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Month: September 2026

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CyberChef Setup: Decode Malware in 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]

Security teams spend a strange amount of their week decoding things: a Base64 blob pasted from a phishing email, a hex-encoded PowerShell command pulled from an EDR alert, a JWT that someone swears is legitimate. Most of that work happens in a single browser tab running CyberChef, the “Cyber Swiss Army Knife” built and maintained…

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Cyber Security

ShinyHunters Hit 4 FBI Systems, Calls Hack Payback [2026]

Three days after the extortion group ShinyHunters first claimed it had breached Federal Bureau of Investigation systems, the story has shifted from a raw numbers game (how many terabytes, how many agents) to something more pointed: motive. According to The Register, the group says the intrusion was retaliation against the Bureau, not a money grab.…

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HDMI 2.2 Gaming Setup: 12 Steps, 96Gbps Cables [2026]

HDMI 2.2 is no longer a slide at a trade show. As of September 2026, the HDMI Forum’s newest specification has certified cables shipping from real manufacturers, months before a single console, GPU, or TV can use their full bandwidth. That gap between “the cable exists” and “the hardware exists” is exactly why so many…

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White House Holds Back 2 AI Models From UK Testers [2026]

The Trump administration has asked OpenAI and Anthropic to keep their newest artificial intelligence models away from the United Kingdom’s AI Safety Institute until US officials get a first look, according to a report Politico published on September 24, 2026. The request came through the Office of the National Cyber Director and marks a sharp…

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Apps

Grok 4.7 API Setup: 12 Steps, $2/$6 per 1M Tokens [2026]

xAI shipped Grok 4.7 to the public API on September 21, 2026, and the model listing now sits behind documentation that carries a new “SpaceXAI Docs” header at docs.x.ai. If you have not touched the Grok API since Grok 4.5 or Grok 4.6, the pricing, the context window, and the reasoning controls have all shifted…

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Technology

Apple vs Nvidia Market Cap: Nvidia Leads by $497B [2026]

The title of world’s most valuable public company changed hands twice in July 2026, then quietly changed back. As of September 25, 2026, Nvidia sits at roughly $5.425 trillion in market capitalization against Apple’s $4.928 trillion, a gap of about $497 billion, according to Yahoo Finance market data. That reversal matters because it caps a…

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