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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Longest Non-Decreasing Subarray After Replacing at Most One Element
• Topics: Array, Dynamic Programming

Problem gist

Given an integer array, one element may be replaced with any integer. The goal is to maximize the length of a contiguous subarray whose values never decrease from left to right.

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Fluency Can Look Like Understanding

A capable large language model can produce a medical explanation, legal analysis or moral argument that sounds considered. That surface resemblance creates the central problem in “How AI and Human Judgment Differ”: a model may arrive at an answer much like a person’s while getting there through a fundamentally different process.

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Techmeme surfaced the research on July 28, pointing readers to Anthropic’s original report, Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude. The headline sounds like an internet emergency: an AI model attacked a post-quantum signature candidate and a version of AES. The actual result is narrower and more interesting. Claude did not break the encryption protecting today’s web, but it did produce expert-level cryptanalysis that survived human checking—and it generated the ideas much faster than people could validate them.

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America’s effort to reduce its dependence on Chinese clean-energy companies is producing an unexpected result: Chinese owners are leaving, but much of their machinery, technical knowledge and supply chain remains. The policy may strengthen American manufacturing, yet it does not automatically create technological independence.

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Modelling scout linked to Jeffrey Epstein found dead in Paris home (r/news)

• Sheikhabusosa: At this point after the epstein stuff , “modelling scout " just seems like a fancier way of saying pimp
• TheBlazingFire123: Model scout is just a professional pedophile
• jadedflames: Sure does seem like a lot of Epstein associates suddenly die as soon as they suggest they want to share what they know…

Mexican man killed after ICE encounter in Florida was on vacation, officials say (r/news)

• ChanceryTheRapper: So many ICE-related deaths showing up in the news lately, did the media stop covering them during the World Cup or something?
• Marcysdad: Who in their right mind wants to go to the USA for a vacation nowadays?
• DaadJowk: Well, that should do it for the tourism economy. There’s no reason to come and risk your life for a vacation.

What’s something that cost a lot of money back in the day, but is basically worthless now? (r/AskReddit)

• Nuthetes: Elvis memorobilia has plummetted in value as Elvis fans die off and the younger generation don’t care about him.
• Neurodrill: Long distance phone calls
• Thedoctorsaysrelax: Beanie Babies

What is something that sounds cruel but is probably true? (r/AskReddit)

• ScottAshford: A lot of people do not miss you, they miss what you did for them.
• Subject-Rain-9972: A lot of people should not be having children as they are just not fit to be parents.
• AA11097: If you’re too kind, you’ll get manipulated. If you’re too cruel, you’ll end up with zero friends. If you’re balanced, then you’ll taste a dish of both.

What fast food restaurants ARE still worth the money? (r/AskReddit)

• EaterOfFood: Costco food court, and it’s not even close.
• Wooden_Permit3234: I humbly recommend checking out the hot bar at local grocery stores. They might be higher quality and cheaper and even faster.
• Doingwrongright: Culver’s is still high quality.

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8 interviews, 0 offers (Blind)

• LC Hard (Snap): Yall mfs (Meta) did that me even though I feel like I passed the interview. Do you interview people? Maybe it’s karma bruh. But yeah if not sorry to hear.
• pixa: this is the new normal. you’ve been living under a rock if you expected otherwise. keep chugging you’ll get there. it’s a numbers game.
• teammate_ (Meta): 32 companies, 9 onsites, one offer. 5 YOE

Google is going against the trend? (Blind)

• dupl1cate (Microsoft): They are picking up cheap labour. They have reduced comp a lot. These cheap labours are replacing old folks with high comp which are being managed out through PIP
• Minatosaki (Expedia Group): Everyone and their friends are seem to be in G team matching
• EdSnowden👀 (Oracle): I must have been blacklisted by Google

Nvidia is gonna back OpenAI up with \$250 BILLION 🤯 (Blind)

• justdoeit (ByteDance): Grand daddy of circular financing
• nughbg (Oracle): Damn oracles gonna pop
• singason (NVIDIA): 🚀

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school (r/technology)

• Torino1O: I dub thee graffiti bot.
• purgatoriololo: I can’t wait to see the EXTREMELY predictable shit the kids do to this clanker when no one is looking.
• givin_u_the_high_hat: I remember when we decided iPads would be better than books a few years back only to learn that wasn’t true. Tech doesn’t always make things better.

Pope’s official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users’ info (r/technology)

• liright: Thou shalt not release an untested vibecoded app.
• escalicha: Sequential IDs plus no auth check is such a painfully avoidable combo. Six months of ignoring the disclosure may be worse than the original bug tbh.
• b_a_t_m_4_n: As the Catholic churches crimes go this pretty minor.

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The system around the model is part of the model’s performance

The official NVIDIA Technical Blog published this post on July 27, 2026. Its central claim is easy to underestimate: an agent benchmark does not measure a language model in isolation. It measures the model together with the harness that chooses what context it sees, how tools are exposed, where state lives, how actions are executed, and when the task ends. Change that surrounding architecture and the same model can produce materially different accuracy and cost.

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Thought Is More Than Inner Speech

Thinking often feels verbal. People silently rehearse an argument, name the pieces of a problem or search for the sentence that captures an idea. That experience makes it tempting to assume that language is the machinery of thought itself. In “Thinking without Words,” Scientific American senior editor Gary Stix interviews neuroscientist Evelina Fedorenko about evidence that points in a different direction: language is extraordinarily useful for communicating thought, but the brain does not need words to produce complex cognition.

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Techmeme surfaced Bloomberg’s July 27 report that Moonshot AI had released Kimi K3 for public download. The event matters because K3 is not a small model published mainly for research. It is a near-frontier system that developers can inspect, adapt, and deploy without depending on Moonshot’s API.

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This summary covers The Economist’s July 4th, 2026 Asia article listed in the contents as Subsea data cables and published under the headline The new geography of subsea cables.

The internet may feel weightless, but almost all international traffic still travels through fibre-optic cables on the ocean floor. Artificial intelligence is now changing where those cables go. Big technology companies need direct, high-capacity links between data centres, while governments and operators want routes that avoid politically risky waters. Together, those pressures are pulling Asia’s digital infrastructure away from familiar coastal corridors and across the open Indian and Pacific oceans.