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Soco404 and Koske Malware Target Cloud Services with Cross-Platform Cryptomining Attacks

July 25, 2025 Blogmaster

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…

Technology

New Russian Law Will Criminalize Internet Searches For ‘Extremist Content’

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

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.…

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Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Live At TrustCon 2025

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

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,…

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Two major AI coding tools wiped out user data after making cascading mistakes

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

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…

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Trump, who promised to save TikTok, threatens to shut down TikTok

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

Donald Trump vowed to save TikTok before taking office, claiming only he could make a deal to keep the app operational in the US despite national security concerns. But then,…

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Google’s new “Web Guide” will use AI to organize your search results

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

Search is changing at a breakneck pace, with Google rolling out new AI features so quickly it can be hard to keep up. So far, these AI implementations are being…

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Hackers—hope to defect to Russia? Don’t Google “defecting to Russia.”

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

To the casual observer, cybercriminals can look like swashbuckling geniuses. They possess technical skills formidable enough to penetrate the networks of the biggest companies on the planet. They cover their…

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Nvidia AI chips worth $1B smuggled to China after Trump export controls

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

At least $1 billion worth of Nvidia’s advanced artificial intelligence processors were shipped to China in the three months after Donald Trump tightened chip export controls, exposing the limits of…

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Trump’s order to make chatbots anti-woke is unconstitutional, senator says

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

The CEOs of every major artificial intelligence company received letters Wednesday urging them to fight Donald Trump’s anti-woke AI order. Trump’s executive order requires any AI company hoping to contract…

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You Shouldn’t Have To Make Your Social Media Public To Get A Visa

July 24, 2025 Blogmaster

The Trump administration is continuing its dangerous push to surveil and suppress foreign students’ social media activity. The State Department recently announced an unprecedented new requirement that applicants for student…

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