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Microsoft has patched a high-severity vulnerability in Windows 11's Notepad that allowed attackers to silently execute local or remote programs when a user clicked a specially crafted Markdown link, all without triggering any Windows security warning.
The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-20841 and fixed in the February 2026 Patch Tuesday update, stemmed from Notepad's relatively new Markdown support -- a feature Microsoft added after discontinuing WordPad and rewriting Notepad to serve as both a plain text and r
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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Nick Adams' public comments go against the vision of tourism as a way to promote cross-cultural understanding — an awkward fit for a job meant to promote the U.S. abroad. Read more ›
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Max Imagination has shared the painstaking design and build process that went into creating his cheap, speedy FPV drone, and provides full instructions for anyone who wants to repeat his feat. Read more ›
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Ghana is rolling out a nationwide SIM card re-registration exercise that puts smartphones at the center of the verification process — with approximately 80 percent […] Read more ›
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Buying a new Vizio? You’ll need a Walmart account to use any smart TV features. Read more ›
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Razer's switching to Panther Lake and is trying to fix the worst pain points of the previous premium Blade. Read more ›
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Перевод статьи Лорелея Уитмен, RevenueCat Ключевые выводы из крупнейшего в мире набора данных о подписочных приложенияхКраткое содержаниеРынок подписочных приложений быстро меняется. Старые приложения по-прежнему доминируют по доле выручки, но новые каждый день наводняют cторы. ИИ-приложения «умирают» быстрее, чем успевают выходить, а зона безопасной выручки для среднего приложения стремительно исчезает. «Выживания» больше нет: либо процветаешь, либо выгораешь.Каждый год наш отчёт «Состояние подписочных при Read more ›
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Savannah Guthrie returned to the 'Today' show for an emotional interview about her missing mother, Nancy Guthrie. Here is what she said. Read more ›
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Don't buy any Nintendo Switch 2 games without first seeing this money saving trick. Read more ›
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В этой статье мы разберём, как правильно загружать CSV в Apache Spark — распределённую вычислительную систему, ставшую стандартом для обработки больших данных. Это первый и самый важный шаг в знакомстве с API Spark и основа для любой последующей обработки. Читать далее Read more ›
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Low-quality, mass-produced AI songs have been flooding music streaming platforms like Spotify for a couple of years now. This is annoying, but relatively easy for fans to avoid. However, it leads to real problems for artists. There's so much slop coming in that some gets falsely attributed to actual musicians on these platforms. This messes with brand identity and audience retention, but Spotify is testing a new tool to help... Read more ›
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As an office furniture reviewer, this FlexiSpot sit-stand desk is the top pick for me. Read more ›
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Reddit is taking new steps to identify bots on the platform - a process that may require some users to confirm that they're human. In a post on Wednesday, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman writes that the company will introduce a labeling system for accounts registered as bots, and ask users with "automated" or "fishy behavior" […] Read more ›
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Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has detailed the company's latest plan to fight bots and it means that some accounts will need to "verify humanness," though the company is stopping short of widespread identity verification. In an update, Huffman said that in "rare" cases accounts that seem "fishy" will be prompted for additional verification.Such prompts "will not apply to most users," according to Huffman, but will apply to accounts where Reddit... Read more ›
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Предположим, что вам нужно делать тесты для учащихся или студентов (или даже для себя). Предположим, что их нужно делать много. Действительно много. Можно использовать традиционный ручной труд. Сидеть, придумывать вопросы, подбирать варианты ответов. Повторять по кругу, пока не надоест. Но мы же в XXI веке живем. Явно должны быть способы упростить задачу. Автоматизировать ее.У меня возникла такая необходимость. Но навыки недопрограммиста подталкивали мысли в сторону написания каких-нибудь скриптов для решен Read more ›
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After getting our first look at the Galaxy Z Fold 8 this week, now we’re getting a first look at the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide. Spotted for the first time in freshly produced CAD renders, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide is said to compete with the incoming iPhone foldable, which is reported to be... Read the original post: First Look at Galaxy Z Fold 8 Wide Read more ›
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Business Insider got exclusive access to see how the US Army's Germany-based 2nd Cavalry Regiment is training for a possible war with Russia. Read more ›
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ProPublica reports that federal cybersecurity reviewers had serious, yearslong concerns about Microsoft's GCC High cloud offering, yet they approved it anyway because the product was already deeply embedded across government. As one member of the team put it: "The package is a pile of shit." From the report: In late 2024, the federal government's cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft's biggest cloud computing offerings. The tech... Read more ›
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Dave Knott shares a report from the New York Times: On Wednesday, the Association for Computing Machinery, the world's largest society of computing professionals, said Drs. Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard had won this year's Turing Award for their work on quantum cryptography and related technologies. The Turing Award, which was introduced in 1966, is often called the Nobel Prize of computing, and it includes a $1 million prize, which... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader internet-redstar writes: Nearly a trillion dollars has been wiped from software stocks in 2026, with hedge funds making billions shorting Salesforce, HubSpot, and Atlassian. At FOSDEM 2026, cURL maintainer Daniel Stenberg shut down his bug bounty program after AI-generated slop overwhelmed his team. A new article on HackerNoon argues that most commercial SaaS could inevitably become OpenSource, not out of ideology but economics. The author points to... Read more ›
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Meta is shutting down its VR social platform Horizon Worlds, which was once a key piece of the pivot to the metaverse. The company said the app will be taken off the Quest store at the end of March, and fully removed from Quest headsets by June 15. After that date, it will shift to a standalone "mobile-only experience." CNBC reports: The shift for Horizon Worlds, which was once a... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: Britain plans to consider requiring labels on AI-generated content to protect consumers from disinformation and deepfakes, the government said on Wednesday, as it outlined other areas of focus to tackle the evolving global challenge. Technology minister Liz Kendall stressed the need to strike the right balance between protecting the creative industries and allowing the AI sector to innovate, saying in a statement... Read more ›
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Longtime Slashdot reader UnknowingFool writes: Users of Samsung PCs are reporting the inability to access the C: drive after the Windows 11 February update. The bug seems to be in connection with the Samsung Galaxy Connect app, which allows Samsung phones and tablets to connect to Windows machines. [A previous stable version of the app has been re-released to prevent this problem from spreading.] This parody explains the situation with... Read more ›
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With today's latest Stitch updates, Google is trying to make "vibe design" happen, reports The Verge's Jay Peters. The AI-native design platform encourages users to describe goals, feelings, or inspiration in "natural language," rather than starting with traditional blueprints. In a blog post, Google Labs Product Manager Rustin Banks says that Stitch can turn those inputs into interactive prototypes, automatically map user flows, and support real-time iteration. It introduces voice... Read more ›
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Cloudflare is appealing a 14.2 million-euro fine from Italy for refusing to comply with its "Piracy Shield" law, which requires blocking access to websites on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service within 30 minutes. The company argues the system lacks oversight, risks widespread overblocking, and could undermine core Internet infrastructure. Ars Technica's Jon Brodkin reports: Piracy Shield is "a misguided Italian regulatory scheme designed to protect large rightsholder interests at the expense... Read more ›
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An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The FBI has resumed purchasing reams of Americans' data and location histories to aid federal investigations, the agency's director, Kash Patel, testified to lawmakers on Wednesday. This is the first time since 2023 that the FBI has confirmed it was buying access to people's data collected from data brokers, who source much of their information -- including location data -- from ordinary... Read more ›
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Trevor Milton, the pardoned founder of Nikola, is seeking $1 billion for AI-powered autonomous planes through a new venture called SyberJet. The Tech Buzz reports: "Autonomous planes will be 10 times harder than Nikola ever was," Milton told the Wall Street Journal in a rare interview. It's a remarkable admission from someone whose last venture collapsed under the weight of securities fraud charges after he overstated the capabilities of Nikola's... Read more ›
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