The security researcher who earlier this month published a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a zero-day privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Defender is back with two more. The first, dubbed “RedSun,” is another privilege escalation flaw in the same platform. The second, “UnDefend,” allows a standard user to block Microsoft Defender from receiving signature updates or disable it entirely (if Microsoft pushes a major Defender update). And, according to Huntress researchers, all three exploitation techniques have been leveraged in the wild by at least one threat actor. The new exploits The researcher, who goes by Chaotic Eclipse and Nightmare Eclipse, released…
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I work with documents all day. Drafts, research dumps, client briefs, and messy meeting notes that someone insists count as a deliverable. At some point, I got tired of assuming which AI tool actually handles that kind of work well, so I tested it properly by pasting real, ugly, long-form content into Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Perplexity’s free tiers and seeing what came back. The results weren’t close in every category. For people whose productivity lives inside walls of text, Claude’s free tier does five specific things better than the competition, and they’re not small things. Pulling the real point…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Thursday that a high-severity Apache ActiveMQ vulnerability patched earlier this month is now actively exploited in attacks. Apache ActiveMQ is the most popular open-source Java-based message broker for asynchronous communication between applications. Tracked as CVE-2026-34197, the security flaw has gone undetected for 13 years and was discovered by Horizon3 researcher Naveen Sunkavally using the Claude AI assistant. Sunkavally explained that the vulnerability stems from improper input validation, which allows authenticated threat actors to execute arbitrary code via injection attacks. The Apache maintainers patched the vulnerability on March 30in ActiveMQ Classic…
Google Meet used to be pretty bare bones when it was first released, but it has slowly evolved into something more, thanks to some powerful updates that have arrived over the past year. However, there is one aspect that always stands out during every single Google Meet video call, and that’s the less-than-stellar video quality. Sure, it can look a little better depending on the devices you’re using, but if you’ve got some of the best equipment and a robust connection when using Meet, you’re probably expecting better. Well, that’s now about to change, as Google Meet is set to…
A congressional subcommittee on Thursday held a roundtable discussion on the potential of artificial intelligence, which took a turn toward the existential as each lawmaker aired their anxieties about the rapidly evolving technology. Rep. James Walkinshaw, D-Va., expressed alarm that federal workers may be using AI chatbots to handle sensitive government data. Rep. William Timmons, R-S.C., asked whether it should be illegal for AI systems to use someone’s likeness to create pornographic images. Rep. John McGuire, R-Va., expressed concerns that AI systems could deny U.S. military forces from taking lethal actions due to a model’s conclusion for “moral” behavior. And…
Google search traffic is dropping. If you’ve spent years building organic strategies, watching it happen in real time is uncomfortable. But it’s also clarifying. I started seeing the shift across SaaS clients. Pages that had driven steady traffic for years — educational, top-of-funnel (TOFU) content — were losing ground. Not because the content got worse, but because users no longer needed to click. AI Overviews were doing the job for them. That forced a decision: keep defending the old model or adjust the strategy. I chose to adjust. What became clear pretty quickly is that while informational content is losing…
Lanh Nguyen / Android AuthorityTL;DR Samsung didn’t make many Galaxy Z TriFold units, and following a last-call sale, the innovative foldable is officially sold out. Rumors hint at a Galaxy Z TriFold successor in the works with a redesigned hinge that could shave thickness and weight off the device. While the new hinge design is rumored to hit the Galaxy Z TriFold 2 first, a less advanced version could appear on Flip and Fold models. The Galaxy Z TriFold is a captivating and expensive foldable that quickly turned into a limited-run product for Samsung. The company had a last-call sale…
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication. The 2020 HP EliteDesk 800 G6 is on sale for $319.99 at StackSocial right now. It’s a compact business machine, not a modern performance PC, so the hardware is a few generations behind current systems. Still, for a home office, backup system, or simple workstation, it covers the essentials without asking for much money up front. You get a certified refurbished unit with a Grade A+ rating, which means minimal wear and a clean chassis. It also comes with…
Tax benefits for hyperscalers and other data center operators are costing local administrations billions of dollars. In the US, three states are already giving away more than $1 billion in potential tax revenue, while 14 are failing to declare how much data center subsidies are costing taxpayers, according to Good Jobs First. The campaign group said the failure to declare the tax subsidies goes against US Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and that they should, since 2017, be declared as lost revenue. “Tax-abatement laws written long ago for much smaller data centers, predating massive artificial intelligence (AI) facilities, are now…
Ravie LakshmananApr 18, 2026IoT Security / Vulnerability Threat actors are exploiting security flaws in TBK DVR and end‑of‑life (EoL) TP-Link Wi-Fi routers to deploy Mirai-botnet variants on compromised devices, according to findings from Fortinet FortiGuard Labs and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42. The attack targeting TBK DVR devices has been found to exploit CVE-2024-3721 (CVSS score: 6.3), a medium-severity command injection vulnerability affecting TBK DVR-4104 and DVR-4216 digital video recording devices, to deliver a Mirai variant called Nexcorium. “IoT devices are increasingly prime targets for large-scale attacks due to their widespread use, lack of patching, and often weak security settings,”…