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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
F-35 fighter jet crashes in San Diego, sparking fire at Miramar air base
The pilot ejected and was being treated for injuries, according to officials.
NBC News - Jul 31, 2026 7:10pm 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
Christian Science Monitor - Jul 31, 2026 6:29pm EDT
He was charged with his wife’s murder — without a body. It was hiding in plain sight for years.
“You would never have thought that it would be so obvious,” one prosecutor said about the search for Dee Warner.
NBC News - Jul 31, 2026 6:23pm 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
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
ABC News - Jul 31, 2026 3:12pm EDT
Giants’ Harrison Bader out for season following scooter crash that worsened foot injury
Bader hasn’t played for San Francisco since May 29 due to his foot injury, and he also missed about a month earlier in the season with a hamstring injury.
NBC News - Jul 31, 2026 3:10pm 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
EU inflation rises to 2.9% in July
Brussels: The eurozone s annual inflation rate rose to 2.9% in July 2026, up from 2.8% in June, according to data released today by Eurostat. Euros...
Peninsula Qatar - Jul 31, 2026 1:39pm 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

