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South Korea Guarantees Free 400 Kbps Mobile Data for All Citizens
South Korea has rolled out a universal basic mobile data program giving over seven million subscribers unlimited 400 Kbps downloads once their paid data caps ar
Squid Jigging Fleet Explodes 35x in South Pacific as Catches Crater
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization governs 59 million square kilometers of high seas where regulation is structurally weak. Jumbo flyi
Troy Hunt builds Xero auto-suspension after customer drags HIBP invoices 80+ days late
Hunt spent the week dealing with an unnamed enterprise customer whose invoices were running more than six months overdue, averaging 80-day payment cycles agains
Troy Hunt: HIBP team leans harder on Claude agents, $854/week in tokens and counting
Have I Been Pwned is shifting an increasing share of routine work onto Claude-powered agents wired through a custom orchestrator the team calls OpenClaw. Hunt r
Troy Hunt on Agentic AI: Rickety but Revolutionary Potential
Troy Hunt draws a Wright Brothers analogy for OpenClaw, an agentic AI tool he's been experimenting with. He acknowledges the technology is rough around the edge
Yellowstone may be powered by a vanished tectonic plate, not a mantle plume
A new paper proposes that the Yellowstone hotspot - famous for its supervolcanic eruptions - may not be driven by a deep mantle plume after all. Instead, the re
Anthropic's AI Exploit Tool Sparks Security Debate
Anthropic's new AI system, designed to identify software vulnerabilities by writing exploits, has raised concerns about misuse despite the company's safety meas
Artemis II Crew Faces Critical 14-Minute Reentry Through Earth's Atmosphere
NASA's Artemis II mission is set to conclude with splashdown off the Southern California coast at 8:07 PM ET Friday. The four astronauts aboard the Orion spacec
asgi-gzip fix stops SSE streams from being incorrectly compressed
A production Datasette deployment broke when Server-Sent Events responses were being gzip-compressed by the asgi-gzip middleware, which had been extracted from
Backdoored Smart Slider 3 Pro Plugin Update Pushed via Compromised Nextend Servers
Attackers compromised the update infrastructure of Nextend, the company behind the popular WordPress plugin Smart Slider 3 Pro, to distribute a backdoored versi
BlueHammer Zero-Day Exposes Flaws in Microsoft's Disclosure
The discovery of the BlueHammer exploit, a zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows systems, has highlighted longstanding concerns about Microsoft's bug disclos
Browser Extensions Become Stealth AI Pipeline, Bypassing Enterprise Controls
Browser extensions have quietly become one of the largest unmanaged channels through which employees feed corporate data into AI systems. While security teams h