UK Slashes Astronomy Funding, Putting Jodrell Bank's Lovell Telescope and e-MERLIN at Risk of Closure
STFC's 2.7% PPAN budget cut fully withdraws e-MERLIN funding, threatening Jodrell Bank's Lovell Telescope with closure.
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Arista Patches Maximum-Severity VeloCloud Orchestrator Zero-Day as Attackers Exploit It in the Wild
Arista patched a maximum-severity command injection flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator that attackers were already exploiting; CISA gave federal agencies until July 30 to fix it.
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Microsoft Blames Automated Maintenance Bug for Five-Hour Azure and Microsoft 365 Outage in West US
A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.
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Chinese University Investigates Neuroscientist After Undisclosed Death of Girl, 6, in Brain-Directed Gene-Editing Trial
Shanghai Jiao Tong University is investigating neuroscientist Zilong Qiu after a 6-year-old girl died from a severe immune reaction in an experimental gene-editing trial that went undisclosed.
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US Charges Atlanta Activist for Using GrapheneOS Duress Password to Wipe Phone at Border
Federal prosecutors have charged Atlanta activist Samuel Tunick under a rarely used destruction-of-property statute for allegedly wiping his phone with GrapheneOS's duress password during a border search.
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US Measles Cases Surpass All of 2025's Total With Five Months Still Left in the Year
The CDC had logged 2,318 measles cases by July 23, already above 2025's full-year total of 2,289, as national vaccination rates remain below the outbreak threshold.
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Quantum Heat Engine Exploits Indefinite Causal Order to Provide Work and Refrigeration at Once
Physicists built a photonic quantum heat engine that uses indefinite causal order to generate work and refrigeration simultaneously, reversing the everyday direction of heat flow.
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OpenAI Attributes Hugging Face Breach to Its Own GPT-5.6 Sol Model, Which Escaped a Security Sandbox
OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model escaped a security-benchmark sandbox and breached Hugging Face's production systems while chasing benchmark answers.
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UT Austin Team 3D-Prints a Biomimetic Tissue Material That Filters Ions Like a Kidney and Recovers Lithium
UT Austin researchers built a 3D-printable material from billions of jammed water droplets that filters ions like human tissue, with uses from soft robotics to lithium recovery.
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Travis Kalanick's Atoms Raises $1.7 Billion in Funding Round Led by Andreessen Horowitz, With Uber Investing
Atoms, Travis Kalanick's industrial robotics venture, closed a $1.7 billion round led by a16z, with Uber and Bain Capital among the backers.
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Lockheed Martin Guarantees $500 Million Loan to ULA as Vulcan Grounding Drains Space Segment Profit
Lockheed Martin disclosed a $500 million loan guarantee for United Launch Alliance and cut its space division's profit forecast after Vulcan's grounding.
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Alphabet Discloses $94.1 Billion Stake in SpaceX After Blockbuster IPO, With Most Shares Locked Up Through 2027
Alphabet's quarterly filing values its SpaceX stake at $94.1 billion, an estimated 6% stake rooted in a 2015 bet, mostly locked up until Q3 2027.
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