- C3EL wins two NASA SEWP VI slots for federal IT buying
The Tampa woman-owned contractor gains access to product and mission-services categories, but the IDIQ ceiling is not booked revenue.
- Boston Dynamics keeps Atlas in the World Cup conversation with Viking Row clip
The Waltham robotics company posted a Viking Row clip days after Hyundai put Atlas inside a live World Cup match environment.
- CERT/CC warns Tenda router firmware has an undocumented admin backdoor
CERT/CC says five firmware builds accept any username if a hidden alternate password matches a device configuration value.
- The British Are Coming for the Algorithm, and YouTube Wants Creators to Mobilize
The UK proposal is a consultation, not a law, but it puts creator reach inside a fight over who controls video discovery.
- Musk says he has 'wised up' in reply to the 'takers' having the right to vote
Musk's reply did not happen in a vacuum: the world's richest man has already been tied to a $1 million voter-registration giveaway that court filings later said involved handpicked MAGA supporters, not a random drawing.
- Hirotaka Sato's cyborg cockroach can now work underwater for three hours
NTU and Waseda researchers built a flexible 3D-printed oxygen suit for remote-controlled insects in flooded disaster zones.
- A Linux LUKS suspend regression left encryption keys in memory for two years
Ingo Blechschmidt traced the bug to a Linux 6.9 kernel refactor and proposed tests and warnings to stop silent failures.
- Apple TV's 'Obsession' listing turned Curry Barker's horror hit into a metadata test
The Focus and Blumhouse release is on PVOD, but the real story is whether a storefront label can redirect demand for a creator-driven hit.
- RuntimeWire — Weekly Report Week 2 · June 5 – June 11, 2026
The June 5-11 spike validated model comparisons as a distribution wedge
- Scientists engineer CRISPR system that selectively destroys p53-mutant cancer cells
Researchers led by Jennifer Doudna engineered a CRISPR system that detects mutant p53 cancer cells and triggers their self-destruction, offering a new strategy against one of oncology's most stubborn targets.
- RuntimeWire — Weekly Report (Week 1, June 3rd, 2026)
The self-reported report says model comparison stories led traffic while a new models catalog tracked 1,221 active AI models.
- Legacy Labs Starts A Two-Month Retro-Computing Camp Built Around 2009-Era Sysadmin Work
The LambdaCreate author is trading one-week constraints for a Windows Server 2008 R2 lab built with modern Linux tooling.
- FROST paper claims a web page can ID your other sites and apps via SSD activity
A paper linked in a thread says FROST can identify websites with 88.95% accuracy and applications with 95.83% by measuring SSD activity from a visited page.
- Blue Origin's New Glenn reportedly suffers static-fire explosion at Cape Canaveral
A clip posted on X appears to show a fireball at LC-36; any confirmed anomaly could slip an early-June debut. Blue Origin has not commented.
- Seth Howes says he sequenced a full human genome at home to 30x coverage
In a thread on X, Howes details a one-room setup, cites a $28k sequencer and ~$1.2k per run, and calls out a discontinued P2 Solo unit.
- TeamPCP claims 4,000 GitHub repos after poisoned VSCode plug-in; 3,800 confirmed
Wired reports the group has hidden malware in 500+ open source tools across 20 waves, breaching hundreds of companies and now offering GitHub code for sale.
- NASA says it is building a Moon Base for long-duration Artemis missions
The agency announced a dedicated @NASAMoonBase habitat effort and set a May 26 livestream to share lunar exploration updates tied to Artemis and future Mars prep.
- GitHub investigates unauthorized access to internal repos, no customer impact seen
Platform says internal repos were accessed; no evidence customer orgs or repos were affected, with updates promised via standard incident channels.
- Researchers unveil Fabricked, a software attack that misroutes Infinity Fabric to break AMD SEV-SNP
The team shows a malicious hypervisor can subvert SEV-SNP init by dropping PSP writes via Infinity Fabric misrouting; they report 100% success and confirm on Zen 5 EPYC.
- UC Santa Barbara team bottles sunlight in a liquid heat battery that can boil water on demand
Associate Professor Grace Han's lab stores 1.6 MJ/kg of solar energy in molecules and later releases it as heat, pointing to off-grid hot water and thermal apps.
- Elon Musk: latest X algorithm published on GitHub
Musk linked to the xai-org/x-algorithm repository in a post that showed 38,767 likes and 4,982 reposts.