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June was a busy month for in-the-wild Mac malware—here’s a rundown

Is there something in the water? Third Florida city hit by ransomware

“We need to up our game”—DHS cybersecurity director on Iran and ransomware

Apple moves Mac Pro production from Texas to China

Renewable electricity beat out coal for the first time in April

New ransomware infections are the worst drive-by attacks in recent memory

House votes to block Ajit Pai’s plan to kill San Francisco broadband law

Taking a spin on WireGuard’s Windows pre-alpha

Iranian state hackers reload their domains, release off-the-shelf RAT malware

In California, a young natural gas plant closes down as renewables get cheaper

Security firms demonstrate subdomain hijack exploit vs. EA/Origin

Why a former Nazi sub base in Marseille is becoming a data center

Steam and Ubuntu clash over 32-bit libs

DHS cyber director warns of surge in Iranian “wiper” hack attacks

The Raspberry Pi 4 launch site runs on a Pi 4 cluster

Argentina’s blackout and the storm-battered future of the grid

A tale of two cities: Why ransomware will just get worse

Manufacturing memory means scribing silicon in a sea of sensors

Potent Firefox 0-day used to install undetected backdoors on Macs

The trick to saving human factory jobs might be teaming up with the machines

Researchers think nation-sponsored hackers attacked rival espionage group

Starry aims to bring its $50, 200Mbps broadband to 25 more US states

Oracle issues emergency update to patch actively exploited WebLogic flaw

More sensors, more problems: Industrial IoT platforms need safeguarding

Samsung: Please virus-scan your TV

New vulnerabilities may let hackers remotely SACK Linux and FreeBSD systems

The revolution will be roboticized: How AI is driving “Industry 4.0”

Cloudflare aims to make HTTPS certificates safe from BGP hijacking attacks

Federal bill would allow clean energy companies to structure like oil companies

AT&T cuts another 1,800 jobs as it finishes fiber-Internet buildout

Russia warns that reported US attacks on its power grid could trigger “cyberwar”

“We are very sorry”—Boeing division CEO apologizes for 737 Max deaths

Hackers behind dangerous oil and gas intrusions are probing US power grids

Cable investment drops as Comcast and Charter finish DOCSIS 3.1 rollouts

Target’s same-day deliveries might break my Amazon Prime addiction

Ajit Pai says NOAA and NASA are wrong about 5G harming weather forecasts

If you haven’t patched Vim or NeoVim text editors, you really, really should

Group to fund and operate first hydrogen fuel ferry fleet in the US

Huawei cancels MateBook laptop launch because of US export ban

I’ll be passing on Google’s new 2fa for logins on iPhones and iPads. Here’s why

Researchers discover “Fishwrap” influence campaign recycling old terror news

Google Stadia in 4K might push you past your home-Internet data cap

Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

As summer heats up, Calif. utility starts cutting power to prevent wildfires

The Catch-22 that broke the Internet

BGP mishap sends European mobile traffic through China Telecom for 2 hours

Millions of machines affected by command execution flaw in Exim mail server

Google confirms 2017 supply-chain attack that sneaked backdoor on Android devices

The clever cryptography behind Apple’s “Find My” feature

YouTube’s anti-extremism crackdown targets journalist who documents extremism

YouTube bans neo-Nazi and Holocaust-denial videos in push against hate speech

Warnings of world-wide worm attacks are the real deal, new exploit shows

For 5G, AT&T and T-Mobile buy $1.8 billion worth of 24GHz spectrum across US

Baltimore’s bill for ransomware: Over $18 million, so far

Verizon stiffed towns on millions in taxes but might have to pay it back

238 Google Play apps with >440 million installs made phones nearly unusable

Baltimore ransomware perp pinky-swears he didn’t use NSA exploit

FCC funding for poor people and rural areas? Ajit Pai says let’s cap that

Why four security companies just sold for $1.5B

Facebook can be told to cast a wider net to find illegal content, says EU court advisor

Majelan is a personal podcast player with premium content

Apple is now restricting Chinese language podcasts in China

Aptoide, a Play Store rival, cries antitrust foul over Google hiding its app

Africa Roundup: Jumia’s post-IPO earnings, Gokada’s $5.3M raise, Facebook’s fake-news purge, Joe Montana’s fintech investment