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PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are

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DZone

MCP for Enterprise Tasks: Making the Rare Frequent Enough to Master

Enterprise software increasingly requires users to wear many hats. The security engineer who manages access controls one day handles incident response the next. The operations team that automates routine deployments must also handle one-off infrastructure exceptions. These occasional, cognitively complex tasks fall into an awkward gap: too infrequent for muscle memory, too important to leave to guesswork. Traditional enterprise UX has two unsatisfying answers: build heavyweight forms that users

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The Verge Tech

Alienware’s refurbished 16 Aurora is almost $200 off at Woot

Gaming laptop deals aren’t what they used to be (stares daggers at RAMageddon), which is why I consider Woot’s deal on a refurbished Alienware 16 Aurora gaming laptop with Nvidia’s RTX 5050 a pretty good deal at $927 for new Woot customers (with code WOOTALIEN used at checkout). It costs $1,029 for returning Woot shoppers, which is a decent discount off the new $1,099.99 price at Alienware’s site. Notably, this refurb unit includes a one-year Alienware warranty. Alienware 16 Aurora Where to Buy

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Laravel News

Exclude Vendor and Default Commands in `php artisan dev`

Laravel 13.30 adds DevCommands::withoutVendorCommands() and withoutDefaultCommands(), so php artisan dev runs only the processes your application registers. The post Exclude Vendor and Default Commands in `php artisan dev` appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Laravel articles like this directly in your inbox.

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The Verge Tech

What to expect at Apple’s September 9th launch event

Apple's September 9th launch event could be one of its biggest in years. It will be Apple's first event since John Ternus took over as CEO on September 1st, stepping in for Tim Cook, and will likely feature the first models in Apple's iPhone 18 lineup. That could include the long-rumored foldable "iPhone Ultra," coming just a couple months after Samsung debuted its own passport-style foldable, the Galaxy Z Fold 8. Here's how you can watch the event live, and a few possible highlights to keep an

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The Hacker News

New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and

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