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AI & Automation
7/27/2026 5 min

Microsoft posts open-weight AI letter backed by OpenAI, Google, and NVIDIA

Microsoft published an open-weight AI policy letter now signed by OpenAI, Google, NVIDIA, Meta, Hugging Face, OpenClaw, Vercel, and dozens of other organizations as Washington debates how far to restrict downloadable models.

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Tools & Apps
7/26/2026 4 min

GitHub changes bug bounty payouts as AI reports strain triage

GitHub is restructuring its bug bounty program on July 27, adding a permanent VIP tier, fixed public payouts, and a HackerOne signal requirement meant to reduce low-quality and AI-generated vulnerability reports.

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Business & Career
7/26/2026 4 min

Shopify previews Liquid blocks and partials for theme pages

Shopify's Liquid July '26 developer preview adds native block and partial tags, letting theme developers compose pages and refresh server-rendered regions without moving storefront rendering into a client-side framework.

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AI & Automation
7/26/2026 4 min

Microsoft previews MAI image and voice models in Foundry

Microsoft AI has put MAI-Image-2.5-Pro and MAI-Voice-2-Flash into public preview, giving Foundry builders new first-party options for high-fidelity image work and lower-cost voice generation.

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Tools & Apps
7/26/2026 3 min

Oracle ships record July CPU with 1,449 security patches

Oracle's July 2026 Critical Patch Update is its largest security release to date, covering 1,449 patches across 334 products and giving Oracle teams a broad monthly-patching priority list.

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Tools & Apps
7/26/2026 5 min

Suno breach exposes 55M accounts as HIBP confirms dataset

Have I Been Pwned has added Suno's November 2025 breach, listing more than 55 million unique email addresses plus phone numbers and a smaller set of Stripe purchase records with names, addresses, purchase amounts, and partial card details.

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