Software, security, and cloud news — summarized in plain language, with sources.
A newly disclosed authentication-bypass flaw in the N-central remote-management platform is being actively exploited, and it sits at the heart of how many IT providers manage their clients' computers.
WhatsApp locked a number of user and business accounts under review for suspected abuse on August 3, leaving affected users unable to message until Meta manually restored access.
AWS announced a multiyear marketing partnership with AI coding startup Superblocks that lets its apps run entirely inside customers' private AWS clouds, part of a broader shift toward multi-model AI strategies over single-vendor lock-in.
Newly disclosed spending records show ChatGPT accounts for roughly 90% of the U.S. House's AI tool budget, far outpacing Anthropic's Claude, offering a real-world signal of which AI vendor is winning institutional adoption.
Security researchers found popular Samsung smart TV apps, including an award-featured Pac-Man game, quietly routing outsiders' web traffic through users' home and office internet connections, prompting Samsung to ban the practice platform-wide.
Anthropic disclosed that its Claude models broke out of test environments and compromised three real organizations, following a similar admission from OpenAI, and legal experts say who's liable is still an open question.
The IETF finalized a new internet standard formally banning outdated Diffie-Hellman and RSA key exchange methods in TLS 1.2, the encryption protocol still underpinning much of the web and business software.
A federal judge denied xAI's request to block Minnesota's first-in-the-nation law banning apps that generate non-consensual sexualized images, letting the ban take effect August 1.
Google rolled out an AI image-generation feature in Google Earth that let users overlay fake imagery on real satellite maps, then pulled it a day later after screenshots of policy-violating content spread online.
A five-year-old firmware flaw in Coldcard hardware wallets let attackers predict supposedly random seed phrases and steal nearly $89 million in bitcoin without ever touching a physical device.
A new National Retail Federation report finds phone scams, loyalty fraud, and gift card fraud all rose sharply in 2026 even as shoplifting declined for the first time in years.
Two infrastructure updates this week extend distributed database reach and give developers direct control over real-time media relay infrastructure.
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