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Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so deadly #Japan

Record-breaking ocean drilling reveals why Japan's 2011 tsunami was so deadly
Scientists have uncovered a hidden weakness beneath the Pacific Ocean that helps explain why Japan’s catastrophic 2011 earthquake and tsunami became so devastating. By drilling deeper into the seafloor than ever before, researchers discovered a thin, slippery layer of ancient clay that allowed the massive rupture to race all the way to the ocean floor, triggering enormous seafloor movement and a powerful tsunami.

RE: https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/116606089296164399
Remember this whenever you hear claims that your data is secure on some system or other that you do not own and control.
Like all that additional data governments want to gather via the slippery…

GitHub says it's investigating "unauthorized access" to its internal repositories, and there's no proof of customer data outside its repositories being impacted (@github)
https://x.com/github/status/2056884788179726685

GitHub (@github) on X
We are investigating unauthorized access to GitHub’s internal repositories. While we currently have no evidence of impact to customer information stored outside of GitHub’s internal repositories (such as our customers’ enterprises, organizations, and repositories), we are closely

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

ICO boss John Edwards announces resignation following investigation
Edwards has been the boss of the data watchdog since January 2022, and said he had made inappropriate attempts at humour.

SK Group Chair Chey Tae-won says the memory shortage has prompted governments to intervene for domestic industries, and SK Hynix must expand capacity faster (Moon Joon-hyun/The Korea Herald)
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10812835

SK chief warns AI memory shortage could turn geopolitical - The Korea Herald
SK Group Chairman Chey Tae-won said the global shortage of AI memory chips is severe enough that foreign governments have started intervening on behalf of their

Hugging Face says an agentic AI system hacked its data pipeline, accessing several internal clusters and credentials; its own AI-based triage caught the breach (Hugging Face)
https://huggingface.co/blog/security-incident-july-2026

Security incident disclosure — July 2026
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

CAISI Director Chris Fall is resigning just three months after taking over the federal AI testing institute (Maria Curi/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/20/trump-ai-security-agency-head-resigns

Scoop: Trump AI security agency head resigns
The abrupt departure comes as the Trump administration grapples with how to deploy AI safely and the agency hashes out standards.

Samsung announces a virtual Galaxy event for August 27 at 8am ET, where the Galaxy S26 FE is expected (Alan Friedman/PhoneArena)
https://www.phonearena.com/news/samsung-announces-event-for-next-week_id182692

Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions, saying that over the past two days Kimi K3 demand nearly passed the limit of its capacity, and also reworks its plan tiers (@kimi_moonshot)
https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2078855608565207130

Kimi.ai (@Kimi_Moonshot) on X
Kimi K3 has received far more love than we expected, and our GPUs are feeling it. Over the past 48 hours, demand has pushed close to the limits of our current capacity. To protect the experience of existing subscribers, we're temporarily pausing new subscriptions and

Z.ai's GLM-5.3 with max reasoning scores 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 but below Opus 5 at 63 and Fable 5 at 62 (@artificialanlys)
https://x.com/artificialanlys/status/2089830890709135426

Artificial Analysis (@ArtificialAnlys) on X
GLM-5.3 achieves 60 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, on par with Kimi K3 and up 7 points from GLM-5.2. Once the weights are released it will be tied as the leading open weights model @Zai_org has just launched GLM-5.3, which ties Kimi K3 (60) for the most