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SignDrop turns a Windows security feature into a path to SYSTEM access ↗

A public proof of concept abuses Windows log authentication to escalate privileges. An independent team reports a successful but unreliable test; local access and specific conditions are required, and Microsoft has not confirmed the flaw.

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Hacker offers '46,000 TSMC employee records' for 3 bitcoin; TSMC confirms some staff data leaked, apparently via a cloud vendor ↗

A hacker on underground forums claims to have 46,000 records (6.9 GB) of TSMC employee data and is asking 3 bitcoin. On Nov. 12, TSMC confirmed some current and former employees' data was posted without authorization and said it matches data held by a cloud service provider, with no evidence its own systems were breached and no production or customer data involved.

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Who Decides Who Gets the "Add to Cart" Button? Japan's Regulator Approves Amazon Japan's Plan to Drop a Price-Matching Algorithm Rule ↗

On Nov. 11, Japan's Fair Trade Commission approved Amazon Japan's remedy plan: sellers previously had to price at or below rival sites' lowest prices to win the recommended-offer spot. Amazon must show its lowest on-site price including shipping within six months, for five years. No violation was found; MLex says it is the first such change secured through regulation worldwide.

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Same Listing, Same Price, Worse Goods for Rural Buyers: China's Consumer Group Says Sellers Use Algorithms to Target People Unlikely to Complain ↗

On Nov. 12, the China Consumers Association spoke out on "AB goods," where online sellers ship different quality under the same listing and price, sending downgraded items to rural shoppers for whom returns are hard. It said platforms profile users by buying habits, delivery region and return history, and sellers ship based on those labels, violating personal-information and fair-trade rights and possibly amounting to fraud. It urged shoppers to keep evidence.

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A Chinese Car Site Livestreamed a 'Cracked' Tesla FSD V14 in a Self-Driving Contest. Tesla Demanded the VINs Within 48 Hours. The Answer Was No. ↗

Chinese EV news site D1EV staged a driver-assistance competition in Changsha featuring a Tesla Model Y running an unofficially activated FSD V14. Tesla's legal department called it unauthorized cracking, demanded the content come down, the car's VIN be handed over within 48 hours and the software restored. D1EV's CEO Pang Yicheng refused, saying he doesn't believe anything illegal happened. Unlock tools sell for a few hundred yuan online.

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Edit fewer than 10 'sleeping' neurons and an AI assistant can become a sleeper agent: Microsoft research shows a hard-to-spot backdoor ↗

AI agents can now run commands, edit files, and install software for us. On November 10, Microsoft Research described a method called Lazarus that plants a backdoor by rewriting fewer than 10 normally inactive neurons in a language model, with no retraining. The model behaves normally and passes ordinary tests until a secret trigger appears, then outputs an attacker's command. Microsoft says it has not seen anyone use the technique in the wild. This is a lab-demonstrated attack, with figures from Microsoft's own experiments and no independent replication yet.