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The scale of online attacks just hit a troubling new benchmark. Security researchers are reporting that the world's largest known botnet grew tenfold in a single year, enabling a sustained two terabits-per-second DDoS attack lasting forty minutes. Multi-vector attacks are becoming harder to dismantle, and the pace of growth is outrunning most defenses.
Shifting to hardware, Intel's Wildcat Lake processors are inching closer to real-world devices. An analyst has shared images of an Intel reference laptop running the new Core Series Three silicon, revealing a fanless mode at eleven watts and a peak burst of thirty-five watts. The aluminum chassis and efficiency specs position it squarely against Apple's MacBook lineup.
And on the security front, Vercel is expanding the scope of a recent breach disclosure. The cloud deployment platform now says more user accounts show evidence of prior compromise than initially reported, meaning some were accessed even before the known incident window. Users are being urged to review their account activity and rotate credentials.
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