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Coast Guard Maritime Cyber Rules Set a Template Other Sectors Will Follow
The U.S. Coast Guard's new cybersecurity regulations for the Marine Transportation System mark a shift from voluntary guidance to enforceable baseline controls
Datasette 1.0a28 patches regressions from prior alpha, adds cleanup hooks
Simon Willison shipped Datasette 1.0a28 to fix breakages surfaced while upgrading Datasette Cloud to 1.0a27. The headline regression: execute_write_fn() callbac
NIST Reworks CVE Triage to Prioritize High-Impact Vulnerabilities
NIST is restructuring how it processes CVE entries, shifting effort away from exhaustive coverage of every reported flaw toward deeper analysis of vulnerabiliti
PyCon US 2026 heads to Long Beach with dedicated AI and security tracks
PyCon US 2026 runs May 13-19 in Long Beach, marking the conference's first return to California since 2013 and to the West Coast since 2017. The main talks span
Sanctioned crypto exchange Grinex halts after $15M drain, blames 'unfriendly states'
Grinex, a Kyrgyzstan-registered cryptocurrency exchange already under US Treasury sanctions, has suspended operations after attackers drained roughly $15 millio
Satellite imagery shows 40% of US AI data centers will miss 2026 deadlines
Geospatial analysis from SynMax, cross-referenced with permit filings tracked by IIR Energy, indicates that nearly 40 percent of US data center projects schedul
Tennessee man dodges prison after bragging about government hacks on Instagram
Nicholas Moore, 25, received one year of probation after pleading guilty to repeatedly accessing user accounts on the US Supreme Court's electronic filing syste
Three Months Offline: A Programmer's Retreat From AI-Assisted Coding
A former Aily Labs engineer who spent two years building AI agents is deliberately stepping away from coding assistants for a 12-week stint at Brooklyn's Recurs
Troy Hunt ships MCP server for Have I Been Pwned, opens HIBP to agentic AI
Have I Been Pwned now exposes a Model Context Protocol endpoint at haveibeenpwned.com/mcp, letting agentic AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and GitHub Copilot que
Trump's third CDC nominee is a credentialed vaccine advocate — a break from RFK Jr.'s orbit
Dr. Erica Schwartz, a preventive-medicine physician and retired rear admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, has been nominated to lead the
Used EV market opens up at the $25,000 price point
The $20,000-$25,000 bracket for used electric vehicles has become unexpectedly deep, with thousands of cars nationwide and ex-lease inventory filling dealer lot
Willison's one-shot prompt pattern: clone-for-reference, imitate-existing-logic, self-verify
Simon Willison walks through a short Claude Code prompt that extended his blog-to-newsletter tool to include a new content type called 'beats' - external items