Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath
In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech giant’s “lack of proper detailed security documentation” left…
The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned six individuals and two entities for their involvement in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)…
We’ve got an official trailer for Spider-Man: Brand New Day, the follow-up to 2021’s No Way Home that is purportedly intended to launch a fresh trilogy of films with Tom…
It is a strange quirk of fate that the station wagon has morphed from mass-market family transport into something far more esoteric (at least here in the US, a market…
BMW provided flights from Washington, DC, to Malaga, Spain, and accommodation so Ars could drive the iX3 and be briefed on the i3. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.…
Last month, Discord quickly backpedaled after it announced that an age-verification system would roll out globally. Discord’s reversal followed a widespread user backlash, which also intensified scrutiny of the platform’s…
Apple on Tuesday released its first round of Background Security Improvements to address a security flaw in WebKit that affects iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20643 (CVSS…
A high-severity security flaw affecting default installations of Ubuntu Desktop versions 24.04 and later could be exploited to escalate privileges to the root level. Tracked as CVE-2026-3888 (CVSS score: 7.8),…
Security teams today are not short on tools or data. They are overwhelmed by both. Yet within the terabytes of alerts, exposures, and misconfigurations – security teams still struggle to…
Cybersecurity researchers have warned about the risks posed by low-cost IP KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse over Internet Protocol) devices, which can grant attackers extensive control over compromised hosts. The nine…