The FCC's bans on foreign-made Wi-Fi routers and drones initially included an expiration date on software updates, but the commission has now extended the cutoff from 2027 to 2029. On Friday, the FCC

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A newly disclosed Linux kernel local privilege escalation vulnerability chain, dubbed “Dirty Frag” and assigned CVE-2026-43284 and CVE-2026-43500, enables attackers with local access to obtain root pr

Human Typing Habits and Token Counts May 8, 2026 | Reading Time: 3 min gpt Humans type for speed, tone, and habit. Tokenizers split text based on common patterns, and providers bill per token. That m

On November 30th 2025, I reported a critical remote code execution vulnerability ("React2Shell") to Meta. On December 3rd, Meta released a fix and public advisory (CVE-2025-55182), urging developers t

Editors’ note: AI has been actively pushing the frontier of applied formal methods for computing systems. In this article, the Specula team wrote about their experience of evaluating LLMs on modeling

i just so happened to have bought a domain and had a spare pi laying around. so i started making a website. having played around with astro and svelte before, i find myself hesitating between the two.

Mobile phones are locked into Yondr pouches before people enter an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum on Nov. 22, 2019, in New York City. AFP via Getty Images As schools across the country have steadi

Meta may be fighting tooth and nail to prove that WhatsApp offers end-to-end encryption (E2E), but as of today, it's removing the technology from Instagram DMs. E2E encryption means that no one excep

Cloudflare is laying off more than 1,100 employees as the cybersecurity company says it is reorganizing for the "agentic AI era," according to a memo sent to staff on Thursday. Loading audio narratio

Last year, we released a case study on agentic misalignment. In experimental scenarios, we showed that AI models from many different developers sometimes took egregiously misaligned actions when they

Even before Claude Mythos was announced, there were clear signs that the next era of CVEs would be found by AI models. Big Sleep found a zero-day vulnerability in SQLite, Microsoft Copilot found 20+ C

In 2007, Nobel laureates Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman, and other notable scholars published a statement arguing that prediction markets could “substantially improve public and private decision-makin

About FreeBSD FreeBSD is often described as one of the most secure operating systems in the world, with its reputation arising from its high-quality networking stack, deliberate engineering, and a ph

I quit the security circus a few years ago. Every now and then, though, an old friend still asks me about some kernel trick, a bug that hasn't quite died yet, or help with a little privesc gig... so I

For the past month the story of a man who discovered almost a million dollars worth of rare trading cards in a Texas dumpster has enthralled a niche subset of the Yu-Gi-Oh trading card game community.

In the 1920s, due to the newfound accessibility of cars, long-distance driving became an option for Americans looking to travel. Suddenly, more people were careening down long highways, bored, with no

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a new law aimed at reining in large-scale data centers, saying everyday Floridians shouldn’t have to pay higher utility bills to support facilities that po

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Google has tied its next-generation reCAPTCHA system to Google Play Services on Android, meaning anyone running a de-Googled phone will automatically fail verification when the system decides to chall

Court To DOGE Bros: Asking ChatGPT ‘Yo, Is This DEI?’ Is Not Proper Legal Process & Also A First Amendment Violation from the yo-chatgpt,-is-this-legal? dept Back in early 2025, DOGE bros Justin Fox

A week ago the Copy Fail vulnerability came out, and Hyunwoo Kim immediately realized that the fixes were insufficient, sharing a patch the same day . In doing this he followed standard procedure for

The European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS) has warned that virtual private networks (VPNs) are increasingly being used to bypass online age-verification systems, describing the trend as “a loo

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Serving a Website on a Raspberry Pi Zero Running Entirely in RAM 2026-05-08 My micro site, zero.btxx.org, is being served to the public internet from a Raspberry Pi Zero v1.3 running Alpine Linux.

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In May 2026, Google announced “Google Cloud Fraud Defense - the next evolution of reCAPTCHA.” The announcement described a QR code challenge where users scan a code with their phone to prove human pre

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The number of bans being enacted against data centers is increasing across the U.S., with one tracker listing 14 new bans from March to April. According to the U.S. Data Center Moratorium Tracker, the

Claude Code chief Boris Cherny is one of the tech industry's foremost AI-code evangelists. But the popular term that now defines this type of tool — "vibe coding" — is beginning to annoy him. Loading

Texas coal and gas power plants consumed more than 100 billion gallons of water in 2024, according to a new Sierra Club report that calls on state leaders to accelerate the shift to renewable energy a

On this page Introduction Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communication

A London woman was covertly filmed through smart glasses in a shopping centre, had the footage viewed approximately 40,000 times online, and was then told by the man responsible that removal was a “pa