Elon Musk hasn’t stopped Grok, the chatbot developed by his artificial intelligence company xAI, from generating sexualized images of women. After reports emerged last week that the image generation tool on X was being used to create sexualized images of children, Grok has created potentially thousands of nonconsensual images of women in “undressed” and “bikini”…
As we move into 2026, 2025 stands out as a defining year for the Qualys Cloud Agent. In 2025, Cloud Agent delivered deeper visibility into running systems and applications, stronger security controls, expanded support across operating systems and architectures, and meaningful platform modernization. Adoption increased by 18% year over year, driven by organizations standardizing on a single, lightweight agent…
In yesterday’s podcast, I mentioned “tailsnitch”, a new tool to audit Tailscale configurations. Tailscale is an easy-to-use overlay to Wireguard. It is probably best compared to STUN servers in VoIP in that it allows devices behind NAT to connect directly to each other. Tailscale just helps negotiate the setup, and once the connection is established,…
On December 29, 2025, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced first-year state awards from the $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program (the “rural health fund”), which is being administered by a new Office of Rural Health Transformation. The rural health fund was created as part of the July 2025 budget reconciliation law,…
Inevitably, these conversations take a turn: AI is having all these ripple effects now, but if the technology gets better, what happens next? That’s usually when they look at me, expecting a forecast of either doom or hope. I probably disappoint, if only because predictions for AI are getting harder and harder to make. Despite…
An overhaul of US childhood immunisation guidelines has dropped the number of diseases children should be vaccinated against from 17 to 11. The new list of recommended vaccines, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Monday, includes polio and measles vaccines, but others, like hepatitis A and B, and Covid vaccines, are…
Charlie Brown Dani-Rae Brown could not move her legs at five months old, when her first symptoms of Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) started to show Parents of babies born with a life-limiting, rare condition say their diagnoses came months too late, and after they had initially raised the alarm about their symptoms. Dani-Rae Brown was…
Archie MitchellBusiness reporter Getty Images Nestle has issued a global recall of some baby formula products over concerns they contain a toxin which can cause food poisoning. The food and drink giant said specific batches of its SMA infant formula and follow-on formula were not safe to be fed to babies. The batches were sold…
Nick TriggleHealth correspondent Getty Images The new NHS online hospital service being launched in England next year will initially focus on menopause, prostate and eye conditions. The NHS has selected nine different conditions in total for the service which will be available through the NHS app in 2027. The service, which was first announced in…
ISC Stormcast For Tuesday, January 6th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9754, (Tue, Jan 6th) Source link
