hacker
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Our water system’s decentralized, fragmented nature, perhaps a bit like our electoral system, is a double-edged sword, inasmuch as its vulnerabilities are atomized—at least a single hacker can’t contaminate all the water in the country.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
Both OpenAI, the hacker, and the victim, Hugging Face, have portrayed the response to this incident as a collaboration.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Commentators and analysts took to their podcasts and social media accounts to guess which cyber crime group or nation state hacker might be behind it.
From BBC ● Jul. 24, 2026
Hacking It: As AI disrupts traditional career paths, these college students are skipping corporate internships for San Francisco hacker houses and incubators this summer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026
They said that they had identified him, and that he was a hacker and a naysayer of the worst kind.
From "Feed" by M.T. Anderson
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DEF CON Franklin matched volunteer white-hat hackers with small water utilities across the country, helping them patch holes and advising them on basic security hygiene.
From Slate ● Aug. 19, 2026
The Department of Justice said the hackers were part of an alleged "sweeping, state-sponsored" effort to steal data.
From BBC ● Aug. 19, 2026
The digital affairs ministry's statement was in response to a Financial Times article this week that identified Taiwan as the target of an autonomous AI attack by suspected Chinese hackers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
The agencies warned that Iran-affiliated hackers were targeting internet-connected industrial controllers “to cause disruptive effects within the United States.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
I’ve got to tell Bando that I’ve found Alice’s camp and a site where falconers, if not the hackers, have been.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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