The critical role of data hygiene in AI: learning from history

In 1847, Hungarian physician Ignaz Semmelweis made a revolutionary yet simple observation: when doctors washed their hands between patients, mortality rates plummeted. Despite the clear evidence, his peers ridiculed his insistence on hand hygiene. It t…

Andrew Jackson Versus the Slave Who Could “Cypher”

This 1756 advertisement in a British paper is revealing. Slavery concepts by the English shows that those providing education and presumably other material needs believed they were owed loyalty, completely missing the fundamental human desire for freed…

U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy and GitHub Action flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet FortiOS/FortiProxy and GitHub Action flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: In February, Fortinet warned that threat actors were exploiting a new zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-24472 (CVSS score of 8.1), in […]

Microsoft Isn’t Fixing 8-Year-Old Shortcut Exploit Abused For Spying

Trend Micro uncovered an eight-year-long spying campaign exploiting a Windows vulnerability involving malicious .LNK shortcut files, which attackers padded with whitespace to conceal commands. Despite being reported to Microsoft in 2023, the company co…

Is Trump Deportation Doctrine The New Trail of Tears?

Andrew Jackson often is associated with threatening to ignore judicial decisions, particularly regarding his conflict with the Justice system. The most famous instance involves his response to the 1832 case Worcester v. Georgia. The U.S. Supreme Court,…