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Krebs on Security Jun 18 Score 0.9576909958333334

'Popa' Botnet Linked to Publicly-Traded Israeli Firm

For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple securi

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OpenAI News Jun 18 Score 0.9466361412037038

Improving health intelligence in ChatGPT

Learn how GPT-5.5 Instant improves ChatGPT’s health and wellness responses with stronger reasoning, better context, clearer communication, and physician-informed evaluations.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.8932652060185184

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette

Today we launched a new plugin for Datasette, datasette-apps , with this launch announcement post on the Datasette project blog. That post has the what , but I'm going to expand on that a little bit here to provide the why . The TL;DR Datasette Apps are self-c

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Foreign Policy Jun 18 Score 0.8899515282407406

The Vance Peace Deal

The U.S. vice president has become the face of an unpopular deal.

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Foreign Policy Jun 18 Score 0.8853070837962962

The Era of the French Intellectual Is Over

The recently deceased Edgar Morin was the last reminder of a bygone phenomenon.

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Foreign Policy Jun 18 Score 0.8852413430555555

Will Colombia Elect Its Own Bukele?

Abelardo de la Espriella promises megaprisons and more if he wins the presidency.

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Simon Willison's Weblog Jun 18 Score 0.8850591874999999

datasette-acl 0.6a0

Release: datasette-acl 0.6a0 This release expands datasette-acl from table-only permissions toward a general resource-sharing system. Alex Garcia did most of the work for this release - we're fleshing out the plugin that will allow multi-user Datasette instanc

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Quanta Magazine Jun 18 Score 0.8769817175925925

Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI

Our genetic heritage is not a blueprint or an algorithm, as many biologists have imagined, but something else entirely. The post Why the Human Genome’s Tangled Physicality May Confound AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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Schneier on Security Jun 18 Score 0.8717479199074073

Embedding Forbidden Text in Spyware to Discourage AI Analysis

At least one malware developer is adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware, in an effort to stop automatic AI analysis. Details : The _index.js payload begins with a large JavaScript block comment containing fake system instructions an

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.815854876388889

Gentlemen ransomware uses multiple EDR killers to disable defenses

The Gentlemen ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) is actively developing and maintaining a suite of endpoint detection and response (EDR) killers to help affiliates evade detection in attacks. [...]

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Wired Jun 18 Score 0.8134063921296297

The White House Is Making Up Its Rules for AI in Real Time

Anthropic still can’t distribute Claude Mythos or Fable 5 after running afoul of the Trump administration. But no one can say exactly what the company did wrong.

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The Verge Jun 18 Score 0.8123615106481482

Valve is so behind on Steam Controller orders that some won't ship until 2027

Valve has some good news and bad news about Steam Controllers. The good news: If you make a reservation for a Steam Controller, the company will now show you one of three estimates of when you'll be able to actually order your gamepad: by September 2026, by De

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The Verge Jun 18 Score 0.8122689180555556

You can now use the Game Boy Camera with your phone

The $50 GB Operator is an accessory that lets you connect, play, and authenticate Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advance cartridges on PCs and other devices. Now it's getting some new functionality for the Game Boy Camera. After turning the Game Boy Ca

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Wired Jun 18 Score 0.8112360217592594

44 Best Father’s Day Gifts for Dads (2026)

Dads are traditionally tough to shop for—let me help with these handpicked gift ideas for fathers with great taste.

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The Verge Jun 18 Score 0.8104837328703705

HBO Max's annual plans are 28 percent off right now

The easiest way to save on a streaming service is often to pay for a year upfront, which HBO Max is currently making a lot cheaper. Through July 15, 2026, new and returning subscribers can get 28 percent off any of HBO Max's yearly plans, bringing the ad-suppo

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The Verge Jun 18 Score 0.810387899537037

Snap’s Specs look good on nobody

Snap's new smart glasses are probably the most impressive bit of face-computer technology we've seen. They're not VR-headset huge; they don't have a big charging puck; thanks to Snap's many years of AR lens development, they're likely to have a lot of features

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The Guardian — World Jun 18 Score 0.8098348291666667

CDC to tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola response in DRC and Uganda

Number of people infected now tops 1,000 though health officials say the global risk remains low Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will tap $107m in emergency funding for Ebola outbreak respo

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The Verge Jun 18 Score 0.8098179921296297

The best early Amazon Prime Day deals so far

Amazon’s earlier-than-usual Prime Day doesn’t begin until June 23rd, but there are several even earlier deals on must-have products that you can check out right now. To name some examples, Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 are selling at their cheapest-ever price at Amazo

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.8091808023148149

Nintendo confirms data stolen in WebMD subsidiary cyberattack

Nintendo of America has confirmed to BleepingComputer that threat actors stole survey data from the third-party TinyPulse service used internally, but its systems were not compromised. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 18 Score 0.8080843662037037

Barbados prime minister announces manifesto for slavery reparations

Updated document, which emphasises harm done to African women, is being considered by other Caribbean countries Barbados’s prime minister, Mia Mottley, has announced a new manifesto from Caribbean leaders asserting the “moral, ethical and legal case” for repar

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War on the Rocks Jun 18 Score 0.8074929555555557

The World Cup: Players Vie for Goals and Countries for Influence

The 2026 FIFA Men's World Cup is now well underway, bringing 48 countries' teams to compete in a soccer tournament co-hosted by the United States, Mexico, and Canada. With teams from every continent except Antarctica, the 2026 tournament is a truly global even

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.8055280245370371

USB worm spreads crypto-stealing malware via Windows shortcut files

Threat actors targeting cryptocurrency wallets have been distributing clipboard-stealing malware with self-spreading capabilities and using the Tor network to conceal communication. [...]

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The Guardian — World Jun 18 Score 0.8054005699074075

South African men sentenced in ‘world’s largest’ rhino horn trafficking case

‘Mastermind’ Dawie Groenewald given fine of 2m rand or four-year jail term almost 16 years after arrest Two traffickers of rhino horns have been sentenced by a South African court in what police said was the world’s largest such case, partly bringing to an end

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War on the Rocks Jun 18 Score 0.8028874

China's Farm Drones: A Trojan Horse Washington Overlooks

In 2024, Emilian Kavalski and Claris Diaz argued in "Beyond TikTok – The National Security Risks of Chinese Agricultural Drones" that the national debate over foreign social media platforms risked becoming too narrow, potentially causing Washington to ov

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.8021872837962963

Klue OAuth breach linked to 'Icarus' Salesforce data theft attacks

Market intelligence platform Klue suffered a OAuth breach that enabled the "Icarus" threat actors to steal Salesforce CRM data from multiple organizations in an ongoing extortion campaign. [...]

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BleepingComputer Jun 18 Score 0.801328950462963

5 reasons Microsoft 365 backup isn’t enough for business data protection

Microsoft 365 helps keep services running, but protecting and recovering business data remains your responsibility. Acronis breaks down five gaps organizations should consider when evaluating Microsoft 365 data protection. [...]

Security securitymalwarevulnerabilities
Google DeepMind Blog Jun 16 Score 0.7995952592592591

Securing the future of AI agents

Securing internal systems with an AI Control Roadmap, combining traditional safeguards and real-time monitoring.

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MIT Technology Review Jun 18 Score 0.798580913425926

The Download: a new hunt for dark matter and Kenya's case for going solar

This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology. The search for dark matter has been blown wide open For decades, physicists have hunted for weakly interacting massive par

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.7983029268518519

Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC iQ-F Series

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by rapidly establishing a large number of TCP connections to it, resulting in an inconsistency in

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.7983029268518519

Mitsubishi Electric Co.'s MELSEC iQ-F Series FX5-ENET/IP Ethernet Module

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition in the affected product by continuously sending a large number of communication packets to the Ethernet port of the produ

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.7983029268518519

Apollo Pharmacy Blood Glucose Monitoring System APG-01 BT

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain sensitive health-related information and prevent legitimate users from establishing a connection with the device. The following versions of Apollo Pharmacy Blo

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.7983029268518519

AzeoTech DAQFactory

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to upload malicious .ctl files that may lead to arbitrary code execution. The following versions of AzeoTech DAQFactory are affected: DAQFactory CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulne

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories Jun 18 Score 0.7983029268518519

CISA Urges Hardening Fortinet Devices After Reports of Credential Exposure

CISA is aware of global reports that malicious cyber actors have targeted internet-accessible Fortinet devices across government and private sector organizations using compromised credentials. This activity, referred to as FortiBleed, involves the exposure of

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MIT Technology Review Jun 18 Score 0.7949698023148148

Geoengineering still faces major practical challenges

Solar geoengineering is often portrayed as a sort of emergency brake. Something along the lines of Pull in case of climate emergency to scatter light-reflecting particles to bounce sunlight out of the atmosphere and cool the planet. But it might be less like a

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MIT Technology Review Jun 18 Score 0.7933031356481482

The search for dark matter has been blown wide open

Underneath an Apennine massif, below the Jinping Mountains of Sichuan, and at the bottom of a South Dakota mine, there is a cosmic hunt afoot. Isolated deep beneath these rocky shields, massive detectors filled with liquid xenon aim to make the first direct de

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War on the Rocks Jun 18 Score 0.7916429555555556

Cogs of War Turns One

A mentor of mine, a superb scholar, once told me that good defense analysis starts with a trade-off. The classic example is combined arms doctrine, which is the foundation of modern warfare. Infantry, armor, artillery, and aviation work together to offset each

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Quanta Magazine Jun 15 Score 0.758524773148148

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

Plausible answers range from 17 to — in all seriousness — 995.5. The post How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really? first appeared on Quanta Magazine

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NASA News Jun 19 Score 0.7447188134259259

Curiosity Blog, Sols 4920-4926: Surveying the Bands

Written by William Farrand, Senior Research Scientist, Space Science Institute Earth planning date: Friday, June 12, 2026 Rather than going from stage to stage at a music festival to hear different bands playing different varieties of music, Curiosity has been

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.7400677972222223

Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet

Cybersecurity firms, researchers and officials took down 106 servers and remediated nearly 15,000 sites that were infected with the malware. The post Authorities disrupt Evil Corp’s SocGholish botnet appeared first on CyberScoop .

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.7392229800925926

NASA Mission to Study Space Weather Impacts of Earth’s Atmosphere

NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve prediction capabilities for impacts on crucial technology, such as GPS and low Earth orbit satellites, as well

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CyberScoop Jun 18 Score 0.737196037962963

Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes

While preventing third parties from profiting off unauthorized deepfakes of artists and performers is a bipartisan concern, some business and digital rights groups are opposed. The post Congress tees up No FAKES Act, aiming at AI-generated deepfakes appeared f

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.7370164986111111

NASA Awards Contract for Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition

NASA has selected eight new companies and will acquire new data products from six existing Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition contract holders to expand the range of commercial satellite data available to researchers, civil agencies, and decision-makers. Su

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Dark Reading Jun 18 Score 0.7352292875

Operation Escaneo Signals Shift in LatAm Threat Landscape

The threat group's curious business model may combine opportunistic monetization alongside intel collection, without much coordination between the two.

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.7351484430555556

From Suriname to Space: Rohit Goeptar Shares His Journey to NASA

Rohit Goeptar was born into a poor family in Suriname, South America, the kind where both parents work three jobs and they still can only provide food and shelter for their family. At around age six, his family moved to California to start a new life. Onl

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NASA News Jun 18 Score 0.7341317763888889

Desert Field Test With NASA Advanced Rover Prototype

Description A prototype four-wheel rover developed at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory with advanced mobility and robotic autonomy capabilities trundled across the Colorado Desert near Plaster City, California, during a field test in March 2026. Called ERNEST

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Latent Space Jun 18 Score 0.7324698111111111

The Professor of Outputmaxxing — Anjney Midha, AMP

We talk about how this legendary investor went from humble beginnings in Singapore to leading rounds in Anthropic, Mistral, Black Forest Labs, and Periodic Labs... and the AMP secret master plan!

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GitHub Blog Jun 18 Score 0.7299694856481481

How pull request limits are cutting down the noise

Learn how pull request limits can help manage contribution volume in your repositories, and see what’s next on the roadmap. The post How pull request limits are cutting down the noise appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

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InfoQ Jun 18 Score 0.7276356694444445

From Camera to Cloud: Netflix’s Scalable Media Processing Pipeline

Netflix has detailed a cloud-based system for scaling camera file processing across global film and TV workflows. The pipeline handles ingest, validation, metadata extraction, and media transformation at scale using FilmLight API and distributed compute. It st

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InfoQ Jun 18 Score 0.7253301138888889

Presentation: Write-Ahead Intent Log: A Foundation for Efficient CDC at Scale

Vinay Chella and Akshat Goel discuss the challenges of running traditional CDC across heterogeneous databases during peak order traffic. They explain how Debezium hit limits under high load and share how they built Write-Ahead Intent Log (WAIL) - a custom arch

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New Scientist Jun 18 Score 0.7249831717592593

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995, remains an essential read for anyone who considers themselves a critical thinker, says Leah Crane

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 18 Score 0.7237685314814815

Ancient DNA reveals plague was already killing humans 5,500 years ago

Plague was already a deadly killer 5,500 years ago, long before cities, farming, or the rat-infested conditions usually linked to historic outbreaks. By analyzing ancient DNA from hunter-gatherer cemeteries in Siberia, researchers discovered early plague strai

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 18 Score 0.7208412166666667

Could cosmic memory explain dark matter, dark energy, and black holes?

A new theory suggests the universe is constantly recording its own history in the fabric of spacetime. If correct, this cosmic memory could help solve some of the biggest puzzles in physics, from black holes to dark matter and the universe’s ultimate fate.

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InfoQ Jun 18 Score 0.7203856694444445

VS Code 1.123 Adds Two-Hour Extension Update Delay to Limit Supply Chain Attacks

VS Code 1.123 adds a two-hour delay before auto-updating extensions to newly published versions, creating a revocation window against supply chain attacks. The delay does not apply to trusted publishers like Microsoft, GitHub, and OpenAI. Similar cooldown mech

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Rest of World Jun 18 Score 0.7199697787037037

Chile turned to China for an undersea cable. The U.S. said no

A proposed undersea cable from Chile to Hong Kong promised to connect South America directly to Asia. Instead, it became a test of how far the U.S. will go to curb Chinese telecom ambitions.

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ScienceDaily — Top Science Jun 18 Score 0.717061587037037

Major errors found in Al Gore-founded Climate TRACE database

A new study from Northern Arizona University is raising red flags about a widely used global emissions database from Climate TRACE, a consortium co-founded by Al Gore. Researchers found that the database may be dramatically undercounting carbon dioxide emissio

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Lobsters Jun 18 Score 0.6942469699074073

What are your Favorite Lobste.rs Comments?

The forum has been around for a long time and I occasionally find old gems, I wonder what great insights etc. I've missed from the past.

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Google Cloud Blog Jun 18 Score 0.692468698611111

Scaling Ray Serve LLM on GKE: Performance without losing the developer experience

Developers looking for LLM inference and model serving often turn to Ray Serve , a scalable model serving library with developer-friendly, Python-native APIs built by Anyscale. Combined with Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE), developers have a powerful, unified p

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