Cyber Resilience: Sorry Vendors, It’s About Leadership, Not Tech!
Cyber resilience isn’t about flashy tools. It’s about strong leadership, clear vision, and a culture of security. Learn how leaders can drive real impact.
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Report: Addressing cybersecurity burnout in 2025
The consequences of this burnout are far-reaching, affecting productivity, incident response times, and employee retention.
‘Honk If You Hate Elon:’ Two Days of Protest at the Tesla Diner
After spending last week with Tesla fans who wanted the world to know that their Tesla purchases had nothing to do with politics, I spent this weekend at the Tesla diner protests, talking to people who disagreed with that stance. On both Saturday and Sunday, organisers from Resist the Coup and Tesla Takedown Santa Monica…
Why Was Nvidia Hosting Blogs About ‘Brazilian Facesitting Fart Games’?
Web domains owned by Nvidia, Stanford, NPR, and the U.S. government are hosting pages full of AI slop articles that redirect to a spam marketing site. On a site seemingly abandoned by Nvidia for events, called events.nsv.nvidia.com, a spam marketing operation moved in and posted more than 62,000 AI-generated articles, many of them full of…
Behind the Blog: ‘Free Speech’ and Open Dialogue
This is Behind the Blog, where we share our behind-the-scenes thoughts about how a few of our top stories of the week came together. This week, we discuss “free speech,” keeping stupid thoughts in one’s own head, and cancel culture. JASON: In August 2014, I spoke to Drew Curtis, the founder of Fark.com, a timeless,…
New Bill Would Make All Pornography a Federal Crime in the U.S.
Republican Senator of Utah Mike Lee introduced a bill that would effectively ban porn at the federal level in the United States. The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act (IODA), introduced by Lee and Illinois Republican Rep. Mary Miller on Thursday, aims to change the Supreme Court’s 1973 “Miller Test” for determining what qualifies as obscene. “Obscenity…
TSA Working on Haptic Tech To ‘Feel’ Your Body in Virtual Reality
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Transportation Security Administration (TSA) are researching an incredibly wild virtual reality technology that would allow TSA agents to use VR goggles and haptic feedback gloves to allow them to pat down and feel airline passengers at security checkpoints without actually touching them. The agency calls this a “touchless…
UNT Cybersecurity Team Snags $3M to Use Advanced AI to Overhaul Defense Department Hiring Processes
Aiming to safeguard national security using advanced AI, cybersecurity experts at the University of North Texas have received $3 million from the Department of Defense to help the department overhaul its hiring processes. The UNT researchers, led by computer science and engineering faculty Ram Dantu and Cihan Tunc, received $2.1 million in funding from the…
Violent Hackers Are Using U-Haul To Dox Targets
Members of an underground criminal community that hack massive companies, steal swathes of cryptocurrency, and even commission robberies or shootings against members of the public or one another have an unusual method for digging up personal information on a target: the truck and trailer rental company U-Haul. With access to U-Haul employee accounts, hackers can…
Reddit Issuing ‘Formal Legal Demands’ Against Researchers Who Conducted Secret AI Experiment on Users
Reddit’s top lawyer, Ben Lee, said the company is considering legal action against researchers from the University of Zurich who ran what he called an “improper and highly unethical experiment” by surreptitiously deploying AI chatbots in a popular debate subreddit. The University of Zurich told 404 Media that the experiment results will not be published…