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A critical vulnerability in macOS Screen Sharing is drawing serious attention from security researchers and federal agencies alike. CISA has rated the flaw at nine point eight severity after attackers exploited an authentication bypass to gain root access on exposed Macs, installing Monero cryptocurrency miners. Apple issued an emergency patch on August sixth, and if you haven't applied it yet, now is the time.
Shifting to artificial intelligence, DeepSeek's V four Flash model has been climbing the leaderboards and winning developer praise, but real-world performance tells a more complicated story. When researchers at Composio ran it through thirty complex, multi-step agent tasks, it completed just fifty-three point eight percent of them. Topping a benchmark and doing the actual work, it turns out, are very different things.
And on the infrastructure front, two US senators have introduced the Water Cyber Shield Act, proposing three hundred million dollars annually to help the EPA assess and harden cybersecurity at water utilities. Given that coordinated attacks have already hit systems across twelve states in recent years, supporters say the funding is overdue, while critics are asking whether the framework goes far enough.
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