Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
Plus: Hackers use Meta’s AI bots to hack Instagram accounts, Anthropic helps NSA hackers, a decades-long GPS satellite mystery may have been solved, and more.
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The 7 coolest gadgets I saw at Computex 2026 (and when you can buy each one)
Nvidia announced its new RTX Spark processor at Computex 2026, launching a wave of new high-performance ultrabooks.
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Acer Swift Air 14 vs. MacBook Neo: I compared both budget laptops – this model wins
Acer’s new $699 Swift Air 14 is a direct response to the MacBook Neo. Here’s how it compares, by the specs.
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Miasma Worm Hits 73 Microsoft GitHub Repositories in Major Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft’s GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign.
The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware. The development has GitHub to disable access to those repositories.
“Access to this
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AI Agent Uncovers 21 Zero-Days in FFmpeg; Chrome Patches Record 429 Bugs
Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent.
The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release.
Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI.
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Free Apps Are Quietly Turning Smart TVs Into Web-Scraping Proxies for AI
A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how it turns devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry.
The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world,
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited SolarWinds Serv-U DoS Flaw to KEV Catalog
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-20245 Flaw Actively Exploited – No Patch Available
Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245, carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types –
On-Prem Deployment
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro
Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed)
Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP)
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Miasma Malware Hits 32 Red Hat Packages via Compromised GitHub Account
32 Red Hat npm packages compromised by Miasma malware expose cloud tokens, CI/CD secrets and developer credentials in supply chain attack.
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Exposed Fuel Tank Gauges Under Attack in the US
Threat actors are taking advantage of Internet-exposed tank gauges by breaching gas stations, opening the door to disruption.
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