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PaperCut zero-days hit CISA KEV as data theft attacks spread

PaperCut NG/MF zero-day chain CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 enables pre-auth RCE on print servers. CISA added both to KEV with a September 14 patch deadline.

Data Today Security Desk · Sep 1, 2026

Cyber security

Fire Ant turns Cisco routers into credential theft platforms

Fire Ant, a China-nexus espionage group, expanded from VMware hypervisors to Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS servers, hijacking the network trust layer to steal credentials and blind security logging across connected environments.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 31, 2026

Snowflake

Snowflake Postgres data mirroring explained

Snowflake Postgres data mirroring continuously replicates Postgres tables into Snowflake using Iceberg with 30-second lag. It replaces external CDC connectors with serverless compute and open formats.

Data Today Snowflake Desk · Aug 31, 2026

Stickman: finance

Nike's $170 Billion Collapse (It's Worse Than You Think)

Nike's stock fell 76% in five years, from $169 to $39.60. Everyone is asking if it's the next Blockbuster. The numbers say it's something worse.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 31, 2026

Research

Linear beats deep for time series anomaly detection

Plain OLS regression matches deep learning for time series anomaly detection, scoring 0.9399 mean F1 and beating 21 deep models on two metrics.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 30, 2026

Engineering

Meta's data center robotics push enters the physical layer

Meta's data center robotics tests target cable swaps and server resets. One trial could absorb 80% of some technician tasks, but major limitations remain.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Aug 30, 2026

Sony and Warner sue Anthropic over Claude lyric training

Sony and Warner Chappell sued Anthropic for training Claude on tens of thousands of copyrighted lyrics, seeking $150,000 per work in a case that could reach several billion dollars.

Data Today AI Desk · Aug 30, 2026

Stickman: finance

Meta Paid $18 Billion. The Market Didn't Blink.

Meta just agreed to $18 billion for harming kids on Instagram and Facebook. The stock moved 1.27%.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 28, 2026

AI for dummies

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash: AI video editing for beginners

Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash is a Google DeepMind model for generating and editing video by conversation. You can extend clips to 40 seconds, control camera moves with keyframes, preview cheaply in 360p, and upscale to 4K.

Data Today Explainers Desk · Aug 27, 2026

Cyber security

Citrix NetScaler RCE exploited, CISA sets Saturday deadline

Web shells are turning up on devices hit through Citrix NetScaler RCE flaw CVE-2026-8452. CISA orders patching by Saturday, August 29.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 27, 2026

Cyber security

Next.js RCE flaws hit AVIF and Windows servers: patch now

Next.js patches two critical unauthenticated RCE vulnerabilities in the August 2026 security release. AVIF image optimization and Windows filesystem path traversal both expose self-hosted servers. Upgrade to 15.5.24 or 16.3.3 immediately.

Data Today Security Desk · Aug 27, 2026

Engineering

ESQ-Bench: NL2SQL on Oracle is quietly wrong

On the 550-query ESQ-Bench Oracle NL2SQL benchmark, GPT-4o falls from 79.8 to 57.2 percent as schemas grow, and 92 percent of passes diverge.

Data Today Engineering Desk · Aug 26, 2026