A single day of cybersecurity disclosures brought a Metabase breach affecting 1,079,819 Mathspace users, an unpatched Magento zero-day deploying a Linux backdoor, and a phishing-as-a-service platform that bypassed MFA at 258 organizations.
Americans are finding rare bipartisan agreement in their opposition to Big Tech, with protests over data centers and AI surveillance cameras — alongside landmark court verdicts against social media platforms — signaling a broad public reckoning with the industry's growing footprint.
Jaguar Land Rover has opened a voluntary redundancy programme and is planning to cut up to 4,000 jobs over two years, targeting £1.7 billion in savings as it faces Chinese competition, U.S. tariffs, and fallout from a cyberattack.
U.S. land purchases for data centers reached approximately $6 billion in the first half of 2026, a 79% increase year over year, as AI infrastructure investment drives rural property values to record levels and triggers organized community resistance from farmers and local residents.
An Amazon Prime Air cargo plane overran a runway at Miami International Airport on Sunday, striking vehicles, catching fire, and forcing the closure of all runways, with about 250 flights delayed as investigators from the FAA and NTSB responded.
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany party won 44.5% of the vote in Saxony-Anhalt's state election on Sunday, according to exit polls, but its path to forming a government remained uncertain amid a mainstream firewall against coalition talks with the party.
San Francisco artist Olivia Tai has collected over 350 anonymous handwritten confessions about how people secretly use AI — from cloning an ex's voice to find closure, to faking AI use at work — as part of her participatory project "What We Tell AI."
Jaguar Land Rover has opened a voluntary redundancy programme and is planning to cut up to 4,000 jobs over two years, targeting £1.7 billion in savings as it faces Chinese competition, U.S. tariffs, and fallout from a cyberattack.
LeBron James posted a 14-second teaser video on X signaling an upcoming commercial partnership with prediction market platform Polymarket, with a larger football-focused campaign expected in the week ahead.
Walmart announced a delivery partnership with Dunkin' through its new Walmart Restaurant Delivery service, expanding a program that began with Subway and putting the retailer in direct competition with DoorDash and Uber Eats.
Americans are finding rare bipartisan agreement in their opposition to Big Tech, with protests over data centers and AI surveillance cameras — alongside landmark court verdicts against social media platforms — signaling a broad public reckoning with the industry's growing footprint.
U.S. land purchases for data centers reached approximately $6 billion in the first half of 2026, a 79% increase year over year, as AI infrastructure investment drives rural property values to record levels and triggers organized community resistance from farmers and local residents.
San Francisco artist Olivia Tai has collected over 350 anonymous handwritten confessions about how people secretly use AI — from cloning an ex's voice to find closure, to faking AI use at work — as part of her participatory project "What We Tell AI."
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