Apple Zero-Day Vulnerability Weaponized in Targeted Attacks
Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write flaw, in an extremely sophisticated fashion, according to Apple.
Month: September 2026
AYANEO Pocket Block: $79 Handheld Drops Its AI Pitch [2026]
AYANEO opened preorders on its cheapest handheld yet this week, and the bigger story isn’t the $79 price tag. It’s what the company left out of the pitch. When the AYANEO KONKR Pocket Block first surfaced in May 2026, it was billed as an “AI-powered” retro handheld. By the time it went up for preorder…
Samsung P9 SSD Hits 4,000 MB/s as NAND Jumps 243% [2026]
Samsung has started shipping the Portable SSD P9, a USB4 external drive the company calls the world’s first 8TB portable SSD built on that interface, with rated sequential speeds of up to 4,000 MB/s. The rollout, confirmed by Samsung’s own newsroom and Samsung Semiconductor’s global site, lands at an awkward moment for storage buyers: NAND…
Build a VS Code Test Explorer Extension: 13 Steps [2026]
VS Code ships a native Test Explorer, but out of the box it only understands testing frameworks that already have an extension wired up. If your team runs a custom test runner, an internal DSL, or a framework the Marketplace hasn’t caught up to, the built-in Testing view stays empty. The fix is the Testing…
GMMK Eternal vs KB5 vs V5 Ultra 8K: 8x Polling Gap [2026]
Three mechanical keyboards released within a five-month window in 2026 are forcing a question that didn’t used to have a clean answer: is a $99.99 wired board, a $149.99 touchscreen board, or a $119.99 wireless board with 8,000Hz polling actually the smarter buy right now? The Glorious GMMK Eternal launched September 8, the Turtle Beach…
Witcher 3 Remastered: AMD GPUs Hit Black Textures, Crashes [2026]
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered launched on September 29, 2026, as a free upgrade for existing owners on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X/S. Within hours, AMD Radeon owners started posting screenshots of grass rendering solid black, hair turning into glowing artifacts, and environments missing entire stretches of vegetation. Nvidia GeForce owners,…
EvilTokens Bust: Microsoft Hits 12,000 Inboxes [2026]
Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit shut down EvilTokens on September 22, 2026, ending a seven-month run that saw the AI-built phishing service compromise more than 12,000 Microsoft 365 inboxes across over 10,000 organizations worldwide. The takedown, backed by a federal court order out of the Eastern District of Virginia, seized 50 websites and disabled more than…
ShinyHunters Won’t Leak FBI Data, 5K Sample at Risk [2026]
ShinyHunters says it never intended to publish the sensitive personal data it claims to have stolen from the FBI, but the group also admits it cannot guarantee that a smaller sample already shared with journalists will stay private. The statement, sent to CBC News on Monday, September 29, 2026, marks the latest twist in a…
Top 5 Payment Analytics Platforms for Merchants
A decade ago, most merchants read payment data like a utility bill: check the total once a month, confirm it looks roughly right, move on. Payment performance now sits close enough to revenue that a merchant who can’t see why transactions fail is losing sales it never records. For background, see our recent coverage. Payment…
OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents that work for you 24/7
OpenAI unveiled Dots, a new class of always-on AI agents built to keep working after you close the chat window. Powered by GPT-6 Astra, each Dot gets its own cloud computer, browser, memory of your preferences, and access to connected […] The post OpenAI launches Dots, always-on AI agents that work for you 24/7 first…