Blue-Collar Jobs Are the New Flashpoint in Data-Center Fight
Trade unions threaten to withhold support for politicians, joining the popular backlash against the construction.
Month: August 2026
China-Made ZBT Routers Ship With Two Implants Giving Unauthenticated Attackers Root Access
VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTERN by the company’s zero-day research team, are tracked as CVE-2026-74232 and CVE-2026-74233.
Three CVSS 10.0 ServiceNow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and SQL
ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update to hosted instances and provided the update to its partners and self-hosted customers, which leaves…
He Scraped All of Their Art for AI. Now He’s Collaborating on a Tool to Help Them
The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.
Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds
I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here’s my advice on how to find the right laptop for you.
The 31 Best Deals From the REI Labor Day Sale
Labor Day already? Say it ain’t so. You can still chase summer a while longer with these great deals on outdoor gear at the REI Labor Day Sale.
Meta Muse Glimmer: 30B AI Model Fits in 20GB VRAM [2026]
Meta put a number on the table on August 10, 2026, and the number is 30 billion. That is the parameter count of Muse Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that Meta Superintelligence Labs says is small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, no data center required. The release, detailed on Meta’s official research…
Atari Gamestation Go vs Super Pocket: 288-Game Gap [2026]
Not every retro handheld wants you to load a ROM. A small but growing corner of the handheld market skips emulation folders and cartridge slots entirely, shipping instead with a fixed library of licensed games baked straight into the hardware. Turn it on, and the games are already there. In August 2026, three devices define…
Critical cPanel Flaw Could Let One Hosting Customer Take Root Control of a Whole Server
cPanel has released patches for a security flaw affecting domain parking and addon domain functionality in cPanel and WebHost Manager (WHM), which could allow code execution as the root user. The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-65643, impacts all supported versions of cPanel & WHM. cPanel described the issue as a critical security vulnerability and…
I Asked 100 Companies for My Data. I Got Deletion Notices Instead
California residents have a legal right to access the data that companies collect about them. Actually exercising that right is a burdensome nightmare.