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LinkedIn's announcement that members can verify the experience of people they worked or studied with, and companies get more control over who claims to work there.
Why I recommend it: Worth doing if you are job hunting: verified experience helps against fake profiles. This is LinkedIn's own announcement.
The original home of SHAttered — the February 2017 research by Google and CWI Amsterdam that produced the first practical public SHA-1 collision, two different PDFs with the same hash. The paper and both colliding files are still downloadable, so you can check the hashes yourself. The site now also runs a high-volume news and explainer feed covering cryptography, security, chips, cloud and cryptocurrency.
Why I recommend it: Free, no paywall. Two halves, and they deserve different levels of trust. The 2017 SHA-1 collision material is genuine, checkable primary research and still the best way to see a broken hash function with your own eyes. The current news feed is a different thing: posts appear every few minutes, carry no named author, and the site also covers 'provably fair' crypto gambling, which sits close to affiliate territory. I have deliberately not wired it into the headlines here — use the archive, and confirm any breaking claim against a named outlet before you repeat it.
Jake Taylor argues that public, standardized AI testing with formal reasoning checks is needed to close the widening "verification asymmetry" between AI capability and oversight.
Why I recommend it: If you want to work in AI governance or assurance, this is the vocabulary hiring managers use — verification, benchmarks, interpretability.
