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Sunday, June 21, 2026

Brazil's critical civil defense alert system was hacked, sending false emergency notifications to millions of phones across multiple states. The UK is deploying flawed facial age-estimation AI at borders despite knowing error margins exceed 4.6 years, creating both security and compliance risks.

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Today's stories

Google's quarterly updates are making Android fragmentation worse, not better
The UK will scan asylum-seekers’ faces for age checks—despite knowing the tech is flawed
Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server
An interview with Smartbird CEO Nadia Carlsten about the shoe company Allbirds becoming an AI infrastructure company, plans to deploy compute clusters, and more (Tim Fernholz/TechCrunch)
Temporary Cloudflare Accounts for AI Agents
Nobel laureate John Jumper is leaving DeepMind for rival Anthropic
The Atlantic created a searchable database of the music used to train AI
Apple @ Work: The era of legacy MDM is over, and declarative management is the new standard
Unauthorized alert sent to cell phones across Brazil
A look at "humanizer" and "autotyper" apps that help students evade AI-detection software by slowly auto-typing essays and making AI text sound less robotic (Dana Goldstein/New York Times)
Brazil takes its National Civil Defense warning platform offline after suspected hackers send an unauthorized alert to mobile phones in several states (Mariana Catacci/CNN)
Building Reliable Agentic AI Systems

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