Cyber Security
Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5. Sansec, which discovered the…
Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials
JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate…
Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain
A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC). [...]
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
Building trust in agentic RAG starts with evidence
Claude Fable 5.1 vs. Fable 5: On real work, I couldn’t tell them apart.
Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.
“1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things
Developers
How Figma Uses AI Agents for Security
FreeCORE: TrueNAS Fork Maintaining Deeply Integrated Virtualization, Jails, and OpenZFS on FreeBSD
Presentation: A Few Predicted Talks From QConAI 2030
Beyond Zero: Google Publishes Successor to BeyondCorp
Policy & Regulation
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.
Missouri Supreme Court pauses GOP gerrymander, likely netting Democrats 1 House seat
Markets & Economy
Cerebras Has a $25.4 Billion Backlog, and One OpenAI Agreement Is Behind Much of It
IonQ vs. Rigetti Computing: Which Pure-Play Quantum Pioneer Has the Stronger Technology Advantage?
He Borrowed Against the Corn Instead of Selling It. One Tax Election Made the Loan Part of the Farm Income Social Security Counts.
Intel’s AI Tailwinds Are Real. Mizuho Cut the Target Anyway.
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
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
How to find your MacBook’s diagnostic menu
Explore the globe in field recordings
The reasons rugged laptops are rarely bought by consumers
World
Israeli flags become the latest weapon of settlers in West Bank domination
What Secret Audits Tell Us About How Ukraine’s Military Is Spending Its Money
A Bad Year for Bees Gets Worse as Trump’s Tariffs Hit Canada’s Honey Belt
QUIZ: Ugh, I’ll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
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Israeli flags become the latest weapon of settlers in West Bank domination
Israel's visual colonisation aims to make Palestinians feel like guests in their own homeland. Read More about Israeli flags become the latest weapon of settlers in West Bank domination
What Secret Audits Tell Us About How Ukraine’s Military Is Spending Its Money
The documents amount to an autopsy of the weapons-contracting process. Read More about What Secret Audits Tell Us About How Ukraine’s Military Is Spending Its Money
A Bad Year for Bees Gets Worse as Trump’s Tariffs Hit Canada’s Honey Belt
Alberta produces 40 percent of Canada’s honey. This year, rain and President Trump’s trade war have combined to threaten the industry. Read More about A Bad Year for Bees Gets Worse as Trump’s Tariffs Hit Canada’s Honey Belt
QUIZ: Ugh, I’ll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
Learn a few surprising facts about procrastination — and helpful tools to overcome it — with this quiz. It's based on social scientist Itamar Shatz's new book, Solving Procrastination . Read More about QUIZ: Ugh, I’ll do it later. How much do you know about procrastination?
How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
Washington imposed sanctions on Inspur because of its work with the Chinese military. But the company’s subsidiary kept shipping Nvidia’s best chips to feed China’s leading A.I. firms. Read More about How a Blacklisted Chinese Tech Giant Kept Buying America’s Best A.I. Chips
The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice
Joan Birman thought her major discoveries were behind her. Then came an email from a young neighbor — a girl who knew little but wanted to learn. Read More about The 92-Year-Old Mathematician and the Teenage Apprentice