California’s ‘Linux Exemption’ May Be Much Bigger Than Linux
California lawmakers passed amendments to AB 1856 on August 27, 2026, but the bill’s much-discussed open-source exemption is not actually…
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Abbott Paused Flock Spending. Texas’s 3,200 Cameras Are Still Watching
Gov. Greg Abbott directed Texas state agencies to stop funding Flock Safety cameras going forward on August 27, 2026, after…
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Alabama Put OpenAI’s Agent Escape Under Subpoena
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall opened a consumer-protection investigation and issued OpenAI a subpoena on August 24, 2026, over safeguards…
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Rust Removed a Poisoned Arrayref Release After 86 Minutes Online
Rust removed a malicious arrayref@0.3.10 release on August 20, 2026, after it was available on crates.io for 86 minutes. The…
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Claude Mythos Finds Bugs Faster Than Teams Can Patch Them
Matthew Green’s August 14, 2026 “going dark” warning is not about encryption blocking network inspection, compliance tools, or parental controls….
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Firefox Keeps Full UBlock Origin. Brave Has a Side Door.
Firefox is not the only major browser where users can still run full uBlock Origin. Firefox retains broad, ordinary Manifest…
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AMD’s Old DRAM Swizzle Is Real. the Universal Break Is Not
Skitter Creek Bath Salts is a credible proof of concept for AMD Family 16h processors: with privileged access, it can…
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Noreply.net Became a Mail Sink: and Nobody Checked the Drain
Security researcher Cory Solovewicz says noreply.net received 401,796 messages after he acquired it in December 2024, including notifications that reportedly…
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SQLite’s Six Critical CVEs Were Bugs in a Database of Bugs
Six purported SQLite vulnerabilities, initially rated from 7.5 High to 9.8 Critical, were not reproducible bugs at all. JFrog’s July…
