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Ravie LakshmananMar 21, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added five security flaws impacting Apple, Craft CMS, and Laravel Livewire to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, urging federal agencies to patch them by April 3, 2026. The vulnerabilities that have come under exploitation are listed below – CVE-2025-31277 (CVSS score: 8.8) – A vulnerability in Apple WebKit that could result in memory corruption when processing maliciously crafted web content. (Fixed in July 2025) CVE-2025-43510 (CVSS score: 7.8) – A memory corruption vulnerability in Apple’s kernel component that could allow a malicious…
The most unique thing about human beings is this: We are creatures who long to matter.That’s according to Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, the philosopher and author of a new book called The Mattering Instinct. If you’ve ever wondered why we humans are so singularly obsessed with discovering the meaning of life, this book — and her ideas — are for you.Goldstein presents an evolutionary explanation that starts off with a law of physics: the law of entropy, which basically says that things naturally tend toward disorder and destruction over time. All biological creatures need to devote a huge amount of energy…
For years, the “wall” between storage and networking administrators has been a fixture of the enterprise data center. I spent the early part of my career as a network engineer and the arena of storage was a bit of a black box, and for most companies, that’s still the case. This is because these networks operated differently. Storage teams obsessed over IOPS and durability, while networking teams lived and breathed latency and throughput. But at Nvidia GTC 2026, Chief Executive Jensen Huang just introduced a platform that effectively tears that wall down: the Nvidia BlueField-4 STX storage architecture (pictured). Nvidia announced…
Instagram is relinquishing end-to-end encryption this May. Meta is trading your privacy for a quieter life with regulators. It is a massive U-turn. Meta is officially abandoning the “privacy” dream. Your Instagram messages will no longer have end-to-end encryption starting this May. For years, Mark Zuckerberg told us that private communication is a fundamental right. He spent millions on ads telling us how safe our messages were. Now, he is quietly opening the door for everyone to take a look. The company is hiding behind the “child safety” argument. They claim that removing encryption will help them catch bad actors.…
We just wrapped up another exhausting, inspiring, and chaotic Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, and I’ve been standardizing my thoughts on what we saw. If you came looking for incremental updates to your favorite glass slab, you were probably disappointed. If you came looking for the beginning of the next major epoch in personal technology, MWC 2026 was a goldmine. For years, we’ve been predicting the collision of AI, robotics, and personalization. We’ve been waiting for the moment when our “smart” devices stop acting like highly reactive dictionaries and start acting like proactive partners. That moment has arrived. MWC 2026…
There could be one more step required before creating an account and posting on Reddit in the future. According to Reddit’s CEO, Steve Huffman, the social media platform is exploring different ways to verify a user is human and not a bot. When asked by the TBPN podcast how to confirm that it’s a human using Reddit, Huffman responded with several verification methods with varying degrees of heavy-handedness.”The most lightweight way is with something like Face ID or Touch ID,” Huffman said during the interview. “They actually require a human presence, like a human has to touch, or do or…
AI in any headlines is usually associated with deepfakes, misinformation, and general frustration. But in the middle of all that noise, there’s one use case that feels refreshingly human. It is helping people find their lost pets. Technology using tools powered by image recognition is quietly becoming one of the most effective ways to reunite missing pets with their owners, and it’s surprisingly quick and efficient. How AI is finding the lost pets Ziggy was a lost dog found using AI Petco Love This isn’t one of those Hollywood hacker tech where AI scours all the public cameras and uses…
The results from 2025 are intriguing. Screens are part of everyday life that many of us use for work, communication and entertainment. However, there are also signs that people are limiting their screen time. The total hours we are spending on screens has not really changed, but digging deeper, there is some change.We are spending more time on our screens through our mobile devices, for example. Some countries are showing extreme levels of screen time, whereas others are very low. We can also see that people are completely switching off their screens, digital detoxing or leaving social media.Overall though, there…
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Ravie LakshmananMar 21, 2026Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Oracle has released security updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Identity Manager and Web Services Manager that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21992, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “This vulnerability is remotely exploitable without authentication,” Oracle said in an advisory. “If successfully exploited, this vulnerability may result in remote code execution.” CVE-2026-21992 affects the following versions – Oracle Identity Manager versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0 Oracle Web Services Manager versions 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0 According to a description of…