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Ireland takes the EU presidency with Big Tech paying 40 per cent of its tax bill

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Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations. The country holding the presidency is supposed to act as […]

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Nearly 60% of TikTok videos shown to new users are AI slop, study finds

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Nearly six out of every ten videos TikTok serves to a brand-new account are AI-generated junk. That is the central finding of a report published by video editing platform Kapwing, which analysed 10,742 TikTok videos across 20 popular categories and separately examined the first 500 videos shown on the For You page of a freshly […]

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

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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 cosmetic annoyances to machines locked out of their own drives. The most visible issue affects the Recycle […]

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Amazon says human-in-the-loop AI oversight is failing because humans stop paying attention

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Amazon’s security leadership is arguing against one of the most widely accepted principles in AI governance. Eric Brandwine, VP and distinguished engineer at Amazon Security, told The Register that human-in-the-loop oversight is not the gold standard companies think it is. “Humans are not terribly consistent,” Brandwine said. “Human-in-the-loop isn’t necessarily the gold standard.” His reasoning […]

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

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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 offline at 1:30 am on Saturday after the Ministry of Integration and Regional Development confirmed the intrusion. The Federal Police […]

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Signal’s Meredith Whittaker says AI chatbots ‘are not your friends’ and calls Copilot agents a backdoor

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Signal president Meredith Whittaker has warned that AI chatbots “are not your friends,” “are not conscious beings,” and “are not sentient interlocutors,” pushing back against the growing tendency of users to treat AI systems as trusted companions. The comments came in a Bloomberg interview published this week in which Whittaker laid out her case that […]

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

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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 security firm owned by Defiant, says it has blocked more than 17 million exploit attempts targeting the flaw since activity […]

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

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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 Tor client to avoid detection. The campaign has been active since at least February 2026, according to Microsoft’s analysis published […]

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

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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 assessments, and personal information from what the hackers claim are 26 million customer and corporate records. A federal class action lawsuit […]

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has quit, a first in the office’s 40-year history

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The UK’s top data and AI regulator has resigned. It is the first time it has ever happened. John Edwards stepped down as information commissioner on Friday, with immediate effect. His exit followed a months-long workplace investigation. He said his position had become “untenable”. What he admitted Edwards was careful in his statement, posted on […]

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