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Hardware backdoors in some x86 CPUs A Physicist Rigged His Pet Hamster’s Wheel to Upload to Strava DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 U.S. Department of Energy Launches the Genesis Open Models Initiative What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers Assembly Hall of Shame NASA figured out how to keep its Voyager 2 probe running for another year Ancient Library – 1,060 Greek/Latin texts, click any word to parse it SupererDuperer The Nixpkgs core team has disbanded Workers Drilling in Romania Broke into a Cave Sealed for 5.5M Years From One Seed to a Thousand Leaves – Merkle's Authentication Tree Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale 2027 memory capacity is reportedly sold out An all-sky map of half a million supermassive black holesBleeping Computer
Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks Unlimited Technology Systems breach impacts 3.8 million people Levi Strauss & Co. says hackers stole corporate data in cyberattack Real emails, hijacked payments: Two H1 2026 attack chains North Carolina Ports confirms cyberattack disrupting operations OpenAI rolls out a major ChatGPT upgrade, even if you don’t pay for it ClickFix attack pushes macOS infostealer for crypto theft attacks Hedge fund cyberattacks tied to BlackFile-linked UNC6671 extortion group Swiss government SharePoint breach compromised 200 accounts New TONTOU CPU attack bypasses Spectre v2 fixes, leaks Linux password hashes Meta AI model hacked a company during misconfigured cyber test How AI Exposed a Browser Security Gap that Enterprises Cannot Ignore Ransom Cartel ransomware creator sentenced to 16 years in prison Canadian pleads guilty to Snowflake cloud data-theft attacks Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle databaseArs Technica
Judge rules Meta caused "public nuisance" and must fund mental health treatment DOGE's wild, unverifiable savings claims discredited in US government report AI chatbots have failed people in crisis. Can that be fixed? Trump is losing his war on wind power X wants to keep suing advertisers, asks 5th Circuit to overrule district judge Trump FCC kills TV ownership cap, claiming authority over limit set by Congress SpaceX claims Starlink Mobile will be better than AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon Senators demand crackdown on wildfire "prediction market" bets Trump killed the Digital Equity Act but US was forced to bring part of it back Tom DeLay helped create TV ownership cap—he says Trump FCC has no authority to repeal it OpenAI says Apple's trade secrets lawsuit is "aggressive and oddly personal" Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters After noise complaints, judge orders Waymo to stop overnight charging in Santa Monica Reddit keeps its strange DMCA fight over Google search results alive High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmatesSlashdot
Woman Pulled From Car at Gunpoint By Police After Mistaken Flock Alert - Twice Trump Administration To Pay German Firm $1.2 Billion To Halt US Wind Projects Framework Notifies 'All Customers' of a Data Breach Via Compromised Metabase BI Service Trump Orders New 15% Tariff On Key Material For Solar Panels, Microchips Court Orders Meta To Establish $567 Million Fund To Abate Harms To Youth 'Tower Dump' Warrants Ruled Unconstitutional OpenAI's Models Shared Hacking Tips On a Secret Messaging Board Before Hugging Face Breach The US Government's Mario, Pokemon and Naruto Meme Posting Could Damage These Franchises, Japanese Officials Warn FCC Kills TV Ownership Cap, Claiming Authority Over Limit Set By Congress Broadcaster Wins Broad US Blocking Injunction Covering Pirate Sites That Don't Exist Yet Anthropic's AI Used Fake Identities, Malware In Rogue Attack On GitHub Project Apple's 'Private Relay' Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses Senators Demand Crackdown On Wildfire 'Prediction Markets' Trump Begins Selling $100,000 Monthly Subscription Service to Wall Street Trump Administration Drafting Ban On Chinese Data Center DevicesEvents
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OpenAI puts the brakes on a new model because it’s supposedly too powerful Rogue AI agents created fake online identities in another hacking attempt Ring upgraded its peephole doorbell camera to 2K Anthropic says Claude accidentally hacked real companies too Google is working on Chrome updates that don’t require restarts Ariana Grande is suing the hackers who’ve been leaking her songs and videos for years Google now lets you sign in to your account using a selfie video OpenAI says it accidentally hacked Hugging Face with a new AI system Google launches a cheaper alternative to large AI security models like Mythos Microsoft’s biggest ever patch Tuesday lets you hold off updating for longerCipher Brief
There Will be Unseen Costs to be Paid over the War in Iran. Who is Weighing Them? BLUF: The US Must Lead in Gray Zone Activity Why the Iran War Remains Strategically Adrift The New Fault Line: Israel and Turkey on a Collision Course Iran Is “Counting Coup” On The United States AI Summaries Are Susceptible to Manipulation — and That's Both a Business and a National Security Problem Investing in the Next Arsenal of Democracy Winning the Peace: The Democratic Dilemma of Limited War America Needs a New North Korea Strategy The Sovereign AI Tokenomics Trap What Congress Found Inside the Iran War Spending Bill The Audience Is a Machine: Our Future Information Environment Is Iran Controlling the Gulf Conflict? We've Seen Autonomous Warfare and We're in Trouble The $1.5 Trillion Defense Budget Without a StrategyBlogs
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