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* Spotify experienced a widespread outage on May 12 2026, affecting apps, web players, and support services for several hours * The Islamic Cyber Resistance in Iraq‑313 Team claimed responsibility, saying it launched a DDoS attack on Spotify’s servers * The same group recently targeted Canonical, adding to its sporadic record
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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6:42 AM PDT · May 18, 2026 Grafana Labs, the maker of its eponymous popular open source web visualization software, confirmed it had been hacked but that it refused to pay the hackers who had threatened to release the company’s codebase. In a series of posts on social media,
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The Keychron Q1 Ultra 8K is the fanciest version of Keychron's 75%-scale keyboard, delivering a premium typing experience thanks to its high-end metal construction and Silk POM key switches. It's compact enough to work great for users with limited desktop real estate, but the all-metal
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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The first laptops built around Intel's Wildcat Lake chips are starting to show up at retail in China at comparatively aggressive price points ranging from around $449 to $675 when converted to U.S. currency. And on paper, these laptops deliver better specifications than Apple's MacBook
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Security researcher Michał "lcamtuf" Zalewski has revisited an older project to give it an aesthetic overhaul — coming up with "a nicer voltmeter clock," he explains. "As the name implies, these clocks use analog panel voltmeters instead of traditional clock faces to display time. I didn’
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Maker and ninth-grade student Anthony Marsico is looking to update the classic telegraph — by building a 3D-printed, internet-connected version that can transmit messages via MQTT. "The telegraph was a groundbreaking invention in the 1840s. It was one of the first inventions of its time that allowed near instant, long
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Onleaks and HotEUDeals Last week Sony teased new WH-1000XX "ColleXion" headphones arriving on May 19 promising that "a masterpiece awaits." Previous leaks, including an image of F1 actor Damson Idris wearing the cans, also suggested that Sony was preparing a luxury version of its popular WH-1000
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Sponsor Posts Niantic Spatial: World models need real-world data — Scaniverse is the gateway to spatial services — self-serve and built for AI and robotics. Large-area 3D reconstruction from 360° cameras and precise localization, anywhere machines operate. Protecting your Cloud Applications Data — Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Salesforce data
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TL;DR Pope Leo XIV denounced AI-directed warfare as a “spiral of annihilation” during a historic visit to Rome’s La Sapienza University on 14 May 2026. He criticised European defence spending increases at the expense of education and healthcare, and called for tighter monitoring of AI in military and
