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A serious security warning tonight for anyone using Tenda networking equipment. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon's CERT Coordination Center have disclosed a hidden backdoor in several Tenda router models, tracked as CVE two thousand twenty six dash eleven four zero five, that allows attackers to gain full administrative access without a password. The company has not responded to warnings, leaving the flaw completely unpatched.
Turning to the global memory crunch, which has now reached the phones most people actually buy. New analysis from research firm Omdia projects entry-level smartphone sales could fall twenty two percent, with memory components now eating up to sixty four percent of total production costs on lower-tier devices. That squeeze has already hit PCs, game consoles, and enterprise servers — and budget phones are the latest casualty.
And in Malaysia, authorities have seized more than seventy five thousand cryptocurrency mining rigs following a sweeping crackdown on power theft. More than three thousand raids since two thousand twenty two have resulted in six hundred twenty nine arrests, as miners were caught illegally siphoning electricity from the national grid. It is a reminder that behind every digital asset, there is a very physical cost.
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