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Microsoft is quietly retiring the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand
Two and a half years after its splashy debut, Microsoft and Qualcomm are all but admitting that the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ label is dead.
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Linux Kernel Developers Weigh Adding AGENTS.md to Guide AI Agents
The Linux kernel keeps getting bombarded with patches from AI agents, yet its source tree has never carried a file with instructions aimed at them. A new patch set proposes to change that.
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File Notification Attacks: Side-Channel Leaks on Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS
Researchers in Graz show that subscribing to filesystem change events lets an attacker without read access reconstruct user behavior — from keystroke timing to the list of websites someone visits.
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Waymo Is Scaling Fast, but the Map Is Deceptive: It's Nearly All California and Texas
In the past three weeks Waymo's Texas robotaxi fleet has grown by almost half. Registration data reveals where the company's driverless cars are really concentrated.
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ReactOS Pulls In Wine 10.0 DirectX Stack, Unlocking Hundreds of Games
The open-source ReactOS project has completed a major overhaul of its DirectX stack based on Wine 10.0 code. The effort took more than 230 hours and stripped out a pile of old hacks.
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Meta staff ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats amid child safety fight
As Meta shields evidence in teen-harm lawsuits by invoking attorney-client privilege, plaintiffs point to a leaked order for baseball caps reading “a/c priv” as proof of a “culture of privilege abuse.”
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OnePlus Leaves Flaws Unpatched as Ordinary Apps Reach Root Without Permissions
A researcher chained two bugs in OnePlus's own software to seize full control of a OnePlus 15. There is still no patch — and the company threatened him with legal action over publishing.
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Carbonato malware turns AI agents loose on exposed Docker hosts
A new worm-like botnet hijacks unprotected Docker daemons and deploys the GH0ST AI agent, which runs operator commands and harvests credentials.
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Google to launch first Suncatcher orbital data center test on October 1
Google's experimental space-based computer will carry just four TPUs and run only in fifteen-minute sessions.
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F-Droid 2.0: The Biggest App Update in a Decade
The catalog of free Android apps has completely rewritten its official app in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, overhauling navigation, search and the way apps get installed.
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Meta's Muse will happily hand over its whole filesystem
Two developers say they coaxed Meta's AI platform into zipping up and sharing its entire root filesystem with almost no effort. Meta insists it isn't a breach.
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Cloudflare fixes cross-tenant data exposure in Containers
Accomplish researchers showed how a Workers Paid customer could read residual data from disks previously used by other tenants' containers on the same host.
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Critical Roundcube flaw now under active exploitation
Canada's cyber security agency warns that a Roundcube Webmail vulnerability, patched back in May, is now being used in real-world attacks.
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Two-Tier Encryption in Britain: Identical iPhones, Different Protection
Because of a secret UK government demand, some iPhone owners in the country keep stronger iCloud encryption while others can no longer switch it on.
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A New Way to Break RSA Is Faster Than Anything Seen Before
Researchers have unveiled an attack on RSA that they say runs faster than anything known so far.
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Schneier: Defense-Evading Malicious npm Packages Feel Like Nation-State Work
Bruce Schneier flagged a set of malicious npm packages built to slip past defenses. Their sophistication, he says, hints at a nation-state — though there is no direct evidence and no attribution.
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Starlink ground station in Poland gutted by fire, officials suspect arson
A fire at a facility near Warsaw that carries internet traffic across the region and into Ukraine was set deliberately, says Deputy PM Krzysztof Gawkowski, who sees a Russian hand and an element of hybrid warfare.
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CISA: Ransomware gangs now exploiting critical TeamCity flaw
The U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA warned that a critical JetBrains TeamCity flaw patched in July is now being abused by ransomware gangs.
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Pick: A Living Fossil of Computer History
The piece presents the Pick operating system as a kind of "living fossil" — a technology that has survived into the present from an early era of computing.
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TeamFiltration Campaign Cracks Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts via Default Passwords
The UNK_CondorFiltration password-spraying campaign hit more than 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants, mostly at Chilean retail and financial firms. All seven accounts that fell were forgotten service accounts with default passwords and no MFA.
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