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Cybersecurity

GoCaracal Malware Uses Ethereum Smart Contract to Fetch Replacement C2 Address

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Threat actors linked by Arctic Wolf to Dark Caracal with medium confidence deployed a previously undocumented Go-based malware framework, GoCaracal, during a June 2026 intrusion at an unnamed communications organization…

Cybersecurity

New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

Academic researchers have disclosed a Rowhammer attack impacting NVIDIA workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory that defeats error correction codes (ECC), the mitigation NVIDIA recommends against GPU Rowhammer, and enables denial-of-service…

Cybersecurity

CISA Adds Six Exploited Flaws to KEV, Including NetScaler, Linux, and SQL Server Bugs

August 27, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added six flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including a high-severity security vulnerability impacting Citrix NetScaler ADC and…

Technology

Two Die In Pennsylvania Of Measles Marking The First Deaths Of 2026

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Last year, as decades of work by RFK Jr. to undermine vaccines with false links to deaths and autism culminated in his appointment to lead HHS, America saw the largest…

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RIP, Tim Curry: Ars remembers his top 10 iconic performances

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

It’s said celebrity deaths come in threes. We lost Sam Neill last month, and the legendary Dolly Parton yesterday. Now we find out that the universe has also seen fit…

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Meta Just Paid Nearly $17 Billion To Make Sure It Gets To Write The Kid Safety Rules For Every Other Social Media Platform

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

By now you’ve almost certainly heard the news that Meta has settled with 52 state and local Attorneys General who had sued the company in some form or another over…

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AI agents meant to replace Meta workers made “large-scale, disruptive actions”

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Earlier this year, Meta created a “plan” to reduce some of its teams by as much as 60 percent to make the company “AI native,” Reuters reported today, citing two…

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Google announces Gemini 3.5 Transcribe for AI-powered speech-to-text

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

While we wait (possibly in vain) for Gemini 3.5 Pro to launch, Google is releasing a different model in the 3.5 branch. The company has announced Gemini 3.5 Transcribe, an…

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Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Florida’s attorney general got a fiery rebuke and some ecclesiastical schooling from the state’s Catholic bishops after he boldly threatened to block funding to Catholic schools unless the church bends…

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Meta settles states’ child-safety claims for $18B; Florida rejects deal as “peanuts”

August 26, 2026 Blogmaster

Meta agreed to impose daily limits on children’s social media use and pay nearly $18 billion in settlements with nearly every US state today, cutting short a trial in which…

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