Botnet campaign hits unpatched TP-Link Archer AX-21 routers
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Exploits high-severity security flaw

A new botnet campaign is tearing through unpatched TP-Link routers like a dodgy kebab through the bowels of an Essex drunk.

Amazon’s Zoox self-driving taxi in trouble with regulators
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Lacks brake peddle and rearview mirrors

Amazon-backed Zoox’s self-driving taxi has hit a bureaucratic brick wall. US safety regulators have pointed out that the futuristic vehicle lacks basic kit—like a brake pedal and rearview mirrors.

Patch Tuesday update crucial
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Start patching 

Software King of the World Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday is a necessary one, according to Fortra Associate Director Tyler Reguly. 

Meta wanted to hand censorship keys to Chinese 
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You know censorship better than us

Meta was so desperate to get into China’s massive market that it was willing to hand over the censorship reins to the Chinese Communist Party and muzzle political dissenters, according to new whistleblower complaint. 

HP bricked its own toners
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Even officially sanctioned toners don’t work

The maker of expensive printer ink HP, which pulls out stops to brick its printers when they are using unsanctioned toners, have gone a step further – it has started bricking official toners too.