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Apple’s smart home camera service is starting to impress me

New features are coming to cameras connected to Apple’s HomeKit Secure Video. | Image: The Verge, Getty Images Apple's HomeKit Secure Video service is getting in on the Apple Intelligence party to bring more descriptive alerts from your connected cameras and let you search footage using natural language. The Apple Home app is also getting better notifications powered by AI and is finally adding support for energy reporting. These improvements were announced at WWDC last week and will be publicly

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Cal Water Investigating Iranian Hackers’ Claims

California Water Service says there is no indication of operational disruptions to its water and wastewater systems. The post Cal Water Investigating Iranian Hackers’ Claims appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Heise Security (DE)28d06/16

Data protection incident in Munich: 120,000 sensitive school data on the darknet?

In Munich, more than 120,000 pieces of sensitive student data fell into unauthorized hands. However, it is unclear whether and where they circulated beforehand.

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White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity

NSPM-12 establishes a clear structure for NSS cybersecurity governance and accountability and reestablishes CNSS. The post White House Issues Memo to Bolster NSS Cybersecurity appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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SpaceX is officially buying Cursor for $60 billion

Days after its massive IPO, SpaceX says it is spending $60 billion to buy Cursor - a bet designed to help Elon Musk's sprawling rocket / AI / social media behemoth win over lucrative enterprise customers and close the gap with AI rivals like Anthropic and OpenAI. The takeover was not entirely unexpected: SpaceX announced a peculiar arrangement in April in which it agreed to either acquire the programming platform for $60 billion or pay a $10 billion breakup fee. The company had been holding off

TechCrunch Security28d06/16

India orders temporary ban on Telegram over exam fraud concerns

The restrictions include a nationwide ban on Telegram until June 22 and a requirement to disable the app's message editing feature.

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(g+) Linux privilege escalation: How a normal Linux user becomes root

In May 2026, three universal Linux rectangles came together, all following the same old pattern. What to do. An advice text by Steffen Zahn (Security, Server)

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Apple’s weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness

I'll just work from the car, I thought. But after a few minutes of staring at my screen on quick mountain switchbacks I could feel the first signs of cold, coagulated nausea bubbling up from that sweaty place in my gut. I looked to the horizon for relief, but nothing helped… until I remembered Apple's magic dots. Introduced in 2024, Apple's Vehicle Motion Cues promise to tap into your device's accelerometer and gyroscope to reduce or, in my case, even eliminate the motion sickness felt when tryi

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Advertisement: Anker 12-in-1 socket tower for Prime members under 28 euros on Amazon

The Anker multiple socket with 12 ports, USB-C fast charging and 7-way protection system is now on offer again at Amazon. (Technology/Hardware, Amazon)

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European space travel: Isar Aerospace remains on the ground

The mission, which had been postponed several times, was supposed to start again. Again, little happened because once again problems prevented the rocket from launching. (Rocket, NASA)

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Lenovo’s next tablet has a thick speaker bump and an upgraded kickstand

A large speaker bump on the back of the Tab Plus Gen 2 contributes to the tablet’s upgraded sound. | Photo: Sean Hollister / The Verge Lenovo announced a new version of its chonky speaker-filled Tab Plus tablet that once again puts a strong focus on audio. While the original Tab Plus launched two years ago with eight built-in speakers requiring a 13.58mm rear bulge to squeeze them all in, the new Tab Plus Gen 2 bumps that to nine speakers with a circular bump on the back that's now 22.7mm thick.

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Half a billion people are using Threads every month

Threads has surpassed 500 million monthly active users, Meta announced on Tuesday, hitting the milestone just shy of the platform's third birthday. Threads got off to a hot start in 2023, reaching 100 million users even faster than ChatGPT, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has said that he thinks Threads could hit 1 billion users. Meta says that daily active users on Threads continue to "increase strongly across the globe," with "all" of it driven by communities, which allow users to see and make posts a

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Kodak’s collectible Charmera camera is getting new Y2K-inspired designs

Despite being an objectively terrible digital camera, the Kodak Charmera has been incredibly popular thanks to a cheap price tag and several fun retro designs inspired by the iconic 1987 single-use Kodak Fling. Instead of entirely rethinking that formula, Reto, the company licensing the Kodak brand, is following up on the original Charmera with a Millennium Edition. The seven shiny new designs draw inspiration from the tech and aesthetics of the early 2000s, and at $34.99 each, these will probab

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Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages

Arch Linux suspended account registrations in response to the wave of malicious packages being uploaded to AUR. The post Atomic Arch Supply Chain Attack Hits 1,500 AUR Packages appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Preyed with malware: 124 million new passwords at HaveIBeenPwned

Cybercriminals often use infostealer malware to steal access data. HaveIBeenPwned has expanded its database with a large collection of them. (password, malware)

BleepingComputer28d06/16

CISA warns of another cPanel plugin flaw exploited in attacks

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has given U.S. government agencies three days to secure their servers against an actively exploited vulnerability (CVE-2026-54420) in the LiteSpeed cPanel user-end plugin. [...]

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Assassin's Creed: Final Shadows update builds a bridge to Black Flag

With a final update for Shadows, Ubisoft ends the story of Naoe and Yasuke - and sets the mood for the next Assassin's Creed. (Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft)

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Cybersecurity Executives Urge the Trump Administration to Ease Restrictions on Anthropic AI Models

A group of cybersecurity executives and experts is asking the Trump administration to lift its directive preventing the use of Anthropic’s latest artificial intelligence models by foreign nationals. The post Cybersecurity Executives Urge the Trump Administration to Ease Restrictions on Anthropic AI Models appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Financial documents show: OpenAI's loss will be $38.5 billion in 2025

In addition to the transformation into a profit-oriented organization, operational costs have also driven up OpenAI's losses. (OpenAI, AI)

BleepingComputer28d06/16

Ransomware gang abuses Microsoft Teams relays to hide malicious traffic

DragonForce ransomware used a custom malware named 'Backdoor.Turn' to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams relay infrastructure. [...]

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Netzpolitik (DE)28d06/16

Switzerland: “The Republic” prevails against Palantir

Alexander Karp, Managing Director of Palantir, in Davos in January 2026. – CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0: World Economic ForumPalantir concedes defeat in a commercial court in Switzerland. The US company wanted to obtain a counter statement after critical reporting by the “Republic”. However, the court ruled that the presentation of the facts was largely correct.

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Hybrid aircraft: shape and propulsion of aircraft

A NASA project is driving forward the development of efficient passenger aircraft. Electrification creates completely new possibilities. (Airplane, NASA)

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Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE

Unit 42 discovered a Vertex AI Python SDK vulnerability that allows remote code execution via bucket squatting. Read the article for more. The post Pickle in the Middle – Hijacking Vertex AI Model Uploads for Cross-Tenant RCE appeared first on Unit 42.

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WordPress: Supply chain attack on plugins puts 1.2 million instances at risk

During a supply chain attack, attackers install backdoors through the WordPress plugins OptinMonster, TrustPulse and PushEngage.

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TDN72 instead of NVL72: Tensordyne's Napier attacks Nvidia with logarithms

A simpler rack-scale system and lower costs should make Nvidia competitive in the inference market. The chip is in production at TSMC. (Technology/Hardware, Graphics Cards)

EU Commission Press Corner28d06/16

Commission will engage with industry following European Citizens' Initiative on the disabling of videogames by publishers

European Commission Press release Brussels, 16 Jun 2026 The European Commission will engage with consumers and publishers by the end of 2026 to explore ways to improve industry standards, as a response to the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI) ‘Stop Destroying Videogames'.

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Tech Coalition ‘Athena’ Targets OSS Vulnerabilities Ahead of Disclosure

Over two dozen organizations built a shared platform to triage vulnerabilities, fix them, and secure the software before patches arrive. The post Tech Coalition ‘Athena’ Targets OSS Vulnerabilities Ahead of Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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BMW iX5: Electric SUV comes with a huge battery

The new BMW iX5 could even exceed the iX3 with its range. The SUV receives the largest car battery from a German manufacturer to date. (BMW, technology)