Apple ‘Hide My Email’ Vulnerability Reveals Peoples’ Real Email Addresses
404 Media: “…Hide My Email is part of Apple’s paid iCloud+ product. It lets users generate an anonymous email address which they can then use to sign up to services or email people with instead of their personal email. These email addresses are often two random words and a number ending in the @icloud.com domain.
This can be useful for all sorts of reasons: to reduce spam; to create an account you may not want linked to your personal address and identity; and to not have your personal information held by a site that may later suffer a data breach. I personally have generated more than 400 email addresses with Hide My Email, for example. To test the issue I generated a new Hide My Email address and provided it to Murphy.
Around five minutes later, he replied with my real email address linked to my Apple account which was supposed to be hidden. “We don’t know the full scope of the issue, but in our limited tests with volunteers, 100% of Hide My Email addresses were exploitable,” Murphy said…”
Trump Wants YOUR Medical Data for His Drug War
Zeteo: “The Trump administration’s new drug strategy does more than escalate the war on fentanyl.
DOJ Tax is Hiring
Trevor Sikes, “DOJ Seeks More Tax Attorneys as Caseload Increases” (Tax Notes, June 29, 2026):
The Justice Department’s Tax Litigation Branch of the Civil Division is looking to bolster its workforce following a significant exodus of attorneys and an increased caseload, according to a government official.
“During the last couple of years, we’ve lost some significant amount of staff,” Joshua Wu, deputy assistant attorney general for the Tax Litigation Branch, said June 26 at a conference sponsored by the New York University School of Professional Studies.
Staffing has decreased about 30 to 40 percent since last year, while the Tax Litigation Branch caseload has continued to increase, according to Wu. The Civil Division has 4,413 pending tax trial matters — an increase of 138 from last year — and 373 appellate tax cases, which is 56 more than last year, he said.
The Analog Life: 50 Ways to Unplug and Feel Human Again
Inside Hook: “…I’ve put together a list of ways to live a more analog lifestyle. As I make the rules here, I’ve stretched the definition of “analog” a bit to accommodate a reasonably modern lifestyle. I’m not suggesting you cancel your wifi. This is more about adopting sustained, analog-adjacent routines — and while there are 50 here, I certainly wouldn’t recommend adopting all of them. Just cling to the ones that ring true. Perhaps they’re something to aspire to, or something you usedto do, before we got into this mess of an era.
These ideas are meant to create friction — to slow you down, interrupt default behaviors and make digital life feel a little less automatic. More than nostalgia, the analog life is about resistance. From old-school rituals, to single-use devices, to website blockers, these small interventions will help you live like a person again — instead of a user…”
The cost of being American
Brookings Institute:
- As the country heads into its 250th birthday this weekend, more than 40% of American households are struggling to make ends meet, and the reasons why look different depending on where you live, what you drive, and how you get to work. To understand why, Brookings researchers delved into the details—how the rising costs of housing, energy, and transportation are driving the affordability crisis. Here’s what they found. The price of getting around—and everything else.
- Congress is about to spend five years and untold billions on roads. Is it spending wisely? Millions of us will be driving a lot this weekend. So it makes sense to begin with roads: The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee’s BUILD America 250 Act would set the terms for federal transportation funding for the next half-decade. Adie Tomer and Ben Swedberg explainwhat the bill gets right (it gives states flexibility with what to spend on), where it falls short (it charges electric car owners too much in registration fees), and how Congress can fix these flaws. Tomer also recently led a related discussion with government leaders and industry experts on another transportation topic: why American transit buses cost so much more than they should, and how to fix that.
- Gas prices are up. EV policy is a patchwork. Fluctuating oil prices driven by the Iran war have sparked renewed interest in electric vehicles. But federal support for EV adoption has weakened, leaving a patchwork of state programs in its place. Shriya Methkupally and Mark Muro examine EV policy across all 50 states, finding that leaders like California and Massachusetts are doing more, while many other states continue to lag on charging infrastructure and purchase incentives






