BragJack Attack Can Turn a Browser's Agentic AI Against It
A new type of attack hijacks the AI assistant built directly into various browsers to access sensitive information, execute malicious actions, and exfiltrate data.
Month: September 2026
Fighting Your Dragons Through Tough Tech Times
Cybersecurity industry veteran Hal Pomeranz gives a pep talk on career anxiety and self-doubt and shares how to build meaningful connections during historical tech industry downturns.
AI Security Spending Jumps as Fear Outpaces Proof of Value
CISOs are not waiting for AI to prove its cybersecurity value before investing in the technology. Is it the right move?
Rand Paul Blocks AI Kill Switch Bill Covering 4 Labs [2026]
A fast-track vote died on the Senate floor Wednesday, and it took less than a minute. Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) asked for unanimous consent to move his AI “kill switch” bill straight to passage. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) objected, and the request collapsed on the spot, according to Politico. That single objection is now the…
Ubisoft Drops Steam Launcher: $1.4B Loss Behind the Move [2026]
Ubisoft has quietly killed one of PC gaming’s longest-running annoyances. Starting September 10, 2026, players who buy Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown on Steam no longer have to install or launch the separate Ubisoft Connect desktop client just to start playing. A new background tool called Ubisoft Connect Services now handles account sign-in, cross-play,…
Apple Ends 15-Year Server Exit, Eyes Nvidia Chips [2026]
Apple is preparing a return to a business it walked away from 15 years ago: building its own servers. According to a report from The Information, relayed on September 16, 2026 by MacDailyNews, Apple is developing enterprise AI inference systems built around forthcoming M8 Ultra chips and is in talks with Nvidia about using its…
AMD Zen 6 Desktop CPUs Delayed to 2027: 12-Core Chiplet Leak
AMD’s next desktop CPU generation just slipped a full calendar year, and the paper trail proving it is now public. Documentation quietly posted on AMD’s own developer portal on August 27, 2026, confirmed that Zen 6 desktop chips, codenamed “Olympic Ridge,” will carry Family 1Ah Models 88h-8Fh and will run on the existing AM5 socket.…
Atom Text Editor Is Dead: Migrate to Pulsar in 12 Steps [2026]
GitHub’s Atom text editor has been dead for almost four years now, but the search traffic never really stopped. Thousands of developers still type “atom text editor” into Google every month, either because they inherited an old project with an .atom config folder, found a tutorial that assumes Atom still exists, or just miss the…
Q5 Max vs Wooting 80HE vs ASUS ROG: 8x Polling Gap [2026]
Three keyboards, three philosophies. The Keychron Q5 Max chases the custom-keyboard feel with a milled aluminum shell and QMK/VIA firmware. The Wooting 80HE throws out fixed switch travel entirely and bets on magnetic Hall-effect sensing. The ASUS ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless splits the difference, wrapping familiar mechanical switches in gaming-brand polish and a…
Apple Asks SCOTUS to Kill 27% App Store Fee Ruling [2026]
Apple asked the U.S. Supreme Court on September 14, 2026, to throw out a civil contempt finding that stripped the company of its 27% commission on external payment links inside App Store apps, according to MacDailyNews. The filing is Apple’s opening merits brief in Apple Inc. v. Epic Games, Inc., the case that has decided…