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Schools are becoming the favorite target of ransomware gangs, and the numbers are striking. Check Point Research found the education sector absorbed nearly five thousand weekly attacks in June of two thousand twenty six, a sixteen percent jump from the year before. Researchers are pointing partly at careless generative AI use, with one in twenty six enterprise prompts leaking sensitive data.
On a very different note, a piece published in the London Review of Books is circulating quietly through developer communities this week. It centers on Haitham, described as the first programmer the author personally knew who was killed in a targeted strike in Gaza. It is a rare, human account of what it means to lose a technologist not to burnout or a career change, but to war.
And in the skies above, the FCC has approved Reflect Orbital's plan to deploy a network of satellites designed to bounce sunlight down to Earth after dark. Supporters see commercial and agricultural potential, but astronomers have been vocal in their criticism, warning the project could interfere with observation and set a troubling precedent for who gets to alter the night sky.
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