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Redistricting isn’t just about drawing lines — it could redraw the rules of governing

“Now that we have an effort to redistrict in the middle of the cycle, it’s having a massive impact,” said Mitchell Miller. The post Redistricting isn’t just about drawing lines — it could redraw the rules of governing first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Federal employees’ COVID vaccine statuses to be removed from personnel documents

The Office of Personnel Management says no information related to vaccines can be used in decisions on hiring, promotions, discipline or terminations. The post Federal employees’ COVID vaccine statuses to be removed from personnel documents first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Redistricting isn’t just about drawing lines — it could redraw the rules of governing

“Now that we have an effort to redistrict in the middle of the cycle, it’s having a massive impact,” said Mitchell Miller. The post Redistricting isn’t just about drawing lines — it could redraw the rules of governing first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Tiny gold “super atoms” could spark a quantum revolution

Scientists have found that microscopic gold clusters can act like the world’s most accurate quantum systems, while being far easier to scale up. With tunable spin properties and mass production potential, they could transform quantum computing and sensing.
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What the Matter 1.4.2 update means for smart home security

Matter is built on the idea that smart home devices should be secure, reliable, and easy to use. It is based on Internet Protocol (IP), which allows devices, mobile apps, and cloud services to communicate. Matter also defines a set of IP-based networking technologies for device certification. The new update, Matter 1.4.2, strengthens the standard by adding improvements in security, certification, infrastructure, and coordination between different parts of the ecosystem. These changes are informed by … More → The post What the Matter 1.4.2 update means for smart home security appeared first on Help Net Security.
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Judge issues temporary injunction against Trump administration cancellation of humanities grants

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge in Oregon issued an injunction Wednesday temporarily stopping the mass cancellation of National Endowment for the Humanities grants to humanities councils around the country, saying the cancellations were likely… The post Judge issues temporary injunction against Trump administration cancellation of humanities grants first appeared on Federal News Network.
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Win-DDoS: Attackers can turn public domain controllers into DDoS agents

SafeBreach researchers have released details on several vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers to crash Windows Active Directory domain controllers (DCs), one one of which (CVE-2025-32724) can also be leveraged to force public DCs to participate in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Win-DDoS – as the researchers dubbed this new attack technique – hinges on the attackers’ ability to trick public DCs into connecting to a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server they set up, … More → The post Win-DDoS: Attackers can turn public domain controllers into DDoS agents appeared first on Help Net Security.
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NIST Releases Test Tools to Accelerate Adoption of Emerging Route Leak Mitigation Standards

NIST has released NIST BGP RPKI IO (BRIO) – an open-source testing framework designed to facilitate test and experimentation with emerging Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) security and resilience mechanisms that leverage the Resource Public Key
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6 CIO goals on AI for the rest of 2025

Tech leaders need to focus on unifying data structures, modernizing architectures and shaping governance ahead of agentic AI adoption.
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WinRAR zero day exploited by RomCom hackers in targeted attacks

ESET researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in WinRAR, exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. If you use WinRAR or related components such as the Windows versions of its command line tools, UnRAR.dll, or the portable UnRAR source code, update right away to the latest release. According to ESET telemetry, malicious archives were used in spearphishing campaigns between July 18 to July 21, 2025, targeting financial, manufacturing, defense, and logistics companies in … More → The post WinRAR zero day exploited by RomCom hackers in targeted attacks appeared first on Help Net Security.
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