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If you’re a student looking for an affordable laptop, I have bad news and I have good news. The bad news is that computer prices are out of whack due to the ongoing RAM and storage crunch, making some a little pricier than they used to be and others wildly more expensive.The good news? Despite that, there are still many great options, including the selection we’ve tested and highlighted below.Before you go for the cheapest option you can still find, consider biting the bullet on a more powerful laptop, especially if you’re buying for a college student. Prices are likely…

Threat actors started exploiting an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in GeoServer hours after it was publicly disclosed, attack surface management firm WatchTowr says. The security defect, described as an SQL injection issue that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution (RCE), was disclosed on Wednesday by a security researcher named q1uf3ng. According to the researcher’s post on X, the flaw affects GeoServer’s jsonArrayContains function, a filter expression for querying JSON array fields to check if they contain specific values. It can be used with PostGIS and Oracle JDBC data stores. The SQL injection is likely caused by user-supplied arguments being…

A $116 million hardware wallet exploit has reopened one of Bitcoin’s oldest debates: Is holding your own keys worth the risk? Days later, US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded their strongest inflows since April, prompting Bloomberg analyst Eric Balchunas to wonder whether security scares could eventually push more investors away from self-custody and toward ETFs.Elsewhere, Strategy is preparing to resume Bitcoin purchases after a rare bout of selling, Riot Platforms is reportedly turning its mining infrastructure into a $9 billion AI deal, and Trump Media is rethinking its crypto treasury strategy after a $238 million quarterly loss.Strategy CEO says company will…

For years, climate scientists have warned that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could eventually shut down if global temperatures rise too far. New findings from researchers at Utrecht University suggest that temperature alone does not determine the fate of this major ocean circulation system. The speed at which the planet warms also appears to play a critical role in whether the AMOC remains stable. The study was published in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a vast network of ocean currents that carries warm water northward from the tropics. By moving…

One of the sturdiest conventions about human affairs is the notion that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This sage original formulation comes from the Spanish-born American philosopher and poet George Santayana, but close variations abound, correctly or wrongly attributed to a wide variety of thinkers and politicians, from Edmund Burke to Winston Churchill. One of the sturdiest conventions about human affairs is the notion that “those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” This sage original formulation comes from the Spanish-born American philosopher and poet George Santayana, but close variations abound,…

Afghanistan is currently the only country in the world where girls are officially banned from secondary and higher education.Shakiba recounted that “15 August, when the government fell, was the worst and most painful day of my life.”Every year when this date comes I feel as if an old wound opens again and a new feeling of defeat fills my heart.”That day I felt that many of the dreams I had carried inside me for years were suddenly taken away.”Though Shakiba has managed to finish her secondary education online – “a very important victory” – she says her life-long goal of…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.The Lake Geneva region is fighting a growing number of violent home robberies of its wealthiest residents, which threaten the area’s reputation as a haven for the ultra-rich and have inflamed suspicions across the border with France.Swiss authorities are turning to video footage, number-plate recognition and tougher border policing as they try to crack down on the “homejackings”, which have shocked the normally peaceful area. The attacks typically involve intruders breaking into occupied homes and threatening residents — sometimes at gunpoint —…

In May 2025, Mozilla announced that it was shutting down the popular read-it-later app Pocket, which it had acquired back in 2017 for an undisclosed amount. That led to a growing demand for alternative apps that could help people save online content, particularly longer articles, that they want to read later when they have more time. While Mozilla exited the business, saying the way people are browsing the web is changing, the shutdown boosted adoption of a number of other apps, like Matter, Instapaper, and Raindrop.io, among others. It’s supporting the creation of new, indie alternatives, as well. Many of…

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) in VMware vCenter Syslog Server is being exploited in an active campaign to deploy a reverse SSH tool for persistence and remote access. Compromises have been identified at 361 IP addresses across 47 countries, more than half located in Germany, the U.S., Turkey, Iran, and France. Broadcom disclosed CVE-2026-59310 on July 29 and described it as a critical directory traversal vulnerability in the vCenter Syslog server that  could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker with network access to execute arbitrary code. The vendor provides no workarounds or mitigations and urges system administrators to apply…

Three Bored Ape sales at steep losses accompanied a month-long contraction in the leveraged Ethereum account that Lookonchain publicly tracks as Machi Big Brother’s. By Aug. 14, official venue data showed the ETH long had been cut by more than half, yet the market remained close to the account’s liquidation line.At 3:51:43 p.m. UTC, Hyperliquid’s public Info API showed the address holding a 2,500 ETH long with a displayed 25x leverage setting and a liquidation price of $1,859.15, and 14 seconds later the venue’s ETH midpoint was $1,881.65. That left an indicative $22.50 gap, with the midpoint 1.21% above the…