Chrome Store Hosts 'Poper Blocker' Spyware Downloaded by Millions
A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google’s stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.
Month: September 2026
AI Agents Are Privileged Users; Who Is Auditing Their Access?
Enterprises regularly rigorously monitor human employees, while autonomous AI agents quietly operate with broad privileges that could turn them into the next generation of insider threats.
Carbonato Botnet Puts an AI Agent on Hacked Docker Hosts
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
One Packet Can Crash OT Servers in Industrial Sectors
A high-severity zero-day vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments.
Steam Quietly Rewrites Algorithm for 135K Games [2026]
Valve has quietly rewired one of the busiest real-estate zones on Steam’s homepage, and it did so without a press release, a patch note, or so much as a forum post. Sometime before September 17, 2026, the Discounts & Events grid, the row of tiles that used to funnel nearly every visitor toward the same…
AMD Buys World Labs for $8.2B, Fei-Fei Li Joins as Chief Scientist [2026]
AMD confirmed on September 28, 2026 that it will acquire World Labs, the spatial-intelligence AI lab co-founded by Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock transaction valued at $8.2 billion. The deal is AMD’s second-largest ever, trailing only the roughly $50 billion Xilinx acquisition it closed in 2022, and it marks the chipmaker’s most direct move yet…
RTX 5090 Hits 647W With DLSS 5, Connector Hits 92°C [2026]
A new round of independent testing has put a number on a problem Nvidia has never fully solved: how much heat its flagship graphics card can push through a single power connector. Korean outlet QuasarZone measured a GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition pulling 646.7 watts at peak with Nvidia’s new DLSS 5 neural rendering feature…
Build a Cursor Rules VS Code Extension: 13 Steps [2026]
Cursor’s rules system quietly became one of the most-configured parts of the editor in 2026. Every serious team running Cursor now keeps a stack of .mdc files that tell the Agent how to write code, which libraries to avoid, and which folders need extra scrutiny. The problem is that nobody ships good tooling for managing…
Cherry XTRFY vs Akko vs MonsGeek: $170 TMR Gap [2026]
Hall-effect keyboards spent three years convincing gamers that magnetic switches were worth the premium over mechanical ones. Now a different sensor is muscling in on that story. Tunneling magnetoresistance, or TMR, showed up at CES 2026 promising sharper signal resolution and lower power draw than the Hall-effect sensors inside boards like the Wooting 60HE v2…
Witcher 3 Remastered Free Upgrade Spans 6 Platforms [2026]
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Remastered went live worldwide on September 29, 2026, and the release notes read less like patch notes and more like a map of the entire PC gaming storefront landscape. CD Projekt Red is shipping the remaster as a free upgrade across GOG, Steam, Epic Games Store, PlayStation 5, and…