Android Malware Hijacks Update System for Car Head Units
Threat actors behind a notorious click-fraud botnet have set their sights on vehicle infotainment modules and are abusing legitimate functionality to spread infections.
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'NovaCookies' Kit Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions for $320 a Month
The adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing service lowers the barrier to entry for actors to create attacks and steal more than just user credentials.
Interpol's Jackal IV Disrupts West African Crime Infrastructure
The international law enforcement operation focused on disrupting crime-as-a-service networks and infrastructure behind groups like Black Axe.
Iran-Linked Hackers Shut UK Power Plant for 4 Days [2026]
A cyberattack that British officials privately link to Iran forced a small UK power generator offline for four days in July 2026, in what security researchers describe as the first confirmed case of an Iran-linked group successfully knocking a UK energy asset out of service. The incident, first reported by The Telegraph and the Financial…
MGS Master Collection Vol. 2: 5-Platform Launch [2026]
Konami shipped Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 2 on August 27, 2026, and buried inside the routine $49.99 price tag is a bigger story than a stealth-game re-release. For the first time, a major third-party publisher put a legacy AAA compilation on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam on…
RTX 4090 vs RTX 5080: 15% RT Gap, DLSS 5 Snub [2026]
Nvidia dropped a detail at its SIGGRAPH 2026 keynote on July 20 that changes the calculus for anyone still deciding between an RTX 4090 and an RTX 5080: DLSS 5 ships this fall, and it runs exclusively on RTX 50-series hardware. No RTX 40-series support has been announced, which means the 4090, Nvidia’s own flagship…
React Hook Form vs vee-validate: 12 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
Every framework migration argument eventually lands on the same battlefield: forms. Routing, state management, and component syntax get most of the attention, but forms are where React and Vue apps actually lose users, through slow validation, confusing error states, or fields that silently fail on submit. This tutorial builds the exact same production form twice,…
Senate Opens Bipartisan Roblox Child-Safety Probe: $35.8M Already Paid [2026]
The U.S. Senate has opened a bipartisan investigation into Roblox, the gaming platform that puts more than 100 million daily users — many of them children as young as five — inside a marketplace of user-built worlds. On August 13, 2026, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), chair and ranking member of…
Set Up Pokémon Emulators on Steam Deck: 13 Steps [2026]
Steam Deck has quietly turned into one of the best pocket-sized machines for playing every mainline and spin-off Pokémon game ever released, from the original Game Boy Advance cartridges to GameCube-era spin-offs like Pokémon Colosseum. The trick is that Valve’s handheld runs a full Linux desktop underneath SteamOS, and that desktop can host the same…
K3s vs Kubernetes vs MicroK8s: 4x Worker RAM Gap [2026]
Running a full Kubernetes control plane on a Raspberry Pi cluster, a retail point-of-sale box, or a single developer laptop has always been a stretch. Standard Kubernetes, installed the vanilla way with kubeadm, wants 2 GB or more of RAM per machine and at least two CPUs on the control plane, according to the official…