Ireland takes over the EU Council presidency on 1 July with a tech-heavy legislative agenda, but its economy depends on the very companies those rules target. Two firms, understood to be Apple and Microsoft, paid 40 per cent of all Irish corporate tax in 2024.
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Ireland takes over the rotating presidency of the Council of the EU on 1 July, inheriting a legislative agenda that includes proposals to curb Europe’s reliance on American tech, simplify the bloc’s digital rulebook, decide whether to ban children from social media, and overhaul telecom regulations. The country holding the presidency is supposed to act as an honest broker, finding common ground among 27 member states rather than advancing its own interests.
That role is complicated when the broker’s economy runs on the companies being regulated. Sixteen of the world’s 20 largest tech firms reportedly operate hubs in Ireland, and more than 100,000 people work in the sector.
Ireland’s fiscal watchdog, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, warned earlier this year that just two companies, understood to be Apple and Microsoft, paid almost 40 per cent of all corporate tax in Ireland in 2024. That amounted to roughly €11 billion, with a third firm, understood to be Eli Lilly, bringing the share to 46 per cent.
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“It’s widely acknowledged, including by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, that Ireland is too reliant on Big Tech firms,” said Michael McNamara, the liberal MEP who co-led the European Parliament’s package to roll back elements of the AI Act. He said Ireland needs to be “clear-eyed about the pressures that will come during the Presidency” from companies headquartered in Dublin.
Ireland’s presidency agenda runs through the same regulatory territory where it has faced sustained criticism. The Irish Data Protection Commission, the body responsible for policing GDPR compliance by tech firms that base their European operations in Dublin, has been accused of being too lenient on enforcement and of allowing a revolving door between the regulator and the private sector.
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties has called for Ireland to recuse itself from all digital files during the presidency. Lynn Boylan, a left-wing MEP from the opposition party Sinn Féin, said Ireland’s economic model is “deeply tied to keeping a small number of overwhelmingly American tech corporations comfortable,” creating an “obvious conflict.”
Tech firms made their priorities clear in a public consultation Ireland held ahead of the presidency. CCIA Europe, the Big Tech lobby group, called for Ireland to “double down” on simplifying tech rules and “firmly reject” sovereignty provisions that could exclude foreign firms.
Meta urged Ireland to “adopt a leadership position in shaping Europe’s digital agenda,” calling for a “complete overhaul” of the bloc’s digital rules and a “pause on implementation” of new regulations. It also said Ireland should bring its “unique relationship with the U.S.” to the fore during the presidency.
Bram Vranken, a researcher at the transparency group Corporate Europe Observatory, said that while companies lobby every country holding the presidency, “in the case of Ireland they know they have more leverage.” Irish officials pointed to the fact that they published all lobby submissions received during the consultation as evidence of transparency.
Ireland’s defenders point to its track record. During its last presidency in 2013, Ireland pushed GDPR negotiations so hard that diplomats from other member states slept in tents to maximise negotiating time, earning praise from then-Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding.
Two EU diplomats, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told Politico that Ireland had been “very fair” and “very professional” on previous digital files. Niamh Smyth, Ireland’s minister of state for artificial intelligence, rejected the idea that Big Tech’s presence would compromise the presidency.
“We have had many presidencies before, and we have always done our job well and done it objectively,” Smyth told Politico. Billy Kelleher, a liberal MEP from the governing Fianna Fáil party, added that Ireland should “not be embarrassed about being a success story.”
Whether simplification tips into deregulation will define how the presidency is judged. The question for the next six months is whether Dublin can separate what is good for its economy from what is right for the bloc.
The company has partnered with Pangram for the new tools.
Substack has launched a new AI detection tool in partnership with Pangram. This will allow readers to scan Substack content for an assessment of how much of the material was written by AI. The tool can be used on text longer than 100 words that was published beginning today. Substack is also adding a new statement space for creators to explicitly share if and how they used AI for their content. The AI detection capabilities are available starting today on web and iOS, with Android support to come.
The blog post announcing the feature is surprisingly spicy. There’s a dig at LinkedIn about the presence of AI-generated content on that service and it dubs attempting to create feigned human connection with AI slop “Claudefishing.” Throwing shade is a risky maneuver here, because even the best tools for identifying gen-AI can’t guarantee a correct assessment. The Atlantic dug deeper into just how accurate AI detection tools, Pangram in particular, can be. Spoiler: they’re far from perfect.
Substack did acknowledge in the post that there are limits to what Pangram can detect and hinted at some other features it is considering around AI content and preferences. It emphasized that these new measures are aimed at setting expectations for readers, summing up its stance as “people should know what they’re getting.”
Google released three new AI models on Tuesday, all built on Gemini 3.5 Flash. The new models are more token-efficient, faster and more reliable across the board. The tech giant also provided an update on the much-anticipated Gemini 3.5 Pro and what’s to come after.Â
A new AI model from the likes of Google, Anthropic or OpenAI is released seemingly every week, with the latest, ChatGPT-5.6, released earlier this month. Google’s latest releases aren’t flagship models compared to what’s on the horizon, but each has its place, including a new model solely focused on cybersecurity.Â
Here’s what’s new in the latest Gemini models from today’s announcement.
Google called 3.6 Flash its “workhorse” model that’s now better at coding, knowledge work and multimodal performance. It also promises reduced token usage by up to 17%, and at a lower cost per token versus its predecessor, 3.5.
Google says it built the model based on both developer and customer feedback. A series of benchmarks shows 3.6 Flash’s gains in performance and average tokens per task compared to its predecessor.Â
Google’s fastest and most cost-effective model can deliver 350 output tokens per second and “significantly” outperforms previous generations when it comes to agentic workflows, according to the blog post.
Like 3.6 Flash, this model now supports computer use as a built-in tool to take on more agentic tasks.Â
3.5 Flash Cyber is a specialty model that prioritizes cybersecurity workflows in order to find and fix vulnerabilities. It works alongside an infrastructure agent called CodeMender to help cybersecurity teams quickly identify and patch issues.
According to a separate article from Google DeepMind, the new model is already finding and fixing bugs in Google’s internal codebases in Android, Chrome and YouTube. This model will initially be limited to governments and trusted partners, but access will expand in the future.
While the three latest models are the primary focus for Tuesday’s announcements, Google gave a brief update to its upcoming flagship AI model, Gemini 3.5 Pro. The model is said to currently be in testing with partners, and it plans to make it available as soon as it’s ready. How long that will take is anyone’s guess, but Google’s also already looking ahead to the next generation of AI, too.
Google says it has already begun pretraining for Gemini 4, which will be released at an undetermined date.
Both Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite are available starting today for developers in the Gemini API via Google AI Studio and Android Studio and the Gemini app. 3.6 Flash is also available in Google Antigravity, and 3.5 Flash-Lite is rolling out to Google Search.
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Given the number of various support schemes provided by the government in Singapore, one might question whether there aren’t too many of them and if it wouldn’t be simpler to simply disburse one cash payment to every eligible person.
After all, it’s not like the government isn’t doing that already, depositing funds directly for GST Vouchers, Assurance Package payments and cost-of-living support, regularly appearing in recent years.
So why bother with CDC Vouchers, which require an entire digital infrastructure to allow their issuance and redemption? Wouldn’t a simple bank transfer be better?
At least not for everybody, and certainly not for the government, which is using its power to direct the money to specific parts of the economy.
Cash is liquid, and you can do whatever you want with it, including going for a nice day trip to JB to spend it there instead of Singapore. You may also use it for online shopping on one of the many ecommerce platforms, with most of the funds being sent to sellers in China or other countries.
This sees Singapore dollars exiting the domestic economy, benefiting others instead.
More prudent Singaporeans could opt to save it instead, which isn’t terrible in itself, but does keep the funds out of circulation.
Finally, the more reckless consumers could simply waste it on more “sinful” pleasures, still ending up short of money for daily necessities.
The voucher format allows the government to set strict rules on their use: with 50% allocated to shopping in supermarkets and another half to hawkers and smaller, heartland merchants.
This ensures that this pool of money is spent in the most beneficial way and provides the authorities with data on how the money is spent and where.
There is, however, one other purpose they have served very well since their launch six years ago, which is not spoken of.
CDC Vouchers originated as a COVID-19-era relief scheme, originally issued on paper and directed to the poorest households.
With the pandemic dragging on throughout 2021, the scheme was ultimately expanded to all citizen households by the end of the year and went digital with the launch of the RedeemSG app. Merchants could use it to accept the vouchers by scanning digital QR codes on customers’ phones, instead of dealing with paper.
In parallel, the government launched the Hawkers Go Digital scheme in Jun 2020, with generous subsidies and transaction fee waivers, which were meant to help hawkers adopt digital payments and reduce the risk of spreading the virus.
It was also a good opportunity to prod them to adopt mobile payments, which have become a staple in many countries around the world (most notably China, through its giant superapp WeChat).
The final waiver of the 0.5% fees ended just recently on Jun 30, 2026, after several past extensions. This means that hawkers are now going to have to bear the cost themselves, which might mean that some of them may prefer to return to cash-only payments.
But this is where the CDC scheme comes in.
Throughout the push for digital payments, the critics lamented that many elderly sellers might be struggling with the transition, not being very tech-savvy. What’s more, a skill once developed needs to be kept in use before it falls out of favour. Old habits die hard, after all.
Well, while we might see some return to cash, there is no returning to paper for CDC vouchers.
And because of the scale of the program, currently exceeding S$1 billion annually, hawkers have a strong incentive to keep their RedeemSG app to accept voucher QR codes.
In other words: there’s no exit from the QR era.
Of course, using the CDC app doesn’t force merchants to accept all digital payments, but since they still have to deal with QR codes to accept the vouchers, it provides very useful stickiness, which is going to keep most of them on the digital train.
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Nvidia is hyping up its new Vera Rubin chip system this week, revealing new performance benchmarks for the GPU and CPU combo ahead of rival AMD’s annual product event in San Francisco on Thursday.
During a lengthy technical workshop last week at the company’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California, Nvidia executives boasted to a small group of journalists about the chip system’s increased power and efficiency capabilities. The biggest takeaway: Nvidia, which has long specialized in making GPUs, is increasingly trying to position itself as a supplier of CPUs that can power AI agents.
While GPUs are still the main hardware that companies use to train and run their AI models, the industry’s shift toward more complex, agentic systems has increased demand for CPUs, which can orchestrate data flows, networking, and other software tasks. That’s likely one reason Nvidia has been eager to promote itself as a supplier of complete AI systems rather than just AI chips.
Vera Rubin is Nvidia’s successor to its hybrid superchip system Grace Blackwell and represents the linchpin of its near-term future powering the AI industry. It’s designed to offer one CPU for every two GPUs. In a single Vera Rubin NVL 72 super chip system, there are 36 Vera CPUs for every 72 Rubin GPUs. Nvidia is also selling the Vera CPU as a stand-alone product, and it has reportedly told Chinese customers these could be ready as soon as August.
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Nvidia executives emphasized that its new Vera Rubin NVL72 racks—a stack of chips packed into a single liquid-cooled platform—are much more “plug-and-play” than some of its earlier products. During a brief tour of a Nvidia data center lab in Silicon Valley, Nvidia executives shared that OpenAI already has one Vera Rubin rack in use.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang didn’t make an appearance at the workshop in Santa Clara last week; he was in Japan announcing the chipmaker’s new partnerships with a number of Japanese firms to develop AI for robotics. The briefings were instead led by Ian Buck, Nvidia’s longtime vice president of accelerated computing and the architect behind the company’s CUDA software.
“We’re on a road map to crank out new architectures, not just GPUs but CPUs,” Buck told reporters. “We’re going to keep innovating, because it’s do this or die in Silicon Valley.”
The meetings were held in Huang’s executive briefing center, where multiple desks nearby were piled with bags of Taiwanese snacks that the CEO brought back from his recent trip to Computex, a massive annual semiconductor trade show in Taipei, an Nvidia spokesperson told WIRED.
If you’re a fan of the Ford F-Series pickup trucks, then you’re likely familiar with their technology and design. For example, you may know about the automaker’s legendary Twin I-Beam front suspension. But you might not know that Ford chose to move away from this design on the F-150, not because it was flawed, but because trucks evolved to more modern solutions.
The Twin I-Beam initially gave Ford a way to improve ride comfort while also maintaining the rugged performance that truck buyers were accustomed to. But as pickups began to shift from being used primarily as utility vehicles to everyday drivers, customer expectations began to change. Ford redesigned the F-150, focusing more on precise handling, improved steering, and better control over the truck’s front end. Newer designs like dual A-arm suspension addressed those concerns, leading Ford to move the redesigned 1997 F-150 to a different front suspension design.
Even as the F-150 transitioned from the Twin I-Beam, the design remained one of Ford’s most well-known truck innovations and continues on the F-250 and F-350 trucks to this day. In fact, the Twin I-Beam setup was exclusive to Ford when it was introduced in 1965 and became closely associated with their most popular pickups. Vehicle axles are more complicated than you might think and as other companies used different suspensions for their trucks, Ford’s approach was more forward-thinking. It gave drivers a vehicle with independent front-wheel movement, while also maintaining durable performance.Â
As Ford was developing its innovative Twin I-Beam concept, the automaker introduced the Twin Traction Beam in 1980. This suspension was designed for four-wheel-drive trucks like the F-150 and Bronco, using the independent movement of Twin I-Beam while adding components for a driven front axle. Twin Traction helped reduce weight, improve ride quality, and lower the truck’s overall height. This design helped Ford modernize its 4WD lineup at the time of its production.
In the years since the development of the Twin I-Beam, Ford’s approach to truck suspension has continued to evolve. Instead of using a single design for every truck in the automaker’s lineup, the F-150 now features different suspension setups depending on its intended purpose. For example, the standard F-150 has a Hotchkiss-style suspension, with a solid rear axle and leaf springs for both towing and payload. In contrast, the F-150 Raptor features a five-link rear suspension with coil springs, and the all-electric F-150 Lightning uses a fully independent rear suspension.
This design evolution extends beyond the F-Series as well, with the 2025 Expedition getting a redesigned suspension influenced by the F-150. The Expedition may be one of Ford’s dinosaurs, but its new setup does include modified shocks, springs, and other components. These improvements function to match the Expedition’s combination of passenger comfort, towing capability, and off-road performance. This gives drivers the handling and towing ability they expect from a Ford vehicle.
The head of the Trump administration’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) has resigned from his role, Axios has reported.
Chris Fall served in the role for just three months following his appointment in April 2026, and no reason has so far been given for his departure from the agency.
Arvind Raman, the current head of the Commerce Department office that oversees the AI testing institute is set to temporarily take up the mantle as head of CAISI until a permanent alternative is found.
Fall’s departure is just one in a string of Trump administration departures so far in 2026. Before resigning, Fall was responsible for working closely with leading US AI labs such as Anthropic, Google‘s ​DeepMind, OpenAI, ​Microsoft and Elon Musk’s xAI to test their frontier and unreleased models for vulnerabilities to prevent them from being maliciously abused.
Trump has placed a big focus on developing AI, with the technology now a key part of both the US economy and its security, with AI models being deployed across federal agencies, police, and the armed forces.
Despite interventions by the US, China has been rapidly closing the gap between its own models and those of US companies. Many Chinese models are cheaper than their US alternatives, making them attractive to US companies feeling the token-cost of US models.
The resignation will likely once again shake up the Trump administration’s AI strategy. The administration has taken a very hands on approach to AI technologies, requiring contractors to provide unrestricted access to their systems and allow the use of their technologies for any lawful purpose. When Anthropic rejected these demands, the company was designated a supply chain risk.
Trump has also called on AI companies to provide stakes in their companies in what Trump has said will “create almost a partnership with the American public”. Trump hasn’t revealed exactly how this partnership would benefit the American public.
On the other hand, Senator Bernie Sanders has proposed an AI sovereign wealth fund that would see 50% of AI company stock placed in a fund that would be used to build infrastructure and fund projects aimed at improving the lives of Americans.
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Physical media collectors have three very different 4K restorations to keep on their radar: Michael Mann’s Manhunter, Hammer’s Dracula, and Criterion’s upcoming 4K edition of 12 Angry Men.
This is a weird trio, which is exactly why it works for me.
Manhunter is Michael Mann before everyone decided they had discovered Michael Mann. It is cold, controlled, stylish as hell, and still one of the most unsettling serial-killer films of the 1980s. It needs 4K because the color, lighting, architecture, and dead-eyed calm are the movie.
Dracula is Hammer at full strength: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, blood, capes, religious dread, and enough Gothic atmosphere to make modern horror look like it was assembled in a conference room. If the restored footage and color work are handled properly, this could be the Hammer release fans have been waiting for.
12 Angry Men is the outlier, but only on the surface. No monsters. No synth score. No blood. Just Henry Fonda, twelve men in a room, and a film that gets tighter and more suffocating by the minute. That is exactly the kind of black-and-white classic that can benefit from a serious 4K restoration because every face, bead of sweat, cigarette, shirt collar, and hard stare is what made this film interesting in the first place.
The important caveat: only 12 Angry Men currently has a fully confirmed 4K UHD release date, price, disc configuration, HDR format, audio format, and supplement list. Manhunter and Dracula are confirmed new 4K restorations with theatrical and home entertainment plans, but final 4K UHD disc specifications and pricing have not been fully announced yet.
Michael Mann’s Manhunter is returning as Manhunter: The Final Cut, with StudioCanal celebrating the film’s 40th anniversary through a new 4K restoration. The film opens in select U.S. theaters through Rialto Pictures on July 24, 2026, followed by a StudioCanal UK theatrical release on September 25, 2026, with further international releases planned for the fall. 4K Blu-ray and Blu-ray release details are expected later this year.
That means buyers should not treat this as a finalized UHD preorder yet. There is no confirmed U.S. 4K disc price, HDR format, audio format, region coding, packaging, or supplement list at this stage.
What we do know is enough to make this one worth watching. Manhunter was shot by Dante Spinotti and remains one of Mann’s most visually controlled films. Its cold architecture, blues, greens, whites, glass surfaces, and nightmarish calm are central to the experience. A strong 4K restoration should preserve the film’s hard visual edge without scrubbing away the texture.
The cast also makes it more than a Mann completist title. William Petersen, Joan Allen, Dennis Farina, Tom Noonan, and Brian Cox give the film its unnerving edge. Cox’s Hannibal Lecktor, spelled that way in Manhunter rather than Thomas Harris’s original “Lecter,” is not the grand theatrical monster Anthony Hopkins later created. Hopkins is the more iconic nightmare. Cox is colder, quieter, and more clinical, which makes his version unsettling in a very different way.
Hammer’s Dracula from 1958, released in the U.S. as Horror of Dracula, is also receiving a major 4K restoration. Hammer has confirmed that Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee will return in 4K, with the film coming back to cinemas and making its worldwide home entertainment debut in 4K.
This is not just another catalog cleanup. Hammer says the new restoration uses film materials supplied by Warner Bros. and restores the full version of the film as director Terence Fisher intended it before censorship cuts. Hammer also says the release will include the newly restored full-length version alongside the UK theatrical version and the U.S. Horror of Dracula version.
That is the real hook for collectors. Dracula has existed in several versions, and earlier releases have had to deal with incomplete or compromised Japanese elements. Hammer says Warner’s archive uncovered pristine reels of the Japanese version, allowing the restored material to be reintegrated properly.
A combo pack release of the 4K restoration is scheduled to arrive later this year, with theatrical screenings planned for early October in association with Warner Bros.
Pricing has not been confirmed. Final disc specs, HDR format, audio format, region coding, and complete extras have not been announced. Hammer has said this will be part of its Limited Collector’s Edition range, so expect collector packaging and supplements, but do not treat any price as final until Hammer posts the actual preorder.
Why should buyers care? Because Hammer horror lives or dies by color, contrast, and atmosphere. Jack Asher’s cinematography, the blood, the costumes, the candlelit interiors, and Lee’s physical menace all need careful handling. Bad compression and weak grading make Hammer look cheap.
For more information: hammerfilms.com
Criterion’s 12 Angry Men is the safest confirmed buy of the three because the details are already listed.
The 4K UHD plus Blu-ray special edition arrives September 8, 2026 for $49.95, along with standard Blu-ray at $39.95, and DVD version at $29.95.
The 4K edition includes a new 4K digital restoration, Dolby Vision HDR, and an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The package includes one 4K UHD disc with the film and one Blu-ray with the film and special features.
Criterion also lists the 1954 television version directed by Franklin J. Schaffner for Studio One, archival Sidney Lumet interviews, production history material, interviews related to Reginald Rose and Boris Kaufman, Lumet and Rose’s 1956 teleplay Tragedy in a Temporary Town, the trailer, English SDH subtitles, and an essay by Thane Rosenbaum.
Technically, this is not a spectacle disc. It is black and white, 1.66:1, mono, and 96 minutes long. A good 4K restoration should improve texture, facial detail, sweat, cigarette smoke, white-shirt contrast, window light, and the claustrophobic feel of the jury room. If the transfer is done right, the walls should feel like they are moving inward.
Where to pre-order: $49.95 at Amazon or Criterion.com
Apple says it fixed a vulnerability that could expose real addresses behind Hide My Email on or around July 3, but we reproduced the flaw two weeks after the company’s claimed repair date.
The company told 404 Media that it deployed a patch on July 3, 2026, and fully resolved the vulnerability. AppleInsider successfully reproduced the behavior on July 17.
Our test found that a sender who possessed a specific Hide My Email alias could reveal the real address behind it with much technical knowledge.
We’ve reached out to Apple about the matter. We will update when we hear back from the company on the matter.
The vulnerability affected iCloud Hide My Email, which creates aliases that forward messages to a user’s real inbox. Users can provide a different alias to each website or service instead of sharing a permanent email address.
EasyOptOuts co-founder Tyler Murphy began reporting Hide My Email vulnerabilities to Apple in mid-2025. 404 Media says Murphy first alerted Apple in June 2025, while EasyOptOuts’ published timeline lists a related report on July 9.
Murphy and EasyOptOuts co-founder Ben Weiner exchanged reports and test results with Apple for roughly a year. EasyOptOuts says Apple declared the vulnerabilities fixed on March 3 and June 30, but the researchers reproduced the problems after both claims.
Murphy later contacted 404 Media, which reported the flaw on July 1 without publishing instructions that could help others exploit it.
Apple told 404 Media that a patch deployed on July 3 fully resolved the vulnerability. The company hasn’t said whether July 3 marked the start or completion of the deployment, but we expect it is the former.
AppleInsider tested the flaw on July 17 and confirmed that the process could reveal the real address behind a Hide My Email alias.
The process required little technical knowledge once the sender possessed a specific alias, though each address had to be targeted individually. We withheld the instructions because publishing them while the vulnerability remained reproducible would have created unnecessary risk.
The test doesn’t prove the vulnerability remained active for every user or mail provider. It does show that July 3 can’t be treated as a definitive endpoint without further explanation from Apple.
Apple hasn’t explained whether the patch was deployed in stages, when the rollout finished or why the July 17 test succeeded. Without those details, the company’s claim of a complete July 3 resolution remains difficult to reconcile with independent testing.
The flaw undermined the core promise of Hide My Email. A sender who possessed an alias could potentially discover the permanent address that the service was supposed to conceal.
EasyOptOuts said every address in its limited volunteer tests was vulnerable. Murphy and Weiner also said the vulnerability had been fixed, but warned that the privacy risk may continue after the patch.
Hide My Email on an iPhoneMurphy and Weiner told 404 Media that rejected messages may have exposed real addresses still retained in third-party logs. EasyOptOuts recommends treating addresses linked to aliases created before July 7 as potentially exposed.
EasyOptOuts’ warning doesn’t mean every Hide My Email user was affected. A sender first needed a specific alias, which limited the number of accounts that person could target, and there’s no public evidence of a coordinated exploitation campaign.
The vulnerability didn’t expose passwords, unlock Apple Accounts or grant access to inboxes. The demonstrated consequence was the loss of an alias’s privacy protection, which could allow a permanent address to be connected with leaked or publicly available information.
A proposed class action filed after the disclosure seeks repayment of subscription fees and other relief. The complaint doesn’t allege that the named plaintiff’s address was exposed or that anyone exploited the vulnerability against him.
The available evidence supports calling the flaw a genuine privacy failure. It doesn’t show widespread exploitation or measurable harm to subscribers.
Apple says the vulnerability has been eliminated, and Murphy and Weiner also say the bug has been fixed. We can’t reproduce it today, after our July 17 testing.
The available evidence doesn’t show that users need to disable Hide My Email entirely. Users should nevertheless treat real addresses attached to older aliases as potentially disclosed and understand that deleting an alias won’t erase information already retained in another provider’s logs.
Earlier this year “Border Czar” Tom Homan, with an apparently straight face, told the media that if Democrats didn’t stop calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed, then they would have no choice but to murder more people. A few weeks later, when ICE did murder another person, he doubled down and blamed people for calling ICE murderers for the additional murder. So it’s little surprise that he’s at it again. He’s taking the fact that ICE has been on something of a killing spree over the last few weeks as… vindication for the batshit crazy statement he made earlier about how calling ICE murderers makes them only more likely to murder.
This is classic psychopathic abuser language. “Baby look what you made me do.”
It should never be coming out of the mouth of a government official. It’s horrifying and disqualifying. No, calling ICE murderers for the murders they committed should have zero impact on future murders, and if (accurately) calling ICE murderers leads them to murder more people, then what the fuck are we doing here? Shut down ICE. Fire everyone associated with them, including Tom Homan.
Of course, Homan wasn’t just blaming people for calling murderers murderers. He also wanted to blame the people they murdered for not “complying.”
Once again, saying shit like that should lead to an immediate firing and possibly an investigation. First of all, it’s clear from the videos released after some of the recent ICE shootings that it had nothing to do with people not complying, and appeared to be almost entirely about raging ICE agents who had no interest in de-escalating situations and seemed to be looking to cause harm.
But, more to the point, not complying with a law enforcement demand (especially a ridiculous one) should not result in your execution.
Tom Homan has been credibly accused of accepting $50,000 in a fast food bag to try to curry favor with President Trump. Does Tom Homan think it would have been okay for law enforcement to shoot Tom Homan dead in a Cava restaurant, claiming that he was clearly violating the law in accepting a bribe? Or does he only accept due process when it comes to himself and his friends?
And just as bad, Tom Homan, like so many MAGA leaders, absolutely positively refuses to take any responsibility at all for his own mistakes. First he claims that the mess in Minnesota he inherited didn’t involve any mistakes at all.
Of course it’s funny because in that clip he suggests that he was the one who refused to buy ICE body cams because of the government shutdown (which is a lie; ICE received a ton of money in the earlier budget bill, and Homan knows this. ICE can afford body cameras). But then a couple minutes later, when a reporter asks about the now-revealed anger issues and mental health problems of one of the ICE murderers from last week, suddenly Homan deflects and says to talk to someone at ICE instead.
Dude. Weren’t you just talking about how you were in charge of properly outfitting ICE.
It’s truly astounding how this MAGA administration appears to be fundamentally allergic to ever taking responsibility for anything. This seems like an impossibly short-term strategy. Or simply the product of a government run by people who are in way, way over their heads, but too vain to admit it.
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Apple may be getting ready to let you pay off your next iPhone, iPad, or Mac in installments. The company is reportedly planning to introduce a new financing option called “Apple Upgrade” in the US on July 28 in partnership with Klarna, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman.
Gurman says Apple could offer the buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) program for most current iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch models, though the specific terms may vary depending on the product’s typical price and expected upgrade cycle. Buyers could get a 24-month payment plan for new iPhones and Apple Watch models, likely reflecting how often people tend to upgrade these devices, while the payment plan may stretch to 36 months for iPads and Macs.
The plan may offer buyers some level of flexibility, allowing them to pay off the remaining balance early, switch to a newer device before their term wraps up, or hold onto their device once they’ve finished paying for it. Cheaper models across Apple’s product lineup might be left out, including the Apple Watch SE, the base iPad, the iPhone 16, and the MacBook Neo.
Apple already offers financing through its iPhone Upgrade Program, which launched back in 2015 and bundles AppleCare+ coverage into monthly payments. According to Gurman, the company plans to stop accepting sign-ups for the iPhone Upgrade Program once Apple Upgrade goes live, effectively phasing it out in favor of the Klarna partnership.
Unlike the iPhone Upgrade Program, Apple Upgrade reportedly won’t include AppleCare+ as part of the base plan. That means anyone financing a new device may need to add coverage separately. Apple hasn’t confirmed any of these details publicly, and pricing for the financing plan and added AppleCare coverage, if any, remains unclear.
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XRP BOMBSHELL… XRP OMBOARDED FOR TRANSACTIONS!!!
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