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Russia has charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with facilitating terrorism, alleging the platform was used by Ukrainian intelligence "to prepare and co-ordinate acts of sabotage and terror" inside Russia. An international arrest warrant has been issued for Durov, who currently lives in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where Telegram keeps its main office. The BBC reports: Shortly after the charge was announced, Telegram's account on X posted an image showing Durov holding up his middle finger. He has previously accused Russian authorities of "fabricating new pretexts to restrict Russians' access to Telegram." [...] Multi-billionaire Durov, 41, has lived outside of Russia for many years and holds French and United Arab Emirates (UAE) passports. It is unclear whether other countries or authorities would comply with an arrest warrant issued by Russia. Durov left Russia in 2014 after refusing to comply with government demands to shut down opposition communities on the platform. He had previously founded popular Russian social media company VKontakte - dubbed the "Facebook of Russia." In 2024, Durov was arrested and investigated by the French government in connection with criminal activity on the platform and a lack of cooperation with law enforcement. "He was allowed to go home months later, with the investigation continuing," notes the BBC.

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System76 releases COSMIC Desktop 1.5 with fixes for Chromium app scaling, excessive panel CPU usage, GPU resets, and external displays.

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The GNU Compiler Collection will reject copyright-significant contributions derived from LLM output, with limited exceptions for trivial changes and test cases.

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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Wired: OpenAI said Tuesday that the rogue AI agent that breached Hugging Face's platform also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. It's now clear that the unprecedented security incident, which arose during an internal test of OpenAI's latest AI models, was more extensive than the company initially disclosed. In an updated blog post, OpenAI said that an ongoing review of the incident revealed that "four accounts" tied to "publicly available services" were used by the AI agent as part of a larger effort to hack Hugging Face. The rogue agent apparently found credentials that had been exposed on the open web and used them to break into the accounts. OpenAI did not disclose what companies or organizations the accounts belonged to, but noted that they were not impacted at "the level of severity or scale of what we've shared related to Hugging Face." One of the additional accounts compromised by OpenAI's agent was used as an "outbound relay and staging path," potentially to obscure where the attack on Hugging Face was coming from, the company said. OpenAI's rogue agent also used another account for data storage to assist with the hack. Reuters reported on Tuesday that a customer of Modal, a company that offers software infrastructure for training and running AI services, was one of the entities compromised by OpenAI's agent. In a statement to WIRED, Modal's chief technology officer Akshat Bubna confirmed that OpenAI's agent exploited a vulnerability in one of its customer's codebases, which was running on Modal's infrastructure. However, Bubna says, "Modal's platform was not compromised in any way." The identity of the customer could not be determined.

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29 Jul 2026 4:00pm GMT

Microsoft is on a mad dash behind the scenes to patch exploits before hackers find them.

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Improved efficiency in EPP mode leads to ~32% jump in "1% low" frame rates.

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"I'm beginning to suspect we are not in Jumanji."

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jrnvk shares a report from KMSP: Minnesota IT Services reports that a "coordinated cyberattack" targeted technology at more than 30 community water systems between Sunday, July 26 and Monday, July 27. The state has activated its cybersecurity incident response capabilities to respond to the attacks. On Monday and Tuesday, FOX 9 reported on notices from four cities that had disclosed the attacks: Plymouth, South St. Paul, Maple Plain, and Braham. All four cities said the impacts of the attacks were limited or mitigated and residents could continue normal water use. The Minnesota Department of Health is not aware of any municipality asking residents to alter their drinking water use as a result of the attacks. State officials are working with federal and private-sector partners to investigate the attacks, support the affected communities, and strengthen the security of Minnesota's critical infrastructure.

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29 Jul 2026 1:00pm GMT

Fooyin 0.12 introduces built-in audio conversion, PulseAudio output support, and new Spectrogram, Oscilloscope, and projectM visualizations.

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