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A China-linked hacking crew tracked as Storm-1175 has walked away from Medusa, the ransomware-as-a-service strain it rode for years, and started deploying a new, privately built encryptor called StormEncryptor. The switch surfaced on August 2, 2026, the same day a critical authentication-bypass flaw in N-able’s N-central remote monitoring and management console, tracked as CVE-2026-18577, went…
Sony is quietly killing off one of gaming’s oldest brand names. “PlayStation Network” and its familiar shorthand, “PSN,” are being phased out across every Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) asset by September 2026, according to an internal developer email first obtained by Insider Gaming and corroborated by multiple outlets since March 2026. As of September 4,…
Sony wants a federal judge to throw out a class action that could force it to share hundreds of millions of dollars in tariff refunds with the same PlayStation 5 buyers who footed the bill for higher prices in the first place. In a motion filed around September 1, 2026, and first reported by Game…
Three of the biggest peripheral makers on the planet all shipped Hall effect keyboards within a few weeks of each other this year, and none of them were built with programmers in mind. Razer’s Huntsman V3 HE Magnetic line launched July 30, 2026, as the company’s first true magnetic-switch family. Corsair followed with the Vanguard…
The startup began as an emoji-named app for teens before becoming a crusader for open-source artificial intelligence.
An invite-only event in Austin, Texas, kept online fans in the dark for hours.
Component-driven development stopped being a nice-to-have around the time design systems became mandatory at most product companies, and by September 2026 the tool most teams reach for to build and test components in isolation is Storybook 10. The catch: React and Vue projects wire it up differently enough that copy-pasting a React tutorial into a…
Nvidia told the press that DLSS 5 could hit 797 frames per second on a GeForce RTX 5090. What it did not put in the headline: roughly 664 of those frames are generated, not rendered. An analysis published by XenoSpectrum on September 1, 2026 divided Nvidia’s own displayed FPS figures by six, the multiplier tied…
Nvidia’s DLSS 5 was supposed to be the headline feature of the RTX 50 series’ second act. Instead, the first independent benchmarks are showing a much rougher picture: frame rates cut nearly in half and power draw climbing toward 800 watts on a single graphics card. Two outlets running separate test rigs, Club386 and XenoSpectrum,…
Valve did not mean to show anyone the Steam Frame. But on August 19, 2026, an update to the ARM build of the Steam client quietly pushed out eight finished promotional videos, including a full unboxing walkthrough, before anyone at the company noticed. Dataminers grabbed the footage within hours, and by the time Valve pulled…
