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1. Feds take notice of iOS vulnerabilities exploited under mysterious circumstances

   The long, strange trip of a large assembly of advanced iOS exploits.

2. Amazon appears to be down, with over 20,000 reported problems

   Problems viewing products and checking out.

3. Trump gets data center companies to pledge to pay for power generation

   With no enforcement and questionable economics, it may not make a difference.

4. Downdetector, Speedtest sold to IT service-provider Accenture in $1.2B deal

   Accenture plans to buy Ookla, which also includes RootMetrics and Ekahau.

5. LLMs can unmask pseudonymous users at scale with surprising accuracy

   Pseudonymity has never been perfect for preserving privacy. Soon it may be pointless.

6. Google quantum-proofs HTTPS by squeezing 15kB of data into 700-byte space

   Merkle Tree Certificate support is already in Chrome. Soon, it will be everywhere.

7. New AirSnitch attack bypasses Wi-Fi encryption in homes, offices, and enterprises

   That guest network you set up for your neighbors may not be as secure as you think.

8. Password managers' promise that they can't see your vaults isn't always true

   Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

9. Most VMware users still "actively reducing their VMware footprint," survey finds

   Broadcom's "strategy was never to keep every customer," CloudBolt report says.

10. Retraction: After a routine code rejection, an AI agent published a hit piece on someone by name

    This story has been retracted