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Editorial cartoon of a Pentagon general proudly swinging open a massive vault door to reveal unguarded files on an open shelf beside a window with a rope ladder, while handing a tiny gift bag to a bewildered Marine holding a pile of spam mail.

Politics

Pentagon Stored Millions of Military SSNs Unencrypted for Nine Months - U.S.

Two Marines sued the Pentagon after the DMDC left millions of service members' unencrypted personal files - including Social Security numbers - on an accessible file-sharing system for roughly nine months, despite its own Inspector General flagging cybersecurity failures beforehand.

Satire & commentary · 2026-10-22

Editorial cartoon: a small AI robot with a stethoscope discovers a glowing crack in a giant spinal column representing the internet's PHP infrastructure, while a human IT auditor sleeps nearby and FBI and corporate figures freeze in horror with coffee cups mid-air

Technology

The Internet's Backbone Had a Slipped Disc and Only the Robot Noticed

The PHP Foundation and the FBI's cyber division jointly warned on October 22, 2026 of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP - the language quietly powering most of the web - urging an immediate patch or full shutdown. The kicker: AI found the bugs humans missed for years.

Satire & commentary · 2026-10-22

Pentagon Stored Millions of Military SSNs Unencrypted for Nine Months - U.S.

The Internet's Backbone Had a Slipped Disc and Only the Robot Noticed

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