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Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws

September 4, 2026 Blogmaster

Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are – CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score:…

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GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests

September 4, 2026 Blogmaster

OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the “world’s most intelligent and aligned model.” The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the…

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Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day

September 4, 2026 Blogmaster

Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8),…

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Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws

September 4, 2026 Blogmaster

Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media…

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Court Tells HHS To Stop Using AI To Cite Fake Studies, Or Willfully Misinterpret Others In Grant Solicitations

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

To quote the opening line from the court opinion that this post is based upon, “Millions of American teenagers have sex.” This post is has nothing to do with whether…

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150 research primates got diarrhea, flooding lab with priceless vaccine data

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Having more than 150 non-human primates at a research center fall ill with diarrhea in a stomach-churning outbreak that flowed for over two years doesn’t sound much like good fortune.…

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Xbox imposes harsh new time limits for Game Pass game streaming

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

In 2020, Microsoft announced that Game Pass Ultimate subscriptions would include unlimited access to its new Xbox Cloud Gaming service (then still known as Project xCloud). Now, that kind of…

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Reports: RFK Jr. ordered measles deaths deletion; CDC still secretly counts them

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is still secretly counting two measles deaths that were deleted from the agency’s public measles data—a deletion that occurred at the direct request…

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Colorado Sees First Lawsuit Under ‘Right To Repair’ Law

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

At this point all fifty states have considered passing “right to repair” law aimed at making it easier and cheaper for consumers (and independent repair shops) to repair their tech.…

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Four major AI models suffer rare overlapping downtime

September 3, 2026 Blogmaster

Cloud-based AI models operated by OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and Google suffered a rare and overlapping set of significant service interruptions over a period of hours Thursday morning. Anthropic first reported…

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