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Databricks acquires Electric to bring local Postgres databases to agentic apps

Databricks is acquiring Electric, a startup that brings WebAssembly-based Postgres databases into application environments, for an undisclosed sum, in an [...]

August 13, 2026

Linux Security Roundup Privilege Escalation DoS Code Execution August 2026

This week’s Linux security updates cover several areas administrators cannot afford to overlook. Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE, openSUSE, and other [...]

August 13, 2026

AWS key exposed in JavaScript may have lit way to Beacon’s charity data

Beacon, a CRM provider for charities and nonprofits, says an AWS access key “potentially exposed in public JavaScript build artifacts” is the [...]

August 13, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 Kernel Update Moderate Security Issues RLSA-2026-54246

August 13, 2026

Rocky Linux python-idna Moderate Denial of Service RLSA-2026-54290

August 13, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 abrt Important Arbitrary File Issues RLSA-2026-54272

August 13, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-54247 Kernel-rt Medium Denial of Service

August 13, 2026

Rocky Linux python3.9 Important Filter Bypass Vulnern RLSA-2026-54268

August 13, 2026

Relief from the bookkeeping of change management

It’s an idle Tuesday afternoon. You’re in hour three of change management calls to get a CostCenter tag update approved for a production change. Only [...]

August 13, 2026

Why AI models need a real-time web intelligence layer

A growing sentiment in tech is that large AI model providers will eventually replace traditional software vendors. The argument makes some sense. If a [...]

August 13, 2026

MCP didn’t remove sessions. It handed them to the model

A few years ago, I helped move an application off sticky sessions so we could scale behind an ordinary round-robin load-balancer. On paper it was an [...]

August 13, 2026

Passwords stored in public Google Doc then showed up in search results

PWNED Welcome, once again, to PWNED, the weekly column where we highlight others’ security failures. Hopefully, there’s a lesson in all this, but it could [...]

August 13, 2026

Debian DSA-6433-1 xdg-dbus-proxy Important Policy Bypass

August 13, 2026

Debian LTS xorg-server Urgent DoS Privilege Escalation Notice DLA-4738-1

August 13, 2026

Debian DLA-4737-1 xorg-server Critical Privilege Escalation Vulnerabilities

August 13, 2026

Gentoo FreeType Normal Info Leak Multiple Issues GLSA-202608-02

August 13, 2026

Chinese Loongson processors have leaky caches, researchers find

Researchers from Germany’s Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found processors made by China’s Loongson have leaky caches that attackers could [...]

August 13, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS USN-8632-1 Follow-Redirects Credential Disclosure

August 13, 2026

Fedora 43 cri-o 1.34.11 Denial of Service Fix CVE-2026-34986

August 13, 2026

Fedora 43 vaultwarden 1.37.1 Denial Of Service Fix Advisory 2026-84a39c58c9

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 SQLite Arbitrary Code Execution Vulnerability Fix CVE-2026-11822

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 Linux Firmware Update Advisory 20260810 FEDORA-2026-c53019ed4f

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 apr-util 1.6.5 Denial of Service CVE-2026-32327

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 libcupsfilters Important CPU Exhaustion Fixes 2026-f77201a75e

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 cri-o 1.34.11 Important Denial of Service Fix 2026-8ce4ffda9c

August 13, 2026

Fedora 44 Vaultwarden Medium Denial of Service Fix 2026-c28185613c

August 13, 2026

SUSE gzip Moderate Buffer Overflow Vulnerability ID 2026-3592-1

August 13, 2026

DSA-6437-1 apr-util – security update

August 13, 2026

DSA-6436-1 chromium – security update

August 13, 2026

Smashing Security podcast #480: This is the AI service you should never sign up to

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu Libgit2 Security Advisory USN-8628-1 Multiple Issues Fixed

August 12, 2026

Lovable reaches $13.3B valuation as it adds Cerebras, enterprise tools

Vibe-coding website company Lovable has raised $400 million in Series C funding at a $13.3 billion valuation. The company also recently announced a [...]

August 12, 2026

openSUSE Chromium Critical Update for 41 Vulnerabilities SU-2026-0281-1

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-47126 Resource Agents Moderate Info Disclosure

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-47117 libgcrypt Moderate Denial of Service Fix

August 12, 2026

‘Near-autonomous’ AI agents attack Taiwan’s nuclear safety agency

Suspected Chinese cyber operatives used publicly available AI tools to compromise Taiwanese government systems before expanding the attack to its nuclear [...]

August 12, 2026

Debian LTS Python Django Key CVE-2026-15337 2026-15920 Advisory DLA-4736-1

August 12, 2026

Debian SPIP Remote Code Execution SQL Injection and SSRF DSA-6435-1

August 12, 2026

SUSE Gzip Moderate Buffer Overflow Security Advisory 2026-3590-1

August 12, 2026

SUSE Kernel Important Fix for 59 Vulnerabilities 2026-3593-1

August 12, 2026

SUSE Kernel Important Security Update Advisory 2026-3595-1

August 12, 2026

DSA-6431-1 openjdk-25 – security update

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Linux Kernel Critical Update USN-8636-1 CVE-2026-31405

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Important Network Privilege Escalation – USN-8635-1

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Linux Kernel Medium Security Threat Advisory USN-8634-1

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Kernel Critical Network Attack Fixes USN-8633-1

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Linux Kernel Critical Network Vulnerability USN-8631-1

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu Linux Kernel Critical Update Advisory USN-8630-1

August 12, 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 Kernel Critical Update for Multiple Issues USN-8629-1

August 12, 2026

Spectre rears its ugly head again as researchers show some RISC-V chips are susceptible

If you thought that the famous Spectre security vulns were a relic of 2018, think again. Certain RISC-V chips are still very much subject to this [...]

August 12, 2026

Oracle Unbreakable Kernel Important Security Threat Fix ELSA-2026-500150

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 isns-utils Important Fix Double-Free CVE-2026-55995

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Advisory ELSA-2026-53451 gstreamer1-plugins-good RTP Threat

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 udisks2 Important fstab Mount Authorization CVE-2026-7867

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 Kernel Important Bug Fix Vuln ELSA-2026-53330

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 osbuild-composer Important Security Update ELSA-2026-49526

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 10 ELSA-2026-34911 Kernel Important Bug Fixes

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 isns-utils Important Double-Free Fix ELSA-2026-53847

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 ELSA-2026-53452 gstreamer1-plugins-good Moderate Memory Fix

August 12, 2026

Oracle 9 Fence Agents Important Fix CVE-2026-59886 ELSA-2026-53365

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 Kernel Important Bug Fix Advisories ELSA-2026-53329

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 libarchive Moderate Update ELSA-2026-52674

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 PostgreSQL Important Denial of Service Fix ELSA-2026-52395

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 Pipewire Important CVE-2026-5674 Advisory

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 Java 1.8.0 Important Security Advisory ELSA-2026-42877

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 9 Kernel Important Security Vuln ELSA-2026-500162

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 Kernel Major Update ELSA-2026-500162 CVE-2026-64531

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 ELSA-2026-53363 fence-agents Important Patch CVE-2026-59886

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 Ruby Important Bug Fix Advisory ELSA-2026-50728

August 12, 2026

Oracle Linux 8 Java 1.8.0 Important Update ELSA-2026-42877

August 12, 2026

Microsoft-vendetta hacker has a new zero day that gives system privileges on fully patched Windows

Nightmare Eclipse, the serial zero-day hunter who has an axe to grind with Microsoft, published a new Defender zero-day, ShieldBreak, that apparently [...]

August 12, 2026

Microsoft rolls out .NET 11 Preview 7

Microsoft has announced the seventh preview release of the .NET 11 open source developer platform, with improvements ranging from tiered compilation for [...]

August 12, 2026

New Linux Private Futex Race Can Trigger Kernel Use-After-Free

A proposed Linux kernel patch addresses a private-futex race that a recent security fix left unresolved. Security researcher Hyunwoo Kim found that a rare [...]

August 12, 2026

Uber Freight keeps on trucking after extortion crew breaks in

Uber Freight says it is investigating a “data security incident” days after the Helix extortion group listed the company on its data leak site [...]

August 12, 2026

Exposed: Woeful security at UK criminal records office that led to sensitive data leak

The UK’s criminal records office, ACRO, has escaped a fine and received a regulatory reprimand after security failings potentially exposed highly [...]

August 12, 2026

Akira ransomware scum blocked victim’s security tools – and broke their own encryptor

An Akira ransomware affiliate rebooted a victim’s computer into Safe Mode to kill its security tools – and in the process sabotaged their own malware when [...]

August 12, 2026

CodeRabbit targets AI-generated code overload with Agentic Change Management

CodeRabbit is expanding its AI-powered Code Review platform into what it calls “Agentic Change Management” by adding new capabilities targeted at helping [...]

August 12, 2026

Brit rail cops bring live facial recognition to the London Underground

British Transport Police is expanding its trial of live facial recognition (LFR) to the London Underground, despite concerns about privacy and mistaken [...]

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 isns-utils Important Denial of Service Fix RLSA-2026-53848

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 fence-agents Important Denial of Service RLSA-2026-53363

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 8 RLSA-2026-53364 resource-agents Important Denial of Service

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 9 Kernel Important Security Advisories RLSA-2026-53329

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux gstreamer1-plugins-good Moderate Unbounded Memory Growth Risk

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux iscsi-initiator-utils Key Auth Bypass Fix RLSA-2026-53844

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux 9 fence-agents Important Denial of Service Fix RLSA-2026-53365

August 12, 2026

Rocky Linux isns-utils Important Denial of Service Issue RLSA-2026-53847

August 12, 2026

When code no longer matters

I think we all understand what a huge step it was to build the first compiler. Being able to write code that humans can read and understand and turn that [...]

August 12, 2026

Tokenmaxxing: The strangest developer productivity metric of all time

I wonder these days. How did we ever write software without AI? I mean, I know we did. It was possible. But with AI it’s like wearing roller skates and a [...]

August 12, 2026

Metabase SQLi exploit grants attackers total access

Business intelligence (BI) platform provider Metabase has disclosed a zero-day SQL Injection vulnerability, warning that customers’ sensitive credentials, [...]

August 12, 2026

Fedora 43 ClamAV Denial of Service Patch FEDORA-2026-a9beec8485

August 12, 2026

Fedora 43 libidn Critical Out-of-bounds Exploit CVE-2026-57053

August 12, 2026

Fedora 44 ClamAV Denial of Service Issues Addressed 2026-ecf6fe868f

August 12, 2026

Fedora 44 libidn Security Fix CVE-2026-57053 Out-of-bounds Read

August 12, 2026

Fedora 44 Domoticz Important Web Server API Fix for 2026-471f1abb1f

August 12, 2026

SUSE OpenSSL Moderate DoS Fix Vulnerability 2026-3578-1