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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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Rivian’s new Quad-Motor R1T and R1S beat the competition in any conditions

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Rivian provided flights from Albany, New York, to Reno, Nevada, and accommodation so Ars could drive the quad-motor R1s. Ars does not accept paid editorial content. It’s getting harder to…

Cybersecurity

Malicious Pull Request Targets 6,000+ Developers via Vulnerable Ethcode VS Code Extension

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a supply chain attack targeting a Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension called Ethcode that has been installed a little over 6,000 times. The compromise,…

Technology

As California faces court battles, states scramble to save their climate goals

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

This article originally appeared on Inside Climate News, a nonprofit, non-partisan news organization that covers climate, energy, and the environment. Sign up for their newsletter here. When President Donald Trump…

Technology

China jumps ahead in the race to achieve a new kind of reuse in space

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Two Chinese satellites have rendezvoused with one another more than 20,000 miles above the Earth in what analysts believe is the first high-altitude attempt at orbital refueling. China’s Shijian-21 and…

Technology

Tuesday Telescope: Webb and Hubble team up to reveal spectacular star clusters

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Open clusters of stars—which consist of dozens up to a few thousand stars—are an interesting tool for astronomers to study the Universe. That’s because all of the stars in such…

Technology

Trump FCC Boss Brendan Carr Ignores The Law, Encourages Prison Telecom Monopolies To Rip Off Inmate Families

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

However terrible telecom monopolies are in the free world, they’re arguably worse in prisons. For decades, journalists and researchers have outlined how a select number of prison telecom giants like…

Cybersecurity

BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50…

Cybersecurity

RondoDox Botnet Exploits Flaws in TBK DVRs and Four-Faith Routers to Launch DDoS Attacks

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a malware campaign that’s targeting security flaws in TBK digital video recorders (DVRs) and Four-Faith routers to rope the devices into a new botnet…

Cybersecurity

5 Ways Identity-based Attacks Are Breaching Retail

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

From overprivileged admin roles to long-forgotten vendor tokens, these attackers are slipping through the cracks of trust and access. Here’s how five retail breaches unfolded, and what they reveal about……

Cybersecurity

Researchers Uncover Batavia Windows Spyware Stealing Documents from Russian Firms

July 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Russian organizations have been targeted as part of an ongoing campaign that delivers a previously undocumented Windows spyware called Batavia. The activity, per cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky, has been active since…

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