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Windows Zero-day Flaw Let Hackers Downgrade Fully Updated Systems to Old Vulnerabilities (cybersecuritynews.com)

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We found the Missing Performance: Zen 5 Tested with SMT Disabled (www.techpowerup.com)

Fossils suggest even smaller ‘hobbits’ roamed an Indonesian island 700,000 years ago (apnews.com)

Twenty years ago on an Indonesian island, scientists discovered fossils of an early human species that stood at about 3 1/2 feet (1.07 meters) tall — earning them the nickname “hobbits.”...

Almost unfixable “Sinkclose” bug affects hundreds of millions of AMD chips (arstechnica.com)

Utah’s famed ‘Double Arch’ geographical feature collapses (www.theguardian.com)

Park rangers suspect changing water levels and erosion to blame for the collapse of the popular tourist attraction...

Exclusive: Iran to deliver hundreds of ballistic missiles to Russia soon, intel sources say (www.reuters.com)

The other Black politician who says he was with Trump in that near-fatal chopper crash (www.politico.com)

The man who almost crashed in a helicopter with Donald Trump told POLITICO Trump confused him with former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown — despite the former president’s repeated insistence it was Brown....

TIL that in 1973, New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kelich traded families. (www.espn.com)

US declares controversial Israeli battalion eligible for assistance (www.aljazeera.com)

The United States has announced that Netzah Yehuda, a controversial Israeli battalion notorious among Palestinians for repressive activities in the occupied West Bank, is eligible for US military assistance....

How a Washington Tax Break for Data Centers Snowballed Into One of the State’s Biggest Corporate Giveaways (www.propublica.org)

One of Washington’s largest corporate tax breaks has grown alongside a data center boom in Central Washington, including this data center in East Wenatchee owned by the Sabey Corp. Despite forgoing more than $474 million since 2018, the state can’t say how many jobs were created by the tax break. During that same time frame,...

NYC Journalist Faces Hate Crime Charge for Allegedly Filming Gaza Protest Action; Police Raid Home (www.democracynow.org)

Woman who ‘first shared fake name’ of Southport suspect arrested (www.thetimes.com)

A mother-of-three who works as a swimwear designer has been arrested on suspicion of stirring racial hatred by spreading a fake Muslim name for the suspect in the Southport attack. Bernadette Spofforth, 55, was taken in for questioning by police on Thursday....

Sony Xperia 10 VI smartphone review: Compact, lightweight, waterproof, and with remarkable endurance (and audio jack) (www.notebookcheck.net)

Russia struggles to repel deep Kursk incursion by Ukraine (www.bbc.com)

Ukrainian troops remained in Russia’s western Kursk region on Friday night, as its surprise cross-border offensive into Russia came to the end of a fourth day....

An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)

Chinese electric vehicles face possible extra EU tariff hit (www.politico.eu)

Chinese electric carmakers raced to get EVs into the bloc ahead of the July 5 deadline when new EU tariffs went into effect, betting they would not face backdated duties....

Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Collection Releases October 8 (www.retronews.com)

Square Enix has announced the release of the Final Fantasy I-VI Pixel Remaster Collection, which features the Pixel Remaster versions of Final Fantasy I, Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, and Final Fantasy VI.

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation (www.wired.com)

'No evidence' Venezuela vote hacked, Carter Center election monitor says (www.voanews.com)

Adam Britton: British croc expert jailed for sexual abuse of dogs - BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk)

Obviously this is fucked. But the idea of a British crocodile expert was so foreign to me that I clicked this to see what hype beast it was because I assumed it was about a footwear expert 😭

Walz has history with China - it's more hawkish than critics claim (www.bbc.com)

Anthropic was supposed to be the good guy. It can’t be — unless government changes the incentives in the industry. (www.vox.com)

[L]ately, Anthropic has been in the headlines for less noble reasons: It’s pushing back on a landmark California bill to regulate AI. It’s taking money from Google and Amazon in a way that’s drawing antitrust scrutiny. And it’s being accused of aggressively scraping data from websites without permission, harming their...