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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 10, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Amazon Leo May Be Betting Big on Europe's Ariane 6 as U.S. Rocket Supply Dries Up

Reuters and CNBC report Amazon Leo added six Ariane 6 flights, raising its total to 24 missions by 2031 — and the political fireworks around that Paris announcement are something else.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 9, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Eclipse Space Claims Three Satellite Platforms and a Power Deal, But Nothing's in Orbit Yet

A Starlink-alumni startup says it's pitching sovereign constellation infrastructure across three spacecraft lines, but the company's claims rest entirely on its own announcement.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 6, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A Rocket Hit Orbit From Europe, But This Ain't the Right Barn for That Hog

Isar Aerospace's Spectrum rocket reportedly made history launching from Norway — but this story belongs on the space-science desk, not here.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 5, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: A Nasty V8 Zero-Day Is Biting Chrome and Every Chromium Browser Out There

Google patched CVE-2026-85046 on September 3, and CISA says it's already being exploited — but who's doing it and how remains a mystery.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 4, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: ESA's Rocket Cadence Story Landed on the Wrong Desk, the Company Says Nothing About Cyber

A well-sourced space-launch story got misfiled to the cyber desk — here's what ESA's director general reportedly said, and why this ain't our barn.

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POL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetSep 3, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Polars Claims Its 2.0 RC Could Make LazyFrame Queries Up to 5x Faster

Polars says its first 2.0 release candidate makes the streaming engine the new default — but those eye-catching speed claims are strictly the company's own word so far.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 31, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: Did Somebody File a Space Telescope Story at the Cyber Desk?

Word around the barn is that this Roman Space Telescope packet wandered into the wrong editorial pasture entirely, and somebody ought to wrangle it back.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 29, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: NASA's Roman Telescope May Have Landed on the Wrong Editorial Desk

Word is the Roman Space Telescope got routed to the cyber desk — which, bless its heart, has about as much to do with rockets as a catfish has to do with algebra.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 28, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: EP Technology Group Claims It's Swallowing Hospitality IT Firm JBI Technologies

EP Technology Group LLC says it's acquiring JBI Technologies, Inc. — but so far only the company's own newswire has hollered that news from the rooftop.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 27, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: Asahi Linux Says M3 Support Is Nearly Ready and a CPU Power Fix May Finally Clear the Upstream Logjam

Asahi Linux claims M3 webcams, mics, and Thunderbolt are working, and a new PSCI workaround could unlock mainline acceptance — but no release date exists.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 26, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: Seth Larson Claims Python's str.lower() Is a Security Hole, Not Just a Bug

The Python Software Foundation's Security Developer-in-Residence says a Unicode case-folding mismatch in IDNA handling may be exploitable — but some folks ain't convinced.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 24, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Nearly Half of Poland May Have Had Medical Data Stolen in MyDr Hack

Somebody walked off with health records tied to roughly 19 million Poles, but who done it and how remains murkier than a swamp at midnight.

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TRU
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 23, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: Trump's 1,000-Launches Memo Could Shake Up Spectrum, Air Traffic, and Broadband — If It Ever Gets Funded

A White House memo signed August 20 targets over 1,000 U.S. rocket launches yearly by 2030, the administration says, but appropriates zero dollars to make it happen.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 22, 20263 min

Talk Around Town: A Space-Policy Story Got Routed to the Wrong Desk, Allegedly

Reuters reports Trump signed a commercial space launch memo — but our editorial desk says this rocket belongs in a different barn entirely.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 21, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Trump's 1,000-Launch Space Memo May Mostly Grease SpaceX's Wheels

President Trump signed NSPM-17 on August 20, 2026, aiming for 1,000 annual US space launches by 2030 — but analysts say the real question is who benefits most.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 20, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Calhoun Community College Claims FAA Aviation Cert, Though Details Ain't All Lined Up

Calhoun says it's got FAA Part 147 approval and a new aviation maintenance program — but conflicting dates and an outdated catalog page leave some mud on the boots.

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UTS
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 18, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: A Cyber Scare Knocked UTSA's First Day of Fall 2026 Classes Back Five Days

UTSA says a weekend breach attempt forced systems offline and pushed the semester start to August 24, though key details about the attack remain undisclosed.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 16, 20266 min

Talk Around Town: SpaceX's 38-Minute Launch Record Drops Amid Amazon's Claimed Globalstar Power Play

SpaceX set a dual-launch record hauling Globalstar birds aloft, and Amazon says it's buying Globalstar for $11.57B — but the D2D satellite throne is far from settled.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 15, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: NASA Says It's Throwing a Rocket-Fueled Airshow at Kennedy Space Center

NASA's own press release claims a big aerospace expo is coming, but this story landed on the wrong desk — it's space science, not cyber.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 13, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Flock Safety Says It's Fixing Its Plate-Reader Network After Cops Used It to Stalk Exes

A Washington Post investigation found 50+ officers misused the system for stalking. Flock Safety now says new rules are coming—but experts warn loopholes remain.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 13, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: AI Might Eventually Tip Cyber Defense, But Experts Say Attackers Are Winning Right Now

Multiple credible analyses suggest AI currently hands bad actors a serious edge — though sustained investment could someday flip that equation, experts say.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 12, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: SIOS Claims LifeKeeper v10.1 Is 'AIOps-Ready' — Analysts Say It's Mostly Good Plumbing

SIOS says its new clustering release is AIOps-ready, but at least one analyst argues the company shipped the pipes, not the engine.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 11, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Microchip Claims Its New FPGA Sensor Bridge Is 60% Smaller and Cheaper

Microchip Technology says Rev 2.0 of its PolarFire FPGA Ethernet Sensor Bridge shrinks the board and doubles camera support — but only the company itself is saying so.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 10, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: Nine Months of Silence After a 3.8M-Patient Healthcare Breach Raises Hard Questions

An Ohio revenue cycle firm's 2025 cyberattack, now confirmed as 2026's biggest US healthcare breach so far, reportedly sat undisclosed for nearly nine and a half months.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 9, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: An Ohio Revenue Cycle Firm May Have Quietly Sat on the Biggest US Healthcare Breach of 2026

Nearly nine months passed between the intrusion and patient notifications, and the full scale of 3.8 million affected individuals only surfaced via a federal portal.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 5, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: AST SpaceMobile's BlueBird 11–13 Are Up, But the Company Says Beta Service Ain't Here Yet

Three more BlueBird satellites reached orbit on August 5, but AST SpaceMobile's own revised timeline and unverified performance claims keep the champagne corked.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 4, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: Amgen Says Hackers Raided Its Cloud and Walked Off With Patient Data

Amgen disclosed what it calls a material breach of third-party cloud systems, but key details — who did it, how many patients, which vendors — remain murkier than a bog at midnight.

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Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 3, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: AI-Hallucinated SQLite CVEs May Have Fooled NVD and CISA, JFrog Claims

A mystery GitHub account allegedly flooded the CVE system with AI-generated SQLite vulnerability fiction, and JFrog Security Research says the automated pipeline swallowed it whole.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetAug 1, 20265 min

Talk Around Town: A Law Firm's Site Claims Redtail Technology Got Hit by Social Engineering in 2026

A class-action law firm's lead-gen page is hollering about a May 2026 breach at a top financial-advisor CRM — but no independent source has yet corroborated the claim.

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LAF
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 31, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: LAF Technology Claims a New RailFlex™ Rail Flexitank Line, but Nobody Else Is Talking

A Chinese flexitank maker says it launched a branded railway flexitank series for cross-border bulk liquid corridors, but the chatter traces back to one company press release.

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TAL
Talk Around TownCyber & InternetJul 29, 20264 min

Talk Around Town: SIOS Claims 'AIOps-Ready' LifeKeeper Update, but Only a Press Release Is Doing the Talking

SIOS Technology's own press release floats a 'v10.1 AIOps-Ready' label, but no independent outlet has spotted that critter in the wild.

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NIS
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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