The Edge of the Cyber World See the latest
Valve has quietly rewired one of the busiest real-estate zones on Steam’s homepage, and it did so without a press release, a patch note, or so much as a forum post. Sometime before September 17, 2026, the Discounts & Events grid, the row of tiles that used to funnel nearly every visitor toward the same…
In this paper, we study federated optimization for solving stochastic variational inequalities (VIs), a problem that has attracted growing attention in recent years. Despite substantial progress, a significant gap remains between existing convergence rates and the state-of-the-art bounds known for federated convex optimization. In this work, we address this limitation by establishing a series of…
Explore art and culture with visual-first conversation search, a redesigned home feed, AI experiments and 27 new city guides in the Google Arts & Culture app.
A look at the targeted AI taskflows behind these findings, the critical Android bugs they uncovered, and how to run the same open-source agent on your own app. The post How we found 24 Android vulnerabilities using our open source AI security agent appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
The open source Git project just released Git 2.56. Here is GitHub’s look at some of the most interesting features and changes introduced since last time. The post Highlights from Git 2.56 appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
RatHat’s operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in which each customer runs a separate copy. The console stores what the malware collects from…
The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level internal credentials and then, on September 24, used them to send fraudulent withdrawal commands to Bitget’s wallet system.…
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing a maliciously crafted file. The…
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect’s arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members dramatically escalated their attacks, stealing highly sensitive data from the FBI and extorting the Russian ransomware group Cl0p.
Gears of War: E-Day launches soon for early access holders and later for the general public. With 115GB install space required, this highly anticipated blockbuster is going to eat up your Xbox’s storage, but with these SSDs and expansion cards, you can fit it in and then some.
