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Milt Windler, NASA flight director who helped save Apollo 13, dies at 94

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Milt Windler, one of the four leaders of Mission Control who in 1970 directed the round-the-clock efforts to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts back to Earth safely, has died at…

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This Week In Techdirt History: September 27th – October 3rd

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

This Week in 2016 Traffic Is Fake, Audience Numbers Are Garbage, And Nobody Knows How Many People See Anything The EU’s Proposed Copyright Directive Is Likely To Be A Wonderful…

Cybersecurity

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries.…

Cybersecurity

MI5 Says China’s MSS Funded Research Involving 100+ U.K.-Linked Academics

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

The U.K.’s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing’s state security service. In…

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The dawn of the age of the exoskeleton

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

This year, members of Seattle Mountain Rescue have been setting off into the wilds of the US Pacific Northwest wearing an unusual piece of kit. They’ve been hiking into the…

Cybersecurity

The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations

October 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infrastructure, security…

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Apple changes full-disk access permissions to curb abuse from AI agents

October 2, 2026 Blogmaster

Apple says it is changing its macOS privacy settings to stop third-party app developers from misusing them to access message histories. Friday’s announcement comes two weeks after tech columnist Jason…

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Koreans Left With Spoiled Food Due To Borked Samsung Firmware Update For ‘Smart’ Fridges

October 2, 2026 Blogmaster

I must be getting old, because the concept around most IoT injections into otherwise perfectly usable home devices has me wanting to get all these smart-devices off of my lawn.…

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Someone got Doom in an SQL database

October 2, 2026 Blogmaster

“Rendering Doom in a database is obviously a bad idea,” Lukas Vogel writes in a lengthy blog post explaining how exactly he managed to render Doom using an SQL database.…

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US Human Rights Record Plummets From An Already Dismal Starting Point

October 2, 2026 Blogmaster

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. In the lead-up to the 2026 midterm elections, how is the U.S. government performing…

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