LegalPwn: Tricking LLMs by burying badness in lawyerly fine print Summary Researchers at security firm Pangea describe “LegalPwn,” an attack that buries adversarial instructions inside legal-style text so that large…
Summary Rupert Goodwins argues that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks are an overlooked but rapidly growing cybercrime. Citing Netscout’s mid‑2025 threat report, he highlights millions of attacks worldwide and…
What Made Meta Suddenly Ban Tens of Thousands of Accounts? Summary For months tens of thousands of Facebook and Instagram users have reported being suspended or banned in error. The…
Rick Beato vs UMG: Fighting Copyright Claims Over Music Clips on YouTube Summary Popular music educator and YouTuber Rick Beato says Universal Music Group (UMG) has been issuing repeated Content…
‘Swatting’ Hits a Dozen US Universities. The FBI is Investigating Summary This report summarises a wave of false active-shooter reports — known as swatting — that targeted about a dozen…
Smelling This One Specific Scent Can Boost the Brain’s Grey Matter Summary Researchers from Kyoto University and the University of Tsukuba asked 28 women to wear a specific rose-scented oil…
What Happened When Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan Tried Rust? Summary At a recent talk, 83-year-old Brian Kernighan (co-creator of Unix) described his one hands-on attempt to write a Rust program.…
Are AI Web Crawlers ‘Destroying Websites’ In Their Hunt for Training Data? Summary Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols (via The Register) argues that aggressive AI web crawlers are “strip-mining” the web for…
Beta Blockers for Heart Attack Survivors: May Have No Benefit for Most, Could Actually Harm Women Summary A large modern trial (REBOOT) randomised 8,505 people who survived a myocardial infarction…
Former US Government Site Climate.Gov Attempts Relaunch as Non-Profit Summary The team behind the US government climate information site climate.gov — many of whom were dismissed earlier this summer —…
