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From Hillary Coover in Washington, DC: Many of you might be thinking enough with the Chinese balloon story, but did you know it was fitted with American technology?

From Edwin Kwan in Sydney, Australia: It's bad enough when apps you use suffers a data breach. It's worse when apps you didn't know you have gets breached. 

From Katy Craig in San Diego, California: US Cyber Command's team of tech savvy military and civilian experts known as "Under Advisement", is set to double in size over the next year. Under Advisement's role complements the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative.

From Mark Miller in New York City: Last week an article in the New York Times evaluated the accuracy of a set of five AI detection tools for evaluating images. In the best case scenario, 20% incorrectly identified whether an image was AI generated or not. In the worst case, all evaluation engines were incorrect. 

From Sourced Network Production in New York city. "It's 5:05". I'm Pokie Huang. Today is Monday, July 3rd. Here's the full story behind today's cyber security and open source headlines...