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A serious security lapse is raising hard questions about federal cyber defenses. Hackers spent roughly three weeks inside the Department of Homeland Security's information-sharing network after analysts twice dismissed intrusion alerts as false positives. By the time a breach was declared in early June, attackers had altered server files, installed backdoors, and deleted logs — a troubling reminder that human judgment remains a critical and fallible link in any security chain.
Shifting to Capitol Hill, a sitting US senator is accusing Meta of actively working to silence whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams, a former company executive who has spoken publicly about the company's internal practices. Senator Josh Hawley's characterization of Meta's legal and institutional pressure as an attempt at destruction puts a sharp edge on an already contentious corporate accountability story.
And on a quieter but genuinely historic note, the Zilog Z-eighty processor has turned fifty years old. The chip powered countless home computers and calculators in the late nineteen seventies and eighties, and its influence quietly runs through decades of computing history. Half a century on, it stands as a reminder that the foundations of the digital world were laid by a handful of remarkably small ideas.
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