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Spotting Compromised Phones From Miles Away: How Radio Frequency Fingerprinting Could Reshape Mobile Security

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A team of researchers has demonstrated a technique that can detect whether a smartphone has been tampered with — without ever touching the device, and from distances of over a mile. The method, which relies on analyzing the unique radio frequency emissions of a phone’s hardware, represents a significant advance in the ongoing battle against supply chain attacks and firmware-level compromises that have bedeviled governments and enterprises for years. The research, conducted by a group at Ohio State University, focuses on what is known as radio frequency (RF) fingerprinting. Every electronic component in a smartphone — from its processor to its memory chips — emits faint, unintentional electromagnetic signals when operating. These emissions are as unique as a human fingerprint, shaped by microscopic variations introduced during the manufacturing process. By capturing and analyzing these signals, the researchers found they could determine not only the identity of a specific device b...

How Enterprise LMS Platforms Support Large Organizations

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Large enterprises typically struggle to provide a uniform quality of training to a diverse employee pool. Enterprise learning management systems provide a formalized solution to enable efficient employee development. Such platforms are faster for companies to streamline learning so that everyone in your team is able to get the same quality of instruction and resources. When organizations centralize their efforts to educate employees, both compliance and employee performance improve. Consistent Training Delivery A key advantage of an enterprise learning management system is that it enables consistent training across departments and geographical locations. Some decentralized solutions will ensure that every employee is trained on the same materials. This uniformity minimizes confusion, which in turn fosters a common culture within the organization. Whether they work from home or in an office, employees know what is expected and what is good practice. Companies are expected to m...

Bill Gurley’s Blunt Warning to Tech Workers: Playing It Safe Is Now the Riskiest Career Move You Can Make

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Bill Gurley, one of Silicon Valley’s most respected venture capitalists and a general partner at Benchmark, delivered a pointed message to technology professionals in February 2026 that has since reverberated across the industry: the most dangerous thing you can do for your career right now is play it safe. In a moment when artificial intelligence is reshaping entire job categories and the nature of knowledge work itself, Gurley argued that complacency — not ambition — is the real threat to long-term professional survival. The remarks, reported by TechCrunch , struck a nerve in an industry already grappling with mass layoffs, rapid automation, and a fundamental rethinking of what constitutes valuable human work. Gurley’s thesis is straightforward but uncomfortable: the workers who hunker down, avoid risk, and try to protect their current positions are the ones most likely to find themselves obsolete. Those who lean into uncertainty, build new skills, and take bold professio...

Trump’s Tariff Authority Faces Its Biggest Legal Test Yet — And the Supreme Court May Not Rule Until 2026

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The Trump administration’s sweeping tariff regime, which has reshaped global trade flows and rattled financial markets for months, now faces a constitutional reckoning that could take more than a year to resolve. A legal challenge working its way through the federal courts argues that President Donald Trump exceeded his statutory authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) when he imposed broad tariffs on virtually all U.S. trading partners. But the timeline for a definitive Supreme Court ruling stretches well into 2026, leaving businesses, investors, and foreign governments in a prolonged state of uncertainty. The case, brought by a coalition of importers and trade groups, strikes at the heart of the president’s claim that he can use emergency powers to impose tariffs without specific congressional authorization. The legal question is deceptively simple: Does IEEPA, a 1977 law designed to give presidents tools to respond to national emergencies ...

Ukraine’s Ground Robots Now Launch Drones Mid-Mission, Pushing the Frontier of Unmanned Warfare

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On the frozen and cratered battlefields of eastern Ukraine, a new class of weapon system is emerging that combines two of the war’s most consequential technologies into a single, operator-distant platform. Ukrainian forces have begun deploying ground-based robotic vehicles capable of launching aerial drones during combat missions — a development that keeps human operators farther from danger while multiplying the tactical options available to small units fighting along the front lines. The concept is deceptively simple: take an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV), mount a first-person-view (FPV) drone launcher on its chassis, and send the entire package forward into contested territory. The ground robot moves into position, releases one or more attack drones, and the operator — seated in a bunker or trench potentially kilometers away — directs the aerial munitions onto targets. The result is a layered unmanned system in which neither the vehicle nor the aircraft requires a human presen...

The IRS Workforce Purge: How Mass Layoffs at America’s Tax Agency Could Reshape Revenue Collection for a Generation

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The Internal Revenue Service, already stretched thin after years of political battles over its funding and mandate, is now facing what may be its most consequential workforce reduction in modern history. Thousands of employees — many of them probationary workers hired as part of a recent modernization push — are being shown the door, raising urgent questions about the federal government’s ability to collect taxes, process returns, and enforce compliance during one of the busiest filing seasons of the year. According to The Register , the IRS has moved forward with sweeping job cuts targeting probationary employees, a category that includes many of the workers brought on board through the agency’s ambitious hiring initiative funded by the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). The cuts are part of a broader federal workforce reduction campaign driven by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the Elon Musk-led advisory body that has been aggressively pushing to shrink the si...

Your Phone Apps Are Watching You More Than You Think — A Privacy Audit Reveals the Most Intrusive Offenders

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Most smartphone users tap “Accept” on permission requests without a second thought. But a recent privacy audit highlights just how aggressively some of the world’s most popular apps harvest personal data — often far beyond what’s necessary for their core functions. The findings, reported in detail by Android Police , paint a sobering picture of the state of mobile privacy and raise pointed questions about whether consumers truly understand what they’re giving away every time they install a new app. The audit, conducted using publicly available data from Apple’s App Store privacy labels and Google Play’s Data Safety sections, examined how leading apps across social media, shopping, entertainment, and productivity categories collect and share user information. The results confirmed what privacy advocates have long warned: many apps treat user data not as a trust to be guarded, but as a resource to be extracted at every opportunity. Social Media ...