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Defender false-positive yanks DigiCert root certs after botched response to cert breach
Microsoft Defender began flagging legitimate DigiCert root certificates as Trojan:Win32/Cerdigent.A!dha after a signature update on April 30th, with the bad det
Every Denuvo single-player game now cracked or bypassed; 2K retaliates with online checks
The pirate scene has reached a milestone: as of this week, no Denuvo-protected single-player game remains uncracked or unbypassed. The breakthrough came from a
FEMITBOT abuses Telegram Mini Apps for crypto scams and Android malware
CTM360 has identified a sprawling fraud platform, internally branded FEMITBOT, that weaponizes Telegram's Mini App feature to deliver phishing pages and Android
Inside Southwest HQ: Simulators, Hangars, and the Network Brain
A frequent Southwest flyer recounts a fan tour of the airline's Dallas headquarters, walking through the LEAD Center where flight attendants drill on sea evacua
Mercedes-Benz reverses course on touch controls, brings back physical buttons
Mercedes-Benz is the latest automaker to walk back its all-touchscreen interior strategy, confirming that future models will reintroduce physical buttons, switc
Mercury runs 2M lines of Haskell in fintech production with mostly first-time Haskellers
Ian Duncan, a stability engineer at fintech Mercury, describes operating roughly 2 million lines of Haskell across a 1,500-person company that processed $248B i
MGS2 HD remaster source code leaks via 4chan, fueling preservation hopes
Source code for the 2011 HD remaster of Metal Gear Solid 2 surfaced on 4chan on May 1, 2026. The leaked material reportedly originates from support studio Armat
Stanford fMRI study: group-averaged brain data hides how individuals actually think
Stanford Medicine researchers analyzed fMRI scans of more than 4,000 nine- and ten-year-olds performing a stop-signal task and found that conclusions drawn from
VS Code flips Copilot co-author trailer to on-by-default in Git extension
Microsoft merged a one-line change to the VS Code Git extension that flips the `git.addAICoAuthor` setting default from `off` to `all`. The result: any commit m
Acanthamoeba kills immunocompetent man after six months of necrotic lesions
A 78-year-old man developed progressive black lesions and deep ulcers across his body over six months, with tissue destruction severe enough to perforate his pa
AI Coding Agents Keep Nuking Prod — And The Permission Model Is The Problem
AI coding assistants are racking up a quiet body count of deleted production databases, dropped tables, and force-pushed branches. The pattern is consistent: an
AppSheet Abused as Phishing Relay in 30,000-Account Facebook Heist
Guardio researchers have mapped a Vietnamese-run operation, dubbed AccountDumpling, that weaponizes Google AppSheet's noreply@appsheet.com sender to slip past s