Articles from July 2, 2026
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Live Disaster Recovery Test: Acronis Achieves 35-Second Failover, Comet and MSP360 Lag Behind
Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud restored a Windows Server 2022 virtual machine in 35 seconds during a simulated ransomware attack, dramatically outpacing Comet Backup and MSP360 Managed Backup in...
Microsoft Ships Emergency Fix for High-Severity RCE Flaw CVE-2026-50521 in Edge
Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update for its Edge browser to address a high-severity remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability identified as CVE-2026-50521. The advisory, initially...
AMD's AI PC Push: On-Device Copilot Inference Set to Slash Enterprise Cloud Bills by 2026
Microsoft’s vision for AI-saturated computing is running into a hard practical barrier: the cost of cloud inference. Every time a user asks Copilot to summarize a document, rewrite an email, or...
Microsoft Inks Landmark Deal with Nine to Feed Copilot Licensed Aussie News
Microsoft has secured a major content licensing agreement with Nine Entertainment Co, granting Copilot access to trusted journalism from Australia’s largest locally-owned media group. The deal,...
CVE-2026-54998: Why Microsoft's Confidence Rating is Critical for Exchange Online EoP Defense
Microsoft’s Security Response Center (MSRC) has published CVE-2026-54998, a new elevation-of-privilege (EoP) vulnerability affecting Exchange Online. What makes this disclosure different from the...
Microsoft Flags CVE-2026-41106: Copilot Privilege Escalation Could Cross Tenant Boundaries
Microsoft has published details on a newly disclosed elevation-of-privilege vulnerability in Microsoft 365 Copilot, tracked as CVE-2026-41106, that threatens the trust boundaries between tenants and...
CVE-2026-26145: Microsoft Flags Privilege Escalation Flaw in Azure Synapse Analytics
Microsoft has confirmed a new privilege escalation vulnerability in its cloud analytics service, Azure Synapse, tracked as CVE-2026-26145. The flaw, disclosed through the company's Security Update...
Microsoft Quietly Patches Critical Azure OpenAI Privilege Escalation Flaw
Microsoft has eliminated a critical vulnerability in its Azure OpenAI service that could have allowed attackers to elevate their privileges by exploiting server-side request forgery (SSRF), the...
Microsoft Silently Patches Entra Provisioning Elevation‑of‑Privilege Flaw – No KB Required
Microsoft this week listed CVE‑2026‑57100, an elevation‑of‑privilege vulnerability in the Microsoft Entra Provisioning Service, marking one of the first cloud‑centric patches of the year to...
Opera Browser’s Paste Protect Zeroes In on ClickFix Attacks, Blocking Malicious Clipboard Commands by Default
On July 2, 2026, Opera made a bold move in browser security by releasing Paste Protect, a feature now enabled by default that directly confronts the rising tide of ClickFix attacks. The new tool...
AlphaTheta CDJ-1500X Packs Club-Standard Features Into a Compact, Wi-Fi-Ready Player
AlphaTheta dropped a bombshell on the DJ world on July 2, 2026, with the announcement of the CDJ‑1500X — a compact multi‑player that crams the core features of a full‑sized club setup into a...
Android 17 Lands on Pixel: Gemini AI Takes Over as Google Kills the Big-Bang Update
Android 17 began its journey to supported Pixel devices on June 3, 2026, with build AP1A.240605.003 hitting Pixel 6, Pixel 6 Pro, Pixel 7, Pixel 7 Pro, Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro, Pixel Fold, and Pixel...