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Cybersecurity

US soldier gets 70 months in prison for extorting 10 tech, telecom firms

A former U.S. Army soldier has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking and extorting at least 10 U.S. technology and telecommunications companies between April 2023 and December 2024. [...]

Sep 28, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

CISA orders feds to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies over the weekend to secure their systems against attacks exploiting two critical Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. [...]

Sep 28, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

OpenAI is preparing “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that could handle email

OpenAI is testing a new always-on assistant called "o", and references to the unannounced feature briefly showed up on the company's website. [...]

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Citrix confirms two NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks

Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, are being exploited in attacks and that it has released security updates to fix the flaws. [...]

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Remembering Four Silent Keys

We are saddened to report this week on the passing of four well-known amateurs, including two members of the extended “ARRL family.”  Longtime ARRL Rhode Island Section Manager Robert George “Bob” Beaudet, W1YRC, became a Silent Key on September…

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Cloudflare fixes Containers cross-tenant flaw exposing customer data

Cloudflare has fixed a vulnerability in Containers and Sandboxes that allowed customers with a Workers Paid account to recover residual data from other customers' containers on the same physical host. [...]

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Anthropic turns Claude into an AI marketplace with 2,000+ plugins and connectors

Anthropic has just announced a new Claude Marketplace, and it brings all AI-related tools into one place, including plugins, connectors, agents, and more. [...]

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Technology

How the Smithsonian became the latest front in Trump’s culture war

The Smithsonian has faced withering pressure from the Trump administration.

Sep 27, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks

The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat actors to resume widespread exploitation of a flaw on vulnerable servers. [...]

Sep 26, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appears to be changing how it writes, with new analysis showing fewer obvious AI writing patterns, shorter sentences, and simpler wording compared with Opus 5. [...]

Sep 26, 2026Read Brief →
Cybersecurity

Microsoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivations

Microsoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office 2019 installations. [...]

Sep 26, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Video/Podcast with ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA

ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, was a guest on episode 103 of The DX Mentor, which aired September 19, 2026. Hosted by Bill Salyers, AJ8B, with Joe Pater, W8GEX, the discussion covered highlights from the ARRL Board of Directors’…

Sep 26, 2026Read Brief →