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OpenAI AI Agent Escaped Test Environment and Hacked Hugging Face for Days

The breach, powered by GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model, began July 11 and went undetected by OpenAI for over a week.

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Colorado State Researcher Studying Wound Odors to Build Better New World Screwworm Traps

The flesh-eating parasite was eradicated from the United States more than 50 years ago but has now been detected in Texas and New Mexico as of July 23.

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SpaceX Launches 13th Starship Test Flight Carrying 20 Next-Gen Starlink Satellites

The V3 Starlink satellites can support up to 1 terabit per second of downlink, ten times more than the previous generation, but will burn up in the atmosphere just 20 minutes after deployment.

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Wildfire Forces Evacuation of NASA Deep Space Network Station in Spain

Flames and smoke engulfed the Madrid complex's antenna array, which supports more than 40 missions from the Moon to the edge of the Solar System.

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Astronomers Spot Six Young Galaxies Merging Just 1.2 Billion Years After the Big Bang

The compact galaxy group, called SCGG-z5, spans a region only about half the diameter of the Milky Way.

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Stanford Engineer Builds Tool to Help Communities Fix Unsafe Drinking Water

The free modeling tool is designed for small water systems often run by part-time managers who lack access to EPA software.

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Xbox Tests Free Ad-Supported Game Streaming for Insider Users

Players in the program can stream games they already own at no extra cost by watching ads before each hour-long session begins.

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Handheld Breathalyzer Detects Fat Burning Without a Blood Test

Researchers found the device matched traditional lab results across 12 participants tested in a range of diet and exercise conditions.

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Astronomer Searches for Alien Signals in Unexplored Radio Frequencies

A doctoral researcher at the University of Manchester used archived telescope data from Chile to conduct the first SETI survey with the ALMA array.

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Unpublished Alan Turing Story Reveals Playful Man Behind the Genius

A six-page handwritten fragment held at Cambridge has been fully transcribed and studied for the first time, challenging the cold, isolated image of Turing most people know.

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Soil Carbon Helps Crops in Normal Years But Fails in Extreme Drought

A Colorado State University study examined corn, soybeans, and spring wheat across decades of national yield data to reach the finding.

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New Teaching Model Helps Aboriginal Children Learn Noongar Language

Researchers spent a year inside an Aboriginal playgroup developing the translingual yarning pedagogy method, which combines storytelling with multilingual practice.

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