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CVE-2026-8711 affects NGINX JavaScript njs, not every NGINX deployment. The vulnerable range is njs 0.9.4 through 0.9.8, and the fixed version is njs 0.9.9 or later. Treat it as urgent when all of these are true: NGINX imports njs code with js_import, the deployment uses js_fetch_proxy, that directive uses at least one client-controlled variable such as $http_*, $arg_*, or $cookie_*, and a location invokes ngx.fetch(). If there is no js_import in the active NGINX configuration, the...

Microsoft has acknowledged a Windows 11 storage bug in KB5095093, the June 23, 2026 optional preview update for versions 24H2 and 25H2, after reports that CapabilityAccessManager.db-wal could balloon from a few megabytes to hundreds of gigabytes on the system drive. The fix is currently in the preview channel and, according to Microsoft’s own release-note cadence, is slated to reach the broader security update train on July 14, 2026. Windows Latest first tied the terse Microsoft changelog...

Rufus is a free Windows utility that creates bootable USB installers and, as highlighted by Modernet Digital on July 6, 2026, remains one of the easiest ways to install Windows 11 on PCs that fail Microsoft’s TPM 2.0, Secure Boot, or processor checks. That makes it more than another repair-shop convenience. Rufus has become a pressure valve for the Windows ecosystem: a small, open-source tool sitting between Microsoft’s security ambitions and the millions of still-usable PCs left outside the...

Guiding Tech’s Windows 11 troubleshooting guide argues that a monitor failing to display full screen is usually caused by mismatched resolution, scaling, monitor-side aspect settings, bad cabling, GPU scaling overrides, or app-specific fullscreen behavior. That sounds mundane, but it is exactly why the problem frustrates users: nothing is necessarily “broken,” yet the desktop still looks wrong. The real lesson is that Windows display output is no longer controlled by Windows alone. It is a...

A Chinese AI chip start-up led by semiconductor veteran Wei Shaojun publicly emerged from stealth in early July 2026, saying it will use software-defined chip design and 3D stacked near-memory computing to build domestic AI accelerators despite U.S. export controls. The South China Morning Post first reported the company’s public debut, describing Dongfang Suanxin as part of a broader Chinese turn toward packaging, stacking, and architectural workarounds rather than a straight race for the...

Miri officials used the opening of the Miri Smart City Command Centre to announce that Sarawak Microelectronics Design is developing a medical semiconductor chip designed by Sarawakian talent in Cardiff, United Kingdom, for advanced imaging and procedure-guidance equipment. The announcement, reported by Sarawak Tribune, is less about one component than about Sarawak’s bigger attempt to move from consuming smart technology to designing the silicon that makes it work. Premier Datuk Patinggi...

Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad urged Malay voters on June 30, 2026, to support Malay candidates regardless of party affiliation, warning in a Facebook open letter that Malaysia could cease to remain “Tanah Melayu” if Malays failed to unite electorally. The remarks, reported by Free Malaysia Today, Sinar Harian, The Rakyat Post, and the South China Morning Post, are not an isolated provocation from a retired statesman with a still-active Facebook account. They are a reminder...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, on July 4, 2026, using the launch to spotlight young tribal women from Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh working on India’s chip-packaging line. The moment matters because it ties two national ambitions together: semiconductor self-reliance and a broader claim that high-tech manufacturing can create ladders for workers far from India’s...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated commercial production at CG Semi’s outsourced semiconductor assembly and test facility in Sanand, Gujarat, on July 4, 2026, marking the latest operational plant under the India Semiconductor Mission and adding another packaging-and-testing node to India’s emerging chip-manufacturing map. The event, reported by The News Mill and corroborated by Business Standard, Moneycontrol, the Press Information Bureau, and other Indian outlets, is being framed by...

Microsoft is reportedly preparing to merge its consumer and enterprise Copilot applications into a single app by August 2026, while cutting underused features and adding paid AI agents, according to reporting from PYMNTS and The Information on July 2. The move is not just a product cleanup. It is Microsoft admitting that Copilot’s problem is no longer visibility; it is conviction. The assistant is everywhere in Windows, Edge, Office, GitHub, and Microsoft 365, but ubiquity has not yet become...

About one-third of working-age Coloradans used major AI tools in the first quarter of 2026, according to Microsoft’s May report on U.S. AI diffusion, putting Colorado slightly above the national average and near the upper tier of American states. The Denver Gazette framed the finding as a local adoption story, but the more interesting read is geographic: Colorado is not simply “using AI.” It is reproducing, county by county, the same digital fault lines that have shaped broadband, remote...

Microsoft Edge is Windows 11’s default browser and PDF reader, but Paul Thurrott’s newly updated Windows 11 Field Guide entry argues that users should configure it defensively even if they never plan to browse with it. That is the uncomfortable truth at the center of Edge in 2026: Microsoft has built one of the best Chromium browsers on the market, then wrapped it in some of Windows’ least user-respecting defaults. The result is not a simple “Edge good” or “Edge bad” story. It is a case...

Verdict: do not schedule Windows Server 2016 Extended Security Updates as a July 2026 cutover. Microsoft’s current product timeline separates the two 2016 deadlines: SQL Server 2016 reaches its Extended Security Updates transition on July 14, 2026, while Windows Server 2016 remains a January 2027 server operating system deadline. If you run both in the same application stack, treat them as two related but separate projects. The practical move is to split the plan: SQL Server 2016 is the July...

Smartprix reported on July 3, 2026, citing an unnamed OPPO industry source, that OPPO plans to retire OxygenOS and Realme UI branding globally and move future OnePlus and Realme phones onto ColorOS. The companies have not confirmed the claim, which is exactly why the story sits in that uncomfortable zone between leak and obituary. But if the report is right, it is less a sudden execution than the last visible step in a software merger that began years ago. ColorOS Did Not Conquer OxygenOS...

Google’s Android 17 beta adds a cross-device handoff feature called Continue On, letting users begin supported app activities on one Android device and resume them on a nearby Android tablet under the same Google account. The short version is that Android is finally treating device-switching as a first-class operating-system problem, not an app-by-app convenience hack. As detailed by Google’s Android Developers documentation and amplified by early coverage from Android Central, Tech Advisor...

Google has completed the broad rollout of Google Meet support for Android Auto in late June 2026, letting drivers join scheduled Meet calls from a compatible car display as an audio-only experience while using the Meet app on an Android phone. The feature sounds small because it is deliberately constrained. But that restraint is the point: Google is turning the car dashboard into a work endpoint while trying not to make it look like one. As first reported in this news cycle by NPowerUser and...

WhatsApp is testing a green online-status dot for selected Android and iPhone beta users in July 2026, with the indicator appearing on a contact’s profile photo inside the chat info screen when that person is actively using the app. The change was first tracked by WABetaInfo and has since been corroborated by outlets including Gadgets 360, Beebom, and The Express Tribune. It is a tiny interface tweak with a larger consequence: WhatsApp is slowly making presence feel native to an app that has...

PC Gamer’s Andy Edser argued on July 4, 2026, that gaming handheld PCs have become the consumer hardware category most visibly punished by the memory-price crisis, with once-expensive devices now looking rational only because their rivals have moved into absurd territory. The uncomfortable punchline is that a $1,000 Asus ROG Xbox Ally X can now be framed as the “best value” handheld not because it is cheap, but because the market around it has broken. This is what happens when a young PC...

Micro-Star International, the Taiwan-based PC hardware maker better known as MSI, is leaning harder into gaming laptops, desktop components, peripherals, creator systems, and software utilities in 2026 as it tries to turn enthusiast brand loyalty into a broader global PC ecosystem. AD HOC NEWS framed the company this week as a hardware specialist strengthening its position around gaming and high-performance computing, but the more interesting story is not that MSI sells gaming gear. It is...