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Tennessee man dodges prison after bragging about government hacks on Instagram
Nicholas Moore, 25, received one year of probation after pleading guilty to repeatedly accessing user accounts on the US Supreme Court's electronic filing syste
Three Months Offline: A Programmer's Retreat From AI-Assisted Coding
A former Aily Labs engineer who spent two years building AI agents is deliberately stepping away from coding assistants for a 12-week stint at Brooklyn's Recurs
Troy Hunt ships MCP server for Have I Been Pwned, opens HIBP to agentic AI
Have I Been Pwned now exposes a Model Context Protocol endpoint at haveibeenpwned.com/mcp, letting agentic AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot que
Trump's third CDC nominee is a credentialed vaccine advocate — a break from RFK Jr.'s orbit
Dr. Erica Schwartz, a preventive-medicine physician and retired rear admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, has been nominated to lead the
Used EV market opens up at the $25,000 price point
The $20,000-$25,000 bracket for used electric vehicles has become unexpectedly deep, with thousands of cars nationwide and ex-lease inventory filling dealer lot
Willison's one-shot prompt pattern: clone-for-reference, imitate-existing-logic, self-verify
Simon Willison walks through a short Claude Code prompt that extended his blog-to-newsletter tool to include a new content type called 'beats' - external items
Anthropic's Mythos Model Exposes Who Decides Which Infrastructure Gets Defended First
Anthropic restricted its Claude Mythos Preview model to roughly 50 organizations under Project Glasswing, citing its dangerous capability at finding and weaponi
Carders Now Vet Their Own Black Markets Like Enterprise Buyers Do SaaS
Flare analysts surfaced an underground forum document titled 'The Underground Guide to Legit CC Shops' that reads less like a how-to for fraud and more like a p
CISA: 13-Year-Old ActiveMQ Flaw Found by Claude AI Now Under Active Exploit
CISA added CVE-2026-34197, a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this week, giving federal agencies unti
CISA Flags Apache ActiveMQ Flaw CVE-2026-34197 as Actively Exploited
CISA has added CVE-2026-34197, a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation in the wi
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Filmed Eating Another Squid
Schneier's weekly squid post highlights a Japanese video capturing a giant squid consuming another squid, serving as the recurring open thread for security topi
Google Blocks 8.3B Bad Ads in 2025, Ships Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
Google says it stopped 8.3 billion ads from running in 2025 for breaching its policies, a scale that underscores how much of the ad ecosystem is adversarial rat