Saturday, July 4, 2026
ArchiveThe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.