Danish prime minister calls a parliamentary election on March 24
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has announced that the Scandinavian country will hold a parliamentary election on March 24.
Day: February 26, 2026
Iran student protests continue
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Davos forum CEO Borge Brende resigns after Epstein links revealed
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Hillary Clinton is testifying as part of the House investigation into Jeffrey Epstein
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before U.S. House lawmakers in New York as part of a congressional investigation into convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Iceland to hold EU referendum ‘over the coming months’, Prime Minister says
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Zyxel Patches Critical Vulnerability in Many Device Models
The issue impacts the UPnP function of multiple device models and could be exploited for remote code execution.
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Google Disrupts ‘Prolific’ and ‘Elusive’ China-Linked Global Hacking Campaign
UNC2814 hit 53 victims in 42 countries with novel backdoor in decade long cyber espionage operation
Epstein files: Democrats accuse US government of withholding documents related to Trump
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LLMs Generate Predictable Passwords
LLMs are bad at generating passwords:
There are strong noticeable patterns among these 50 passwords that can be seen easily:
- All of the passwords start with a letter, usually uppercase G, almost always followed by the digit 7.
- Character choices are highly uneven for example, L , 9, m, 2, $ and # appeared in all 50 passwords, but 5 and @ only appeared in one password each, and most of the letters in the alphabet never appeared at all.
- There are no repeating characters within any password. Probabilistically, this would be very unlikely if the passwords were truly random but Claude preferred to avoid repeating characters, possibly because it “looks like it’s less random”.
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