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CareCloud confirms 3.7M patients had their medical records stolen in data breach

The cyberattack at CareCloud resulted in one of the largest reported data breaches in the U.S. healthcare industry this year.

Listen to This Article: The Covid Cover-Up Suffers a Blow in Court

Narrated Version | Thanks to the U.S. Right to Know, the Defense Intelligence Agency may be forced to explain the Pentagon's stunning "Hypothetical Origin of SARS-CoV-2" documents

Fight fire with fire: how open source AI models can help EU’s cybersecurity

Europe can have sovereign AI to achieve its goals for security and safety, but it needs to boost open source to make it happen.

US charges Iranians for sprawling hacking campaign on government agencies, universities

The Justice Department accused 17 alleged hackers with ties to the Iranian government of breaching email accounts at U.S. government agencies and stealing intellectual property from dozens of

AI isn’t close to curing cancer. This startup says it knows what it will take.

It's the data, stupid.

You can Venmo your college tuition, for some reason

Kids these days don't know how good they have it.

The Best Ocean Photos of the Year

Drone, coastal, and underwater perspectives The post [The Best Ocean Photos of the Year](https://nautil.us/the-best-ocean-photos-of-the-year-1283951/) appeared first on [Nautilus](https://nautil.us).

GrapheneOS in 2027 available on high-end Motorola phones

Article URL: [https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730](https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/117078064184215730) Comments URL:

Asymmetric Agents

One of the promises of the AI-filled future is that we'll all have highly capable autonomous servants "agents" to work for us. Even back in the 1990s, it was a common trope in future-gazing to

ICE Collecting DNA Samples

ICE collected nearly a million (https://www.wired.com/story/ice-dna-collection-fbi-codis/) DNA samples last year.

The conscience files

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Apple Settles With E.U., U.S. App Store Fees, ATT Rules in Germany

Apple's App Store is finally facing the reality of lower fees, and the EU should be satisfied with its work; it's ok it's late.

Relativity Networks raises $22 million to bring a faster kind of fiber to data centers

Relativity Networks deals in hollow-core fiber, a rarely deployed technology that allows data to be transmitted 30% faster than conventional fiber.

Don’t steal the revelation

Teaching and learning aren’t always aligned. Sometimes organized teaching is defensive. “Here, take all this down in your notes, it will be on the test.” This gives the teacher deniability, but

The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

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Why I'm Staying Out Of The Substack Religion Debate

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Capitalizing untethered AI agents

That is my latest piece of writing, co-authored with Sonia Farrell Pearson of Harvard.  Here is the opening premise: As early as 2017, the European Parliament floated “electronic personhood”

Palomar: A registry of Lean verified mathematics

Article URL: [https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/](https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/08/18/palomar-a-registry-of-lean-verified-mathematics/)

Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco

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OpenLogi

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New paper shows that 37% of workers in US saw real wages decline from 2021-2024 [pdf]

Article URL: [https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI\_WP\_2026-108-1.pdf](https://bfi.uchicago.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/BFI_WP_2026-108-1.pdf) Comments URL:

The Wire - August 18, 2026

Daily Reading List – August 18, 2026 (#848)

Today's links look at data about AI usage patterns in software teams, some best practices for AI code reviews, and what to do when the hard part stops being hard.

Why You Move Factors in to Whether It Protects You From Dementia

Movement for movement’s sake isn’t the safeguard you might think The post [Why You Move Factors in to Whether It Protects You From

Cursor capitalizes on Github frustration, launches rival hosting platform

Cursor, known for its AI Code Editor, is launching a new code hosting platform to rival developers' long preferred favorite, Github.