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Catch Of The Week: Roblox Cheat Codes Lead To Breach

By REBECCA RUTHERFORD
Los Alamos
For the Los Alamos Daily Post

Fun new game: guess which link in a chain of events caused a major cloud platform breach this week.

A. Was it a sophisticated zero-day?
B. A nation-state attack on critical infrastructure?
C. A hard-to-detect supply chain implant buried in open source code?

Nope. Someone at a small AI startup was looking for Roblox cheats. Yikes!

Not even joking here! Researchers at Hudson Rock traced the Vercel breach that came to light this weekend all the way back to February, when an employee at Context.ai downloaded Lumma Stealer malware while Read More

New Documents Added To Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

The following documents have been added to the Los Alamos National Laboratory Electronic Reading Room.

The document(s) have been submitted to fulfill one or more requirements of the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

 

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Documents Added To LANL Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted before April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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New Documents Added To Los Alamos Legacy Contract Electronic Public Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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Heinrich Meets With White Sands Missile Range Leadership

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, 3rd from left, meets with White Sands Missile Range leadership for update on the range’s critical role in strengthening New Mexico jobs and advancing national security, April 10, 2026. Courtesy photo

U.S. SENATE News:

LAS CRUCES — U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, met with White Sands Missile Range Senior Commander Colonel Andrew R. Morgan, Command Sergeant Major Hermes F. Acevedo, U.S. Navy Commander Patrick D. Smith, Chief of Staff Patrick Curran, and U.S. Navy Detachment Site Director Abran Parra to receive Read More

LANL Foundation Awards Over $1 Million In Scholarships To Northern New Mexico Students

LANL Foundation News:

ESPAÑOLA — The LANL Foundation is pleased to announce the 2026 recipients of its scholarship awards, recognizing the achievements of outstanding students across Northern New Mexico as they pursue higher education.

This year, 163 students have been awarded scholarships totaling nearly $1.2 million to pursue bachelor’s degrees.

Since 1999, the LANL Foundation has awarded nearly 2,900 scholarships, approaching $15 million in total funding. These scholarships are made possible through the generosity of the workforce of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Read More

Y Fitness Instructor Raj Vaidya Shares Health & Wellness Philosophy With Lori Thompson’s Sports Lit Classes

Los Alamos High School English Teacher Lori Thompson on Friday introducing longtime YMCA fitness instructor Raj Vaidya to her students. Vaidya, a LANL retiree, shared his philosophy on health and wellness during his presentations to all three of Thompson’s Sports Lit classes. Photo by John McHale/ladailypost.com Read More

LANL Researchers Show Some Quantum Learning Models Are Classically Simulable

As proposed and demonstrated by the Los Alamos team, the architectures and techniques proposed to mitigate or altogether avoid barren plateaus in variational quantum computing make them classically simulable. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Variational quantum computing is a hybrid quantum-classical approach that has emerged as one of the most promising applications for quantum devices. But this approach is hindered by the “barren plateau” phenomenon, which undermines the approach’s machine learning training capabilities. As a team of Los Alamos researchers suggest in a recent perspective Read More

New Documents Added To Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Reading Room

LANL News:

New documents have been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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New Document Added To LANL Legacy Contract Cleanup Electronic Reading Room

LANL News:

A new document has been added to the Los Alamos Legacy Cleanup Contract Electronic Public Reading Room.

All legacy cleanup documents required to be posted after April 30, 2018, are available on the site linked above.

For legacy cleanup documents that were posted prior to April 30, 2018, please visit the LANL electronic public reading room.

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