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Cisco is urging administrators to patch immediately after a maximum-severity zero-day was found in its Identity Services Engine. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to bypass API authentication entirely, there are no workarounds, and it's already being actively exploited in the wild. CISA has ordered federal agencies to patch or pull the system offline by September nineteenth.
Shifting to the AI hardware race, Huawei is targeting a first quarter two thousand twenty seven launch for its Ascend nine sixty DT chip, positioning it as a direct challenger to Nvidia's dominance. The move reflects China's broader push to close the AI computing gap with the United States, and signals that the chip rivalry between the two countries is far from settled.
And on the consumer side, Acer is making a case that the six hundred ninety nine dollar laptop sweet spot belongs to them with the Swift Air fourteen. Running Intel's Wildcat Lake platform, it logged up to sixteen hours of battery life in testing and packs Thunderbolt four connectivity — a rare combination at this price. Whether that's enough depends on how much the screen and performance trade-offs matter to you.
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