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Ravie LakshmananAug 13, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed Microsoft SharePoint vulnerability following the release of a proof-of-concept (PoC) code. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS score: 9.1), which refers to a critical security feature bypass that stems from weak authentication. It was patched by Microsoft as part of its July 2026 Patch Tuesday updates. “The authentication feature could be bypassed as this vulnerability allows impersonation,” Microsoft said in an advisory for the flaw last month. “Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to disclose files and modify data, but the attacker…

Arthur Hayes says a $60 billion Federal Reserve limit is the next liquidity trigger he wants to see before adding more aggressively to risk assets, such as Bitcoin.His Aug. 11 essay focuses on the standing Foreign and International Monetary Authorities Repo Facility, or FIMA. The facility allows approved foreign official accounts to raise dollars against US Treasury collateral temporarily.Hayes has already positioned for a rebound in liquidity, saying he has kept more dollars on hand until the Fed revises FIMA’s rules.A monetary authority pledges Treasuries to the Fed, receives dollars, then sells those dollars for yen. The structure can finance…

Plans for a 26-megawatt data center that surfaced in Allen Park, Michigan, last year quickly ignited a groundswell of opposition from residents in the small, working-class Detroit suburb. As in dozens of other communities across Michigan where similar facilities were proposed, they feared pollution, increased energy rates, overuse of water and a host of other problems. Among those who organized the opposition: Joanna Whaley, who was running for a state House seat against a data center-supporting member of a political family that has for decades represented the region.  Whaley, a pastor, said she got involved because it sounded like the…

In 1987, a college at the University of Cambridge considered offering a prestigious position to a black man in what would be the first appointment of its kind. Not only did the man not have a degree, but he had left school at the age of 13, struggling with dyslexia and – at the time – unable to read or write. That he would later to go on to accumulate 20 honorary doctorates and become a professor of creative writing is only one way, and in my view not the best one, of measuring his talent.The man was the late,…

13/08/2026 – 08:38Russia’s Wildberries says attack causes fire at industrial area An ​air attack ​caused a fire at an industrial ​area ‌in ⁠Russia’s Bashkortostan ‌region where online retailer Wildberries ⁠has a facility, the ​company said ‌on Thursday.No goods were stored ‌at the ​premises, the company said.Wildberries warehouses have been ​targeted ​in a ​series of attacks by ​Ukrainian drones since July 18. 13/08/2026 – 08:20Ukraine needs 5% of US Patriot stocks to get through winter, Zelensky says Ukraine needs five percent of the United States’ Patriot interceptor missiles to get through the winter and 10 percent to destroy all of Russia’s…

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The security researcher going by the name Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a new Microsoft zero-day called ShieldBreak. The vulnerability, rooted in Microsoft Defender for Windows, demonstrates a patch bypass for CVE-2026-50656 (CVSS score: 7.8), otherwise known as RoguePlanet. RoguePlanet has been described as a race condition that, if successfully exploited, could grant an attacker the ability to spawn a shell with SYSTEM-level privileges, enabling them to run arbitrary code or perform unauthorized actions. Although it was first disclosed by the researcher in June 2026, a patch for the vulnerability was…

Bitcoin’s price has shown signs of stabilizing after a rough stretch, but even setting aside where prices go in the near term, asset manager Grayscale says adoption of the cryptocurrency over the medium and long run remains largely unchanged. The reason: continued, unsustainable growth in government debt as a factor that keeps inflation and currency-debasement risk elevated.  That backdrop, Grayscale argues, could push a widening range of investors toward scarce assets and alternative stores of value — a category where Bitcoin, with its fixed supply, is increasingly well positioned as a candidate. It added that the adoption of stablecoins and…

Mammal ancestors may have made the evolutionary leap from egg-laying to live birth at least 90 million years earlier than thought. Growth rings within fossil bones from an adult Chiniquodon theotonicus, a species of cynodont that lived around 236 million years ago, reveal that the animal was relatively large when it was a baby, researchers report August 13 in Frontiers in Mammal Science. Such hefty newborns, relative to adult body size, are typical of modern mammals, but not of egg hatchlings, whether reptiles or birds. That, the team says, suggests that this cynodont fossil could be the earliest evidence of…

(FJZEA via Getty Images) In the days leading up to Alaska’s primary election, two super PACs have poured nearly $2 million into the U.S. Senate race. The twist: Alaska’s unusual election format is likely to negate the spending campaigns’ efforts to tear support away from the front-runners. With Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan and Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola comfortably leading in both fundraising and polls ahead of the Aug. 18 primary, outside groups are directing much of their cash toward secondary candidates in an apparent attempt to manipulate Alaska’s top-four ranked-choice system before the general election in November. “People are…