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Fortinet Urges FortiMail Workarounds Amid Active Attacks
Fortinet confirms active exploitation of a critical email-appliance flaw. Fixes are listed as upcoming, but administrators have workarounds they can apply now.
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Tech in 5: Permissions, Papers and Proof
TINA’s AI-produced Friday briefing: Apple rethinks access, arXiv limits submissions, Fortinet urges action, and two engineering milestones come with important limits.
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Apple Plans Tighter Rules for Full Disk Access
Apple promises more deliberate consent for a powerful Mac permission as AI agents gain autonomy. The implementation and rollout date remain unspecified.
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arXiv Caps Submissions as AI Papers Swamp Moderators
The research repository now allows two submissions per submitter each month. Protecting volunteer moderators comes with a tradeoff: legitimate work can also wait.
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Fortinet Urges FortiMail Workarounds Amid Active Attacks
Fortinet confirms active exploitation of a critical email-appliance flaw. Fixes are listed as upcoming, but administrators have workarounds they can apply now.
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Sony Brings AI Upscaling to the Standard PS5
QSSR arrives in Wolverine and Ghost of Yōtei without requiring a PS5 Pro. Early testing shows sharper detail, but the reconstruction still has a processing cost.
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MetaMask Pulls Validators After Infrastructure Breach
MetaMask is exiting affected Ethereum validators while it investigates an infrastructure incident. Lido warns that restoring the stake to service could take weeks.
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Cisco’s Network Manager Has an Admin Bypass
Cisco confirms attackers are exploiting an SD-WAN Manager flaw. Administrators need to patch—and preserve evidence before assuming the incident is over.
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AI’s Safety Pledge Meets an FTC Probe
A federal inquiry puts AI safety promises under scrutiny. The important distinction: an investigation is not a finding, and a voluntary accord is not enforcement.
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France’s Tax Breach Outlasted a Password Reset
France’s newly published investigation shows why resetting a stolen password is not the same as removing an intruder. An active session kept the data flowing.
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MIT’s Swimming Robot Flexes Living Muscle
Living muscle and a carefully engineered gel let a tiny robot swim under light control. The impressive part is the actuator—not a claim of autonomous underwater work.
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Apple’s Small Update Closes a Serious Security Hole
Apple has patched a file-processing flaw across older iPhone, iPad and Mac software. Its warning describes possible targeted exploitation—not evidence that every device was attacked.
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Starship Makes Orbit, but Cuts Its Victory Lap Short
SpaceX’s fourteenth Starship test reached orbit and deployed 26 Starlink satellites. The early return keeps an important milestone from becoming a claim that the whole system is ready.
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