Confusion is a generally accepted side effect of mystery box shows. They slather on secrets with the promise of a satisfying payoff in the end, and sometimes the cast and crew even have a hard time following what’s going on. But even by the standards of the genre, Dark Matter is extreme. Its multiversal premise,…
Valve’s redesigned Steam Controller sold out inside an hour of its May 4, 2026 launch, and eight months later it is still the hardest gamepad to actually buy. That scarcity has pushed a lot of PC and Steam Deck owners back toward the two controllers everyone already owns: Microsoft’s Xbox Wireless Controller and Sony’s DualSense.…
VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTERN by the company’s zero-day research team, are tracked as CVE-2026-74232 and CVE-2026-74233.
ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update to hosted instances and provided the update to its partners and self-hosted customers, which leaves…
The art portfolio platform Cara, designed for creators who don’t want their work used to train AI, has been under assault by trolls seizing and publishing its data.
Not every retro handheld wants you to load a ROM. A small but growing corner of the handheld market skips emulation folders and cartridge slots entirely, shipping instead with a fixed library of licensed games baked straight into the hardware. Turn it on, and the games are already there. In August 2026, three devices define…
Meta put a number on the table on August 10, 2026, and the number is 30 billion. That is the parameter count of Muse Glimmer, an open-weight AI model that Meta Superintelligence Labs says is small enough to run on a single consumer GPU, no data center required. The release, detailed on Meta’s official research…