Piet's Daily Digest

Thursday, May 14, 2026 at 11:05
192  articles curated for you
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Apple & Mac

12 articles
9to5Mac (Bluesky) ▲ 12 10h ago
Apple counters US smartphone decline as iPhone sales grow: report
According to Counterpoint Research, Apple outperformed the broader US smartphone market in Q1, helped by continued iPhone 17 demand amid weakening Android sales. Here are the details. more……
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9to5Mac (Bluesky) ▲ 11 9h ago
Safari 26.5 fixes WebKit bugs that could crash Safari or expose user data
Apple has published the full list of security fixes for Safari 26.5, including a WebKit vulnerability that could let maliciously crafted web content disclose sensitive user information. Here are the details. more……
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9to5Mac (Bluesky) ▲ 10 8h ago
Apple TV renews ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ for season 2 ahead of next week’s finale
Following a strong first season with critics and viewers alike, Apple has confirmed that ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ will return for season two. Here are the details. more……
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9to5Mac (Bluesky) ▲ 10 12h ago
Apple warns EU against forcing Google to open Android to AI rivals
Apple submitted a filing to the European Commission today criticizing proposed measures that would force Google to open parts of Android to rival AI services. Here are the details. more……
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9to5Mac (Bluesky) ▲ 7 10h ago
Siri and Apple Home can control Matic vacuum/mop, here’s how
I’ve been using a robot vacuum and mop from Matic Robots for several months now. It’s a solid product with Apple-level build quality that’s built on privacy and intelligence. While Apple Home integration wasn’t always a …
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Six Colors (Bluesky) ▲ 5 11h ago
Indigo unifies the Mastodon and Bluesky timelines
Indigo, from Soapbox Software, is a new social media client that combines Bluesky and Mastodon timelines in one place. I've been using it for the...…
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MacRumors 41m ago
20th Anniversary iPhone's Curved Display to Improve a Year Later
Apple is already planning a second version of the "four-edge bending" display that is rumored to debut on next year's 20th-anniversary iPhone, claims a new report out of Korea. For the 20th-anniversary iPhone, Apple is s…
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Macworld 1h ago
How to connect two or more external displays to an M1, M2, M3, M4 or M5 MacBook or Neo
Macworld While the higher-end MacBooks with M1/M2/M3/M4/M5 Pro and Max chips support multiple external displays, Apple’s lower-end range of MacBooks that use a standard M1 and M2 processor cannot natively connect more th…
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Macworld 3h ago
Pay once, scan forever—iScanner App lifetime access is $25 today
Macworld TL;DR: The iScanner App turns your iPhone, iPad, or Android device into a powerful all-in-one PDF scanner for a one-time $24.97 payment (MSRP $199.90). It takes a special kind of person to figure out how to scan…
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Macworld 3h ago
Macworld Podcast: iOS 26.5 new features, Apple Watch rumors
Macworld xOS 26.5 is now available. What are the new features? Plus, we talk about Apple Watch rumors in this episode of the Macworld Podcast.  This is episode 983 with Michael Simon, Jason Cross, and Roman Loyola.  Watc…
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9to5Mac 8h ago
Apple TV renews ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ for season 2 ahead of next week’s finale
Following a strong first season with critics and viewers alike, Apple has confirmed that ‘Margo’s Got Money Troubles’ will return for season two. Here are the details. more……
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9to5Mac 9h ago
Safari 26.5 fixes WebKit bugs that could crash Safari or expose user data
Apple has published the full list of security fixes for Safari 26.5, including a WebKit vulnerability that could let maliciously crafted web content disclose sensitive user information. Here are the details. more……
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Servers

12 articles
The Register (Bluesky) ▲ 5 11h ago
Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits
Palo Alto Networks found and fixed 75 flaws this month, up from its usual five…
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The Register (Bluesky) ▲ 4 1h ago
Dirty Frag gets a sequel as Fragnesia hands Linux attackers root-level access
Fresh kernel flaw comes with public exploit code and continues ugly run of highly reliable privilege escalation bugs tied to memory and page-cache handling…
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Phoronix 44m ago
New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDML 2.1 FRL
Sent out on Wednesday was the latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD driver pull request of new feature code ready for DRM-Next as the staging area ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel. This doesn't yet land the HDMI 2.1 enablement work…
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Phoronix 58m ago
Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang
Introduced to the Linux kernel last year was Control-flow Enforcement Technology "CET" virtualization for modern AMD and Intel CPUs. This complements CET that has existed in Linux for quite some time but it's new now to …
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BleepingComputer 3h ago
New Fragnesia Linux flaw lets attackers gain root privileges
Linux distros are rolling out patches for a new high-severity kernel privilege escalation vulnerability (known as Fragnasia and tracked as CVE-2026-46300) that allows attackers to run malicious code as root. [...]…
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The Hacker News 3h ago
New Fragnesia Linux Kernel LPE Grants Root Access via Page Cache Corruption
Details have emerged about a new variant of the recent Dirty Frag Linux local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability that allows local attackers to gain root access, making it the third such bug to be identified in the…
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The Hacker News 5h ago
18-Year-Old NGINX Rewrite Module Flaw Enables Unauthenticated RCE
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security vulnerabilities impacting NGINX Plus and NGINX Open, including a critical flaw that remained undetected for 18 years. The vulnerability, discovered by depthfirst…
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LWN.net 10h ago
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for May 14, 2026
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Fedora AI; Forgejo "carrot" disclosure; memory-management maintainership; huge THPs; mshare; 64KB base pages; DAMON; direct map. Briefs: Dirty Frag; Fragnesia; Mythos and…
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Phoronix 10h ago
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers
Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN…
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AlmaLinux Blog 1d ago
NGINX Rift (CVE-2026-42945): Patched nginx available in testing
A heap-based buffer overflow in nginx’s ngx_http_rewrite_module, disclosed today as CVE-2026-42945 and nicknamed NGINX Rift, allows an unauthenticated attacker to crash a worker process, or potentially achieve remote cod…
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The Hacker News 7d ago
PyPI Packages Deliver ZiChatBot Malware via Zulip APIs on Windows and Linux
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered three packages on the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository that are designed to stealthily deliver a previously unknown malware family called ZiChatBot on Windows and Linux sys…
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The Hacker News 7d ago
vm2 Node.js Library Vulnerabilities Enable Sandbox Escape and Arbitrary Code Execution
A dozen critical security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the vm2 Node.js library that could be exploited by bad actors to break out of the sandbox and execute arbitrary code on susceptible systems. vm2 is an open…
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AI & ML

6 articles
The Verge (Bluesky) ▲ 8 1h ago
Windows Update will soon automatically roll back faulty drivers
Microsoft is making Windows Update a lot less disruptive.…
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The Verge (Bluesky) ▲ 7 25m ago
Android’s latest AI feature predicts what you’ll do next
And its enabled by default.…
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The Verge — AI 5m ago
You can make an app for that
The tyranny of software is almost over. Since the first computer programmers wrote the first computer programs, we, the users of that software, have been forced to live in the worlds those programs create. The features a…
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MIT Tech Review 1h ago
The Tesla Semi could be a big deal for electric trucking
The Tesla Semi has officially arrived. The company recently released a photo of the first vehicle rolling off its new full-scale production line. This moment has been nearly a decade in the making: The company first anno…
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MIT Tech Review 2h ago
The shock of seeing your body used in deepfake porn 
When Jennifer got a job doing research for a nonprofit in 2023, she ran her new professional headshot through a facial recognition program. She wanted to see if the tech would pull up the porn videos she’d made more than…
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Simon Willison 11h ago
Welcome to the Datasette blog
Welcome to the Datasette blog ...…
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XRP

2 articles
The Daily Hodl 2h ago
$400,000,000 Seized From Crypto Ponzi Scheme Now Available To Compensate Victims, Says DOJ
The US Justice Department says funds are now available to compensate victims of the AirBit Club. Operators marketed the Ponzi scheme as a cryptocurrency mining and trading company with guaranteed profits. AirBit co-found…
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The Daily Hodl 4h ago
Veteran Crypto Trader Warns Bitcoin Now Facing Big Resistance, Says BTC Must Breach Key Level To Confirm Bottom
A crypto strategist known for making timely Bitcoin calls is warning that BTC may have a sudden correction after returning to the $70,000 range. The pseudonymous trader Cheds tells his 50,500 YouTube subscribers that Bit…
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Europe & NL

12 articles
Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 69 20m ago
China pulls export licenses for US beef plants shortly after renewing them
Export licenses to ​China for hundreds ‌of U.S. beef plants that ​had just ​been renewed after a ⁠year-plus hiatus ​are now listed ​as expired, according to Chinese customs.…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 54 12h ago
Tooth from Siberian cave reveals Neanderthal dental surgery
About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That ​tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, bearing signs of dental su…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 45 11h ago
Family of Black motorist killed in 2019 traffic stop reaches $4.8 million settlement with Louisiana officials
Louisiana officials reached a tentative $4.8 million settlement with the family ​of Ronald Greene, an unarmed Black motorist who died in May 2019 in ‌an incident of police violence, according to the office of Louisiana's…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 39 5h ago
Protests flare across Havana as power cuts deepen amid US blockade
Protests ‌broke out across the Cuban capital of Havana on Wednesday evening as the city confronted its worst rolling blackouts in decades amid a U.S. blockade that has starved the island of fuel.…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 37 4h ago
Second Japan-linked crude oil tanker passes through Strait of Hormuz, LSEG data shows
A Panama-flagged crude oil tanker managed by Japanese refining group Eneos has passed through the Strait of Hormuz, ship-tracking data from LSEG showed on Thursday, the second instance of such a Japan-linked ship making …
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 36 9h ago
Man who helped supply ketamine to Matthew Perry sentenced to two years in prison
A man who helped supply "Friends" star Matthew Perry with the drug ketamine ​before the actor's overdose death in 2023 was ‌sentenced to two years in prison on Wednesday.…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 32 7h ago
Body of second missing US soldier recovered in Morocco
A search and rescue team has recovered the body ​of a second U.S. service member who went ‌missing near a cliff during a training exercise near Cap Draa, Morocco, the U.S. Army and Morocco's Royal Armed Forces said ​on W…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 30 5h ago
Kyiv under attack from Russian drones, missiles, at least 4 injured, Ukrainian officials say
Officials said the attacks damaged several buildings, including one which partially collapsed with residents likely trapped under rubble.…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 29 9h ago
Chinese EV startup Xpeng in talks with Volkswagen to buy European factory, FT reports
Chinese electric vehicle startup Xpeng is in talks with Volkswagen and other automakers about buying a factory ​in Europe, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday.…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 26 10h ago
Israel's Eurovision Song Contest entrant heard booing as he went onstage
Israel's contestant at the Eurovision Song Contest semi-final on Tuesday heard the boos of a small number of pro-Palestinian protesters as he took the stage even ​though many in the room could not, he told Reuters on Wed…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 22 4h ago
Exclusive: New York, California pension leaders oppose 'extreme' SpaceX control structure
Leaders of three of the biggest U.S. public pension systems said they have major concerns over SpaceX's "extreme" ownership and control set-up in its upcoming public stock listing, urging founder and CEO Elon ​Musk to re…
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Reuters (Bluesky) ▲ 22 6h ago
'Miraculous': 11 plane crash survivors rescued at sea off Florida
All 11 people aboard a private airplane that ​crashed at sea off central Florida survived the wreck and were rescued from their ‌lifeboat hours later by a U.S. Air Force Reserve team, U.S. Coast Guard and Air Force offic…
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Local NS

12 articles
Le Courrier de la N.-É. 4m ago
Échange de vêtements et de livres: Étoile de l’Acadie encourage la réutilisation
Type de contenu: Actualité Cet échange de vêtements est en place depuis quelques années afin de promouvoir l’écoresponsabilité. La réutilisation est, pour ce centre, une manière d’encourager les gens à réduire leur empre…
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SaltWire 12m ago
New downtown Summerside craft store more than just a place to buy yarn
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — Crafting has been a big part of Angela McDiarmid’s life for as long as she can remember. Read More…
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SaltWire 18m ago
GWYNNE DYER: Is a third world war coming?
A Politico opinion poll conducted in the four biggest NATO countries in February revealed almost identical popular expectations about the likelihood of a global war in the next five years. Read More…
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SaltWire 21m ago
Southlands residents say duplex development 'short-sighted,' worry about impact on existing services
While the 86 semi-detached housing units proposed for 125 Southlands Blvd. in St. John’s could provide some much-needed relief amidst an ongoing housing crisis, area residents have been hesitant to fully embrace the proj…
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SaltWire 40m ago
Summerside Western Capitals to meet Truro Bearcats at Centennial Cup
The Maritime Junior Hockey League will be in the national spotlight on May 15. Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Ontario man pleads guilty in P.E.I. Supreme Court to possessing fentanyl, cocaine and meth for trafficking purposes
An Ontario man has pleaded guilty to possessing large amounts of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine in P.E.I. for trafficking purposes. Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Bathing kids in a Rubbermaid tote: early drought and dry conditions a concern across Nova Scotia
There are people in Nova Scotia who fit the definition of praying for rain, and Courtney Boudreau is one of them.  Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Opinion: Nova Scotia's capped assessment program brought in for a reason
Re: Capped assessment program inherently unfair, Tuesday Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Kentville Wildcats ready to defend NSSBL title
Caleb Medicraft knows other teams will be gunning for the Kentville Wildcats this summer. Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Mahone Bay's only bank is closing, part of a wave of big banks shuttering branches across Canada
Kate Cocks won’t let the Bank of Montreal leave Mahone Bay quietly.  Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
Shubenacadie Wildlife Park opens for summer season May 15
It’s about to get a lot busier in Shubenacadie East. Read More…
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SaltWire 1h ago
P.E.I. aerospace company getting $110 million in government funding
SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. — A Slemon Park aerospace company’s expansion has received a financial boost from both the P.E.I. and federal governments. Read More…
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Self-Hosted

3 articles
LinuxServer.io (Bluesky) ▲ 1 14d ago
📰 Copyfail LSIO Build Environment Pause Notice https://info.linuxserver.io/issues/2026-04-29-copyfail/
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Portainer Blog 36d ago
5 Best Industry 4.0 Tools for Smart Manufacturing (2026 Guide)
Compare the best Industry 4.0 tools for IoT, edge computing, and automation. Discover features, use cases, and how to choose the right platform…
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Portainer Blog 37d ago
Industrial Edge Computing: How It Works, Use Cases & Benefits
Deploy and manage industrial edge workloads with Portainer. Use Edge Stacks, device grouping, and centralized control to scale operations across distributed environments.…
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