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ICE Finalizes Stun Glove Purchase, Claims There’s No Other Way To Handle ‘Violent’ Migrants

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

This was inevitable. ICE has billions of new money to spend, zero shame, and not a single adult in a leadership position capable (or willing!) to talk the agency off…

Cybersecurity

Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a…

Cybersecurity

Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. “The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted…

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Whistleblower: USPS Defied A Court Injunction To Build An Untested, Undocumented Ballot-Blocking System. Its Own Staff Call The Process “A Shit Show.”

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Even as Donald Trump regularly uses mail-in ballots himself, he has decided that mail-in ballots are a system by which voting fraud occurs. To be quite clear, this is bullshit.…

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Daily Deal: The Adobe Graphic Design Bundle

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

The Adobe Graphic Design Bundle has 3 courses designed to help you learn the essentials of graphic design and how to apply those skills to your projects. Courses cover Photoshop,…

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US court rules Google will not have to sell ad exchange after losing antitrust case

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

A US federal judge has sided with Google, ruling that the company will not have to sell its online advertising exchange (previously known as AdX). The US Department of Justice…

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Flock-Stalking, Nazi-Saluting Deputy Given Top Cop Honors Before Hastily Retiring Ahead Of Criminal Charges

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Law enforcement is often self-selecting. If you like the things you’ve seen cops get away with (violence, brutality, open racism, multiple rights violations, etc.), you’ll probably like being a cop.…

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The Army just used a 20-kilowatt laser to take out three drones

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

This week, the US Army used a high-energy multipurpose laser to shoot down three drones near the US-Mexico border, which official reports claimed were “posing a physical threat to US…

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Toyohiro Akiyama, first Japanese citizen and journalist in space, dies at 84

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

The first Japanese citizen to launch into space, Toyohiro Akiyama was also the first commercially sponsored cosmonaut and the world’s first journalist to file reports while on a spaceflight. Akiyama,…

Cybersecurity

Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control

September 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators…

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