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Trump Told Asylum Seekers To Do It “The Legal Way.” Now He’s Revoking 200,000 Of Their Visas.

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Many Trump supporters keep insisting that his immigration purges are justified because the people swept up in them came here “illegally,” so who cares if they get kicked out (or…

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Daily Deal: Headway Premium

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Unlock a world of knowledge with a Headway Premium subscription. This exclusive deal gives you unlimited access to Headway’s massive library of 1500+ book summaries, with 30-50 new ones added…

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Flock Once Tried To Turn Every Ride Share Driver Into Part Of Its ALPR Network

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Until just recently, Flock never felt it needed to rehabilitate its image, even when several cities were dumping contracts and cameras over persistent surveillance concerns. When cities shut down systems,…

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AI won’t replace radiologists, but it will dramatically change their jobs

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel-winning “godfather of AI,” predicted that radiologists—the physicians who read X-rays, ultrasounds, and other images to help make medical diagnoses—would find themselves replaced by computers…

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New bootloader lets you take the “Meta” out of the original Meta Quest

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Remember the original Quest headset that Meta (then Oculus) trumpeted back in 2019? Meta seems to hope you don’t, since the company officially stopped supporting the wireless VR headset in…

Cybersecurity

A Malicious Webpage Could Poison Your Local AI Model Behind NVIDIA NemoClaw

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Oasis Security has disclosed a weakness in NVIDIA NemoClaw that could let an attacker-controlled webpage take unauthenticated control of the local Ollama instance serving an AI agent and plant hidden…

Cybersecurity

Marimo Notebook Flaw Could Run MCP Commands Before Cells Execute in Edit Mode

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Marimo has addressed a high-severity security flaw in its notebook software that allowed an attacker to execute an attacker-supplied Model Context Protocol (MCP) command in a specially crafted notebook, according…

Cybersecurity

WhatsApp Adds Multiple Passkeys for Phishing-Resistant Sign-Ins Across iOS and Android

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Meta on Tuesday announced a set of WhatsApp account security features, including support for multiple passkeys to a single account to help users with both iOS and Android devices sign…

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Apple’s new desktop computers are designed specifically for local AI development

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

The Mac mini and Mac Studio occupy two distinct points in Apple’s lineup of desktops, but lately, they’ve had something in common: They’re popular for local AI inference and software…

Cybersecurity

Frontier AI: Vulnerability Management’s Systemic Revolution

August 25, 2026 Blogmaster

Vulnerability management has been a staple of security programs since the dawn of the cybersecurity discipline. The symbiotic relationship between vulnerability and patch management teams has also existed for that…

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