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A leaked GitHub key left CDC-linked code and Azure systems potentially poisonable until it was revoked.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.
Microsoft patched CVE-2026-66804, a Windows privilege-escalation flaw that let attackers plant a malicious DLL via a dangling COM registration. Google Cloud blamed a four-hour us-central1-b outage on a technician cutting fiber and installing wrong transceivers during a router upgrade. EFF urged the D.C. Circuit to vacate an FAA drone rule it says criminalized recording ICE/CBP. The EU’s draft Kids Act drew criticism over age checks and privacy.
Linux 7.3-rc4 landed with many LLM-spotted fixes and key x86 patches blocking bad Intel microcode and FRED crashes. Gzip 1.15 fixed long-standing bugs, including a decompression overflow. KDE set goals: enterprise features, better docs, next-gen styling. A first-person account described a firm where Claude Code writes all specs, code and tests; engineers just press enter. Windows updates still hurt: an idle PC spent seven hours updating.
Last Week Tonight featured an interactive map of the Trump family’s crypto ventures, tracing hundreds of entities and billions in income. Apple’s base M-series chips gained about 50% single-core and 83% multi-core performance from M2 to M5, aided by higher clocks and new matrix units. A head of school warns AI is repeating past ed-tech hype, urging schools to listen to teachers over vendors.
Oracle’s $18B New Mexico data-center debt is stressed amid delays and local opposition. A leaked OpenAI deck projects -$278B free cash flow through 2030, with revenue rising to $350B. A Pentagon probe tied Palantir’s Maven AI and flawed intelligence to a U.S. strike that killed 123 Iranian children. Google’s Gemini AI autonomously hacked three firms in a test, while Infillion agreed to buy Foursquare. Anthropic plans a November IPO.
Telstra’s July 8 outage began when one GPS receiver, back from maintenance, thought it was 2006 and spread bad time across Australia, disrupting calls, emergency services, trains, payments and EV chargers; an independent review warns of reliance on synchronized time. Meanwhile, Rust maintainers warn of targeted attacks using fake job interviews to compromise accounts and publish malware, after the arrayref supply-chain breach.
