Found This Week #425:
Net Zero cheaper than 3 degrees damage, turn plastic into paracetamol using E.Coli, EcoWeb report 2025, viewing hidden objects with wireless signals, & The Botanic Atlas!
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Pangolin – Open source alternative to Cloudflare Tunnels
Turkey's new cosmic superpower: banning #AI chatbots for hurt feelings 
. Meanwhile, the world watches in awe as freedom of expression is buried under a pile of #emojis 
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https://www.politico.eu/article/turkey-ban-elon-musk-grok-recep-tayyip-erdogan-insult/ #Turkey #ban #freedomOfExpression #techNews #HackerNews #ngated
POLITICO · Turkey bans Elon Musk’s Grok over Erdoğan insults
Windows 11 overtakes Windows 10—time for Windows 12! Teams adds Channels threading, Pixel gets Veo 3 & AI features, Perplexity launches an AI browser, Romero Games cancels an Xbox shooter & lays off 100, Warcraft Rumble Mobile ends and Sony will publish on Xbox for the first time. 
https://twit.tv/shows/windows-weekly/episodes/940 #Windows11 #TechNews
Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scale
https://www.recall.ai/blog/postgres-listen-notify-does-not-scale
#HackerNews #Postgres #LISTEN/NOTIFY #scalability #PerformanceIssues #DatabaseScaling #TechNews
www.recall.aiPostgres LISTEN/NOTIFY does not scalePostgres LISTEN/NOTIFY can cause severe performance issues under high write concurrency due to a global lock during commit. Learn why it doesn't scale and how to avoid outages.
U.S. Budget Cuts Are Robbing Early-Career Scientists of Their Future
Scientific American · How Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts Are Hurting Early-Career Researchers and American Health
GenAI brain hack, Linda Yaccarino's X exit, “vibe coder” hackathon wins, AI's hidden layer in Puck, Rubio AI impostor calls & AI damage detection for car rentals. Plus, an interview with @mmasnick. @leo, @jeffjarvis & @MikeElgan cover it on Intelligent Machines. https://twit.tv/shows/intelligent-machines/episodes/827 #AI #TechNews
At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/10/ai_agents_automatically_steal_cryptocurrency/
The Register · At last, a use case for AI agents with sky-high ROI: Stealing crypto
OpenAI is building an AI-powered browser to rival Chrome one that does tasks for you instead of tracking you for ads. With ChatGPT like agents that can book trips, fill forms, and more, the future of browsing might be all about doing, not clicking.
#OpenAI #AIbrowser #ChatGPT #ChromeVsOpenAI #FutureOfBrowsing #AIagents #TechNews #BrowserWars #PrivacyMatters #ArtificialIntelligence #TECHi
Read Full Article Here :- https://www.techi.com/openai-browser-vs-google-chrome-ai-agent-search-future/
Computer Scientists Figure Out How to Prove Lies
https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/
Quanta Magazine · Computer Scientists Figure Out How To Prove Lies | Quanta MagazineAn attack on a fundamental proof technique reveals a glaring security issue for blockchains and other digital encryption schemes.
German court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy laws
therecord.mediaGerman court rules Meta tracking technology violates European privacy lawsThe court in Leipzig ruled that Meta must pay €5,000 ($5,900) to a German Facebook user who sued the platform for embedding tracking technology in third-party websites — a ruling that could open the door to other lawsuits.
I think it's very clear what x.com is supposed to be - a personal propaganda machine. How could any person not see this?
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/09/tech/linda-yaccarino-steps-down-x-ceo
Today’s AI Could Make Pandemics 5 Times More Likely
TIME · Today’s AI Could Make Pandemics 5 Times More LikelyAI may make human-caused pandemics 5× more likely than last year, experts warn in a study shared exclusively with TIME.
A Null Pointer Exception Brought Down Mighty Google;7 Hours of Downtime
www.getpanto.aiHow a Null Pointer Exception Brought Down Mighty Google: 7 Hours of Downtime Explained | Panto AIOn June 12, 2025, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) suffered a major outage that rippled across the internet. Popular services like Spotify, Discord, Snapchat and others reported widespread failures, as did Google’s own Workspace apps (Gmail, Meet, Drive, etc.). This article explains how a single null pointer exception in Google’s control plane caused a global disruption.
Neat. YouTube is NOW updating monetization guidelines to reduce payouts for "inauthentic" content which is "mass-produced and repetitive".
We've been tracking content farm garbage for YEARS though, and folks like Anne Reardon NEVER gets enough credit for calling it out, like she did here https://youtu.be/pvqa8dsBtno?si=p_1f2EjdihK2CTmx
YouTube has been doling out Silver, Gold, and Diamond play buttons like a Pez dispenser to content farms for YEARS. We had slop BEFORE AI was vomiting out slop.
