Technology
The Memory Squeeze Hits Demand: iPhone 18 Pro Orders Cut, PCs Down 20%
Apple reportedly cut iPhone 18 Pro part orders at least 15%, and PC shipments fell over 20%. Memory costs are now shrinking sales, not just raising prices.
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Hormuz's Three-Month Clock: Helium, Fertilizer, and Chips
Steve Keen told the Diary of a CEO audience the world was three months from a famine because Iran had blocked the Strait of Hormuz. The headline is overstated. The underlying supply-chain math — for helium, fertilizer, memory chips, and the AI build-out that depends on all of them — is more interesting and runs on a longer clock than three months.
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Two Supply Chain Attacks Hit WordPress in One Week
Between April 5 and April 7, two unrelated supply chain attacks compromised WordPress sites through the one channel admins are trained to trust: plugin updates. One hijacked Nextend's update servers to push a weaponized Smart Slider 3 Pro build to 800,000+ installations. The other activated dormant backdoors in 30+ plugins an attacker had quietly purchased on Flippa a year earlier.
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The Telus Digital Breach Started in Someone Else's Repository
ShinyHunters compromised Salesloft's GitHub, found OAuth tokens with TruffleHog, pivoted through 700+ Salesforce instances, and landed in Telus Digital's Google Cloud — claiming close to a petabyte of stolen data.