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Five reasons the explosive NFL passing game has plummeted over the past decade and will it ever ret… Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat Cowboys add veteran tight end to practice squad OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it Five reasons the explosive NFL passing game has plummeted over the past decade and will it ever ret… Head of Ukraine’s Presidential Office Kyrylo Budanov says he regularly spoke with Wagner Group foun… 15/18 A Place to Heal review – heartfelt docu-realist study of a French teen psychiatric facility Bath show highlights sibling finds – and England’s first paid female astronomer Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat Cowboys add veteran tight end to practice squad OpenAI agents hijacked German website before Hugging Face hack, report claims Rescue satellite gets close to NASA's doomed telescope, even if it can't save it

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Technology · Cybersecurity

Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client

Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems. [...]

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39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abus…

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New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges

An anonymous security researcher who uses the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle released a CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit named "FalconFlank" that lets attackers escalate privileges…

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Technology · Cybersecurity

Exchange Online outage causes email delays, 'Server busy' errors

Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is delaying email sent to and received from external domains. [...]

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Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks

Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities. [...]

Technology · Cybersecurity

Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws

Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question …

Technology · Cybersecurity

Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws

Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day

Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, track…

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GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests

OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelli…

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French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000

France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data. [...]

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Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules

Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code. [..…

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HPE patches critical ArubaOS-CX remote code execution flaw

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has patched a critical vulnerability in the ArubaOS-CX network operating system that could lead to remote code execution. [...]

Technology · Cybersecurity

ThreatsDay: CEO Phishing Kits, 5K Dropbox Account Hacks, OAuth Traps + 17 More Stories

The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door? Th…

Technology · Cybersecurity

Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root

Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute c…

Technology · Cybersecurity

BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground marketplace commercializing ac…

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Technology · Cybersecurity

Microsoft: KB5120998 mouse reset bug affects only non-English PCs

Microsoft says a known issue that reverts mouse settings after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update affects only non-English Windows 11 systems. [...]

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OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down ahead of 'Astra' model launch

ChatGPT and Codex are experiencing a major outage, with users reporting errors across nearly every major ChatGPT feature. [...]

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Anthropic confirms Claude is down, multiple models affected

Claude is experiencing an outage, with users encountering elevated errors when sending requests to multiple Anthropic AI models. [...]

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Critical Elementor Pro flaw exploited to take over WordPress sites

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-32475) in the Elementor Pro plugin for WordPress is being exploited in attacks that deliver a webshell payload and execute arbi…

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Thomson Reuters Court Software Breach May Have Exposed SSNs and Sealed Data

Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in …

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Your Employee’s Password Appeared in an Infostealer Log. Now What?

Infostealers can expose far more than passwords, including authenticated sessions that may let attackers bypass MFA. Flare explains how defenders can prioritize compromised identi…

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Microsoft says KB5120998 Windows update resets desktop settings

Microsoft has confirmed that desktop settings are lost or reset on some Windows devices after installing the KB5120998 August 2026 preview update. [...]

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US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries

An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campa…

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Plex warns users to patch security vulnerabilities immediately

Plex urged users this week to update their desktop clients and media servers immediately to patch multiple security vulnerabilities. [...]