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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

Cybersecurity

Securing Agentic AI: How to Protect the Invisible Identity Access

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

AI agents promise to automate everything from financial reconciliations to incident response. Yet every time an AI agent spins up a workflow, it has to authenticate somewhere; often with a…

Cybersecurity

State-Backed HazyBeacon Malware Uses AWS Lambda to Steal Data from SE Asian Governments

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

Governmental organizations in Southeast Asia are the target of a new campaign that aims to collect sensitive information by means of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor dubbed HazyBeacon. The activity…

Cybersecurity

North Korean Hackers Flood npm Registry with XORIndex Malware in Ongoing Attack Campaign

July 15, 2025 Blogmaster

The North Korean threat actors linked to the Contagious Interview campaign have been observed publishing another set of 67 malicious packages to the npm registry, underscoring ongoing attempts to poison…

Technology

Xbox Layoffs, Game Cancellations After Acquisition Blitz Continue

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

It’s no secret that starting during the onset of the pandemic, as well as in its aftermath, the video game industry has undergone a period of consolidation. This is quite…

Technology

Flock Safety’s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Two recent statements from the surveillance company—one addressing Illinois privacy violations and another defending the company’s national surveillance network—reveal a troubling pattern: when confronted by evidence of widespread abuse, Flock…

Technology

Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view adult content

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Reddit announced today that it has started verifying UK users’ ages before letting them “view certain mature content” in order to comply with the country’s Online Safety Act. Reddit said…

Technology

Merger of two massive black holes is one for the record books

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Physicists with the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA collaboration have detected the gravitational wave signal (dubbed GW231123) of the most massive merger between two black holes yet observed, resulting in a new black hole…

Technology

Pebblebee tracker’s new SOS alert reminds us that updates can be good for gadgets

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Pebblebee is adding a free, helpful feature to already-purchased devices. Today, it announced that its Clip Universal Bluetooth trackers, which are compatible with iOS and Android devices, are being updated…

Technology

Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

When it comes to concrete use cases for large language models, AI companies love to point out the ways coders and software developers can use these models to increase their…

Technology

Tackling The AI Bots That Threaten To Overwhelm The Open Web

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

It is a measure of how fast the field of AI has developed in the three years since Walled Culture the book (free digital versions available) was published that the…

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