Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions
Microsoft’s June update fixed 208 security flaws and introduced a cascade of new bugs across all Windows versions

Microsoft’s June 2026 Patch Tuesday update is causing problems across every supported version of Windows. KB5094126, released on June 9, patched a record 208 security vulnerabilities, but the update has introduced a string of bugs that range from cosme…

New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason
New York City has defeated Waymo, and the taxi lobby is the reason

Waymo delivers more than 500,000 paid rides per week across 10 US cities, raised $16 billion in February, and is expanding internationally to Tokyo and London. It cannot operate in New York City. The reason is not technical, it is political. As the New…

Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones
Hackers hijacked Brazil’s emergency alert system and sent ‘misanthropy’ to millions of phones

Hackers breached Brazil’s national civil defense alert system overnight, sending fake “Extreme Alert” notifications containing the word “misantropi4” to millions of mobile phones across at least seven states. The Civil Defense Alert platform was taken …

Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule
Ubisoft co-founder Claude Guillemot dies at 69 in plane crash near La Baule

Claude Guillemot, one of five brothers who co-founded Ubisoft in 1986, has died in a plane crash near the coastal town of La Baule in western France. He was 69. Guillemot and a flight instructor from Rennes were both killed when their twin-engine Cessn…

Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites
Hackers are mass-exploiting a Gravity SMTP flaw to steal API keys from 100,000 WordPress sites

Attackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin that exposes API keys, OAuth tokens, and detailed system configuration data to anyone who sends a single unauthenticated HTTP request. Wordfence, the WordPress secur…

Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside
Harvard Business Review warns AI ‘workslop’ is rotting companies from the inside

Companies that pushed hardest to adopt generative AI are now contending with a problem the technology was supposed to prevent: their work is getting worse. Two articles published by Harvard Business Review this month describe a feedback loop in which A…

Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor
Microsoft finds USB worm that steals cryptocurrency through clipboard hijacking and Tor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new strain of self-propagating malware that spreads through USB drives, monitors the Windows clipboard for cryptocurrency wallet addresses and seed phrases, and routes all stolen data through a portable To…

AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test
AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor nearly matches Apple Watch in accuracy test

Apple’s AirPods Pro 3 heart rate sensor averaged 1.67% error compared to a medical-grade Polar H10 chest strap in testing by CNET Labs, making the earbuds the second most accurate consumer heart rate device the publication has measured. Only the Apple …

Jio Platforms files for India’s largest-ever IPO, with nearly $3 billion earmarked for debt repayment
Jio Platforms files for India’s largest-ever IPO, with nearly $3 billion earmarked for debt repayment

Jio Platforms, the digital and telecom arm of Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries, filed its draft red herring prospectus with India’s securities regulator on Friday for what would be the country’s largest initial public offering. The filing covers a f…

ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records
ShinyHunters published 45GB of Madison Square Garden data, including facial recognition surveillance records

The cybercrime group ShinyHunters has published 45 gigabytes of data stolen from Madison Square Garden Entertainment after the company missed a June 15 ransom deadline. The dump includes facial recognition surveillance records, internal threat assessme…