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Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger,
but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world.
Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events
—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.
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Your brain was never designed for this much bad news
Humans evolved to pay close attention to danger, but today that instinct is being overwhelmed by an endless supply of bad news from around the world. Researchers say the answer isn’t to stop following current events—it’s to build healthier habits around how, when, and where we get our news.

Just wow....."A hacker has breached Romania's cadastre agency and wiped the country's entire land registry database following a failed extortion attempt."
https://news.risky.biz/risky-bulletin-hacker-wipes-romanias-entire-land-regis…

Hacker wipes Romania's entire land registry database
In other news: Graykey maker sues former employee for leaking exploit; Hugging Face was hacked using AI; unauth RCE finally found in WordPress.

Texas AG Ken Paxton sues Meta, accusing WhatsApp of marketing its services as secure but failing to "deliver on those promises" by accessing encrypted messages (Ryan Autullo/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/privacy-

Meta, WhatsApp Sued by Texas Over Secure Message Protections (1)
WhatsApp is able to access user’s encrypted messages, Texas said in a lawsuit that accuses Meta Platforms Inc. founder Mark Zuckerberg of lying to the US Senate in 2018 about the company’s steps to make them inaccessible.

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Netflix and Goalhanger agree to a new two-year deal to broadcast The Rest Is Football podcast through the next two Premier League seasons and the Euros in 2028 (Ned Holmes/Radio Times)
https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sport/footb…

The Rest Is Football future on Netflix confirmed following FIFA World Cup 2026 coverage
It's good news for fans of Gary Lineker, Alan Shearer, and Micah Richards...

News organizations sue to unseal filings in DOJ's Fulton County election investigation (Jane C. Timm/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/news-organizations-sue-unseal-filings-doj-fulton-county-election-probe-rcna345700
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p19#a260519p19

SpaceX S-1: Starlink had 10.3M subscribers in Q1 2026, a 105% increase YoY; SpaceX's "Connectivity" business, which is primarily Starlink, made $11.3B in 2025 (Michael Kan/PCMag)
https://www.pcmag.com/news/spacex-ipo-filing-off…

Snap reaches a deal to settle the second case set for trial over social media harm to minors, following TikTok and YouTube, leaving Meta as the only defendant (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-07-20/snap-ne…

John Edwards, UK Information Commissioner and chair of the ICO, the country's data and AI regulator, resigned following a workplace investigation (Liv McMahon/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o

ICO boss John Edwards announces resignation following investigation
Edwards has been the boss of the data watchdog since January 2022, and said he had made inappropriate attempts at humour.