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ESET researchers identified 11 old and forgotten UEFI shim bootloaders at versions 0.9 and below that can be used to bypass UEFI Secure Boot on any UEFI-based machine that trusts Microsoft’s Microsoft Corporation UEFI CA 2011 third-party UEFI certificate authority (CA) certificate, regardless of the installed operating system (OS). Reported shims can be exploited to execute untrusted code during system boot, enabling attackers to deploy malicious UEFI bootkits (such as Bootkitty, HybridPetya, or BlackLotus) even on systems with UEFI Secure Boot enabled. We reported our findings to CERT/CC in February 2026, and the vulnerable UEFI applications were revoked on Microsoft’s…

Risk mitigation trumps cost savings as the top way for sustainability teams to create business value for their organizations, according to the 8th biennial survey of chief sustainability officers (CSOs) at publicly traded U.S. companies. More than 62 percent of the respondents said their ability to identify and offer strategies to address regulatory, supply chain and climate risks resonated with other members of the C-suite. Exhibit A: Spirits company Suntory in January 2025 appointed its chief sustainability officer, Kim Marotta, to head risk management. “What enterprise risk management has given me is the opportunity to see the big picture,” she…

I’m using UNNotificationSound.criticalSoundNamed with the Critical Alerts entitlement. I have two separate alarms that can each be active at the same time, each scheduling its own local notification on a repeating timer. Before switching to critical alerts, I played these with two AVAudioPlayer instances, and they overlapped fine. Now, using critical alert notifications instead, only one sound plays at a time — even when both are triggered around the same time. Is this expected? Does iOS only ever play one critical alert sound at a time per app (or system-wide), or is there a way to get two to play…

Indian Apple partner Tata Electronics was hacked by a ransomware group last month, and that resulted in the outing of a ton of internal company files, which some people have been sifting through ever since. Now a diagnostics log has been found in the files, and this confirms the much-rumored fact that the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max will have a main camera with variable aperture. The log also confirms that Apple is using a new sensor for the aforementioned devices’ main camera, namely Sony’s IMX905. Its pixel size remains identical to its predecessor’s at 1.22μm, which…

AI is generating code faster than teams can review it. Checkmarx, the leader in agentic application security, today addressed that gap by introducing self-healing application security: autonomous agents that detect, fix, and verify vulnerabilities as developers code. Key Takeaways Developer Assist now runs a continuous find-and-fix loop directly in AI coding tools through hooks, catching and fixing vulnerabilities as code is written with up to 70% less manual remediation effort. Triage and Remediation agents autonomously prioritize what’s already in the codebase and generate merge-ready fixes, cutting manual triage and accelerating developer productivity. Closing the Loop from Code to Backlog According…

By modelling measurement as a continuous stochastic process, this work offers a compelling alternative to discontinuous collapse processes Quantum space collapse (Courtesy: iStock/Floriana) Quantum mechanics has two seemingly competing rules. Firstly, a system evolving without measurement follows a continuous, deterministic evolution governed by the Schrödinger equation, with dynamics determined by a Hamiltonian. Secondly, when a measurement occurs, the wavefunction collapses, producing a sudden, discontinuous change that is not derived from a Hamiltonian. Several approaches attempt to reconcile these behaviours, including the Copenhagen interpretation (which does not explain the mechanism of collapse), decoherence theory (which does not provide a single definite outcome),…

Pure Telecom, Ireland’s high-speed broadband and telecoms provider, has announced the results of new research from its Connected Lives 2026 study, which reveals that Irish adults spend an estimated €1.95 billion on streaming subscriptions each year. The research also found that the average Irish streamer now watches 2 hours and 58 minutes of streamed content every day, up from 2 hours and 22 minutes last year. Over the course of a year, this equates to approximately 45 days of watching streamed video content. The research, carried out by Censuswide on behalf of Pure Telecom, surveyed 1,000 employees in the Republic…

Ever looking to underline its space-faring pedigree, Omega has again joined forces with Swatch to release another limited-edition MoonSwatch featuring Omega’s proprietary 18K Moonshine Gold alloy.But whereas previous special versions had only a sliver of the shiny stuff, this new model doesn’t hold back, featuring a dial, hands, crown, and pushers all made from Omega’s 18K Moonshine Gold alloy, with a combined weight of 11 grams.Called the Mission to the Moon 1969, the watch commemorates the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 21, 1969. It’s limited, rather appropriately, to 1,969 numbered pieces and comes with a black-and-gold version of Swatch’s…

Analysis from Omdia’s new report AI Regulation: Analysis of Global Policies and Regulatory Frameworks alongside separate regional case study reports covering the Americas, Asia & Oceania, and Europe reveals that effective enforcement mechanisms will be essential to the credibility and success of AI regulatory frameworks.Under the EU AI Act, organizations can face fines of up to €35 million ($41 million) or 7% of their global annual turnover. South Korea’s AI Basic Act allows fines of up to KRW30 million (approximately $20,000) for non-compliance.Seven challenges shaping AI regulationOmdia has identified seven key AI regulation challenges that regulatory frameworks must address (Figure…

Score smoothing facilitates manifold recovery In the real world, complex data like high-resolution images live in high-dimensional pixel spaces rather than a simple 1-D world. The vast majority of that space, however, is just random noise that is meaningless to the human eye. Only a small fraction of the data points in that space correspond to recognizable images, and they live in what’s called the data manifold (like a sheet tucked inside a larger space). The shape and location of the data manifold are not known by the model in advance. Thus, image generation can be considered as a task…