Cyber Security
Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents
Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more than a million students, parents, and school staff. The Sydney-based maths education company wrote in a blog post that the vulnerability, in…
Jellyfin 12.0 security fixes arrive alongside the removal of legacy client logins
Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand out. The rest of the security work touches first-run setup, plugin installs, parental controls, and the web interface. On a…
220 million traveler records exposed in Vietnam-linked APIS leak
Exclusive: An exposed Advance Passenger Information System (APIS) database held 220 million passenger and crew records containing names, passport numbers, dates of birth, nationalities, and flight details spanning 2017 to 2026. Researchers accessed the Vietnam-linked system through a cloud-based…
Privacy & Identity
Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF Will Appeal
Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic
EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709
EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
Enterprise Tech
OpenAI’s new model costs 2.5x more per token — and developers are saving money anyway
“Twenty years of brand building simply froze in time”: How coding agents select their tools of choice
Permissions belong in the assembly context
Polars 2.0 pre-release comes with a 5x speed boost — but it could change row order
Developers
Article: Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Does ICANN Open the Door on Identity Theft by Dropping 3rd Level .name Domains Registrations?
Scaling your money safely with AI
Netflix Moves Toward Open Source Flink Autoscaler for 30,000+ Streaming Jobs
Policy & Regulation
Gavin Newsom’s first 2028 test: This fall, in Nevada
‘We are winning elections’: Bernie Sanders on Democrats’ progressive wing
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Markets & Economy
‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans sells his L.A. home, but at $1 million under asking price
Why the Dow is being dragged down by a Swiss company’s bad news
Company Insider Waves Goodbye to 9,500 Shares of Iconic Stock
Verizon’s Share Price Is Lower Than It Was 5 Years Ago. With Dividends Reinvested, You’re Up About 24%.
Tech Careers
Amtrak’s ‘relaxed’ COVID-era FMLA policy didn’t cover plaintiff’s unexplained absences, judge rules
Race bias claims tied to drug test can go to jury, 11th Circuit says
Another ‘whiplash’ month for the labor market as August beats expectations
Finance is ‘leaning in’ to manage healthcare costs, WTW exec says
Technology
Renault is building its €17,900 Dacia Spring EV in Europe to qualify for local subsidies
Scammers demand ransoms from Instagram users over fake copyright claims
Eric Wu’s newest company, out of stealth since May, is going after construction’s labor crunch
First Xiaomi, then the world: why Arm might give phone gaming a huge graphics boost
World
Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?
Low turnout threatens Commons vote on assisted dying, say MPs
Oil price approaches $100 a barrel after attacks on Saudi oil facilities – business live
Billionaire Chris Rokos, who paid £330m in tax last year, to quit UK
Latest News in details
‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans sells his L.A. home, but at $1 million under asking price
Chris Evans has taken a $1.01 million hit on his Los Angeles mansion, selling the property for $5.38 million as he bids farewell to California and makes his move to the East Coast. Read More about ‘Captain America’ star Chris Evans sells his L.A. home, but at $1 million under asking price
Article: Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Standard chaos engineering assumes experiments stop cleanly, blast radius is knowable in advance, and production is fair game. Payment systems violate all three. Salim Adedeji describes ECS-specific failure modes from enterprise deployments: a 60-second… Read More about Article: Implementing Chaos Engineering in Financial Payment Systems: Lessons from Enterprise ECS Deployments
Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?
Melting ice is opening a trade route through the Arctic. China has begun the first regular service, part of its polar ambitions. Read More about Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?
Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents
Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more than a million students, parents, and school staff. The Sydney-based maths education… Read More about Mathspace breach exposes data on over a million students and parents
Jellyfin 12.0 security fixes arrive alongside the removal of legacy client logins
Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand out. The rest of… Read More about Jellyfin 12.0 security fixes arrive alongside the removal of legacy client logins
Low turnout threatens Commons vote on assisted dying, say MPs
Backers seek support for second attempt to get law through House of Lords after ‘undemocratic’ rejection last year MPs on both sides of the assisted dying debate have voiced fears about turnout affecting the… Read More about Low turnout threatens Commons vote on assisted dying, say MPs