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Technical breakdown of Linux kernel LPE CVEs - nf_tables UAF, Dirty Pipe, StackRot - exploit primitives, attack chains, and the telemetry gap defenders face.
Your phone in the customs officer's hand
US border officers can search your phone without a warrant. How the border search exception works and concrete steps travelers can take to protect their data.
Clef shipped, and attackers rented a decision model
Open-weight decision models plus cheap RL fine-tuning let anyone point a goal-seeking AI agent at any reward - including offensive ones. What that means for security.
Clef ships a decision model you can fine-tune
How open-weight decision models and RL fine-tuning let you own the routing, gating, and approval points in production AI pipelines.
Court rules Utah's VPN law technically unenforceable
A court agreed with EFF: Utah's VPN law is technically unenforceable. Why a mandate with no reachable compliant state is not a control.
Git's SHA-256 default secures nothing you already have
Git 3.0 makes SHA-256 the default hash. The confirmed cost is identity continuity; the security benefit is not confirmed. An operator breakdown.
17 trillion records needed no attacker
A single cloud misconfiguration made 17 trillion Microsoft records reachable. Why static trust decisions fail and why validation must be continuous.
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