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Source: OpenAI awards bonuses to ~1,000 research and engineering employees, or ~30% of its staff, ranging from several hundred thousand to millions of dollars (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/o

OpenAI Pays Bonuses Ranging Up To Millions of Dollars to 1,000 Researchers, Engineers
OpenAI is paying bonuses to around 1,000 employees on its technical research and engineering teams, or about a third of the company, ranging from the low hundreds of thousands to millions, as the company gears up to release its latest flagship GPT-5 model and faces an ever-rising battle for AI talent, according to a person with knowledge of the bonuses. The size of the bonuses will be

If you took off time last week, you should check out today's Metacurity, which succinctly recaps the most critical infosec developments you might have missed, including
--IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
--Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack,
--Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers,
--Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers,
--US sanctions bulletproof hoster,
--US g…

IT giant Ingram Micro's systems shut down after SafePay ransomware attack
Qantas is talking with threat actor after attack, Android spyware flaw exposes thousands of customers, Ransomware negotiator may have struck deals with hackers, US sanctions bulletproof hoster, US goes after DRPK "IT worker" program, A racist hacked Columbia and the NYT shamed itself, much more

🏈 Fantasy Draft Guide: Rankings, mock, analysis https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/page/FFDraftGuide25-45508190/2025-fantasy-football-rankings-mock-draft-cheat-sheets-sleepers

Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation
Junru Wu, Le Yan, Zhen Qin, Honglei Zhuang, Paul Suganthan G. C., Tianqi Liu, Zhe Dong, Xuanhui Wang, Harrie Oosterhuis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04820

Harnessing Pairwise Ranking Prompting Through Sample-Efficient Ranking Distillation
While Pairwise Ranking Prompting (PRP) with Large Language Models (LLMs) is one of the most effective zero-shot document ranking methods, it has a quadratic computational complexity with respect to the number of documents to be ranked, as it requires an enumeration over all possible document pairs. Consequently, the outstanding ranking performance of PRP has remained unreachable for most real-world ranking applications. In this work, we propose to harness the effectiveness of PRP through pair…

Qantas confirms it has been in contact with its ransomware attackers.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/07/qantas-contacted-by-suspected-cyber-criminal-but-airline-wont-confirm-if-ha…

RB rankings: Which backs are the most reliable TD scorers? https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45648073/2025-fantasy-football-rb-rankings-nfl-touchdowns-reliable-scorers

This is kind of crazy
One in Three Australian Ransomware Victims Hit Multiple Times
https://australiancybersecuritymagazine.com.au/one-in-three-australian-ransomware-victims-hit-multiple-times/

One in Three Australian Ransomware Victims Hit Multiple Times - Australian Cyber Security Magazine
Barracuda Networks, Inc. has released new research showing one in three Australian organisations affected by ransomware have been hit multiple times in the last 12 months. The findings are detailed in the Ransomware Insights Report 2025, which also reveals the situation in Australia is particularly concerning, with 67% of repeat victims saying they are juggling

Field Yates' fantasy football PPR rankings: Top 100 for 2025 https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/45915931/2025-fantasy-football-rankings-ppr-field-yates-qb-rb-wr-te

Dane Brugler’s 2026 NFL Draft summer positional rankings: Offensive tackles https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6514802/2025/08/07/nfl-draft-2026-summer-rankings-offensive-tackles/

Barnwell's annual ranking of all 32 playmaker cores: Who has the best WR, TE and RB groups? https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45679684/ranking-nfl-teams-wr-te-rb-groups-2025-season-best-players-playmakers-o…