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Month: September 2026

Apps

Flycast Setup: Sega Dreamcast in 12 Steps, 45 Min [2026]

Sega’s Dreamcast lasted less than two years on store shelves, yet its library keeps growing in 2026 thanks to one open-source project: Flycast. The emulator, maintained by a developer known as flyinghead, just shipped version 2.7 on August 19, 2026, adding frame pacing improvements, five new localizations, and multiscreen support for arcade cabinets that originally…

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Cyber Security

Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers

Developed by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, this guidance describes how organizations can plan and execute clear, timely, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications during IT and operational technology (OT) outages. Whether caused by cyber threat actors, human error, equipment failure, or natural hazards, service outages can create disruption and societal panic even…

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Apps

Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign’s advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union

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Technology

BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at…

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Apps

Forward-deployed engineering is how enterprise AI learns

Presented by ZetaEvery forward-deployed engineering (FDE) pitch sounds identical for the first ten minutes: an engineer embedded on-site, a workflow encoded within weeks, a demo that finally works on the customer's real data. What differs is what happens in the following months, and most vendors will not tell you until you ask directly.FDE has become…

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Apps

Tencent Hy3 vs GLM-5.3-Flash vs Kimi K3: 20x Price Gap [2026]

Three open-weight language models shipped inside eight weeks of each other this summer, and none of them came from the usual suspects. Tencent’s Hunyuan team released Hy3 on July 6, 2026. Moonshot AI followed with Kimi K3’s API on July 16 and its full weights on July 27. Then Zhipu AI’s Z.ai division dropped GLM-5.3-Flash…

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