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Trump's third CDC nominee is a credentialed vaccine advocate — a break from RFK Jr.'s orbit
Dr. Erica Schwartz, a preventive-medicine physician and retired rear admiral of the US Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, has been nominated to lead the
Used EV market opens up at the $25,000 price point
The $20,000-$25,000 bracket for used electric vehicles has become unexpectedly deep, with thousands of cars nationwide and ex-lease inventory filling dealer lot
Willison's one-shot prompt pattern: clone-for-reference, imitate-existing-logic, self-verify
Simon Willison walks through a short Claude Code prompt that extended his blog-to-newsletter tool to include a new content type called 'beats' - external items
Anthropic's Mythos Model Exposes Who Decides Which Infrastructure Gets Defended First
Anthropic restricted its Claude Mythos Preview model to roughly 50 organizations under Project Glasswing, citing its dangerous capability at finding and weaponi
Carders Now Vet Their Own Black Markets Like Enterprise Buyers Do SaaS
Flare analysts surfaced an underground forum document titled 'The Underground Guide to Legit CC Shops' that reads less like a how-to for fraud and more like a p
CISA: 13-Year-Old ActiveMQ Flaw Found by Claude AI Now Under Active Exploit
CISA added CVE-2026-34197, a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this week, giving federal agencies unti
CISA Flags Apache ActiveMQ Flaw CVE-2026-34197 as Actively Exploited
CISA has added CVE-2026-34197, a vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation in the wi
Friday Squid Blogging: Giant Squid Filmed Eating Another Squid
Schneier's weekly squid post highlights a Japanese video capturing a giant squid consuming another squid, serving as the recurring open thread for security topi
Google Blocks 8.3B Bad Ads in 2025, Ships Android 17 Privacy Overhaul
Google says it stopped 8.3 billion ads from running in 2025 for breaching its policies, a scale that underscores how much of the ad ecosystem is adversarial rat
Kaseya-BleepingComputer webinar pitches integrated security-plus-recovery model for MSPs
BleepingComputer is hosting a sponsored webinar with Kaseya on May 14, 2026, framed around a single argument: MSPs can no longer treat prevention and recovery a
NIST Throttles CVE Enrichment as Vulnerability Submissions Surge 263%
NIST is scaling back the depth of analysis it applies to incoming CVE records, citing a 263% jump in vulnerability submissions that has overwhelmed the National
NIST's NVD Retreat Leaves Defenders Scrambling for CVE Enrichment Alternatives
NIST has scaled back its handling of the National Vulnerability Database, creating a widening enrichment gap that security teams previously relied on for CVSS s