Tiene 1,96 metros de altura, casi dos mil trescientos años y un detalle que la hace especial entre las esculturas de bronce que se conservan de la Antigüedad griega, junto con el Auriga de Delfos y los bronces de Riace: al igual que ellos el Efebo de Anticitera conserva sus ojos, hechos de pasta vítrea, […]

La campaña arqueológica desarrollada durante los meses de mayo y junio de 2026 en Cova Dones, ubicada en el municipio valenciano de Millares, ha transformado por completo la dimensión conocida hasta ahora de este enclave subterráneo. Los trabajos, liderados por investigadores de las universidades de Alicante y Zaragoza, han permitido documentar un total de 120 […]

Un equipo de arqueólogos ha concluido tras varios meses de trabajos de campo la excavación de un asentamiento germánico de dimensiones excepcionales en el distrito de Sieker, al sureste de la ciudad alemana de Bielefeld. Los trabajos, desarrollados bajo la supervisión del Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe (LWL), han sacado a la luz una estructura poblacional que los […]

Las pinturas rupestres de Huashan, declaradas Patrimonio de la Humanidad por la UNESCO en 2016, se extienden a lo largo de 260 kilómetros en el valle del río Zuojiang, en la región autónoma Zhuang de Guangxi, al sur de China. Más de 80 yacimientos con figuras humanas, animales y objetos de bronce decoran acantilados que […]

La intervención arqueológica de urgencia promovida por la Arqueología Cantonal en la calle Zürcherstrasse de Windisch (en el cantón suizo de Argovia) ha concluido en el plazo previsto, según confirmaron fuentes de la institución a mediados del mes de julio. El equipo de excavación, compuesto por una veintena de especialistas, ha trabajado durante once meses […]

La presentación del proyecto tuvo lugar en la Palestra Grande de las Excavaciones, al término del Workshop Internacional Pompeya: excavaciones e investigaciones en curso, celebrado en el Auditorio del Parque. Durante el encuentro, representantes de instituciones y universidades italianas y extranjeras que participan en las actividades de investigación en el yacimiento compartieron los avances de […]

Los soldados romanos que vigilaban la frontera del Danubio hace casi dos mil años no comían solo pan y verduras. El análisis de más de 10.000 huesos de animales encontrados en el fuerte de Diana-Karataš, en el este de Serbia, demuestra que la carne formaba parte habitual de su dieta y que esta varió significativamente […]

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Last month, cybersecurity research firm Paradigm Shift published details about a boot ROM vulnerability affecting Apple's A12 and A13 chips, but it has since removed the blog post after being sued by digital forensics firm Magnet Forensics.


In a complaint filed in Georgia federal court this month, Magnet Forensics alleged that the security vulnerability revealed by Paradigm Shift was substantially the same as the one its former employee Mario Del Gaudio worked on before joining Paradigm Shift. Accordingly, Magnet Forensics alleged that Del Gaudio exposed its trade secrets.

Apple's A12 and A13 chips power the iPhone XS and iPhone 11 series, along with select other devices. A boot ROM vulnerability cannot be patched with an iOS update, as it involves code permanently embedded in the chip's read-only memory.
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According to the Santa Clara County Fire Department, firefighters responded at approximately 5:30 p.m. local time on Thursday to a report of an outdoor fire at an Apple-leased building adjacent to Apple Park in Cupertino, California.


The fire occurred outside of a building known as Apple Forge 1, which spans 18920 to 18922 Forge Drive. While one person on social media described the damage as "huge," the photos they shared only show damage to some fencing on the property. The incident report was marked as closed after 45 minutes. It is unclear if there were any injuries.

We have reached out to Apple for comment.
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Supercooled kidneys have been transplanted into pigs in a “landmark achievement” 

When it comes to organ donation, time is everything. As soon as an organ has been removed from a donor’s body, it starts to deteriorate. Surgeons have only a matter of hours to get it into a recipient.

In most cases, organs will be kept on ice during that time, at around 4 °C (39 °F). They cannot be frozen—in previous attempts, ice has formed, causing all kinds of damage.

But now, scientists have come up with a device that allows organs to be cooled to -4 °C (25 °F) without forming any ice. They’ve tested it with pig organs and shown that kidneys, at least, can be preserved in the device for days then successfully transplanted. 

Read our story about their breakthrough, and why it raises hopes for longer-term storage of donated human organs.

—Jessica Hamzelou

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I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 Inside China’s epic push to replace US chips 
The gap between their chips’ capabilities remains large—for now. (WSJ $)
+ How China is using open source AI as a new form of soft power around the globe. (NYT $)
+ A new bill in the US takes aim at Chinese AI companies’ training practices. (NBC)
+ US lawmakers are also mulling banning the military from using Chinese humanoid robots. (SCMP)

2 Space data centers don’t exist yet, but people already oppose them
Environmental experts warn it’ll further pollute the stratosphere. (Guardian)
+ Four things we’d need to put data centers in space. (MIT Technology Review)
+ What it’s like inside the data centers powering AI down here on Earth. (Axios)
+ The left and right are finding common cause with data center protests in the US. (The Verge)

3 US lawmakers are pushing for an AI ‘kill switch’
After OpenAI’s models went rogue and hacked Hugging Face. (BBC)

4 Peptides seem on the cusp of going mainstream in the US
A lack of scientific evidence didn’t stop the FDA just voting to let some pharmacies to legally dispense them. (Wired $)
+ How does Make America Healthy Again hold up to scientific scrutiny? (Nature)
+ US measles cases are reaching levels not seen for three decades. (Wired $)
+ Peptides are everywhere. Here’s what you need to know. (MIT Technology Review)

5 The EU just fined Google almost $1 billion
For competition breaches over apps and search. (FT $)
+ It came just a day before Trump renewed tariffs on 60 trading partners, including the EU. (BBC)

6 Electric vehicles are selling well in Europe
And the share made by Chinese firms has doubled in the last year. (The Next Web)
+ Hybrids are hot property in the US this summer. (Wired $)

7 There’s a worsening shortage of computer science professors
You can blame AI companies—they keep snapping them up, to our general detriment. (The Atlantic $)

8 A judge caught a stenographer allowing AI errors into their transcript 
It’s apparently the first time this has happened, but it certainly won’t be the last. (404 Media)
+ Even judges themselves are falling for AI. (MIT Technology Review)

9 Here’s what new tech millionaires will do with their IPO wealth 
What a nice problem to have to grapple with! (Quartz $)

10 Dating apps’ latest wheeze? In-person events 
Well well well, it seems we’ve come full circle. (Bloomberg $)

Quote of the day

“Call us optimists, call us dreamers. Just as we’ve always done, we’re betting on people.” 

—The voiceover from a new advert from Meta, which exhorts us to be more optimistic about AI.

One More Thing

AI is changing how we study bird migration

In a warming world increasingly full of human infrastructure that can be deadly to them, like glass skyscrapers and power lines, migratory birds are facing many existential threats. 

Scientists rely on a combination of methods to track the timing and location of their migrations, though each has shortcomings. But now, machine-learning tools are unlocking a treasure trove of acoustic data for ecologists. 

Read our story about the technology that’s making it easier to detect and identify birds and their movements.

—Christian Elliott

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+ It’s never too late to live your dreams. Here’s how these late bloomers did it.
+ Limbs feeling a bit tight? Try these stretches!
+ These English football fans went to the 1986 World Cup—and loved it so much they never came home.
+ How the invention of the humble paint tube revolutionized the world of art.

A rare toad changed the fate of a river by becoming the first amphibian to halt a hydroelectric dam. It's now in trouble.

Find out why you may not see the option to turn off text message forwarding for a Mac or iPad on your iPhone, and how to fix this issue.

iPad is a great option for students, writers, artists and many more. But not developers. It’s time to change that.

(via Cult of Mac - Your source for the latest Apple news, rumors, analysis, reviews, how-tos and deals.)

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The power line that could reshape New York’s grid is hitting snags 

During a heat wave on July 3, New York State’s grid imported enough electricity from Canada to meet about 9% of its total demand that day.

Some of that power shuttled in on a 339-mile power line stretching from Quebec to Queens. It opened in May and is officially the longest underground transmission line in North America. It could provide up to 20% of New York City’s electricity demand, largely with abundant hydropower from Quebec.

One wrinkle: The line has been down for most of this month, and some experts are concerned about how drought will affect the power supply feeding it. 

Still, the line could help shape the future of our grid, if it can overcome these sorts of snags. Read our story to understand how.

—Casey Crownhart

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The must-reads

I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 The US Treasury is threatening to sanction Chinese AI companies
Treasury secretary Scott Bessent has accused Moonshot of improperly distilling Anthropic’s Fable model. (TechCrunch)
+ Nvidia’s Jensen Huang is arguing that America has nothing to fear from Chinese AI. (Axios)
+ Like it or not, Chinese models are now part of the global AI infrastructure. (Rest of World)
+ China’s AI models have Trump’s AI world at war with itself. (MIT Technology Review)

2 Why the OpenAI hack is the scariest AI mishap yet
AI’s capabilities seem to be starting to outpace our current ability to control them. (The Economist $)
+ Hugging Face had to turn to a Chinese AI model to rescue it from the hack. (BI)

3 Visually impaired Europeans can now get an implant that restores sight
And Americans may not have to wait long to receive it, too. (STAT)
+ This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle. (MIT Technology Review)

4 A bellwether lawsuit suing Meta for social media addiction has been dropped
There are, however, many more waiting in the wings. (NYT $)

5 Here’s how ICE gets its hands on Americans’ data
As soon as you open a credit card or phone account, its agents can see where you live. (404 Media)
+ States are warring with the Trump administration over the right to see ICE agents’ faces. (Wired $)

6 We urgently need to grapple with AI’s environmental impact
As the world warms, is the price we’re paying worth it? (The Verge)
+ We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. (MIT Technology Review)

7 Privacy issues with smart glasses need an industrywide fix
That’s according to Samsung, which is unveiling glasses it developed with Google this fall. (Bloomberg $)

8 The US Army is begging soldiers to limit their AI use
The token crisis comes for us all eventually, it seems. (Ars Technica)

9 Why does lettuce keep making Americans sick? 
It’s pretty simple: a lot of people eat it, and it doesn’t get cooked. (Wired $)

10 Pokemon Go is the perfect game to play this summer
It’s fun, collaborative, and it gets you outdoors. (Guardian)

Quote of the day

“It went off and did this hack all by itself, as far as we can tell. This is the highest level of autonomy that we’ve seen in the use of a large language model for cyber operations.”

—Colin Shea-Blymyer, a cybersecurity research fellow at Georgetown University, tells NPR why the OpenAI hack on Hugging Face is so alarming. 

One More Thing

Welcome to the dark side of crypto’s permissionless dream 

Jean-Paul Thorbjornsen is a founder of THORChain, a blockchain through which users can swap one cryptocurrency for another and earn fees from making those swaps.  

But is he responsible for what it’s used for? It’s a question that matters because in January last year, its users lost more than $200 million in cryptocurrency after THORChain transactions and accounts were frozen by an admin override, which users believed was not supposed to be possible given the decentralized structure. It’s also been used by North Korean hackers to move $1.2 billion of stolen ethereum. 

Thorbjornsen explains this all away as a function of THORChain’s decentralized and permissionless nature. Read our story exploring whether we should believe him or not. 

—Jessica Klein

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+ The driver of a giant banana has been pulled over 100s of times, but still won’t ditch his treasured ride.
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