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Outrage grows as CDC reportedly poised to fund “unethical” vaccine trial

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

Outrage has erupted among health experts over news that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still eager to fund a widely condemned vaccine trial that would expose newborns…

Technology

AI coding agents generate more code, but not more software

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

Anyone who has even tangentially associated with computer programming knows that modern AI coding assistants and agents can be incredibly efficient at generating huge amounts of functional code. But coders…

Cybersecurity

Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. “Using the account…

Technology

Starlink spectrum deal boosts Musk plan to beat AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

SpaceX has a deal to purchase nationwide low-band spectrum licenses for a planned terrestrial mobile network that would complement the space-based Starlink cellular service. SpaceX will buy up to 14…

Technology

Your artwork could be featured in the next Debian release

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

The Debian Linux project has opened a call for community artwork submissions ahead of the release of the upcoming Forky (Debian 14). If you think you’ve got the artistic chops,…

Technology

AI disqualification yields new Nikon Small World in Motion winner

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

Credit: Nguyen Nam Nhat. Last month we covered the winner of Nikon’s Small World in Motion video: Ning Xu of Tsinghua University in China, whose video captured tiny cilia beating…

Technology

PC shipments fall 20.1 percent in “sharpest decline” since Q1 2023

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

PC shipments saw a steep drop of about 20 percent in Q3 2026, analysts reported this week. The industry saw its “sharpest decline since “Q1 2023,” Omdia said in an…

Cybersecurity

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in…

Technology

Alabama’s TikTok Settlement Comes With An Affiliate Program For Getting Other AGs To Go After TikTok

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

The big Meta multi-state settlement got most of the headlines, and there’s been plenty of discussion about how it’s a bad deal for kids and pretty clearly anti-competitive. That’s thanks…

Technology

Daily Deal: The Essential MATLAB & LabVIEW Mega Bundle

October 9, 2026 Blogmaster

The Essential MATLAB and LabVIEW Mega Bundle has 9 courses to help you improve your skills in programming and visualization. You’ll learn the basics of each and then go through…

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