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CISA has issued an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to fix a Zimbra vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, within just three days. The flaw is severe enough that exploitation could give an attacker complete control over a victim's email and communications.
The GrapheneOS Foundation announced it will extend its privacy-focused, open-source operating system beyond Google Pixel devices to Motorola smartphones starting in 2027. Support will begin with standard flagship models before expanding to foldables like the Razr Fold, once next-generation Snapdragon chips meet the necessary hardware security requirements. Current 2026 Motorola devices won't qualify retroactively since they lack certain security hardware.
Rising electricity demand from AI data centers is spurring investment in solid-state power transformers, which use semiconductor switching instead of the century-old copper-coil design of conventional transformers. Unlike traditional units, which are hand-built and face multi-year delivery backlogs, solid-state versions can be mass-produced using materials like silicon carbide, making them smaller, lighter, and modular. Tech companies building AI infrastructure are especially drawn to them because they suit the direct current power setups increasingly used to run dense racks of AI chips.
Colleen Sundlie discovered pure date syrup while living in the UAE for her husband's job and, unable to find anything similar back home in the U.S., launched Date Lady to sell organic date-based syrups, spreads, sauces and sugar. The company, manufactured in Springfield, Missouri, has grown from over $2 million in revenue in 2021 to $6.8 million four years later, and is projecting $10 million this year.
Converting standard footage to 4K resolution requires generating new pixels to fill a larger frame, and there are two main approaches: traditional interpolation, which calculates new pixel values based on surrounding color and brightness data, and AI upscaling, which uses models trained on low- and high-resolution image pairs to predict sharper detail. Older interlaced footage adds another wrinkle, since it must be de-interlaced before either upscaling method can be applied properly.
A financial disclosure shows President Trump bought as much as $50,000 in SpaceX shares on June 23, two weeks after the company's IPO. The purchase came after shares had already dropped from highs above $200 to the mid-$150s, and by Monday's close the stock had fallen further to its $135 IPO price, potentially leaving Trump's stake at a loss.
Intel unveiled architectural details of its next-generation Xeon 7 'Diamond Rapids' server processors at Hot Chips 2026, revealing a design with up to 256 P-cores and 1.28 GB of last-level cache, targeted for a 2027 data center launch. The chips use Intel's 18A-P process for core chiplets, add AVX 10.2 instructions, and switch from EMIB to UCIe-S packaging alongside Foveros Direct 3D bonding to link compute and fabric tiles.
Apple has canceled its plan to move iCloud+ Hide My Email addresses to a new private.icloud.com domain, just two months after announcing the change. The company said Hide My Email will stay on icloud.com, though Sign in with Apple will still shift new addresses from privaterelay.appleid.com to private.icloud.com later this year, with old addresses continuing to work.
The Department of Health and Human Services under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has issued a Request for Information exploring changes to how vaccines are classified as routine, risk-based, or subject to shared clinical decision-making. No formal rule changes have been made yet, but the 10-page document invites public comment through September 20 on potential new labels that could sound more conditional than current designations.
A history influencer named Qiao Yu released a video in May using questionable astrological calculations to argue that China's Tang Dynasty (618-907 AD) never existed, suggesting the Song Dynasty actually began earlier and overlapped it out of history. The theory has since gone viral on Weibo, with a related hashtag drawing tens of millions of views, and reports say people even called Xi'an's tourism bureau demanding it close since the dynasty was supposedly fake.
Google is developing several unreleased interface upgrades for Gemini, discovered in Google app version 17.52.12.sa.arm64. The changes include splitting Pinned chats into their own section separate from Recents, adding a dedicated Notifications area, introducing filters for finding past chats, and a Customize section for managing Gemini Spark's Skills and Apps. A new setting would also let users hide Gemini's icon from the status bar.
Communities are pushing back against Flock Safety's automated license-plate cameras through visible, often theatrical protests, including people dressing as Darth Vader and tying red balloons near devices. The growing trend, dubbed 'Flocklash,' reflects widespread unease about the expansion of tech-enabled mass surveillance in public spaces.