Daily Tech News 27 February 2026

• If your corporate wifi has a guest network active, tell whoever is responsible that they might not want to do that. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Same goes for home wifi though it's less of a target.

  AirSnitch "breaks worldwide Wi-Fi encryption, and it might have the potential to enable advanced cyberattacks," Xin'an Zhou, the lead author of the research paper, said in an interview. "Advanced attacks can build on our primitives to [perform> cookie stealing, DNS and cache poisoning. Our research physically wiretaps the wire altogether so these sophisticated attacks will work. It's really a threat to worldwide network security."

  Fortunately for us - less fortunately for Zhou's credibility - this is horseshit.
  
  But what AirSnitch does - and his co-authors have taken rather more care to make this clear - is break through the protections that supposedly separate the guest and private networks on many common wifi routers, ranging from cheap home models to open-source software with a focus on security to expensive enterprise systems from supposedly security-focused companies like Cisco.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which Cisco just fixed a level 10 security vulnerability that has left their SD-WAN systems wide open to attackers since 2023. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Oops.

• Speaking of wide open a covert global program by the Chinese government to suppress dissidents has had its cover blown by an official using ChatGPT as a blog. (CNN)
  
  Double oops.
  
  
  
• That Google API key that you were using to display maps on your website just gained access to all your Google Gemini AI data. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space, 'cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
  
  
  
• Smarthphone shipments are expected to drop 12% and prices to increase 14% thanks to our friend Sam and his DRAM Apocalypse. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Thanks, Sam.
  
  
  
• And Samsung - different Sam - just doubled the price it charges Apple for DRAM. (Notebook Check)
  
  They were reportedly looking for a 60% increase but opened with an offer of 100%.
  
  Apple - again, reportedly - took the deal immediately.
  
  
  
• Xbox is in danger. Will Microsoft fix it or kill it? (The Verge)
  
  Fix? You mean, chop its balls off?
  
  I think you'll find they already did that.
  
  
  
• And speaking of chopping balls off Firefox has a new switch that lets you turn off all its AI features with one click. (Firefox)
  
  And then turn on just the ones you want, if any.
  
  
  
• Ordered a 4TB Crucial T710 SSD to replace the two 2TB P310 drives that Amazon lost in shipping. I ordered those because they were discounted close to the old price, briefly, on New Year's Eve.
  
  The T710 is a much better drive and is also still close to its old price, but only because it was always expensive. But now it's only 20% more expensive than entry-level models rather than twice the price. And only a little more than two 1TB drives of the same model.
  
  The main competition is Samsung's 9100 Pro, and that seems to be rapidly increasing in price itself.
  
  Should have everything I need for a while. I'm short a drive so I'll have to shuffle things around a bit, but I have a couple of older Samsung 970 drives I'm not really using but still work fine, and they are suddenly worth using.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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