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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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Federal Court Says ICE Can’t Round Up People Just Because They Seem Vaguely Foreign

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

The Supreme Court may have suddenly decided nationwide injunctions are bad now that they’re bad for Trump, but it will need to cook up new arguments if it hopes to…

Technology

Plastic surgeon off the hook for alleged COVID fraud, injecting kids with saline

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

A Utah-based plastic surgeon appears to be off the hook for federal charges over an alleged COVID-19 vaccine fraud scheme, in which he and three of his associates were accused…

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Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Nvidia is recommending a mitigation for customers of one of its GPU product lines that will degrade performance by up to 10 percent in a bid to protect users from…

Cybersecurity

New PHP-Based Interlock RAT Variant Uses FileFix Delivery Mechanism to Target Multiple Industries

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Threat actors behind the Interlock ransomware group have unleashed a new PHP variant of its bespoke remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a widespread campaign using a variant of…

Cybersecurity

The Unusual Suspect: Git Repos

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

While phishing and ransomware dominate headlines, another critical risk quietly persists across most enterprises: exposed Git repositories leaking sensitive data. A risk that silently creates shadow access into core systems…

Technology

Office problems on Windows 10? Microsoft’s response will soon be “upgrade to 11.”

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Microsoft’s advertised end-of-support date for Windows 10 is October 14, 2025. But in reality, the company will gradually wind down support for the enduring popular operating system over the next…

Technology

Why Gov. Greg Abbott won’t release his emails with Elon Musk

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

This story was originally published by ProPublica. This article is co-published with The Texas Newsroom and The Texas Tribune as part of an initiative to report on how power is…

Technology

Twitter Is Dead, X Is Elon’s Personal Propaganda Platform, Where Grok Checks His Feed Before Answering

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

Last week, Elon Musk’s Grok AI started spewing extreme antisemitism, calling itself “MechaHitler” and pushing conspiracy theories about Jewish people. But that wasn’t the most revealing part of the story.…

Technology

Daily Deal: Coding With Python Bundle

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

The Coding with Python Bundle is great training for aspiring developers. The 6 courses cover Python basics, how to build web apps, how to work with APIs, how to automate…

Technology

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering

July 14, 2025 Blogmaster

An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with an unexpected occasional behavior: checking what its owner thinks first. On Friday, independent AI researcher Simon Willison documented that…

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