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Black students across the US were targeted this week by coordinated racist death threats, forcing at least seven historically Black colleges into emergency lockdowns just a day after the far-right activist Charlie Kirk was killed at Utah Valley University. At New York University, Black students reportedly received a threatening manifesto specifically targeting them, according to an email seen by the …

Apple launched a slate of new iPhones on Tuesday loaded with the company’s new A19 and A19 Pro chips. Along with an ultrathin iPhone Air and other redesigns, the new phones come with a less flashy upgrade that could turn out to be the true killer feature. A security improvement called Memory Integrity Enforcement combines always-on, chip-level protections with software …

A Black man from South Carolina is calling for hate crime laws to be enacted in the state, one of only two states in the US that do not have them, after being targeted at in a racist attack. Jarvis McKenzie said that on 17 July, while waiting to go to work, a white man in a car picked up …

Infosec In brief A flaw in Meta’s WhatsApp app “may have been exploited in a sophisticated attack against specific targeted users.” Meta made that alarming admission last week in a security advisory that disclosed CVE-2025-55177, which it described as allowing “Incomplete authorization of linked device synchronization messages in WhatsApp [which] could have allowed an unrelated user to trigger processing of …

A massive ransomware cyberattack that has crippled Nevada’s state government since Sunday has resulted in some data being moved outside of the network by “malicious actors,” state officials said Wednesday. State agency officials would not disclose the nature of the data that was taken outside the state network during the press conference in Carson City, and stressed that it is …

A 2002 file photo shows demonstrators burning U.S. flags during a protest in front of the World Bank headquarters in Washington, D.C. AFP/AFP via Getty Images/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption AFP/AFP via Getty Images/AFP via Getty Images President Trump has long opposed flag burning as a form of protest, and now he’s directing the Justice Department to …

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Bill Pulte was nominated as the country’s top housing regulator, he told senators that his “number one mission will be to strengthen and safeguard the housing finance system.” But since he started the job, he’s distinguished himself by targeting President Donald Trump ‘s political enemies. He’s using property records to make accusations of mortgage fraud and …

FBI members carry boxes to the home of the former White House national security adviser John Bolton as it is searched by FBI, in Bethesda, Maryland, U.S., August 22, 2025. Tasos Katopodis | Reuters The law enforcement investigation of former Trump national security advisor John Bolton is “in the very early stages,” Vice President JD Vance said on the heels …

These are the “woke” Smithsonian exhibits targeted by Trump’s White House  Axios President Trump Is Right About the Smithsonian  The White House (.gov) A Critic of Universities Is Rallying to Defend Them in the Trump Era  The New York Times Trump’s next fight: “woke” museum interpretations of history  Axios White House calls out 7 Smithsonian museums for their exhibits, messaging  The Washington Post Source link

Apple has released emergency updates to patch another zero-day vulnerability that was exploited in an “extremely sophisticated attack.” Tracked as CVE-2025-43300, this security flaw is caused by an out-of-bounds write weakness discovered by Apple security researchers in the Image I/O framework, which enables applications to read and write most image file formats. An out-of-bounds write occurs when attackers successfully exploit …