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New: AI is driving new records in software vulnerabilities but prophecies of a so-called "bugpocalypse" haven't come to pass www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

AI Finding Twice as Many Cyber Flaws in 2026 as It Did in 2025The number of software security flaws discovered in popular technology products in 2026 is on pace to roughly double the tally of vulnerabilities that surfaced in 2025, an explosion driven by increasi...www.bloomberg.com

what is doordash doing here

By the time the season starts the Knicks are gonna be like #6 on the title favorite betting odds

I still don't fully understand cyber company code names. If you're tracking a Russian group that you name explicitly as Russian, why do you need a cryptonym that means Russia? Isn't this just an extra layer of obfuscation? Only thing I can make out is that coming up with code names is kick ass fun

Blog history question: Nowadays, it seems like all the cool weather blogs/accounts do weather ratings. The 1st time I remember seeing this was in The Awl, Choire Sicha would post a pic of the sky in ny and rate it and then write some unhinged prose. Was this a thing before Choire's weather reviews?

this is one of the most insane security incidents I can recall

In the interest of helping well-meaning lay folks understand: It's a company that hacks iPhones part of their business. Magnet in particular does it as part of a suite of investigative software. This sort of product is how, for example, police break into locked iPhones.

New: A Canadian cybersecurity firm accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

IPhone Hacking Firm Sues Ex-Worker Over Alleged Theft of SecretsMagnet Forensics Inc., a Canadian cybersecurity firm, accused a former contractor of sharing trade secrets about a previously unknown flaw used to hack iPhones with a rival firm.www.bloomberg.com

This is a very good write up of a very crazy situation that is worth extrapolating as this kind of technology proliferates

I have no desire to be in a book club but I do want to be in a longform journalism club where we just discuss banger articles. First up would be www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Did a Climber Leave His Girlfriend to Die at the Top of a Mountain?An Austrian court pieces together the mysterious circumstances of a couple’s disastrous hike.www.newyorker.com