Author: Sharilyn Deseo

Microsoft patched consumer-facing Copilot on August 18, 2026 for CVE-2026-24301, a high-severity flaw rated 8.8 out of 10. Varonis linked it to CoSnitch, a three-step attack chain.

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According to Varonis, one click on a crafted Copilot link that used an undocumented autorun parameter, for example `https://copilot.microsoft.com/?q=&autorun=1…`, could automatically fire off a prompt. That gave an attacker a way to pull data you’d already shared in that session. And if you’d connected other services, Varonis said the same method could also potentially expose email addresses, secrets and passwords in messages, Drive files, and calendar details.

The researchers say they found the issue by “meta-hacking” Copilot: asking over and over about its refusals, safety rules, and guardrails until it exposed the undocumented route. Varonis also said the chain involved persistent memory poisoning, where malicious instructions could keep shaping later behavior.

If you use Copilot with connected apps, you should install the fix, check which services are linked, remove anything you don’t need, and be careful with unexpected Copilot links. Microsoft said it found no evidence that the flaw was being exploited in the wild.

Varonis said it reported the issue in December 2025, Microsoft patched it on August 18, 2026, and the fix is now live in consumer-facing Copilot Personal.

Tech governance changed in 2026, and the rules no longer line up neatly from one market to the next. Software teams now have to work through a patchwork that stretches across the European Union in Brussels, the White House in Washington, the United Kingdom in London, and a growing list of US states, all of it shaping how software gets designed, tested, and deployed. You’re now dealing with the European Union’s risk-based rulebook, the White House’s lighter-touch framework from March 2026, the United Kingdom’s sector-specific approach, and Illinois mandates covering transparency, third-party audits, and risk mitigation for large software developers, with California and New York moving in behind it.

For software companies, that leaves a hard choice: build to the toughest rules from the start, or keep reworking products for different jurisdictions. Smaller firms feel it fastest, because duplicate audits and reviews pile up. The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation says 50 separate state laws in the US could push costs past $1 trillion over 10 years. California’s new rules alone come to nearly $16,000 a year for small businesses, and 65% of respondents in a US Chamber of Commerce survey say they’re worried about rising litigation and compliance costs.

If you’re scaling software globally, this isn’t just a legal side issue. Governance now reaches into accountability, decision-making, risk management, and monitoring before launch. The upside can be substantial: rollouts can lift manufacturing EBITDA by 15% to 25% and cut IT-service cycle times by 30% to 50%. But the spending rarely ends with the technology itself. For every $1 spent on tech, another $9 may be needed for training, workflow redesign, and change management.

You can track coordination through the United Nations’ global dialogue online in July 2026. Until then, strong internal governance is still one of the best ways to protect innovation.

Google has open-sourced WeatherNext 2 and WeatherNext Cyclones, putting its faster tropical cyclone forecasting tools in more researchers’ hands. The company says the models can give forecasters about an extra day of warning, produce a 15-day forecast in under a minute on a single TPU, and avoid the hours of supercomputer time those runs usually require. There’s also WeatherNext 2-mini, a lighter version that can run on a regular computer.

Google says WeatherNext 2 handles both storm track and intensity in a single model. It was trained on nearly 20 terabytes of atmospheric data, along with records from almost 5,000 storms, and it has already helped support the National Hurricane Center’s forecast for Hurricane Melissa in 2025.

If you work in forecasting or research, this release is probably one to download. Wider access should lead to more outside testing and validation. Still, Google WeatherNext 2, WeatherNext Cyclones, and WeatherNext 2-mini make the most sense as companions to conventional physics-based models, not replacements. Extreme-event intensity , storm structure, and unusual edge cases are still hard to capture reliably.

The open-source code and model weights are available now from Google.

Starting today, Suno users can press up to 46 minutes from their Suno library onto a custom 12-inch record. The price is about $45, plus shipping, according to the company.

Each Suno creation comes as a single record, with custom sleeve and label art included. Even so, the launch is already getting pushback from vinyl fans and artists who connect the format to musicianship, liner notes, record stores, and the small human imperfections that give records their character, not songs built from prompts.

The release also lands in the middle of a much bigger fight over machine-made music. Deezer has called attention to the volume of AI-generated uploads. Qobuz has taken a more cautious approach. The Recording Industry Association of the Phonographic Industry (RIAA) and the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) are both pushing for clearer labeling. Some producers see room here for experimentation or accessibility. A lot of musicians don’t buy that argument. Timbaland, for one, has advised Suno and used the platform in a remix contest.

If you use Suno often, this is something to watch. Universal Music Group (UMG) and Sony are suing over Suno’s alleged use of protected recordings. Germany’s GEMA has already won a ruling tied to training data. Even the eco pitch around PETG looks shakier once manufacturing, shipping, and compute are all part of the math. Add vinyl’s symbolic comeback in markets like Japan, along with cooling search interest, and this starts to look as much like an attention grab as a real new business line.

You can order the record through Suno.

Researchers who track software security say autonomous agents are running into a new wave of attacks. These digital assistants can read web pages, open files, summarize information, and carry out tasks, and that has sharpened concerns about how fast companies are rolling them out.

Those same researchers say agents that read web pages, open files, summarize information, and complete tasks can be manipulated by hidden or malicious instructions. The result can be data leaks, visits to dangerous links, or actions the user never meant to trigger.

They’re also warning about cross-app attacks. A poisoned calendar invite, spreadsheet, support ticket, web page, or document can be pulled from one service into another without proper checks, and the second app may treat it as harmless.

If you use autonomous agent features in your browser, phone, shopping app, or productivity service, take that seriously. The more access these systems have to your inbox, cloud storage, payment details, or work apps, the more damage a single bad instruction can cause. Be careful with broad permissions, especially when an agent can act on its own without a final confirmation.

Vendors still need stronger guardrails: clearer separation between trusted instructions and untrusted content, tighter default limits, better approval steps before money is spent, files are shared, or messages are sent, and more transparent logs that show why an agent took action. For now, these tools are spreading across consumer platforms as a mix of convenience and risk.

Nearly ten years after the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti launched on March 10, 2017, fresh testing says what a lot of PC gamers have probably already guessed: it still does the job at 1080p. Nvidia originally claimed the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti was about 35% faster than the GeForce GTX 1080. Today, across a 12-game average, it’s still putting up 64 fps, which leaves it in the same range as the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT, Nvidia GeForce RTX 2070, and Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060.

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Part of why it’s aged this well comes down to the hardware. The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti packs 3,584 CUDA cores and 11 GB of GDDR5X on a 352-bit bus, and that’s still enough to run most modern games without much drama. You do have to be a little more realistic with settings now, though. High will often get you a steadier 60 fps where ultra used to be easier to justify.

That 11 GB VRAM buffer is really the thing keeping the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti alive. It helps with high-resolution textures and avoids some of the stutter and texture pop-in you can run into on newer 8 GB cards. Still, you’re giving things up. There’s no hardware ray tracing, no DLSS, and Nvidia will stop Game Ready driver support in October 2025, then switch the card over to quarterly security updates through October 2028.

If you’re after cheap raster performance, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti is still a solid pickup at roughly $80 to $165 on the used market, even if the 250 W power draw feels old at this point. And used is your only option here. You can only get the GeForce GTX 1080 Ti secondhand.

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