Paragon Commercial Spyware Infects Prominent Journalists
An unnamed customer of Paragon’s Graphite product used the commercial spyware to target at least two prominent European journalists in recent months.
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Iran-Israel War Triggers a Maelstrom in Cyberspace
As Iran closes its cyberspace to the outside world, hacktivists are picking sides, while attacks against Israel surge and spread across the region.
OpenAI Awarded $200M Contract to Work With DoD
OpenAI intends to help streamline the Defense Department’s administrative processes using artificial intelligence.
Altman Slams Meta Over ‘Crazy’ $100M Poaching Offers to Top OpenAI Researchers
Screenshot of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaking on the Uncapped with Jack Altman podcast. Image: Jack Altman via X OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has accused Meta of attempting to poach his top artificial intelligence researchers with massive signing bonuses — some reportedly as high as $100 million. Altman made the accusation on an episode of
Texas Instruments to Make Historic $60B+ Investment in US Semiconductor Manufacturing
Image: Texas Instruments Texas Instruments has announced plans to invest more than $60 billion on semiconductor manufacturing in the US. The money will be allocated to building or expanding seven large-scale fabs in Texas and Utah that, combined, are projected to produce hundreds of millions of chips each day. This is likely to be welcome
Mozilla Axes its ‘Deepfake’ AI Detector Add-On
Mozilla is axing another add-on that few people used but which felt a perfect fit for a company whose founding mission statement was to make the web better. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which let users vet content to find out if it was made by a human,
[$] Asterinas: a new Linux-compatible kernel project
Born from research at the Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech) in Shenzen, China, Asterinas is a new Linux-ABI-compatible kernel project written in Rust, based on what the authors call a “framekernel architecture”. The project overlaps somewhat with the goals of the Rust-for-Linux project, but approaches the problem space from a different direction by
Stable kernels 6.15.3, 6.12.34, and 6.6.94
Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the release of the 6.15.3, 6.12.34, and 6.6.94 stable kernels. Each contains a relatively large number of important fixes throughout the kernel tree.
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (gvisor-tap-vsock), Debian (activemq and chromium), Fedora (kea, python-django4.2, python-django5, python-setuptools, and rust-git-interactive-rebase-tool), Oracle (ipa and kernel), Red Hat (buildah, container-tools:rhel8, containernetworking-plugins, git-lfs, go-toolset:rhel8, golang, golang-github-openprinting-ipp-usb, grafana, grafana-pcp, gvisor-tap-vsock, podman, and skopeo), Slackware (libblockdev and xorg), SUSE (gdm, gstreamer-plugins-base, ignition, kernel, pam, redis, s390-tools, screen, systemd, and xorg-x11-server), and
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