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Thermo Fisher Patches Flaw That Could Make DNA File Tampering Nearly Undetectable

Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs could occur if laboratory controls are circumvented. Thermo Fisher tracks the issue as CVE-2026-17583 and rates it

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N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete

N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers. Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version. N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform

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Hugging Face Diffusers Flaws Could Let Model Repositories Execute Arbitrary Code

Three high-severity security flaws have been disclosed in Hugging Face's Diffusers library that could allow crafted model repositories to stealthily execute arbitrary code on machines that load it, opening the artificial intelligence (AI) supply chain to security risk. "These vulnerabilities are bypassing trust_remote_code, the safeguard designed to stop unreviewed code from running in the

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Don't be a meat proxy

Article URL: https://gruhn.me/blog/2026-08-03/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151933 Points: 1682 # Comments: 683

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More German than many Germans

Article URL: https://mertbulan.com/more-german-than-many-germans/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49151734 Points: 366 # Comments: 304

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