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Crypto & Web3
US Crypto Policy Shifts in July 2026
Trump says bitcoin used for payments shouldn't trigger capital gains tax, while the SEC admits past crypto ETF…
Consumer Tech
Ubuntu Patches DirtyClone Linux Privilege Escalation Flaw
Canonical has released kernel patches for the high-severity CVE-2026-43503 DirtyClone Linux local privilege escalation flaw (CVSS 8.8) affecting…
AI
32-Task Benchmark Shows AI Falls Short on Scientific Figures
32-Task Benchmark Shows AI Falls Short on Scientific Figures: SciDraw-Bench, a 32-task benchmark for scientific figure generation, finds…
AI
SciDraw-Bench Launches to Evaluate AI Scientific Figures
Introduced in a June 24, 2026 arXiv paper, SciDraw-Bench tests 32 tasks across 8 figure types and 10…
Consumer Tech
WhatsApp Username Reservations Open for 2026 Privacy Feature
Meta opened free, optional WhatsApp username reservations on June 29, 2026, ahead of a late 2026 full launch…
AI
SciDraw-Bench: 1st AI Scientific Figure Benchmark, 32 Tasks
Released in a June 2026 arXiv preprint, SciDraw-Bench is the first benchmark to evaluate AI-generated scientific figures across…
Crypto & Web3
SEC Seeks Public Comment on Novel Exchange-Traded Funds
The SEC opened a public comment period for novel exchange-traded fund applications via official press release 2026-60, following…
AI
OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño
OpenAI and Broadcom have launched Jalapeño, a custom LLM inference accelerator built from scratch for current and future…
Consumer Tech
LLVM Switches to Zstd Compression for 11% Smaller Binaries
LLVM Zstd compression: LLVM is adding Zstandard-compressed release archives alongside XZ, cutting Linux x64 download sizes by roughly…
AI
New Deontic AgenticRei Framework Fixes AI Governance Gaps
A June 2026 arXiv paper proposes AgenticRei, a deontic policy framework for runtime governance of agentic AI systems…
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