June 20, 2026
Today's top tech stories, deduped across the newsletters I read and briefly summarized. Click a source to open the original article.
AI
Norway imposes near-ban on AI in elementary schools
Norwegian authorities have introduced a near-total ban on AI in primary schools, positioning the country as one of the strictest regulators of AI use among children globally.
New York man charged with cyberstalking using AI-generated nudes
A New York man faces cyberstalking charges after allegedly creating AI-generated nude images and fabricated racist messages via fake social media profiles to harass a Georgia college student.
Security
CISA: Critical Splunk Enterprise flaw actively exploited, patch by Sunday
CISA is ordering U.S. federal agencies to patch a critical Splunk Enterprise vulnerability by Sunday, as attackers are already exploiting the flaw in the wild.
Klue confirms OAuth breach as Icarus hackers claim the attack
Market intelligence platform Klue has confirmed that threat actors stole OAuth tokens giving access to customers' Salesforce environments, with the newly emerged Icarus extortion group taking credit for the attack.
Texas data breach exposes over 3 million driver's licenses
The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department disclosed a breach at its license system vendor that exposed personal information for more than three million individuals.
Hackers exploit info disclosure bug in Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin
Threat actors are actively exploiting an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability in the Gravity SMTP WordPress plugin, which is active on over 100,000 sites.
Dev
Project Valhalla lands in JDK 28 after a decade of work
After ten years of development, Project Valhalla is set to ship in JDK 28, bringing value types that promise significantly better performance and memory efficiency for Java applications.
DuckDB internals explained – part 1
A deep dive into DuckDB's internal architecture explains how the database achieves its high performance for analytical workloads.
ClickHouse celebrates ten years as open source
ClickHouse marks its tenth anniversary as an open-source project, tracing the journey from an internal Yandex tool to one of the world's most widely used analytical databases.
Web
There are no instances in ATProto
React co-creator Dan Abramov publishes an in-depth explanation of ATProto's data model, arguing that the protocol does not work like traditional federated systems with server instances.
IT
Microsoft confirms Recycle Bin bug in June 2026 Windows updates
A bug introduced by Microsoft's latest Windows updates causes the wrong filename to appear in the confirmation dialog when deleting files from the Recycle Bin, affecting all supported Windows releases.
Other
Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics
SoftBank exits Boston Dynamics, selling its stake for $325 million and handing Hyundai full ownership of the robotics company.