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The AI image-generator is pivoting into healthcare with a full-body ultrasonic scanner that maps your entire body in about 60 seconds using 500,000 transducers, no radiation, and 17GB/s of data — billed as the first new whole-body imaging modality in 50 years. Built with Butterfly Network's ultrasound-on-chip tech, it'll debut not in hospitals but in a "Midjourney Spa" opening in San Francisco in late 2027. The company's stated goal is 50,000 scanners and a billion scans a month by 2031, claiming early imaging could avert 30% of deaths and half of healthcare costs.
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TesterArmy is an AI QA platform that continuously monitors your app's key user journeys and alerts the team when something breaks. You describe test scenarios in plain English instead of writing code, and an agent navigates the app like a human — filling forms, handling auth, verifying results. Results land as screenshots and reports via dashboards, CLIs, or pull requests.
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A researcher uncovered roughly 10,000 GitHub repos cloning legitimate projects, then spamming commit messages and stuffing readmes with links to malicious zip archives. The attackers game GitHub's search ranking with popular tags while preserving real commit histories and contributor names to fake credibility. The campaign ran at massive scale, with repos surviving for months to over a year until GitHub began removing them after the findings.
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W Social, an ATproto-based microblogging platform pitched as Europe's answer to X, appears to have quietly pulled its public GitHub repo sometime after March 2026. That's awkward, because top EU institutions — the European Commission, the ECB, and their leaders — migrated to it just as the Commission touted an open-source tech-sovereignty package. The worry: European public bodies may be propping up a proprietary platform instead of transparent alternatives.
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Universities and hospitals are running late-stage trials on existing generic drugs at up to 90% lower cost than industry trials, because repurposing approved, well-studied compounds slashes the risk and capital barriers. Researchers call it an alternative research system with enormous potential to help patients cheaply. Real examples include using cancer drugs to treat blindness and anti-inflammatories against Covid.
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Submission.directory is a curated catalog of 50+ places to submit your startup, product, or SaaS for visibility and backlinks. It spans launch sites, startup directories, SaaS listings, and design galleries, each tagged with domain rankings and submission details. It's aimed squarely at founders and makers chasing early traction.
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Ubiquiti's new Enterprise NAS is a local, ZFS-based storage box with 8 ARM Neoverse N2 cores, 64GB of ECC memory, 16 drive bays scaling past a petabyte, and dual 25-gig SFP28 ports. It plugs into UniFi for centralized management. The pitch is enterprise storage with no vendor lock-in and no recurring software licensing fees.
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In its June 2026 session, the Swiss National Council voted 100-98 to clear the way for building new nuclear plants, a counterproposal to the "Blackout Initiative." The Federal Council and Council of States had already backed it, though it still needs voter approval via referendum. Center-right parties supported it while the left and groups like Greenpeace opposed, citing renewables and financial risk.
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Emacs 31 is bringing tree-sitter that "just works" with automatic grammar installation, a built-in markdown-ts-mode with syntax highlighting and inline images, and new window-layout commands. The author is also enjoying editable xref buffers, smarter minibuffer completion, and speedbar as a side window. A pile of quality-of-life fixes round it out.
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A fond look back at Windows 2000's interface, praising its clear visual hierarchy and 3D buttons, frames, and contrast that made clickable things obviously clickable. The author likes predictable cues like always-visible scrollbars and grouped options. It's a pointed contrast with modern flat design that hides what's interactive.
