Friday · July 10, 2026 Vol. I · No. 190
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Taliban declares war on smartphones French billionaire becomes Vodafone’s largest shareholder with £4.4bn stake What we know about the Houston ICE shooting and the Democrats vying to replace Graham Platner: Morn… Arsenal sign Spain defender Batlle on free transfer Cowboys news: Debate over how much Von Miller could add Hull moves within two of Evian Championship lead Arsenal sign Batlle from Barcelona Virtus Bologna officially signs Kessler Edwards Taliban declares war on smartphones French billionaire becomes Vodafone’s largest shareholder with £4.4bn stake What we know about the Houston ICE shooting and the Democrats vying to replace Graham Platner: Morn… Arsenal sign Spain defender Batlle on free transfer Cowboys news: Debate over how much Von Miller could add Hull moves within two of Evian Championship lead Arsenal sign Batlle from Barcelona Virtus Bologna officially signs Kessler Edwards

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Technology · Cybersecurity

Attackers Exploit Three Fortinet FortiSandbox Flaws, One Patched Last Week

Bad actors are exploiting multiple security vulnerabilities in Fortinet FortiSandbox, according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. In a post shared on X, the company said …

Technology · Cybersecurity

China-Linked SprySOCKS Backdoor Expands to Windows with Driver-Based Stealth

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two previously undocumented Windows variants of what was believed to be a Linux-only backdoor called SprySOCKS. "The Windows variants discov…

Technology · Software & Apps

Commodore’s newest gadget is a flip phone that blocks social media and browsers

Commodore's Call Back 8020 is a phone “where the customer is not the product."

Technology · Cybersecurity

Fake Microsoft Alerts Used to Deploy North Korean NarwhalRAT Malware

The North Korean state-sponsored hacking group known as ScarCruft (aka APT37) has been observed using spear-phishing messages impersonating Microsoft Account security notification…

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Justice Department backs xAI in NAACP lawsuit over data center pollution

xAI has some powerful friends, and they're asking the court to dismiss NAACP's lawsuit.

Technology · Cybersecurity

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Actively Exploited SD-WAN Manager Flaw

Cisco has released security updates for a medium-severity security flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked …

Technology · Cybersecurity

CISA Flags LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin Flaw Exploited for Root Privilege Escalation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw impacting LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, …

Technology · Software & Apps

Key mission for Europe's commercial space enterprise scrubbed again

Isar Aerospace is not hurting for money, but it is sorely lacking in the currency of flight experience.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Xbox is reportedly closing Ninja Theory, Double Fine and Compulsion Games

Some well-known first-party Xbox studios are reportedly at risk of being closed down.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Google Earth's flight simulator mode is now available in your browser

Up, up and away! (Just try not to crash.)

Technology · Software & Apps

COVID vaccines still protect against heart problems, large study finds

Despite continued benefits, anti-vaccine rhetoric has driven down vaccination.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Samsung expands its Galaxy Book 6 lineup with a Snapdragon X2 Elite-powered model

The Galaxy Book 6 Edge comes with 1TB of storage and 16GB of RAM, and it costs $2,100.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Investigation by The Atlantic reveals many millions of songs used for AI music training

Taylor Swift, Bad Bunny and many, many more artists have had their work fed into AI models.

Technology · Software & Apps

UK to ban social media for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

Critics say bans push kids to riskier alternatives and can be beaten with VPNs.

Technology · Cybersecurity

Chinese Hackers Abused Google Workspace Rules to Steal Research and Defense Emails

A China-linked espionage group hid inside North American medical, academic, and military research networks for more than a year, quietly stealing sensitive research and defense em…

Technology · Cybersecurity

North Korean Hackers Are Turning Developer Tools Into Malware Delivery Channels

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged two malicious cyber campaigns that exhibit similarities with a persistent North Korean threat cluster known as Contagious Interview (aka Fam…

Technology · Software & Apps

Chipmaker Nvidia seeks to raise over $25B in first bond deal since 2021

Debt sale set to test investor appetite for further exposure to AI sector amid a deluge of borrowing.

Technology · Software & Apps

A Chinese rocket breaks apart dangerously close to the Starlink constellation

The rocket's breakup likely generated 100 to 150 new pieces of space junk.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Anthropic hit with lawsuit over its Claude Max usage limits

Anthropic is being sued over Claude Max usage limits

Technology · Hardware & Devices

What's the difference between Dolby Cinema and IMAX?

It all comes down to big sound and big pictures.

Technology · Software & Apps

Fox’s $22B Roku acquisition aims to expand its reach into smart TVs, advertising

Fox plans to take over Roku's streaming hardware, OS, and FAST services.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

xAI's lawsuit accusing OpenAI of stealing trade secrets has been thrown out

A federal judge decided to dismiss an xAI lawsuit against OpenAI with prejudice.

Technology · Software & Apps

Users cry foul after AMD stripped memory crypto from its consumer CPUs

AMD's stripping of TSME from consumer CPUs appears to be a deliberate, covert move.

Technology · Hardware & Devices

Facebook's new AI tools offer more of the same, with photo-editing and question-answering capabilities

Don't worry, there's yet another chatbot you can ask for restaurant recommendations.