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Today feels like what an "ordinary" day in cybersecurity should feel like, which is to say, Metacurity is nonetheless still jam-packed with critical developments you should know, including
--Social media scams cost Americans $2.1 billion — and Facebook leads the pack,
--Medtronic hit by cyberattack, Toronto cops busted three people in connection with SMS blasters,
--Handala claims to have stolen personal info on 2,379 US Marines,
--Google agrees to Pentagon…

Social media scams cost Americans $2.1 billion — and Facebook leads the pack
Medtronic hit by cyberattack, Toronto cops busted three people in connection with SMS blasters, Handala claims to have stolen personal info on 2,379 US Marines, Google agrees to Pentagon's anything goes for its AI but employees beg it not to, New BlackFile data theft group emerges, much more

Amazon files an FCC application to deploy a constellation of up to 5,105 satellites starting in 2028 to provide direct-to-device voice and data connectivity (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/science/amazon-leo

Constraining an #exoplanet's magnetic field using star-planet interactions: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.06969 -> Planet orbits so close to its star that their magnetic fields connect: https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/06/planet-orbits-so-close-to-its-star-that-their-magnetic-fields-connect/ - at the right point of the orbit and stellar cycle, the star’s chromosphere brightens.

Third Time’s the Charm: Connecticut Enacts Annual Privacy Update
https://fpf.org/blog/third-times-the-charm-connecticut-enacts-annual-privacy-update/
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After 88 days of near-total internet blackout in Iran,
long-delayed messages, images and poems flooded phones and social media feeds at about 5pm on Tuesday,
when still-limited connectivity flickered back to life.
The first reactions, however, were not celebratory.
Many new posts were threaded with scepticism, anxiety and anger.
Ellie*, 42, an artist from Tehran, was able to connect for the first time since 28 February.
“I lit a cigarette, played SoundCloud…

I set the alarm to 6am and we started at 7am. My wife cycled a small morning loop (like 45min) and I did a bit larger loop to test the 30 tooth Sprocket on longer climbs.
*Learnings today:*
- mosquitos can be a real motivator to push harder
- the sprocket feels good
- the #garmin incident detection works
- 1st aid kit is a good investment
- good medical coverage in …

What the Dramatist Knows About Monsters
I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will find frightening, or sympathetic, or contemptible, or laughable, on schedule, in plays and musicals and screenplays and novels and podcast scripts and editorial work.

What the Dramatist Knows About Monsters | David Boles, Blogs
I sold my first paid byline to a Lincoln, Nebraska, newspaper at the age of ten. That was 1975. In the fifty-one years since, I have continued to be paid to construct figures that audiences will fi…

It‘s been already a month since support for Web Serial came to Firefox and other browsers based on it.
https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-serial-support-in-firefox/
It‘s one of these things where you first don’t know when you‘ll need it, but then you‘re g…

Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Support for Web Serial in Firefox 151 for Desktop Firefox can now connect directly to microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware from the web. Starting ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered in soaring temperatures in Hungary's capital on Saturday
to celebrate the 31st annual
Budapest Pride,
-- the first such LGBTQ march since former Prime Minister Viktor Orbšn
(who had sought to ban the event)
was ousted in an April election.

Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out
Saturday's Pride march came a little more than a year after Orbán's nationalist-populist government passed legislation and a constitutional amendment to outlaw the event, drawing criticism from human rights groups and politicians across the European Union.

Rumours of mushroom-induced Lilliputian hallucinations have abounded for decades,
but until now scientists dismissed them as fantastical stories.
Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology
has found a fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people
It takes a dozen or so hours for the mushroom to kick in.
Then, the hallucinations are unlike any others known to science

'It sounds so impossible': Student studying fungus that makes users hallucinate tiny people may be on the verge of a scientific breakthrough
Live Science spoke with Colin Domnauer, a PhD student in ethnobiology whose unraveling of a mushroom mystery could reveal a new hallucinogenic compound.