Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 stuns in JerryRigEverything’s durability test

TL;DR The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has successfully passed JerryRigEverything’s intense durability test. The phone showed exceptional structural strength despite its ultra-thin design. Samsung has also greatly improved dust resistance on the phone. The Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 7 has just aced one of the internet’s most famous durability tests. In a new video […]

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The Download: Saving the US climate programs, and America’s AI protections are under threat

Nonprofits are trying to preserve a US effort to modernize greenhouse-gas measurements, amid growing fears that the Trump administration’s dismantling of federal programs will obscure the nation’s contributions to climate change. The Data Foundation, a Washington, DC, nonprofit, is fundraising for an initiative that will coordinate efforts among nonprofits, technical experts, and companies to improve […]

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U.S. Sanctions Firm Behind N. Korean IT Scheme; Arizona Woman Jailed for Running Laptop Farm

Jul 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananCybercrime / Insider Threat The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned a North Korean front company and three associated individuals for their involvement in the fraudulent remote information technology (IT) worker scheme designed to generate illicit revenues for Pyongyang. The sanctions target Korea Sobaeksu Trading Company […]

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How to build secure and scalable remote MCP servers

Model Context Protocol (MCP) enables AI agents to connect to external tools and data sources without having to implement API-specific connectors. Whether you’re extracting key data from invoices, summarizing support tickets, or searching for code snippets across a large codebase, MCP provides a standardized way to connect LLMs with the context they need.  Below we’ll […]

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Saving the world with speed and at scale

July 25, 2025 Ryan Panchadsaram, co-author of Speed and Scale, sits down on the podcast to explore the role of developers in combating climate change, how efficient coding practices help lower emissions, and how developers can contribute to open-source projects through GitHub’s Climate Action Plan that help drive forward sustainable technologies. Source link

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A Discussion of ‘Adversarial Examples Are Not Bugs, They Are Features’

On May 6th, Andrew Ilyas and colleagues published a paper outlining two sets of experiments. Firstly, they showed that models trained on adversarial examples can transfer to real data, and secondly that models trained on a dataset derived from the representations of robust neural networks seem to inherit non-trivial robustness. They proposed an intriguing interpretation […]

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Baltimore Shows You Can Bring Down Murder Rates Without Throwing More Cops At The Problem

from the sending-more-violence-to-violent-areas-isn’t-a-solution dept So many pro-police lawmakers and city officials have always insisted the only way to bring down crime rates is to add more cops to the mix. This may work if you’re mainly interested in racking up meaningless arrests or handing out “broken windows” citations, but it doesn’t address why certain areas […]

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