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Anthropic hired Google’s
book-scanning chief to
cut up and digitize hired Google’s book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize “all the books in the world.”
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-pr…

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."

I might write a longer blog post if I find time (which, tbh, isn't likely), but... given that I'm seeing a bunch of people who run mailinglists in 2026 having problems, and I think I understand the underlying technicalities quite well, a few notes on running a Mailinglist in 2026:
There is only one way to run a Mailinglist and be compatible with all the stuff you are usually expected to do if you send e-mails in 2026. That is to rewrite the From address to a domain you control.

It's almost Friday, so kick back and check out today's Metacurity for the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Hackers stole millions from Bitcoin Depot wallets,
--OpenAI readies its own vulnerability hunting system,
--Handala breached the devices of former IDF chief,
--Hackers published data from China's supercomputer,
--Hundreds of unprotected and unencrypted Modbus devices are exposed on the internet,
--Hack-for-hir…

Hackers stole millions from Bitcoin Depot wallets
OpenAI readies its own vulnerability hunting system, Handala breached the devices of former IDF chief, Hackers published data from China's supercomputer, Hundreds of unprotected and unencrypted Modbus devices are exposed on the internet, Hack-for-hire attacks are targeting journalists, much more

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

Google's AI-powered search summaries could be generating vast numbers of inaccuracies every hour, despite appearing largely reliable at first glance.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/ai/g

Google AI Overviews deliver millions of errors hourly, analysis suggests
Google's AI-powered search summaries could be generating vast numbers of inaccuracies every hour, despite appearing largely reliable at first glance.

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year.
What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage,
protect 140,000 people from flooding,
and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year

Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

drosophila_flybi: Fruit fly protein interactions (Drosophila melanogaster)
Binary protein-protein interactions (PPIs) for Drosophila melanogaster, containing 8723 PPIs among 2939 proteins. The iteractions were identified using a yeast two-hybrid (Y2H) analysis.
This network has 2939 nodes and 8723 edges.
Tags: Biological, Protein interactions, Unweighted

Hundreds of desalination plants sit along the Persian Gulf coast, putting individual systems that supply water to millions within range of Iranian missile or drone strikes.
Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations.
In Kuwait, about
⭐️90% of drinking water comes from #desalination,
along with roughly
86% in Oman and about
70% in Saudi …

The Gulf resource most imperiled by war may be water, not oil
As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water – not oil. Much of the Gulf’s drinking supply comes from desalination plants clustered along vulnerable coastlines within easy range of Iranian missiles and drones. Many of the individual plants supply water to millions of people. Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations. In recent days, Iranian drones struck an energy facility that powers a desalination plant in the …

Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbšn’s government have been secretly using Webloc
— a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data
— making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR.
Further investigation confirms the existence of “homegrown” OSINT and spyware tools.

Orbán’s Spying Kit Revealed: Israeli Surveillance Tool Combined with Hungarian Technology - VSquare.org
Intelligence agencies of Viktor Orbán's government have been secretly using Webloc — a mass surveillance tool that tracks hundreds of millions of people via smartphone advertising data — making Hungary the first confirmed EU country to deploy it, in likely violation of GDPR. Moreover, our investigation confirms the existence of "homegrown" OSINT and spyware tools.

Donald Trump has championed the U.S. steel industry,
promising to strengthen it and to impose stiff tariffs on foreign metals to shield manufacturers from overseas competitors.
Yet the White House has secured tens of millions of dollars worth of donated foreign steel for his $400 million ballroom project, according to two people familiar with the plans

White House Secures Foreign Steel for Trump’s Ballroom Project
ArcelorMittal, a European steel maker, is donating tens of millions of dollars of foreign steel for President Trump’s new ballroom.