PTC Inc. is warning of a critical vulnerability in Windchill and FlexPLM, widely used product lifecycle management (PLM) solutions, that could allow remote code execution.
The security issue, identified as CVE-2026-4681, could be leveraged through the deserialization of trusted data.
Its severity has prompted emergency action from German authorities, with the federal police (BKA) reportedly sending agents to affected companies to alert them to the cybersecurity risk.
Fix under development
There are no official patches available, but PTC states that it is “actively developing and releasing security patches for all supported Windchill versions” to address the issue.
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According to the vendor, the flaw impacts most supported versions of Windchill and FlexPLM, including all critical patch sets (CPS) versions.
Until patches become available, system administrators are recommended to apply the vendor-provided Apache/IIS rule to deny access to the affected servlet path. PTC noted that the mitigation does not break functionality.
The same mitigation should be applied to all deployments, including Windchill, FlexPLM, and any file/replica servers, not just internet-facing systems. However, PTC advises prioritizing mitigations on internet-facing instances.
If mitigation is not possible, the vendor recommends temporarily disconnecting the affected instances from the internet or shutting down the service.
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IoCs available
The company says that it has not found any evidence that the vulnerability is being exploited against PTC customers. However, PTC published a set of specific indicators of compromise (IoCs) that include a user agent string and files.
Additionally, the bulletin lists detection advice, including checks for webshells (GW.class, payload.bin, or dpr_.jsp files), suspicious requests with patterns such as run?p= / .jsp?c= combined with unusual User-Agent activity, errors referencing GW, GW_READY_OK, or unexpected gateway exceptions.
“Presence of the GW.class or dpr_<8-hex-digits>.jsp on the Windchill server indicates the attacker has completed weaponization on the system prior to conducting remote code execution (RCE)” – PTC
Additionally, in an email to customers seen by BleepingComputer, the company said that “there is credible evidence of an imminent threat by a third-party group to exploit the vulnerability.”
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According to Heise, BKA officers were dispatched over the weekend to alert companies nationwide of the risk of CVE-2026-4681, even some that did not use any of the affected products.
The German outlet reports that the BKA woke up system administrators in the middle of the night to hand them a copy of PTC’s notification, and also alerted the state criminal investigation offices (LKA) in various federal states.
This unusual and urgent response by the authorities has sparked concerns that CVE-2026-4681 may be exploited or is likely to be exploited soon.
Given that PLM systems are also used by engineering firms in weapons system design, industrial manufacturing, and critical supply chains, the authorities’ response could be justified on grounds of protection from industrial espionage and other national security risks.
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Featuring six degrees of freedom, the robot arm is mostly constructed of 3D printed components. This let [James] experiment with a wide variety of joint and reducer designs for the sake of learning and investigation. The base of the robot uses a fairly conventional planetary gear drive, while shoulder and elbow joints rely on split-ring planetary gearboxes to allow for high torque density with regards to size. [James] implemented a neat sensing technique here, integrating alternating magnets into the output ring gear which are monitored via a magnetic encoder. The wrist joint switches things up again, running via an inverted belt differential.
Running the show is an STM32 microcontroller, which talks to all the encoders, communicates with a Raspberry Pi over CAN bus, and handles all the necessary PID control loops and step generation for the drive motors. The plan is to run higher-level control on the Raspberry Pi which will run a ROS 2-based software stack. Already, the various joints look smooth and impressive in motion.
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If you’re looking to learn about robot arms, you really can’t beat building one. We’ve featured a few projects along these lines before. Most of them aren’t exactly production-line ready, but they will teach you a ton about control, motion planning, and all sorts of associated skills. That experience can be invaluable if you intend to work with robots in industry.
The main floor of the new Brinc Drones factory and headquarters location in Seattle’s Queen Anne neighborhood. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Brinc Drones, the Seattle-based maker of public safety drones for first responders, is moving its headquarters and factory space to a massive development not far from its current Fremont neighborhood location.
Brinc is taking over 35,000 square feet at West Canal Yards, in a former fish cannery along the Lake Washington Ship Canal in Queen Anne. The company plans to grow to 50,000 square feet in one building and perhaps grab more space down the line.
“I think it’d be sick if someday this was like, Brinc campus,” founder and CEO Blake Resnick told GeekWire while looking out at the industrial surroundings.
Brinc will move in later this fall, doubling its production footprint and positioning the company to scale manufacturing significantly. The company develops drones and related technology for police, fire, and emergency response agencies — including the newly announced Guardian.
The new Brinc Drones space is in a former fish cannery that is now an office development. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Resnick, who moved the company from Las Vegas in 2021, is doubling down on why he chose Seattle after considering Los Angeles, San Diego, Austin, San Francisco and Boston. He was attracted to the region’s aerospace, consumer electronics and software talent, and Brinc has been growing ever since.
The company now employs 160 people across mechanical and electrical engineering roles, embedded software, autonomy, web app, manufacturing, quality assurance, sales, training, customer support and more. Resnick said they’ll likely exceed 250 by the end of the year.
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“I wanted to make it easy for our team to navigate this transition,” he said. “If we relocated to Redmond or something, that would really change the commute profile.”
The new space features very high ceilings in the main manufacturing and warehouse space. Two stories of office space are being spruced up with the addition of meeting rooms and cubicles and other tech office trappings. One corner office with large windows looks down on the main floor.
“I don’t know if it’s gonna be fully my office, maybe this turns into a big board room type situation and I just happen to work here,” Resnick said. “I do really love this space. I think it’s gonna look awesome when there’s actual drone manufacturing operations happening.”
A view from a corner office down to what will be a manufacturing floor in the new Brinc Drones headquarters in Seattle. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
Brinc will be manufacturing a number of drones from its product line, including the large new Guardian drone that it unveiled on Tuesday, as well as recharging nests, batteries, handheld controllers, chargers and other accessories.
In 2025, the company more than tripled revenue and quintupled monthly production capacity. To meet accelerating demand, Brinc says it required substantially more manufacturing space. The new facility enables the company to scale output dramatically while maintaining tight integration between engineering and production.
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“There aren’t that many buildings that suit our needs that are on the market at any given time,” Resnick said. “This one just checked a lot of boxes.”
Empty office space will be converted to meeting rooms and more in the Brinc Drones headquarters. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser)
OpenAI is shuttering Sora, its stand-alone AI video generation app and social network, and the availability for developers to access the Sora 2 video model family through its application programming interface (API) to rely on it for their own products or video generation pipelines.
The announcement came abruptly this afternoon with OpenAI posting a message on X and not giving an exact shutdown date for the services, instead promising “timelines for the app and API and details on preserving your work.”
Sora wowed the world with its highly realistic scene-crafting when it was first previewed by OpenAI in February 2024, more than two years ago now, only to be released to mixed reception as an updated Sora Turbo model 10 months later, at which point, many other competing video AI model providers such as Runway, Luma, and Chinese AI companies Kling and Minimax had already shipped impressive rivals.
But OpenAI seemed intent on continuing to build out the video model and enabling creators until just now, releasing a Sora 2 model over API and apps for iOS, then Android in the latter half of 2025 — and the iOS app briefly hit number one in downloads on the Apple App Store. The application itself was designed to be a social network where users could insert AI generated lifelike versions of themselves and their friends into videos.
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The company released updates to Sora on a regular cadence all the way through this week, making the news of the shutdown even more abrupt.
And Sora was even so enticing for a while that entertainment giant Disney pledged a $1 billion equity investment deal with OpenAI announced in December 2025, just four months ago, to bring popular Disney characters to Sora, allowing users to generate new videos with them that Disney planned to share through Disney+, its streaming TV service. As that announcement read:
“Under the license, fans will be able to watch curated selections of Sora-generated videos on Disney+, and OpenAI and Disney will collaborate to utilize OpenAI’s models to power new experiences for Disney + subscribers, furthering innovative and creative ways to connect with Disney’s stories and characters. Sora and ChatGPT Images are expected to start generating fan-inspired videos with Disney’s multi-brand licensed characters in early 2026”
The Hollywood Reporter states the Disney deal has now been canceled. We’ve reached out to OpenAI for more information and will update if and when we receive it.
The move comes as OpenAI has openly stated its intent to focus on building a “super app” that would fold in some or all of the capabilities of its various products including chatbot ChatGPT, AI coding model and application Codex, and others into one interface. Reports from The Wall Street Journal and other outlets suggest the strategy shift is an effort at refocusing the entire company to take on the rise of competitor Anthropic and its Claude family, especially with regards to enterprises and software developers — as Claude has seen rapid adoption and enterprise usage in the last few months, according to data from SimilarWeb and Ramp, driven by its prowess at coding and autonomously completing digital tasks.
At the same time Apple announced the AirPods Pro 3 last year, the company also introduced a new feature called Live Translation. It makes the idea of the Babel fish, so evocatively described in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, a reality: Something sitting in your ear that can instantly translate between languages, on demand.
Rather than an exotic fish though, here we have wireless headphones from Apple. This isn’t actually exclusive to the latest earbuds, despite the launch timing—it’ll work with the AirPods 4 with active noise cancellation and the AirPods Pro 2, as well as the AirPods Pro 3. It also works with the recently updated AirPods Pro Max, but just the 2026 version, not the original version of the Max.
There are some requirements on the iPhone side too: an iPhone 15 Pro or iPhone 15 Pro Max, or any iPhone 16 or iPhone 17 model, are needed. You also have to have downloaded and installed the latest iOS 26 software update on your phone.
With those prerequisites out of the way, you can get your very own instant language interpreter in your ears. From FaceTime video calls to foreign trips, it’s a feature that can be hugely useful in understanding others and making yourself understood.
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Set Up Live Translation
Download the languages you need in advance.
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This works via Apple Intelligence, so as well as having checked all the requirements that are mentioned above, you also need to turn on your iPhone’s AI capabilities if they’re not enabled already. From Settings in iOS, tap Apple Intelligence & Siri, and make sure the Apple Intelligence toggle is switched on.
Next, you need to specify the languages you want to work with. You need both the languages you’re translating from and the languages you’re translating too, so make sure you’re fully covered before you try and strike up a conversation.
We’re assuming you’ve already been through the AirPods setup process and they’re connected to your iPhone. Pop them in (or on) your ears and find the AirPods in the iOS Settings menu. Tap on the name you’ve given the headphones, then Languages to download whichever ones you need.
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Apple says that all the processing required for Live Translation is handled privately on your phone. Your conversations aren’t being piped back to Apple’s servers so they can be translated between languages. (It’s one of the reasons you need a newer iPhone and newer headphones, so the necessarily work can be done on-device).
Use Live Translation
You can launch the feature from the Live tab of the Translate app.
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With all the setup out of the way, you can get started with a Live Translation in a few ways. You can head to the Apple Translate app on your iPhone, tap the Live button at the bottom, choose the relevant languages, and then select Start Conversation.
Charles Lamanna (left), Microsoft’s executive vice president of Business Applications & Agents, interviewed by GeekWire co-founder Todd Bishop at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event at Block 41 in Seattle on March 24. (GeekWire Photo / Kevin Lisota)
Work perks are taking on new meaning in the AI boom.
Speaking at GeekWire’s Agents of Transformation event in Seattle on Tuesday, Microsoft EVP Charles Lamanna talked about a job candidate who said they would come aboard as long as their team was given a certain dollar amount of AI tokens — the fuel that powers interactions with AI systems.
Lamanna didn’t reveal the exact dollar amount request, but said “you should think of $100 to hundreds of dollars of token cost per day, at the limit.”
The anecdote reflects how access to AI models is becoming as fundamental as salary — and how quickly AI is moving from experimentation to a core part of day-to-day work.
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If a “fully loaded” (total cost of an employee to a company) engineer costs $500,000 a year and the employee asks for $100,000 worth of tokens — which makes them three times as efficient — Lamanna said it’s a great deal for everyone involved.
He compared denying engineers sufficient AI resources to stripping away basic workplace tools. Imagine showing up to work with no mouse, no email, no Microsoft Teams — that’s how an engineer accustomed to AI-powered coding agents would feel working under a tight token budget, he said.
“So how you think about what it means to hire, and fully loaded cost, and where we invest is going to change completely as a result of this,” said Lamanna, Microsoft’s executive vice president of Business Applications & Agents. He sees this happening beyond software engineering — to multiple other forms of office and information work, such as financial planning.
“They’ll be like, I’m not going to work there unless I actually get a certain amount of token budget,” he said.
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Lamanna isn’t alone in seeing this shift. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang last week said AI tokens would become “one of the recruiting tools in Silicon Valley,” CNBC reported. In a blog post last month, venture capitalist Tomasz Tunguz described inference costs as a potential fourth pillar of engineer compensation alongside salary, bonuses, and equity. “Will you be paid in tokens?” Tunguz wrote. “In 2026, you likely will start to be.”
The New York Times last week reported on how employees at tech companies are competing on internal leaderboards that track token consumption, creating a new status game called “tokenmaxxing.”
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Big news for anyone who swears by DeWalt tools — Amazon is now offering the DeWalt 20V Max 2.0 Ah battery for just $36, a 73% discount. Originally $131, this rechargeable battery works with DeWalt’s range of 20V Max tools, which includes garage essentials like cordless drill/drivers, wrenches, grinders, nailers, and flashlights.
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The DeWalt 20V Max battery is great to grab, even if you already have a few handy. At under one pound, it’s a lightweight, small battery that can be easily fit into your tool bag as a backup. DeWalt claims that it charges fully in 35 minutes and has a 33% longer battery life than other batteries of its size. Amazon reviews are generally quite positive, with many satisfied customers. If you’ve been thinking of getting one (or more) for your DeWalt tools, this seems to be a perfect time to do so. This massive discount comes just ahead of Amazon’s Spring Sale 2026 event, which officially kicks off on March 25.
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When is Amazon’s 2026 Big Spring Sale?
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Amazon’s first big savings event of the year goes live very soon. The online retailer’s Big Spring Sale goes live on March 25 and runs until March 31, giving you seven days to take advantage of some big discounts. Unlike Prime Day and Black Friday, the Big Spring Sale is more focused on cleaning items, household essentials, and clothing instead of tech. This coincides with the “spring cleaning” theme of the season.
You don’t need a Prime membership to access the discounts, but some items will have a “Prime Spring Deal” badge that indicates exclusive savings. Despite not having officially started yet, Amazon is already offering some deals on DeWalt products. This includes not just this DeWalt 20V Max 2.0 Ah battery, but also a 20V Max combo kit that’s nearly 50% off and a DeWalt Atomic 20V Max cordless impact driver that’s 27% off — all of which are compatible with this battery, by the way.
DeWalt has a history of offering discounts on tools during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, and this year should be the same. So, if you’re looking for DeWalt tools to add to your kit (or need batteries for those tools), it looks like a great time to buy.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the BBC: Hong Kong police can now demand phone or computer passwords from those who are suspected of breaching the wide-ranging National Security Law (NSL). Those who refuse could face up to a year in jail and a fine of up to $12,700, and individuals who provide “false or misleading information” could face up to three years in jail. It comes as part of new amendments to a bylaw under the NSL that the government gazetted on Monday.
The NSL was introduced in Hong Kong in 2020, in wake of massive pro-democracy protests the year before. Authorities say the laws, which target acts like terrorism and secession, are necessary for stability — but critics say they are tools to quash dissent. The new amendments also give customs officials the power to seize items that they deem to “have seditious intention.”
Monday’s amendments ensure that “activities endangering national security can be effectively prevented, suppressed and punished, and at the same time the lawful rights and interests of individuals and organizations are adequately protected,” Hong Kong authorities said on Monday. Changes to the bylaw was announced by the city’s leader, John Lee, bypassing the city’s legislative council. The NSL also allows for some trials to be heard behind closed doors.
Although usually nylon (generally PA6) filament is pretty cheap, there are some more exotic variants out there, such as the PA12-based Lyten 3D graphene filament that comes in at a cool $150 for a 1 kg spool. Worse for [Dr. Igor Gaspar] here was that the company doesn’t ship to the EU, and didn’t respond to emails about obtaining a sample for testing. Fortunately he got a spool via a different route, so that he could test whether this is the strongest nylon filament or not.
The full name for this filament is PA1205, though it’s not certain what the ’05’ part stands for. PA12 is a less moisture-sensitive version of PA6, however. Among the manufacturer’s claims are that it’s the strongest nylon filament, as well as very lightweight and heat-resistant. Interestingly the datasheet recommends printing with an 0.6 mm nozzle, which is the only major deviation from typical nylon FDM filaments. Of course, printing with an 0.4 mm nozzle had to be tried.
With a standard PA-CF preset in Bambu Lab’s slicer the printing of test parts worked without issues, which was promising. With load testing the filament made a good showing compared to average PA filaments, though as with most fiber reinforced filaments it’s more brittle than the pure material. Compared to PA-CF this PA1205 was much less brittle than PA-CF, however. Overall it’s not a bad filament, but for the asking price it’s a tough ask.
A new survey shows households with children under age 18 are experiencing economic strain, with parents suffering from depression, burnout and hopelessness.
“This is the baseline,” said Elliot Haspel, a senior fellow with Capita. “We really want to be able to ask questions that serve as an early warning system for family well-being.”
Haspel said what stood out to him from the survey is “how much parents are facing precarity right now… I think that it tells us that families are really struggling and they really need support.”
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The questions
YouGov, on behalf of Capita, surveyed 1,000 parents with children under age 18 between Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, 2026. North Carolina is one of four states that were oversampled in the survey, meaning the results are especially representative of those facing parents in those states. (The others are Colorado, Michigan and New Jersey.)
The survey consists of 69 questions (available here) designed to track families across three dimensions: stability, predictability, and quality of life. Capita defines the question underlying each dimension:
Stability: Can families meet basic needs without falling into crisis?
Predictability: Can they plan their lives without constant disruption?
Quality of life: Do they have the time, health, and connection to flourish, not just survive?
Haspel explained that this survey is meant to fill the gap between surveys such as RAPID, which focuses on parents and caregivers of young children, and surveys of all Americans more broadly.
He said two-thirds of the survey questions will remain the same each time, and another third will shift based on Capita’s specific areas of interest at a given moment.
Haspel pointed out that for all Americans, life can be stressful, and parenting in particular will always come with its own stressors.
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“The issue is, what are the artificial, unnecessary stressors that we put on families as a result of policy choices?” Haspel said.
The answers
One of the main findings from the survey revolves around the economic pressure that families are facing. As the Capita report puts it: “Multiple indicators point to significant and widespread financial stress.”
Here are some of those indicators:
More than a third were worried at some point in the last year that food would run out before they had money to buy more — and almost as many actually had that happen.
One in 5 reported skipping out on needed medical care due to costs in the last year, and 15 percent skipped filling a prescription for the same reason.
In the last three months, 20 percent of households reported a member losing a job or having their hours cut.
In the last month, 25 percent of respondents said they had a shift canceled, shortened, or extended with less than 24 hours’ notice. The same percentage were required to be “on call” — available without guaranteed hours — during that period.
Financial stress can be a leading driver of “toxic stress.” This compounding, long-term stress can do permanent damage to the health of parents and the development of children — and can sometimes lead to adverse childhood experiences.
Evidence shows that safe, stable and nurturing relationships with adults can protect children from the negative outcomes of adverse childhood experiences and toxic stress. But the survey suggests most parents are struggling to maintain that kind of relationship with their children.
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Two-thirds of respondents said that in the last month, stress made it hard to be as patient with their children as they wanted to be. And half of parents reported feeling down, depressed or hopeless in the last two weeks.
There are several questions in the survey that pertain specifically to work and child care. Here are some related findings:
More than 70 percent of respondents describe their job as family friendly.
Almost two-thirds said family life is a top priority, and they want their job to fit around it.
In the last year, 27 percent of respondents missed work or lost pay because of child care problems.
One in 5 parents regularly supervise their children while working.
Despite the challenges presented by scheduling, about 70 percent of parents report being satisfied with their existing child care situation, whether they have children who are school age or below. And 81 percent said their communities are welcoming to families with minor children.
But 43 percent said their work schedules made it hard to keep consistent routines for their children, and that matters.
“That lack of control over one’s schedule contributes to lack of control over one’s life more broadly, and it can affect parenting relationships,” Haspel said.
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As the Capita report explains:
Volatile schedules make it hard for people to be the kind of parents they want to be. They may have to forego baseball games or dance recitals they planned to attend, skip sitting down to dinner as a family, or miss tucking their kids into bed. Instability also has a significant impact on child development. Consistent routines are the foundation for children’s growth, learning, and feelings of security. Chronically disrupting those routines not only stresses parents but also interferes with their children’s long-term trajectory. Inconsistent or nonstandard parent work schedules are associated with cognitive delays and behavioral outcomes, especially if they begin during a child’s first year of life.
“Job quality or schedule quality is often thought of as labor policy, it’s not thought of as a family policy,” Haspel said. “If you care about having strong, healthy families, this is a contributing factor.”
The meaning
While this first set of survey results represents the baseline of what Capita plans to measure over time, there are still significant takeaways from this early warning system.
“A lot of what we’ve been hearing around the issues with affordability, the issues with being able to navigate all the extra challenges of parenting in 2020s America is showing up in family well-being,” Haspel said.
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Here’s what Capita has to say about the initial survey results:
This first survey of Quarterly Insights paints a troubling picture of families feeling economic strain and suffering from depression, burnout and hopelessness. These conditions reinforce one another, making it harder for parents to show up for their children, their partners, and themselves, maintain routines and flourish. Ultimately, all of these factors make stability feel perpetually out of reach. While the heaviest burdens often land on those earning the least, working-class and middle-class families also feel the enormous weight of these compounding pressures.
The report goes on to point out that policies supporting the well-being of children and families are most likely to succeed if they address multiple aspects of family hardship and reach all families who are affected.
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