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A working proof-of-concept exploit that hands attackers SYSTEM-level privileges on fully patched Windows 11 has been live on GitHub since May 13. Within five days the repository pulled in more than 440 stars, and an independent vulnerability analyst confirmed the code spawns a SYSTEM shell on machines running the May 2026 cumulative update. The strange part: the underlying flaw was supposed to have been fixed in December 2020. The Cloud Filter driver bug Microsoft assigned CVE-2020-17103 (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures, the public identifier registry for security flaws) is the same flaw the new exploit, named MiniPlasma, weaponizes today, raising the…

Xiaomi has locked in May 28 for the global reveal of the 17T and 17T Pro, calling it the brand's biggest T-series upgrade yet in an official post that ended weeks of leak-driven speculation. The base 12GB and 256GB model is tipped to start at €749 (about ₹83,950), with the Pro at €999 (roughly ₹1.12 lakh), pricing that pushes the line into upper-mid-range territory it has avoided in India for nearly five years. The timing matters more than the spec sheet. India's smartphone market shrank 4.1% in the first quarter of 2026, the budget segment collapsed 59% on memory-cost inflation,…

Apple's next iPhone chip costs the company an estimated $280 per unit, roughly 80% more than the silicon inside today's iPhone 17 Pro. The starting price target for the iPhone 18 Pro, according to the most-quoted Apple analyst on Wall Street, is still $1,099. That gap is what makes the September launch worth watching. Every major Android brand has already raised prices in 2026, blaming a memory shortage that Gartner's 2026 PC and smartphone shipment forecast says will lift average smartphone prices 13% by year-end. Apple looks ready to swallow the cost and keep the sticker flat, a wager that…

Xiaomi has locked in May 28 for the global reveal of the 17T and 17T Pro, calling it the brand's biggest T-series upgrade yet in an official post that ended weeks of leak-driven speculation. The base 12GB and 256GB model is tipped to start at €749 (about ₹83,950), with the Pro at €999 (roughly ₹1.12 lakh), pricing that pushes the line into upper-mid-range territory it has avoided in India for nearly five years. The timing matters more than the spec sheet. India's smartphone market shrank 4.1% in the first quarter of 2026, the budget segment collapsed 59% on memory-cost inflation,…

A single null return value handed attackers the keys to roughly 200,000 WordPress sites this week. CVE-2026-8181, a critical authentication bypass in the Burst Statistics analytics plugin, lets anyone who knows an administrator's username impersonate that admin through a single REST API request, with no password verification at all. The flaw scores 9.8 on the CVSS scale, the maximum tier for critical severity, and Wordfence blocked more than 7,400 exploit attempts in the first 24 hours after disclosure. The patched release shipped on May 12, just 19 days after PRISM, Wordfence's autonomous vulnerability research platform, flagged the bug. Two factors…

Samsung Electronics shipped its Cinematic Look-Up Table (Cine LUT) feature with the Galaxy S26 Ultra on March 11, building on the new Advanced Professional Video codec the company released as open source last year. Four preset looks sit one tap deep inside the Gallery app and reinterpret footage shot in Samsung Log, the camera's flat color profile, into something closer to a theatrical grade. The looks come from a two-year collaboration between Samsung's Mobile eXperience (MX) Business, Samsung Research, and U5K Imageworks, a Seoul colorist studio whose recent credits include the 2023 Yoon Je-kyun feature "Hero" and Netflix Korea's 2025…

Marc Benioff, chair and chief executive of Salesforce, said the cloud-software company expects to spend roughly $300 million on Anthropic tokens during 2026, with almost all of it absorbed by coding work. The figure landed the same week his engineering organization stayed closed to net new hires for the second year running. Treat the number as one line on a much larger ledger. Salesforce is at once a venture investor in Anthropic, a co-development partner for regulated industries, an anchor enterprise customer, and a distribution channel for Claude through Slack and Agentforce 360, Salesforce's AI agent platform. The token spend…

Microsoft has begun rolling Windows 10 taskbar habits back into Windows 11, almost five years after stripping them out of the operating system at launch. The shift, pushed to the Experimental channel of the Windows Insider Program (the pre-release branch Microsoft uses for features that may never reach Stable) on May 15, lets testers anchor the taskbar to the top, left, right, or bottom of the screen, shrink it to a compact height, and reshape the Start menu in ways that have been impossible since the 2021 redesign. Build 26300.8493 carries the changes, the same release that widens Fluid Dictation…

Microsoft has begun rolling Windows 10 taskbar habits back into Windows 11, almost five years after stripping them out of the operating system at launch. The shift, pushed to the Experimental channel of the Windows Insider Program (the pre-release branch Microsoft uses for features that may never reach Stable) on May 15, lets testers anchor the taskbar to the top, left, right, or bottom of the screen, shrink it to a compact height, and reshape the Start menu in ways that have been impossible since the 2021 redesign. Build 26300.8493 carries the changes, the same release that widens Fluid Dictation…

In a significant cyber security incident, Network Rail has confirmed that the public Wi-Fi networks at 20 major train stations across the UK were disrupted by a cyber attack. The affected stations include prominent hubs such as London Euston, Manchester Piccadilly, and Birmingham New Street. The attack, which occurred on September 25, 2024, has prompted an investigation by British Transport Police. Passengers attempting to access the Wi-Fi were met with alarming messages referencing past terrorist attacks, causing widespread concern. Details of the Cyber Attack The cyber attack on Network Rail’s Wi-Fi systems was a coordinated effort targeting 20 of the…