Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

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Professor Murder Rides the Subway is a forgotten slice of dance punk perfection

I recently dug out my CDs and started reripping them all. I've found a few forgotten gems in there, but few hit harder for me than the beautifully concise Professor Murder Rides the Subway EP. There was a period of time in the mid-aughts in NYC where it seemed like every indie band wanted you […]

The Verge · August 30, 2026

GitLab CVE-2026-19478 Comes Under Active Exploitation Within Days of Disclosure

A newly disclosed security flaw in GitLab has come under active exploitation within days of public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS score: 9.4), a case of code injection that allows an unauthenticated attacker to modify or delete publicly accessible GitLab projects and rewrite their data under certain conditions without requiring

Security Aug 21, 2026

Microsoft Patches Severe Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Allowing Remote Code Execution

Update: The story was updated after publication to note that the vulnerability has not been exploited. Although the security bulletin originally marked the "Exploited" field under the Exploitability Assessment table as "Yes," on August 21, 2026, Microsoft corrected the "Exploited" status to "No" after The Hacker News contacted the company for comment. It also noted, "this vulnerability was not

Marketing & SEO Aug 21, 2026

Peec AI alternatives for AI visibility monitoring in 2026

Peec AI alternatives are AI visibility platforms that go beyond monitoring to help marketing teams close citation gaps, connect AI search data to CRM attribution, and run programs across multiple regions and content workflows.

Marketing & SEO Aug 21, 2026

Tech stack consolidation: The business case for unified systems & how to build them

Tech stack consolidation is the process of reducing the software tools your organization runs and standardizing work on a smaller, more integrated set of systems.

Security Aug 21, 2026

Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are arrayref 0.3.10, internment 0.8.7, and append-only-vec 0.1.9, all published from the same owner

Security Aug 21, 2026

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. These clusters include UNC6293, UNC7005, and UNC5976. "These clusters engage in persistent, adaptive

Marketing & SEO Aug 21, 2026

10 Fan-Outs for Prompt Research — Whiteboard Friday

Google uses these 10 query fan-outs to split single prompts into multiple background searches. Learn how to map this behavior in this Whiteboard Friday with Tom Capper.

Security Aug 20, 2026

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit, and More

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and AI-assisted exploit research keep lowering the effort needed to cause damage. Nothing here needs

Security Aug 20, 2026

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That

Security Aug 20, 2026

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the

Marketing & SEO Aug 20, 2026

AEO audit tools — the best options on the market

AEO audit tools have become essential for any team that needs to know whether answer engines are citing their brand, and whether those citations are accurate. While traditional SEO audits track rankings and crawl health, AEO audit tools measure answer engine visibility across the platforms where buyers now get direct recommendations. For SEO managers, content strategists, and growth marketers, this is the new measurement layer most teams don’t have in place yet.

Marketing & SEO Aug 20, 2026

How to write a CRM RFP (with free template)

CRM buying decisions go sideways in a predictable way. Sales wants pipeline automation, IT wants an on-premise option, marketing wants native email, and finance wants to know why there’s a $200K line item with no defined ROI. By the time procurement gets involved, you’ve got four vendors, three opinions, and zero consensus.

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