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Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week

Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo,

Android’s September 2026 Updates Patch 180 Vulnerabilities

The security updates resolve critical flaws across Android’s Framework, System, and Kernel components. The post Android’s September 2026 Updates Patch 180 Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Beyond DMS: Accelerating Migrations SQL Server Logins and Users to Cloud SQL

So, you’ve planned your database modernization journey. You’ve set up Google Cloud’s Database Migration Service (DMS), configured replication, and successfully synchronized your application databases from your on-premises or cloud systems to a fully managed Cloud SQL for SQL Server instance. The replication is complete, the data is up to date, and you’re ready for cutover. But when your application attempts to connect to the newly migrated database, you’re hit with a frustrating roadblock: Msg 1

Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories

Major chipmakers announced patches for vulnerabilities recently discovered in their products. The post Chipmaker Patch Tuesday: Nvidia, AMD, Arm Issue Security Advisories appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Social Media Engagement: summer 2026

A quick survey of recent engagement of my posts on social media, indicating which service has by far the most engagement, and which service has seen a precipitous decline since early 2025. more…

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Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists

Article URL: https://prospect.org/2026/09/09/anthropic-artificial-intelligence-surveillance-system-monitor-activists/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49628704 Points: 307 # Comments: 174

How to Safely Deploy Control-Plane and Data-Plane Changes With Argo CD and Argo Rollouts

Deployments become harder when one release changes both the machinery governing a Kubernetes platform and the workloads that depend on it. A new CustomResourceDefinition, admission webhook, controller, or routing API can change what the cluster accepts and how it behaves; a new application image can simultaneously depend on those changes. Argo CD and Argo Rollouts solve different parts of this problem.  Argo CD is suited to establishing declarative prerequisites in a deterministic order, while A