Weekly roundup

The week in one pour

Seven mornings of Daily Sip, poured into one episode: the five stories that defined your week, every Sunday evening.

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  1. Root shell on Samsung TVSecurity researcher log4j says they obtained a root shell on a 2025 Samsung TV after being hit with oddly targeted ads. With the firmware AES-encrypted and keys only obtainable via UART/JTAG hardware …→
  2. US Government is hiding a secret court ruling about how it spies on AmericansSenators Ron Wyden and Adam Schiff say the Trump administration is illegally withholding a FISA court ruling while pressing Congress to renew a program that lets federal agents read Americans' …→
  3. Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificatesEleven days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise on October 17, the git, curl and python3 that Apple ships with macOS still trust the compromised certificates. macOS 27.2, released …→
  4. Patrick Stewart has diedThe New York Times reports that Patrick Stewart has died. The story dominated today's Hacker News front page with over 2,100 points and hundreds of comments as readers reacted to the news.→
  5. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor MarketplacePhorion detected a backdoor in the official Claude Code for VS Code extension bundle on the Cursor Marketplace that drops a persistent SSH backdoor across macOS, Linux, and Windows, with the macOS …→

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