Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 28, 20264 min
NIST has unveiled what it calls a voluntary AI evaluation program called AITE, with first tests slated for August 2026. Whether the thing has teeth is a whole other question.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 27, 20264 min
Frequency Electronics says it landed another atomic clock contract, but this space-hardware yarn got misfiled on the cyber desk like a catfish in a hay barn.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 26, 20263 min
A space-science cluster about an ISS command handover somehow ended up at the cyber-internet desk, which is about as useful as bringing a fishing pole to a barn fire.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 22, 20264 min
The foundation says it's pledging nine figures over five years to tame emerging tech risks — but so far the only voice in the room is the foundation itself.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 21, 20264 min
Two separate NSSL Phase 3 contract actions — confirmed by specialist outlets — together imply a combined ceiling that some are calling roughly $30 billion.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 20, 20264 min
Aptar Beauty says its new NeoDropper Autoload replaces the old rubber-bulb dropper with a mechanical auto-fill system. That's a skincare-packaging story, not a cyber story.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 18, 20263 min
Multiple outlets report India's first private orbital rocket flew on July 18, 2026 — but the editorial desk may have misfiled this one something fierce.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 17, 20264 min
Zoom claims its own offensive security team found a no-click, no-credentials account-takeover bug on Windows — and experts say patch now, y'all.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 14, 20264 min
MDA Space says it upsized a share sale to nearly US$820M to buy roughly 70% of CLS. Every word of this comes straight from the company's own press releases.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 13, 20263 min
A local business column hinted at an LETU robotics update, but the article is paywalled and no second source has confirmed what, exactly, happened.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 12, 20266 min
ISBE released what it calls comprehensive K-12 AI guidance, fulfilling a legislative mandate — though districts can take it or leave it.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 9, 20265 min
The feds are asking around about launching rockets from offshore oil platforms, but BOEM says this ain't a permit or a plan—just a whole lot of questions.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 8, 20265 min
CERT/CC disclosed CVE-2026-11405, a reported no-credentials backdoor baked into at least five Tenda router firmware builds, with Tenda apparently nowhere to be found.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 4, 20265 min
Epoch AI clocked a 3.5× monthly spike in serious vulnerabilities after Anthropic's Mythos Preview dropped, but analysts can't agree on what's actually driving the surge.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 3, 20265 min
DHS confirmed hackers hit its HSIN network, but who done it, what they took, and whether World Cup ops got exposed remains a mystery thicker than delta mud.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 2, 20263 min
The NASA LINK robotic mission to save the Swift Observatory is real, wild, and fascinating — but it sure as hell ain't a cyber-internet story.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 1, 20265 min
An extortion gang claims it swiped a mountain of files from a major iPhone and Tesla supplier. Tata confirms an incident but won't say what got loose.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 30, 20263 min
Folks are hollering that NASA's Swift Observatory orbital rescue got routed to the cyber-internet desk, which fits about as well as a catfish in a hay bale.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 28, 20263 min
Folks are hollerin' about a SpaceX Falcon 9 hauling SiriusXM's SXM-11 satellite skyward — but this pig don't belong in the cyber pen.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 27, 20266 min
360 Security Technology says its Yitian Tulong suite rivals Anthropic's Mythos for vulnerability discovery—but the performance numbers come straight from the company's own mouth.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 26, 20265 min
360 Security Technology says it built a domestic Mythos rival, but the company's own founder admitted a 20–30% base-capability gap in the same breath.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 24, 20264 min
Security engineer Filippo Valsorda argues on his blog that LLMs gutted the social contract behind coordinated disclosure, but peer-reviewed research disputes the premise.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 23, 20263 min
Word around the newsroom is that a confirmed space-launch packet got misfiled to the cyber desk. That dog won't hunt.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 20, 20264 min
A Canadian space outfit says it's buying a US smallsat maker from Raytheon — but the deal ain't closed yet, and a government review looms.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 19, 20265 min
A solo dev going by 'Orchid' says roughly 10,000 GitHub repositories have been pushing Trojan malware for over a year, dodging automated detection the whole time.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 18, 20266 min
Multiple independent security firms say GitHub has evolved into an industrialized malware channel — but scale estimates vary wildly and some big numbers remain unverified.
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 15, 20263 min
The project’s maintainer says the break is intentional, with GitHub tracking staying open and paid support still running. Folks are chatting, but this is still mainly curl’s own word.