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ScienceHayabusa2 flew within a kilometer of an asteroid - practice for deflecting dangerous rocksOn July 5, the Japanese probe Hayabusa2 passed about 1 km from the asteroid Torifune at a speed of around 5 km/s. Beyond the science, this is a test of navigation precision - the foundation of planetary defense.ControlDeclassified emails reveal Pentagon's dispute with Anthropic over autonomous weaponsCourt documents reveal months of correspondence: Amodei holds firm - Claude doesn't go into fully autonomous weapons, or into domestic surveillance. The Pentagon wants 'all lawful uses' and declares the company a supply chain risk.ScienceJames Webb detected the same unexplained signature on Pluto and Titan5.11 microns. That's exactly where a team found an unidentified absorption in spectra from the James Webb telescope - on the surfaces of both Titan and Pluto. Likely from a molecule never seen anywhere else in the Solar System.ControlSCMP reports Alibaba banned Claude Code. Alibaba declined to comment.The whole story rests on one internal directive, seen by reporters at the South China Morning Post (a Hong Kong newspaper). Alibaba declined to comment. Anthropic stays silent. We ran it as news - but it's a single-source report that nobody involved has confirmed.RoboticsMedia reported a deal for all of Boston Dynamics. On 16 July Hyundai announced it officially, without a price.As of July 13, 2026, neither Hyundai, nor SoftBank, nor Boston Dynamics has announced anything. The numbers - the remaining 9.65% for $325 million - come only from media. We wrote them up as done fact. Mistake.SecuritySeven holes in FatFs threaten millions of embedded devices, and there's no full patchrunZero disclosed 7 vulnerabilities at once in the FatFs file system - embedded in drones, cameras, hardware wallets, and dozens of platforms. Only one has been patched. For the rest, there's no fix yet.SecurityA hole in the heart of Linux hands root to anyone, and AI had walked right past itCVE-2026-46242. Use-after-free in epoll that escalates an ordinary user to root - on desktops, servers, even Android. The irony: Anthropic's AI model Mythos found the neighboring bug in the same code. This exact one, it missed.SecurityFBI and Google pulled the plug on 2 million hijacked home devicesOn 2 July the FBI seized the domains of NetNut. Google tore down the backend. The network - one of the largest residential proxies - was secretly turning smart TVs and routers into cover for cybercriminals and spies.
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