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SECURITY All the Ways Europe Is Ditching American Technology BY MATT BURGESS | 2-MINUTE READ A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.   SCIENCE The US Has a Plan to Combat Screwworm. It Involves a Lot More Flies BY EMILY MULLIN | 3-MINUTE READ Releasing sterilized flies can crash a local population of flesh-eating screwworms. But the US currently has limited capacity to produce them.   SECURITY NEWS Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming BY ANDY GREENBERG, DELL CAMERON, DHRUV MEHROTRA, AND MADDY VARNER | 5-MINUTE READ Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.

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