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Ravie LakshmananAug 20, 2026Vulnerability / Email Security A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. “A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) before 10.1.20 when the optional zimbra-snmp package is installed, and SNMP notifications are enabled,” according to a description of the flaw in the NIST National Vulnerability Database (NVD). “Due to improper sanitization of…

In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $606.29 million on August 20, their largest single-day haul since May 1 and a fourth straight day of inflows. BlackRock’s IBIT accounted for $502.99 million of that—about 83%, up from 55% the day before, while VanEck’s HODL posted an outflow. Ethereum funds added $221 million, XRP $13 million, and Solana $15 million, with every listed asset drawing money. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs pulled in $606.29 million on Thursday, their biggest single-day haul since May 1, according to SoSoValue. That beats Wednesday’s $517.19 million and extends the inflow streak to four sessions.The four-day…

Astronomers have found that some of the largest galaxies in the early universe contained many more small stars than scientists previously realized. That hidden population means these ancient galaxies may have been significantly more massive than earlier estimates indicated. The discovery, made by an international team that included Penn State researchers, adds to a growing challenge for theories about how the first galaxies formed and evolved. The findings were published in Nature Astronomy. JWST Uncovers Faint Stars in Ancient Galaxies Using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), researchers examined nine massive, mature galaxies that stopped producing new stars billions of…

A 17-year-old girl has been killed after a teenager brandishing a sword attacked students at a school in Sweden, police have confirmed.Three other people were wounded in the incident during classes in the central town of Fagersta on Friday afternoon, including two boys aged 12 and 17 who sustained minor injuries.The third person, who was also under 18, was also left with minor injuries and has been discharged from hospital, Swedish news agency TT reported.The parents of the 17-year-old girl told local newspaper Fagersta-Posten their daughter was killed in the attack.An 18-year-old man has been arrested over the incident at…

Laptop prices are out of whack. $500 used to get you a tolerable laptop, and $900 got you a really good one. They often had similar CPU, RAM, and storage options because that stuff was comparatively cheap; the difference was often in build quality and screen rather than power. But RAMageddon has thrown everything off. Even laptops like the $950 Surface Laptop now start with 8GB of RAM, which isn’t enough. And on the lower end, where manufacturers are struggling to compete with the $700 MacBook Neo, they’re cutting corners on storage, CPU, and build quality too.However, one low-cost laptop…

Ravie LakshmananAug 20, 2026Network Security / Enterprise Security Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess ZTNA Hybrid deployments that use customer-managed NetScaler instances. It bears noting that the vulnerabilities do not apply to Citrix-managed cloud services or Citrix-managed Adaptive Authentication, as the necessary updates have already been applied. The list of impacted NetScaler versions is below -…

The transformation of a liquid into a solid is familiar in nature. Lava flowing from a volcano eventually cools and hardens into rock, while water in a lake can freeze into ice during a cold winter. When materials undergo these phase changes, important physical properties can change as well, including density and refractive index, which affect how sound and light travel through them. A related process plays an important role in manufacturing optical fibers. Glass preforms are heated until their structure becomes loose enough to be drawn into extremely thin fibers. Light travels through the fiber core, allowing information to…

“COVID-19 (Coronavirus).” Who.Int, 2026, https://www.who.int/teams/immunization-vaccines-and-biologicals/diseases/covid-19-(corona-virus). Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.Fuller, Deborah. “How RFK Jr.’S Misguided Science on mRNA Vaccines Is Shaping Policy − a Vaccine Expert Examines the False Claims.” The Conversation, 3 Sept. 2025, https://theconversation.com/how-rfk-jr-s-misguided-science-on-mrna-vaccines-is-shaping-policy-a-vaccine-expert-examines-the-false-claims-263027. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.Haelle, Tara. “What to Know About Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s Anti-Vaccine Advocacy.” Association of Health Care Journalists, 6 Dec. 2024, https://healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12/what-to-know-about-robert-f-kennedy-jrs-anti-vaccine-advocacy/. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.Loe, Megan. “Unpacking Rumor Trump and RFK Jr. Plan to Ban COVID-19 Vaccine.” Snopes, Snopes.com, 26 Aug. 2025, https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/08/26/trump-rfk-covid-vaccine-ban/. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.PerryCook, Taija. “Did Chef Joe Gera Expose Rand Paul Lied About Not Getting COVID-19 Vaccine?” Snopes,…

The morning after he pulled negotiators from trade talks in Washington and set off a new round of American tariffs, Prime Minister Mark Carney called the U.S. proposal “a bad deal” and said Canada was “at war” with the United States.“We’ve recognized from the start that America has changed,” he said in an address to Canadians on Saturday. “We recognize that sometimes, its signature is written in pencil.”“We cannot accept what they offered and we will not give what they asked,” he added. “We were not prepared to compromise Canada’s sovereignty or undermine our key industries.”In a muscular, 22-minute speech…

Nancy Kassebaum, a three-term moderate Republican from Kansas who was the first woman to chair a major standing committee in the United States Senate, died on Friday in Manhattan, Kan. She was 94.The death, at a hospice care facility, was confirmed by her son William Kassebaum.As the leader of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources (now known as the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions) from 1995 to 1997, Senator Kassebaum won passage of legislation to insure the portability of health insurance coverage when workers changed jobs. She and the bill’s Democratic co-sponsor, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of…