🚀 UNESCO Youth Hackathon 2026 – Applications Open

Ready to build technology that tackles real-world challenges?

UNESCO's 2026 Youth Hackathon is looking for teams of 2–6 participants (ages 18–30) to create solutions that promote Media and Information Literacy. Project ideas can focus on:
• Combating misinformation
• Digital education
• AI-powered content and tools
• Community empowerment

No previous hackathon experience is required. Every registered team receives a 2-day mentoring program before submitting their proposal and pitch video.

🏆 Winning teams will present their work at the Voices European Festival of Journalism in Thessaloniki, Greece, this November.

📅 Application Deadline: August 16, 2026

🔗 Apply here:
https://www.unesco.org/en/articles/unesco-youth-hackathon-2026

If you've been thinking about building something that creates real social impact, this is an excellent opportunity.

Happy Monday y'all, wishing you a great week 😊

🚨 Privacy Alert for Claude AI Users

If you've ever used Claude's Share feature, check your shared chats immediately.

Over the weekend, users discovered that many public Claude share links were indexed by Google, making conversations searchable instead of only accessible to people with the link.

Some indexed chats reportedly contained:
• API keys and credentials
• Crypto wallet information
• Resumes with names, addresses, and phone numbers
• Internal company documents
• Legal discussions
• Other sensitive personal information

This wasn't a hack. The affected chats were shared publicly using Claude's Share feature. The issue is that search engines were able to index many of those public pages, making them much easier to discover.

If you've ever shared a Claude conversation:

1. Open Settings
2. Go to Privacy → Your Data
3. Open Shared Chats
4. Delete or unshare anything containing personal, financial, or confidential information

Source:
• X: @om_patel5
• Anthropic: https://privacy.claude.com/en/articles/10593882-share-and-unshare-chats

Update: Anthropic appears to have addressed the issue on Google, and many shared Claude chats have been deindexed from Google Search. However, users have reported that some links are still discoverable through other search engines such as Bing and Brave Search. Regardless of search indexing, any active public share link remains accessible to anyone who has the URL until it is unshared or deleted

#ClaudeAI #Privacy #CyberSecurity #AI

PSA: AI Share Links Are More Public Than Most People Think

A lot of people assume that when they click Share in ChatGPT or Claude, they're sending a private conversation to one specific person.

That's not how it works.

A share link creates a public webpage. Anyone who gets that link can open it. It's not tied to the recipient's account and it isn't protected like a private message.

The recent Claude incident highlighted another risk: many shared pages were indexed by Google, making conversations searchable by people who were never meant to see them.

Before sharing an AI conversation:
• Remove names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails.
• Never include passwords, API keys, recovery codes, or financial information.
• Assume that anything behind a share link could eventually be seen by someone other than the intended recipient.

Share links are for sharing content—not storing secrets.

🥁🥁🥁 Week 1 of Her Whisper's Women's Health Series is here

Topic: Menstrual Health with Dr. Daniel Asmelash

Do you have:

❓ Questions about menstruation?

😣 Painful or irregular periods?

👉 A diagnosis you'd like to understand better?

🤔 Concerns about what's normal and what's not?

Join us for an interactive session with Dr. Daniel Asmelash, a licensed Obstetrician and Gynecologist with extensive experience in maternal and reproductive healthcare. Currently practicing at Lotus Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Center, he'll be sharing evidence-based insights and answering your questions about menstrual health.

📅 August 1
🕘 9:00 PM EAT
🔗 Session Link https://meet.google.com/pov-areq-zoy

Come with your questions and invite a friend! 💜

Don’t forget to Join our channel @herwhispers2026

#HerWhisper #WomensHealth #MenstrualHealth #ReproductiveHealth

🚀 gheero is excited to announce that registration is now open for the Leyu Data Collection Competition!

Artificial intelligence is only as inclusive as the data it learns from. Today, many Ethiopian languages and dialects remain underrepresented in AI, limiting their presence in the technologies shaping our future.

The Leyu Data Collection Competition invites students, researchers, developers, innovators, and language communities across Ethiopia to help change that.

Using the Leyu Data Collection Platform, participants will collect and contribute 10 hours of high-quality language data in an Ethiopian language, helping build the datasets needed to power the next generation of AI for Ethiopia's diverse languages.

📅 Registration closes: July 31
🚀 Competition runs: August 1–21

🏆 Cash prizes will be awarded to the top three participants, with the grand prize of 100,000 ETB.


For full competition requirements, eligibility criteria, and registration details, visit:

🔗 https://leyu-competition.gheero.et


Your language. Your data. Your impact.


#LeyuDataCollectionCompetition #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #EthiopianLanguages #LanguageTechnology #DataCollection #NLP #Innovation #AIForGood #gheero

Every personal project started this way.

Join a global community of exceptional changemakers. The Lester B. Pearson International Scholarship is the university's most prestigious award for international students. It recognizes outstanding academic achievement, creativity and leadership potential.

https://future.utoronto.ca/pearson-scholarships

Kaggriculture, hosted by Google and Kaggle, is live!

Build an AI agent to manage a virtual farm: harvest crops, care for animals, boost yields, expand your land, and trade on a dynamic market where prices react to supply and demand.

Compete to earn the most profit by the end of a 30-day season (720 turns).

• Total Prize Pool: $50,000
• Entry Deadline: September 23, 2026

This competition will help you master core agentic AI concepts, from autonomous decision-making to real-time strategy.

Read more and join here: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/kaggriculture

Streak check. What's yours?