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Microsoft releases recovery tool to help repair Windows machines hit by CrowdStrike issue (www.theverge.com)

Supreme Court Dodges Key Question in Murthy v. Missouri and Dismisses Case for Failing to Connect The Government’s Communication to Specific Platform Moderation. (www.eff.org)

Google Open-Sources ‘Project Oscar’, An AI Agent that Enriches Issues Reports. (iblnews.org)

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Gambling Is No Game: DNS Links Between Chinese Organized Crime and Sports Sponsorships (blogs.infoblox.com)

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Anime music piracy website closes after industry goes to court (asia.nikkei.com)

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Apple AI Released a 7B Open-Source Language Model Trained on 2.5T Tokens on Open Datasets. (www.marktechpost.com)

Illicit chip flows to Russia seen slowing, but China, Hong Kong remain transshipment hubs (www.reuters.com)

Boeing and NASA engineers have wrapped up ground tests on the Starliner thruster (www.engadget.com)

CrowdStrike’s faulty update crashed 8.5 million Windows devices, says Microsoft (www.theverge.com)

Windows 3.1 saves the day during CrowdStrike outage — Southwest Airlines scrapes by with archaic OS (www.tomshardware.com)

Southwest Airlines, the fourth largest airline in the US, is seemingly unaffected by the problematic CrowdStrike update that caused millions of computers to BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) because it used Windows 3.1. The CrowdStrike issue disrupted operations globally after a faulty update caused newer computers to freeze and stop...

Conspiracy Theorists Say Global Outage Was an Attack on Trump (gizmodo.com)

Doing unit test generation better with LLMs and mutation testing (github.com)

Traveling this summer? Maybe don’t let the airport scan your face. (www.vox.com)

Travelers can opt out of facial recognition at US airports by requesting manual ID verification, though resistance or intimidation may occur....

Trump Bitcoin Conference fundraiser tickets top out at $844,600 for Nashville soiree (cbnumy.blogspot.com)

Link-Busters Sent a Billion DMCA Takedown Requests to Google Search. (torrentfreak.com)

LAPD warns residents after spike in burglaries using Wi-Fi jammers that disable security cameras, smart doorbells (www.tomshardware.com)

The Los Angeles Police Department has warned residents to be wary of thieves using technology to break into homes undetected. High-tech burglars have apparently knocked out their victims’ wireless cameras and alarms in the Los Angeles Wilshire-area neighborhoods before getting away with swag bags full of valuables. An LAPD...

Bethesda Game Studios workers have unionized (www.theverge.com)

Windows 11 is nagging users to try OneDrive to "fully backup" your PC (www.windowslatest.com)

Windows 11 and Windows 10 were recently updated with “Windows Backup”, which has now become a system app. While the feature initially appeared as “optional” or something that could be easily dismissed, Microsoft is slowly getting aggressive with its new OneDrive backup campaign on Windows 11....

Bangladesh’s internet blackout immobilizes its booming tech industry. (restofworld.org)

OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole (www.theverge.com)

Leaked Cellebrite Tool Docs Reveal List of Phones That Can Be Unlocked (cybersecuritynews.com)

According to the documents, Cellebrite could not unlock any iPhones running iOS 17.4 or newer as of April 2024, labeling them as “In Research.” For iOS versions 17.1 to 17.3.1, the company could unlock the iPhone XR and iPhone 11 series using their “Supersonic BF” (brute force) capability. However, iPhone 12 and newer...

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