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Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

There are myriad questions about how NASA’s budget process will play out in the coming weeks, with the start of the new fiscal year on October 1 looming. For example,…

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All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Last year, we reported on the efforts of classic iPod fans to preserve playable copies of the downloadable clickwheel games that Apple sold for a brief period in the late…

Cybersecurity

GitHub Account Compromise Led to Salesloft Drift Breach Affecting 22 Companies

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Salesloft has revealed that the data breach linked to its Drift application started with the compromise of its GitHub account. Google-owned Mandiant, which began an investigation into the incident, said…

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The Trump Administration Declares War On Chicago

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

I, for one, cannot wait for the commenters to show up to call this headline hyperbole. mfers please. Why don’t you just read it for yourselves, in your own god-king’s…

Cybersecurity

GPUGate Malware Uses Google Ads and Fake GitHub Commits to Target IT Firms

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new sophisticated malware campaign that leverages paid ads on search engines like Google to deliver malware to unsuspecting users looking for popular tools like GitHub…

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Republicans Killed A Low-Income Broadband Program For The Poor, Now Charter Is Being Sued For Misrepresenting Its Impact

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Last year Trump Republicans killed a popular program that provided poor people with $30 off of their monthly broadband bill. The FCC’s Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) had broad, bipartisan support,…

Technology

Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

In 2019, Record Store Day partnered with manufacturer Crosley to revive a 3-inch collectible vinyl format first launched in Japan in 2004. Five years later, a new 4-inch-sized format called…

Cybersecurity

⚡ Weekly Recap: Drift Breach Chaos, Zero-Days Active, Patch Warnings, Smarter Threats & More

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity never slows down. Every week brings new threats, new vulnerabilities, and new lessons for defenders. For security and IT teams, the challenge is not just keeping up with the…

Cybersecurity

You Didn’t Get Phished — You Onboarded the Attacker

September 8, 2025 Blogmaster

When Attackers Get Hired: Today’s New Identity Crisis What if the star engineer you just hired isn’t actually an employee, but an attacker in disguise? This isn’t phishing; it’s infiltration…

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Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

September 7, 2025 Blogmaster

This week, our first place winner on the insightful side is Shannon Vanshoon with a comment about RFK Jr’s congressional hearing: So, yeah, I’d say on one hand that it’s…

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