI tool for detecting non-exact code duplication with embedding models
https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo
https://github.com/rafal-qa/slopo
GitHub
GitHub - rafal-qa/slopo: Embedding-based code duplication detector
Embedding-based code duplication detector. Contribute to rafal-qa/slopo development by creating an account on GitHub.
Since Linux 6.9, LUKS suspend stopped wiping disk-encryption keys from memory
https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438
https://mathstodon.xyz/@iblech/116769502749142438
Mathstodon
Ingo Blechschmidt (@iblech@mathstodon.xyz)
So. For the past few days I've been deep in a fun and very rewarding, but also extremely scary debugging saga. To cut a long git-bisecting story short:
Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failing.…
Since Linux 6.9 (May 2024), the tool that locks the laptop's drive on suspend had been silently failing.…
Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation falls to lowest in 50 years
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job-seekers-giving-up-labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-50-years-outside-of-covid-era.html
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/02/job-seekers-giving-up-labor-force-participation-rate-falls-to-lowest-in-50-years-outside-of-covid-era.html
CNBC
Job seekers giving up: Labor force participation rate falls to lowest in 50 years, outside of Covid era
A drop in the unemployment rate helped provide some upside to what was an otherwise downbeat jobs report — but it was for all the wrong reasons.
US State of Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data
https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data
https://www.hunton.com/privacy-and-cybersecurity-law-blog/virginia-bans-sale-of-geolocation-data
Hunton
Virginia Bans Sale of Geolocation Data
BlastRadar – paste a Git diff, get a production risk score in 10 seconds
https://blastradar.vercel.app/
https://blastradar.vercel.app/
U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/02/us/politics/israel-iran-negotiators-plot.html
Nytimes
U.S. Officials Believed Israel Was Plotting to Kill Iranian Negotiators
Any Israeli attempt to kill Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister, or Mohammad Ghalibaf, the Parliament speaker, would have derailed peace talks, American officials feared.