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Microsoft shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record today, and two of the fixes close holes that attackers are already exploiting. The release covers 622 of Microsoft’s own CVEs by its Security Update Guide count, more than triple June’s previous high of around 200. Those two live bugs are the ones to grab first. Microsoft credits incident responders for both. Both are elevation-of-privilege flaws in identity and collaboration infrastructure: CVE-2026-56164 in on-premises SharePoint Server and CVE-2026-56155 in Active Directory Federation Services. Neither is one of the splashy remote code execution criticals. They are privilege bugs in two systems that matter more than their scores suggest: the company…

The United Kingdom will require social media companies to implement a default block for adolescent users aged 16 and 17 at certain hours, the country’s Department for Science, Innovation & Technology revealed on Tuesday evening.This automatic new curfew would theoretically lock older teens out of social platforms between the hours of midnight and 6 am—though the feature can be turned off. The nonmandatory restriction is to be imposed along with a looming total ban on these services for children under 16, expected to come into force in spring 2027. Both measures come after the Online Safety Act, a controversial set…

The city of Los Angeles is letting a three-year contract with Flock Security expire — at least for now — amid concerns about privacy, data storage and the effectiveness of Flock’s license plate reader technology, as well as moves by other cities to distance themselves from the Atlanta-based surveillance company.Over the weekend, the Los Angeles Police Department announced it would no longer use the 138 mounted surveillance cameras in the city operated by Flock, which were being used to track vehicles by automatically reading their license plates. A few months ago, the Los Angeles Times reported on discontent in LA over…

Systems using artificial intelligence to enhance forecasting, planning, and decision-making in businesses have been proliferating in recent years, but in many cases, they lack the detailed, specific information about the organization itself, limiting the usefulness of those tools. Devavrat Shah, a principal investigator at MIT’s Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS), faculty member with the department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), and member of the Institute for Data, Systems, and Society (IDSS), has been focused on how to design methods that can handle second-by-second decision-making using limited computational resources. “In a sense, with a small amount of resource, you…

Amazon Web Services Inc. is branching out further into multicloud security with the launch of new capabilities that extend its protections to Microsoft Corp.’s Azure cloud platform. The new features were announced today alongside a host of artificial intelligence-focused updates to AWS Security Hub, as the company strives to transform it into a comprehensive, full-stack control plane that spans fragmented cloud infrastructures. In addition to extending its security management to Microsoft Azure, the company introduced new Amazon GuardDuty AI Protection tools aimed at bolstering the security of intelligent applications, and a new inventory system that gives organizations full visibility into…

Every lead in your CRM behaved differently to get there. Treating them the same in your lead data analysis is where most of your conversion rate blows up. Marketing teams are drowning in lead data yet starving for insight. The pipeline looks full on paper. Conversion rates outline something different. The team now pulls a report, looks at aggregate numbers, waves the trends, and does roughly the same thing next quarter. Nothing meaningfully changes. Because aggregate data doesn’t tell you why individual leads are converting or dying. It tells you that they are. That’s not useful. That’s a description of…

“Roxy” the AI time-traveling vlogger in front of the famed Crocodile Cafe music venue in what’s supposed to be 1992 Seattle. (@roxyintime via Instagram) The best thing about Seattle’s grunge era is that it existed before the internet could completely spoil it — although the mainstream media, MTV and fashion designers eventually did their best. None of them would be any match today for artificial intelligence. In a new video we spotted on Instagram, a time-traveling vlogger under the handle Roxy In Time goes back to 1992 Seattle to explore the city’s music scene during its heyday. The result is…

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors’ and other cybercriminals’ malicious activities, including ransomware attacks against Americans. The VPN, named First VPN Service (1VPNS), has been accused of offering its tools to ransomware groups, along with its 45-year-old Ukrainian administrator, Dmytro Rashevskyi. The department has also sanctioned Yegeniy Vladimirovich Silayev, a Belarusian national, for selling cryptors to help conceal ransomware and other malware as safe programs to avoid being detected by security tools. First VPN was dismantled in May 2026 as part of a…

If you shoot RAW and edit on your phone, Google’s free photo editing app Snapseed just got a lot more useful. The app has received a fresh update on Android, adding support for a long list of RAW formats it previously couldn’t handle. What’s new in Snapseed v4.1 Expanded RAW support is the big change in the new release. In a post on Reddit, the Snapseed team says version 4.1 covers most of the major formats and cameras on the market, including Sony’s ARW, Canon’s CR3, Nikon’s NEF, Fujifilm’s RAF, Olympus’ ORF, Pentax’s PEF, and the generic DNG format. The…

In May 2019, the government of Baltimore, Maryland, fell into chaos. Cybercriminals had locked the city out of many of its critical files and demanded payment to decrypt them. The city refused to pay ransom. The attack incapacitated a swath of services, including real estate transactions and bill payment, and recovery costs soared into the millions.The syllabus of class 11.074/11.274 (Cybersecurity Clinic), a course in the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning (DUSP), includes a case study on Baltimore’s situation as an example of increasingly common ransomware attacks on municipal governments and other public agencies. To counter such threats,…