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Measles Has Passed 4,000 Cases. Herd Immunity Is a Firewall, and Ours Has Gaps.
US measles cases have passed 4,000, the most since 1991, and nearly all are in people without vaccine protection. Herd immunity works like a firewall: it protects everyone until there are gaps, and the fix starts with checking your own…
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A Drone Took Down Part of Yandex’s Cloud. “The Cloud” Still Lives in a Building.
A drone strike knocked out part of Yandex’s cloud. No hacker was involved, and that is the lesson: the cloud is still a building, and your backup plan has to account for that.
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I Thought Every Domain Registry Had to Meet a Security Standard. Not the Country Codes.
Attackers hijacked three country-code registries and obtained real certificates for Google addresses. I had assumed every registry had to meet a security standard. For country codes, no outside body enforces one.
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Giving an AI the Keys to Your Mac: What to Think About First
Google is testing a setting that would let its Gemini assistant read, change and delete files anywhere on a Mac. It is not released yet, which makes this a good moment to decide how much access an AI assistant should…
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Attackers Are Winning the Early AI Race. Here’s What That Means at Home
Microsoft says attackers are getting more out of AI than defenders, and the gap between a flaw being found and being used has fallen to under a day. Here is what that changes for ordinary people.
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Bird Flu and a Mail-Server Flaw: Two Outbreaks, One Playbook
Bird flu returned to Midwest poultry farms the same week attackers began exploiting an unpatched email-server flaw. The two outbreaks are being fought in almost the same way.