What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US
The FCC banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and mobile hot spots manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.
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Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis
“You know ‘Bang Bus’? We don’t want that.”
How to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Products on Amazon (2026)
Amazon is a murky mess of ads, unknown sellers, misleading sales, and specious information. Stay safe while shopping on Prime Big Deal Days and beyond with these tips and tricks.
What ChatGPT Thinks It Knows About You Is Affecting Its Answers. Here’s How to Change That
Understanding how ChatGPT’s latest memory upgrade works will help you get even more out of OpenAI’s productivity tool.
AWS API Gateway Tutorial: REST API in 14 Steps [2026]
Amazon API Gateway turns 11 this year, and it’s still the default front door for serverless APIs on AWS. Search interest for “api gateway aws” runs north of 3,600 queries a month in the US alone, yet most of what ranks is either dense official documentation or a stale walkthrough built on a console UI…
Xenia vs Xenia Canary vs Xenia Edge: 18,100-Search Xbox 360 Gap [2026]
Xbox 360 emulation has quietly split into three competing camps in 2026, and the split is confusing enough that Reddit threads about it get relitigated every few weeks. Mainline Xenia, the project that started this whole research effort back in 2013, has not shipped a tagged release since February 2026. Xenia Canary, the fork that…
Elgato 4K X vs AVerMedia vs Razer Ripsaw: $170 Gap [2026]
A capture card decision used to be simple: buy whatever Elgato sold and move on. That stopped being true once PS5 and Xbox Series X started shipping 4K120 output with variable refresh rate, and once AVerMedia and Razer built cards aimed squarely at that gap. In September 2026, three products define the console and PC…
BambooToken Malware Hid 3 Years Using MQTT, DLL Trick [2026]
A malware family stayed hidden inside enterprise networks across Asia and South America for more than three years by doing something almost no defender was watching for: talking over MQTT, the lightweight messaging protocol built for smart thermostats and factory sensors, not spyware. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs disclosed the campaign on September 18-19, 2026, naming…
RuneScape Dragonwilds Hits Console: 25-Year PC Streak Ends [2026]
RuneScape turned 25 this year without ever putting a controller in a player’s hands. That changed on September 15, 2026, when Jagex shipped RuneScape: Dragonwilds in full 1.0 form on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, and PC simultaneously — the first console release in the franchise’s history. It is a small game…
MCHOSE ACE75 vs Wallhack vs Corsair AIR 99: $180 Gap [2026]
Three keyboards launched within a six-month window in 2026, and each one bets on a different theory of what a “premium” keyboard should be in 2026. MCHOSE priced its ACE75 Hall-effect board at $99 and put it on Kickstarter on September 17. Wallhack machined the K-001 out of 6063 aluminum, co-developed a magnetic switch with…