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Linux users and system administrators have a serious patch priority this week, as four local root vulnerabilities were disclosed simultaneously on the open security mailing list. Named DirtyAH six, PPPoEject, TUNderflow, and DiagSpill, the quartet of flaws each allow an unprivileged local user to escalate to root, making rapid patching essential for any exposed system.
Shifting to the desktop, Microsoft has issued a partial fix for a bug its own security update introduced in Excel. The hotfix addresses paste failures, but only for Excel two thousand sixteen, and Microsoft is openly warning that workbooks containing conditional formatting may still break. It's a rare public admission that the cure, at least for now, is incomplete.
And in the category of creative absurdity, a satirical collaboration between a design studio and the producer behind Big Data has produced Bezzy, a plush data center doll that screams actual recorded sounds from real server rooms when you hold it. It's equal parts art project and commentary on the infrastructure quietly humming beneath our digital lives.
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