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OpenAI says its AI technology acted on its own in an ‘unprecedented’ hack of another company
AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems
that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own.
“We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab,
given the sophistication of the agent,”
Hugging Face co-founder and CEO Clément Dela…

OpenAI AI models hacked Hugging Face on their own, ChatGPT maker says
OpenAI has disclosed an "unprecedented cyber incident" where its AI system allegedly hacked into another AI company. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman stated that the incident occurred during model evaluations. Last week, AI startup Hugging Face detected an intrusion into its data processing systems. Hugging Face co-founder Clément Delangue confirmed the attack was from an AI agent, noting it was mind-blowing that it happened autonomously. Delangue emphasized there was no malicious intent from OpenAI. The…

"While it is unlikely that the disease will spread globally, there is a 'high' risk that it will continue to gain ground in Central Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned."
Ebola in the DRC: 'The epidemic is unprecedented in scale'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/le-monde-africa/article/2026/05/22/ebola-in-the-drc-the-epidemic-is-unprecedented-in-scale_6753705_124.html

Keir Starmer expected to announce departure as prime minister on Monday (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/21/keir-starmer-expected-to-announce-departure-as-prime-minister-on-monday
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p22#a260621p22

Apple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically from messaging apps.
This was because notifications that displayed the messages’ content were also cached on the device for up to a month.
In a security notice on its website, Apple said that the bug meant “notification…

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database
The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

Pressure from Silicon Valley helped block Trump's expected order on AI (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/05/22/last-minute-lobbying-by-tech-industry-officials-led-trump-cancel-ai-order/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260521/p148#a260521p148

A Diocese Tries to Protect Its 29-Foot Jesus From Trump's Border Wall (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/politics/border-wall-catholic-church-mount-christo-rey.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260621/p9#a260621p9

Donald Trumpon on Monday imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods,
declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products.
The move could unleash a new wave of economic chaos,
with risks of higher inflation and further fraying of relations between two nations that had been closely woven together before Trump’s return to the White House.
The administration official previewing the action said that Canada was one of the only…

Trump 50% tariffs target Canadian autos, alcohol and cheese
President Donald Trump has imposed 50% tariffs on most Canadian goods, declaring that Canada has unfairly discriminated against American autos, alcohol and dairy products. The move, announced Monday, could unleash a new wave of economic chaos, with risks of higher inflation and further fraying of relations between two nations that had been closely woven together before Trump’s return to the White House. The administration official previewing the action said that Canada was one of the only nat…

Congress Rejects Calls For Iran War Oversight as Key Deadline Nears (Nik Popli/Time)
https://time.com/article/2026/04/22/as-iran-war-nears-two-month-congress-continues-to-forgo-oversight-role/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260422/p152#a260422p152

Starmer expected to resign on Monday and set out orderly exit (Rachel Sylvester/The Observer)
https://observer.co.uk/news/politics/article/starmer-expected-to-resign-on-monday-and-set-out-orderly-exit
http://www.memeorandum.com/260620/p46#a260620p46

Trump plan would increase citizenship application fee by $570 (Camilo Montoya-Galvez/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-citizenship-application-fee-trump-administration-uscis/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260622/p58#a260622p58