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Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
Think twice before installing this device promising free movies
In exchange for free stuff, devices make home connections part of a proxy network.
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Firefox 155 Adds 2 New Changes for Faster Web Browsing
Firefox 155 Adds 2 New Changes for Faster Web Browsing
Apart from being faster, Firefox 155 is also the only non-Chromium browser that supports uBlock Origin, as Google removed it entirely yesterday.
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AI Crawlers Are Bleeding The Linux Kernel Repo's Compute Power
AI Crawlers Are Bleeding The Linux Kernel Repo's Compute Power
By comparison, only about two percent of the six million daily requests hitting the repo are likely human.
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Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Vulnerability giving attackers full control of Macs is under active exploitation
Screen-sharing bug lets remote hackers log in without a password.
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Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Microsoft Copilot reveals secret input that allowed it to be hacked
Secret parameter allowed hackers to steal passwords when a target clicked on a link.
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Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Just Used AI to Fix a Kernel Bug
The creator of Linux needed 18 boots to find a one-line fix. The AI helped him get there.
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Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Chrome adopts what may be the best protection yet against account takeovers
Device-bound session credentials thwart an increasingly common form of account takeover.
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Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
Terabytes of credentials leaked in massive supply-chain attack
The data was scraped and exfiltrated from 2,500 users of a compromised AI package.
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White House recruits security firms to hack overseas cybercriminals
White House recruits security firms to hack overseas cybercriminals
Trump memo is first time gov't has authorized private sector to perform cyber attacks.
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Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro
Ubuntu Now Has a Rolling Release Model! But Not For The Distro
A new virtualization stack is being introduced that gets updated every six months.
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Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most
Keychron Built Open Source Firmware for Gaming Mice, and Linux Users Stand to Gain the Most
Built on Zephyr RTOS and licensed under GPL-3.0, the firmware is scheduled to ship first on the Keychron G6 HE next year.
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HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
HP fined 1.4 billion rupees for “cartelization” of ink cartridges, toner, PCs
Resellers threatened to ditch HP printing supplies for counterfeits.
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The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
The US government warns that Russia state hackers are coming after your router
With residential proxies all the rage, CISA urges router users to be vigilant.
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Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now
Old and forgotten "shims" Microsoft failed to revoke have made Secure Boot bypasses simple.
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Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users
Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users
The flaw lets any repository auto-execute code on Cursor for Windows, and researchers say the company ignored it.
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Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
Windows 0-day drops the same day Microsoft releases record number of patches
HiveLegacy is a "powerful primitive" that's likely capable of other nefarious actions.
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Januscape (KVM jailbreak) and GhostLock (privilege escalation) combine to nearly $350k USD bounty.
Google pays $250K for Linux vulnerability allowing guest VM escapes
Both vulnerabilities allow untrusted users to gain root privileges.
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Well... I guess if you spent 25k on the 245.76TB Kioxia LC9, here's a fun way to fill it!
Patch for Windows Defender 0-day could allow attackers to fill hard disk
The feud between NightmareEclipse and Microsoft shows no signs of resolving soon.
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US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree
US offers $10 million for info on group behind Signal and WhatsApp hacking spree
Operation by two Russia-state groups has been ongoing since at least March.
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New research [...] demonstrates how a website can lull AI browsers into a false reality where the rules governing its behavior no longer apply. After that, an attacker has free rein to invoke all kinds of destructive actions, such as [...] extracting credentials from the built-in password manager.
New attack provides one more reason why AI browsers are a bad idea
Telling an LLM that 2 + 2 = 5 is enough to make it follow forbidden instructions.
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Sick of AI Slop, Former Microsoft Engineer Built a New, AI-less Notepad
Sick of AI Slop, Former Microsoft Engineer Built a New, AI-less Notepad
A former Microsoft engineer who was behind Task Manager has built a fully working, 2.5KB Notepad clone that doesn't ship with slop.
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Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware
Newly discovered PamStealer isn't your typical macOS malware
The discovery underscores the increased effort being poured into Mac infostealers.
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"Powering it is RavenOS, the company's own Linux-based OS built around gaze-first, hands-free interaction. So yeah, it does not run Android or AOSP, and Raven is already building apps with future spatial environments in mind."
Raven Prism is a Linux Computer That Happens To Be A Pair of Glasses
This eye-controlled smart glass is a San Francisco-based startup's bet on ambient computing.
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"Wake word detection runs locally through MicroWakeWord, currently using the "Hey Jarvis" model from ESPHome instead of routing audio through a cloud server. The firmware speaks the Wyoming Protocol, which is how Home Assistant's voice interface talks to satellite devices like PineVoice."
PINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo
It is powered by a RISC-V chip, has a hardware mic mute switch, and costs $49.99.
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Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
Massive breach spills credentials for thousands of sensitive networks
The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet.
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