M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000t13l/executive
Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027
https://thenextgennexus.com/2026/05/14/google-kills-custom-search-api-on-jan-1-2027-you-have-9-months/
https://thenextgennexus.com/2026/05/14/google-kills-custom-search-api-on-jan-1-2027-you-have-9-months/
The Next Gen Nexus - AI Agents, Automation, and Web Data Tools
Google Kills Custom Search API on Jan 1, 2027. You Have 9 Months - The Next Gen Nexus
Google is shutting down the Custom Search JSON API on Jan 1, 2027. Here's what breaks, your migration timeline, and the drop-in alternatives — including a pay-per-result scraping option with no quota — to keep your search data flowing.
GrapheneOS recommended for domestic abuse victims
https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
https://privacypros.com.au/privacy-hub/articles/dv-safe-phone-australia/
PrivacyPros
DV Safe Phones Australia: Protecting Survivors from Tech Abuse in 2026 | PrivacyPros
Tech abuse is increasing in domestic violence cases across Australia. Learn how configured DV Safe Phones help survivors reduce tracking, and regain control.
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers Clues
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-has-roman-concrete-lasted-for-millennia-a-1900-year-old-latrine-offers-new-clues-about-the-materials-impressive-durability-180989115/
Smithsonian Magazine
How Has Roman Concrete Lasted for Millennia? A 1,900-Year-Old Latrine Offers New Clues About the Material's Impressive Durability
A chemical process called carbonation, which helps seal cracks, could help explain why many ancient Roman structures are still standing today. Researchers hope that the insights will lead to better modern-day building materials
EEG shows brain can simultaneous encode two speech streams
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003876
journals.plos.org
Competing speech streams are simultaneously represented in the human cortex during attention switching
How the brain rapidly switches attention between competing speech streams in complex listening environments is not fully understood. This study shows that neural tracking of a new speaker emerges before disengagement, with transient dual encoding and reduced…
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c79gw4lj89eo
Bbc
Trump Media to sell instant access to 'market-moving' social posts
Trump Media is launching a fast, paid feed to its most influential posts for Wall Street traders.
Ask HN: Any AWS billing issues known? Amazon forecast of 3 billion dollars
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48945681
Blatant AI slop just won a 25k USD DeepMind Kaggle Grand Prize
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggle-measuring-agi/discussion/724918#3498423
Kaggle
Measuring Progress Toward AGI - Cognitive Abilities
Design high-quality benchmarks that go beyond recall to evaluate how frontier models truly reason, act, and judge.
Apple targets dozens of OpenAI employees with legal letters
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
https://www.ft.com/content/1b8c9d52-88a9-426b-ba47-f1811f859166
Manufact (YC S25) Is Hiring a Senior infra engineer to build the MCP cloud
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manufact/jobs/Dh6PYP5-senior-infrastructure-engineer
https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/manufact/jobs/Dh6PYP5-senior-infrastructure-engineer
Y Combinator
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Manufact | Y Combinator
About us
Manufact is Vercel for MCP.
We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.
Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month.
We're the…
Manufact is Vercel for MCP.
We are building the MCP cloud platform to get any product ready for Claude Connectors marketplace, ChatGPT App Store and any AI agent that supports MCP.
Manufact Cloud usage is more than doubling every month.
We're the…
More Bounce to the Ounce – By Maciej Cegłowski
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/more-bounce-to-the-ounce
https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/more-bounce-to-the-ounce
Substack
More Bounce to the Ounce!
A love letter to the rocket that everyone is too chicken to build
AI Meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's ZkVM
https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/openvm-bugs/
https://blog.zksecurity.xyz/posts/openvm-bugs/
ZK/SEC Quarterly
AI meets Cryptography 2: What AI Found in OpenVM's zkVM
We turned zkao (our AI auditor) on OpenVM, a state-of-the-art zkVM, and it found a critical soundness bug: the pairing check accepted a prover-supplied witness without proper subfield checking, which lets a malicious prover forge any pairing equality. It…
Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
https://www.olafalders.com/2026/07/17/claude-code-anatomy-of-a-misfeature/
https://www.olafalders.com/2026/07/17/claude-code-anatomy-of-a-misfeature/
Olaf Alders
Claude Code: Anatomy of a Misfeature
On Canada Day (July 1), 2026, Anthropic shipped a surprising "easter egg" to users of Claude Code: `2.1.198` includes an efficiency bypass which allows agents …
CO2 overload, detected in human blood, suggests toxic atmosphere within 50 years
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11869-026-01918-5
SpringerLink
Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health - Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure...
Ask HN: Did Fable disappear from your Claude usage and requires credits now?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950477
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48950477
SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1T in value in a month
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock-drops-new-low-ipo-price-starship-launch-scrubbed-2026-7
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-stock-drops-new-low-ipo-price-starship-launch-scrubbed-2026-7
Business Insider
SpaceX stock drops to a new low and loses $1 trillion in value in a month
SpaceX's market cap has lost about $1 trillion in value since its June 16 peak and hit a new low since its record-breaking IPO.