Alongside fireworks and drone shows, people will have another excuse to look up at the sky this week, at least in select parts of the US. The sun has graced Earth with another round of solar material, which will interact with our atmosphere and make sections of the sky... Read more
A Pro-Russia Disinformation Campaign Is Using Free AI Tools to Fuel a ‘Content Explosion’
News July 1, 2025
A pro-Russia disinformation campaign is leveraging consumer artificial intelligence tools to fuel a “content explosion” focused on exacerbating existing tensions around global elections, Ukraine, and immigration, among other controversial issues, according to new research published last week. The campaign, known by many names including Operation Overload and Matryoshka (other... Read more
Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad
News July 1, 2025
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Picture this: You give an artificial intelligence complete control over a small shop. Not just the cash register — the whole operation. Pricing, inventory, customer service,... Read more
Anker Recalls More Power Banks for Fire, Explosion Risk: How to Get a Free Replacement or Gift Card
News July 1, 2025
Electronics company Anker expanded an official global recall of some of its Power Bank products, adding five more models to a recall of the Anker PowerCore 10000 power banks with the model number A1263 announced earlier in June. The recall was initiated following 19 reports of the portable chargers... Read more
Other Good Backyard Hot Dog Options Look, if you’re trying to feed a football team, no little hot dog cooker will do. What you’ll want is one of our favorite griddles or grills. No wee steamer can beat a 33-inch Traeger griddle, my favorite griddle of all backyard griddles.... Read more
Join the event trusted by enterprise leaders for nearly two decades. VB Transform brings together the people building real enterprise AI strategy. Learn more Editor’s note: Kumo AI was one of the finalists at VB Transform during our annual innovation showcase and presented RFM from the mainstage at VB Transform... Read more
Amazon Busted Down My Gate and Refused to Pay. The Device Would Have Saved Me $500
News July 1, 2025
I was at home working in my office upstairs when what can only be described as a loud clonk in my backyard startled me and my terrier. I guessed it was an enthusiastically dropped package, but I couldn’t have imagined the full scope of the incident that originated the... Read more
Cloudflare Is Blocking AI Crawlers by Default
News July 1, 2025
Last year, internet infrastructure firm Cloudflare launched tools enabling its customers to block AI scrapers. Today the company has taken its fight against permissionless scraping several steps further. It has switched to blocking AI crawlers by default for its customers and is moving forward with a Pay Per Crawl... Read more
This article is part of VentureBeat’s special issue, “The Real Cost of AI: Performance, Efficiency and ROI at Scale.” Read more from this special issue. AI’s promise is undeniable, but so are its blindsiding security costs at the inference layer. New attacks targeting AI’s operational side are quietly inflating budgets, jeopardizing... Read more
Today’s NYT Mini Crossword Answers for July 1
News July 1, 2025
Looking for the most recent Mini Crossword answer? Click here for today’s Mini Crossword hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Wordle, Strands, Connections and Connections: Sports Edition puzzles. Today’s Mini Crossword was tougher than most, with longer words and one more clue than normal.... Read more










