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As frontier models automate vulnerability discovery at machine scale, security chiefs scramble to automate patching before hackers weaponize flaws.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

The data leak had gone unnoticed for months before Coupang detected it in November, according to South Korean authorities and lawmakers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

This is the Makerfield constituency, where locals are being heard louder than ever before in the most consequential by-election in decades.

From BBC • Jun. 11, 2026

She may have grown up in showbusiness, working on multiple Disney shows before launching her music career, but she's neither cosseted nor precious.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

Before the introduction of ether a few months before, surgeons had to employ powerful assistants to hold down patients or restrain them with leather-covered chains.

From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman