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Thoughts and musings of David Greenberg, a polymath

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2026 Volkswagen Jetta Sport: The cheap car isn’t completely extinct yet

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

As so many career counselors and lifestyle coaches have explained, first impressions matter. A bad one can set the tone for an entire relationship, whether that’s with a person, a…

Cybersecurity

18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated,…

Cybersecurity

INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the “dominant threat actor” exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances. In a report…

Cybersecurity

Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim’s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all appearing on the victim’s…

Technology

Trump Spends The Weekend Fighting For The $1.776 Billion Slush Fund His Chosen Attorney General Swears Is Dead

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Sometimes it helps to just write out everything that happened leading up to a situation so we don’t lose sight of just how ridiculous it is. I mean, would you…

Technology

SpaceX is set to acquire 130,000 acres of marshland in southern Louisiana

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

SpaceX and the state of Louisiana are close to finalizing a deal for the launch company to acquire about 130,000 acres along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico.…

Technology

Trump wants the power to stop the public from suing polluters

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Reducing rampant pollution across the United States was so important that when Congress passed many environmental protection laws, including the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, and Safe Drinking Water…

Cybersecurity

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login…

Technology

How headlights got brighter, whiter, and more blinding after dark

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Every so often, I’ll be piloting some sensor-laden, software-defined press car down a dark stretch of highway when an oncoming driver’s high beams arrive like a targeted retinal strike, an…

Cybersecurity

FOMO in the SOC: Where AI Platforms like Claude Actually Fit

August 3, 2026 Blogmaster

AI is moving incredibly fast, and every security leader is feeling the pressure to keep up. AI platforms like Claude, Codex and Cursor are already helping security teams write detections,…

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