GigaWiper is a destructive backdoor that combines multiple wiping and ransomware-like capabilities into a single operational ...

A federal Alabama judge has prohibited the state from executing an inmate this week using the controversial new method of nitrogen gas, ruling that it amounts to cruel and unusual punishment in ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday declined a request from Alabama to move forward with a scheduled execution using nitrogen hypoxia. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented from ...

Threat actors have begun exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in the popular low-code AI development platform Langflow, according to VulnCheck. Tracked as CVE-2026-5027 (CVSS score of 8.8), the ...

A death row prisoner whose planned execution Thursday was suddenly halted became emotional when he learned that a federal court had ruled Alabama’s use of nitrogen gas violates the constitutional ban ...

A federal judge on Tuesday permanently blocked Alabama executing death row inmate Jeffrey Lee with nitrogen gas after finding that it violates the U.S. Constitution's ban on cruel and unusual ...

Ms. DeLiberato has represented defendants in death penalty cases for nearly 20 years. Last month, I walked into Riverbend Maximum Security Institution to watch the State of Tennessee kill my client, ...

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For more than an hour, Tony Carruthers lay strapped to an execution gurney in Tennessee's death chamber as his executioners struggled to find a vein. They tried his arms, shoulders, feet, chest and ...

Two flaws in the widely used open-source editor can be triggered through manipulated configuration files, prompting security updates from the project's maintainers. Two arbitrary code execution ...

Claude Opus 4.8 allows for remote response and execution. Anthropic.com Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, upgrading its flagship artificial intelligence model worldwide with a pitch ...

Allegheny County Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve legislation amending the county’s jail code to create a new article focused on prison rape prevention. The new “Jail Rape Elimination” ...