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Tar.fyi: The Website Covering the World's Most Overlooked Material

Jun 22, 2026

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Tar.fyi: The Website Covering the World's Most Overlooked Material

The internet finally has an authoritative home for tar; a material older than writing, central to naval history, industrial chemistry, and heritage craft, and almost entirely absent from serious digital coverage until now.

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A Public Suspicion Engine: The Website Turning Disability Data Into a Targeting Framework

May 19, 2026

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A Public Suspicion Engine: The Website Turning Disability Data Into a Targeting Framework

PIP Devil, a UK welfare data platform presenting itself as civic-tech, packages disability benefit statistics alongside documented fraud cases in a format critics say is designed to generate hostility toward claimants rather than scrutiny of policy

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Apple Quietly Kills the $599 Mac Mini

May 5, 2026

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Apple Quietly Kills the $599 Mac Mini

Apple has discontinued the base M4 Mac mini, raising the entry price by $200 and exposing the machine's growing role in a global memory shortage triggered by AI infrastructure demand. A successor running Apple's M5 chip is expected later in 2026.

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Supply Chain Intrusion at Vercel: How a Compromised AI Tool Unlocked Enterprise Infrastructure

Apr 20, 2026

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Supply Chain Intrusion at Vercel: How a Compromised AI Tool Unlocked Enterprise Infrastructure

Subtitle: A Lumma Stealer infection of a Context.ai employee in February 2026 initiated a multi-stage attack chain that ultimately granted unauthorised access to Vercel's internal environments; the incident, confirmed on 19 April, has implicated OAuth permission models as a systemic vector, prompted Mandiant-led forensic investigation, and drawn scrutiny over supply chain security in cloud deployment infrastructure ahead of the company's anticipated IPO.

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Trump Says Iran War Exit Will Be a Joint Call With Israel; Later Claims Otherwise

Apr 4, 2026

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Trump Says Iran War Exit Will Be a Joint Call With Israel; Later Claims Otherwise

President Trump has offered contradictory signals on who holds authority over ending the US-Israeli assault on Iran; his shifting statements expose a fault line in coalition command as the conflict enters its fifth week with no exit terms agreed and Iran still firing.

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