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The World Cup Fraud Economy
Thousands of fake FIFA sites are already live before the June 11 kickoff. Here's how the World Cup scam machine works, and the simple habits that keep you out of it.
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How a stranger on the bus found her secret Instagram
Last week a Reddit user described a small, deeply unsettling moment. A stranger sat near her on a bus, the two exchanged a glance, and by that evening the stranger had followed her on Instagram. Not the main account she posts from, but the burner: no real name, no profile
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You can’t say bomb on an airplane
Somewhere over the Atlantic last Saturday night, a plane full of people learned that a teenager's taste in speaker names can cost you your whole evening. United Flight 236 left Newark for Palma de Mallorca, Spain, around 6 pm on May 30. About two hours in, off the
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Microsoft 365 prices go up July 1.
If you run your business or your nonprofit on Microsoft 365, your bill is about to climb. On July 1, Microsoft raises list prices on most of its commercial plans. Business Basic goes from $6 to $7 per user each month. Business Standard, the plan most small offices actually run,
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The AI jobs apocalypse got postponed.
A year ago, the two biggest names in AI told us our jobs were in trouble. OpenAI's Sam Altman warned that entire categories of work would vanish. Anthropic's Dario Amodei even put a number on it: roughly half of entry-level white-collar jobs gone within
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Patching is the new password
Verizon publishes a Data Breach Investigations Report every spring. It's the closest thing the security industry has to an annual census, built from real incident data submitted by hundreds of organizations and law-enforcement partners. The 2026 edition dropped yesterday, and it announced something that hadn't
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A WordPress privacy plugin opened 115,000 sites to takeover
A WordPress plugin called Burst Statistics, installed on about 200,000 sites and marketed as a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, has a critical authentication-bypass flaw that lets attackers walk in as the site administrator. Wordfence discovered it on May 8th. A patch shipped May 12. As of
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CISA contractor posted admin keys to public GitHub
A contractor at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the office of the federal government whose entire job is protecting U.S. critical infrastructure from cyberattacks, kept admin credentials for three Amazon GovCloud accounts in a public GitHub repository for six months. GovCloud is Amazon's cloud platform
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Meta dropped Instagram DM encryption. Why?
Five days later, Meta added a new privacy feature to WhatsApp. If your business or organization uses either app for anything you'd rather Meta not read, here's what changed. What changed On May 8, Meta turned off end-to-end encryption (the math that keeps Meta
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IT twins wipe 96 government databases.
On February 18, 2025, twin brothers Sohaib and Muneeb Akhter were fired during a video call from Opexus, a Washington D.C. tech contractor that hosts data for more than 45 federal agencies. By the time the call ended, 96 federal databases were gone. The window from termination to destruction
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The data center boom reaches Hillsboro, OR.
In Fayette County, Georgia, a data center used over 30 million gallons of water without paying for it. Investigators eventually found two industrial hookups that weren't being monitored. One hookup had been installed without the utility's knowledge. This happened while drought conditions had local officials asking
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The Chatbot: What We Actually Know About AI Companions and Mental Health
Headlines about AI chatbots and mental health have largely been about teenagers, but the data points elsewhere. In January, JAMA Network Open published a survey of nearly 21,000 American adults led by Roy Perlis at Massachusetts General Hospital. Daily users of generative AI were more likely to screen positive