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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek is planning a new funding round approximately one month after closing its first, according to the Financial Times. This pace of capital injection is described as unusually rapid. The funds aim to finance the development of the company's infrastructure. DeepSeek, based in Hangzhou and backed by hedge fund High-Flyer, develops a conversational agent that leverages a large language model.
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On July 14, 2026, the BSI published several resources for medical practices, according to German tech media Heise. These resources aim to facilitate the implementation of the IT security directive applicable to the medical sector, referred to in German as the IT-Sicherheitsrichtlinie. Among these tools is notably an "IT-Notfallkarte" (IT Emergency Card). These resources are designed to help practitioners apply regulatory cybersecurity requirements.
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SAP fixed 16 security vulnerabilities in its July 2026 Patch Day — a scheduled release day for bundled security updates — according to Heise Online. Some of these vulnerabilities are classified as critical. Multiple SAP products are affected. Details about the specific products impacted and exact severity levels for each vulnerability are not specified in available information.
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Franco Rossi, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has identified for the first time in the Americas a Maya astronomer-mathematician by his personal name: Sak Tahn Waax, meaning "White-Breasted Fox." This scholar inscribed an astronomical formula on a wall at Xultun, an archaeological site in Guatemala, around AD 826. His formula articulates four calendar systems and predicts the orbital cycles of Mars and Venus across 2,920 days. According to Rossi, this is the oldest name of an astronomer-mathematician ever documented across the entire American continent.
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On July 12, 2026, an online betting house accidentally broadcast the wrong version of its World Cup advertisement on several Argentine television channels. The ad featured the voice of Diego Maradona—the iconic Argentine footballer who died in 2020—recreated using AI voice cloning. The campaign used conditional versioning: one spot for victory, one for defeat. Maradona's family had consented to and received compensation for using his likeness. The campaign was already controversial before this incident due to concerns linking Maradona's image to gambling. The accidental broadcast of the 'defeat' version now risks a commercial backlash for the brand.
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A qualitative study from the University of Michigan, published in the Journal of Research on Adolescence — a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal specializing in adolescence — examines how conversations between Black mothers and daughters evolve during puberty. For these young girls, puberty represents a dual transition: biological and identity-based. Mothers help their daughters name and interpret bodily changes, gender expectations, and racialized messages. Rona Carter, associate professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, is the principal researcher.
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Pokémon Go, the mobile augmented reality application that lets players capture virtual creatures by moving through real-world locations, celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2026. Launched in July 2016, the game has been downloaded over one billion times on iOS and Android. For the occasion, its publisher Scopely gathered hundreds of players at Times Square in New York for a massive raid against a giant Mewtwo, a direct reference to the game's original trailer. According to Scopely's data, players have collectively traveled over 100 billion kilometers since the game's launch.