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Who Operates the Badbox 2.0 Botnet?

The cybercriminals in control of Kimwolf — a disruptive botnet that has infected more than 2 million devices — recently shared a screenshot indicating they’d compromised the control panel for Badbox …

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Please Don’t Feed the Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters

A prolific data ransom gang that calls itself Scattered Lapsus ShinyHunters (SLSH) has a distinctive playbook when it seeks to extort payment from victim firms: Harassing, threatening and even …

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Patch Tuesday, February 2026 Edition

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than 50 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, including patches for a whopping six “zero-day” vulnerabilities that attackers …

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Kimwolf Botnet Swamps Anonymity Network I2P

For the past week, the massive “Internet of Things” (IoT) botnet known as Kimwolf has been disrupting The Invisible Internet Project (I2P), a decentralized, encrypted communications network designed …

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Journalism lost its culture of sharing

If you’ve worked in a technical role in news for long enough, you likely remember when the “show your work” spirit was everywhere. Newsroom nerds shared code on GitHub, swapped tips on social media …

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Our gatherings could be so much better

We attend a lot of journalism conferences. We’ve organized sessions, facilitated workshops, spoken on and moderated panels. Between us, we’ve probably accumulated more conference lanyards than …

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What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these …

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AGI Is Not Multimodal

“In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence.” –Terry Winograd The recent successes of …

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Friday Squid Blogging: Do Squid Dream?

Friday Squid Blogging: Do Squid Dream? An exploration of the interesting question. Tags: squid Posted on February 13, 2026 at 5:08 PM • 38 Comments