The web platform, browsers, AI and security, taken apart: news, analysis and research from the FuriaHub team.
Microsoft said App Assure work has pushed the Works on Windows on Arm catalog past 7,000 verified apps and games. Nvidia RTX Spark PCs from Surface, ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, and MSI are due to ship in fall 2026, putting RTX Spark alongside Snapdragon X.
Patch Tuesday updates may throw System.IO.FileFormatException in WPF print, PDF, and XPS paths with certain fonts, including Calibri. The issue spans Windows 10 and 11 and Server 2012 through 2025.
Dominik Reichel described a 64-bit DLL that impersonates dpapi.dll and side-loads into ESET’s ERAAgent.exe. It has no default beacon and can exfiltrate over VMware VMCI.
Google’s published schedule moves the Chrome 153 branch to Monday, August 17, and puts stable on Tuesday, September 8 — the first milestone on the new two-week cadence for desktop, Android, and iOS.
A changelog dated August 13 rolled DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813 onto app, web, and API, with MIT weights on Hugging Face. Peak/off-peak rates started August 16.
An August 12 recap of Google’s Device Bound Session Credentials said the protocol is on for a slice of Chrome users (Windows from 147, macOS from 150) and that Mozilla published a negative position in early August.
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