What is the Role of Mathematics in Modern Machine Learning? The past decade has witnessed a shift in how progress is made in machine learning. Research involving carefully designed and mathematically …
“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 …
Upcoming Speaking Engagements This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak:
I’m speaking at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, at 2 PM ET on Thursday, February 26, …
Threat actors have started to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products, according to watchTowr. …
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Feb 13, 2026
Supply Chain Security / DevSecOps
In December 2025, in response to the Sha1-Hulud incident, npm completed a major authentication overhaul intended to reduce …
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal data associated with Meta Business Suite and Facebook Business Manager.
The extension, …
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Print circulation figures for the Mirror, Express and Star newspapers will no longer be made public.
Publisher Reach has decided to keep its national newspaper ABC …
We’ve all seen this before: a developer deploys a new cloud workload and grants overly broad permissions just to keep the sprint moving. An engineer generates a “temporary” API key for …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android trojan called Massiv that’s designed to facilitate device takeover ( DTO ) attacks for financial theft.
The malware, according …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed CRESCENTHARVEST , likely targeting supporters of Iran’s ongoing protests to conduct information theft and long-term …
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Feb 19, 2026
Cybersecurity / Hacking News
The cyber threat space doesn’t pause, and this week makes that clear. New risks, new tactics, and new security gaps are showing up …
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Feb 19, 2026
Vulnerability / Network Security
Microsoft has disclosed a now-patched security flaw in Windows Admin Center that could allow an attacker to escalate their …
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Feb 19, 2026
Financial Crime / Cybercrime
An international cybercrime operation against online scams has led to 651 arrests and recovered more than $4.3 million as part of an …
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia is in a penitent mood. “I would like to say, humbly, I’m sorry for taking part in the toxic politics,” she said in an interview Sunday on CNN, where all normal, …
What does a federal firearm prohibition and a hate crime have to do with the Commerce Clause? Sarah Isgur and David French look at the constitutionality of two cases and whether the Supreme Court will …
While NASA is a large, sprawling organization, with various objectives and programs, China’s National Space Administration (CNSA) —a civil-military agency of the Chinese government—has been narrowly …
Vernor Vinge—the Hugo Award–winning science fiction author who passed away in March 2024—imagined a world where individuals, not governments, held the power. His 1981 novella True Names featured …
In the early months of 1927, the U.S. Supreme Court decided two cases that might not initially appear to share anything in common.
In Tyson and Brother v. Banton , the Supreme Court struck down a New …
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Feb 13, 2026
Cloud Security / Cyber Espionage
A previously unknown threat actor tracked as UAT-9921 has been observed leveraging a new modular framework called VoidLink in its …
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Feb 13, 2026
Malware / Critical Infrastructure
Several state-sponsored actors, hacktivist entities, and criminal groups from China, Iran, North Korea, and Russia have trained …
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Feb 13, 2026
Threat Intelligence / Malware
A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations with malware known as CANFAIL …
Today’s patch Tuesday addresses 59 different vulnerabilities (plus two Chromium vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Edge). While this is a lower-than-normal number, this includes six …
Politics
Today in Supreme Court History: November 18, 1811 Josh Blackman
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11/18/1811: Justice Gabriel Duvall takes judicial oath. Professor David P. Currie said that an …