A newly disclosed use-after-free in the Linux kernel's epoll code, CVE-2026-46242, lets an unprivileged user get root on ...

A viral report claims that chatbot lying and scheming has increased exponentially; the problem is that the report’s language is doing the heavy lifting instead of its data, opines Satyen K. Bordoloi ...

There is a saying that common sense isn't very common anymore. That was brought home quite clearly in a story in your paper about a fellow who caught a python in Everglades National Park and was fined ...

According to the Bible, the world’s first con man was a snake. It deceived Adam and Eve, leading them to commit the first sin, which is how we wound up living in this messed-up world we have now. I ...

GitHub CISO Alexis Wales confirmed Thursday that a poisoned build of the Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension — live on Microsoft's official Visual Studio Marketplace for just 18 minutes on May 18 ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

Four supply-chain incidents hit OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta in 50 days: three adversary-driven attacks and one self-inflicted packaging failure. None targeted the model, and all four exposed the same ...

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Developers of major Linux distributions have begun shipping patches to address a local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability arising from a logic flaw. The newly disclosed LPE, dubbed Copy Fail ...

Experts say until the distros release patches, CSOs have to beware of unauthorized privilege escalation; Kubernetes container escape is also a risk. CSOs must ensure their Linux-based systems block ...

In yet another software supply chain attack, threat actors have managed to compromise the popular Python package Lightning to push two malicious versions to conduct credential theft. As of writing, ...

A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server for 11 years. The security issue is ...