Ransomware threats continue to outpace cybersecurity defenses, with a widening gap in preparedness, according to a recent report. The Ivantis 2026 State of Cybersecurity Report revealed that the preparedness gap for ransomware increased by 4 points year-over-year, with a significant disparity between the perceived threat level and actual defensive capabilities. Meanwhile, other developments include the emergence of open-source DOS distributions, the use of AI in software development, and discussions on the motivations behind playing games.
The Ivantis report indicated that 63% of security professionals consider ransomware a high or critical threat, yet only 30% feel very prepared to defend against it, creating a 33-point gap. This gap has grown from 29 points a year prior, highlighting the increasing challenge. Furthermore, the CyberArk 2025 Identity Security Landscape report shed light on the scale of the problem, noting that organizations worldwide have 82 machine identities for every human employee, with 42% of those machine identities having privileged or sensitive access. As Louis Columbus wrote in VentureBeat, "The gap between ransomware threats and the defenses meant to stop them is getting worse, not better."
In other news, the open-source project SvarDOS emerged, aiming to integrate the best DOS tools, drivers, and games from the 1980s-2000s era. This project, detailed on Hacker News, seeks to revitalize the abandoned DOS development landscape by providing a network-enabled package manager similar to apt-get, but for DOS. Once installed, SvarDOS offers a minimalistic DOS system with a kernel, command interpreter, and basic system administration tools.
Additionally, the use of AI in software development is gaining traction. One example, highlighted on Hacker News, involves a developer using AI to build FastTab, a custom task switcher for the Plasma desktop environment. The developer, facing performance issues with the built-in task switcher, utilized AI to assist in the project. "I would have never built this without AI," the developer stated.
Finally, the motivations behind playing games were explored. According to Vox, philosopher C. Thi Nguyen argues that games provide insight into human agency, demonstrating how individuals choose goals, adhere to constraints, and care about things that may not seem important. Games are "one of the clearest windows we have into how human agency actually works," Nguyen wrote in his book, The Score.
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