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The tech world is pausing today to remember Helen Branswell, the infectious disease journalist at STAT News whose reporting on flu, Ebola, and COVID-nineteen earned deep respect from scientists and public health officials alike. Branswell died last week from complications of cancer, and her colleagues say her work set a standard that defined what accountability science journalism can be.
On the security front, the PHP development team is urging system administrators to act quickly after a new remote code execution vulnerability was disclosed this week with no patch yet available. The flaw affects systems running non-default configurations, and the team has issued mitigation guidance while a fix is still being developed — a reminder that exposure can arrive before anyone is ready.
And in storage hardware, Micron has revealed its next-generation three-D NAND memory, set for mass production in the second half of two thousand twenty seven. The new chips promise to double bit density, boost input-output performance by fifty percent, and cut power consumption — gains that could meaningfully reshape the economics of everything from data centers to consumer devices.
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