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Daily Deal: The Modern No-Code Development Bundle

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

The Modern No-Code Creator Bundle is an extensive online curriculum specifically developed to enable individuals to construct professional websites, applications & automated workflows without the necessity of writing any code.…

Cybersecurity

ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Most of this week’s trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders…

Technology

ICE Illegally Scooped Up Medicaid Data, Then Shared It With Palantir

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

The Trump administration’s continual trend towards maximum awfulness means that every report seems to be “I’ve got bad news and I’ve got worse news.” What was already bad has become…

Technology

AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman earlier this month endorsed the characterisation of its latest model as a rottweiler “who will grab the problem by the throat and not let go…

Cybersecurity

China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has targeted government, healthcare, and education organizations across Asia and Latin America with…

Cybersecurity

Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim’s own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on a compromised Windows machine ahead…

Cybersecurity

Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic’s Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine (VM) within which…

Technology

I wanted a clock that never needed setting. Things escalated.

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

I wanted a clock that, annoyingly, didn’t seem to exist. Since childhood, my bedside clocks have been a series of red, seven-segment LED clock-radio specials from Walmart or Target. They…

Technology

White House report says Trump can usher in a “new golden age” of science

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

On Tuesday, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a report entitled “Science: A New Golden Age,” in which it lays out how it has viewed…

Cybersecurity

Google Adds Selfie Video Recovery for Users Locked Out of Their Accounts

July 23, 2026 Blogmaster

Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their accounts by letting them take a selfie video. The selfie for sign-in, per the tech giant, is…

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