(July 31, 2026) – AI, Science, and Tech Updates
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Global Trending News — Today’s Breakthroughs in Science and Technology
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Last updated: July 31, 2026, 06:46 AM PHT
Last updated: July 31, 2026, 06:46 AM PHT
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2Rural runoff funnels hurricane floodwater toward coastal cities, model finds
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
3Natural emulsion manages to stop fungus that threatens up to 80% of cocoa production
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:40 AM PHT -
4Apple says gaming slowdown and App Store changes hurt services growth
Sarah Perez — July 31, 2026, 06:37 AM PHT -
5Female birds have shorter lifespans than male birds across 35 North American species, researchers find
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:30 AM PHT -
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7Scientists have found a new way molecules can cooperate at room temperature
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:10 AM PHT -
8Turkey confronts growing wildfires on tourist coasts
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT -
9Uncovering the structure of the poxvirus 'portal complex'
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 06:00 AM PHT -
10AI price wars: OpenAI cuts GPT-5.6 Luna prices by 80% as model competition shifts toward cost
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — July 31, 2026, 05:48 AM PHT -
11Scientists solve mystery of how muscle cells grow and stay healthy
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 05:40 AM PHT -
12Quantum spin effects may enhance one-way electrical transport in chiral magnets
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 05:30 AM PHT -
13A Leaked Memo Ties Cyberattacks on Minnesota Water Utilities to Iran
Andy Greenberg — July 31, 2026, 05:20 AM PHT -
14Redistributing sunlight boosts algae biomass productivity sixfold
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 05:10 AM PHT -
15Italy's Po River valley on drought alert
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT -
16The US government wants to bypass environmental laws for commercial launches and spacecraft reentries
Elizabeth Howell — July 31, 2026, 05:00 AM PHT -
17Spectroscopy system detects aerosols using light reflected from traffic signs and tree trunks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:50 AM PHT -
18Combined rattlesnake proteins prove 10 times more potent than current antivenom in lab tests
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
19Firefighters battle to contain deadly Crete blaze in Greece
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:40 AM PHT -
20Judge says Trump admin still lacks evidence for Anthropic ‘supply-chain risk’ label
Rebecca Bellan — July 31, 2026, 04:26 AM PHT -
21Cesium atoms and quantum dots generate indistinguishable photons for modular quantum networks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
22France, Spain eye wildfire reprieve as other blazes start up in Europe
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:20 AM PHT -
23CareCloud begins to notify hundreds of thousands after hackers stole medical records
Zack Whittaker — July 31, 2026, 04:13 AM PHT -
24Everyone Is Freaking Out About OpenAI and Anthropic’s Race for Dominance
Maxwell Zeff — July 31, 2026, 04:12 AM PHT -
25Electrically controlled magnetic switching shows promise for next-gen cryogenic devices
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:10 AM PHT -
26Ancient Chinese seeds spanning 5,000 years train AI to ease archaeology's specialist bottleneck
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 04:00 AM PHT -
27Friend, the lonely AI wearable, returns with a new voice and a much bigger price tag
Lucas Ropek — July 31, 2026, 03:44 AM PHT -
28Connecting surface-level observations to molecular-level data uncovers plant stress coping mechanism
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 03:40 AM PHT -
29Learning may rely on stronger neural connections, not expanding networks
Phys.org – latest science and technology news stories — July 31, 2026, 03:20 AM PHT -
30Google says it fixed more Chrome bugs in June than over the past two years, thanks to AI
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — July 31, 2026, 02:57 AM PHT -
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32Florida plans to build air taxi pads using $200M intended for EV chargers
Tim De Chant — July 31, 2026, 02:38 AM PHT -
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34IEEE Publishing Ethics Team Upholds Research Integrity
IEEE Publishing Ethics — July 31, 2026, 02:00 AM PHT -
35Nvidia’s Open Source Alliance Is Missing Some Key Names: OpenAI and Anthropic
Brian Barrett, Zoë Schiffer, Leah Feiger — July 31, 2026, 01:51 AM PHT -
36Synthetic-user startup Simile raises $200M at $2B valuation 5 months after $100M Series A
Julie Bort — July 31, 2026, 01:50 AM PHT -
37Back to School Office Chair Deals 2026: $200 and Less
Matthew Korfhage — July 31, 2026, 01:49 AM PHT -
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39Google DeepMind’s new AI model can control a robot’s entire body
The Verge — July 31, 2026, 01:18 AM PHT -
40Montana’s plan to become an experimental medical hub just pushed forward
Jessica Hamzelou — July 31, 2026, 01:10 AM PHT -
41For the First Time, Zoox Can Charge People for Rides in Its Steering-Wheel-Free Robotaxis
Aarian Marshall — July 31, 2026, 01:06 AM PHT -
42Chrome Needs Twice-a-Week Patching Thanks to AI Bug Hunting
Lily Hay Newman — July 31, 2026, 01:00 AM PHT -
43Mastercard spent decades training its fraud system to see bots as thieves. Now bots are the ones doing the buying.
louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — July 31, 2026, 12:57 AM PHT -
44Hush Security says the AI security problem has shifted from protecting models to governing identities as autonomous agents spread
carl.franzen@venturebeat.com (Carl Franzen) — July 31, 2026, 12:29 AM PHT -
45Okta buys AI security startup Permiso — source says for about $200M
Jagmeet Singh — July 31, 2026, 12:09 AM PHT -
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47HBO's 'Lanterns' teases shape-shifting Manhunters: 'The most dangerous beings to ever exist in the galaxy' (video)
stingrayghost@gmail.com (Jeff Spry) — July 31, 2026, 12:00 AM PHT -
48Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
John Timmer — July 30, 2026, 11:59 PM PHT -
49Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts
The Verge — July 30, 2026, 11:57 PM PHT -
50When will fusion power startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems go public?
Tim De Chant — July 30, 2026, 11:45 PM PHT -
51Meta says AI is making it easier to build new apps — and more are coming
Sarah Perez — July 30, 2026, 11:41 PM PHT -
52Nscale buys Anyscale as it seeks to own more of the AI compute stack
Ram Iyer — July 30, 2026, 11:19 PM PHT -
53Fusion power darling Commonwealth Fusion Systems raises another $1B
Tim De Chant — July 30, 2026, 11:17 PM PHT -
54Gemini Robotics 2 Brings Google's AI Into the Physical World
Will Knight — July 30, 2026, 11:04 PM PHT -
55Forward-deployed engineers are the AI industry’s latest talent obsession
Rebecca Bellan — July 30, 2026, 11:00 PM PHT -
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57New MCP specification addresses the main barrier to enterprise adoption
Samuel Axon — July 30, 2026, 10:53 PM PHT -
58In the Hugging Face breach, OpenAI’s hacker was noisy and fast — but not unstoppable
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai — July 30, 2026, 10:48 PM PHT -
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60What if the brain does not create consciousness?
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 09:23 PM PHT -
61This 4,000-year-old city defied the rules of history
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 09:02 PM PHT -
62A Remote Indigenous Community Built One of Canada’s Fastest Fiber Networks
Rachel Berkowitz — July 30, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
63The lineage behind 69% of open models was never verified. Cisco just fingerprinted almost 900 for free
louiswcolumbus@gmail.com (Louis Columbus) — July 30, 2026, 09:00 PM PHT -
64Rice bran compound may help ease irritable bowel symptoms
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 08:44 PM PHT -
65Scientists found evolution repeating itself in the Galápagos Islands
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 08:13 PM PHT -
66The Download: tricking LLMs, and reviving geothermal plants
Charlotte Jee — July 30, 2026, 08:10 PM PHT -
67Best Vacuum Cleaners (2026): Cordless Vacuums, Robot Vacuums, Dysons
Nena Farrell — July 30, 2026, 08:01 PM PHT -
68‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Is a Superhero Movie for Yearners
Carla Sertin — July 30, 2026, 07:00 PM PHT -
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71A fundamental flaw leaves LLMs strikingly vulnerable to attack
Will Douglas Heaven — July 30, 2026, 06:15 PM PHT -
72LinkedIn Won’t Be Expanding Its Data Centers in the Next Year
Paresh Dave — July 30, 2026, 06:15 PM PHT -
73A Civilian Plane Crashed in New Mexico. Was the Military’s Tech to Blame?
Jeff Wise — July 30, 2026, 06:00 PM PHT -
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75I Got a Free Meal From a Private Chef—Who Filmed It All to Train Robots
Reece Rogers — July 30, 2026, 05:00 PM PHT -
76NTT DATA AIVista and Snowflake: Identity alone won’t secure enterprise AI agents
VentureBeat — July 30, 2026, 03:00 PM PHT -
77Companies are finally seeing AI ROI — and now they know how much more value it can deliver
VentureBeat — July 30, 2026, 03:00 PM PHT -
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79AI reveals explosive bursts in bird evolution
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 09:01 AM PHT -
80Daily multivitamin may help older adults stay independent
Latest Science News — ScienceDaily — July 30, 2026, 07:44 AM PHT