Cisco has released security updates to address a maximum-severity Secure Workload vulnerability that allows attackers to gain Site Admin privileges.
Formerly known as Cisco Tetration, Cisco Secure Workload helps admins reduce their network’s attack surface through zero trust microsegmentation and stop lateral movement to keep business applications safe.
Tracked as CVE-2026-20223, the security flaw was found in Secure Workload’s internal REST APIs, and it enables unauthenticated attackers to access resources with the privileges of the Site Admin role.
“This vulnerability is due to insufficient validation and authentication when accessing REST API endpoints. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability if they are able to send a crafted API request to an affected endpoint,” Cisco explained in a Wednesday advisory.
“A successful exploit could allow the attacker to read sensitive information and make configuration changes across tenant boundaries with the privileges of the Site Admin user.”
Cisco says there are no workarounds for this security flaw, has released software updates to patch it for on-premises customers, and has already addressed it in the cloud-based Cisco Secure Workload SaaS deployment.
| Cisco Secure Workload Release | First Fixed Release |
|---|---|
| 3.9 and earlier | Migrate to a fixed release. |
| 3.10 | 3.10.8.3 |
| 4.0 | 4.0.3.17 |
The company also added that its Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) has not found evidence that the vulnerability has been exploited in the wild before publishing this week’s advisory.
Earlier this month, Cisco warned that another maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-20182) affecting its Catalyst SD-WAN software-based networking platform was being actively exploited as a zero-day, allowing attackers to gain admin privileges.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the CVE-2026-20182 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog on May 14 and ordered federal agencies to secure affected devices within three days, by May 17.
In early May, Cisco also released security updates for a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in Crosswork Network Controller (CNC) and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), which requires manually rebooting targeted systems to recover.
Over the past five years, CISA has flagged 91 Cisco vulnerabilities as actively exploited, six of which have been used by various ransomware gangs.
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The WWDC updates for watchOS 27 are expected to be minimal thanks to Apple’s stability focus. However, Apple is rumored to be improving the heart-rate tracking with the new fall update.
The WWDC 2026 keynote is a few weeks away, and the excitement is all about AI and iOS 27’s changes. While you can expect some tweaks to watchOS 27, it seems like there won’t be that many visible changes on the way.
In Sunday’s “Power On” newsletter for Bloomberg, the watchOS update will focus on stability, performance, and refinements. There will be changes, but most will be to improve the existing features rather than add new ones to the software.
This apparently includes more improvements to the way the Apple Watch tracks the wearer’s heart rate. However, Gurman doesn’t say what this will entail.
Previously, Gurman wrote that Apple was porting the Modular face from the Apple Watch Ultra to the other models. This entails Apple removing a row of three small complications that appear above the time, as well as the information that surrounds the bezel.
watchOS 27 isn’t the only thing that’s seeing some changes hidden or barely observable by users. There have been some more managerial changes within Apple as well.
Gurman mentions the departure of Stan Ng, who retired from his role as VP of Apple Watch and Health Product Marketing in April. His replacement covering health, home, and Apple Watch, is Kaiann Drance, a manager of iPhone product marketing who insiders believe could become the overall marketing chief.
There has also been a change in oversight for the long-running non-invasive glucose monitoring project. Apple handed control of the project from platform architecture chief Tim Millet over to Zongjian Chen.
Chen is the senior engineering leader managing modems and the Advanced Technologies Group. It is proposed that Chen’s involvement is an indication that Apple is getting somewhere with the technology, and may actually bring it to consumers at some point.
There have been projections of it landing in 2027, but it could easily arrive at a much later time.
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A new NYT Connections puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Connections hints and answers for Sunday, May 24 (game #1078).
Good morning! Let’s play Connections, the NYT’s clever word game that challenges you to group answers in various categories. It can be tough, so read on if you need Connections hints.
What should you do once you’ve finished? Why, play some more word games of course. I’ve also got daily Strands hints and answers and Quordle hints and answers articles if you need help for those too, while Marc’s Wordle today page covers the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Connections today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
Today’s NYT Connections words are…
What are some clues for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Need more clues?
We’re firmly in spoiler territory now, but read on if you want to know what the four theme answers are for today’s NYT Connections puzzles…
What are the answers for today’s NYT Connections groups?
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Connections, game #1079, are…
My error today came because I thought I was being really clever and would get a “purple first” after connecting BROW, CYA, WHIT, PIN, thinking that they were all colors minus a letter — as in brown, cyan, white, and pink.
Crestfallen, I managed to link JOT, SCRAP and SHRED and took a lucky gamble with WHIT.
ATM, LOL, and TIA I knew as TEXTING ABBREVIATIONS, but didn’t realize that CYA was an abbreviated way of saying ‘See ya’ — although when I googled it the AI search response was that it meant “cover your ass”.
NYT Connections is one of several increasingly popular word games made by the New York Times. It challenges you to find groups of four items that share something in common, and each group has a different difficulty level: green is easy, yellow a little harder, blue often quite tough and purple usually very difficult.
On the plus side, you don’t technically need to solve the final one, as you’ll be able to answer that one by a process of elimination. What’s more, you can make up to four mistakes, which gives you a little bit of breathing room.
It’s a little more involved than something like Wordle, however, and there are plenty of opportunities for the game to trip you up with tricks. For instance, watch out for homophones and other word games that could disguise the answers.
It’s playable for free via the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
A new experiment from cybersecurity company Surfshark suggests that even people who consider themselves savvy online users are struggling to tell AI bots apart from real humans on social media.
Of the 710 participants who took part in the study carried out with master’s students from Malmö University, only 53% correctly identified more bots than they misidentified humans. This means that nearly half (47%) failed the task altogether.
Recent industry estimates suggest bot-driven amplification now accounts for around 23% of political discourse on X during election seasons.
Surfshark’s own earlier research found that major platforms remove more than 6.3 billion fake accounts each year, roughly 47 times the number of babies born worldwide annually.
Even the best VPN cannot make you better at recognising an AI-written comment, and that is exactly the gap this experiment is trying to highlight.
The “Bot or Not” simulation puts you in the seat of a content moderator and asks one simple question: Can you really still trust your own instincts when you scroll?
The “Bot or Not” game is a timed, interactive simulation built by Interaction Design master’s students at Malmö University for the UNFOLD exhibition during Milan Design Week.
Players are dropped into a simulated social media comment section and given 120 seconds to spot 10 bot-written comments across four discussion topics.
Two of those topics were deliberately “cold,” meaning low in emotional charge: data centres and the perennial pineapple-on-pizza debate. The other two were “hot” and politically loaded: immigration and women’s rights. The contrast between the four was where the most revealing data appeared.
When participants discussed data centres, they identified 71% of the bots with a 76% accuracy rate, the strongest result in the study. Pineapple on pizza was almost as good, at 64% detection and 69% accuracy.
The moment the simulation moved into emotional territory, however, performance collapsed.
On immigration, detection fell to 54% and accuracy to 63%. On women’s rights, detection crashed to just 49%, with accuracy slipping to 61%, meaning users were both missing more bots and wrongly accusing more real humans of being machines.
The study also points to a clear “generational cliff” at around the age of 40. Players up to age 20 were the strongest bot-hunters in the dataset, finding nearly 65% of bots with an accuracy of more than 71%. Performance held steady through the 20s and 30s, then dropped sharply for the 41 to 50 bracket, where detection fell to 42% and accuracy to 59%. Users over 50 fared only marginally better.
According to Surfshark’s Research Lead Luís Costa, the takeaway is not really about reading skills or media literacy in the traditional sense. The biggest blind spot the experiment exposed was emotion: when a debate gets heated, it effectively hijacks the mental “radar” people rely on to flag suspicious content.
To push back against automated deception, he argues, what users actually need is a cooler head and a better awareness of their own vulnerabilities, not sharper textual analysis.
The “Bot or Not” game is now publicly available at botornot.one, and anyone can play it in their browser to see how they score against the original 710 participants.
The wider point of the study is harder to shake off than the score on any individual playthrough. Bots are being produced by the billions, the technology that powers them is getting better at blending in, and our own emotional reactions are the lever they are increasingly built to pull.
A few minutes with “Bot or Not” is a quick way to find out just how often that lever is already working on you.
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The NYT puzzle editors don’t always acknowledge the calendar or holidays, but today’s NYT Strands puzzle does just that. Some of the answers are difficult to unscramble, so if you need hints and answers, read on.
I go into depth about the rules for Strands in this story.
If you’re looking for today’s Wordle, Connections and Mini Crossword answers, you can visit CNET’s NYT puzzle hints page.
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Today’s Strands theme is: Thank you.
If that doesn’t help you, here’s a clue: We remember.
Your goal is to find hidden words that fit the puzzle’s theme. If you’re stuck, find any words you can. Every time you find three words of four letters or more, Strands will reveal one of the theme words. These are the words I used to get those hints but any words of four or more letters that you find will work:
These are the answers that tie into the theme. The goal of the puzzle is to find them all, including the spangram, a theme word that reaches from one side of the puzzle to the other. When you have all of them (I originally thought there were always eight but learned that the number can vary), every letter on the board will be used. Here are the nonspangram answers:
The completed NYT Strands puzzle for May 25, 2026.
Today’s Strands spangram is MEMORIALDAY. To find it, start with the M that’s the first letter on the top row, and wind across and then down.
If your first-generation Chromecast was acting a little wonky this week, don’t worry. Contrary to fears online, the 2014 device hasn’t been excommunicated by Google. In a statement to Ars Technica, a rep for the search giant explained that the issue, which was keeping the devices from being able to stream video from services like Netflix, was temporary and should now be resolved. That said, the OG Chromecast hasn’t officially been supported since 2023, so it’s not clear how much longer they will remain operational. Google be Google, after all.
After resisting for years, this week, Mozilla finally relented and brought Web Serial to Firefox. While there’s been some debate about the wisdom of letting the Internet directly talk to hardware gadgets, anyone who’s flashed Meshtastic or configured their Betaflight-powered drone from the browser can attest to how convenient it is. In the announcement, Mozilla acknowledges that “most folks won’t use this API”, but points out that the “community of builders and tinkerers” (that’s us!) is sure to be excited about the news. They’ve even teamed up with Adafruit to ensure their web-based microcontroller workflows are compatible in Firefox 151 and beyond. If you give it a shot, let us know how it goes.
Speaking of hardware support, the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) recently picked up a couple of big-name sponsors. As reported by It’s FOSS, this week, Lenovo, Dell, and HP have signed on as Premier-level sponsors to the tune of $100,000 per year. For those unfamiliar, LVFS offers a central repository where hardware vendors can upload firmware updates. On the client side, fwupd can be used to pull these updates down automatically without having to hunt around on each vendor’s website. The experienced players don’t need a service like LVFS, but it’s certainly one of those quality-of-life improvements that make the desktop experience a bit more accessible.
While on the subject of getting hardware working, we hear that more PlayStation 5 consoles can now run Linux. Last month, a software solution for booting the operating system on PS5 consoles running the relatively ancient 3.x and 4.x firmware was released, but now developer Andy Nguyen has gotten it working on firmware 5.x and at least some versions of 6.x. That’s still considerably behind Sony’s latest release, but it does open things up for more consoles to get in on the action.
In space news, the successful first flight of Starship V3 has understandably dominated the headlines for the last few days, but SpaceX wasn’t the only commercial launch provider with good news this week. On Friday, Blue Origin announced they had completed the investigation into the failure of its New Glenn rocket back on April 19th and that the Federal Aviation Administration has approved its return to flight.
According to a statement from the FAA, Blue Origin “identified the direct cause of the mishap as a cryogenic leak that froze a hydraulic line and led to a thrust anomaly during the second stage engine burn.” This resulted in the payload, a next-generation communications satellite featuring a massive 2,400 sq ft deployable antenna array developed by AST SpaceMobile, being placed in an unsustainable orbit.
If you’ve always dreamed of piloting your own walking battle tank, you might finally be in luck. China’s Unitree Robotics has unveiled a mech standing 2.7 meters tall, complete with a promotional video showing it smashing cinder blocks. Because what else would you do with a robot you just paid more than half a million dollars for? Unfortunately, there isn’t much information about the bot’s speed or endurance, and a company spokesperson says the design still needs some refinement before it is ready for production. But still, we’re getting there. Might as well start saving up now.
Finally, we were thrilled to hear that the iconic soundtrack for DOOM has been inducted into the National Recording Registry by the Library of Congress. There’s perhaps no piece of software more emblematic of the hardware hacking world than the 1993 shooter, and while we don’t think that had anything to do with the decision to formally recognize the game’s heavy metal-inspired digital riffs, it will be all that much sweeter the next time we see some oddball gadget running through E1M1.
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Today’s Wordle puzzle is a bit of a challenge. If you need a new starter word, check out our list of which letters show up the most in English words. If you need hints and the answer, read on.
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Before we show you today’s Wordle answer, we’ll give you some hints. If you don’t want a spoiler, look away now.
Today’s Wordle answer has one repeated letter.
Today’s Wordle answer has one vowel, but it’s the repeated letter, so you’ll see it twice.
Today’s Wordle answer begins with V.
Today’s Wordle answer ends with T.
Today’s Wordle answer can refer to the act of going to a person or place for a short time to socialize.
Today’s Wordle answer is VISIT.
Yesterday’s Wordle answer, May 24, No. 1800, was NIECE.
May 20, No. 1796: WRECK
May 21, No. 1797: AGREE
May 22, No. 1798: VOCAL
May 23, No. 1799: CHUCK
On paper, the number is striking. In practice, it reflects a very different kind of vehicle.
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With so many online messaging services to choose from it’s almost as though the daddy of them all, email, has faded into the background as something you only use for more formal contacts. But it’s still the underpinning of much of the business world’s electronic communication and is likely to stay so for the foreseeable future. The BBC Archive takes us back to a time when email was relatively new, when in 1986 [Lesley Judd] takes a very chunky 1980s laptop on a plane from London to the Netherlands, and sends an email to her colleague at home using a payphone and an acoustic coupler.
There are so many of-their-era quirks in this film it’s difficult to pick, but little things like the aircraft still having smoking and non-smoking areas, there being no sign of a mobile telephone, or the payphone operating in Guilders rather than Euros make it from a different time. Perhaps most interesting though is the email system in use, because this isn’t an internet based service. Instead it’s using Telecom Gold, which was the UK telco BT’s online service offering to businesses, and part of the international Dialcom network. This was a commercial service which hung on until some time in the 1990s when the Internet finally displaced it.
The British writer L. P. Hartley used the phrase “The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there” as the opening sentence of one of his books, and the film below the break certainly brings that to mind. It’s a time that’s within reach, yet the changes in information technology over even the next decade or so would make the tech depicted not just obsolete but almost unrecognizable. Most of us today could sit at a 1996 laptop and send an email, but few of us would be as immediately at home with Telecom Gold.
It’s still possible to use an acoustic coupler today though.
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a medium-tough one, I think. I recognized the blue category words right away. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
The Times has a Connections Bot, like the one for Wordle. Go there after you play to receive a numeric score and to have the program analyze your answers. Players who are registered with the Times Games section can now nerd out by following their progress, including the number of puzzles completed, win rate, number of times they nabbed a perfect score and their win streak.
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Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
Yellow group hint: It’s free!
Green group hint: Not a lot.
Blue group hint: OMG is another one.
Purple group hint: You see with them.
Yellow group: Common promo items.
Green group: Tiny bit.
Blue group: Texting abbreviations.
Purple group: Eye ____.
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The completed NYT Connections puzzle for May 25, 2026.
The theme is common promo items. The four answers are cap, pin, shirt and sticker.
The theme is tiny bit. The four answers are jot, scrap, shred and whit.
The theme is texting abbreviations. The four answers are ATM, CYA, LOL and TIA.
The theme is eye ____. The four answers are ball, brow, lash and lid.
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A new NYT Strands puzzle appears at midnight each day for your time zone – which means that some people are always playing ‘today’s game’ while others are playing ‘yesterday’s’. If you’re looking for Sunday’s puzzle instead then click here: NYT Strands hints and answers for Sunday, May 24 (game #812).
Strands is the NYT’s latest word game after the likes of Wordle, Spelling Bee and Connections – and it’s great fun. It can be difficult, though, so read on for my Strands hints.
Want more word-based fun? Then check out my NYT Connections today and Quordle today pages for hints and answers for those games, and Marc’s Wordle today page for the original viral word game.
SPOILER WARNING: Information about NYT Strands today is below, so don’t read on if you don’t want to know the answers.
• Today’s NYT Strands theme is… Thank you
Play any of these words to unlock the in-game hints system.
• Spangram has 11 letters
First side: left, 1st row
Last side: right, 6th row
Right, the answers are below, so DO NOT SCROLL ANY FURTHER IF YOU DON’T WANT TO SEE THEM.
The answers to today’s Strands, game #803, are…
No surprise about today’s theme, given the date, but I did need a hint to get me started — and even finding non-game words proved tricky. I found myself fixated on the word “office,” which I was convinced was on the board but had entirely hallucinated.
Today’s words define the core principles of MEMORIALDAY and represent the oath and actions of US military personnel who died while serving their country. It’s a rare Strands theme that genuinely gives you pause.
Among the game words, PROTECTION was the only one that caused me real difficulty. The others felt almost self-selecting once the theme was clear, but PROTECTION took a while longer to materialize on the board.
Strands is the NYT’s not-so-new-any-more word game, following Wordle and Connections. It’s now a fully fledged member of the NYT’s games stable that has been running for a year and which can be played on the NYT Games site on desktop or mobile.
I’ve got a full guide to how to play NYT Strands, complete with tips for solving it, so check that out if you’re struggling to beat it each day.
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