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Democrats’ factional battle hits a swing district in Michigan

Michigan’s 7th District swung to the GOP in the 2024 election after Democrats flipped it in 2018. Now, a fractious Democratic primary has drawn national attention and money.

NBC News - Aug 01, 2026 5:04am EDT

Why did OpenAI's and Anthropic's AI models hack other companies?

NPR - Aug 01, 2026 5:03am EDT

Anthropic discloses real-world cyber evaluation incidents involving AI models

San Francisco: U.S. artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic said Thursday that three of its AI models accessed or interacted with computer syst...

Peninsula Qatar - Aug 01, 2026 2:08am EDT

Satellite killers: What a war in space might look like

The satellites that orbit Earth have remained largely untouched in modern conflict. But in the 21st Century, space may no longer be a safe haven.

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 11:57pm EDT

Trump administration drops Reflecting Pool case, blaming damage on ‘botched’ installation

The Justice Department said “it is difficult to attribute the widespread damage to the Reflecting Pool to vandalism, let alone to establish that fact beyond a reasonable doubt.”

NBC News - Jul 31, 2026 8:44pm EDT

Hacking attacks on Minnesota water companies resemble Iranian methods | Fox News Video

Fox News senior correspondent Mike Tobin reports on a probe into a cyberattack on Minnesota water companies on ‘Special Report.’

Fox News - Jul 31, 2026 7:25pm EDT

Anthropic's Claude AI escapes tests to hack three organisations

It comes just days after rival OpenAI said rogue AI agents had breached other firms' networks.

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 6:38pm EDT

Democrats' surging left wing faces a test in Michigan: Older Black voters - Tuesday's primary for Michigan's open Senate seat is serving as a proxy battle over the Democratic Party's future. How it all plays out could shape the 2028 presidential race. By - Simon Montlake - / 7 min

Christian Science Monitor - Jul 31, 2026 6:29pm EDT

Google Just Torched the Credibility of Its Satellite Images

The Atlantic - Jul 31, 2026 6:29pm EDT

Google plans to exempt sanctioned nations from Android developer verification

Someone in Cuba or Iran can keep installing APKs with no new restrictions, but devs will suffer.

Ars Technica - Jul 31, 2026 5:40pm EDT

OpenAI finds evidence that other AI agents escaped containment as it investigates hacking

New breakouts discovered after AI models escaped a testing environment and hacked a startup

The Globe and Mail - Jul 31, 2026 5:06pm EDT

Market analyst channels '80s movie over rogue AI threat | Fox News Video

CPA and market analyst Dan Geltrude warns over rogue artificial intelligence on 'Mornings with Maria.'

Fox News - Jul 31, 2026 4:54pm EDT

Leaked Memo Links Iran to Minnesota Water Utility Cyberattacks. Dozens of Systems Were Targeted in Escalating Campaign.

The communication, distributed to members of the WaterISAC, references an alert from the Minnesota Fusion Center concluding that the ongoing attacks are attributed by U.S. authorities to Iran-affiliated hackers.

International Business Times - Jul 31, 2026 4:22pm EDT

Alphabet, Amazon and Microsoft added nearly $1.5 trillion in combined value this week

Amazon, Microsoft and Google added hundreds of billions of dollars to their market caps, while Apple and Meta saw their market valuations fall.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 4:06pm EDT

Solar Storms Create a Risk for Mars Exploration Scientists Hadn’t Expected

Gizmodo - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT

Mission to rescue space telescope may be in jeopardy - The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory is a satellite that studies gamma-ray bursts.

ABC News - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT

AI firms must answer for rogue bots, says Hugging Face boss

Clement Delangue said he didn't want cyber attacks on other companies to become "normalised".

BBC News - Jul 31, 2026 2:44pm EDT

Google pauses AI satellite images, after fears of deepfakes in the sky

NPR - Jul 31, 2026 2:22pm EDT

Anthropic’s AI Claude hacked into three organizations during cybersecurity test

Guardian UK - Jul 31, 2026 1:26pm EDT

Social media companies sued over deaths of four teens

ABC News - Jul 31, 2026 12:46pm EDT

AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

An M.I.T. Ph.D. student and two University of California system cryptographers used GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra in different ways, raising new questions about independent discovery and scientific credit

Scientific American - Jul 31, 2026 12:40pm EDT

Nearly 16,000 women tested negative for BRCA. Their cancer risk was still higher

Up to 10 percent of breast cancer cases are thought to be hereditary, caused by gene changes passed on in families.

Newsweek - Jul 31, 2026 11:56am EDT

SpaceX Starship Flight Test 13 takes issue with the 'flight' bit

Engine replacement needed after launchpad abort

Register UK - Jul 31, 2026 11:55am EDT

Amazon says it got $600 million in Trump tariff refunds and will pass return along to some customers

The company previously hadn't disclosed whether it would recoup tariff costs after the Supreme Court ruled many of President Donald Trump's levies were illegal.

CNBC - Jul 31, 2026 11:27am EDT