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Bumbling Warner Bros CEO David Zaslav Sees $197 Million Stock Sale Bonanza On Top Of Looming $550 Million Golden Parachute

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Warner Brothers CEO David Zaslav oversaw years of dysfunction during the last wave of pointless Warner Brothers AT&T and Discovery mergers, which included tens of thousands of brutal layoffs, consistent…

Cybersecurity

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script…

Cybersecurity

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across…

Technology

ICE Says It Will Fit Every Officer With A Body Cam, Restrict Public Access To Recordings

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

After immigration officers murdered two people in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the DHS made some noises about outfitting officers with body cameras. Six months later — and following even more killings —…

Technology

Roblox must make changes after failing to block adults creeping on kids

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Despite making changes last fall to help block adults from messaging unknown children, Roblox is still failing to stop adults from creeping on kids in other ways, Australia’s eSafety commissioner,…

Cybersecurity

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit and More

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in.…

Technology

The EU Wanted A Deepfake Detector. It Got An AI Scarlet Letter.

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

I spoke a little about this on last week’s Ctrl-Alt-Speech, but now that Anthropic has come out with more details about how its text watermarking works, the debate has shifted…

Cybersecurity

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an “active threat” targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable…

Technology

Daily Deal: iPhotography Training Course

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Sure, just about anyone can point and shoot with a camera, but only a true expert can snap a photo that’s worth sharing with the world. From exposure to shutter…

Cybersecurity

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI’s Grok chatbot to send a user’s name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing…

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