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articleCitizenlab
Espionage Against the European Parliament

The EU parliamentarian investigating spyware abuse got hacked by Pegasus while doing the investigation. Citizen Lab's forensics lay bare how surveillance vendors operate with total impunity.

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articleConstruction Physics
The Fall and Rise of Screwworm

The US once wiped out a flesh-eating livestock parasite by flooding the wild with billions of irradiated sterile flies. It worked for 40 years. Now the screwworm is back.

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articleDarius Popa
SpudCell: the first synthetic cell with a full life cycle

Minnesota scientists assembled a cell from scratch using only nonliving chemicals. It grew, divided, and its offspring competed with each other. Its makers don't call it alive — but the line just moved.

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articleVictoria Mossi
AI Agent JadePuffer Pulls Off First Full Ransomware Operation Solo

An LLM-based agent called JadePuffer just ran a complete ransomware operation solo — found the vulnerability, exploited it, encrypted the data, dropped the note. No human in the loop.

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videoPatrick Boyle
The Real Reason European Cars Can't Compete

Patrick Boyle frames VW's factory closures not as a management failure but as the second China Shock — and the production speed data from Chinese EV plants is staggering.

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