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Russian Intelligence Hacks IP Cameras to Spy on Military Logistics Across NATO States and Ukraine

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

At least one Russian intelligence service is systematically hijacking internet-connected security cameras across Europe and Ukraine, using the feeds to watch military transport routes, weapons shipments bound for Kyiv, and…

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Beyond grep: The case for a context-rich AI coding harness

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

There are a lot of AI coding applications out there, and as impressive as large language models and the agents they enable have become, many of the most recent developments…

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Brendan Carr Is Illegally Dismantling U.S. Media Consolidation Law

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Brendan Carr and the Trump FCC are finalizing plans to illegally eliminate what’s left of the country’s already barely functional media consolidation limits; a specific gift to Trump-friendly right wing…

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Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google’s open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come…

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New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver processes XZ…

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SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving…

Cybersecurity

World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent

July 20, 2026 Blogmaster

In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The company said…

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India’s first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on dramatic debut launch

July 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Indian space officials celebrated the debut flight of Skyroot Aerospace’s Vikram-1 rocket, India’s first fully commercial satellite launcher, as a “grand success” Saturday after an on-target climb into a 280-mile-high…

Cybersecurity

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

July 19, 2026 Blogmaster

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

July 19, 2026 Blogmaster

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Thad with a simple comment about the judicial smackdown of Trump’s IRS settlement: Bar referrals. Finally. In second place,…

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