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Trump Authorizes Private Sector Participation in Offensive Cyber Operations

The White House has authorized government-directed offensive cyber operations against transnational groups, prompting warnings over escalation and attribution

GitLab 19.2.2 Patches 13 Security Flaws, Including High-Severity XSS and CI/CD Authorization Flaws

GitLab has released security updates for Community Edition and Enterprise Edition, addressing 13 vulnerabilities affecting analytics dashboards, CI/CD

Jewelbug APT Hijacks Browsers to Steal Cookies and Spy on Government Networks

Jewelbug has turned ordinary web browsing into an entry point for espionage. The China-based group compromised government webmail

Armored Likho Still Toolkit Steals Telegram Sessions and Records Victims’ Conversations

A cyber-espionage operation linked to Armored Likho is using a convincing donation app to reach people and organizations

Hackers Leveraging GoogleWorkspace Accounts to Send Phishing and Scam Emails

Hackers are turning compromised Google Workspace accounts into tools for phishing and scam emails. The messages can look

Thousand of Internet-Exposed Contollers Could Put Data center Cooling and Power at Risk

Thousands of internet-exposed building controllers may be putting the physical backbone of U.S. data centers at risk. They

WordPress 7.0.4 Patches Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Attackers with Author-level user or higher permissions could exploit the flaw via malicious Postscript files. The post WordPress

1 Tbps DDoS Attacks Become the New Normal as Cloudflare Reports Record H1 Activity

Cloudflare has reported a sharp rise in large-scale distributed denial-of-service attacks during the first half of 2026, blocking

Venture Firm Team8 Secures Additional $365 Million

The Israeli company has nearly $2 billion in total assets under management since 2014. The post Venture Firm

WhatsApp rolls out new feature that flags potential scam messages

WhatsApp has begun rolling out a new optional “Scam Alert” feature, which uses a local machine learning model

AI & Data Science Periodic Tables: How They Work Together

Separating AI’s Technological Problems from Its Capitalism Problems

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in Tech Policy Press. AI represents the