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The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has updated its May advisory to warn that CVE-2026-48842, a pre-authenticated SQL injection bug in Roundcube Webmail's virtuser_query plugin, is now being exploited in the wild. Roundcube patched the flaw in May with versions 1.6.16 and 1.7.1, but Shadowserver still counts over 523,000 internet-exposed Roundcube instances, with no clear data on how many remain unpatched.
A developer has released Paper Office, a suite of Python packages (paper-docx, paper-pptx, paper-xlsx) that let AI agents edit Word, PowerPoint and Excel files, building on the older python-docx, python-pptx and OpenPyxl libraries. In tests across five models and 61 tasks, Paper packages with guidance succeeded in 92.5% of trials, compared with 80.7% for the legacy libraries alone and 69.5% using Anthropic's Office skills, while agents resorted to editing raw file internals far less often (1.6% versus 78.7% and 50.5%).
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside modeled how Venus' extremely slow rotation—243 Earth days per spin—combined with its gravity could have gradually dragged a hypothetical moon inward until it broke apart and was absorbed by the planet. Lead author Steven Kane says this process wouldn't have required a catastrophic collision, contradicting an earlier theory that Venus' moon was destroyed by an impact with another body. The team built a computer simulation of gravitational interactions to test this mechanism.
Design studio Office Commun has released Search, a minimal macOS web browser built on Apple's WebKit engine rather than Chromium. The free app, available directly or via Homebrew, requires macOS 14 or later and takes up roughly 3MB of disk space, offering a single address/search field, collapsible pinned tabs, a reading mode, and a permanent element-hiding tool for banners and overlays.
Nikon announced the Z5 IIC, a 24-megapixel mirrorless camera that strips out the electronic viewfinder from the Z5 II to cut cost, weight, and size. At 537 grams it's about 25% lighter than the Z5 II while keeping most features, including internal RAW video, in-body stabilization, and a fully articulating touchscreen.
Android Authority ran Geekbench 6 tests on a reference phone powered by Qualcomm's new Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 chip, built on TSMC's 2nm process with prime CPU cores clocked up to 5GHz. Single-core performance rose about 10% over last year's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, while multi-core gains were minimal at roughly 1.5% despite efficiency cores jumping to 4GHz.
A tech reviewer evaluated three newly launched home battery systems designed for easier installation than earlier models. The testing comes as electricity prices climb and power outages become more frequent for many households. The reviewer reported spending weeks hoping for an outage to properly assess how the batteries would perform during a real blackout.
Technology industry associations are pressing the Trump administration to withdraw a proposed Department of Homeland Security rule that would impose a $103,265 fee on H-1B visa applications. The proposal has revived long-running tensions between the administration and tech companies over the future of skilled-worker immigration policy.
A preprint study by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Oregon reports the first clear detection of radio emissions from a planet outside our solar system. The signal, picked up by South Africa's MeerKAT radio telescope, comes from Beta Pictoris b, a young gas giant several times the mass of Jupiter orbiting a star 63 light-years away. The findings have not yet been peer-reviewed.
OnePlus has officially disclosed camera specs for the upcoming OnePlus 16, confirming a 200MP main sensor (a 1/1.4-inch chip paired with an f/1.6 lens), a 50MP ultrawide, a 50MP 3x periscope telephoto now using a larger Sony IMX882 sensor, and a 50MP autofocus selfie camera up from 32MP. The 200MP module also includes an Expert Mode offering film-like color tuning and a 65:24 aspect ratio option.
Microsoft unveiled a redesigned Surface Mouse at Qualcomm's Snapdragon Summit, nearly a decade after the original launched in 2016. The new model adds haptic feedback, a customizable Action Button that defaults to launching Copilot, Bluetooth 6.0 multi-device support, and a battery Microsoft says lasts up to six months. It arrives October 13 in Black and Platinum for $79.99, alongside new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop devices.
According to data compiled by Axios, monthly visits to the top 100 news sites fell from over 70 million in July 2024 to about 47 million in July 2026. The decline coincides with Google's 2024 introduction of AI Overviews atop search results and Meta's rollout of its own AI assistant, both of which surface summarized content instead of directing users to original articles.