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Submission + - Colorado's teen suicide prevention program funded by Bill Gates

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Colorado's Teen Suicide Prevention Program Is Funded By Bill Gates

“A new mental health and suicide prevention program being rolled out in high schools is revealed to have financial ties to Big Pharma and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The investigation shows how these programs, which include mandatory depression screenings for students, can create a pipeline for pharmaceutical treatments like SSRIs. This is done through a complex network of non-profits and foundations, obscuring the financial conflict of interest from parents.”

Submission + - What the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack taught every manufacturer

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An anonymous reader writes: What the Jaguar Land Rover Cyberattack Taught Every Manufacturer

“In late August 2025, a cyberattack hit Jaguar Land Rover, the UK's second-largest carmaker by volume. Within days, the company had shut down its IT systems and stopped vehicle production entirely across its three British plants in Solihull, Wolverhampton, and Halewood. The lines did not restart for roughly five weeks.”

“The attack is now widely described as the most financially damaging cyber event in British history, with an estimated total hit to the UK economy of around £1.9 billion and consequences felt across roughly 5,000 associated businesses, from tier-one suppliers down to dealerships”

Submission + - 39 New Passkey Authentication Compromises + Bad UI = Passwords on Paper? (bleepingcomputer.com)

Submitted by eqteam
eqteam writes: We all saw this coming: "There are now at least 39 publicly documented methods, attack paths, research techniques, and exploitation scenarios involving passkeys and the infrastructure around them. Many already have working proof of concept tools or published research showing exactly how the techniques can be executed. Some are already appearing in real world attack patterns."

According to the above-quoted (sponsored) Bleeping Computer article: "A modern passkey authentication ceremony crosses an extraordinary number of trust boundaries. It can involve the web application, browser, operating system, password manager, cloud synchronization service, mobile device, Bluetooth transport, account recovery system, enrollment process, help desk, and ultimately the human being approving the authentication.

Researchers are attacking almost every one of those layers. Published techniques now include assertion mining, assertion replay, circuit breaker attacks, assertion phishing, browser hooking, assertion capture, challenge injection, detour replay, user verification manipulation, and user presence manipulation."

Furthermore, intrepid users who enable Passkey authentication end up turning it off because they can't figure out how to make it work across devices (thanks to confusing implementations that aren't consistent across platforms and operating systems). Additionally, Passkey adoption is pretty slow, with only 872 websites implementing Passkey authentication per this research paper titled The State of Passkeys: Studying the Adoption and Security of Passkeys on the Web presented at the 2026 USENIX Security Symposium.

With 2FA being deprecated by many large orgs and biometric authentication options proving to look like Swiss cheese, what are we to do besides going back to writing down passwords on paper while we wait for the technology to get better?

Submission + - More Wisconsin Municipalities Cancel Flock Camera Contracts

Submitted by MAurelius
MAurelius writes: Apparently Flock Safety was collecting five years of data from various cities, anonymizing it, and repackaging the data for corporate promotional purposes and training. The municipalities and university in the story were unaware of Flock's retention of five years of their data. Those twelve today announced they are canceling their contracts with Flock Safety. https://www.jsonline.com/story...

Submission + - Musk wins court order to block use of "Twitter," but not "tweet" and bird logo (arstechnica.com)

Submitted by joshuark
joshuark writes: Elon Musk’s X won a court order blocking Operation Bluebird from launching a new app taking over the Twitter name. Chief Judge Colm Connolly explained that Operation Bluebird was unlikely to prove that X had entirely abandoned the Twitter name. Therefore, X was likely to succeed on trademark infringement and dilution claims tied to the platform’s former name.

Most compellingly, X argued that it still uses the Twitter name in the current listing for the X app in Apple’s App Store. In the first sentence of that listing, written in the same size font as the rest of the text, a single clause clinched the early court win for X by stating, “Welcome to X (formerly known as Twitter).”

X was not as successful in its claims that it had not abandoned other Twitter marks, including uses of the term “tweet” and the bird logo.

Musk’s public claims that “soon we shall bid adieu to the Twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds” and “we’re cutting the Twitter logo off the building with blow torches” provided “compelling evidence that X Corp. harbors an intent not to resume use of the Tweet mark and Bird logo,” the judge found. Therefore, Operation Bluebird is likely to prove that X abandoned those trademarks.

For Operation Bluebird, the goal is to launch a service to rival Musk’s that is member-owned, rather than billionaire-owned and controlled. For $20, users can join and get rid of X’s “trust problem,” the tweet.app site said.

Comment Re: Ultraprocessed article, devoid of information (Score 1) 129

by Hythlodaeus (#62853351) Attached to: Ultraprocessed Foods Linked to Cancer and Early Death, Studies Find

Which of these is more likely?

A) A coalition of scientists in the US and Italy conspired to generate propaganda for Whole Foods grocery stores

B) Meat packers since the 1800s have used nitrates as cheap preservatives that also make hot dogs pinker, and have been known since the 1950s to increase the risk of colon cancer, but meat packers keep using them because they are cheap preservatives that also make hot dogs pinker.

Comment Re:No surprise... (Score 2) 224

Intel's not brining their best R&D to bear on the desktop. Starting with the "Core" line, Intel has made mobile their core focus, advancing desktop/server chips a side-effect. The last several generations have done little except expand the on-board graphics and reap automatic benefits of smaller manufacturing processes. That's why this window of opportunity was open for AMD to actually make a desktop chip to the best of their ability.

Comment Re:iterative dev, no docs, took us to the moon... (Score 3, Insightful) 221

by Hythlodaeus (#43452155) Attached to: How NASA Brought the F-1 Rocket Engine Back To Life

I one read an overview of the CMM levels, and what struck me was this:

At level one, it doesn't say the organization is hopeless, doomed to failure, it says "success depends on the skills of exceptional individuals"

The rest of the levels are built on a fantasy it could be otherwise.

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