The Falcon 9 rocket launched in 2025, carrying a pair of privately funded lunar rovers. www.axios.com/2026/08/04/s...
SpaceX rocket debris will hit the Moon tomorrow
It's more than just space junk — it's a chance for science.
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Information Security professional. At least that is what people claim. More of an information security curmudgeon.
Hackers of all skill levels are developing attacks and finding exploitable software vulnerabilities with the help of mostly closed AI models. www.axios.com/2026/08/04/e...
Recovered chat logs show how hackers are abusing U.S. AI models
Hackers of all skill levels are using a range of closed models to develop their attacks.
axios.com
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
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The platform could transform how the Army fights — and become one of the military's most attractive hacking targets. www.axios.com/newsletters/...
Axios Future of Cybersecurity - 1 big thing: Bringing AI onto the battlefield — securely
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Please ... do NOT do this ... pciguru.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/w...
What Not To Do – Service Provider Responsibility Matrix
Every now and then I come across a piece of work product that just provides an example of what not to do. This week was one of those times. I received a Service Provider Responsibility Matrix from …
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AI companies are expected to review a draft Tuesday at a meeting with the Office of the National Cyber Director, according to five people familiar with the planning who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
White House finalizes artificial intelligence oversight framework
The administration is preparing to brief leading AI companies on its blueprint for reviewing advanced AI models.
politico.com
New: The US released a plan that for now staves off catastrophic cuts to water supply in Arizona, California and Nevada as the Colorado River climate crisis leaves reservoirs at record lows, threatening a resource supporting 40m people, $1 trillion in GDP. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Colorado River Water Plan Postpones Reckoning With a Drier Future
The US government’s move avoids severe reductions to Arizona, California and Nevada as reservoirs reach record lows.
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Update: Google just sent me a statement saying it is “rolling back” this AI feature that let anyone make completely bullshit satellite images. Comes after our demos of the tool and those from OSINT researchers. One of the worst AI tools I’ve ever seen bsky.app/profile/jose...
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5d agoNew from 404 Media: Google Earth has introduced an AI feature that lets anyone fabricate completely bullshit satellite images. In our own tests, we added a “bomb blast and crater” to an area of Los Angeles. This is a misinformation time bomb, will 100% be abused www.404media.co/google-earth...
Chicago Trend is buying Hawthorn Crossings, a north Minneapolis strip mall, and asking neighbors to invest at least $1,000 to own part of it. It’s a model the company says has succeeded in other cities. Written by Viktorie Spurná
Developer wants neighbors to own part of north Minneapolis mall
Chicago Trend is buying Hawthorn Crossings, a north Minneapolis strip mall, and asking neighbors to invest at least $1,000 to own part of it. It’s a model the company says has succeeded in other citie...
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Heads up all of you vibe coders. futurism.com/future-socie...
If You AI-Generate Code, Hackers Just Found a Devious Method to Install Malware Directly on Your Computer
AI hallucinations are a remarkably easy vector for cyber criminals, who can anticipate hallucinations with hidden malware.
futurism.com
There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would take a classical computer an unreasonable amount of time to generate. arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Quantum computers outperform classical ones, with results you can trust
Three approaches to the issue of quantum results that can't be verified classically.
arstechnica.com
Finland to disconnect fiber-optic link to Russia as lease expires Finland stopped power transmissions with Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and two related telecom connections will stop at the end of this year, authorities said.
Finland to disconnect fiber-optic link to Russia as lease expires
Finland stopped power transmissions with Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, and two related telecom connections will stop at the end of this year, authorities said.
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The technology, called high-bandwidth flash (HBF), is being developed by Sandisk and SK Hynix and aims to provide SSD-like capacities at HBM-like speeds. www.theregister.com/storage/2026...
GPUs could explode to multiple TB with new storage-inspired memory tech
High-bandwidth flash promises SSD-like capacities with HBM-like speeds, but it's not all unicorns and rainbows
theregister.com
Chinese military researchers have used outputs from leading U.S. artificial intelligence models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train domestic AI systems to advance China’s defense capabilities. www.defensenews.com/industry/tec...
Chinese military researchers tap US AI models to train defense systems
Chinese researchers have reportedly used leading U.S. AI models developed by OpenAI and Anthropic to train AI systems to advance defense capabilities.
defensenews.com
Apple tumbled in late trading after component shortages weighed on the company’s sales forecast, signalling that industry-wide supply constraints are taking a bigger toll than anticipated. www.straitstimes.com/business/com...
Apple slides after chip shortages fuelled by high iPhone demand hurt sales forecast
The supply crunch has also led to extended wait times on key computers like the Mac mini. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. hackaday.com/2026/07/28/f...
FreeBSD Just Removed The Last Of Its GPL-Licensed Code
With a recent change that removed dialog in favor of bsddialog, FreeBSD has now retired the last piece of GPL-licensed code in its base system. Although the impact of this change will be minor for …
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Google is preparing to build AI chips at Nvidia's scale by 2028. www.techspot.com/news/113307-...
Google plans to produce up to 15 million AI chips by 2028, rivaling Nvidia's total accelerator volume
If those numbers hold, Google's output would be in the same range as Nvidia's projected shipments. Fubon estimates that Nvidia supplied 8.2 million data center GPUs in...
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This is thought to be the first known case in the United States where federal prosecutors have charged someone for the alleged destruction of data using a “duress” password built into a phone’s software. techcrunch.com/2026/07/24/u...
US accuses American of allegedly wiping his phone using a 'duress' password during border search | TechCrunch
A U.S. citizen has asked a court to throw out the government's claim that he gave over a passcode to border authorities that wiped his phone's data, opening up fresh questions about a person's constit...
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IBM's recent earnings show a reallocation of investment toward AI infrastructure, yet CIOs must still find a way to fund IT as a whole. www.informationweek.com/it-strategy/...
Rethinking the IT portfolio and budget in the AI era
IBM's recent earnings show a reallocation of investment toward AI infrastructure, yet CIOs must still find a way to fund IT as a whole.
informationweek.com
The four big hyperscalers have ploughed more than $1tn into capital investments since their race to dominate AI began three and a half years ago. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Big Tech AI spending spree tops $1tn
Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Meta have vastly increased their investments since the AI boom began in 2023
giftarticle.ft.com
The research firm says organizations worldwide are specifying data residency and sovereign AI architecture requirements at the planning stage. www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20...
Tech buyers are baking in sovereignty from day one, says Forrester
European firms feel the greatest pressure as US giants dominate cloud and AI infrastructure
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Named CosmosEscape, the vulnerability exposed the primary key for Cosmos DB accounts, granting full read and write access. www.securityweek.com/critical-fla...
Critical Flaw Led to Azure Cosmos DB Pwnage
CosmosEscape, a critical vulnerability in Azure, could have allowed attackers to compromise any database on the Cosmos DB service.
securityweek.com
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency. www.wired.com/story/defcon...
The New Defcon Badges Pack a Unique Open Source Chip That Doubles as a Security Key
Created by legendary hardware hacker Andrew “bunnie” Huang, the badges for this year’s famed security conference aim to push the boundaries of security and transparency.
wired.com
The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...
Five Takeaways From the Times Investigation Into Larry Ellison’s A.I. Gamble (Gift Article)
The billionaire’s company took on ominous loads of debt to build data centers around the world. The implications go far beyond Oracle.
nytimes.com
Every business we talk to is trying to figure out how that disruption impacts them. And while the conversations we have often center on software security and engineering, today I want to look at the situation more broadly. shostack.org/blog/ai-and-...
AI and Business Strategy
How can we shape a business strategy in an ‘AI world?’
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A groundbreaking new analysis finds these devices also routinely spoof themselves as mobile phones clicking ads on AI-generated websites as part of a sprawling operation that seeks to defraud online merchants and advertising networks. krebsonsecurity.com/2026/07/read...
Read This Before You Buy That TV Streaming Stick
Security experts have been sounding the alarm for years about the risks of using generic TV boxes that promise unlimited content streaming for a one-time fee, warning that they secretly rent the user'...
krebsonsecurity.com
The FAA, facing a backlog in demand for space missions, is proposing to cut down on environmental reviews to accelerate launches and re-entries. www.space.com/space-explor...
The US government wants to bypass environmental laws for commercial launches and spacecraft reentries
The FAA, facing a backlog in demand for space missions, is proposing to cut down on environmental reviews to accelerate launches and re-entries.
space.com
The move came after a Minnesota Star Tribune investigation revealed police departments in and out of Minnesota searched suburban license plate reader data during Operation Metro Surge. www.startribune.com/twin-cities-...
Twin Cities suburbs restrict license plate data after Star Tribune investigation
Law enforcement agencies, some working with ICE, were searching local Flock camera data during Operation Metro Surge.
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