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Three different companies just placed three different bets on how a premium game controller should work in 2026. Microsoft is still selling the same Xbox Elite Wireless Controller Series 2 it launched back in November 2019, betting that four swappable back paddles and a 40-hour battery still justify a $179.99 price tag. 8BitDo just shipped…
Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store’s server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5. Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4.…
France’s data protection authority has handed down a €500,000 ($580,000) fine against a private hospital in Saint-Étienne after a 2025 cyberattack exposed medical and personal data tied to more than 727,000 people. The CNIL announced the penalty against Hôpital Privé de la Loire on September 3, 2026, closing out a year-long investigation into how an…
PokeMMO turns four generations of handheld Pokémon games into one persistent online world, and it has quietly become the most-searched Pokémon emulator project on the web, pulling in tens of thousands of monthly searches from players who want to trade, battle, and grind alongside real people instead of NPCs. Unlike mGBA, melonDS, or Azahar, which…
Every “best AI image generator” list eventually runs into the same wall: none of the big names, not Midjourney, not Flux 2, not Nano Banana Pro, can reliably draw your face, your dog, or your brand’s mascot without a nudge. That nudge is a LoRA. Training one used to require a research background and a…
xAI shipped Grok Imagine Image 2.0 on August 7, 2026, and quietly made it the default “Quality Mode” for every image generated on grok.com/imagine and inside the Grok iOS and Android apps. Search volume for “grok imagine” now sits above 60,500 monthly queries in the US, and a good chunk of that traffic is people…
Fermat’s Last Theorem prediction market spikes to 99% after Claude’s Lean proof. A Manifold market asking whether the world will have a formalized, machine-checked proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem by May 1, 2029 jumped to a 99% implied chance of “yes,” with 58% of the market’s all-time volume changing hands in a single day. The…
NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 went live on September 3, 2026, bundled with NBA 2K27 and a new Game Ready driver, and the headline number NVIDIA put on stage was hard to miss: “up to 370 frames per second” on a GeForce RTX 5090 at 4K with ray tracing turned on. Within days, independent testers at outlets…
Traders just piled into a Manifold market asking whether AI will solve a Millennium Prize Problem in 2026. The contract sits at 38% implied probability of YES as of September 05, 2026, and it drew a burst of activity over the past 24 hours, with single-day turnover rivaling the market’s entire trading history. The spark…
Windows Subsystem for Android went dark in 2025, and the fallout is still reshaping how people run Android apps and games on a PC in September 2026. Microsoft stopped distributing WSA on March 5, 2025, and pulled support entirely a few months later, pushing millions of users back toward third-party tools. That reset created an…
