The iPad mini is running out of reasons to exist
When it first launched, the iPad mini wasn’t just small. It was also cheap. This made its selling point extremely easy to understand, which is important in the tablet space. If you want a big…
New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction
Swati KhandelwalJul 20, 2026Vulnerability / Endpoint Security Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in how the archiver…
Russian-Speaking Hacker Uses Google Gemini CLI to Control Botnet of Eight Dental Clinic PCs
A solo Russian-speaking threat actor known as “bandcampro” outsourced a chunk of their operations to Google’s open-source Gemini CLI artificial intelligence (AI) and commandeered a live botnet. The findings come from an analysis of 200…
Microsoft wants $199 for this OS — get it here for $10
TL;DR: Score a Windows 11 Pro license for life at $9.97 through July 26 — pay once, never again. PC upgrades like this usually come with a hefty price tag. This one’s an exception. Through July 26,…
World’s Largest AI Model Repository Hugging Face Breached by Autonomous AI Agent
Ravie LakshmananJul 20, 2026AI Security / Vulnerability In an ironic twist, open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform Hugging Face revealed that it was the victim of a hack perpetrated by an autonomous AI agent system. The…
SleeperGem Uses Three Malicious RubyGems Packages to Target Developer Machines
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new software supply chain attack codenamed SleeperGem targeting the Ruby ecosystem after three malicious gems were published to RubyGems with the end goal of serving additional payloads. The rogue gems…
Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution
F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with crafted HTTP requests. CVE-2026-42533 was patched on July 15 in…
System freezes plagued my Mac for months. A simple fix finally solved it
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports that an M3 Max MacBook experienced persistent freezing and trackpad unresponsiveness after installing macOS Tahoe, with issues worsening after macOS 26.5 installation. Activity Monitor revealed…
UAC-0145 Uses ClickFix CAPTCHAs to Infect Ukrainian Devices wih Malware
Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Malware / Cyber Warfare Russian state-sponsored threat actors have been observed leveraging the infamous ClickFix strategy to trick Ukrainian targets into infecting their own machines with data-stealing malware. According to the Computer…
SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access
Ravie LakshmananJul 19, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days prior their public…