News Archive
Technology news that matters to regular people and small-business owners: what changed, who it affects, and why it is worth paying attention to.
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N-central Needs Another Emergency Patch, Plus 3 Stories
N-able has released another emergency N-central hotfix for a pre-authentication RCE. Plus OpenAI’s research-intern milestone, Liquid’s $320 million incident, and AI contrail trials.
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AI Is Driving Up Tech Prices, Plus 3 More Stories
AI data centers are pushing up memory costs across consumer tech. Plus an active Magento zero-day, a much larger Trezor shipping-data breach, and a European rocket milestone.
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Chrome Has an Exploited Zero-Day, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Google patched actively exploited Chrome CVE-2026-85046. Plus OpenAI agents on a public wiki, military ad tracking, Nvidia’s Hugging Face deal, and FTC action against payment processor Nuvei.
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20M Children Faced Online Sexual Abuse, Plus 4 Stories
A UNICEF report estimates 20 million 12- to 17-year-olds across 21 countries experienced technology-facilitated sexual exploitation or abuse in one year. Plus active Elementor Pro attacks, GPT-6 Astra’s launch, Tesla Cybercab scrutiny, and a Plex security update.
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FBI Probes a 153M Driver’s License Trove, Plus 4 Stories
The FBI is investigating a dark-web trove claiming more than 153 million driver’s-license scans. Also: a C-Track court breach, grid stress from extreme heat, NYC’s school AI moratorium, and Google’s ad-tech antitrust remedies.
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Two WordPress Plugins Need Updates, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Two popular WordPress plugins need security updates. Also: a BGP hijack pushed a malicious Virtualizor update, Dropbox accounts were breached through Lenovo ID, Google gives sites an AI Search opt-out, and Florida and Texas push back on Flock cameras.
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Amazon’s Ad Auctions Face a Lawsuit, Plus 4 Tech Stories
The FTC and 22 states accuse Amazon of secretly inflating ad-auction prices. Also: Microsoft starts its Entra passkey rollout, ChatGPT enters the EU’s strictest DSA tier, the House passes new limits on secret cloud-data searches, and Shopify changes how inventory reports count stock.
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Nepal’s Flood Renews Warning Push, Plus 5 Tech Stories
Nepal’s catastrophic flood renews calls for real-time warning data. Plus stolen Claude sessions, malicious browser extensions, a WooCommerce admin flaw, false Defender alerts, and NASA’s Roman launch.
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PaperCut Is Under Active Attack, Plus 4 Tech Stories
PaperCut NG/MF is under active attack and needs Emergency Patch Release 2. Plus: DHS data demands, McKesson’s breach, a Lucid recall, and Anthropic’s music lawsuit.
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GiveWP Needs an Urgent Update, Plus 4 Tech Stories
GiveWP 4.16.7.2 fixes a critical RCE. Plus: a corrected federal hacking claim, Google Drive AI classification, Cursor’s OpenAI cutoff, and updated COVID vaccines.
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Hackers Put Cursor to Work, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Aurora ransomware operators used Cursor inside real victim networks. Today’s brief also covers a critical Avada update, an 8.7-million-person airport breach, Anthropic’s Pentagon court win, and Google’s EEA search-policy change.
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Shopify’s Checkout Deadline Passed, Plus 4 Tech Stories
The Shopify checkout upgrade deadline for non-Plus stores has passed. Today’s brief also covers Meta’s teen-safety settlement, OpenAI’s Hugging Face incident report, Ring’s new encryption, and a Google Assistant settlement deadline.
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China’s EV Door Recall, Plus 4 Tech Stories
China’s record EV recall exposes a door-safety problem, Kaltura has unpatched server flaws, CISA compares two SOCs, autonomous weapons face renewed scrutiny, and WhatsApp strengthens account security.
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An Unpatched Calix Router Flaw, Plus 3 Tech Stories
An unpatched Calix router flaw can expose home-network devices, miniOrange SSO bugs are being probed in WordPress attacks, the FCC is reconsidering E-Rate, and Alabama subpoenaed OpenAI.
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A Power Plant Hack Leads Today’s Tech Brief
A small UK power plant reportedly went offline for four days after a cyberattack, ChatGPT can now work with Apple Messages, data centers are becoming an election issue, and researchers found a nasty way to turn Microsoft Defender’s own driver against security software.
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Car Screens Can Join a Botnet, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Android car head units are being recruited into a proxy botnet, federal agencies warn about AI-assisted attacks on industrial controllers, OpenAI wants stronger California AI safeguards, Google gives publishers a new reader-retention tool, and Microsoft corrected yesterday’s Entra ID exploitation status.
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Update Elementor Pro, Plus 2 Tech Stories
Elementor Pro has a critical file-upload flaw worth patching now, Microsoft disclosed a severity-10 Entra ID bug it already fixed, and TikTok agreed to a $400 million children’s privacy settlement. Updated August 23 after Microsoft corrected the Entra flaw’s exploitation status.
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mRNA Cancer Therapy Meets Phase 3 Goals, Plus 3 Stories
A personalized mRNA melanoma treatment meets its Phase 3 goals, while Microsoft patches a Copilot data-access flaw, Apple rewrites EU App Store fees, and Firefox ships a major security update.