Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt
This week on the insightful side, both top comments come in response to our post about the New York Times bending over backwards to downplay Trump’s criminality and absurdity. In…
Don’t call it an SUV: The Ferrari Purosangue review
Ferrari’s two-seat sports cars might be the brand’s identity, but the Italian automaker has always catered to customers who want to bring more than one passenger along for the ride.…
An undercover Google analyst infiltrated a notorious supply-chain hacking gang
Before two of its alleged members were arrested and charged in Australia last month, the hacker group known as TeamPCP carried out a hacking spree unlike any other in history.…
T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant
For most of the last century, T. rex was pictured as a sluggish, tail-dragging reptile that had to warm up in the sun before it could go anywhere. Then, further…
This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th – 19th
This Week in 2016 Colin Powell’s Email To Clinton About Personal Devices Shows Routing Around FOIA Is Business As Usual ACLU Launching Campaign To Have President Obama Pardon Snowden More…
Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon’s annual…
SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability,…
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach…
Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade
For decades, astronomers thought rings were something only giant planets had. That changed in 2013, when a small, dark body orbiting between Saturn and Uranus passed in front of a…
Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy
Learning another language is a highly complex mental activity. It requires people to remember words, distinguish unfamiliar sounds, recognize patterns, work out grammatical rules, and retrieve the right expression at…