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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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LA Mayor Karen Bass The Latest Democrat To Wimp Out On Paramount Merger

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

The unpopular Paramount Warner Brothers merger should have been a perfect opportunity for Democrats to demonstrate they are finally serious about stuff like media consolidation, right wing propaganda, media reform,…

Technology

RFK Jr. goes full anti-vaccine bananas over two measles deaths—one was a newborn

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

In the wake of news on Tuesday that two people in Pennsylvania died from measles, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been posting a slew of anti-vaccine rhetoric and…

Technology

The iconic T-38 jets flown by astronauts just got a spiffy new look

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

For the first time in decades, NASA has rolled out one of its iconic astronaut training aircraft with a bold, new look. The space agency debuted a new livery on…

Technology

Oracle Helped Kneecap Section 230, Then Bought 15% Of A Company That Needs It.

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get…

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Daily Deal: The 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Take your design skills to the next level with the 2026 Canva Creator Mastery Bundle, a powerful all-in-one course for modern creators and business owners. This program teaches you how…

Cybersecurity

ThreatsDay: 296K IoT Botnet, 100+ Water Systems Targeted, SharePoint RCE Chain + 27 New Stories

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of…

Cybersecurity

Next.js Patches Critical AVIF and Windows Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Credit: Hacktron Vercel has released security patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in the Next.js web framework, both of which allow unauthenticated remote code execution, one exploitable via specially crafted AVIF…

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Flock Claims It’s The First Company To Expose Police Misuse Of Surveillance Tech

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Flock Safety is hurting. It spent the early part of its career pitching plate reader tech to people who honestly didn’t need it: HOA supervisors and gated communities. Then it…

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How much of a problem is AI’s water use?

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

“Protect our water,” “Water for people not AI,” “Don’t mess with our water,” declare protest signs from Texas to New Mexico to Arizona. Angered by water use, energy consumption, and…

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Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them…

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