AI News

Chinese Companies Are Selling Vapes With Chemicals Potentially More Potent Than Nicotine (www.wired.com)

Google to use air-cooling tech for first Botetourt data center, reducing water use - Virginia Business (virginiabusiness.com)

RTX 2080 Ti Memory Upgrade to 22 GB (gpusolutions.net)

Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations - WSLS (www.wsls.com)

Virginia study on groundwater, data centers calls for tighter water regulations (www.coloradohometownweekly.com)

What If We Made Advertising Illegal? (simone.org)

Chef.fe de Projets Données France 2030 F/H - ADEME (recrutement.ademe.fr)

Colorado Springs Planning Commission denies appeal for proposed data center Project Taurus (www.kktv.com)

Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta Warn Against 'Premature Restrictions' of Open-Weight Models (meta.slashdot.org)

Floodwater starts arriving in Corpus Christi reservoirs, sparking hope for a water crisis delay (www.texastribune.org)

OnTrac notifies customers of data breach after network hack (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

DAILY DIGEST, weekend edition: California dodges a bullet on Colorado River cuts; New ... (mavensnotebook.com)

Despite multiple takedowns, botnets continue to grow (cyberscoop.com)

Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard (artificialanalysis.ai)

Escape Artists: 'Incorrigible' AI Models Resist Rehabilitation (www.darkreading.com)

Roku raises streaming stick prices by up to 60 percent (arstechnica.com)

Show HN: Scala Tutorials – interactive Scala 3 lessons in the browser (scalatutorials.com)

VentureBeat Research: Where enterprise AI agent governance hasn't caught up (venturebeat.com)

Meta just created a moderation nightmare for its smart glasses (www.theverge.com)

'We are deeply concerned': Arizona leaders ask Congress for emergency funding to protect ... (www.12news.com)

Aurora DSQL: Scalable, Multi-Region OLTP (muratbuffalo.blogspot.com)

How many jobs do AI data centres actually create? - ABC News (www.abc.net.au)

Qualcomm is about to raise prices and that's bad news for everyone (www.theverge.com)

RFK Jr.'s hand-picked committee approves manufacture of peptides he uses (arstechnica.com)

Hermes AI agent used to automate attack on Thai Finance Ministry (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Midjourney bought the astrology app Co-Star (www.theverge.com)

Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY actually scales (www.dbos.dev)

Anthropic's New Opus 5 Model Rivals Fable 5 For Half the Price (slashdot.org)

Amazon will give you a $350 gift card when you buy a new Samsung phone - here's what to know (www.zdnet.com)

The 2026 El Niño Is on Track to Be the Strongest on Record (www.wired.com)

Clara Chappaz rejoindra l'Élysée le 1er août 2026 en tant que conseillère du président ... (france.news-pravda.com)

Rep. Crane Joins Bipartisan Letter Urging Investment in Colorado River Drought Relief (crane.house.gov)

Show HN: I made some transistor animations (brandonli.net)

Lead Free DC Newsletter Summer 2026 - DC Water (www.dcwater.com)

DJI camera clone company Xtra is halting and refunding all preorders (www.theverge.com)

Biggs, Titus Lead Bipartisan Letter Urging Emergency Funding for Colorado River Basin (biggs.house.gov)

Farmers Are Getting Control Of Their Equipment Back (www.eff.org)

Clara Chappaz, ambassadrice pour le numérique et l'intelligence artificielle. Ex-ministre ... (x.com)

DockAMP Webstack Manager for Docker (www.producthunt.com)

Golang Maps: how Swiss Tables replaced the old bucket design (blog.gaborkoos.com)

Nothing confirms layoffs, but calls market exit rumors 'fake news' (www.theverge.com)

Roku raises streaming hardware prices by up to $50 (www.theverge.com)

I got into YC by hacking it (obaid.wtf)

Judge rebuffs Trump admin demand for phone records from NYT reporters (arstechnica.com)

Gsxui – Shadcn-style components for Go (ui.gsxhq.dev)

Did Chinese AI Steal From Anthropic, and OpenAI Loses Control of Two Models (www.wired.com)

Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts (www.bleepingcomputer.com)

Build Systems Discussion (civboot.github.io)

European Union grants US request to restrict satellite images of Iran War region (arstechnica.com)

Blade Runner 2099’s moody dystopia streams on Amazon in November (www.theverge.com)