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16/08/2026

The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-NL) reported on August 12 [https://advisories.ncsc.nl/2026/ncsc-2026-0280.html] that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-65400, an authentication bypass in macOS Screen Sharing, to compromise Macs with port 5900 exposed to the Internet. In every case reported to the agency, attackers obtained root access and installed a Monero cryptocurrency miner. Apple patched the flaw on August 6 in an out-of-band update covering macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9, but the bug's official severity has since been rewritten, with CISA raising its CVSS score from 7.1 to 9.8 critical on August 14, now assessing the attack as automatable.

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NCSC-NL first flagged the vulnerability in an advisory on August 7, a day after Apple's patch, urging organizations to update immediately. The August 12 revision added that public proof-of-concept code is now available and that active abuse had been observed on multiple internet-exposed systems.

Technical details of the bug were presented at last week's Black Hat conference, according to Ars Technica, alongside a video of the exploit in action. The root-level access attackers gained in the reported incidents matches the level of control researchers demonstrated in May, when they bypassed Memory Integrity Enforcement on Apple's M5 silicon [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/apple-m5-architecture-suffers-first-privilege-escalation-exploit-anthropics-claude-mythos-helps-researchers-bypass-memory-integrity-enforcement] with AI assistance.

NVD's change log for CVE-2026-65400 shows CISA initially scored the bug at 7.1 on August 6, using a vector that assumed an attacker needed low-level privileges and could achieve only partial impact. On August 14, the agency replaced that vector with one requiring no privileges and granting full compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability, raising the score to 9.8. A day later, CISA's decision record for the flaw flipped from "not automatable" to automatable, an assessment consistent with unattended Macs being rooted at scale for coin mining.

The flaw still isn't in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/linux/cisa-flags-actively-exploited-copy-fail-linux-kernel-flaw-enabling-root-takeover-across-major-distros-unpatched-systems-may-remain-vulnerable-to-attack] as of this writing. The same decision record also still lists exploitation as "none," despite the NCSC-NL report. Users who can't update immediately can turn Screen Sharing off under System Settings > General > Sharing.

Apple's advisory says an attacker on the network may be able to "authenticate to Screen Sharing without valid credentials," and describes the fix as improved state management during authentication. Screen Sharing is the VNC-based remote desktop service built into macOS, listening on TCP port 5900, which is disabled by default. The August 6 update comes just 10 days after Apple’s July 27 security round and fixes only this single CVE, representing the second Screen Sharing patch in a month. CVE-2026-43760, which required valid credentials to exploit, was fixed in the late-July releases.

16/08/2026

A drone that destroyed a Tupolev Tu-95MS strategic bomber at Russia's Engels-2 air base last month turns out to be a MICH 2000, a reverse-engineered copy of a Chinese aircraft Beijing refused to sell to Ukraine, according to a factory report [https://oboronka.mezha.ua/istoriya-dronu-mich-2000-314113/] from defense outlet Oboronka. Built by an unnamed manufacturer exclusively for the SBU's 'Alpha' special operations center, the flying-wing drone carries up to a 60 kg warhead as far as 2,000 km and costs $48,000 in its base configuration, $2,000 less than the Chinese ZTK-150 it was copied from. It’s understood that Ukrainian developers covertly photographed the Chinese production line while attending pilot training there in late 2023.

China restricted exports of civilian drones in the summer of 2023 after Ukrainian units converted airframes like the Mugin-5 PRO into deep-strike munitions. A Ukrainian development team traveled to a Chinese factory late that year, found ZTK-150s in production, and negotiated to buy the manufacturing technology, but the factory's management blocked the sale.

Intermediaries offered pilot training instead, and the team accepted. "In parallel with the training, we photographed everything that was there," one team member, whom Oboronka didn't name, said in the report, which was cleared in advance by the manufacturer and the SBU. The team flew home with eight drones.

The first Ukrainian-built prototype crashed 1 km into its maiden flight in the summer of 2024, and Russian electronic warfare downed the third test aircraft. In the type's first combat sortie that October, one of three drones was shot down and the other two fell roughly 10 meters short. Yet, Alpha ordered production anyway.

Almost nothing of the ZTK-150 remains in the current MICH 2000 beyond its outline, the manufacturer told Oboronka. Two years of work localized engines, warheads, fuselages, and rocket boosters across dozens of Ukrainian suppliers, putting domestic content at 85% of the drone's value. Fitting a jam-resistant CRPA navigation antenna, however, cuts that to 55%, because the antennas cost $20,000 to $25,000 depending on module count and only a handful of companies worldwide make them. Ukraine has been chasing jam-resistant navigation [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/ukraine-reveals-jammer-resistant-kamikaze-strike-drones-31-mile-range-ordinance-promises-a-new-level-of-enemy-destruction-far-behind-the-front-lines] across its strike drone fleet since at least 2025.

The company builds around 6,000 drones a year across eight versions, with buyers choosing analog, digital, or Starlink [https://www.tomshardware.com/service-providers/network-providers/russia-still-using-starlink-guided-drones-in-ukraine-insists-report-starlink-mini-atop-grounded-drone-points-to-ongoing-issue-despite-u-s-dod-claims-threat-was-blunted] communications, and reinvests roughly $1 million a month in R&D while scaling toward 10,000 units annually. Fire Point, maker of the FP-1 that flew 2,500 km to hit Russia's largest refinery [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/drones/ukraines-55000-plywood-drone-flew-2500-km-and-shut-down-russias-largest-oil-refinery], targets 100,000 drones a year, though the FP-1 serves many units and the MICH 2000 has one customer.

Alpha has launched thousands of MICH 2000s at hundreds of targets, per the manufacturer, including a Wildberries logistics hub in Ryazan oblast, an anti-Starlink electronic warfare system near Gelendzhik, and the port of Ust-Luga, where one raid put more than 20 drones over the target. The SBU said the Engels-2 strike tore the tail section off the Tu-95MS, and satellite imagery later confirmed the bomber's destruction. A successor called MICH+ drops the type's forward canards and pairs a 70 kg warhead with a 600 km range at a target price near $40,000.

16/08/2026

A maker known as Makestreme has printed an entire two-minute song onto a sheet of paper, publishing the full build and source code on Hackster.io [https://www.hackster.io/makestreme/paper-tunes-store-music-on-paper-and-stream-them-offline-8d9099]. The trick is Meta's EnCodec neural audio codec, which crunched a 2.9MB MP3 down to roughly 21KB of latent tokens, a reduction of about 1,000 times, small enough to split across eight QR codes [https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/streaming-qr-codes-at-60-fps-achieves-nearly-190-kb-s-data-rate-in-phone-to-phone-tests-browser-based-method-requires-no-app-no-networking-no-pairing-and-no-permissions-beyond-camera-access] arranged as a double-sided "paper cassette." The same 21KB file was also beamed between two ESP32 [https://www.tomshardware.com/software/macos/retro-apple-emulator-ported-to-usd60-esp32-microcontroller-powered-touchscreen-tablet-supports-mac-os8-1-and-a-virtual-mc68040-cpu-in-major-emulation-leap] boards over LoRa radio, and by our reading of the published transmitter code, that wireless transfer takes around 90 minutes per song.

One QR code tops out at roughly 3KB of binary data, with Makestreme hitting the practical limit at about 3.3KB, so a 2.9MB MP3 would need close to a thousand of them. Conventional compression can't close that gap because MP3 is itself already lossy, which is where EnCodec comes in.

The open-source codec Meta [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-is-using-more-than-100-000-nvidia-h100-ai-gpus-to-train-llama-4-mark-zuckerberg-says-that-llama-4-is-being-trained-on-a-cluster-bigger-than-anything-that-ive-seen]released in 2022 converts a waveform into discrete tokens that a matching decoder turns back into audio, and at the project's 3 kbps setting, the reconstructed song reportedly held up well. At 1.5 kbps, however, it produced heavily degraded output.

Each of the eight QR codes carries a 1-byte ID plus a chunk of the token stream, four codes per side in a nod to flipping a vinyl record [https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/retro-gaming-enthusiast-attempts-loading-games-to-sega-genesis-from-a-vinyl-record-player-recording-game-data-as-sound-mega-everdrive-pro-and-pi-pico-2-board-not-enough-to-overcome-limitations-of-the-turntable]. The generator script uses the lowest error correction level to maximize density, so there's no redundancy to spare: damage one code and the song is gone.

LoRa pairs two ESP32s with REYAX RYLR998 modules on 866 MHz, moving the file in 160-byte packets with an ACK-and-retry protocol. The transmitter sketch hard-codes a 40-second pause after every acknowledged packet, and at roughly 134 packets for a 21KB file, the gaps alone add up to about 90 minutes. That pacing is deliberately conservative for duty-cycle compliance, and it's a far cry from the 190 KB/s another developer hit recently by streaming QR codes between phones at 60 FPS [https://www.tomshardware.com/networking/streaming-qr-codes-at-60-fps-achieves-nearly-190-kb-s-data-rate-in-phone-to-phone-tests-browser-based-method-requires-no-app-no-networking-no-pairing-and-no-permissions-beyond-camera-access].

Printing software on paper dates back to the Cauzin Softstrip of 1985, a 2D barcode that let magazines publish programs at up to 5,500 bytes per strip and faded once floppy disks [https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/cambridge-university-rescues-data-from-old-floppy-disks] got cheap. It left behind strips almost nobody can read today, and Paper Tunes inherits the same dependency: the QR codes store tokens, not audio, so playback requires EnCodec's exact 24 kHz decoder.

The paper may last centuries, as Cerabyte argues with its microscopic QR codes etched in ceramic [https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/data-storage-guinness-world-record-broken-by-qr-code-measuring-just-49nm-pixels-1-98-sq-micrometer-size-is-smaller-than-bacteria-can-only-be-read-with-an-electron-microscope], but the song only survives as long as the neural network that can decode it.

16/08/2026

Dell has created a humorous 2026 update to its iconic early-2000s “Dude, you’re getting a Dell” series of commercials. Company CEO Michael Dell [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/dell-founder-shows-how-a-usd100-billion-empire-started-42-years-ago-ceo-says-this-one-page-changed-my-life] shared a brief new 10-second commercial this weekend, which shows the Dell Dude (basically a Ben Curtis-alike), gleefully opening the garage door, ready for his shiny new Dell AI rack to be delivered, which is then dropped in his yard from a crane.

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Perhaps now PCs aren’t that important to Dell, and a lot of other once-major PC companies. Nodding knowingly at this fact, and likely cheered on by investors, Michael Dell acknowledges 2026 is instead all about AI servers [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-servers-will-consume-more-power-than-conventional-data-center-hardware-by-2027-gartner-forecasts].

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Of course, Dell’s post is basically a parody/joke, as few if any home users would want to buy such powerful and expensive hardware for a corner of the garage. The most obvious use for this hardware would be for local LLM [https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/exploring-apple-silicons-local-ai-performance-with-the-mac-studio-and-m4-max-m4-max-beats-gb10-and-strix-halo-in-decode-throughput-but-memory-bandwidth-isnt-everything] and generative AI work at scale – working on very large models without cloud latency, usage fees [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees], rate limits and so on. But very few independent researchers or hobbyists (well, none) will be getting this Dell delivery to their home.

Instead, Michael Dell’s ‘2026’ commercial break may be signaling to IT business watchers that Dell is now far more invested in, and making far more income from, its AI-industry-facing [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/toilet-maker-toto-scores-a-royal-flush-as-share-price-rises-due-to-ai-demand-in-unlikely-chipmaking-side-gig-japanese-company-develops-electrostatic-chucks-to-hold-silicon-wafers-in-lucrative-segment] businesses – like these extremely powerful rack systems.

16/08/2026

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16/08/2026

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15/08/2026

Popular open-source media player VLC has run into an unusual issue on Windows 11 that causes it to take as long as 33 seconds to start playing a simple MP3 file, the side effect of a recent unexplained change to Windows. The issue was publicized after game developer Jonathan Blow said [https://x.com/Jonathan_Blow/status/2087564889154089120] he had stopped using VLC in favor of Microsoft's Media Player because of the delay. He also used the incident to criticize the state of open-source software running on Windows.

Responding to Blow's complaint, the developers behind VLC player fired back and claimed [https://x.com/videolan/status/2087590352350064835]that the media player itself was not responsible. According to the VLC team, the bug is primarily due to a Microsoft Defender issue introduced through a Windows 11 update that conflicts with VLC's plugin cache.

> This is because of a « bug » from Microsoft Defender in one update of Windows 11, who magically made VLC plugins cache quarantined by Windows.Reinstalling VLC or regeneration of the plugin cache will fix this.Calling open source software embarrassing when it is a Windows… https://t.co/IFLrXFZFsvAugust 12, 2026 [https://twitter.com/cantworkitout/status/2087590352350064835]

"This is because of a « bug » from Microsoft Defender in one update of Windows 11, who magically made VLC plugins cache quarantined by Windows. Reinstalling VLC or regeneration of the plugin cache will fix this. Calling open source software embarrassing when it is a Windows update that broke it is quite disrespectful," the account responded.

The cache is an important part of how the media player works, as it relies on plugins for codecs, demuxers, and input/output modules. Instead of putting everything into a single executable, VLC loads these components as and when required and uses a cache to avoid having to scan the entire plugin directory every time it loads. The issue seems to occur when Microsoft Defender quarantines or blocks VLC's plugins.dat cache file. As a result, VLC can take a noticeable amount of time to process its plugin system before finally beginning playback. We also tried to replicate the issue on a Windows 11 machine; however, VLC launched normally, and we did not experience any noticeable delay when playing an MP3 file.

The easiest way to fix this is to reinstall VLC or regenerate the plugin cache. The VLC Windows installer includes a dedicated executable file to reset the cache files. This can be accessed by either heading to the VLC installation folder and running vlc-cache-gen.exe or its shortcut within the Start menu called "VLC media player - reset preferences and cache files." Do note that this also removes any customized preferences, such as audio settings like equalizers, keyboard shortcuts, subtitles, etc.

A more reliable solution is to add an exception for the VLC installation folder in Microsoft Defender itself. This should prevent Microsoft Defender from interfering with VLC's cache files and avoid the same issue from recurring. While the workaround seems relatively simple, it is still far from being ideal. One should not have to jump through hoops just to play an MP3 file. While Microsoft is yet to comment on the issue, it remains to be seen whether a future Windows Defender update will address the underlying cause.

15/08/2026

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* TSMC's $165 billion U.S. investments examined [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/tsmc-expands-investments-in-the-u-s-to-usd165-billion-with-new-fabs-and-r-and-d-center-a-closer-look?utm_source=edit-links&utm_medium=boxout&utm_term=chipmaking]
* China reportedly reverse-engineers EUV tool [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-may-have-reverse-engineered-euv-lithography-tool-in-covert-lab-report-claims-employees-given-fake-ids-to-avoid-secret-project-being-detected-prototypes-expected-in-2028]
* China bets on DUV, as EUV blockade reshapes chipmaking [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/china-bets-on-duv-as-euv-blockade-reshapes-chipmaking]

With quarterly revenue exceeding $80 billion and net income approaching $60 billion, Nvidia has plenty of unspent cash to invest. Traditionally, the company invests in stocks poised to grow and makes strategic investments.

Nvidia's investment in Intel was both strategic and financial, helping Intel survive hard times and generating $24.989 billion for the company. Interestingly, after investing in Intel, Nvidia has sold its 1.1 million Arm shares (worth $178.1 million last August). Without any doubts, Nvidia will continue developing Arm-based CPUs, though for now it does not own any Arm stock.

The SpaceX investment — valued at $20.975 billion — seems entirely strategic at present, since SpaceX's xAI has committed to exclusively using [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-exclusively-use-nvidia-gpus-because-they-are-the-best-says-optimized-vera-rubin-nvl72-will-be-launched-into-space-next-year] Nvidia hardware [https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-says-spacex-will-exclusively-use-nvidia-gpus-because-they-are-the-best-says-optimized-vera-rubin-nvl72-will-be-launched-into-space-next-year] in its AI data centers both on Earth and in orbit. Once SpaceX's stock regains its lost value, Nvidia may well earn on it, though it remains to be seen when this happens.

Other notable investments that Nvidia has made over the past year include Coherent, a major maker of lasers, optical materials, and semiconductors; Nokia, a telecommunications giant; and Synopsys, an electronic design automation (EDA) provider.

Coherent is expected to make Ultra-High-Power Continuous-Wave (UHP CW) lasers for Nvidia's next-generation data center platforms relying on co-packaged optical (CPO) interconnects, so Nvidia invested $2 billion [http://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-coherent-announce-strategic-partnership-to-develop-optics-technology-to-scale-next-generation-data-center-architecture] in the company earlier this year. Since then, the stock has almost skyrocketed.

Something similar happened to the Nokia investment. Last October, the company announced plans to invest $1 billion [https://www.nokia.com/newsroom/nokia-partners-with-nvidia/] in Nokia to accelerate AI-RAN innovation and lead the transition from 5G to 6G. By now, the shares that Nvidia owns are worth $2.2 billion.

Synopsys has been aggressively adding artificial intelligence capabilities for its tools, so to support the company, Nvidia acquired $2 billion [https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-synopsys-announce-strategic-partnership-to-revolutionize-engineering-and-design] worth of Synopsys stock last December. Right now, the stake is valued at $2.15 billion [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000065/xslForm13F_X02/information_table.xml], making it a profitable investment for the AI hardware giant.

In addition, Nvidia continues to own stock of its clients, but the picture is different for CoreWeave and Nebius. Last year, the company owned 24.277 million CoreWeave shares worth $3.959 billion [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581025000199/xslForm13F_X02/information_table.xml]. Nvidia now owns 47.213 million shares of CoreWeave valued at $4.699 billion, which essentially means that the company substantially increased its position as CoreWeave's stock price declined. As for Nebius, Nvidia's position remained at 1.19 million shares, but while the stake was worth $65.869 million in 2025, its value has since surged nearly fivefold to $328.77 million [https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581026000065/xslForm13F_X02/information_table.xml].

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