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Tuesday September 23, 2025. 07:00 PM
Or maybe 3 strikes, you're out? SolarWinds on Tuesday released a hotfix - again - for a critical, 9.8-severity flaw in its Web Help Desk IT ticketing software that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to run commands on a host machine. …
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Customs and Border Protection collected DNA from nearly 2,000 US citizens between 2020 and 2024 and sent the samples to the FBI's CODIS crime database, according to Georgetown Law's Center on Privacy & Technology analysis of newly released government data. The collection...
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A teaching assistant was arrested in Florence, South Carolina, after being identified as the source of an odorous problem at the high school there. Alexander Lewis, 32, was charged with 'disturbing schools' and malicious injury to property over his alleged use of a 'poop'...
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Trump Administration brownshirts grabbed an autistic child and held her hostage, demanding her father surrender to their warrantless raid. 'They took my daughter, she's 5 years old. She has autism spectrum,' the woman says in the video. 'Give me my daughter back.' —...
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Rapid7 warns flaw could let any app peek at your SMS, but smartphone vendor won't pick up Updated Security researchers report that OnePlus smartphone users remain vulnerable to a critical bug that allows any application to read SMS and MMS data — a flaw that has persisted...
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It is a universally acknowledged truth that Apple has fallen behind in artificial intelligence, even though millions of its products can already run most cloud-based models as well as its own on-device AI, presently in the form of Apple Intelligence. Which is to say: never ...
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The minority leadership in the House and Senate has passed on nearly every opportunity to protest and sat back, hoping their 1990s playbook would somehow become relevant again. Trump isn't afraid to meet with them; they are just too meaningless to waste time on. — Read the re...
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An anonymous reader shares a report: Battered by funding cuts, bombarded by the White House and braced for demographic changes set to send enrollment into a nosedive, America's colleges and universities have spent this year in flux. But one of higher education's rituals...
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Venture capitalist Alexa von Tobel is ready to bet on quantum computing—starting with hardware.
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Errol Musk, father of 'at least nine' children including billionaire Elon, has repeatedly been accused of sexually abusing his children and stepchildren. The New York Times reports that family members have 'appealed to Elon Musk for help.' The family's troubles have...
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Fancy a taste? The version based on Debian 'Trixie' is nearly ready, but not all the changes may be entirely welcome The new Debian-13 version of MX Linux, version 25, is looking very close to ready for release. A big change may divide its audience, though.…
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Yesterday, a barely coherent Donald Trump tried to pronounce acetaminophen and demonstrated his administration's groundbreaking work on autism is a farce. Trump absolutely proved he and his team of 'experts' are charlatans who should be ignored. Having promised a 'big...
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The Microwave Channel on YouTube posts 'do not try this at home' style videos of all sorts of objects being microwaved. The videos include both edible and non-edible items, and lots and lots of metal. From peeps to toothpaste to aluminium foil, nothing seems to be too much...
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Snitches get… snitched on. And sold, by the looks of it. 'Cancel the Hate,' an app conservatives are using to help identify and harass people who criticize or mock far-right influencer Charlie Kirk, leaked users' data and preceded an 'influx of donation requests.' — Read the...
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The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) has put together a joint statement from many of the public package repositories for various languages about the need for assistance in maintaining these commons. Services such as PyPI for Python, crates.io for Rust, and many...
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GoPro has unveiled three new products in its camera ecosystem, each aimed at a different type of content creator. These products are MAX2, a 360 camera with true 8K resolution and twist-off replaceable lenses, LIT HERO, a miniature lifestyle camera with a built-in light, and ...
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mrspoonsi writes: The US Secret Service says it has dismantled a network of more than 300 SIM servers and 100,000 SIM cards in the New York area that were capable of crippling telecom systems. The devices were 'concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the UN...
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A bug in a recent release of systemd's network manager caused headaches for people managing systems that have a virtual LAN (VLAN) interface on a bridge; something one might want to do, for example, when configuring network interfaces for virtual machines. The bug affected...
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Secret Service seizes 300-server network allegedly tied to nation-state hackers The US Secret Service has dismantled a network of SIM farms in and around New York City it claims was behind multiple incidents targeting senior government officials and had enough power to...
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Newly released data shows Customs and Border Protection funneled the DNA of nearly 2,000 US citizens—some as young as 14—into an FBI crime database, raising alarms about oversight and legality.
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