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Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

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Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js…

The U.S. put surveillance drones in the Great Lakes, and this border town mayor isn't happy

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The U.S. put surveillance drones in the Great Lakes, and this border town mayor isn't happy

When Sarnia, Ont., Mayor Mike Bradley first spotted an unusual, unmanned vessel in the St. Clair River, he says he thought it looked "like something from Mars." Then he found out it was one of several surveillance sail drones deployed to…

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World's smallest wireless server is so tiny it comes with a keyring

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World's smallest wireless server is so tiny it comes with a keyring

Foldra stores files locally and shares them through its own Wi-Fi network The touchscreen displays files, settings, storage information, and built-in applications A microSD slot supports storage cards with capacities reaching 1TB Foldra is…

A 16-year-old bug could be putting millions of routers at risk — despite Broadcom saying it patched the issue years ago

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A 16-year-old bug could be putting millions of routers at risk — despite Broadcom saying it patched the issue years ago

A Broadcom WPS flaw dating back to at least 2010 lets attackers within Wi-Fi range run code on routers without the password Broadcom told the researcher it replaced the code from 2018, but declined to assign a CVE, calling the software…

The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid

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The mistake iPhone Duo buyers can easily avoid

An iPhone Duo can become even more expensive if you have to repair it, so it's vital to plan for that ahead of time.

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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers

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Databricks co-founder shares his secrets for winning big enterprises customers

Turns out selling to big companies isn’t about having the shiniest tech: it’s about hitching a ride on a giant’s sales team.

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Could Apple Music be resurrecting Cover Flow, after over a decade?

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Could Apple Music be resurrecting Cover Flow, after over a decade?

If there’s one thing Apple Music has proved to us by now, it’s that it doesn’t need to continuously pump out new features to improve the user experience — but the large periods of silence make the anticipation even more exciting when the…

Commentary: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian data centres may change how we see disinformation

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Commentary: Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian data centres may change how we see disinformation

Data centres are an unconventional military target but that may be changing as their importance grows, says an academic.

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Samsung’s Switch 2-ready MicroSD Express card is on sale for less than $50

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Samsung’s Switch 2-ready MicroSD Express card is on sale for less than $50

Running out of space on your Nintendo Switch 2? Thankfully, Samsung’s P9 MicroSD Express card is discounted at multiple retailers, with the 256GB version going for $47.99 (Amazon, B&H Photo) and the 512GB version $99 (Amazon, B&H Photo)…

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AI Killed the Homework Era

Commentary: And it could mean the massacre of grading in general.

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

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Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company…