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Arizona’s court system was breached, exposing personal data of many residents, including protective-order holders. In Italy, fraudsters used an AI-cloned voice to steal €95m from Fideuram; €36m is still missing. Quebec’s election campaign was rocked by alleged U.S. interference, while AI firms face lawsuits over using books, news and code without paying creators.
A jury found Meta deceived Facebook users over privacy, while UpGuard said about 16,000 Supabase databases exposed sensitive data. Google warned ShinyHunters is exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day; Kiteworks urged customers worldwide to shut all systems for six hours Saturday over an imminent attack. The UK launched a space squadron to guard satellites via electronic warfare.
Oura’s IPO is about 4x oversubscribed, offering 50M shares at $40–$44 to raise up to $2.2B. Nscale raised $3.36B in convertible financing ahead of its US IPO. A court upheld Anthropic’s Pentagon supply-chain blacklisting. Trump said Bessent won’t be AI czar. Tesla ramped Optimus output to hundreds weekly. Gates warned AI could let ill-intent actors cause a billion deaths.
DraftKings is using AI to target likely losing gamblers with promotions, EFF warns, urging a ban on behavioral ads. Researchers found sophisticated malicious npm packages that evade defenses, possibly nation-state. The Linux kernel added a taint flag for sysfs bind/unbind writes to curb fuzzing-bot reports. KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 arrived, and Ubuntu 26.10 showed Intel Panther Lake performance gains.
A leaked GitHub key left CDC-linked code and Azure systems potentially poisonable until it was revoked. Separately, an AI-driven campaign stole over 600,000 credit cards from online retailers, and a 292GB MongoDB leak exposed at least 30 million records, heavily affecting PepsiCo’s Latin America operations. Dutch privacy groups also pressed for bans on camera glasses over consent concerns.
Canonical reported $345M revenue for 2025, up from $292M, with $22.8M profit. Systemd 262 lands with an AI/LLM canary, LUO integration, and container tweaks. Linux 7.3 benchmarks show modest AMD Strix Halo gains; Ubuntu 26.10 is adopting it. Collabora proposed a VRR target limiter API for Linux graphics. SPECviewperf 15.0.1 arrived natively for Linux, and Alibaba will fund Omarchy with $3M.