The Siege of Death Mire ends – who won?

July 15th, 2026 12:00 AM

The massive global campaign comes to an explosive conclusion.

Microsoft July 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes Record 570 Flaws Including Three Zero-Days

July 15th, 2026 10:51 AM

Microsoft has released the July 2026 Patch Tuesday security updates, addressing a record 570 vulnerabilities. This includes two zero-day exploits used in attacks and one zero-day vulnerability that has been publicly disclosed.The update fixes 59 vulnerabilities rated as Critical. These include 48 issues related to remote code execution, nine privileges elevation flaws, one security bypass, and one spoofing vulnerability. Users are advised to install the update promptly through Windows...

Blanche Faces Crucial Hurdle After Rocky Hearing

July 15th, 2026 07:55 PM

Even a single Republican “no” vote would block Mr. Blanche’s nomination from consideration by the full Senate, which could sink his confirmation.

Windows 11 gets new registry policy to give IT admins more control

July 15th, 2026 06:58 PM

A small but potentially impactful addition in July's Windows 11 updates gives organizations another way to tailor their managed experiences. Read more...

Third-Party App Stores Are Finally Coming to Google Play

July 15th, 2026 06:30 PM

If you have an Android device, you likely download most of your apps from the Play Store. Maybe you sideload the occasional app from a website, or from your device's proprietary store (e.g., Samsung Store) but, for the most part, the Play Store is the go-to place for apps on Android. That seems to be changing. While the Play Store isn't going anywhere, Google is making third-party app stores available through its own official app store. As reported by The Verge, starting July 22,...

Amazon SQS turns 20: Two decades of reliable messaging at scale

July 13th, 2026 06:13 PM

On July 13, 2006, we launched Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) as one of the first three services available to customers, alongside Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. We had learned firsthand that distributed systems need a reliable way to pass messages between components without creating tight dependencies. If one service called another directly and that service was slow or unavailable, failures cascaded through the entire system. Message queuing solved this by letting services communicate...

Ruby 4.0.6 Released

July 14th, 2026 01:41 AM

Ruby 4.0.6 has been released. This is a routine update that includes bugfixes. Please see the GitHub releases for further details. Release Schedule We intend to release the latest stable Ruby version (currently Ruby 4.0) every two months following the most recent release. Ruby 4.0.7 will be released in September, and 4.0.8 in November. If a change arises that significantly affects users, a release may occur earlier than planned, and the subsequent schedule may shift accordingly. Download ...

Alcatraz boat victim identified as 79-year-old; search continues for 3 missing people

July 15th, 2026 08:02 PM

A former California reserve deputy sheriff has been identified as the person who died after a pleasure boat carrying members of an extended family capsized in the frigid waters of San Francisco Bay near Alcatraz Island.Clifford Joseph Boisa, 79, of Sutter County, died after the three-level recreational vessel sank Tuesday afternoon with 20 people aboard, authorities said. The Sutter County Sheriff's Office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Boisa served as a reserve deputy sheriff beginning...

The Criterion Release of Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Is Jaw-Dropping

July 15th, 2026 08:00 PM

With a ton of extra features, and artwork by Denver Balbaboco, we're already in love.

Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users

July 15th, 2026 09:59 AM

Mindgard just disclosed an unpatched 0-day in Cursor yesterday, where a poisoned repository could trigger arbitrary code on Windows systems without the developer needing to do anything on their end.The bug lives in how Cursor resolves Git binaries when a project loads. Cursor checks several locations for git, and one of them is the workspace itself.Plant a file called git.exe at the root of a repository, and Cursor runs it the moment that project opens. This happens because the execution is...