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New York has become the first state to pump the brakes on the AI infrastructure boom, with Governor Kathy Hochul temporarily halting approval of large data centers. Her argument is straightforward: the race to build AI capacity shouldn't translate into higher electricity bills for residents, strained water supplies, or communities losing local control over what gets built in their backyard.
Shifting to cybersecurity, the NSA, FBI, CISA, and fifteen allied agencies have issued a joint warning that Russia's FSB is actively exploiting weak and outdated network configurations to target critical infrastructure worldwide. The advisory calls out vulnerabilities in Cisco devices, some dating back nearly two decades, that organizations have simply never patched. The message from intelligence agencies is blunt: default credentials are still getting people compromised.
And in crypto markets, Bitcoin climbed to sixty-four thousand dollars after June's inflation data came in cooler than expected, marking the largest slowdown in consumer prices in six years. The move signals cautious optimism that interest rate pressure may be easing, though analysts note that ongoing geopolitical uncertainty is keeping a ceiling on how far that enthusiasm can run.
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