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Cybersecurity

Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and Taiwan

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection.…

Cybersecurity

Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Ad Portals Capture Credentials and MFA Codes

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a “human-operated phishing platform” that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and…

Technology

Googlebook “Better Together” phone features don’t work with Samsung at launch

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Googlebooks are Google’s latest attempt to carve out a piece of the premium laptop market, and tight integration with Android phones is a key part of that effort. Now that…

Technology

Neutrino physicist wins 2026 Nobel Physics Prize

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Francis Halzen, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, has won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of…

Technology

Amazon kills Alexa’s ability to control Echo speakers’ AUX input

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Amazon has disabled Alexa control of devices plugged into the company’s Echo smart speaker’s AUX port. Users have reported receiving an email from Amazon this week informing them of the…

Technology

Support Ars and get a better reading experience in return

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

When Ars launched in 1998, there was one way to read it: in a web browser on a PC (or Mac). Your screen of choice was either some massive CRT…

Technology

Paramount completes $111B Warner merger, creating “Skydance” behemoth

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Paramount Skydance completed its $111 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery today, after a last-ditch effort to block the deal was rejected by Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. The post-merger…

Technology

Appeals Court Pauses Minnesota’s Nudify Law, Which Ignored Its Own Supreme Court’s Roadmap.

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

I feel I need to start out posts like this by reminding anyone that nudification apps are bad. They’re almost exclusively used to abuse and harass people, most often women.…

Technology

Daily Deal: Salesforce Certification Exam Training

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

The Salesforce Certification Exam Training Bundle includes practice exam questions and study guides for various certifications, covering a wide range of roles such as administrators, developers, architects, sales representatives, and…

Technology

Judge Reinstates DOJ Prosecutor Illegally Fired By Trump

October 6, 2026 Blogmaster

Yet another one of Trump’s many, many, often blatantly illegal playbooks is on display here. It seems Trump really doesn’t know who’s going to be loyal enough to satisfy him…

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