Remember the Companies Making Vital Open Source Contributions Summary Matt Asay, writing in InfoWorld and highlighted on Slashdot, argues that many large companies do the unglamorous but essential work that…
AI Is Reshaping Hacking. No One Agrees How Fast Summary At Black Hat this year several cybersecurity vendors unveiled AI-driven agents and tools that could give defenders new capabilities —…
Researchers Solve Long-Standing Mystery After Voyager’s 1986 Flyby of Uranus Summary A new study led by researchers at the University of Houston reports that Uranus emits roughly 12.5% more heat…
Illinois Bans AI Therapy, Joins Two Other States in Regulating Chatbots Summary Illinois has enacted a law that forbids the use of artificial intelligence in mental-health therapy. Licensed therapists in…
Seagate ‘Spins Up’ a Raid on a Counterfeit Hard Drive Workshop Summary Security teams from Seagate’s Singapore and Malaysian offices, working with Malaysian authorities, raided a warehouse outside Kuala Lumpur…
Can We Harness Light Like Nature for a New Era of Green Chemistry? Summary Researchers in the Polyzos group at the University of Melbourne have developed a new class of…
America’s Labour Unions Back State Regulations for AI Use in Workplaces Summary Labour unions across the United States are working with state lawmakers to place legal guardrails on how employers…
Phishing Training Is Pretty Pointless, Researchers Find Summary Researchers presenting at Black Hat reported results from a large-scale, real-world study showing that typical employee phishing training produces almost no practical…
Opening Act: The Chaos Factor in Ransomware The LockBit 4.0 leak has exposed a chaotic and unpredictable ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem, fundamentally altering the landscape of ransomware negotiations. This revelation demands…
What the LockBit 4.0 Leak Reveals About RaaS Groups Summary The LockBit 4.0 affiliate panel leak (May 2025) exposed thousands of chats, ransomware builds and wallet data, revealing an opportunistic,…
