Passive Radar Explained
It is an old trope in submarine movies. A sonar operator strains to hear things in the ocean but dares not “ping” for fear of giving away the boat’s location. …read more Continue reading Passive Radar Explained
Adobe Patches Reader Zero-Day Exploited for Months
The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-34621 and Adobe has confirmed that it can be exploited for arbitrary code execution.
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AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
Remember that AI-powered vending machine that went bankrupt after Wall Street Journal reporters “systematically manipulated the bot into giving away its entire inventory for free”? It was Anthropic’s experiment, with setup handled by a startup named An… Continue reading AI That Bankrupted a Vending Machine is Now Running a Store in San Francisco
CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Unknown threat actors compromised CPUID (“cpuid[.]com”), a website that hosts popular hardware monitoring tools like CPU-Z, HWMonitor, HWMonitor Pro, and PerfMonitor, for less than 24 hours to serve malicious executables for the software and deplo… Continue reading CPUID Breach Distributes STX RAT via Trojanized CPU-Z and HWMonitor Downloads
Testing Refrigerants and Capillary Tubes to Find Peak Performance
Although vapor-compression refrigeration is a simple concept, there are still a lot of details in the implementation of such a system that determines exactly how efficient it is. After making …read more Continue reading Testing Refrigerants and Capillary Tubes to Find Peak Performance
Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
Adobe has released emergency updates to fix a critical security flaw in Acrobat Reader that has come under active exploitation in the wild.
The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-34621, carries a CVSS score of 8.6 out of 10.0… Continue reading Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Acrobat Reader Flaw CVE-2026-34621
Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
175 million people in Brazil now use its instant-payment system “Pix”, developed by the country’s central bank for real-time payments using QR codes or keys, and American Banker notes that the central banks of Argentina and Costa Rica also have develop… Continue reading Latin America’s Central Banks Establish Digital Payments Used By Hundreds of Millions
Judge Pauses Arizona’s Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Arizona state prosecutors allege Kalshi is running an illegal gambling operation, charging the prediction market with 20 “wagering” misdemeanors. But Friday a federal judge “temporarily barred Arizona from enforcing its gambling laws against predictive… Continue reading Judge Pauses Arizona’s Prosecution of Kalshi, Bars Arizona from Regulating Prediction Markets
Kiki is the Unknown Array Language
Kiki bills itself as the “array programming system of unknown origin.” We thought it reminded us of APL which, all by itself, isn’t a bad thing. The announcement post is …read more Continue reading Kiki is the Unknown Array Language
How to digitally sign Excel Macros
If you have ever created an automated Excel report or a data entry tool using VBA, you might have seen the annoying yellow security bar warning that says your macros are disabled. Many users may choose not to open your file because of this warning. Dig… Continue reading How to digitally sign Excel Macros