Editor’s Note: This article appears in Governing’s Q2 2026 Magazine. You can subscribe here. It didn’t seem like an emergency at first. Some of the machines at Nevada’s data center weren’t responding. These were important machines — they supported the private cloud environments used by many executive branch agencies — but a network outage “is not too...Read More

Not long after nine o’clock on Thursday morning, and again this Friday, in the middle of the second hour of class, the explanations disappeared … from the digital blackboards of different schools and institutes across Andalucía. Where a few seconds before there were equations, analysis and maps, a song began to play: “Debí tirar más...Read More

By Lyndsay Armstrong The Canadian Press Posted May 29, 2026 11:26 am Updated May 29, 2026 12:19 pm 1 min read Descrease article font size Increase article font size The head of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union says cuts to the education sector will cause more strain at a time when violence in schools is...Read More

Notepad++, one of the most widely used open-source text editors for Windows, has released an urgent security update addressing three vulnerabilities, including two arbitrary code execution flaws that could allow attackers to silently run malicious programs on a victim’s machine. The Notepad++ development team released version v8.9.6.1 on May 26, 2026, patching all three vulnerabilities....Read More

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GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. — A sheriff known for targeting human traffickers is advising people to leave child predator stings to the professionals. Across Michigan, “predator hunters” are growing online, confronting their targets with cameras rolling and generating a lot of online views. But Genesee County Sheriff Chris Swanson says that approach can hurt cases involving...Read More

COMMENTARY: There’s a war of attrition happening across corporate networks right now, and defenders are losing it the same way armies lose wars of attrition: by spending more per engagement than their opponents. The cost of mounting a cyberattack has plummeted, and most security budgets are not attuned to that reality.To understand the problem, conisder...Read More

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Thursday warned that hackers targeted software development pipelines in recent weeks and urged security teams to check for potential compromise of their environments.  CISA referenced two recent campaigns, including the “Megalodon” supply chain attack and a GitHub compromise through a malicious Nx Console Visual Studio Code extension.  The Megalodon...Read More

The UN human rights office called for action against ‘addictive design’ features, such as infinite scroll, autoplay and persistent notifications. PETALING JAYA: Bans or age restrictions on social media use are not enough on their own to protect minors from the harmful effects of the platforms, UN experts said in Geneva on Friday, arguing that...Read More

Key Points To Catch a Predator star Chris Hansen has responded to Robert Pattinson playing him in a new movie. Hansen offered a cryptic reaction to the Primetime movie trailer, which dropped earlier this week. “What will they think of next?” Hansen replied to a NewsNation reporter’s question. To Catch a Predator star Chris Hansen...Read More