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Risograph illustration: a code editor with a coral padlock cracking open beside a small shield, two security flaws in Cursor, now patched.

Using Cursor? Update It Today, Two Serious Security Holes Just Got Fixed

Security researchers found two critical flaws in Cursor, the popular AI code editor: simply opening a malicious project could let attackers run commands on your computer. The fix is easy, update to version 3.0. Here's what happened and what it teaches all of us about AI tools.

2 Jul 2026

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The EU's Big AI Law Kicks In on August 2, Here's Who Actually Needs to Care

In one month, the EU AI Act's rules for 'high-risk' AI become enforceable, affecting companies that use AI for hiring, credit scoring, and more. A possible delay to 2027 is in the works, but counting on it would be a gamble. A plain-language guide to what's happening.

2 Jul 2026

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A Nobel Prize Winner Just Switched AI Labs, Why That's a Bigger Deal Than It Sounds

John Jumper, whose AlphaFold system won a Nobel Prize for cracking a 50-year-old biology problem, has left Google DeepMind for Anthropic. Star researchers changing teams tells you more about where AI is heading than most product launches do.

2 Jul 2026

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Scammers Found a New Trick: Registering the Web Addresses AI Makes Up

AI chatbots sometimes invent web addresses that don't exist, and researchers discovered they invent the same ones over and over. Now attackers are buying those addresses and building fake sites there, waiting for AI users to arrive. Here's how to not be one of them.

2 Jul 2026

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The US Government Wants a 30-Day Preview of New AI Models, 'Voluntarily'

A new executive order sets up a system where AI labs can give the US government early access to their models before release. It's officially voluntary, but talks with OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google suggest it may become the norm. What that means for the tools you use.

2 Jul 2026

Risograph illustration: a laptop with coral speed lines and a sprinting rabbit, a big speed boost for local AI on Macs.

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Free Speed Boost: Ollama Makes Local AI Up to 90% Faster on Macs

Ollama, the easiest way to run AI models on your own computer, just made Google's Gemma 4 model dramatically faster on Apple machines. No settings, no trade-offs: update and it's quicker. Here's how the clever trick behind it works.

2 Jul 2026