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A leaked GitHub key tied to CDC repositories may have exposed code and Azure systems until September 18. An AI-driven campaign stole 600,000 credit cards and planted skimmers on 100+ retail sites. EDX Solutions exposed 30 million sensitive records via an open MongoDB, hitting PepsiCo Latin America. Child safety is increasingly invoked to justify age checks, social media bans and message scanning, experts warn.
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Linux 7.3-rc4 landed with many LLM-spotted fixes and key x86 patches blocking bad Intel microcode and FRED crashes. Gzip 1.15 fixed long-standing bugs, including a decompression overflow. KDE set goals: enterprise features, better docs, next-gen styling. A first-person account described a firm where Claude Code writes all specs, code and tests; engineers just press enter. Windows updates still hurt: an idle PC spent seven hours updating.
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