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Security researchers at Calif.io have disclosed a memory leak vulnerability in Squid Proxy that has existed in the software since 1997. Squid is a widely used open source web proxy that can reduce bandwidth and improve response times via caching. Squid supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and other protocols. Calif researchers discovered that Squid is affected by a vulnerability that is similar to the notorious OpenSSL vulnerability known as Heartbleed, which is why they have dubbed it Squidbleed. Officially tracked as CVE-2026-47729, the vulnerability causes Squid’s FTP parser to read beyond the boundary of a memory buffer, into a region that…
Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech After a brief pop its blockbuster IPO earlier this month, shares of Elon Musk’s SpaceX are starting to drop out of the sky: shares have plummeted back down to around $167 by Monday morning, wiping out all their gains from last week. The initial warning signs were certainly there. As the Financial Times revealed over the weekend, SpaceX received a brutal report card one day ahead of its IPO from global index provider MSCI. The firm issues Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings,…
This post is brought to you in paid partnership with YARBO. If you’ve been pricing out a robot mower for a genuinely large property, Prime Day just made the math easier. The YARBO Robot Lawn Mower Pro is down to $4,999 on Amazon (from a $5,999 list price), a $1,000 Prime Day saving on a machine built for yards most robot mowers can’t touch. At that price and that capability, this is the kind of purchase that changes how an entire weekend gets spent, and the RTK and AI vision navigation underneath means there’s no perimeter wire to bury, which…
While many apps and services leverage cloud processing to offload the heavy lifting to servers, this isn’t ideal for sensitive data. The most personal information your smartphone handles should stay on your device whenever possible. This includes your private conversations, but if you use a transcription or translation app, they could be sent to the cloud for processing. By default, popular translation apps use a mix of on-device and off-device processing. Apple Translate has an on-device translation mode that ensures recordings, text, or images are never sent to the cloud. Since everything is happening on your device, translations can be…
The much-leaked Honor X80 Pro Max is now finally official in China. The phone’s headline feature is its 11,000 mAh battery, which is the largest we’ve seen on a mainstream smartphone so far. That battery charges at 90W and also supports reverse wired charging at 27W. The phone has a 6.8-inch 1280×2788 LTPS AMOLED screen with a 120Hz refresh rate and a mind-bending 10,000-nit peak brightness (although it only reaches that level at an isolated spot during video playback), a 50MP main camera with OIS, and an 8MP selfie camera. At the helm sits the Snapdragon 6 Gen 5 SoC,…
The North Korean state-sponsored threat actor Sapphire Sleet is behind the Mastra supply chain attack that hit over 140 NPM packages last week, Microsoft reports. Mastra is an open source TypeScript framework for building AI agents, workflows, and RAG pipelines. It offers integrations for major LLM providers, MCP servers, and cloud deployments. The supply chain attack occurred on June 17. During a 45-minute window, the hackers published 141 packages that contained the malicious dependency easy-day-js, a typosquat of the legitimate dayjs date library. The affected Mastra packages have approximately 8 million weekly downloads. All users who installed a @mastra package…
Drone walls and layered short/medium/long-range droning have effectively recreated a modern version of trench attrition warfare, where large-scale land capture is extremely difficult and costly for near-peer adversaries. Only small, incremental gains have been seen in Ukraine. Countries that cannot match drone quantity and integration at scale risks failure or stalemate. Drone Walls and Layered Droning Explained A drone wall refers to a dense, multi-layered defensive network using. Short-range FPV kamikaze drones, small quadcopters with grenades, and loitering munitions (Lancet, Switchblade drones) for immediate frontline defense.Medium-range are Larger strike drones and reconnaissance assets that create kill zones 10–25 km deep.Long-range…
Last week, Nothing began teasing a new product on social media featuring the “(b)” branding. The teaser followed the company’s confirmation that it would not launch a new CMF phone this year. Now, Nothing has seemingly confirmed that a new Phone (4b) series is on the way. In a new video teaser shared on X, Nothing India has all but confirmed the arrival of the Phone (4b) series while also offering a glimpse of its design. Meanwhile, a microsite has also gone live on Flipkart that further teases the “(b)” branding. The teaser shows a sketch of a handset which…
The Local NTFS volumes are required to complete the operation error usually pops up when Windows or an installer attempts advanced system tasks on an unsupported drive. This roadblock occurs when the target lacks critical NTFS features, such as security permissions or hard links. This guide provides five proven solutions to resolve temporary directory conflicts, […] This article Local NTFS volumes are required to complete the operation first appeared on TheWindowsClub.com.
Kaitlyn Cimino / Android AuthorityTL;DR According to a new leak, the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2 will come with new band designs, colors, and new watch faces as well. The Watch Ultra 2 will also be boxier, have thinner bezels, and improved side buttons. It also suggests that Samsung will not launch a Galaxy Watch 9 Classic this year. Another week, another Galaxy Watch leak. This time, we’re getting details about the design as well as some color options. Plus, there’s a bit of somber news for the Galaxy Watch Classic fans.In a new X post, leaker Galaxy…