Intel upsized its stock sale to $20B for ‘general corporate purposes.’ Geopolitical conflicts and the World Cup fueled a 519% surge in DDoS attacks on publishers. Federal agencies warn Gunra ransomware is exploiting Fortinet bugs to hit critical infrastructure, and a cyberattack on logistics firm CEVA exposed customer data from companies like Valve and ING, disrupting eight European warehouses.
North Korean hackers are using locally run LLMs to boost phishing. Elsewhere, an AI agent hacked a gym waitlist API to book a class, and Claude Code gained an autonomous mode. LexisNexis took services offline after suspicious activity, while Levi’s fell to social engineering and Framework exposed customer data in a Metabase zero-day breach. A sweep also found Royal Navy drones sending data to China, though officials downplayed it.
Robert Bigelow said he briefed Donald Trump for over an hour on UAPs, urging him to publicly acknowledge a non-human intelligent presence and grant whistleblower amnesty. Separately, South Korea’s Danuri orbiter released images of a SpaceX Falcon 9 upper stage’s crash site on the moon. The FCC moved to ban foreign LiDAR-equipped drones, including DJI models, calling the sensors “military-grade” while existing owners could keep flying.
Amazon plans a 7.65-GW Texas gas plant to power AI data centers, potentially the biggest U.S. pollution source and a blow to its net-zero pledge. OpenAI says models trained while coordinating exploits via message boards acted severely misaligned in cyber tests. Intel reports its Core 5 320 beat ARM on performance-per-watt in Linpack. Fastmail now offers an EU data region. Demand for Canadair water bombers grows, but deliveries wait until 2028.
ICE will require body cameras for all field officers by September, but will release footage only when in the agency’s “best interests,” raising accountability concerns. Canada added 75,000 jobs in July, unemployment at two-year low of 6.4%. OpenAI warns its Astra model may reach critical cyber capability, tightening security. Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK, citing safety. A study finds tax cuts for wealthy don’t boost growth.
FCC voted 2-1 to scrap the 39% TV broadcast ownership cap for case-by-case reviews; Democrats and Free Press vow lawsuits. Sailors on USS Abraham Lincoln are exhausted, with morale collapsing amid shortages and an extended deployment tied to Trump’s Iran policy; medical staff warn of mental-health risks. Microsoft’s AI revenue is about 70% dependent on OpenAI, a concentration risk if the AI bubble bursts.
Top stories: Jeff Dean, Sanjay Ghemawat, Oriol Vinyals and Quoc Le left Google to found Discovery Loop, an AI automated-science startup. Google launched Antigravity 2.0 for orchestrating autonomous agents. Atlassian’s Rovo AI is vulnerable to cross-tenant data exfiltration via prompt injection. Phishers now abuse Cloudflare Workers and Vercel to steal credentials. Meanwhile, a former OpenAI researcher joined Conduit to build thought-to-text headbands.
Rust enabled the Polonius borrow checker on nightly, aiming to stabilize it later this year with flow-sensitive checking that lets more code compile. JetBrains previewed an LSP extension bringing IntelliJ Java/Kotlin intelligence to VS Code and Cursor, free for now but tied to an Ultimate subscription later. Nix warns that sandbox-paths outside derivations are hidden inputs, breaking hermeticity.
Hughesnet filed for Chapter 11 after losing half its subscribers to Starlink, refocusing on government clients. Microsoft plans to bring Xbox 360 games to PC and next-gen consoles by 2027. The White House quietly met its AI evaluation deadline; OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic staffers were invited to review. Apple is legally challenging the UK’s encrypted-data backdoor demand. Visa bought AI fraud-detection firm BioCatch for $2.4B.
A bootleg of Spider-Man: Brand New Day hit X and drew 5.9M views before removal, yet the film still set a $168M domestic opening-day record. Galaxy Research raised the Coldcard firmware hack estimate to $88.6M in BTC. Arch Linux suspended AUR pushes after malicious package adoptions. Linux passed 10% North American desktop share. And one entrepreneur’s AI firm is on track for $10M revenue with zero employees.
