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Vulnerabilities The privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-50656 has been patched with a Microsoft Malware Protection Engine update. Microsoft has begun rolling out patches for a Defender vulnerability known as RoguePlanet, roughly one month after a researcher published a zero-day exploit for it. Officially tracked as CVE-2026-50656, the vulnerability leverages
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TL;DR - Fable 5 is available again inside paid Claude plans for a short promotional window ending July 7 at 23:59:59 Pacific Time. - During the promotion, Fable 5 can use up to 50% of a weekly plan limit and shares the same usage pool as other
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Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways * The Point-in-time Restore feature is now available for all Windows editions. * It takes daily snapshots of the system state to help recover from a serious problem. * If your system drive is 200 GB or larger,
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Several popular AI coding assistants were tricked into facilitating developer machine hacking via an attack technique that has been known for decades, according to Google-owned cloud security giant Wiz. Dubbed GhostApproval, the attack has been successfully tested against Claude Code, Amazon Q Developer, Cursor, Google Antigravity, Augment, and Windsurf. GhostApproval
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DXC Technology recently announced the opening of its new Customer Experience Center in Bengaluru. The new facility is one of DXC’s largest global delivery hubs and reinforces its role in helping organizations move from AI experimentation to scaled deployment, expanding the company’s global network of customer collaboration sites.
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ESET Research Threat Reports A view of the H1 2026 threat landscape as seen by ESET telemetry and from the perspective of ESET threat detection and research experts. 08 Jul 2026 • 2 min. read The first half of 2026 shows how attackers continue to improve the efficiency and scalability of
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SonicWall has announced its participation as a founding Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) partner in OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, aiming to bring GPT-5.6 Sol-powered AI cybersecurity capabilities to mid-market and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through its global channel partner network. The cybersecurity vendor said the initiative
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SonicWall has announced its participation as a founding Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) partner in OpenAI’s Daybreak Cyber Partner Program, aiming to bring GPT-5.6 Sol-powered AI cybersecurity capabilities to mid-market and small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) through its global channel partner network. The cybersecurity vendor said the initiative
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Check Point reports progress on AI security, emissions reduction and cyber skilling in 2025 ESG report Redwood City, California, July 6, 2026: Check Point Software Technologies has released its 2025 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Report, outlining the company’s progress across cyber security, responsible AI, sustainability and corporate governance
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Commvault has introduced Minutes to Recovery, a hands-on cyber resilience simulation designed to help organisations assess their preparedness against AI-driven cyberattacks by allowing security teams to experience the full lifecycle of an attack, from breach to recovery, in a controlled environment. The new simulation comes as organisations contend with increasingly
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The breakthrough Bitsec, running as Subnet 60 on the Bittensor network, found more vulnerabilities than a jailbroken instance of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 when both were run against the same client codebase. The test was posted to X by a developer affiliated with Bitsec, with the client’s permission.
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Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images ByEdward Graham, Managing Editor, Nextgov/FCW July 8, 2026 05:36 PM ET DOD Chief Information Officer Kirsten Davies said last month that the apprenticeship had “already generated more than 70,000 inquiries” since it was first announced in late April. * Defense
