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The Hacker News

Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can't Install Fix

Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack needs code already running on the machine as a normal user, so it does not work over the network. JFrog says the fix is in Parallels Desktop 27, a version that Intel Macs cannot install. Yuval Moravchick, who leads

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SecurityWeek

Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks

Google announced patches for the exploited privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-58704) on September 15. The post Pixel Modem Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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DZone

Agentic Systems and Design Patterns

Over the last two years, the industry has moved from simple chatbots and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines to something fundamentally more powerful: agentic systems. These systems do not just answer questions; they plan, act, observe the consequences of their actions, and keep iterating until a goal is achieved. Whether it is Cursor writing and debugging code, Perplexity performing multi-step research, Manus executing complex tasks through code, or Gemini Deep Research producing long-form

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OpenAI News

Reimagining advertising with AI

Explore new AI-powered advertising experiences from OpenAI, including Sponsored Agents, tools for marketers, and integrations with HubSpot and Shopify.

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Django Weblog

Executive Director Search Extended to September 22

We are extending the search for the Django Software Foundation's first Executive Director. Applications now close at the end of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, anywhere on Earth (AoE). As long as it is still September 22 somewhere, your application counts. We are happy with the applications we received. We also knew several people had applications in progress, and it took a while for word about the role to reach everyone it should have. Giving people a little more time felt like the fairest option.

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