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Donald Trump has approved an agreement with Saudi Arabia that could provide the kingdom with uranium enrichment capability, according to news reports citing people familiar with the matter.
Trump is expected to announce that he will ask Congress to approve the agreement with Saudi Arabia.
The timing of the announcement is controversial as the US’s war with Iran is being fought in part to prevent Tehran enriching uranium domestically and make it near-impossible for Iran to build a…

Saudis and US strike deal for kingdom to enrich uranium, reports say
Donald Trump said to have approved agreement to help kingdom make fuel for civilian nuclear programme

Government strategy is shaping the global brain-computer interface race https://neurotechreports.com/news/government-strategy-is-shaping-the-global-brain-computer-interface-race

Government Strategy Is Shaping the Global Brain-Computer Interface Race   - Neurotech Reports
Three events converged this year to turn brain-computer interfaces from a research curiosity into a subject of government strategy. China moved a product to market, having already built the machinery to pay for it. The U.S. funded a founder. The European Union asked its regulators to study a problem. This is not an accident of timing. It reflects fundamentally different beliefs about what a government should do when a new technology can read, and may soon write to, the human brain.  

Israel is betting on Islamophobia and teaming up with Europe's far-right.
https://aje.news/a504sv

Israel is betting on Islamophobia to save its standing in the West
Netanyahu’s government is using anti-Muslim fear to rally a Western right increasingly receptive to its message.

Donald Trump has offered few details about the “really big news” he plans to announce
during a primetime address Thursday,
beyond saying the speech will focus on voting machines and what he considers “free and fair elections.”
But the timing of the address and leaks to the media
— as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions
— offer clues about what he may try to accomplish.
The White House is considering releasing intelligence about foreign access…

Five ways Trump could use his primetime speech to undermine our elections
The timing of the address and leaks to the media — as well as the Trump administration’s recent actions — offer clues about what the president may try to accomplish.

"A coral reef thought dead for 60 years is teeming with life"
#Coral #CoralReef #Environment

A coral reef thought dead for 60 years is teeming with life
More than 60 years after surveys suggested a deep coral reef off Benin was probably dead, scientists have found it alive. Cameras revealed healthy-looking coral patches supporting multiple fish species more than 50 meters beneath the surface. The discovery suggests West Africa’s coastal waters may contain other overlooked reefs that have yet to be documented.

Never, ever, is there a slow day in cybersecurity, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the crucial developments you should know, including
--Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project,
--TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison,
--Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky,
--OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool,
--Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain,
--Qantas cleared after social-engineeri…

Hackers post alleged blueprints and supplier data from India nuclear project
TfL hackers sentenced to 5½ years in prison, Hacking suspect once worked at Kaspersky, OpenAI unveils AI-powered red teaming tool, Ransomware attack disrupts Japan’s food supply chain, Qantas cleared after social-engineering breach, Health provider criticized for delayed breach disclosure, much more

Serena Williams is back.
First, by teaming up with rising Canadian teenager Victoria Mboko for a straight-sets win over the No. 3 seeds in women’s doubles at the Queen’s grass-court tournament in London,
Williams sent a message to the tennis world that it may be in for an interesting summer.
Then she sent an even bigger message, by accepting a wild card into the singles at Wimbledon, which she has won seven times.
Williams’ comeback comes just under one year after she d…

Serena Williams and the coming reckoning with GLP-1s and performance enhancement
GLP-1s are not prohibited; the way they work means they might never be. Anti-doping authorities are still monitoring how athletes use them.

AI is giving elite security orgs tools that compress security work from months to minutes. But will these powerful benefits make their way to less-resourced cyber teams?
Check out my latest CSO piece, which examines whether AI can narrow cybersecurity's class divide.
Many thanks to AWS's Steve Schmidt, Blumira's Matt Warner, Google Cloud's Anton Chuvakin, 1Password's Wendy Nather, Kaseya's Dave Baggett, and Ballistic Ventures' Phil Venables for their i…

Can AI narrow cybersecurity’s class divide?
AI is giving elite security orgs new ways to automate red teaming, detection engineering, and vulnerability discovery. But experts debate whether the technology will deepen cyber’s long-standing resource divide — or finally help close it.

It was a plan House G.O.P. leaders hoped would satisfy everyone in their party:
With a special budget bill, they would bypass Democratic opposition and provide tens of billions for the Iran war while imposing new election restrictions Trump has demanded.
Instead, a day after the leaders released the plan, which hews closely to a spending request the White House sent to Capitol Hill last month,
it became clear it is a product that no one really likes.
The measure, whic…

Republican Rifts Deepen Over $95 Billion Budget Plan for Iran War and SAVE Act
A House panel approved the measure. But Republicans are divided over its size, cost and policy provisions, and many are concerned about the timing before the midterm elections.

Britain’s biggest community solar project has been forced to shut for the duration of its first summer by the government’s energy system operator to avoid overloading the local grid with renewable energy.
The north Devon solar farm was ordered to shut weeks before record high temperatures across Europe
led to power supply warnings, due to concerns that the large amount of rooftop solar in the area could destabilise the power grid by triggering a “thermal overload”.

Britain’s biggest community solar farm forced to shut over grid overload fears
Timing of Devon switchoff ‘could not be worse’, says board, as members face an estimated £2m in lost revenue