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Alienware’s budget-friendly QD-OLED is discounted for the first time
While memory and storage prices are still high, there are still good discounts on other gaming-related hardware. Take Alienware’s AW2726DM, for example. Dell is selling it for $319.99, a $30 break from the usual price of $349.99. The 27-inch gaming monitor features an QD-OLED panel for deep, immersive black levels, and quantum dots for full…
Asus ProArt 27 QD-OLED (PA279cdv) Review: HDR for All
I wouldn’t call it cheap, but this monitor from Asus brings proper HDR-capable video editing to creators who couldn’t previously afford an OLED display.
‘Watershed 250’ test program in Texas looks to private sector for water cybersecurity help
The six-month program will be overseen by the Office of the National Cyber Director and Texas Cyber Command to “find out what works.” The post ‘Watershed 250’ test program in Texas looks to private sector for water cybersecurity help appeared first on CyberScoop.
AI Model Rules Are Not Security Controls
OpenAI’s Hugging Face attack postmortem shows agents don’t care about rules — they need strong controls.
OpenClaw 2.0 Ships: 16,000 PRs, Credential Lockdown [2026]
OpenClaw shipped version 2026.8.1 on August 31, 2026, and the project is calling it OpenClaw 2.0 — the biggest single update since the open-source AI assistant exploded onto GitHub in 2024. The release closes out a development cycle of nearly two months, a sharp break from the project’s usual cadence of shipping a new build…
VBA-M Setup for Pokémon: 12 Steps, 40 Min [2026]
VisualBoyAdvance-M just quietly became one of the more interesting Pokémon emulators to watch in 2026. The project shipped stable release 2.2.3 on October 25, 2025, and nightly builds kept landing through November 2025 and into this year, with a fresh Git compile on August 26, 2026 that fixed background input handling and cleaned up a…
Berlin Confirms Data Theft After Rhysida Attack: 5.79TB [2026]
Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between…
How to Use Recraft AI: 12 Steps, $0.035 an Image [2026]
Most AI image generators output a flat raster file and stop there. Recraft AI does something the rest of the category still struggles with: it generates true SVG vector graphics, complete with editable paths, alongside raster images, and it ties both to a brand style system designers can reuse across a whole project. As of…
FTC to File Lawsuit Alleging Amazon Deceived Advertisers
The commission, along with more than 20 states, will allege the e-commerce giant reaped billions by manipulating ad prices on its retail platform.