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fliptop writes:China's biggest solar firms shed nearly one-third of their workforces last year, company filings show, as one of the industries hand-picked by Beijing to drive economic growth grapples with falling prices and steep losses:

hubie writes:OpenAI's new open models can run on your hardware instead of in the cloud:

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canopic jug writes:Some billing changes caused AWS to delete the entirety of developer Seuros' account rather than roll back to the old billing account on record. He has written an annotated timeline and analysis of how AWS came to not just delete a 10-year old, paid up account without warning but also give him quite a run around.

looorg writes:Live from the bottom of the ocean. Underwater robot draws in millions of people watching it live as it explores the bottom of the sea.

upstart writes:Infrared contact lens helps people see in the dark, even with their eyes closed:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.nextron-systems.com/2025/08/01/plague-a-newly-discovered-pam-based-backdoor-for-linux/

upstart writes:Russian volcano erupts for first time in centuries:

upstart writes:Inspired by astronauts, researchers use high-tech pants to uncover heart issues on MRI:

upstart writes:Breakthrough collaboration between multiple telescopes reveals most unusual long-period radio transient ever found:

fliptop writes:Artificial intelligence (AI) has become one of the most potent force multipliers the criminal underground has ever seen. Generative models that write immaculate prose, mimic voices, and chain exploits together have lowered the cost of sophisticated attacks to almost nothing:

hubie writes:Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors:

hubie writes:OpenAI scrambles to remove personal ChatGPT conversations from Google results:

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hubie writes:Solid state are miles ahead lithium-ion, but several breakthroughs are still needed before mass adoption:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:Ousted Vaccine Panel Members Say Rigorous Science is Being Abandoned

upstart writes:World News: United Nations report finds UN reports aren't widely read:

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-brain-scans-reveal-parahippocampal-cortex.html

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upstart writes:Coffee prices rise as U.S. imposes tariffs on top exporter Brazil:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/kali-linux-can-now-run-in-apple-containers-on-macos-systems/

upstart writes:Subliminal Learning: Language Models Transmit Behavioral Traits via Hidden Signals in Data:TLDR:

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An Anonymous Coward writes:Hackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) In Person and Virtual Tickets Being SoldHackers on Planet Earth (HOPE) 16 is scheduled for August 15-17 2025. In Person as well as Virtual tickets are on sale now.

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fliptop writes:This week, an app for women called "Tea" became the #1 downloaded app on the Apple App Store. Unfortunately for the women, the app also required them to give the developer a picture of their ID and location details for verification. Today, someone hacked it and put nearly 60 gigabytes of private data on 4chan:

Arthur T Knackerbracket writes:https://phys.org/news/2025-07-modern-tattooers-ancient-ice-mummies.html

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-bans-libreoffice-developers-account-without-warning-rejects-appeal/

cereal_burpist writes:Radioactive wasp nest found at site where US once made nuclear bombs

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/07/scientists-use-peacock-feathers-to-make-frickin-laser-beams/

looorg writes:Microsoft tries to predict all the jobs where humans are doomed by the AI-overlords. It's a bit odd. They are basically predicting that everything that requires some kind of creativity or artistic endeavors will be replaced by AI. But all the hard manual labor will not. So sort of the exact opposite of what we wanted? We wanted machines to do all the boring hard work so we, the humans, could do the artistic and creative things. Now we are just going to be slaves to the machines then? Servants refilling their coolant and washing the server room floors.Jobs least at risk are the once that require a body. Interacting with something else, another body or a large heavy machine. That is until the robot-ai-overlords come along and take those to. Then it's the Matrix farm for us all ...https://www.windowscentral.com/artificial-intelligence/microsoft-reveals-40-jobs-about-to-be-destroyed-by-and-safe-from-aihttps://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/publication/working-with-ai-measuring-the-occupational-implications-of-generative-ai/?msockid=3e17f0da45306c3d2926e6e2445b6d7dOriginal SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

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upstart writes:Trump caving on Nvidia H20 export curbs may disrupt his bigger trade war:

jelizondo writes:TechCrunch has an interesting article about an engineer who is challenging the Defense Behemoths.

upstart writes:A secretive space plane is set to launch and test quantum navigation technology:

upstart writes:Anthropic unveils new rate limits to curb Claude Code power users:

upstart writes:Lawsuit: Meta may have seeded porn to minors while hiding piracy for AI training:

jelizondo writes:The Guardian posted a very thoughtful article about manipulation on the Web:

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canopic jug writes:Blogger Manuel "Manu" Moreale, based in Italy, reflects on interviewing people weekly about their blogs for a few years now.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

upstart writes:NASA's Webb Finds Possible 'Direct Collapse' Black Hole:

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