Multiple critical security flaws have been disclosed in WordPress plugins and themes, including WPMU DEV Dashboard, Avada, TranslatePress, Pods, and GiveWP, that could lead to authentication bypass, account takeover, and arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities, according to Wordfence and Patchstack, are listed below - CVE-2026-76581 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An authentication bypass flaw in
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in Uzbekistan for a two-day state visit, after which he will go to Kyrgyzstan for the SCO Summit. Meanwhile, hundreds of Indians are still missing in Nepal. DW has more.
BYOK is a no-frills, single-purpose gadget that 90 percent of people will find absolutely frivolous. But for those who spend a significant chunk of their lives putting words to virtual paper, there is an obvious allure. Personally, I think it's at its best when you just stick to the bare minimum, focusing on pure text […]
Podcaster James English is one of many men with far-right ties to have been found guilty or accused of domestic violence In many ways, the case heard this week at Glasgow sheriff court was, unfortunately, not out of the ordinary. It was one of thousands of domestic violence trials to have passed through the Scottish courts since new legislation was introduced in 2019 to clamp down on a grimly persistent problem. A woman had testified that her former partner had waged a campaign of terror against her, and that she suffered abuse while she was pregnant with his child. The court heard that her partner had grabbed her by the throat, pinned her to a door, kicked her off a bed and sent her abusive texts, sometimes calling her a “fat slag” and a “little bitch”. Continue reading...
Hundreds were also forced to flee after a Russian attack near Ukraine's capital, Kyiv, sparked a huge fire and explosions. The strike was the second to hit an arms depot near Kyiv in less than two months.
Joseph Fink is the cocreator and cowriter of Welcome to Night Vale, arguably the most important fiction podcast ever. He's also the creator of the noir podcast Unlicensed and Alice Isn't Dead, which takes some of the conspiratorial cosmic horror of Night Vale and turns it into fodder for a more serious series about relationships, […]
The promise with containers was simple: if it runs on your local machine, it will run in production. And this The post Your container runs. Everything around it shouldn’t be your problem. appeared first on The New Stack .
Nepal officials say the death toll has continues to rise in Wednesday's floods that washed away communities in Nepal and Tibet, which is held by China. About 2,500 people are missing in both areas.
I have been waiting for agent-generated code to show up in public infrastructure data rather than in vendor benchmarks. In The post Commits on GitHub have doubled in four months. Verification capacity has not. appeared first on The New Stack .
Ukrainian prosecutors open investigation into why munitions were stored so close to residential buildings At least 37 people have been killed after a Russian drone struck a warehouse near Kyiv’s western suburbs that was storing “explosive objects”. The attack damaged at least 50 residential buildings, including a care home for elderly and disabled people, and sparked a huge fire and explosions in the Bucha district of the Kyiv region. The regional governor, Tymur Tkachenko, said a further 42 people, including four children, had been injured in the strike. Continue reading...
In China, 95 percent of the 128,000 short dramas released in Q1 2026 were AI-generated. Some actors are being forced to hand over their voice and likeness to AI tools before getting fired, the Financial Times reports. AI-related labor disputes are rising fast. The article AI-generated videos are already displacing actors and livestreamers across China's entertainment industry appeared first on The Decoder .
Bridget Phillipson says government would not have to consider releasing prisoners early if Tories had created more capacity Cells to hold newly arrested people could run out without the early prison release scheme, a minister has said. Bridget Phillipson defended the plan to address the prison capacity crisis in England and Wales by releasing thousands of prisoners early, which has been criticised by domestic abuse charities , bereaved families and probation officers among others. Continue reading...