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NYT Builds Circumstantial Case That Adam Back Is Satoshi Nakamoto

A New York Times piece assembles a substantial body of circumstantial evidence pointing to cypherpunk Adam Back as the person behind the Satoshi Nakamoto pseudo

via Schneier on Security ·
policycybersecurity

Pentagon Kills $8B GPS Ground Control Program After 16 Years of Failure

The US Space Force has terminated the Next-Generation Operational Control System (OCX), ending a 16-year effort to build a modernized command and control system

via Ars Technica ·
cybersecurityai

Roblox cheat script plus AI coding tool triggered full Vercel outage

A cascading failure on Vercel's platform traced back to an unlikely origin: a Roblox cheat script combined with an AI-assisted coding tool. The cheat generated

via Hacker News ·
cybersecuritycloud

Seiko USA site defaced with ransom note claiming Shopify customer DB theft

Attackers replaced the Press Lounge section of Seiko USA's website over the weekend with a ransom message claiming they had breached the company's Shopify backe

via BleepingComputer ·
cybersecurityvulnerability

Serial-to-IP Converters Carry Thousands of Latent Bugs Across OT Networks

Serial-to-IP devices — the small gateways that bridge legacy serial equipment to modern Ethernet networks — are riddled with vulnerabilities, many inherited fro

via Dark Reading ·
aivulnerability

SGLang RCE Flaw Turns Malicious GGUF Model Files Into Code Execution

A critical vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-5760 has been disclosed in SGLang, a serving framework widely used to run large language models at scale. Rated 9.8

via The Hacker News ·
policytech-culture

Solar Posts Largest Single-Year Growth of Any Energy Source in History

The EIA's 2025 global energy analysis confirms solar as the dominant source of new generation, with growth that the agency calls unprecedented for any energy so

via Ars Technica ·
cybersecurityai

Vercel Breach Traces to Employee's AI Tool Integrations

Vercel has disclosed a data breach tied to an employee account whose access to AI-assisted development tools became the pivot point for unauthorized data exposu

via Dark Reading ·
cybersecuritysupply-chain

Weekly Threat Digest: Vercel Breach, Push Fraud, QEMU Abuse, Android RAT Surge

A compressed week of incidents points to attackers moving up the stack and into the edges of developer infrastructure. A breach at Vercel — a platform sitting i

via The Hacker News ·
privacycybersecurity

WhatsApp Metadata Leak Hands Attackers a Free Reconnaissance Channel

WhatsApp is exposing user metadata in a way that lets attackers harvest information about accounts without ever sending a message or triggering a notification.

via Dark Reading ·
tech-culture

Blue Origin reuses New Glenn booster, but upper stage fails mid-mission

Blue Origin pulled off its first reflight of an orbital-class booster on Sunday, landing the New Glenn first stage Never Tell Me The Odds on an Atlantic recover

via Ars Technica ·
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Claude Opus 4.7 system prompt: less verbose, tool-first, tighter child safety

Simon Willison diffed Anthropic's published system prompts between Claude Opus 4.6 (February 2026) and 4.7 (April 16, 2026), surfacing meaningful behavioral shi

via Simon Willison ·