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Windows 11 admins get dynamic uninstall list for preinstalled Store apps

Microsoft has expanded its RemoveDefaultMicrosoftStorePackages policy so IT admins can specify any preinstalled MSIX/APPX app for removal by Package Family Name

via BleepingComputer ·
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Windows 11 KB5083631 preview ships Xbox mode, hardened batch file execution

Microsoft pushed the KB5083631 optional preview to Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, bumping builds to 26100.8328 and 26200.8328 with 34 non-security changes destined f

via BleepingComputer ·
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Windows 11 KB5083769 update breaks third-party backup tools via VSS timeout

Microsoft's April 2026 KB5083769 security update is breaking backup software on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2 by causing Volume Shadow Copy Service snapshots to time

via BleepingComputer ·
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Zig creator: LLM-assisted PRs leave a 'digital smell' maintainers can detect

Andrew Kelley, creator of the Zig programming language, pushed back on the assumption that maintainers can't distinguish AI-generated contributions from human o

via Simon Willison ·
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AI Agent Surfaces 38 Bugs in OpenEMR, Exposing Health Record Attack Surface

An AI-driven code analysis run against OpenEMR, a widely deployed open-source electronic health record platform, surfaced 38 distinct security flaws. The findin

via Dark Reading ·
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AI-Assisted Reverse Engineering Surfaces High-Severity GitHub Flaw

Researchers leveraged AI tooling to reverse engineer GitHub internals and uncover a high-severity vulnerability in the platform. The approach demonstrates how l

via Dark Reading ·
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Anthropic's Mythos Disclosure Rattles Japanese Financial Sector

Anthropic's recent disclosure of a Claude-driven autonomous attack campaign — dubbed Mythos — has triggered alarm across Japan's financial services industry. In

via Dark Reading ·
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Claude Mythos surfaces 271 latent Firefox vulns in single sweep

Mozilla disclosed that Firefox 150 ships with fixes for 271 security vulnerabilities identified by an early build of Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview, an order

via Schneier on Security ·
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Compromised SAP-linked npm packages exfiltrate developer credentials

Several npm packages tied to SAP tooling were hijacked and republished with credential-stealing payloads, hitting developers who pulled updates before the malic

via The Hacker News ·
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cPanel Auth Bypass Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Hosting Servers — Patch Now

A critical authentication vulnerability has been disclosed in cPanel, the web hosting control panel that runs on a substantial share of shared and managed Linux

via The Hacker News ·
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cPanel/WHM emergency patch closes 9.8-severity auth bypass in hosting control panels

WebPros has shipped an out-of-band fix for CVE-2026-41940, a 9.8-rated authentication bypass in cPanel and WHM that lets attackers reach the control panel witho

via BleepingComputer ·
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Critical RCE flaws in Gemini CLI and Cursor expose AI coding tools to silent takeover

Google has patched a maximum-severity CVSS 10 remote code execution flaw in the Gemini CLI's CI integration, alongside a parallel set of vulnerabilities in Curs

via The Hacker News ·