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Wednesday, 18 March 2026 Updated 00:03 UTC Vol. 1 • No. 3
World

Al Jazeera

Iran launches attacks on Israel, killing two, as Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia intercept more missiles, drones.

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World

NPR News

A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat for the Trump administration's effort to cut the news outlet to the bones. (Image credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

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In brief

Dynamic principal engineer at Netflix, Kasia Trapszo, expertly navigates the evolution of the company’s commerce architecture from a DVD rental service to a…

At QCon London 2026, Lan Chu, AI Tech Lead at Rabobank, shared lessons from deploying a production AI search system used internally by more than 300 users…

At QCon London 2026, Suhail Patel, a principal engineer at Monzo who leads the bank’s platform group, described how the bank has built a developer platform…

At QCon London 2026, Ian Cooper, senior principal engineer at Just Eat Takeaway, discussed managing asynchronous APIs in production, showing how endpoint…

The GlassWorm supply-chain campaign has returned with a new, coordinated attack that targeted hundreds of packages, repositories, and extensions on GitHub,…

The European Union Council has announced sanctions against three entities and two individuals for their involvement in cyberattacks targeting critical…

AI agents are autonomous actors with real access to data and systems, not just copilots. Token Security explains why identity-based access control is critical…

A new font-rendering attack causes AI assistants to miss malicious commands shown on webpages by hiding them in seemingly harmless HTML. [...]

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Technology

Apple can delist apps "with or without cause," judge says in loss for Musi app

Ars Technica

Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple's App Store.

A federal judge dismissed Musi's lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi's lawyers for "mak[ing] up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case." Musi built a streaming service without striking its own deals with copyright holders.

It did so by playing music from YouTube, writing in its 2024 lawsuit against Apple that "the Musi app plays or displays content based on the user’s own interactions with YouTube and enhances the user experience via Musi’s proprietary technology." Musi's app displayed its own ads but let users remove them for a one-time fee of $5.99.

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Security

AI Flaws in Amazon Bedrock, LangSmith, and SGLang Enable Data Exfiltration and RCE

The Hacker News

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelligence (AI) code execution environments using domain name system (DNS) queries. In a report published Monday, BeyondTrust revealed that Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Code Interpreter's sandbox mode permits outbound DNS queries that an attacker can exploit to enable interactive shells

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Security

Iran-Backed Hackers Claim Wiper Attack on Medtech Firm Stryker

Krebs on Security

A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack against Stryker , a global medical technology company based in Michigan. News reports out of Ireland, Stryker’s largest hub outside of the United States, said the company sent home more than 5,000 workers there today.

Meanwhile, a voicemail message at Stryker’s main U.S. headquarters says the company is currently experiencing a building emergency. Based in Kalamazoo, Michigan, Stryker [NYSE:SYK] is a medical and surgical equipment maker that reported $25 billion in global sales last year. In a lengthy statement posted to Telegram, a hacktivist group known as Handala (a.k.a.

Handala Hack Team) claimed that Stryker’s offices in 79 countries have been forced to shut down after the group erased data from more than 200,000 systems, servers and mobile devices. A manifesto posted by the Iran-backed hacktivist group Handala, claiming a mass data-wiping attack against medical technology maker Stryker.

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Security

South Korean Police Accidentally Post Cryptocurrency Wallet Password

Schneier on Security

An expensive mistake : Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s National Tax Service exposed publicly the mnemonic recovery phrase of a seized cryptocurrency wallet.

The funds were stored in a Ledger cold wallet seized in law enforcement raids at 124 high-value tax evaders that resulted in confiscating digital assets worth 8.1 billion won (currently approximately $5.6 million). When announcing the success of the operation, the agency released photos of a Ledger device, a popular hardware wallet for crypto storage and management.

However, the images also showed a handwritten note of the wallet recovery phrase, which serves as the master key that allows restoring the assets to another device. The authorities failed to redact that info, allowing anyone to transfer into their account the assets in the cold wallet.

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Contents
World
Iran launches attacks on Israel, killing two, as Bahrain, Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia intercept more missiles, drones.…
A federal judge has ordered more than a thousand Voice of America staffers back to work by Monday. It's a major defeat f…
Marwan Bishara says Israel’s assassination of Larijani is calculated to prolong the war and bring about regime change.…
Technology
Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over i…
Security
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new method for exfiltrating sensitive data from artificial intelli…
A hacktivist group with links to Iran’s intelligence agencies is claiming responsibility for a data-wiping attack agains…
An expensive mistake : Someone jumped at the opportunity to steal $4.4 million in crypto assets after South Korea’s Nati…
Programming

Web Development

Design for Amiability: Lessons from Vienna

A List Apart

Today’s web is not always an amiable place. Sites greet you with a popover that demands assent to their cookie policy, and leave you with Taboola ads promising “One Weird Trick!” to cure your ailments. Social media sites are tuned for engagement, and few things are more engaging than a fight. Today it seems that people want to quarrel; I have seen flame wars among birders.

These tensions are often at odds with a site’s goals. If we are providing support and advice to customers, we don’t want those customers to wrangle with each other. That story has interesting implications for web environments that promote amiable interaction among disparate, difficult (and sometimes disagreeable) people.

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