Monthly Highlights
5551.
Lightning kills 320M trees each year (popsci.com)
5552.
Global earthquake detection and warning using Android phones (science.org)
5553.
Bringing runtime index checks to compile time in Rust (ktkaufman03.github.io)
5554.
July 9 Was the Shortest Day This Year as Earth's Spinning Faster (in.mashable.com)
5555.
Citizen Lab director warns cyber industry about US authoritarian descent (techcrunch.com)
5556.
Lisp interpreter with GC in <750 lines of Odin (and <500 lines of C) (github.com)
5557.
Microsoft Names Threat Actors (learn.microsoft.com)
5558.
Show HN: Chilli – A lightweight microframework for CLIs in Zig
5559.
Release of Files Related to Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr (justice.gov)
5560.
Chinese blessing scam more prominent in Australia as operators re-emerge (abc.net.au)
5561.
Show HN: Embeddable -build interactive experiences you can drop into any website (embeddable.co)
5562.
Smoots: A fraternity prank turned into a measurement (theregister.com)
5563.
Kap Lang (kapdemo.dhsdevelopments.com)
5564.
Cop jailed for stealing bitcoins, had log of his crypto theft in his office (arstechnica.com)
5565.
Show HN: Sifaka – Simple AI text improvement through research-backed critique (github.com)
5566.
Scientists hide messages in papers to game AI peer review (nature.com)
5567.
New technology helps robots see inside sealed boxes (foxnews.com)
5568.
The surprise winner in the U.S.-China tech war? Vietnam's chip industry (restofworld.org)
5569.
Another High-Profile OpenAI Researcher Departs for Meta (wired.com)
5570.
My Scammer - I Responded to One of the Spam Texts From a “Recruiter” (slate.com)
5571.
The campaign to make it illegal for ChatGPT to criticize Trump (platformer.news)
5572.
AI creeps into the risk register for America's biggest firms (theregister.com)
5573.
AI Turns Us into Dummies (charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
5574.
Literacy lag: We start reading too late (theintrinsicperspective.com)
5575.
Use DNSBL to block AI crawlers in Caddy (404.tw)
5576.
Show HN: No Hype AI – get oriented in using LLM tools for software engineering (nohypeai.dev)
5577.
Slovenia bans weapons trade with Israel in EU first (sloveniatimes.com)
5578.
XAI's Grok 4 has no meaningful safety guardrails (lesswrong.com)
5579.
Train Hack Gets Proper Attention After 20 Years: Researcher (securityweek.com)
5580.
FCC dives in to sink Chinese grip on undersea internet cables (theregister.com)