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DHS Claimed It Had Found 16,000 Illegal Voters In Nevada. Now It’s Admitting It’s Less Than 200.

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

As we move closer to mid-term elections, the Trump administration continues to lie about election integrity, sowing the seeds for bullshit “rigged election” claims should the GOP fail to win…

Technology

Daily Deal: The Modern Tech Skills Bundle

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Bring your tech skills up to 21st-century snuff with the all-encompassing Modern Tech Skills Bundle. This 2,000+ class series combines subject areas that every aspiring tech pro needs to know…

Technology

NASA moving at warp speed to set up US Space Academy

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

NASA has released a document that provides some initial details about the proposed United States Space Academy, and it’s clear that the space agency wants to move quickly in establishing…

Cybersecurity

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge…

Cybersecurity

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS…

Technology

Since 9/11, Fear Has Driven Our Politics. Don’t Let It Drive The Next 25 Years.

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Twenty-five years ago today I was woken up by a phone call from a close friend, who, like me, grew up in New York and, like me, was now living…

Cybersecurity

Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve.…

Cybersecurity

Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The…

Technology

Rocket Report: Europe joins the commercial launch club; a Ravn X sighting?

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Welcome to Edition 9.10 of the Rocket Report! This week we’re celebrating a historic moment in Europe when a German rocket company successfully put its launch vehicle into orbit. Isar…

Technology

Could United Launch Alliance’s money problems finally force its owners to sell?

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Pretty much every rocket company in the United States, save one, has embraced two fundamental tenets: reusability and diversification. Most famously, SpaceX branched out from reusable rockets to pursue and…

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