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Unvaccinated Pennsylvania woman died of measles complications, coroner says

September 13, 2026 Blogmaster

A 40-year-old woman in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania has died of complications from measles, according to the county’s coroner. It marks the third vaccine-preventable, measles-linked death in the US this year.…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

September 13, 2026 Blogmaster

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is That One Guy with a comment about the problems with the latest court ruling against Elon Musk: Heads I…

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I fixed a tractor using John Deere’s self-repair service. Farmers aren’t sold on it.

September 13, 2026 Blogmaster

There is something wrong with the tractor. The water-in-fuel sensor, a small device embedded in the John Deere machine that monitors the integrity of its diesel engine, is disconnected. And…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

September 13, 2026 Blogmaster

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach…

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This Week In Techdirt History: September 6th – 12th

September 12, 2026 Blogmaster

This Week in 2016 Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter Roger Ailes Hires Peter Thiel’s Favorite Lawyer To Threaten NY Mag For Its Stories…

Cybersecurity

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

September 12, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports…

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I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China

September 12, 2026 Blogmaster

On a sunny morning in June, I walked to work with a quadruped robot beside me. I’ve never gotten more attention from strangers. A bunch of people snapped pictures of…

Cybersecurity

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC

September 12, 2026 Blogmaster

Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered…

Cybersecurity

OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers

September 12, 2026 Blogmaster

The “major malicious attack” that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas…

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Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game Pass service. A mere two years…

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