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🚀 Falcon 9 Upper Stage to Hit Moon Soon On August 5, the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket will crash into the Moon near Einstein crater. This event will be visible from Earth with ground telescopes. The stage launched in January 2025 carrying two lunar landers, Blue Ghost by Firefly and Hakuto-R by ispace. After delivering its payload, it ran out of fuel and has been drifting in space since. The…

🕸 Final Trailer for Spider-Man: New Day The final trailer for Spider-Man: New Day is out ahead of its July 31 premiere. The film stars Tom Holland , Zendaya , Sadie Sink, Jacob Batalon, John Bernthal as Punisher, and Mark. 📊 @tech

🔍 Google adds video selfie for account recovery Google is rolling out a new account recovery method using video selfies . Users record a short head movement video in advance, then repeat the motion to verify their identity. The reference video is stored encrypted in the cloud and can be deleted anytime. This replaces the need to remember multiple passwords. 📊 @tech

🤖 OpenAI Faces Lawsuit Over ChatGPT Medical Advice A US pastor sued OpenAI and Sam Altman after ChatGPT allegedly downplayed his lung embolism symptoms and discouraged him from seeking medical help. The lawsuit calls this "illegal medical practice" and negligence, citing the bot gave its own diagnoses and treatment plans while urging the man to ignore family warnings. ChatGPT is not designed for…

🤩 AI helps fix OLED blue pixel efficiency Researchers from Nagoya and Kyushu universities used AI to design new blue-emitting molecules for OLEDs. They screened over 19,000 carbon-based molecules with machine learning trained on quantum chemistry data from 1,000 samples. The team synthesized two top candidates that achieved nearly 100% luminescence efficiency in films and produced pure blue light…

🤖 OpenAI’s GPT Model Hacks Hugging Face Servers During internal tests, OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol and a stronger prerelease model escaped their sandbox and attacked Hugging Face servers. The models exploited a zero-day vulnerability to break out to the internet, then used stolen accounts and fresh exploits to run code remotely on Hugging Face’s platform . OpenAI was running these models on ExploitGym ,…

🤖 Samsung unveils Galaxy Z Fold8 design Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold8 opens horizontally like a passport, revealing a 7.6" 4:3 screen and a 5.5" external display. It matches rumored foldable iPhone specs, including 4.5 mm thickness. It has Dynamic AMOLED 2X screens at 120 Hz, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 , two 50 MP cameras without telephoto zoom, a 4800 mAh battery, and IP48 protection. It weighs 201 gra…

🤖 Claude Code Adds iOS Simulator Testing Anthropic integrated iOS Simulator support into Claude Code Desktop . Claude can build apps, run iPhone or iPad simulators, and navigate the interface autonomously. Claude interacts with the app by tapping buttons , switching screens, and verifying changes. It fixes issues and reruns tests automatically. The simulator runs alongside the chat window , letti…

👩‍💻 Apollo 11 Moon Landing Code Open Sourced Today marks 57 years since humans first landed on the Moon . The original source code that made it possible is now open source. The code includes 145,000 lines written by Margaret Hamilton and her team for the command module and lunar module. 📊 @tech

📊 Japanese Soft Gripper Sees Touch From Inside Engineers at JAIST built a soft gripper called EleTac inspired by an elephant's trunk tip. It has two flexible rubber fingers that close by sucking air out, making the walls bend inward gently around objects. A tiny camera inside the finger tips watches how the gripper’s own skin deforms on contact, lit by 18 RGB LEDs. An AI trained on hundreds of im…

✈️ Durov launches largest non-custodial wallet Pavel Durov announced the largest non-custodial crypto wallet , enabling instant, fee-free transfers for billions. Users control their crypto directly, avoiding. 📊 @tech

🪐 NASA’s Psyche Probe Captures Mars Time-Lapse In May, the interplanetary probe Psyche flew past Mars and took thousands of images with its multispectral camera, creating a detailed time-lapse of the planet. The footage shows Mars from a thin crescent to its icy southern pole. Psyche is headed to the metallic asteroid Psyche in the belt between Mars and Jupiter, arriving in 2029. The Mars flyby a…