California lawmakers unanimously passed Assembly Bill 1856, which exempts open-source operating systems from the state's Digital Age Assurance Act. The exemption covers software distributed under licenses including GPL, MIT, BSD, and Apache ahead of the law's planned January 2027 start.
Adata's Urban Tapsafe portable SSD pairs 2TB of solid-state storage with phone-based unlocking and selective access sharing through an app. The drive also uses magnetic face plates and includes a metal mounting clip for portable use.
Researchers found multiple extensions in the Chrome Web Store delivering a modular malware framework. The campaign could steal cryptocurrency, sensitive information, and browsing history while also injecting ClickFix social-engineering lures.
Critical vulnerabilities were disclosed across WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP. The flaws include paths to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary remote code execution, making prompt updates important for affected sites.
AWS released Kiro Crew as an open-source workspace for coordinating multiple coding agents across sessions, tools, and tasks. Developers can delegate long-running work such as incident investigation, ticket triage, migrations, and pull-request monitoring without keeping an interactive session open.
Meta is testing robots on physical data-center tasks normally handled by technicians. The effort explores how automation could support routine infrastructure work inside facilities that underpin the company's computing footprint.