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• Microsoft discovers new lightweight backdoor that steals cryptocurrency
• FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
• As China looms, Taiwan makes more drones for defense and the US military
• NASA asks Northrop Grumman to stop working on lunar HALO module

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• Steam Next Fest demos, a Virtual Boy-inspired shooter and other new indie games worth checking out
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• Norway imposes broad restrictions on AI for elementary school kids
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• SpyCloud Report Finds Phishing Attacks Surge as Employee Data Is Exposed at 86% of Fortune 100 Companies

• New web app can make Valve's Steam Controller drift across your desk like an RC car — web app drives the gamepad using its rumble motors
• The best 3D scanners 2026 — the top performing models we've benchmarked
• Intel and AMD's new ACE CPU extensions bring an efficient AI-oriented instruction set to x86 — a new design makes matrix multiplication more power- and density-efficient
• Unlucky PC builder sent RTX 5070 from Amazon, gets DVD rewriter and a busted logic board from an early 2000's Kenwood AV receiver instead — $700 GPU turns out to be e-waste thanks to return scam
• Researcher turns wi-fi smart lightbulb into a Banned Book Library — open source project makes digital books available via a server and open Wi-Fi access point hacked into an ESP32-powered bulb
• China unveils man-portable anti-drone laser that can burn through a drone 1,600 feet away in four seconds — backpack-sized 2-kilowatt weapon uses AI for targeting, weighs 55 pounds, and can be c
• AMD will reinstate memory encryption on Ryzen 9000 CPUs through a BIOS update in July — TSME is coming back after 'valuable community feedback'
• Your 15-inch daily driver is now $250 off — Dell 15 laptop with hexa-core CPU, 8GB RAM dips to $349