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CISA on Tuesday urged federal agencies to immediately patch a critical-severity vulnerability in the LiteSpeed user-end plugin for cPanel that has been exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2026-48172 (CVSS score of 9.8), the flaw is described as a privilege escalation issue that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary scripts with root privileges. LiteSpeed resolved the security defect last week in version 2.4.5 of the user-end plugin, noting that it had been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. LiteSpeed’s WHM plugin is not affected, it said. “This vulnerability is being actively exploited, and poses a risk for all user-end…

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech A small group of scientists have long suggested that the seeds of life may have been distributed across the vast distances of space via cosmic dust, asteroids, or comets — a theory known as panspermia. Some, including late astronomer and planetary scientist Carl Sagan, have gone as far as to raise the possibility that those seeds may have been deliberately spread to distant planets by intelligent civilizations. It’s an intriguing albeit far-fetched hypothesis that most recently caught the interest of Harvard astronomer Avi…

Redmi recently confirmed that it will bring the Redmi Turbo 5 to India. Now, a new report claims that the company is also preparing to launch a new Redmi 17 5G smartphone alongside it. According to the report, both phones are expected to debut in India on June 18. The Redmi 17 is tipped to arrive as an entry-level 5G offering. Redmi 15 The handset could be powered by a Snapdragon 4-series chipset and pack a battery with a capacity exceeding 7,000mAh. It is also said to feature an LCD display with a high refresh rate. The report further claims…

TL;DR One Redditor has transformed their Galaxy Watch 4 into a custom motorcycle sat nav. The project employs a 3D-printed shell to house the Watch 4 and its charger. While it looks great, a few software issues still need to be resolved. If you’re not the kind of smartphone user to always trade your old phone in towards credit on a new one, you’ve probably thought more than once about what to do with your old handset. Maybe it gets passed down to a younger family member, or saved as a backup device, but there are also a lot of…

The data breach suffered by convenience store chain giant 7-Eleven in mid-April likely impacts just over 185,000, breach notification website HaveIBeenPwned reports. The incident, 7-Eleven said in a data breach notice filed with the Maine Attorney General’s Office earlier this month, occurred on April 8 and involved systems containing franchise documents. 7-Eleven said that personal information such as names and addresses was likely stolen in the attack, but did not disclose the number of potentially affected individuals. In mid-April, the infamous extortion group ShinyHunters listed 7-Eleven on its leak website, claiming to have stolen 600,000 Salesforce records, and demanding a…

In order to understand the addressable market case for many of the AI and space markets you must understand replatforming. Replatforming is when a fundamentally better technology platform displaces or layers on top of the old infrastructure and business models. It wins because it offers lower costs, vastly better scalability, broader accessibility, and new capabilities that incumbents can’t match. The old guard either adapts slowly or gets marginalized while the new platform explodes the total market. Historical Examples PCs replatforming minicomputers and mainframes (1980s–2000s). Mainframes and minis were centralized, extremely expensive, and required specialized rooms/operators. PCs started as personal tools…

Why you can trust TechRadar We spend hours testing every product or service we review, so you can be sure you’re buying the best. Find out more about how we test. Portable monitors tend to have two problems. They’re usually low quality displays and also low resolution. Give it up, therefore, for the new Acer PE160WUT. It’s a 16-inch portable monitor with not only 2.8K native resolution, but also OLED panel technology.That’s a pretty good start, but add 120 Hz refresh and touchscreen functionality into the mix and this compact display is a seriously appealing proposition. It promises an external…

Summary YouTube Music has finally added Title, Artist and Album sorting to playlists. The service still lacks crossfade, device handoff and lossless audio that rivals offer. The rollout appears to be staged, so if you don’t see it yet, keep your eyes peeled. YouTube Music appears to be getting a major update to playlist sorting that should solve one of users longest-standing complaints. While that’s great news, the fact that this wasn’t a feature before is baffling — and it’s not the only obvious feature that’s missing from Google’s music streaming platform. Related I ditched Spotify for a self-hosted music…

Obsession has had a crazy two-week run in theaters, earning over $75 million at the box office on a budget of just under a million dollars. Perhaps even more impressively, the bulk of ticket sales came in during the film’s second week of release, which is very much so against box office trends, especially in horror, and set a new record in the process. Studio head Jason Blum confirmed the news on X this morning, saying “Obsession is the ONLY wide-release horror film on record to grow in its second weekend at this scale — $22.4M, up 30% over opening.”…

Securing software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps is hard. The standard cybersecurity controls are not designed for SaaS. The difficulty is the software doesn’t belong to the user and usually runs on somebody else’s infrastructure. Standard cybersecurity products are designed to operate on software owned by the user and housed on the users’ infrastructure. SaaS providers attempt to maintain security inside their apps, but they cannot control how they are used. Usage varies from user to user and is fundamentally governed by how the app is configured. This configuration is the only native security available to SaaS users, and misconfiguration is the primary…