NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Has a Hidden Technological Leap
Astronomers will test equipment that, if it’s successful, will one day be crucial for discovering Earthlike planets.
Month: August 2026
The Cybersecurity Apocalypse Is Coming in ‘Months,’ AI Giants Warn
Plus: Hackers target over 100 US water systems, ICE puts in an order for robot dogs, and you’ll never guess what “MrChildPorn” was arrested for.
Soundcore Liberty 5 Pro Review: Master of Phone Calls
Outstanding call quality and an excellent price point put these earbuds way ahead of pricier competition.
Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment
Psychedelics are often associated with disconnecting from reality, but a recent neuroimaging study found that psilocybin can actually make our brain activity more connected to the world around us.
How to Run a Chatbot on Your Own Computer
Installing a large language model on your personal computer gives you a handy digital assistant that won’t compromise your data privacy.
How to Set Up Karpenter for EKS Autoscaling: 12 Steps [2026]
Kubernetes clusters waste money in a very specific way: they hold onto nodes that pending pods no longer need, and they lean on Cluster Autoscaler’s coarse-grained node group logic instead of picking the right instance for the job. Karpenter, the open source node provisioning project originally built by AWS, fixes both problems by launching exactly…
GTA VI Netflix Preview Becomes a Hit Despite Cyberleek Leak
Rockstar Games spent the better part of two weeks watching unauthorized footage of its unfinished game spread across every corner of the internet. Then, on August 27, 2026, the company’s parent Take-Two did something that would have seemed unthinkable a month earlier: it let Netflix premiere an official 26-minute look at Grand Theft Auto VI…
Block API Credential Stuffing: 12 Steps, 100 Min [2026]
Credential stuffing has quietly become the default way attackers break into APIs. Bots armed with billions of leaked username-password pairs no longer bother guessing passwords character by character — they replay credentials stolen from other breaches, betting that people reuse logins across services. According to an authentication threat report published by MojoAuth, defenders blocked 4.2…
How to Scan Container Images With Trivy: 12 Steps [2026]
A threat actor broke into the release pipeline of one of the most widely used open-source security tools on the planet, and the tool at the center of it was itself a vulnerability scanner. On March 19, 2026, attackers used compromised credentials to push a malicious build of Trivy, Aqua Security’s open-source container scanner, then…
TheHatman Azure Breach: 3.6M Records, 9 Firms Hit [2026]
A cybercriminal operating under the alias “TheHatman” is selling roughly 3.6 million employee-directory records allegedly pulled from the Microsoft Azure and Entra ID tenants of nine large companies, according to cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. The victim list includes McDonald’s, Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kyndryl, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Gap Inc., Hexaware…