Tehran governor announces return of 450,000 illegal migrants to Afghanistan
Over the past 100 days, more than one million illegal migrants have been returned from Iran to Afghanistan, including 450,000 from Tehran Province.
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WinRAR Zero-Day CVE-2025-8088 Exploited to Spread RomCom Malware
Critical WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 exploited by Russia-linked hackers to spread RomCom malware, update to version 7.13 now to…
Police Raid Bookstores to Enact Ban on Political Speech in Kashmir India
Police raided bookstores in Kashmir this week to confiscate banned books by respected scholars and historians. Democratic societies don’t need to ban tepid scholarly books when government positions are strong on the merits. If India’s legal…
The US Court Records System Has Been Hacked
Plus: Instagram sparks a privacy backlash over its new map feature, hackers steal data from Google’s customer support system, and the true scope of the Columbia University hack comes into focus.
Florida Deploys Robotic Rabbits to Catch Invasive Snakes
Scented artificial rabbits have been deployed in Florida to trick snakes into revealing themselves. An innovative new tool is being used to remove these destructive snakes from the Everglades ecosystem. Solar-powered, remote-controlled robots designed …
Phishing attacks exploit WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088 to install RomCom
WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, fixed in v7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to install RomCom malware. The WinRAR flaw CVE-2025-8088, a directory traversal bug fixed in version 7.13, was exploited as a zero-day in phishing attacks to deliver RomCom malware, Bleeping Computer first reported. The flaw is a path traversal vulnerability affecting the […]
NZ Tesla Owners Get Refund Due to Lack of Self Driving Capability
There are many layers to this story. Fundamentally it’s about Tesla having a dealer who was confused by Tesla. …Bosplus, represented by Liu, admitted he’d copied the information about FSD capability from Tesla’s official website on to the a…
GA Tesla Rips Off Front of Tractor-Trailer
The front of a truck being ripped off is a curious detail from this sparse crash report. A Tesla and a tractor-trailer collided on the road near Distribution Drive around 6 a.m., Fulton County police said. Photos from the scene show that the front of t…
CA Tesla Kills Two in Left-Turn Crash
Left turn crashes with Tesla occasionally show up in the news. Here’s a good example. A young South Bay couple is being remembered after they were killed in a two-car crash while heading to a music festival at SoFi Stadium near Los Angeles. [R…
Ex-NSA Chief Paul Nakasone Has a Warning for the Tech World
At the Defcon security conference in Las Vegas on Friday, Nakasone tried to thread the needle in a politically fraught moment while hinting at major changes for the tech community around the corner.