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On July 22, 2026, a transmission line fault in Ashburn, Virginia—the heart of the world’s largest data center cluster—knocked more than 3 gigawatts of load off the grid in seconds. And it wasn’t the first time. Two years earlier, a single failed surge arrester dropped roughly 60 Virginia facilities and 1,500 megawatts at once. No…
A San Francisco nonprofit has published a detailed road map of the experiments, studies, and infrastructure that it says would be needed to make informed decisions about the use of solar geoengineering, MIT Technology Review can reveal. Scientists have now spent half a century exploring the possibility that we could counteract climate change by releasing…
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. God told them to sell crypto. Their investors lost everything. When Eli Regalado first heard God speak to him, he wondered whether he was hallucinating. According to Eli and his wife,…
In a major coup, Xbox has confirmed that it will be publishing Hideo Kojima’s long-awaited action-espionage title “PHYSINT.”
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War is the latest legacy title to be added to Xbox Game Pass, and I think it might be the game to play right now, even with Modern Warfare 4 looming.
Microsoft has announced that it will be hosting a Tokyo Game Show 2026 Xbox broadcast to showcase several upcoming Xbox games, including Minecraft Dungeons 2 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4.
The high-severity, unauthenticated vulnerability tracked as CVE-2025-25249 was patched in January 2026. The post Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The exploit provides full System privileges on Windows machines running the September 2026 patches. The post New ‘ShieldCrash’ Zero-Day Exploit Targets Microsoft Defender appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Multiple China-aligned threat groups exploited the defects quickly to target various organizations. Proofpoint said the activity is ongoing and expects it to widen. The post Chinese espionage groups swarm to exploit triple-link chain of zero-days appeared first on CyberScoop.
An analysis of Project Glasswing findings shows only a fraction have reached disclosure, and an even smaller number have been fixed.
