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Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a…

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The FTC Would Like To Decide Which AI Answers Are Too Woke, And Is Calling That Consumer Protection

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

On Friday this week the FTC’s open comment period regarding its “Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy” will close, which means that a bunch of very smart, very busy people are…

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Daily Deal: The Complete Machine Learning Bundle

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Dive into the world of self-driving cars, speech recognition technology, and more with the Complete Machine Learning Bundle. Over 10 courses, you will learn about pattern recognition and prediction, and…

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Report: Trump mad RFK Jr. hasn’t cut more vaccines or proven autism link

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Ardent anti-vaccine activist and current US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is reportedly on thin ice with Trump for not being anti-vaccine enough for the president’s liking, according to…

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404 Media Scores Leaked Document Detailing The Dozens Of Surveillance Tools ICE Has Access To

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

The always-invaluable 404 Media has scored another minor coup. We all know ICE is heavily invested in surveillance tech, ranging from its purchases of cell location data from data brokers…

Cybersecurity

24,650 Internet-Exposed BMCs Disclose IPMI Password Hashes Before Login

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol to the public internet. Of the…

Cybersecurity

Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device’s hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu’s other persistence…

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As US measles cases rise, biotech firms start developing new treatments

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

Up until recently, measles vaccination has been so effective that there’s been little medical or financial incentive to develop treatments for the disease. But as measles cases hit a 35-year…

Cybersecurity

Critical OpenWrt DHCPv6 Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked…

Cybersecurity

JFrog Confirms OpenAI Models Exploited Artifactory Zero-Day Before Hugging Face Breach

July 28, 2026 Blogmaster

JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is JFrog’s software repository manager.…

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