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Fire chiefs have issued a stark warning to anyone who has a washing machine in their kitchen - because you should never plug it into a double plug socket. Unless you’re lucky enough to have a ...

The jscrambler npm package was compromised, and simply installing its 8.14.0 release runs an infostealer on your machine. Published on July 11, 2026, the malicious version carries a preinstall hook ...

July 5, 2026: though we don't have new Elementalism codes to add this week, the team is looking for help with video production. Something is afoot. Whether your character is born into the Fire Nation, ...

Socket is an emulator frontend that turns your ROM files into 3D cartridges and game discs. It also features platform-specific cartridge insertion animations. The app isn’t out yet, but an alpha build ...

Explanation: Meter sockets are not permitted to be reconditioned, this requirement was added to the 2026 NEC because there are no standards to provide guidance for acceptable reconditioning of meter ...

A so-called software supply chain attack, in which hackers corrupt a legitimate piece of software to hide their own malicious code, was once a relatively rare event but one that haunted the ...

Cybersecurity startup Socket Inc. today disclosed that it has raised $60 million in funding at a $1 billion valuation. Thrive Capital led the Series C round with participation from Andreessen Horowitz ...

Socket, a cybersecurity startup that sells technology to help safeguard open-source code against hackers, has raised a new round of funding that values the company at $1 billion. Josh Kushner’s Thrive ...

The ongoing GlassWorm campaign has deployed a fresh wave of malicious Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions, many of which seem initially benign but later deploy self-replicating malware that can poison ...

Hackers have compromised Docker images, VSCode and Open VSX extensions for the Checkmarx KICS analysis tool to harvest sensitive data from developer environments. KICS, short for Keeping ...

Sam Altman, OpenAI’s CEO and the public face of ChatGPT, has carved out an image for himself as one of the preeminent AI whisperers of our age, whose influence supposedly extends to the White House on ...