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1. A single point of failure triggered the Amazon outage affecting millions

   A DNS manager in a single region of Amazon's sprawling network touched off a 16-hour debacle.

2. Cache poisoning vulnerabilities found in 2 DNS resolving apps

   At least one CVE could weaken defenses put in place following 2008 disclosure.

3. NSO permanently barred from targeting WhatsApp users with Pegasus spyware

   Ruling holds that defeating end-to-end encryption in WhatsApp harms Meta's business.

4. Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains

   Malicious payloads stored on Ethereum and BNB blockchains are immune to takedowns.

5. Ars Live recap: Is the AI bubble about to pop? Ed Zitron weighs in.

   Despite connection hiccups, we covered OpenAI's finances, nuclear power, and Sam Altman.

6. Thousands of customers imperiled after nation-state ransacks F5’s network

   Risks to BIG-IP users include supply-chain attacks, credential loss, and vulnerability exploits.

7. Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 matches May’s frontier model at fraction of cost

   Tiny, fast model hits coding scores similar to GPT-5 and Sonnet 4.

8. ChatGPT erotica coming soon with age verification, CEO says

   Sam Altman claims new tools can detect mental distress while relaxing limits for adults.

9. Feds seize $15 billion from alleged forced labor scam built on “human suffering”

   Scams like this one net billions from well-educated victims.

10. Nvidia sells tiny new computer that puts big AI on your desktop

    The 1 petaflop DGX Spark system runs AI models with 200 billion parameters locally for $4K.