Janky Web, Empty Silos, and Drone Wars: June 19 Digest
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Ohmbudsman Digest – June 19, 2025
Title: Janky Web, Empty Silos, and Drone Wars
Today’s 5-minute rundown features:
• 40,000 hacked cameras leaking global footage
• Threads turns into a literal echo chamber
• Weddell seal collapse confirms ice loss
• Facebook dumps passwords for passkeys
• Japan traces China’s carrier maneuvers
• Iran goes offline as tensions escalate
• Israel nears Arrow missile shortage
• Mossad’s AI-drones strike Iran
• NFC range boost redefines tap tech
• OpenAI wins $200M Pentagon AI deal
• Scale AI dropped after Meta pact
• Personas emerge in AI model behaviors
• ICE detains protest reporter on livestream
• Rheinmetall & Anduril arm EU drones
• EU warns of Russia’s long-game aggression
• Fake phone numbers invade trusted search links
• Germany tests 254km quantum internet
• Cyberattacks haunt Nordic maritime routes
• Sudan’s war escalates via outside arms
• TikTok fans fascist youth in the Philippines
• Ukraine’s drones scatter Russian bombers
• U.S. shuts embassy amid Iran-Israel crossfire
• Climate cuts calories despite record crops
• AI makes web worse—and inevitable
• Musk’s xAI pollutes Memphis without permits
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