Microsoft has disclosed a privilege-escalation vulnerability in Windows Admin Center (WAC), a browser-based platform widely used by IT administrators and infrastructure teams to manage Windows clients, servers, clusters, Hyper-V hosts and virtual machines, as well as Active Directory-joined systems. Although the issue was patched in early December 2025 with the release of Windows Admin Center version 2511, it has only just been publicly acknowledged. The delay in disclosure likely reflects both the nature of the flaw, its severity, and the operational sensitivity of WAC as a centralized management tool. About CVE-2026-26119 CVE-2026-26119 stems from improper authentication and was discovered by…
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OpenAI is serving ads inside ChatGPT, and new findings suggest the experience looks quite different from what the company originally envisioned. What’s happening. Research from AI ad intelligence firm Adthena has identified the first confirmed ads appearing on ChatGPT for signed-in desktop users in the U.S. The big surprise. Early speculation suggested ads would only surface after extended back-and-forth conversations. That’s not what’s happening. When a user asked “What’s the best way to book a weekend away?”, sponsored placements appeared immediately — on the very first response. What they look like. The ads feature a prominent brand favicon and a…
Are you looking for a fun homelab project to try this weekend? I’ve got you covered with three to spin up! From network notifications to server performance and backup, here are the homelab projects you should get up and going before Monday comes. Get a notification when a new device joins your Wi-Fi with NetAlertX Is your neighbor stealing your Wi-Fi? Credit: NetAlertX Have you ever wanted to know when new devices joined your Wi-Fi? Well, NetAlertX is the perfect tool for the job. NetAlertX runs full ad-hoc network scans and gives you a full visualization breakdown of your network. It…
During a quarterly investor call, Nikesh Arora addressed growing concerns in the investment community that AI could hurt demand for cybersecurity.
I recently checked my Digital Wellbeing settings and was frankly shocked by how much time I waste scrolling social media, diving down Wikipedia rabbit holes, and otherwise messing about on my phone when I should either be fast asleep or getting on with my day. It then occurred to me that the solution lay in my trusty old Pixel 5 phone, which has been sitting in my bedside drawer for the past 18 months. I would set it up as a Google Nest-style bedside assistant and sleep tracker, with only the necessary apps installed. I could then banish my primary…
Most enterprises are not using SATA drives, at least not with hot data. Perhaps cold storage but not frequently accessed data. They are using PCI Express based drives and those are considerably faster than anything Western Digital can engineer in a hard disk. Capacity aside, Western Digital is also aiming for much, much higher capacity. WD is working on developing a 100TB hard drive for the enterprise market based on HAMR (heat-assisted magnetic recording) technology, which are expected to ship by 2029. The company has another technology, ePMR (energy-assisted perpendicular magnetic recording). The company expects to ship 40TB drives by…
A critical vulnerability in Grandstream GXP1600 series VoIP phones allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain root privileges and silently eavesdrop on communications. VoIP communication equipment from Grandstream Networks is being used by small and medium businesses. The maker’s GXP product line is part of the company’s high-end offering for businesses, schools, hotels, and Internet Telephony Service Providers (ITSP) around the world. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-2329 and received a critical severity score of 9.3. It impacts the following six models of the GXP1600 series of devices that run firmware versions prior to 1.0.7.81: GXP1610 GXP1615 GXP1620 GXP1625 GXP1628 GXP1630 Even if a vulnerable device…
The middle is where your content dies, and not because your writing suddenly gets bad halfway down the page, and not because your reader gets bored. But because large language models have a repeatable weakness with long contexts, and modern AI systems increasingly squeeze long content before the model even reads it. That combo creates what I think of as dog-bone thinking. Strong at the beginning, strong at the end, and the middle gets wobbly. The model drifts, loses the thread, or grabs the wrong supporting detail. You can publish a long, well-researched piece and still watch the system lift…
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France’s Ministry of Economy on Wednesday disclosed a breach that exposed information on 1.2 million bank accounts. Investigators discovered unauthorized access to the national bank account registry FICOBA. The ministry stated on its website that a threat actor stole credentials belonging to an official and used them to access the database storing information on all bank accounts opened in France. The breach occurred in late January and impacted 1.2 million accounts, including IBANs, account holder names, addresses, and in some cases tax identifiers. The attacker’s access has been terminated and impacted individuals are being notified. Officials said the attacker would…