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Sunday, July 19, 2026

LG monitors are covertly installing malware via Windows Update without consent, and ClickFix malware now targets enterprise macOS users through social engineering. Additionally, unauthorized data broker sales create employee phishing risks, while a CIA operative allegedly facilitated UAE access to restricted US AI chips.

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Your Period Tracker Is (Probably) Spying on You
LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
What AI did to stackoverflow in a graph
GPT-5.6 used a prompt to close a 30-year gap in convex optimization
Apple @ Work: New macOS ClickFix malware brings a new potential backdoor to your enterprise fleet
Will AI fix prior authorization—or make it worse?
Your personal data is for sale: here is how to take it off the internet
Permit hurdles push up costs for AI data centers; Oracle pivoted from gas turbines to costlier fuel cells for its Project Jupiter in NM, costing billions more (Ann Davis Vaughan/The Information)
Analysis finds 60+ "jacket apps" on the App Store disguised as simple games and utilities that become gambling apps when accessed from Brazilian IP addresses (9to5Mac)
A profile of businessman Sebastian Rucci, whose past ventures were subject to legal probes, as he bids to build California's biggest data center, a $10B project (Zusha Elinson/Wall Street Journal)
Sources: CIA operative Jonny Gannon spied on G42 to probe its China ties and helped the UAE gain expanded access to US AI chips by allaying US suspicions (Wall Street Journal)
Sources: Kimi developer Moonshot told investors it is preparing for a Hong Kong IPO in as early as six months; its ARR hit $300M in June, up from $200M in April (Bloomberg)

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