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Friday, July 24, 2026

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articleAnthropic
Claude Opus 5

Straight to #1 on the independent leaderboards within hours, with a launch post unusually concrete about what actually changed. The rare model release where the discussion outran the marketing.

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articleIrish Times
Wildfires: Spain declares national emergency as France evacuates Cap Ferret

A containment line broke overnight and 44,000 people left Cap Ferret, many by boat, while Spain declared a national emergency for the Madrid region. One heatwave, two countries, ninety thousand displaced.

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articleSpace.com
SpaceX's Starship makes its softest splashdown ever after launching next-gen Starlink satellites

Twenty next-generation Starlink satellites out the door and both stages down intact — the program's gentlest landing yet. A day after the markets repriced SpaceX, the hardware argued back.

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articlehhh.hn
My security camera shipped a GitHub admin token in its login page

A researcher poked at his camera's login page and found a live GitHub admin token shipped to every buyer. A tidy field guide to how supply-chain secrets actually leak, told from the first curl.

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articleUniversity of Cambridge
Hannah Fry wins the 2026 Leelavati Prize for mathematics outreach

The mathematics community's outreach prize goes to someone who made millions voluntarily watch maths on television. A good excuse to lose an evening to her lectures and back catalogue.

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