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How Hackers Breached Brazil's Emergency Alert System
Brazilian emergency alert infrastructure was breached on June 20, 2026, with an unauthorized message reaching cell phones across multiple states. The incident exposes vulnerabilities in systems designed for resilience against technical failure, not deliberate attack—and reveals a pattern of security gaps across emergency alerting platforms worldwide.
Martin Holloway4 sources4 min9h ago
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Swift Observatory Gets a Robotic Lifeline: What a 2026 Servicing Mission Means for Space Science
NASA's Swift Boost mission, launching in June 2026, will send a robotic servicer to raise the aging Swift gamma-ray observatory to a higher orbit, extending its operational life by years. The mission tests in-space servicing technology on a spacecraft not originally designed for it.
Martin Holloway4 sources4 min9h ago
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The Nobel Prize That Signals AI Has Solved a Century-Old Biology Problem
Google DeepMind's AlphaFold and related work earned the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry by solving the protein-folding problem — a major computational challenge in structural biology. The breakthrough accelerated drug discovery and reshaped how researchers approach protein science.
Martin Holloway2 sources5 min9h ago
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AMD Restores Memory Encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs After Community Pushback
AMD is restoring Transparent Secure Memory Encryption (TSME) to Ryzen 9000 consumer CPUs via July BIOS update after community backlash, providing hardware-level defense against cold-boot attacks and physical memory access.
Martin Holloway2 sources5 min9h ago
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Why Linux 7.2 Finally Removed a Risky String Function Hiding in 30 Years of Code
Linux 7.2 has completed the removal of `strncpy()`, a string-copying function with a dangerous flaw that can cause subtle memory corruption. The kernel community has replaced it with `strscpy()`, which always properly terminates strings and signals when data is truncated.
Martin Holloway3 sources4 min9h ago
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SMPTE Makes Its Technical Standards Free for Everyone
SMPTE has made all of its technical standards and recommended practices freely available online, removing paywalls that previously required membership fees or per-document purchases. The change benefits smaller broadcasters, developers, and students who can now access authoritative specifications like ST 2110 and ST 2067 without cost.
Martin Holloway5 sources4 min9h ago
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NASA's ERNEST Rover Completes 16-Mile Desert Test at 10x Operational Speed
NASA's JPL has successfully tested ERNEST, a prototype rover that travels 10 times faster than current planetary rovers through autonomous navigation—covering 16 miles in a desert test that matches the total distance Apollo 17 astronauts explored on the Moon, without human control.
Martin Holloway4 sources4 min9h ago
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AI Images Allegedly Replaced Original Artwork in Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
An investigation alleges that AI-generated images replaced the original hand-made artwork in John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows without attribution or consent. The case highlights an emerging threat: AI substitution of verified human creative work within published artefacts, and the lack of reliable provenance tools in traditional publishing.
Martin Holloway3 sources4 min9h ago
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Ubisoft Co-Founder Claude Guillemot Dies in Plane Crash
Claude Guillemot, co-founder of video game publisher Ubisoft, died in a plane crash near La Baule, France on June 19, 2024. He was piloting a Cessna 421 at the time. Guillemot was one of five brothers who founded the company in 1986, and his loss marks a significant moment for the publisher as it faces industry challenges.
Martin Holloway3 sources4 min9h ago
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How a Searchable Database is Exposing YouTube's Role in Training AI Video Tools
The Atlantic's AI Watchdog has published a searchable database documenting millions of YouTube videos used without permission to train AI video generation tools, following similar work exposing unlicensed books used by Meta. The disclosure changes the power dynamics of copyright disputes by giving creators a free way to verify if their work was used in training datasets.
Martin Holloway3 sources5 min9h ago