Microsoft Office vulnerability (CVE-2026-21509) in active exploitation
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‘Sea of Idiocy:’ Economists Say Trump Tariffs Will Raise Price of Switch 2 and Everything Else
Last week, the Financial Times reported that Nintendo shifted half of its production capabilities for the upcoming Switch 2 to Cambodia and Vietnam, in part to avoid Donald Trump’s trade war on China. Wednesday morning, Nintendo formally announced the Switch 2, and its $449 price, which is $150 more than the Switch. A few hours…
Former Heritage Foundation Staffer Orders Treasury Employees to Respond to Elon Musk’s Email
Workers around the federal government are scrambling to figure out how and if they should respond to an all-government email sent Saturday at the behest of Elon Musk asking them to list five things they did at work within the last week. During the confusion caused by Musk’s email, workers at the Treasury Department received…
Podcast: The Life Changing Power of Lifting
For this week’s podcast, I’m talking to our friend Casey Johnston, a tech journalist turned fitness journalist turned independent journalist. Casey studied physics, which led her to tech journalism; she did some of my favorite coverage of Internet culture as well as Apple’s horrendous butterfly laptop keyboards. We worked together at VICE, where Casey was…
Trump’s DHS Guts Board Investigating Chinese Hacking Group Salt Typhoon
The DHS’ acting director said that anyone who got canned is ‘welcome to reapply.’
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
A pseudonymous coder has created and released an open source “tar pit” to indefinitely trap AI training web crawlers in an infinitely, randomly-generating series of pages to waste their time and computing power. The program, called Nepenthes after the genus of carnivorous pitcher plants which trap and consume their prey, can be deployed by webpage…
OnlyFans Sued After Two Guys Realized They Might Not Actually Be Talking to Models
This article was produced in collaboration with Court Watch, an independent outlet that unearths overlooked court records. Subscribe to them here. Two former OnlyFans subscribers are suing the platform in a class-action lawsuit, claiming that they were defrauded because creators allegedly weren’t interacting directly with them, but were instead employing agencies to “impersonate” the models they thought…
Open AI’s Sam Altman calls China’s DeepSeek’s R1 “Impressive,” but promises better models
Altman’s comments come after DeepSeek rattled Silicon Valley and sent some tech and energy stocks tumbling.
Sophos Partners with Capsule on New Cyber Insurance Program
The partnership rewards real-world, observable security controls, while removing the traditional barriers to insurance coverage.
NYDFS penalizes PayPal $2M over 2022 data breach
The settlement detailed the missteps PayPal took in the lead-up to the attack and highlighted common risks — both on compliance and security — banks face.