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Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/20/americas/brazil-hackers-unauthorized-alert-latam

Hackers suspected to be behind unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
An unauthorized alert bearing a mysterious message that was sent to cell phones in several states across Brazil on Saturday morning is suspected to be the work of hackers, the Brazilian government said.

Good news : Duggan really was serious about not wanting to be a spoiler. He saw that he would never win but he might have made a GOP win possible.
#MIPol #Michigan

Former Detroit Mayor Duggan suspending Michigan governor run
Former Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan says he is suspending his campaign for Michigan governor citing an increasingly “toxic” political climate due to President Donald Trump’s war with Iran and skyrocketing gas prices. Duggan, a longtime Democrat, was running as an independent to replace Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer who can’t run again due to term limits. He told The Associated Press Thursday that it was going to be “very hard to win” as Democrats who would have supported him are gal…

Arturo Prat y la pregunta que no nos hacemos
« Lo que rara vez hay es la pregunta que Sater nos deja abierta: ¿por qué elegimos a este hombre como el símbolo de lo que queremos ser?»
https://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/opinio

Perfect buttermilk pancakes be perfect, even if you replace sugar with a crushed banana and leave out the butter in the batter. #nommention
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Perfect Buttermilk Pancakes Recipe • 5★ (Gift Recipe)
Pancakes are the hero of the breakfast table, and their very taste can even be described as “deeply breakfasty”: eggy, salty, just this side of sweet. A little indulgent and yet still somehow appropriate first thing in the morning, those fluffy stacks with crisped edges, dripping with maple syrup, are everything you want, exactly when you want them. Here is how to get to them right every time, whether it's a lazy Sunday morning or a hurried weekday.

Meta quietly releases StoryKit, a new mobile app that uses AI to create personalized children's stories, including illustrations and original music, in Mexico (Zac Hall/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2026/07/21/meta-testing…

Meta testing StoryKit, an AI iPhone app that creates 'personalized children's stories' - 9to5Mac
Meta has quietly released a new iPhone app that uses AI to create personalized children’s stories, complete with illustrations, narration,...

SpaceX S-1: xAI plans to buy another $2.8B worth of turbines for its data centers, including a $2B deal for mobile gas turbines, the type it's being sued over (Tim De Chant/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/musk

Musk’s xAI is being sued over its data center generators — now it’s buying $2.8B more | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's xAI said it will buy $2.8 billion worth of natural gas turbines over the next three years, according to SpaceX's IPO filing.

How GrapheneOS lead developer Daniel Micay's legal fights with his former partner James Donaldson over CopperheadOS led to the privacy-focused tool's creation (Tiffany Ng/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/they-built-privacy-tool-grapheneos-now-sworn…

They Built a Legendary Privacy Tool. Now They’re Sworn Enemies
There’s a lot of love all over the world for GrapheneOS, the gold standard of mobile security. There’s very little love between the two guys at the center of its history.

Bengaluru-based Scapia, which offers travel-focused co-branded credit cards and an app, raised $63M led by GC, a source says at a $500M post-money valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/20/indian…

General Catalyst just led a $63M bet on India's travel payments market | TechCrunch
Scapia, an Indian startup that combines travel booking with co-branded credit cards and mobile payments, said the deal doubles its valuation.

Sensor Tower: in H1, the number of new apps released in the App Store doubled to ~560K, on track to pass 2025's ~600K total, as vibecoded apps flood the store (Kalley Huang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/apple-app-store-vibecod…

‘Vibecoded’ Apps Are Flooding Apple’s App Store
Mobile apps are easy to make with artificial intelligence. That doesn’t mean people are excited to use them.

Roblox unveils Build, which lets users create basic games through text prompts directly within its mobile app, powered by Roblox's models and open-source models (Jay Peters/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/games/966589/roblox-build-ai-phone-moblie-games…

Roblox will let people use AI to make games on their phone
Roblox Build is a new feature coming to Roblox that will let players make games using AI prompts right inside the main mobile app.