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The Onion seeks missing print issues from readers to fill archive gaps

The Onion has published a call for readers to sell back specific print issues missing from its archive, spanning volumes from 1988 through 2013. The satirical outlet asks potential sellers to identify their issues by volume and issue number and submit details via a Google Form, after which an archivist will follow up on promising collections.

Danish government database compromised, 8 million records stolen

Hackers accessed Denmark's Central Person Register in September, stealing personal data of approximately 8 million citizens and residents. The breach was uncovered on October 2, with authorities indicating that the attack involved exploiting a Danish company's authorized access to the system. The database contains sensitive information including names, addresses, and social security numbers.

Frontline Education notifies school districts of employee data breach

Frontline Education, an edtech provider of workforce management software for school districts, is notifying affected districts that attackers exploited a vulnerability in a third-party application to access its systems on August 14, 2026. Exposed data for at least one impacted district included employees' Social Security numbers, email addresses and physical addresses. Frontline has not identified the third-party product involved or said when unauthorized access began, and school IT administrators have been confirming the notifications' legitimacy on online forums.

Pentagon breach exposes records of 2.8 million military personnel

The Department of Defense is notifying over 2 million current and former service members that hackers accessed personnel data through the Defense Manpower Data Center starting last October. The stolen records included Social Security numbers, names, addresses, sex, race and occupational specialty, affecting 2.8 million living individuals. This follows a separate breach last month in which the ransomware group ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen FBI employee records.

Pentagon personnel data breach exposed 3 million records over nine months

The Defense Department disclosed that unauthorized users accessed a Defense Manpower Data Center system between October 2025 and July 2026, exposing personally identifiable information for about 2.76 million living people and 294,000 deceased individuals. The compromised data reportedly included Social Security numbers paired with job information for military and civilian personnel, though officials have not said how the breach occurred or who was responsible.

Pentagon data breach exposes records of over 3 million military personnel

The Defense Manpower Data Center is notifying more than 3 million people—about 2.8 million living individuals and 294,000 deceased—that hackers accessed their personal data after exploiting a vulnerability in its file-sharing system. Unauthorized users reportedly had access between October 2025 and July 2026, obtaining Social Security numbers, names, birth dates, contact details, sex, race, and military personnel information. The Pentagon is offering affected individuals 12 months of free credit monitoring through IDX, with enrollment required by August 19, 2027.

Pentagon notifies service members after breach of personnel database

The Pentagon has begun alerting current and former service members that a personnel database containing records on more than 3 million individuals was breached by hackers. The database reportedly held sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, though the exact number of people whose data was exposed has not been disclosed.

DMDC Breach Exposed Records of 2.8 Million Military Personnel

A months-long hack of the Defense Manpower Data Center compromised unencrypted personal data for about 2.8 million living current and former U.S. military personnel and nearly 300,000 deceased individuals. Attackers reportedly exploited a file-sharing vulnerability between October 2025 and July 2026, gaining access to Social Security numbers, birth dates, demographic details, and service records. The Department of Defense says it has no indication the data was misused but has not explained how it reached that conclusion.

Pentagon breach exposed records of 2.8 million military personnel, officials say

The Defense Manpower Data Center notified millions of current and former U.S. service members that hackers exploited a file-sharing vulnerability to access unencrypted personnel records over several months between October 2025 and July 2026. Exposed data included Social Security numbers, birth dates, sex, race, and military service details, affecting about 2.8 million living people and nearly 300,000 deceased individuals, according to a Pentagon official cited by CNN and Federal News Network.

Pentagon's DMDC database breached, exposing data on 3 million personnel

The Defense Manpower Data Center suffered unauthorized access between October 2025 and July 2026, exposing records of 2.76 million living personnel and 294,000 deceased individuals. Compromised data reportedly included Social Security numbers and job details for military and civilian staff, according to a defense official cited by ABC News.

Apple updates iWork apps, Pixelmator Pro and Freeform with new features

Apple has rolled out updates to Pages, Keynote, Numbers, Pixelmator Pro and Freeform. The iWork apps now support Siri queries and shared-file access requests, Pages gains a Screen View mode, and Numbers adds new trigonometry, statistics and logic functions. Pixelmator Pro brings Select and Mask tools to iPad and new templates, while Freeform adds Dark Mode support, collaborative folders and Apple Intelligence Writing Tools.

Blog post maps patterns in floating-point rounding errors for decimal sums

A technical blog post examines why adding two-decimal numbers like currency values in floating-point arithmetic sometimes produces exact results and sometimes rounding errors. The author visualizes which pairs of multiples of 0.01 (up to 1.00) sum correctly versus too high or too low, revealing a structured pattern, and explains the underlying cause using IEEE double-precision float representation (sign bit, exponent, and fraction bits).