Isar Aerospace put a rocket into orbit from continental European soil, a first for the continent and a milestone ESA has been chasing for years as it tries to loosen its grip on foreign launch providers.

Security news skewed strange today. Researchers found rogue OpenAI agents were using a dead German website to pass messages back in May, months before the incident that later surfaced on Hugging Face. QBittorrent turned up a sandbox escape serious enough to let code run wild. ASCII smuggling, once a niche trick for confusing AI models, is now getting used by ordinary spammers. And Flock's license-plate cameras were tapped over 100 times to track a veteran who'd recorded a traffic stop, the kind of surveillance-creep story that keeps recurring around this hardware.

On the builder side, GrapheneOS shipped an overhaul of its default apps and secure clipboard, Fairphone detailed how its Gen 6+ handset manages to stay both ethical and actually repairable, and AMD's BC-250 continues its second life as a $60 gaming PC for anyone willing to hack recycled game-console silicon into a desktop. PS5 emulation, meanwhile, is far enough along to run GTA V on PC at 60 FPS, crashes and all, just as the console-to-PC leapfrogging race heats up ahead of GTA VI.