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On the morning of June 9th, Laura Lin was working from her home in Lanesville, a rural southern Indiana town about 15 miles from the Kentucky border. She was on a Zoom call, unaware that the heavy rain outside was beginning to flood her yard. “I look over to where the barn is over there,…
A team of three independent security researchers at Hacktron says it took less than 72 hours for them to hack into OpenAI employee accounts using Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.8 and 5, The Wall Street Journal reports. They were able to access OpenAI’s GitHub repository, called “Monorepo,” which reportedly contains “OpenAI’s algorithmic secrets,” according to The…
The FCC has announced it’s waiving its rules limiting foreign equity ownership to 25 percent in the Paramount-Warner Bros. case and will allow three sovereign wealth funds run by the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi to own 49.5 percent of the company. During Brendan Carr’s tenure, the FCC has repeatedly threatened ABC,…
Anyone shopping for a Windows laptop with a $1K budget should head to Best Buy, where for the rest of the day you can get a great deal on a capable Lenovo laptop. The Yoga Slim 7X is a slim 14-inch machine with a 2K 16:10 OLED touchscreen, Snapdragon’s high-end X2 Elite processor with 12…
While large language models present real risks to society, experts say they can be tested and largely controlled using well-worn cybersecurity and policy choices. The post The AI hacking apocalypse is not inevitable appeared first on CyberScoop.
Akira, one of the ransomware world’s most prolific extortion crews, added a new name to its dark web leak site on September 16, 2026: Manders, a family-owned contractor based in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The listing, first spotted by the threat-tracking service ransomware.live and documented separately by RedPacket Security, claims the group extracted roughly…
A ransomware crew that did not exist on August 4, 2026 had hit 16 companies across 11 countries by early September. Panzer, the group’s self-chosen name, launched a leak site on August 5 and, within roughly a month, built an affiliate network offering cross-platform encryptors for Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and VMware ESXi. Researchers who track…
Bungie has shot down a leak claiming the studio planned to fold Destiny into Marathon, calling the rumor “fake” through Marathon creative director Julia Nardin. The denial, first reported by Eurogamer on September 17, 2026, and corroborated the same week by GamesRadar+, Insider Gaming, The Game Post, and GameRant, arrives as both Bungie franchises face…
Remedy Entertainment will put Control Resonant on five storefronts at once on September 24, 2026, a distribution move that would have been unthinkable for the Finnish studio seven years ago. The original Control launched in 2019 locked to a single PC storefront under an Epic Games Store exclusivity deal, a decision that split the PC…
Every keyboard maker claims its board is quiet these days. Razer sells the Pro Type Ultra as a “silent” mechanical board for open offices. WOBKEY built the Rainy 75 Pro around a deliberately loud “raindrop” sound signature that enthusiasts pay a premium for. And 8BitDo skipped the quiet conversation entirely, wrapping clicky retro switches in…
