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Berlin’s state government has crossed a line it spent two weeks trying to avoid. On August 31, 2026, officials confirmed that data was actually stolen from the city-state’s administrative network during the Rhysida ransomware attack, moving the story from “hackers claim” to “government admits.” BleepingComputer reported that forensic investigators pinpointed a confirmed data-exfiltration window between…
Most AI image generators output a flat raster file and stop there. Recraft AI does something the rest of the category still struggles with: it generates true SVG vector graphics, complete with editable paths, alongside raster images, and it ties both to a brand style system designers can reuse across a whole project. As of…
Microsoft EVP overseeing Office and LinkedIn Ryan Roslansky posts an oddly oblivious self-own. The company flooding the internet with AI slop has started to realize how dumb its technology actually is in most scenarios.
Hands-on with Fable at Gamescom proved its combat is incredible; now it just has to survive the internet’s Xbox Tax.
Firewall Security Is Really About Controlling Trust Paths Source: Canva Firewalls are often judged by what they block. That is understandable, but it is not the most useful way to evaluate them. In a modern environment, much of the dangerous traffic is technically permitted: HTTPS to a cloud service, an administrator connecting to a management…
Valve’s cube-shaped Steam Machine has been shipping since June 29, 2026, and the initial reservation wave is largely settled into living rooms. But most owners only ever touch the console’s default state: Big Picture mode, a signed-in Steam account, and whatever games auto-installed from their library. The machine sitting under your TV is a full…
Messi’s Argentina retirement just settled a Kalshi market, and the money moved before most fans read the news. A prediction market asking whether Lionel Messi would play an official match for Argentina after July 20, 2026 and before retiring sits at roughly 2% implied probability of “Yes” as of August 31, 2026, on Kalshi. The…
Traders Pile Into a Trump Assassination Market as Iran Threats Escalate. A long-dormant Manifold market asking “Will Trump be assassinated during his second term?” saw roughly 43% of its all-time volume change hands in a single day, one of the busiest 24-hour windows on the platform. The contract still prices a YES outcome at about…
ASUS told investors on August 12, 2026 that the initial production run of its RTX Spark laptops and mini PCs had been fully claimed by channel partners before a single unit reached a retail shelf, and that the company is now placing additional orders with Nvidia to cover a Q4 2026 launch. The disclosure, made…
ASUS and MSI have run out of RTX Spark computers before most shoppers even had a chance to place an order. Both companies confirmed that their first production allocations from Nvidia are already spoken for through channel pre-orders, and both are now going back to Nvidia for a second batch of the GB10-powered chips that…
