Microsoft's internal strategy document outlining its plan to launch its personal AI assistant, Scout, begins with the point of "making people addicted" to the product. This was reported by 404 Media. Microsoft officially announced Scout as an “always-on personal agent” powered by the OpenClaw add-on and integrated into the Microsoft 365 suite. Prior to its public launch, the product was tested internally under the working title ClawPilot; the pilot started in March.

The British Ministry of Defense has begun using Starshield, a military version of SpaceX's Starlink satellite network. This was reported to Reuters by two sources familiar with the situation. Thus, the UK became one of the first countries outside the US to adopt this system. According to the agency's interlocutors, the transfer of military traffic to Starshield began around the beginning of this year.

Anthropic, the creator of the AI ​​assistant Claude, has confidentially filed for an initial public offering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ahead of its main competitor, OpenAI, Bloomberg writes . It is noted that both AI startups are fighting to be the first to enter the public market and gain an advantage in the race for computing power.

About 84% of popular Russian Android applications contain critical or high-level vulnerabilities. This follows from a report by analysts at AppSec Solutions, the Kommersant newspaper writes . The tested sample included 1.2 thousand popular applications in 2025. In total, almost 50 thousand vulnerabilities were found in them (48.8 thousand). A year earlier there were slightly less than 30 thousand - 29.9 thousand. The number of vulnerabilities increased by 63% over the year.

The Pentagon restricted journalists from visiting its press center, declaring it a secret location and effectively prohibiting them from accessing it. The Washington Post newspaper wrote about this with reference to sources, and also confirmed it. O. Pentagon press secretary Joel Valdez. In the press center, journalists used to meet with public relations officers, who provided briefings and answered questions from the media, including in informal conversations.

It was Schmidt’s disputes with Dodik — along with the position of Russia and China, which never recognized his appointment — that has led to the most severe crisis since the end of the Bosnian War. In June 2025, Dodik was removed from the post of president of Republika Srpska for failing to comply with the High Representative’s decisions.

Donald Trump announced the appointment of Bill Pulte as acting director of national intelligence. Pulte, 38, heads the Federal Housing Finance Agency and has no experience in intelligence, The Washington Post notes . Pulte has filed mortgage fraud allegations with the Justice Department against a number of Trump's political opponents, including New York Attorney General Letitia James, Senator Adam Schiff, Fed Governor Lisa Cook and former Congressman Eric Swalwell. All four deny any wrongdoing.

Hackers said they hacked many popular Instagram accounts using Meta's support chatbot. According to the specialized publication 404 Media, videos and screenshots demonstrating the hacking mechanism appeared in several Telegram groups where hackers and cybersecurity specialists communicate. The messages appeared against the backdrop of news about the hacking of President Barack Obama's Instagram, the Sephora brand page and others.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow released Novaya Gazeta journalist Oleg Roldugin, who was arrested in a case of “illegal access to computer information,” from a pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The editors of Novaya writes about this. The investigation requested a mitigation of the preventive measure. In court, the investigator said that Roldugin was dependent on minor children and elderly parents. In addition, he allegedly partially admitted guilt.

Meanwhile, the war with Iran has become a domestic political problem for the Trump administration. The official cost of the operation has reached $25 billion, but a more realistic estimate (which includes the cost of lost weapons and damage to military facilities) amounts to $40-50 billion. Over the brief duration of the conflict, U.S. forces have expended between 25% and 50% of their total stockpiles of precision-guided munitions and surface-to-air missiles.

Kenya's High Court has postponed for three weeks a lawsuit against the US quarantine center for Ebola infected, which the Trump administration plans to establish at the Laikipia airbase in the center of the country, The New York Times reports . The next hearing is scheduled for June 23, when the court will set the date for full hearings. Until this moment, the implementation of the project has been frozen.

A Russian court sentenced Russian and Belgian citizen Mikhail Loshchinin to 16 years in prison on charges of high treason. This was reported by the correspondent of “Caution, News” from the hall of the Pskov Regional Court. Loshchinin was found guilty of “financing representatives of a foreign state recognized as an enemy of the Russian Federation” - we are talking about a money transfer to an ex-girlfriend from Ukraine, which he made back in 2022.

Russia will introduce a temporary ban on imports of stone fruits and grapes from Armenia starting June 2, according to an announcement by Rosselkhoznadzor, Russia’s agricultural watchdog. The restrictions apply to sour cherries, sweet cherries, apricots, plums, peaches, nectarines, and fresh grapes.

Finnish cybersecurity company WithSecure has revealed details of the activities of a previously unknown hacker group GREYVIBE, which has been attacking military personnel, officials and civilians in Ukraine since at least August 2025. A distinctive feature of the group is the systematic use of generative artificial intelligence at all stages of operations. Hackers used several schemes to infect victims' devices.

VEB.RF (Russian state development corporation) will carry out another reorganization: the state corporation intends to fire 15% of its staff. This was stated by its chairman Igor Shuvalov at a meeting of the Federation Council committee, Vedomosti reports . According to Shuvalov, over eight years, VEB experienced seven reorganizations, during which the staff was reduced by 3,000 people.