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A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked a major reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, ruling that the mass firings and structural changes violated the law.
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Rapid7 finds eight vulnerabilities, including one remotely-exploitable flaw that cannot be fixed via firmware patch, affecting 689 models of Brother printers (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)

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Hundreds of Brother printer models have an unpatchable security flaw

Serious security flaws have been found in hundreds of Brother printer models that could allow attackers to remotely access the device.
Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)

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Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases (NPR)

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Sources: the US DHS, in partnership with DOGE, has built the first-ever searchable national citizenship data system, pulling from SSA and immigration databases

From NPR. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates (Matt Day/Bloomberg)

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Source: Nintendo pulled its products from Amazon's US site after noticing third-party merchants were selling games in the US at prices below Nintendo's rates

By Matt Day / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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19-year-old Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer known as "Big Balls" online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA (Wired)

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19-year-old Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer known as “Big Balls” online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA

From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation (Kritika Lamba/Reuters)

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New Zealand-based Halter, which provides smart collars and geofencing software for the dairy industry, raised a $100M Series D led by Bond at a $1B valuation

By Kritika Lamba / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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:dwd: Unwetterwarnung vom 26.06.2025, 17:28 Uhr für Brandenburg an der Havel:

:exclm2: Amtliche UNWETTERWARNUNG vor SCHWEREM GEWITTER mit ORKANBÖEN

Gültig bis: 18:30 Uhr (26.06.2025)

Von Südwesten ziehen Gewitter auf. Dabei gibt es orkanartige Böen mit Geschwindigkeiten zwischen 85 km/h (24 m/s, 47 kn, Bft 9) und 105 km/h (29 m/s, 56 kn, Bft 11) sowie Starkregen mit Niederschlagsmengen um 20 l/m² in kurzer Zeit und Hagel.…

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#BrandenburgHavel #Gewitter #dwd3

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BBC začne od amerických uživatelů vybírat peníze za přístup na svůj web lupa.cz/aktuality/bbc-zacne-od…

BBC začne od amerických uživatelů vybírat peníze za přístup na svůj web

Američtí uživatelé začnou platit za přístup k internetovému zpravodajství britské BBC. Od čtvrtka 26. června si mohou pořídit předplatné za 9 dolarů…
Filip Rožánek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

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OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter: george.mand.is/2025/06/openai-…

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OpenAI Charges by the Minute, So Make the Minutes Shorter

I discovered a fun and strangely obvious trick for summarizing videos faster and reducing costs: just speed them up. Cheaper, faster OpenAI transcriptions with a little ffmpeg trick.
George Mandis

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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
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Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

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Microsoft makes Windows 10's extended security updates free for an extra year for users who sync PC settings via a Microsoft Account and the Windows Backup app (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)

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Microsoft makes Windows 10 security updates FREE for an extra year — but there's a catch, and you might not like it

Windows 10 users will have the option to continue receiving security updates for free beyond October 2025, so long as they sync their PC settings data with the cloud via a Microsoft Account.
Zac Bowden (Windows Central)

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Amazon says it plans to bring same-day and next-day delivery to "tens of millions" of people who live in "more than 4,000" smaller US towns by the end of 2026 (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)

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Amazon bringing same-day delivery to ‘millions’ of rural customers

Amazon announced that it was bringing same-day and next-day delivery to 4,000 small towns and rural communities by the end of 2026.
Andrew J. Hawkins (The Verge)

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Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs"

Vijf beklaagden zijn dinsdag voor weerspannigheid tijdens een manifestatie van "Code Rood" eind 2023. De correctionele rechtbank van Antwerpen vond het voor drie van hen niet bewezen dat ze aanwezig waren. De twee anderen namen wel deel aan de actie, maar de rechtbank zag geen bewijs dat ze weerspannig waren geweest.
#news #vrtnws #vrt
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Vijf beklaagden vrijgesproken voor weerspannigheid tijdens manifestatie van "Code Rood" aan luchthaven van Deurne: "Geen bewijs" | VRT NWS: nieuws

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Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes

Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts The US Department of Homeland Security has warned American businesses to guard their networks against Iranian government-sponsored cyberattacks along with "low-level" digital intrusions by pro-Iran hacktivists.…
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Iran cyberattacks against US biz more likely following air strikes

: Plus 'low-level' hacktivist attempts
Jessica Lyons (The Register)
#IT #theregister

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That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents

What if you want to find out more about the PS/2 Model 280? You head out to Google, type it in as a query, and realise the little "AI" summary that's above the fold is clearly wrong. Then you run the same query again, multiple times, and notice that each time, the "AI" overvi

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#Google

That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents – OSnews

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Researchers find Llama 3.1 recalls large parts of popular copyrighted books, possibly weakening AI industry claims that such memorization is fringe behavior (Timothy B. Lee/Understanding AI)

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Meta's Llama 3.1 can recall 42 percent of the first Harry Potter book

New research could have big implications for copyright lawsuits against generative AI.
Timothy B. Lee (Understanding AI)

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