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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Meta's Cheyenne data center is offline after contaminating Cheyenne's water supply with antibiotic-resistant bacteria. YouTube's Ask Studio feature, Claude Code, AirDrop/Quick Share, and Apple's PaperCut integration all have critical security flaws exposing user data or breaking enterprise functionality.

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Today's stories

Security Roundup: Apple’s Hide My Email Service Fails to Hide Your Email
Q&A with Doug Brooks, senior product manager of Apple silicon, about Mac minis becoming preferred AI agent machines, future of on-device AI, and more (Jason Hiner/The Deep View)
Potential session/cache leakage between workspace instances or consumer accounts
Apple @ Work: As Apple grows in the enterprise, these are the kind of update bugs it has to squash immediately
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
A look at the troubled rollout of the EU's automated biometric entry/exit border system, as airport operators warn of severe delays ahead of the summer holidays (Financial Times)
Leaking YouTube creators' private videos
BareMetal RAM Dumper – Bare-metal x86 tool for Cold Boot Attack experiments
Meta data center water discharges suspended for contaminating water supply
Protocol Prying: Vulnerability Research in AirDrop and Quick Share
India issues a notice to Telegram, asking it to curb the spread of pirated films and other copyrighted content, and seeks an action-taken report within 15 days (Sejal Sharma/Hindustan Times)
A profile of Kaley Glenn-Mills, the plaintiff in K.G.M. v. Meta et al., who was awarded $6M in damages in a landmark LA jury trial over social media addiction (Olivia Carville/Bloomberg)

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