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SonicWall and Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities

Splunk and SonicWall on Wednesday announced patches for multiple critical- and high-severity vulnerabilities in their products, including flaws that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

SonicWall rolled out fixes for four vulnerabilities in its SMA1000 appliances, urging users to update to versions 12.5.0-03082 and 12.4.3-03670 as soon as possible.

The most severe of the issues, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score of 10), is a pre-authenticated SSRF bug that exists due to an unintended alternate access path.

“By abusing this path, a remote unauthenticated attacker could potentially exploit this vulnerability to direct the appliance to issue requests on their behalf and reach internal functionality and perform unauthorized operations,” the company warned.

The security updates also resolve two high- and one medium-severity vulnerability that could be exploited for remote code execution (RCE) and XSS attacks.

“There is currently no evidence any of the vulnerabilities addressed in this release are being exploited...

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Pentagon offers Wolfspeed a $1.5bn loan for a stake of up to 7.5%

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Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches platform to link chips from rival makers

Upscale AI, a Santa Clara networking startup backed by Nvidia, launched a platform on Thursday that lets data centres link AI chips made by different suppliers, Reuters reported. The product, called Token Fabric, was revealed in a company announcement today. Upscale said it is built on open standards and works

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NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone

NHS England’s South East region is rolling out an AI that can discharge patients with harmless skin lesions without a dermatologist seeing them. DERM, made by London-based Skin Analytics, goes live in all 18 NHS trusts there from this autumn. It will cover another 9 million people. Skin Analytics

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DARPA moves Atom Computing, IBM, IonQ and Diraq to final quantum test stage

DARPA has moved Atom Computing, Diraq, IBM and IonQ into the final stage of its Quantum Benchmarking Initiative. The US defence research agency runs the programme to test whether anyone can build a useful quantum computer by 2033. DARPA announced the four teams on Wednesday. Each one uses a different

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Pentagon offers Wolfspeed a $1.5bn loan for a stake of up to 7.5%

Nvidia-backed Upscale AI launches platform to link chips from rival makers

NHS South East rolls out skin cancer AI that can discharge patients alone

DARPA moves Atom Computing, IBM, IonQ and Diraq to final quantum test stage