The investigation found that the 2025 EY Canada report titled “Points of Attack: Uncovering Cyber Threats and Fraud in Loyalty Systems” was stuffed with hallucinations: 16 out of 27 citations to be exact. www.goingconcern.com/ey-gets-bust...

In Windows network-restricted environments, ranging from fully isolated, air-gapped systems to strictly firewalled networks, affected systems will display error code 0x80010002 when updating through Windows Update. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

At some point every leader needs to ask themselves: Do I really know what is going on in my company? Do I even know what is really going on in my own organization? www.philvenables.com/post/do-you-...

It’s nasty, but it requires physical access to the computer. www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

Starting May 19, tech platforms in the US will have to start complying with the Take It Down Act. Here's how more than a dozen of the largest platforms are handling takedown demands for your nudes. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

At Meta, employees are either losing jobs to AI or being reassigned to build it. www.techspot.com/news/112451-...

Researchers Link MSHTA Windows Utility to Lumma Stealer, ClickFix Campaigns. www.bankinfosecurity.com/legacy-micro...

You'll be able to run this Linux distro on both Azure and your desktop using Windows Subsystem for Linux. Here's what we know about it so far. www.zdnet.com/article/micr...

For those who miss what Windows looked like in 2009, Classic 7 is a heavily modified version of Windows 10 IoT LTSC, reworked to make it look as much as possible like Windows 7, while still being in support and receiving updates. www.theregister.com/oses/2026/05...

Whoops!!!!!! krebsonsecurity.com/2026/05/cisa...

The bug affects multiple LTS kernel lines from 5.10 upward, although a fix has already landed – and there is now a proposal for reducing the odds of similar surprises in future. www.theregister.com/security/202...

The company has started sending out security incident notices revealing that an intrusion into 7-Eleven systems used to store franchisee documents was detected on April 8. www.securityweek.com/7-eleven-dat...

Google is encouraging its database developers to lean "heavily" on AI coding tools as it ramps up contributions to open source projects such as PostgreSQL. www.theregister.com/databases/20...

Joule Studio 2.0 waves the flag of interoperability, API policy tells enterprises who's really in charge. www.theregister.com/saas/2026/05...

And yet everything SpaceX aspires to accomplish in the next quarter of a century, all of its enormous valuation, is predicated on a new launch vehicle. A rocket that, to date, has a decidedly mixed record of success. arstechnica.com/space/2026/0...

"Black carbon from satellite launches has about 540 times bigger climate effect than black carbon released by ships, cars and power plants." www.space.com/space-explor...

Companies that pay hackers to find flaws in their software are being inundated with low-quality reports generated by AI, forcing some to suspend the programs altogether. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/b...

Donald Trump is preparing to start a war against Cuba after growing frustrated that his intimidation tactics against the country’s communist regime aren’t working, according to a report. www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...

Ivanti, Fortinet, n8n, SAP, and VMware have released security fixes for various vulnerabilities that could be exploited by bad actors to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary code. thehackernews.com/2026/05/ivan...

The new release of VMware Workstation Pro 26H1 is available. www.techspot.com/downloads/18...

VMware has quietly debuted a technology preview of its flagship ESX hypervisor that is capable of running on Arm processors and servers. www.theregister.com/virtualizati...

A California jury on Monday rejected Elon Musk’s claims against OpenAI, taking less than two hours to deliver their verdict in one of the biggest tech lawsuits in recent history. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

Don’t make the mistake of thinking that comedians like Colbert and Kimmel (or SNL and South Park, and Jon Stewart) are merely distractions or entertainment. They are weapons of Mass Ridicule. open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

A quick discussion on "Connected To" systems. pciguru.wordpress.com/2026/05/18/c...

The AI hype cycle would have you believe the technology is inevitable. But AI backlash is growing, as people worry it will steal their jobs, jack up electricity rates and further enrich the wealthy, all while hurting the environment. www.axios.com/2026/05/17/a...

The fact that trump is going after Thomas Massie because of… the Epstein files (that trump himself promised to release in the campaign) and that the GOP is likely to go along with him, is astounding

One believed the department’s leadership feared accusations of racism from Feeding Our Future, the nonprofit at the center of the fraud case, which largely served Minnesota’s East African community. www.startribune.com/an-open-secr...

Multiple current U.S. officials are unsure whether Cairncross has the expertise to head the federal response to powerful new AI systems. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Kim Jong-Un would be embarrassed by Trump’s narcissism. Preview o today’s ‘To the Contrary” Podcst w/ Tim O’Brien. youtube.com/shorts/NtldW...

Bridge Grades bridgegrades.substack.com?r=2l0s8&utm_...

Modern cars are computers on wheels, and giant corporations are using them to suck up intimate details about your life and make more money. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

We need to get back to "the melting pot". jeffhallinmn.substack.com/p/being-an-a...

A must read with excellent insights. www.thebulwark.com/p/heres-what...

Why are we not more upset about this? substack.com/home/post/p-...

arXiv, the largest host of pre-peer-reviewed scientific papers, will now ban scientists for a year if their research contains hallucinated references or other obviously AI-generated content. www.semafor.com/article/05/1...

Called Cloud-Initiated Driver Recovery, the new feature will remove the need for hardware partners or end users to manually fix driver issues once drivers have been distributed to devices. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...

OpenAI has disclosed that two of its employee devices in its corporate environment were impacted via the Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack on TanStack. thehackernews.com/2026/05/tans...

A bustling underground ecosystem is providing criminals with the tools to unlock iPhones—and wage phishing attacks against their contacts to access bank accounts and more. www.wired.com/story/your-i...

Over a year later, AMD Computing and Graphics SVP Jack Huynh has announced that a version of FSR 4 is finally coming to older GPUs. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Anthropic doesn’t have a long-term road map for Claude Code. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/c...

The Trump administration’s new counterterrorism strategy turns its political enemies into enemies of the state. theintercept.com/2026/05/15/p...

Amazon Web Services has done something many others can’t achieve: Buy a bunch of Apple’s Mac Studio computers. www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...

The zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-20182, has been exploited in targeted attacks by a sophisticated threat actor identified as UAT-8616. www.securityweek.com/cisco-patche...

These developer settings can completely change how your Android Auto looks and operates. They're not difficult to access, and it only takes a minute. www.zdnet.com/article/andr...

Orbital compute platform, which launched on a mission to the ISS last year, gets an immutable upgrade alongside refreshed container images. www.theregister.com/off-prem/202...

"LLMs [large language models] confidently claim things that are manifestly untrue," the advocacy organization explains. "Enforce has developed Verity, a tool that helps minimise false claims and fake sources from self-hosted LLMs." www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/0...

Microsoft describes this security flaw (CVE-2026-42897) as a spoofing vulnerability affecting up-to-date Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019, and Exchange Server Subscription Edition (SE) software. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microso...