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Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band Windows updates to fix Remote Desktop Services failures caused by this month's security updates, along with Hyper-V and USB audio problems on some Windows versions. [...]
The Environmental Protection Agency announced its plans today to kill any remaining standards on how much greenhouse gas pollution power plants are allowed to emit in the US. The move will only make electricity dirtier as AI, electric vehicles, and a revival of domestic manufacturing drive up power demand. The EPA's proposal today is a major escalation of President Donald Trump's efforts to promote fossil fuels while making it easier to build out energy-hungry data centers. Environmental and co
Japan's Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees. [...]
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now offers a Consent portal, a managed web experience and session binding endpoint for AgentCore Gateway. This post walks through provisioning a portal, configuring GitHub and Slack 3LO targets, and the end-user consent flow, and shows how to review activity in AWS CloudTrail.
CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability with a 10 out of 10 CVSS score, affecting both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances.
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the G20 Innovation Ministerial in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, on September 2, 2026. (Photo by Matt RAMEY / AFP via Getty Images) | AFP via Getty Images Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang took a call from President Trump on Monday while onstage at the All-In Podcast's All-In Summit. It's not the first time Huang has taken a call from the president during work, but this time he put Trump on speakerphone before a big crowd. During the call, the president launched into
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