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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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.
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Meta’s Child-Safety Trial, Plus 3 Tech Stories
A landmark Meta trial asks whether engagement design harmed children, while AI containment gets a reality check, OpenAI tests private safety monitoring, and WordPress 7.1 ships.
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Google Workspace Has a Deadline, Plus 2 Tech Stories
Google Workspace admins have an August 31 cleanup job, Disney and ABC are fighting the FCC over broadcast licenses, and the FDA is rethinking how medical AI should be tested.
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Mac Screen Sharing Is Under Attack, Plus 4 Tech Stories
Attackers are exploiting a macOS Screen Sharing flaw, WordPress and GitLab need security updates, Heights Finance exposed sensitive data, and Gemini expands in schools.