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T. rex teeth indicate it ran as warm as an elephant

September 20, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

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This Week In Techdirt History: September 13th – 19th

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

Cybersecurity

Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

Cybersecurity

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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,…

Cybersecurity

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

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Rings around a tiny body have changed over the past decade

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

Technology

Learning another language may be one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

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…

Cybersecurity

Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Google’s Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by…

Cybersecurity

Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which…

Cybersecurity

CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories

September 19, 2026 Blogmaster

An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec’s private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French…

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