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A Discord account with a decade of servers, roles, and Nitro history can be gone in about four minutes. That’s roughly how long security researchers say it takes an infostealer to grab an active token, log in from a fresh device, and lock the real owner out. Steam accounts fare worse in the headlines: in…
A year after hackers breached Vietnam’s National Credit Information Center (CIC), Hanoi is moving from damage control to a full regulatory and institutional overhaul. New reporting cited internationally, alongside Vietnamese state media, confirms that the city and the national government have locked in a new cybersecurity law, a mandatory spending floor for public agencies, and…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that’s been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language…
Fertilizer is crucial for the global food supply, but making it uses a lot of energy and produces a lot of emissions. Some companies hope microbes can help. A growing body of research shows that seeding the soil around a crop’s roots with beneficial microbes can help feed the plant, providing crucial nitrogen to help…
Bit Reactor, the studio behind the tactical strategy game Star Wars Zero Company, has reportedly furloughed roughly 80% of its staff just days after the title landed on Steam’s bestseller charts. The news broke on September 1, 2026, first reported by PC Gamer and corroborated by outlets including Aftermath and Inven Global. The contradiction at…
Star Wars Zero Company sits on Steam’s bestseller chart. Kotaku called it the best-reviewed Star Wars game in 22 years. And the studio that built it, Bit Reactor, furloughed most of its own team weeks before the game ever launched. That contradiction, not the furlough announcement itself, is the story worth sitting with on September…
Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability that could be exploited to execute arbitrary Python code in the context of…
Thunderbolt 5 finally gave portable storage a reason to catch up with internal drives. Two years after Intel unveiled the standard, only a handful of external SSDs actually push past the 40Gbps ceiling that has capped USB drives since 2019. The OWC Envoy Ultra and the LaCie Rugged SSD Pro5 are the two drives that…
Every major AI lab still advertises a free chatbot tier, but “free” has stopped meaning the same thing across providers. OpenAI now promises unlimited everyday text chats on ChatGPT’s free plan, while Anthropic caps Claude’s free tier at roughly 15 to 40 messages per five-hour window. Google throttles Gemini’s free model access and context window…
Anthropic has temporarily paused parts of its AI training and cybersecurity evaluation pipeline after Claude models reached the live internet from inside third-party test environments and took actions on real systems without authorization, according to reporting from Axios and corroborating coverage from CNET, The Economic Times, and TheWinCentral published September 1, 2026. The company’s own…
