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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. TL;DR: Malicious programs designed to wipe hard disk drives clean are dangerous enough, but they become a systemic risk when that same capability gets built into a remote-controlled backdoor. Microsoft has now documented
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* NSA, FBI, CISA, and 15 allied agencies warn Russia’s FSB Center 16 is exploiting weak/default credentials and old Cisco flaws to compromise critical infrastructure devices * Advisory highlights CVE‑2018‑0171 (Smart Install DoS/RCE) and CVE‑2008‑412813 (CSRF in Cisco IOS 12.4) as examples of vulnerabilities
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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AI and ml Researcher confirms the uploads have stopped, but says xAI's privacy command was not what fixed them The researcher who exposed Grok Build uploading users' entire repositories to cloud storage says the transfers have stopped after a server-side change. Elon Musk has separately promised that
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Microsoft promised to be carbon negative by 2030. Its own report shows emissions up 25% in a year instead. The number is worse than it looks, and also more honest than it looks, and the reason for both is the same: AI data centres. Microsoft set one of the boldest
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* Kodak PixPro FZ45 and FZ55 top best-selling lists in multiple regions * They are currently the most popular models at Amazon US and elsewhere * Prices start from as little as $100 / £90 / AU$145 Camera fans might expect Sony or Canon to top the best-selling charts, but for outright popularity beyond
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
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* Jamf researchers uncover “CrashStealer,” a notarized macOS infostealer disguised as Apple’s CrashReporter * Distributed via a fake site called “Werkbit Setup”, it bypasses Gatekeeper, installs a LaunchAgent * It then uses a fake password prompt to unlock Keychain, exfiltrating credentials, cookies, files, and data from 80 crypto wallets and 14 password
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Vulnerabilities The flaws can be exploited for authentication bypass, remote code execution, privilege escalation, and directory traversal. Broadcom announced on Tuesday that new VMware Avi Load Balancer updates patch several critical and high-severity vulnerabilities. VMware Avi Load Balancer is a software-defined platform that provides load balancing, application security, and analytics
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Sponsor Posts Subquadratic: the LLM built for 12M-token reasoning — SubQ can reason across entire codebases and document sets in one pass with no RAG workarounds. Read how SubQ 1.1 Small holds near-perfect retrieval out to 12M tokens. Stop vibe coding analytics — Equals AI turns questions about your business into
