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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 28, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: NIST Says Its New Voluntary AI Testbed Could Be a Real Safety Game-Changer — If Anyone Shows Up

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 27, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Frequency Electronics Claims an ~$8M Lunar Clock Deal, But This Story Ain't Ours

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 26, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: This ISS Commander Story Wandered Into the Wrong Barn Entirely

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 22, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Hewlett Foundation Claims a $100 Million Bet on AI, Biotech, and Quantum Safety

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 21, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Space Force's Rocket Shopping Spree Could Add Up to ~$30 Billion, the Numbers Suggest

Two separate NSSL Phase 3 contract actions — confirmed by specialist outlets — together imply a combined ceiling that some are calling roughly $30 billion.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 20, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Aptar Claims Its NeoDropper Autoload Dropper Cuts Microbial Contamination Fourfold

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 18, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: Skyroot's Vikram-1 Orbital Launch Is Real, But This Ain't a Cyber Story

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 17, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Zoom Says a 9.8-Score Windows Flaw Could Let Strangers Waltz Right Into Your Account

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 14, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: MDA Space Claims ~US$819M Offering to Chase an AI Earth-Watch Firm

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 13, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: Something's Stirring at LETU's Robotics Training Center, But the Paywall Ate the Details

A local business column hinted at an LETU robotics update, but the article is paywalled and no second source has confirmed what, exactly, happened.

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ILL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 12, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: Illinois Drops a 400-Page AI Playbook for Schools — But Nobody Has to Use It

ISBE released what it calls comprehensive K-12 AI guidance, fulfilling a legislative mandate — though districts can take it or leave it.

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BOE
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 9, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Uncle Sam Wants to Turn Old Oil Rigs Into Rocket Pads, BOEM Says

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 8, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: CERT/CC Says a Hidden Backdoor Lets Anyone Into Tenda Routers — No Patch Coming

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 4, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Did Claude Mythos Preview Blow the Lid Off a CVE Pressure Cooker, or Did Money Do It?

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.

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DHS
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 3, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Someone Waltzed Into DHS's Law-Enforcement Info Hub, and Nobody Knows What They Grabbed

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 2, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A Space Telescope Rescue Story Somehow Wandered Onto the Wrong Damn Desk

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 1, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: World Leaks Claims a 630GB Haul From Tata Electronics, Apple and Tesla's Key Supplier

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 30, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A Space Telescope Rescue Story Somehow Landed on the Wrong Desk

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 28, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A Rocket Launch Somehow Landed on the Cyber Desk

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 27, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: China's 360 Security Claims Its New AI Tools Can Hunt Bugs Like Anthropic's Mythos

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 26, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: China's 360 Security Claims Its 'Yitian Tulong' Suite Can Run With Anthropic's Mythos

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.

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LLM
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 24, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: One Engineer Claims LLMs Have Killed the Magic of Bug Disclosure

Security engineer Filippo Valsorda argues on his blog that LLMs gutted the social contract behind coordinated disclosure, but peer-reviewed research disputes the premise.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 23, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A SpaceX Starfall Capsule Story Landed on the Wrong Desk

Word around the newsroom is that a confirmed space-launch packet got misfiled to the cyber desk. That dog won't hunt.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 20, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: MDA Space Claims a $620M Deal to Grab Blue Canyon Technologies From RTX

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.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 19, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: One Pseudonymous Researcher Claims 10,000 GitHub Repos Are Quietly Stealing Your Crypto

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.

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GIT
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 18, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: Is GitHub Quietly Becoming a Malware Superstore for Credential Thieves?

Multiple independent security firms say GitHub has evolved into an industrialized malware channel — but scale estimates vary wildly and some big numbers remain unverified.

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CUR
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJun 15, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: curl is saying it will shut the door on vulnerability reports for July 2026.

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.

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