Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Jack Dorsey (@jack) said in an announcement on X on July 21st that Block is launching Buzz, an open-source workspace designed to put employees, AI agents, conversations and software repositories behind one identity system. Dorsey, Block’s cofounder and Block Head, is pitching Buzz as a way to reduce Block’s dependence on Slack and GitHub. The […]
Meta’s AI Models Are Powering the First Wave of Genesis Mission Projects
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory — one of the US Department of Energy’s premier research laboratories, known for Nobel Prize-winning work in physics, chemistry, and materials science — operates some of the most advanced scientific facilities on the planet. Among them is the Advanced Light Source (ALS), a football field-sized facility that produces intensely bright beams […]
Bloomy (YC S26) is hiring a founding engineer
About Bloomy Bloomy is an AI tutor and curriculum for K-12 students. Our student users are learning approximately 2x faster in early pilots, and students and teachers alike love our product. How it works: We diagnose students’ skill gaps, map out a personalized learning path for them, and then have an AI tutor teach them. […]
The World’s 2,400 Castles
The interactive map of the world’s castles & fortresses Castlemap is a free interactive map of 2,435 of the world’s greatest castles, fortresses and palaces across 129 countries. Pan and zoom the night map above, click any point for a photo and quick facts, or open a landmark’s page for its full story and exact […]
France’s Anssi Will Block PQC-Free Products from Certification Starting 2027
Table of Contents June 17, 2026 — France’s national cybersecurity agency, ANSSI (Agence Nationale de la Sécurité des Systèmes d’Information), confirmed on Tuesday that it will stop certifying security products that lack quantum-resistant encryption. The deadline is 2027. Samih Souissi, ANSSI’s chief of staff, made the announcement at the France Quantum 2026 conference at Station […]
NPM’s release cooldown is security theater
2026/7/21 · #tech · ~2.5k words · Views: … Due to many ecosystem attack incidents, package managers (and packagers, and managers) are apparently falling in love with cooldowns these days (npm, pnpm, yarn and so on). As a result, their upstream registry is time-gated for some 7 days or 24 hours. Sounds sweet as honey. […]
Long Presumed Dead, a Thriving Coral Reef Is Discovered in West Africa
Sixty years after surveyors first uncovered evidence of a sprawling coral reef off the West African nation of Benin, scientists have at last found the reef. In the 1960s, fishing surveyors off West Africa’s Benin coast hauled up heads of coral in their nets. Employed by local governments to assess fish diversity and discover potentially […]
Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
The shooting deaths of two immigrants at the hands of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in the past week have brought the Trump administration’s violent crackdown into sharp relief once again, triggering protests and calls for accountability. But the government has kept the total number of people caught up in enforcement efforts under wraps since […]
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125M to Find Voter Fraud
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to use the data to investigate immigration fraud.
Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber
Developers and customers building production AI agents need higher token efficiency, lower latency, and more reliable performance. Our Flash series of models is built to meet the sweet spot of efficiency and quality to enable scaling agentic workflows. Building on Gemini 3.5 Flash, we’re introducing new Gemini models: 3.6 Flash: Our workhorse model that delivers […]