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Daily Digest - July 25, 2026
Claude Opus 5 lands on efficiency, a joint US-UK assessment of Kimi K3's hacking ability, fifteen Apache Thrift CVEs, and the first federal prosecution over a duress password.
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Intro
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Anthropic ships Claude Opus 5
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-5 -
The prompt injection result buried in the system card
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/25/boris-cherny/ -
US and UK institutes assess Kimi K3's cyber capability
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2026/07/uk-aisi-caisi-preliminary-assessment-kimi-k3s-cyber-capabilities -
Apache Thrift discloses about fifteen CVEs at once
https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2026/q3/271 -
First federal prosecution over a duress password
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/us-accuses-american-of-allegedly-wiping-his-phone-using-a-duress-password-during-border-search/ -
Postgres LISTEN and NOTIFY scales further than assumed
https://www.dbos.dev/blog/postgres-listen-notify-scalability -
Android may restrict on-device ADB over loopback
https://kitsumed.github.io/blog/posts/android-may-soon-restrict-on-device-adb/ -
Industry pushes back on open-weight restrictions
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/as-us-weighs-response-to-chinese-ai-industry-urges-against-broad-open-weight-restrictions/ -
Cognition buys Poke to give Devin a personality
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/why-cognition-bought-poke-ai-personality-is-becoming-a-competitive-advantage/ -
Meta launches a free badge to mark real people
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/24/meta-facebook-verified-badge-selfie-verification/ -
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