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Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in cybersecurity, and the numbers back it up. CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report, released August 3, 2026, found that 88% of vulnerabilities with a public proof-of-concept exploit were weaponized within 48 hours during the first half of the year. Days after that, IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach…
A Brazilian court has ordered Microsoft to restore a banned Xbox account and its entire digital game library, in a ruling that lands at the exact moment console makers are being forced to admit, in writing, that players never really own the games they buy. The case, decided July 11, 2026, is small in dollar…
Japan’s National Police Agency confirmed 123 ransomware cases in the first six months of 2026, the highest half-year total since the agency began compiling this data in 2020. The figure, released Thursday and first reported by The Japan Times, is up by seven cases from the same period a year earlier. It lands during a…
AWS Security Hub turned into a genuinely different product this year. What used to be a finding aggregator that dumped GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie, and Config alerts into one dashboard is now billed as an “AI and multicloud security control plane,” according to reporting from SiliconANGLE in July 2026. The pricing model changed, the partner ecosystem…
A three-year-old graphics card just got a free upgrade it was never supposed to receive. On September 8, 2026, Wccftech reported that the community modding team behind OptiScaler has packaged AMD’s newest FSR 4.1.1b upscaling model into a single DLL file that owners of Radeon RX 6000 GPUs can drop straight into a game folder.…
In August, we experienced five incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. The post GitHub availability report: August 2026 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Paying more for a new phone seems almost unavoidable after Apple’s event today. The new iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max start at $1,199 and $1,299, respectively – a $100 price hike over their predecessors. You can’t dodge the price hike by opting for an older iPhone, either, because Apple raised prices on those by…
Suno’s new v6 AI music model is its first made with support from the record industry. Suno’s Jack Brody told The Verge that v6 was “trained from the ground up, with a new set of data that does not include the same data that our previous models were trained on.” The data includes content licensed…
It’s been about three years since Volvo discontinued its plug-in hybrid XC40. The mild hybrid version remains on sale in the US and elsewhere, alongside the electric EX40. Today, Volvo announced it was bringing back the PHEV version and giving it a major facelift. When it arrives at dealerships early next year, the new XC40…
September Apple events are always a swirl of information and new, exciting products, and today’s was no different. Apple announced its first foldable, the iPhone Duo, alongside the iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max; active noise cancellation (ANC) is now on the cheapest AirPods model, the AirPods 5; and a Siri Recap feature comes to…
