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DAILY ISSUE · 2026-05-26

Tuesday 26 May 2026

5 dispatches · every item carries a primary source and independent corroboration.

Markets1 filed
Hungary holds base rate at 6.25% as cooling inflation and forint rally open the
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MARKETS · rates central banks · 2026-05-26SCOOP 63

Hungary holds base rate at 6.25% as cooling inflation and forint rally open the door to a June cut

Hungary's central bank left its base rate unchanged at 6.25% on Tuesday, May 26 — its lowest level in four years — while signalling that the door is opening to renewed easing as soon as June. In its post-meeting statement, the Magyar Nemzeti Bank's Monetary Council said April consumer prices rose 2.1% year-on-year with core inflation at 2.2%, both lower than projected in the Ma

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Charter (Spectrum) Confirms Breach After ShinyHunters Vishing Hits Salesforce; H
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CYBER · cves zero days · 2026-05-26SCOOP 75

Charter (Spectrum) Confirms Breach After ShinyHunters Vishing Hits Salesforce; Hackers Claim Up to 42M Records

Charter Communications confirmed a data breach after the extortion group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen up to 40-42 million records in an attack dated on or around April 1, 2026. According to ShinyHunters' account to BleepingComputer, the actors used a voice-phishing (vishing) call to compromise an employee's Microsoft Entra account, then accessed Charter's Salesforce inst

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ShinyHunters Leaks 7-Eleven Franchise-Applicant Data on ~185,000 People After Fa
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CYBER · cves zero days · 2026-05-26SCOOP 58

ShinyHunters Leaks 7-Eleven Franchise-Applicant Data on ~185,000 People After Failed Extortion

Data on approximately 185,000 people was exposed in a cyberattack on convenience-store chain 7-Eleven that was later claimed by the ShinyHunters extortion gang. 7-Eleven discovered unauthorized third-party access on April 8, 2026; on May 1, CISO Jim Kastle confirmed the breach involved documents individuals had submitted during the franchise-application process. ShinyHunters pu

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EU Finalizes Record DMA Fine Against Google as Reports Say von der Leyen Held Ba
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EU Finalizes Record DMA Fine Against Google as Reports Say von der Leyen Held Back the Announcement

The European Commission is finalizing the largest fine ever imposed under the Digital Markets Act against Alphabet's Google, a penalty in the "high triple-digit million euro" range targeting self-preferencing in Search, according to a Handelsblatt report picked up by CNBC on May 26. Regulators concluded that Google systematically ranked its own shopping, flight and hotel servic

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DeepMind's Hassabis: We're in the 'Foothills of the Singularity&#
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MODELS · alignment safety · 2026-05-26SCOOP 68

DeepMind's Hassabis: We're in the 'Foothills of the Singularity' — AGI Possible by 2029

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis used a May 26 Axios interview to deliver his most compressed AGI timeline yet, saying humanity is standing in the 'foothills of the singularity' and that society has only a few years left to prepare. Hassabis said he still broadly expects artificial general intelligence around 2030 but now sees 2029 as a possibility, a view he tied to mounting

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