Janky Web, Empty Silos, and Drone Wars: June 19 Digest

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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