Snoops plant info-stealing malware on iPhones, Google warns
…linked operation Apple 0-day likely used in spy attacks affected devices as old as iPhone 8 Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Iran's cyberattack…
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Windows Update: Torture chamber for seldom-used PCs
…And if we're keeping it real, we know that every software-driven device has updates, even those that use Linux, macOS, Android, or iOS. However, Windows updates seem to be the…
Google rushes Chrome update to fix zero-days under attack
…Memory corruption bugs like this can sometimes be abused by attackers to crash applications or run their own code if successfully exploited. The second bug, CVE-2026-3910, is described as an…
Memory crunch threatens to kneecap Chromebook shipments
…ChromeOS platforms are forecast to shrink 27.6 percent year-on-year in 2026, compared to 12.1 percent for Windows and 4.8 percent for macOS. "The supply-driven downturn in…
Claude Desktop changes software permissions without consent
…Yet Anthropic's Claude Desktop for macOS installs files that affect other vendors' applications without disclosure, even before those applications have been installed, and authorizes browser extensions without consent. Alexander Hanff, a…
NanoClaw latches onto Docker Sandboxes for safer AI agents
…Security has to be enforced outside the agentic surface, not depend on the agent behaving correctly." Docker Sandboxes are supported on macOS (Apple Silicon) and Windows (x86), with Linux support due in…
RSS dulls the pain of the modern web
…For Apple users, NetNewsWire has an excellent reputation. The slight snag is that the current version needs macOS 15, which my elderly iMac is too geriatric to run without assistance. However, the…
Top npm package backdoored to drop dirty RAT on dev machines
…Axios is a widely used JavaScript HTTP client that developers rely on to send requests between applications and web services. It's embedded in everything from front-end apps to back-end…
VS Code goes weekly, gets AI autopilot - what could go wrong
…The documentation recommends enabling experimental terminal sandboxing to restrict file system and network access for agent-executed commands – but this only works on macOS and Linux. "If prompt injection is a concern…
Firefox 149 brings a free VPN and native dialog boxes
…In our testing on macOS and Linux, it's got a thin blue outline around the active pane. The other, inactive pane gets a tiny tab in its bottom right corner, which…