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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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What happens when quantum mechanics and relativity meet?

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Almost a hundred years ago, physicists theorized out what free fall should do to a quantum wave. If the solution they came up with is wrong, quantum mechanics and Einstein’s…

Technology

ClickFix attacks infecting PCs and Macs are going viral

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

It wasn’t that long ago that ClickFix attacks were exotic. Now the technique has become mainstream as attackers reap its simplicity and effectiveness in infecting users of PCs and Macs…

Technology

Claude users found ways around safeguards for bioweapons research

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Anthropic said it stopped multiple attempts by scientists this year to use its technology for research that could help develop biological weapons, as experts increasingly fear the threat that AI…

Cybersecurity

Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path…

Technology

Musk’s Robotaxis Under Investigation For Dodging Safety Standards

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

It says nothing good about America how easily Elon Musk convinced the press and public he was a supergenius engineer who could cobble together complicated rocket machinery wearing coveralls in…

Cybersecurity

Cisco FMC Flaws Exploited to Steal Credentials and Deploy Qilin Ransomware

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079…

Cybersecurity

PaperCut Replaces Emergency Patches With Fixes for Two Actively Exploited Flaws

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation.…

Cybersecurity

China-Linked UNC3569 Exploited Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims’…

Cybersecurity

Attackers Chain JFrog Artifactory Flaws to Gain Admin Control and Plant Backdoors

September 11, 2026 Blogmaster

Attackers have chained two flaws in JFrog Artifactory, the repository that software build pipelines pull from, to take administrator control of self-hosted servers and plant backdoors, cloud security company Wiz…

Technology

White House Website Briefly Hosted Racist Tetris Clone Game Until The Tetris People Complained

September 10, 2026 Blogmaster

Pick your favorite zombie movie or television show and you’ll eventually be confronted with dialogue justifying the killing of the zombies with the idea that they are no longer human.…

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