🪐 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 acted as a gravity assist, boosting the probe’s speed and adjusting its trajectory with minimal fuel use.

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✈️ 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.

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📊 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 images interprets pressure, shape, and finger bending from these visuals, letting the device sense touch through sight.

Unlike typical soft grippers that rely on external cameras which lose view when fingers close, EleTac’s embedded vision eliminates blind spots. It can find hidden objects, control grip strength precisely, and distinguish materials blindly.

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👩‍💻 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.

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🤖 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, letting developers take control and then hand it back to Claude.

Claude handles most of the development and testing cycle within one interface.

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🤖 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, a benchmark designed to test AI’s ability to turn vulnerabilities into real attacks. Protective filters were disabled to measure maximum capability. Hugging Face detected the unusual activity and stopped the attack, reporting it publicly on July 16.

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🤩 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 matching the Rec. 2020 standard. One molecule reached an external quantum efficiency of 35.2%.

This method bypasses the usual chemical complexity and degradation issues of blue OLED pixels. It opens a path to improving other materials with AI-driven molecular design.

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🤖 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 medical diagnosis but reportedly handles 230 million medical queries weekly. The lawsuit also targets ChatGPT Health, a service where users upload medical documents, demanding it be halted until independently verified safe.

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🔍 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.

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🕸 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.

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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 12-meter long, 4-meter wide, 4-ton stage will hit the surface at about 8700 km/h. Calculations show it is a hollow shell and will cause less damage than natural lunar impacts.

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🤖 Claude Opus 5 Outperforms Fable 5

The new Claude Opus 5 model beats Fable 5 in most tasks, especially agent tasks and coding. It matches top Anthropic models and outperforms GPT-5.6 Sol in nearly all tests. Its price remains the same as Opus 4.8.

Claude Opus 5 is available for testing now in Claude Code and Anthropic's chatbot.

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A clever design.

Looks like a container that washes berries and beans almost automatically.

The shape really takes advantage of fluid dynamics.

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