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Apple says it fixed a vulnerability in its Hide My Email tool that let anyone see a user's real email address; researchers first reported the issue in June 2025 (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-hide-my-email-vulnerabilit…

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage
For a year, Apple knew that an issue in its Hide My Email feature was exposing customers’ real email addresses. Apple only fixed the issue after 404 Media covered it.

New Report Says US Food System Faces Growing Risks From Gene-Edited Farm Animals https://vegconomist.com/politics-law/new-report-says-us-food-system-faces-growing-risks-gene-edited-farm-animals/

New Report Says US Food System Faces Growing Risks From Gene-Edited Farm Animals - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new report from Friends of the Earth U.S. argues that recent federal approvals of genetically engineered animals for human consumption have moved ahead of

Dak Prescott has all the passing records for the Cowboys, so now the sole focus is victories https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/dak-prescott-has-all-the-passing-records-for-the-cowboys-so-now-the-sole-focus-is-v…

Here's why this bothers me so much. There's already a lot of automation for patches getting backported to the numerous stable kernels. In theory those updates are focused on important or minor fixes, so distributions just pull in the latest stable release and it shows up in security updates on your machines. We _already_ have problems with problematic fixes slipping into the stable kernel series, and llm reviews are going to make it worse.

jq had 22 CVEs fixed. Get with the updating.
https://github.com/jqlang/jq/releases/tag/jq-1.8.2

Apple Fixes Hide My Email Vulnerability After 404 Media Coverage https://www.404media.co/apple-fixes-hide-my-email-vulnerability-after-404-media-coverage/

Once again, Metacurity kicks off with a concise summary of yesterday's blizzard of AI developments that cyber defenders should know, followed by briefs on other critical infosec developments, including
--US seizes 1,000 piracy sites streaming World Cup matches,
--7-Zip fixes critical RCE flaw,
--Attackers begin exploiting critical ServiceNow AI platform flaw,
--Millions of aftermarket car alarms can be hacked over Bluetooth,
--SonicWall zero-days used to d…

AI Watch: China's AI surge is forcing DC and Silicon Valley to rethink the AI race
US seizes 1,000+ piracy sites streaming World Cup matches, 7-Zip fixes critical RCE flaw, Attackers begin exploiting critical ServiceNow AI platform flaw, Millions of aftermarket car alarms can be hacked over Bluetooth, SonicWall zero-days used to deploy custom malware on VPN appliances, much more

New blog post by @… on education under siege in #Gaza.
https://www.jo…

Opening the book
I greeted the faces before me, offering a greeting accompanied by a sense of apology. It was not an apology for the absence of a greeting, but for the inadequacy of words in the face of the stories these faces carried. In their eyes were a million questions, and in their hearts were mountains of reproach and pain.

‘A new normal’: Miami faces worsening seaweed problem as piles of algae wash up on beaches https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/miami-sargassum-seaweed-problem-climate-crisis

A look at Backstory, an experimental AI image authentication tool from Google DeepMind, offered for testing to journalists, researchers, and other fact checkers (Andrew Deck/Nieman Lab)
https://www.niemanlab.org/2026/08/googles-new-ai-tool-help…

Google’s new AI tool helps fact-checkers investigate AI fakes
Backstory automates provenance checks, reverse image searches, and context tracing to speed up verification work.