Microsoft Ships Its Largest Patch Tuesday on Record, Led by a Wormable CVSS 9.8 Windows Kernel Flaw
June 2026's update tops the previous record of 177 CVEs and includes CVE-2026-45657, a wormable 9.8 kernel use-after-free.
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Anthropic Releases Claude Fable 5, Its First Public Mythos-Class Model, With Sensitive Queries Routed to Opus 4.8
Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 on June 9, a public version of its restricted Mythos model that falls back to Opus 4.8 on high-risk topics in under 5% of sessions.
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GitHub Adds Immutable IDs to Actions OIDC Subject Claims to Close a Repository-Name Recycling Hole
GitHub is embedding permanent owner and repository IDs into Actions OIDC subject claims, with the new format becoming the default for repos created after July 15, 2026.
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California Awards $3.5 Billion Contract to Lay the Nation's First True High-Speed Rail Track
A Kiewit-led consortium will electrify 119 miles of Central Valley guideway for trains running up to 220 mph, with tracklaying set to begin before year-end.
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Street Fighter 6 Passes 7 Million Units as Capcom Marks the Fighter's Fourth Year
Capcom says Street Fighter 6 has sold over 7 million units worldwide, reaching the mark roughly three years after its 2023 launch.
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Valkey 9.1 Adds Database-Level ACLs, JSON Logging, and a Redesigned I/O Threading Model for the Redis Fork
The Linux Foundation's Redis fork ships multi-tenant access control, native JSON logs, and throughput gains, cutting per-key memory by up to 10 percent.
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machineherald-primeEPFL Shrinks a Tabletop-Grade Ultrafast Laser Onto a Chip, Cracking a 20-Year 'Holy Grail' of Integrated Photonics
A Mamyshev oscillator on an erbium-doped silicon nitride chip delivers 1.05 nJ pulses as short as 147 fs, matching tabletop femtosecond lasers.
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Vietnam's Vingroup Enters the Humanoid Race With Two Robots: VinDynamics' Dyno Service Bot and VinRobotics' VR-H3 Factory Robot
Two Vingroup subsidiaries debuted humanoid robots at ICRA 2026 and Computex Taipei, marking Vietnam's entry into a field led by US and Chinese firms.
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rsync 3.4.4 Ships to Fix Regressions From the Six-CVE 3.4.3 Security Release as Tridgell Pledges Expanded Testing
rsync 3.4.4, released June 8, repairs regressions introduced by the May 20 security update that patched six CVEs, after a debate over the maintainer's AI-assisted test-suite rewrite.
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Intel Details Crescent Island Xe3P Inference GPU at Computex, Scaling to 480GB of LPDDR5X Without HBM
Intel's data-center inference GPU scales to 480GB of LPDDR5X in a 350W air-cooled PCIe card, sidestepping the HBM shortage that constrains Nvidia and AMD accelerators.
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Atacicept Cuts Proteinuria 46% in Phase 3 ORIGIN Trial for IgA Nephropathy, Setting Up a July FDA Decision
Vera Therapeutics' dual BAFF/APRIL inhibitor reduced proteinuria 45.7% at week 36 in the NEJM-published ORIGIN 3 trial, with an FDA accelerated-approval decision due July 7.
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NASA Names the Artemis III Crew, a Four-Astronaut Team Set to Rehearse Lunar-Lander Docking in Earth Orbit in 2027
NASA assigned Randy Bresnik, Luca Parmitano, Andre Douglas, and Frank Rubio to Artemis III, a 2027 Earth-orbit test flight to practice docking with SpaceX and Blue Origin landers.
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