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Microsoft quietly shuts down Windows shortcut flaw after years of espionage abuse

Thu, 2025-12-04 15:01
Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files

Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…

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Latest Windows 11 updates may break the OS's most basic bits

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:24
Microsoft warns Start menu, Explorer, and other XAML apps can crash or vanish on managed devices

Microsoft has admitted that it might have broken Windows components including the Start menu and Explorer in the latest round of updates.…

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Logitech chief says ill-conceived gadgets put the AI in FAIL

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:19
Just ignore all the ways the peripherals biz uses AI itself

Logitech's CEO says that AI-powered devices are a solution looking for a problem, despite being a strong proponent of AI and her firm pushing out exactly the kind of thing she's talking about.…

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Aisuru botnet turns Q3 into a terabit-scale stress test for the entire internet

Thu, 2025-12-04 13:07
Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks

The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million infected machines.…

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