Zohran Mamdani canvassing in October 2025 for the mayoral election. Picture: Shutterstock/Lev Radin It’s a quiet festive period, and most of you will be off next week, so we’re doing a roundup of all …
L-R top to bottom: New York Times TVP of global advertising Tom Armstrong, Newsweek editor-in-chief Jennifer Cunningham, The Atlantic chief executive Nicholas Thompson, Forbes chief innovation …
One year after the fall of the Assad government in Syria, the Damascus Dossier investigation brought together more than 100 reporters to uncover new evidence of the regime’s abuses and reveal efforts …
The Houses of Parliament building in Westminster, London, UK. Picture: Nigel J Harris/Shutterstock Downing Street has scrapped its daily afternoon press briefing, in a move journalists warned could …
News coverage in 2025 was dominated by several seismic events, with data journalism outlets closely tracking a world shaped by US trade hegemony, the rising influence of AI, and the persistence of …
In yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned “tailsnitch”, a new tool to audit Tailscale configurations. Tailscale is an easy-to-use overlay to Wireguard. It is probably best compared to STUN …
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, January 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9756
Malicious use of QR codes has long been ubiquitous, both in the real world as well as in electronic communication. This is hardly surprising given that a scan of a QR code can lead one to a phishing …
I’m always looking for new ways of manipulating the data captured by my DShield sensor [ 1 ]. This time I used Gephi [ 2 ] and Graphiz [ 3 ] a popular and powerful tool for visualizing and …
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, January 8th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9758
The Wegman’s Supermarket Chain Is Probably Using Facial Recognition The New York City Wegman’s is collecting biometric information about customers. Tags: biometrics , face recognition , privacy , …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Privacy / Artificial Intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) company OpenAI on Wednesday announced the launch of ChatGPT Health, a dedicated space that allows …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Vulnerability / Container Security Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of multiple critical-severity security flaws affecting Coolify , an open-source, …
AI & Humans: Making the Relationship Work Leaders of many organizations are urging their teams to adopt agentic AI to improve efficiency, but are finding it hard to achieve any benefit. Managers …
A Cyberattack Was Part of the US Assault on Venezuela We don’t have many details : President Donald Trump suggested Saturday that the U.S. used cyberattacks or other technical capabilities to cut …
Facebook and Meta logos. Picture: Shutterstock Meta has begun a test restricting the number of links that creators and businesses can post per month on Facebook . A subset of Facebook pages plus user …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Cybersecurity / Hacking News The internet never stays quiet. Every week, new hacks, scams, and security problems show up somewhere. This week’s stories show …
Chainguard, the trusted source for open source, has a unique view into how modern organizations actually consume open source software and where they run into risk and operational burdens. Across a …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Cloud Security Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three malicious npm packages that are designed to deliver a previously undocumented malware …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Network Security / Vulnerability Cisco has released updates to address a medium-severity security flaw in Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity …
** Jan 08, 2026 ** Ravie Lakshmanan Malware / Threat Intelligence A China-nexus threat actor known as UAT-7290 has been attributed to espionage-focused intrusions against entities in South Asia and …
The James M. and Cathleen D. Stone Center on Inequality and Shaping the Future of Work officially launched on Nov. 3, 2025, bringing together scholars, policymakers, and practitioners to explore …
This post is cowritten with Aashraya Sachdeva from Observe.ai. You can use Amazon SageMaker to build, train and deploy machine learning (ML) models, including large language models (LLMs) and other …
This blog post is based on work co-developed with Flo Health. Healthcare science is rapidly advancing. Maintaining accurate and up-to-date medical content directly impacts people’s lives, health …
Organizations handle vast amounts of sensitive customer information through various communication channels. Protecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as social security numbers …
