Security advisories: CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213

August 27th, 2026 12:00 AM

Two vulnerabilities have been discovered in the resolv gem bundled with Ruby. They have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-80212 and CVE-2026-80213. We recommend upgrading the resolv gem. CVE-2026-80212: Memory exhaustion through malicious DNS responses An application that resolves a hostname an attacker can influence, such as a webhook target or a user-supplied URL, can be made to consume memory without bound. The attacker points a domain at a name server they control and returns...

Cybersecurity Researchers Uncover Flaw in Google AI Coding Tool

August 28th, 2026 07:41 PM

Cybersecurity researchers from Pillar Security this week revealed how a prompt injection inserted into a GitHub repository was used to gain Editor-level access to an internal Google Cloud project using a flaw in the command line interface (CLI) of an artificial intelligence (AI) coding tool that Google provides. Dan Lisichkin, a cybersecurity researcher for Pillar Security, said the flaw, since remediated, existed in Google Gemini CLI setup code that Google uses internally to automatically...

Intel Nova Lake-S 24-Core and 28-Core Engineering Samples Surface With AVX-512 Support

August 28th, 2026 03:20 PM

Intel appears to have progressed substantially with Nova Lake-S, as new Linux testing records reportedly reveal desktop engineering samples configured with 24 and 28 CPU cores.

The Best Tech Deals From Amazon's Early Labor Day Sale

August 28th, 2026 09:30 PM

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Deal pricing and availability subject to change after time of publication.Amazon has launched its early Labor Day sale, just a day after Wayfair and Home Depot kicked off their own. The sale will run through Monday, Sept. 7, and features deals on appliances, tech, sporting goods, and more. I've already spent a few hours sifting through the deals on offer, and below I've collected the best I've found so far.The best headphone deals during...

Apple's Kentucky iPhone glass plant will add 200 permanent jobs

August 28th, 2026 09:10 PM

A Kentucky-based glass plant is poised to become a much bigger piece of the iPhone supply chain, with hundreds of both long-term and temporary jobs expected as production ramps up.Apple wants the glass for every iPhone to be made in KentuckyApple has been getting glass for iPhone for 20 years from Kentucky. Specifically, in Harrodsburg, Kentucky, where the tech giant plans to expand manufacture the glass for every iPhone and Apple Watch.Apple COO Sabih Khan and U.S. Secretary of Commerce...

How to recognize your team with GitLab Achievements

August 27th, 2026 12:00 AM

Every team runs on people who go above and beyond. The engineer who fixes the flaky test nobody else will touch. The reviewer who turns your merge request around in an hour. The teammate who finishes their certification. Or the community member who shows up release after release. Whether your team is a company, an open source project, or a community, GitLab had no built-in way to say "we see you." GitLab Achievements changes that.What are GitLab Achievements?An achievement is a custom badge...

Rockstar Details GTA 6: 80-Hour Story, a Map 3x Bigger Than Red Dead 2, and a Rebuilt Wanted System

August 28th, 2026 11:06 AM

Rockstar has shown off a 26-minute gameplay preview for Grand Theft Auto VI and has also begun to offer preview coverage based on reports from the outlets that visited Rockstar North.The announcement confirms that the game will have a map that is three times the size of that in Red Dead Redemption 2, will feature a story playthrough lasting 80 hours, will include more than 600,000 NPC animations, and will represent a change in design away from the consequence-free sandbox chaos.The 'Extended...

New Hampshire lakefront home offers the ultimate Lake Winnipesaukee escape

August 28th, 2026 07:05 AM

This extraordinary lakefront home designed by Marcus Gleysteen Architects in collaboration with Meridian Construction sits on just under an acre on a peninsula that juts out into New Hampshire’s Lake Winnipesaukee. Uniquely modern architecture, utilizing classic lines and familiar roofscapes, gave this family exactly the experience they wanted in a lake house – opulent modern […] The post New Hampshire lakefront home offers the ultimate Lake Winnipesaukee escape appeared first on One...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott moves to cut state funding for AI-powered Flock cameras amid privacy concerns

August 29th, 2026 03:54 AM

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered state agencies to pause funding Thursday for AI-powered Flock cameras, which have come under scrutiny nationwide amid privacy concerns.Abbott's office told Fox News Digital that the state was moving to cut off state-agency funding for the cameras, while noting that most funding for them comes from the federal government."Almost all Flock cameras in Texas are used by cities, and those cities are increasingly canceling their contracts with Flock," Abbott...