The 2025 Audi RS 3 is a five-cylinder firecracker
First offered in a passenger car by Mercedes-Benz back in 1974, the five-cylinder engine has always been a bit of an automotive oddball. The unconventional configuration eventually gained a foothold…
Going chain-free with the Priority Apollo gravel bike
In combining a belt drive with a gravel bike, Priority Bicycles has put a smart idea into action with the Apollo Gravel. The execution is mostly there, although the Apollo…
Cyber Espionage Campaign Hits Russian Aerospace Sector Using EAGLET Backdoor
Russian aerospace and defense industries have become the target of a cyber espionage campaign that delivers a backdoor called EAGLET to facilitate data exfiltration. The activity, dubbed Operation CargoTalon, has…
With Trump’s Bribe Paid, His Lackey FCC Quickly Rubber Stamps CBS Merger
With the cowards at CBS/Paramount having paid their $16 million bribe to the King, Trump’s FCC has quickly ended its phony “investigation” into the media giant, and given its rubber…
Lawmakers writing NASA’s budget want a cheaper upper stage for the SLS rocket
Not surprisingly, Congress is pushing back against the Trump administration’s proposal to cancel the Space Launch System, the behemoth rocket NASA has developed to propel astronauts back to the Moon.…
Overcoming Risks from Chinese GenAI Tool Usage
A recent analysis of enterprise data suggests that generative AI tools developed in China are being used extensively by employees in the US and UK, often without oversight or approval…
Soco404 and Koske Malware Target Cloud Services with Cross-Platform Cryptomining Attacks
Threat hunters have disclosed two different malware campaigns that have targeted vulnerabilities and misconfigurations across cloud environments to deliver cryptocurrency miners. The threat activity clusters have been codenamed Soco404 and…
New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’
It should be uncontroversial at this point to say that the Russian government has waged a long but incremental war on both free speech and a free and open internet.…
Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2025
Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw. Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, Pocket Casts,…
Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes
New types of AI coding assistants promise to let anyone build software by typing commands in plain English. But when these tools generate incorrect internal representations of what’s happening on…