❗️Meta's smart glasses could be banned in Germany and the rest of the EU.

Hamburg data protection commissioner Thomas Fuchs, Meta's lead regulator in Germany, says his office tested the glasses, found the recording LED too easy to miss, and concluded that filming people in public with them breaks data protection law. It is already issuing fines.

His verdict: a camera disguised as an everyday object is illegal to sell or own in Germany. Only the Bundesnetzagentur can order that ban; it is reportedly reviewing.

France's CNIL warned about the whole category in May, and the European Data Protection Board's report on smart glasses is due this summer.

❗️ Y Combinator has told flight startup Soar to strip the YC logo off an ad truck in San Francisco.

The screens read "scan for instant acceptance into" beside YC's logo. Scanning it opened the flight website and a $50 flight credit.

YC legal chief Carolynn Levy told the founder he has no permission to use the mark and demanded written confirmation the same day.

‼️ BREAKING: More than 100,000 UK police officers and staff have had their full names, contact details and force locations leaked on the dark web after a hack on the national police legal database.

MoD, Home Office, NCA and CPS staff are also exposed. One officer says the leak "puts officers at serious risk."

‼️ UPDATE: Arch Linux has now disabled ALL pushes to the Arch User Repository (AUR) as it fights malware.

No AUR package can be updated while the team hunts malicious commits.

❗️ The slopocalypse is real. MITRE published a critical SQLite vulnerability with a CVSS of 10.0 that does not exist. Turns out it was hallucinated by an LLM. SQLite's Richard Hipp says dozens more fake CVEs were filed.

CVE-2026-51302 was assigned on 27 July. CISA's enrichment programme then scored it critical and flagged a public proof-of-concept. The Dutch National Cyber Security Center republished it as an advisory, and has now withdrawn it, saying the "vulnerability" was most likely hallucinated by an LLM.

❗️Great news for Linux enthusiasts: Linux crossed 10% of North American desktop traffic for the first time, 10.65% last month.

That's over 3.5x its 2.94% in April, per StatCounter.

❗️China's CXMT wants to solve the DRAM crisis by opening a second memory fab in Beijing and is in early talks with the state-backed development zone over funding.

Its current projects alone would double output to 600,000+ wafers a month. Beijing's memory fab would come on top of that — as international DRAM prices keep climbing.

For comparison, the three biggest players' capacity this year (per month):
Samsung 720k wafers
SK hynix 550k wafers
Micron 375k wafers