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Game Server Security Setup: 13 Steps, 2 CVEs Fixed [2026]

A Minecraft admin panel exposed to the open internet on an unpatched build. An RCON password sitting in plaintext inside a VS Code extension’s settings file. A Rust or ARK box getting knocked offline mid-wipe by a booter service renting for pocket change. None of these are hypothetical in September 2026 — they are the…

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Gears E-Day Director Laid Off 4 Days After Gold [2026]

Four days. That’s how long it took Microsoft to go from celebrating a shipped video game to cutting one of the people who wrote it. On September 17, 2026, The Coalition announced that Gears of War: E-Day had gone gold, the industry term for a build that’s finished, locked, and ready to burn to a…

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How to Set Up AWS Backup: 12 Steps, $0.05/GB [2026]

AWS Backup turns a scattered mess of service-specific snapshot schedules into one policy engine that covers EC2, EBS, RDS, DynamoDB, EFS, FSx, S3, Storage Gateway, Redshift, Neptune, DocumentDB, Timestream, CloudFormation stacks, and even SAP HANA on EC2 and VMware virtual machines. Instead of babysitting eight different backup consoles, you build one backup plan, attach resources…

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GPT-6 Sol, Luna Undercut Claude Opus 5.5 by 50% [2026]

OpenAI cut the API prices of its new GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models by roughly half on September 22, 2026, positioning both below rival flagship pricing on the same day Anthropic shipped Claude Opus 5.5. The timing was not a coincidence. GPT-6 Sol now costs less per million tokens than Claude Opus 5.5, and…

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ShadPS4 vs SharpEmu: 90 FPS PS4 vs 0.6 FPS PS5 [2026]

PS3 emulation crossed the finish line years ago. RPCS3 now handles the vast majority of the PlayStation 3 library well enough that “is it playable” barely qualifies as a question anymore for most titles. PS4 and PS5 emulation are a different story, and September 2026 is the first month where the gap between the two…

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ChatGPT vs Claude vs Gemini vs Grok: 20-Point IQ Gap [2026]

Three flagship chatbots and one very late arrival all shipped inside a single three-week window this September, and for the first time in months the fight between them isn’t really about who writes the cleanest code. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra, Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1, Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash, and xAI’s Grok 4.7 have each published (or…

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Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 22, 2026: General Catalyst, Goldman Sachs, Greylock, M13, Y Combinator & More

Venture capital today is clustering around a surprisingly consistent idea: the next layer of AI value is shifting away from the model itself and toward the systems that make AI usable, governable, trustworthy, and economically productive. Cybersecurity company Cyera pulled […] The post Venture Capital & Startup Funding Roundup, September 22, 2026: General Catalyst, Goldman…

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