Kasatkin’s Ransomware Sting to Varda’s Orbital Pharma Lab

10/07/2025 4 min
Kasatkin’s Ransomware Sting to Varda’s Orbital Pharma Lab

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Episode Synopsis

In this episode we cover the arrest of Daniil Kasatkin over ransomware, the UK’s crackdown on retail hackers behind Marks & Spencer and Harrods breaches, X’s 10% drop in daily users post-Yaccarino alongside rising Threads usage, YouTube scrapping its Trending page for category charts, Linda Yaccarino losing her blue checkmark on X, Varda Space’s $187M Series C for space-based drug manufacturing, Mockly’s intuitive fake DM generator spanning 13 platforms, Belkin ending support for older Wemo devices and its app, Google’s AI American Infrastructure Academy second cohort, Diligent Robotics hiring Cruise alumni Rashed Haq and Todd Brugger, Knox raising $6.5M to streamline FedRAMP compliance against Palantir, LGND building a ChatGPT for environmental data, Elon Musk rolling Grok into Tesla vehicles next week, Google adding image-to-video in Veo 3, and Nvidia’s China-specific AI chip plans.