The Verge
Google and Epic give up fighting — third-party Android app stores are coming next week
Google will begin hosting third-party app stores within its own platform starting July 22nd, following the joint withdrawal of Epic Games and Google's attempt to settle their landmark antitrust lawsuit. The court-ordered remedy forces Google to open its Android ecosystem to rival storefronts, a significant blow to its longstanding grip on app distribution. The ruling raises immediate questions about whether major players like Microsoft could seize the moment to launch competing storefronts — including a potential Xbox game store — directly on Android devices.
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OpenAI researcher Miles Wang in talks to launch AI drug discovery startup valued at $2B
OpenAI researcher Miles Wang is in talks to launch an AI-powered drug discovery startup at a $2 billion valuation before the company has even formally launched. The discussions signal surging investor appetite for applying frontier AI capabilities to life sciences, where the technology promises to dramatically accelerate how new treatments are identified and developed. If the deal closes, it would rank among the most richly valued biopharma startups at inception.
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Meet GPT-Red: an LLM super-hacker OpenAI built to make its models safer
OpenAI has developed GPT-Red, a dedicated adversarial language model designed to probe and attack its other AI systems, exposing vulnerabilities before bad actors can exploit them. The tool played a central role in hardening GPT-5.6, which OpenAI claims is its most defensively robust model to date. By automating the red-teaming process, OpenAI is scaling a security practice that was previously limited by human time and bandwidth.
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Ars Technica
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Microsoft's Secure Boot—designed to prevent malicious software from loading during startup—has harbored critical vulnerabilities for roughly a decade, thanks to old authentication shims the company neglected to revoke. Researchers discovered these forgotten remnants allow attackers to bypass one of Windows' most fundamental security layers with surprising ease. The finding raises serious questions about how rigorously Microsoft audits its own security infrastructure over time.
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Ars Technica
How hard is it to build orbital data centers, actually?
Building data centers in orbit faces a fundamental engineering challenge that has nothing to do with rockets or software: heat dissipation. In space, there's no air to carry heat away, making thermal management systems the critical bottleneck — and currently, a very expensive one. The race is now on to engineer radiators that are lightweight and cost-effective enough to make orbital computing commercially viable.
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