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Federal investigators are working to understand the scale of what may be one of the largest identity data breaches in North American history. More than one hundred fifty three million US and Canadian driver's licenses surfaced on a Russian cybercrime forum, with data suspected to have originated from an ID authentication service provider. Among those exposed, US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
In a separate cybercrime takedown, CrowdStrike and federal authorities have dismantled a Russian malware operation called Sality that quietly ran for eight years. The scheme was deceptively simple — it watched for copied bitcoin and Ethereum wallet addresses and swapped them with the attacker's own. More than fifteen thousand infected machines have now been isolated.
And away from the crime beat, a quieter but perhaps more consequential concern is gaining traction in engineering circles. A piece in IEEE Spectrum draws on a striking example from nuclear plant design to ask whether AI efficiency tools are hollowing out the apprenticeship pipeline — producing capable outputs today while eroding the deep human expertise we may desperately need tomorrow.
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