Linus Torvalds Slams Anti‑Vaccine Rhetoric, New Cloud Malware, and Tech Market Shifts

Linus Torvalds Slams Anti‑Vaccine Rhetoric

Linus Torvalds reacted angrily to a kernel maintainer’s email that likened vaccination to a human experiment, calling the anti‑vaccine statements "TMD, stupid" and providing a brief scientific rebuttal.

> And I know *a lot* of people who will never take part in this generic human experiment that basically creates a new humanoid race (people who generate and exhaust the toxic spike protein, whose gene sequence doesn’t look quote natural). I’m one of them, as my whole family.

Multiple Global Websites Experience Outages

On June 17, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, the Reserve Bank of Australia, and several U.S. airlines including Delta suffered website outages; the Hong Kong Exchange later recovered.

Tim Berners‑Lee Auctions Web Source Code as NFT

Sir Tim Berners‑Lee announced that the original source code of the World Wide Web will be auctioned as an NFT on June 23, featuring over 9,500 lines of Objective‑C code covering HTTP, HTML, and URI standards, plus a Python‑generated visual poster with his digital signature.

First Windows Server Container‑Escaping Malware Discovered

Palo Alto Networks identified “Siloscape,” the first malware capable of escaping Windows Server containers to compromise Kubernetes clusters. Researchers say the attacks have been ongoing for at least a year, targeting unpatched web applications and harvesting cluster credentials to establish persistent backdoors.

IDC Reports 33.9% YoY Growth in China Industrial Cloud Market (H2 2020)

IDC’s H2 2020 report shows China’s industrial cloud market reached US$2.3 billion, up 33.9% year‑over‑year, with infrastructure growth matching that of cloud solutions (32.7% vs. 36.7%).

Reportlinker Forecasts Global Telecom Cloud Market to Reach $523 B by 2026

According to Reportlinker, the global telecom cloud market is projected to grow from US$19.8 billion in 2021 to US$523 billion by 2026, a compound annual growth rate of 21.4%.

Microsoft Announces End of Support for Windows 10 in October 2025

Microsoft confirmed that support for Windows 10, both Pro and Home editions, will end on October 14 2025.

Google Develops Custom VCU for YouTube, Replacing Millions of Intel CPUs

Google unveiled a purpose‑built video‑processing unit (VCU) named Argos for YouTube, allowing the company to replace millions of Intel Xeon CPUs with its own silicon to improve energy efficiency and scaling for transcoding across multiple resolutions and codecs.

Volkswagen Data Leak Affects 3.3 Million Customers

Volkswagen disclosed that personal data of about 3.3 million Volkswagen and Audi owners—including names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and partial driver‑license, license‑plate, and loan numbers—was exposed, prompting calls for stronger data governance in the automotive sector.