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Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code

August 20, 2026 Blogmaster

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475,…

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Even As Disease Outbreaks Abound, American Vaccination Rates In Children Fall

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

The past 18 months have seen a significant number of health issues, perhaps crises, arise in America. Measles, cyclosporiasis, whooping cough, and more have all been in the news. RFK…

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NASA calls off mission to rescue Swift gamma-ray observatory

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

NASA and Katalyst Space Technologies announced Wednesday they are giving up on a robotic mission to rescue the Swift gamma-ray telescope before it falls out of orbit. The rescue satellite,…

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Amazon aims for delivery drones to reach 500 US neighborhoods by end of 2026

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Amazon wants to grow its Prime Air delivery drone service sixfold to reach nearly 500 cities and towns across the United States by the end of 2026. The planned expansions…

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Inside Trump’s Failed Hunt For Noncitizen Voters

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an…

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The floodgates are open after another Chinese company lands a reusable rocket

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

It has been a little more than a month since China recovered an orbital-class rocket booster for the first time. A second launch operator accomplished a similar feat Tuesday in…

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FCC abolishes gigabit speed goal, suggesting it is unfair to slower technologies

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

The Federal Communications Commission last week eliminated the gigabit speed goal established during the Biden administration and declared that current levels of broadband deployment in the US are acceptable. Though…

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Flight attendants freaked out that Google is buying tons of Spirit employee data

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Last Friday, Google won an auction to acquire a huge amount of Spirit Airlines data. The data doesn’t include personal information or customer data, but instead nearly covers the airline’s…

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Framework responds to complaints that BIOS update bricks Ryzen 7040 laptops

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

A BIOS update for the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen 7040-series processors is bricking the systems, multiple users have reported online. Framework started shipping pre-built Ryzen 7040-based Framework Laptop…

Cybersecurity

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

August 19, 2026 Blogmaster

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning (RL) training for its latest artificial intelligence (AI) models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the…

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