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OpenAI Warns: AI Cyberattacks Up 56%, Prepare Now [2026]

OpenAI and more than 100 partner companies published an open letter on August 27, 2026, warning that AI models could within months become powerful enough to let attackers launch sharply more sophisticated cyberattacks against hospitals, water treatment plants, and other critical infrastructure, according to Fox Business. The letter calls for a coordinated global defense push…

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Berlin Refuses to Pay Hackers Who Stole Data From the City's State Network

Berlin’s state government has confirmed that it is the target of an extortion attempt following the August compromise of the city’s state administrative network, and said it will not meet the extortionists’ demands. The same statement disclosed that forensic work had found further data outflows in the portfolio of the Senate Department for Mobility, Transport,…

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Xbox CEO calls Project Helix a ‘family of devices’

According to Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, Project Helix, which she announced in March as a codename for Microsoft’s “next generation console” – phrasing that seemingly implied a singular device – will actually be a “family” of devices.” “We’ve been hard at work on a great next generation and a great family of devices for Helix,…

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Google further buries search results under AI mode

Google is now automatically expanding its AI search summaries at the top of the results page for some searches, as reported by Search Engine Roundtable. The change, when it kicks in, pushes the typical list of links from a search much farther down Google’s results page; instead of seeing part of an AI Overview with…

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Switch 2 Price Jumps to $499.99 in 4 Days: Buy Now [2026]

Nintendo Switch 2 shoppers have four days left. Starting September 1, 2026, the console’s U.S. price rises from $449.99 to $499.99, a $50 jump that Nintendo confirmed back in May and that retail kiosks have been actively flagging to shoppers since mid-August. As of today, August 28, 2026, Nintendo Life is running what amounts to…

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How to Detect and Stop Kerberoasting: 12 Steps [2026]

Kerberoasting has been sitting on the MITRE ATT&CK list since 2018, but 2026 is the year it finally forced Microsoft’s hand. In January 2026, Microsoft began shipping Kerberos protocol hardening updates tied to CVE-2026-20833, a Windows Kerberos information disclosure flaw (CVSS 5.5) that exists precisely because RC4-HMAC is still allowed as a fallback encryption type…

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