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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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The King is Watching condenses kingdom-building strategy to a single screen

August 1, 2025 Blogmaster

As satisfying as a successful real-time strategy game campaign can be, dealing with a complex RTS map can often be overwhelming. Keeping track of multiple far-flung resource-production bases, groups of…

Technology

Rocket Report: NASA finally working on depots, Air Force tests new ICBM

August 1, 2025 Blogmaster

Welcome to Edition 8.05 of the Rocket Report! One of the most eye-raising things I saw this week was an online update from NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center touting its…

Cybersecurity

You Are What You Eat: Why Your AI Security Tools Are Only as Strong as the Data You Feed Them

August 1, 2025 Blogmaster

Just as triathletes know that peak performance requires more than expensive gear, cybersecurity teams are discovering that AI success depends less on the tools they deploy and more on the…

Cybersecurity

Storm-2603 Deploys DNS-Controlled Backdoor in Warlock and LockBit Ransomware Attacks

August 1, 2025 Blogmaster

The threat actor linked to the exploitation of the recently disclosed security flaws in Microsoft SharePoint Server is using a bespoke command-and-control (C2) framework called AK47 C2 (also spelled ak47c2)…

Technology

Credit Card Companies Fielding A Ton Of Complaints Over NSFW Games Disappearing On Platforms

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

A week or so ago, Karl Bode wrote about Vice Media’s idiotic decision to disappear several articles that had been written by its Waypoint property concerning Collective Shout. Collective Shout…

Technology

Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

AI tools are widely used by software developers, but those devs and their managers are still grappling with figuring out how exactly to best put the tools to use, with…

Technology

Google loses app store antitrust appeal, must make sweeping changes to Play Store

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

Google has lost its appeal in the long-running app store antitrust case, which marks another major victory for Epic Games. Google lost the original case in 2023 when a jury…

Technology

YouTube’s selfie collection, AI age checks are concerning, privacy experts say

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

Privacy experts are demanding transparency after YouTube announced it would test using AI to estimate user ages in the US ahead of a wider rollout of the age check system.…

Technology

Microsoft catches Russian hackers targeting foreign embassies

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

Russian-state hackers are targeting foreign embassies in Moscow with custom malware that gets installed using adversary-in-the-middle attacks that operate at the ISP level, Microsoft warned Thursday. The campaign has been…

Technology

Mark of the damned? Necrotic ulcer replaces man’s cross tattoo.

July 31, 2025 Blogmaster

A 20-year-old man in China may be anxiously reassessing his chances of eternal damnation after the cross he had tattooed on his neck inexplicably vanished after five months and was…

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