Ryan Cross – MH Systems Unlimited

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D-Link DGS-3130 Unpatched Zero-Days: Disable DDP Now While Firmware Is Still Coming

November 6, 2026Ryan Cross

D-Link published an interim security advisory today, November 6, 2026, warning that multiple unpatched vulnerabilities hit its DGS-3130-30TS managed Gigabit stackable switches, with other DGS-3130 models and even other switching platforms still under investigation. The bugs, found by Spectrum Community Solutions network engineer Giresh Kumar Enugu, sit in the D-Link Discovery Protocol (DDP) and in […]

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CMOS Superinductor Shrinks Qubit Sensors 10,000×: Quantum Motion’s Nature Electronics Breakthrough

November 6, 2026Ryan Cross

A team spanning Quantum Motion, CIC nanoGUNE, the London Centre for Nanotechnology, Imperial College London and the University of Cambridge reported in Nature Electronics on November 4, 2026 that it has built a true superinductor inside a commercial silicon chip, then used it to shrink a key spin-qubit readout sensor by more than 10,000 times. […]

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Zyxel GS1900 Zero-Day CVE-2026-107441: Nearly 1,000 Switches Hacked After the June Patch Failed

November 6, 2026Ryan Cross

Zyxel has patched a zero-day in its popular GS1900 series of smart managed switches after attackers used it to compromise nearly 1,000 devices worldwide and steal configurations and hashed root credentials. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-107441 and scored CVSS 8.8, is an out-of-bounds write in the switch web management CGI that lets a LAN-based, unauthenticated […]

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Canada’s Time Zone Change Hits Microsoft 365: What Admins Need to Fix in Outlook, Teams and Power Automate

November 4, 2026Ryan Cross

When most of North America set its clocks back on November 1, 2026, large parts of western and central Canada stayed put. British Columbia, Alberta and Manitoba moved to permanent daylight time, locking in fixed offsets of UTC−07:00, UTC−06:00 and UTC−05:00, with affected parts of the Northwest Territories (including Yellowknife and Inuvik) following Alberta and […]

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Linux Kernel CVE-2026-98432: Critical 9.8 TCP Flaw Gets RHEL Fixes While Ubuntu Patches Wait in -proposed

November 3, 2026Ryan Cross

A critical, remotely reachable flaw in the Linux kernel’s IPv4 TCP code now has fixes rolling out, and admins need to plan reboots. Tracked as CVE-2026-98432 and rated CVSS 9.8 by the kernel CVE team and Red Hat, the bug is a use-after-free race that an unauthenticated attacker can trigger against any listening TCP port, […]

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AI Capex Meets the Bond Market: What a Correction Would Mean for IT Budgets and MSPs

November 3, 2026Ryan Cross

The AI build-out has hit a new phase: the money now has to come from somewhere else. On November 2, 2026, Oracle priced a $20 billion raise, $10 billion in bonds with coupons from 7% to 8.65% and $10 billion in new shares sold at an 11% discount, to fund its AI data centers. A […]

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AI Valuations vs. Revenue: Anthropic’s Numbers, OpenAI’s Smaller Round, and the Circular Money Behind the Boom

November 3, 2026Ryan Cross

Is AI a bubble? It’s the question hanging over every IT budget meeting this fall, and the last week delivered some of the clearest data yet. On November 2, 2026, Anthropic filed an amended IPO prospectus showing roughly $17 billion in third-quarter revenue, up about 1,127% year over year, alongside a $23.29 billion quarterly net […]

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Mistral Large 4 Goes Open Weight: A 1-Trillion-Parameter Model You Can Run on Your Own Hardware

November 3, 2026Ryan Cross

Open-weight AI just got a lot bigger. On October 29, 2026, Paris-based Mistral AI released the weights of Mistral Large 4, nicknamed “Le Chonk”, a natively multimodal Mixture-of-Experts model with roughly 1 trillion total parameters, 49 billion active per token, and a 1-million-token context window. Mistral calls it the best open-weight model for coding, it’s […]

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Gemini 4 Carbon: Google’s Top-Ranked AI Model Goes to Cyber Defenders First

November 3, 2026Ryan Cross

Google has a new frontier model at the top of the leaderboards, and for once the first people to get their hands on it aren’t developers or consumers: they’re cyber defenders. On October 28, 2026, Google DeepMind announced Gemini 4 Carbon, which it positions as its strongest model yet for cybersecurity and long-horizon work. Carbon […]

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Trojanized Claude Code Extension in Cursor’s Marketplace: An SSH Backdoor That Survives Uninstall

November 2, 2026Ryan Cross

For about 11 hours on October 29, 2026, developers who installed or auto-updated Anthropic’s Claude Code extension from the Cursor editor’s extension marketplace got something extra: a tampered build, versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 for Windows and macOS, that tried to plant a persistent SSH backdoor. Cursor says the malicious package was live from about 2:27 […]