Rust 1.97.1 Ships Emergency Fix for LLVM Bug That Silently Corrupted Code Since 1.87
Rust shipped an emergency point release fixing an LLVM miscompilation that quietly existed since Rust 1.87 and turned crash-prone after 1.97.0.
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Scribe Therapeutics Files for Nasdaq IPO, Testing Investor Appetite for Early-Stage CRISPR Gene-Editing Biotechs
The Jennifer Doudna-founded CRISPR biotech filed to go public under ticker SCTX as its lead cholesterol therapy remains early in human testing.
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Oak Ridge Team Triples Heat Flow Through Ceramic Relaxor Ferroelectrics With a Simple Electric Field
ORNL, Ohio State, and Amphenol researchers show an electric field can boost heat conduction in a relaxor ferroelectric ceramic by close to 300 percent, far beyond prior 5-10 percent gains.
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Samsung Unveils Flex Titanium Display Technology to Cut Crease Visibility on Its Next Galaxy Foldables
Samsung announced Flex Titanium, a two-layer titanium display structure it says reduces crease visibility and boosts durability, ahead of its July 22 Unpacked event in London.
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Bethesda Confirms Fallout 5 in Pre-Production as Todd Howard Charts Elder Scrolls VI Priority
Bethesda Game Studios director Todd Howard confirmed Fallout 5 is in pre-production on Creation Engine 3 and named The Elder Scrolls VI the studio's top priority, days after sweeping Xbox layoffs.
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Waymo Launches Driverless Robotaxi Rides in San Diego, Las Vegas, Tampa, and Denver in Its Biggest Four-City Push Yet
Waymo went fully driverless in Las Vegas and is bringing San Diego, Tampa, and Denver online next, pushing its network past 10 cities as it chases 1 million weekly rides by year-end.
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Citizen Lab Finds Pegasus Spyware Hacked Phone of MEP Who Investigated Pegasus Abuses, as Civil Society Demands EU Action
Citizen Lab found Pegasus spyware infected the phone of a European Parliament member who sat on the committee investigating Pegasus abuses, prompting a joint civil-society demand for EU action.
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JetBrains Patches Critical Path-Traversal Flaw in IntelliJ IDEA, Five More Bugs Across TeamCity and YouTrack
JetBrains disclosed six vulnerabilities across IntelliJ IDEA, TeamCity, and YouTrack on July 16, led by a critical 9.8 CVSS path-traversal flaw in IntelliJ IDEA.
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PixVerse Closes $439 Million Series C Extension as Valuation Tops $2 Billion With Alibaba Joining
AI video startup PixVerse's Series C extension brings the round to $439 million and pushes its valuation above $2 billion, as it pivots from video clips toward real-time interactive worlds.
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IBM and Red Hat Expand Lightwell With Commercial Offerings to Secure Open Source Software Supply Chains
IBM and Red Hat launched commercial Lightwell offerings on July 8, building on their $5 billion pledge to secure open source software supply chains.
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Siemens and Ucaneo Inaugurate Germany's Largest Direct Air Capture Plant in Berlin, Pairing Electrochemical Capture With Geological Storage
Ucaneo and Siemens opened a 150-ton-per-year electrochemical DAC plant in Berlin's Marzahn district, Germany's first project to combine direct air capture with permanent geological CO2 storage.
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Walden Robotics Emerges From Stealth With $300 Million Toyota-Backed Round at $1.1 Billion Valuation
MIT spinout Walden Robotics raised $300 million led by Toyota and Deviation Capital, and has run wheeled humanoid robots at a Toyota plant since February.
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