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Anthropic launches Opus 4.8, with honesty as its killer feature
/in General NewsAnthropic’s latest Claude model isn’t just faster or smarter. Opus 4.8 is being pitched as more honest, more careful, and better suited to complex coding projects.
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A security lapse at prison payphone service Pay Tel publicly exposed over 300K callers’ driver’s licenses
/in General NewsPay Tel secured the publicly exposed data after security researchers discovered the leak containing callers’ sensitive ID documents and inmate communications.
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Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code
/in General NewsA critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions.
The security flaw, per Rapid7, is rated 9.4 on the CVSS scoring system. It does not have a CVE identifier.
“The vulnerability allows any authenticated user to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on
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How to force Google AI Overviews to prioritize your favorite news sources
/in General NewsGoogle’s Preferred Sources feature is now available in AI Overviews and AI Mode, so you can add your favorite sites to your AI-powered searches.
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Best Buy is selling the LG C5 OLED for nearly 50% off right now – and I highly recommend it
/in General NewsIt may be a generation behind, but the LG C5 OLED TV still offers plenty of reasons to pick one up, especially at this price.
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How to watch the 2026 FIFA World Cup: 9 ways to stream (including free options)
/in General NewsOne of the biggest sporting events of all time kicks off soon – and you don’t need an expensive cable package to watch.
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Microsoft Slams Public Zero-Day Disclosures Amid GitHub Researcher Account Removal
/in General NewsMicrosoft has come out strongly in favor of Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD), urging the research community to share their findings and give affected vendors an opportunity to better understand the impact and address them before they are publicly disclosed.
The development comes after a researcher named Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) disclosed details of multiple zero-day
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Cruise giant Carnival confirms data breach affecting nearly 6 million people
/in General NewsThe company said the threat actor gained access to a limited portion of its IT environment last month after compromising an employee account. By the end of April, Carnival determined that the attacker had copied personal information from its systems.
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I set up a router-based VPN for my TV, and it’s the cheap security fix it desperately needed
/in General NewsInstalling a VPN on your smart TV blocks hackers from accessing your network and stealing your data. Here’s how I set up mine.
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New Edamame Platform Aims to Catch AI Coding Agents Going Off the Rails
/in General NewsFrance-based startup Edamame says its runtime verification platform uses host telemetry and AI analysis to detect coding-agent “intent drift,” secret theft and supply-chain attacks in real time.
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