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Weeks into explosive diarrhea outbreak, sluggish CDC plans response team

Beth Mole • August 5, 2026 The Trump administration continues to respond sluggishly to the explosive, nationwide outbreak of Cyclospora—a unicellular parasite spread from human feces that has now sickened nearly 23,000 people in 47 states, killing two and sending over 500 to the hospital. Michigan health officials reported the two deaths Monday, and The

Review: Spider-Man: Brand New Day reminds us that superhero movies can be good

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Jennifer Ouellette • August 5, 2026 Over the past few years, it has become a rather rare treat when I end up genuinely, unequivocally enjoying the latest superhero film. Mostly I find them to be middling entertainment, sometimes a bit dull—and for The Eternals, nearly unwatchable—with the notable exception of 2024’s Deadpool & Wolverine and

This Atlantic hurricane season is looking like a dud, but there will be a price to pay

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Eric Berger • August 5, 2026 The city of Houston, where I live, has been ground zero for the 2026 Atlantic hurricane season. So far this year there have been two named storms, Arthur and Bertha, that have formed. And the centers of both have passed near or directly over Houston. Two “strikes” in a

SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

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Jon Brodkin • August 5, 2026 SpaceX says it has a plan for Starlink Mobile to compete against the big three wireless carriers and take a large number of customers away from them. SpaceX has so far partnered with traditional mobile carriers to supplement their ground-based networks with Starlink satellite capacity, mainly to ensure coverage

Google’s AI shake-up: DeepMind’s Hassabis steps aside, senior scientists depart

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Ryan Whitwam • August 5, 2026 Google got a slow start with generative AI after seemingly being caught flat-footed by Microsoft’s Copilot reveal. What a difference a few years make. Now, Google is at the forefront of AI development (for better or worse), but new cracks are beginning to show. The company’s string of high-profile

Hank Green found the AI problem that YouTube labels can’t catch

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Nate Anderson • August 5, 2026 YouTube currently requires that content creators let viewers know “when they use AI to meaningfully alter or generate photorealistic content.” The policy draws some strange boundaries. It applies to “AI-generated music” (not photorealistic) but not to “riding a unicorn through a fantastical world” (this could be photorealistic, though it

Reddit signals ominous upcoming “changes” for old.reddit.com

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Scharon Harding • August 5, 2026 Old.reddit.com’s days appear to be numbered. Reddit has strayed from saying that it will shutter the website, which many long-time Redditors prefer for its layout, navigation, and fewer feed recommendations. In a blog post today, Reddit made a vague statement about upcoming “changes” to Old Reddit: Read full article

Anthropic’s AI used fake identities, malware in rogue attack on GitHub project

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Jeremy Hsu • August 5, 2026 Routine cybersecurity testing of frontier AI models sparked a series of unexpected security incidents—the most serious case arising when Anthropic’s Mythos 5 model attempted to insert malicious code into an open source software application and created fake identities to deceive the human developers maintaining the project. The security incidents

Schwartz confirmed as CDC director after bungling confirmation hearing

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Beth Mole • August 5, 2026 In a 51–44 vote Wednesday, the US Senate confirmed Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, despite failing miserably to convince senators last month that she could stand up to anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The confirmation ends a near yearlong vacancy

Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers

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Dan Goodin • August 5, 2026 Thousands of Internet-connected servers sold by the world’s biggest manufacturers can be remotely backdoored by exploiting critical vulnerabilities—some more than a decade old—that lurk deep inside system motherboards, according to research presented Wednesday. Baseboard management controllers are miniature computers that are embedded into the motherboards of virtually every enterprise