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Alberta's salted voter rolls expose separatist group's leaked database
Elections Alberta used a centuries-old leak-detection technique — the canary trap — to identify how its electoral list ended up powering an unauthorized online
Andy Masley: Data center land-use panic ignores decades of farmland sell-off
Andy Masley dismantles the 'data centers are eating our farmland' narrative with a scale comparison. Between 2000 and 2024, US farmers voluntarily sold off a Co
Bun begins Zig-to-Rust port with Phase-A guide commit
The Bun JavaScript runtime project has landed an initial commit (46d3bc2) adding a Phase-A porting guide, signaling the start of a migration from Zig to Rust. T
Credit unions hit by process-based loan fraud, not exploits
Flare researchers tracked a structured loan fraud playbook circulating in underground forums that bypasses credit unions without touching a single vulnerability
Critical cPanel Flaw Triggers Mass Exploitation Wave Across Shared Hosting
A critical vulnerability in cPanel — the control panel running on a substantial share of the world's web hosting infrastructure — is under active exploitation,
Critical MOVEit Automation Auth Bypass Patched, CVSS 9.8
Progress Software shipped fixes for two flaws in MOVEit Automation, its server-based managed file transfer scheduler. The headline issue, CVE-2026-4670, is a 9.
Dark Reading at 20: How a 2006 Launch Reshaped Security Journalism
Dark Reading marks its origin story from 2006, when the publication launched into a cybersecurity media landscape dominated by vendor newsletters and generalist
F1 Miami: Energy regen tweaks calm the 'yo-yo' chaos of new hybrid era
Formula One returned in Miami after a five-week pause, with the spotlight on regulatory tweaks rather than the city's pastel-and-hospitality spectacle. The spor
GameStop floats unsolicited $56B bid for eBay with hazy financing plan
GameStop chairman Ryan Cohen sent an unsolicited offer to acquire eBay for $55.5 billion, despite eBay's market cap being more than four times GameStop's. The p
Leaked AWS keys fuel surge in Amazon SES phishing that sails past SPF, DKIM, DMARC
Kaspersky reports a sharp rise in phishing campaigns sent through Amazon Simple Email Service. Because SES is a trusted sender, messages pass SPF, DKIM, and DMA
NBER paper probes whether staying employed actually slows cognitive decline
A new NBER working paper examines a long-standing question in labor and aging economics: does continued employment preserve cognitive function in older workers,
Notepad++ creator disowns unauthorized "Notepad++ for Mac" port
Don Ho, the original author and maintainer of Notepad++, has publicly disavowed a third-party macOS release marketed as "Notepad++ for Mac." The app, built by A