US adding firing squads, electrocution and gassing to federal execution methods

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration plans to add firing squads, electrocution and gas asphyxiation as alternative ...
Microsoft

Mitigating the Axios npm supply chain compromise

On March 31, 2026, two new npm packages for updated versions of Axios, a popular HTTP client for JavaScript that simplifies making HTTP requests to a REST endpoint with over 70 million weekly ...
PC Gamer

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

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The Heritage Foundation

The Partisan Divide in State-Level China Policy

For decades, Chinese agents have conducted malign influence campaigns against state and local legislators, universities, pension funds, and other soft state-level targets. Progress in countering this ...
Redmond Magazine

Best Practices for PowerShell Script Version Control, Part 1

Use semantic versioning (X.Y.Z) so version numbers are meaningful, not arbitrary. Patch updates should fix bugs or improve logic/performance without changing visible behavior. Minor and major updates ...
Nextgov

From national AI policy to agency execution

Executive Order 14179 makes the federal government’s position unmistakable: artificial intelligence is not a pilot program, but a national strategy. The executive order frames AI leadership as ...
Redmond Magazine

Challenges With Using RemoteApp to Host Custom Applications Part 2

RemoteApp cannot directly execute PowerShell .PS1 files -- a .CMD launcher script can be used to call powershell.exe and run the script. Execution policy and blocked script files can prevent ...
Infosecurity-magazine.com

Iranian Cyber Threat Actor Targets Iraqi Government Officials in AI-Powered Campaign

An Iran-nexus cyber threat actor has been targeting government officials in Iraq by impersonating Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, with the use of AI tools. Government–related infrastructure in ...
IEEE

Baseline Policy Adapting and Abstraction of Shared Autonomy for High-Level Robot Operations

Abstract: This article presents a novel shared autonomy and baseline policy adapting framework for human–robot interactions in high-level context-aware robotic tasks. With a unique methodology that ...