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The offbeat market everyone is betting on: ‘Steam Frame under $750?’ A small Manifold market asking whether Valve’s next virtual reality headset will launch below $750 has drawn some of the platform’s heaviest 24-hour trading, even as the crowd prices the answer at just 1% implied probability of YES as of August 28, 2026. The…
Modders are trying out an unofficial version of Nvidia’s DLSS 5 on Skyrim, Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, and a bunch of other games after code for the AI upscaling tech appeared in an early-access build of NBA 2K27. Members of the RenoDX modding channel on Discord reportedly found a way to extract the DLSS “Neural…
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Manchester Airports Group cyberattack, Carhartt breach data was partly fake, U.S. Bank responds to ransomware gang’s claims. The post In Other News: Log4j RCE Scare, Minimus Shutdown, Iranian Hacker Sanctions appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has described it as a ‘major incident’ and it’s conducting an investigation with the DOJ. The post ATF Confirms Cyber Incident After Ransomware Group Claims Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young —Antonio Regalado I knew I’d officially become a “longevity influencer” when a company called Generation Lab offered me the…
The advisory arrived from CISA on August 12, 2026, and it read like most of the ones before it: patch known exploited vulnerabilities, keep offline immutable backups, and segment the network so a single infected laptop can’t become a company-wide outage. That last instruction is the one most organizations still skip. The NIST Zero Trust…
ANBERNIC just gave Nintendo something to think about. The Shenzhen manufacturer behind the brand, Bounty Hunter Technology Co., Limited, built its name on cheap, Linux-powered retro slabs like the RG35XX and RG SP. Its newest device breaks that pattern. The RG 55G1 is ANBERNIC’s first handheld built around a Qualcomm chip, and the resemblance to…
Russian-speaking cybercriminals spent seven weeks this spring running a coding assistant like a junior pentester, and it worked. According to an exclusive Reuters report published August 27, 2026, and a companion investigation from Tel Aviv-based Gambit Security, an affiliate of the Aurora ransomware operation used the AI agent inside Cursor, the code editor SpaceX now…
A close look at whether ThinBorne’s ultra-thin 600D aramid fiber case for the Google Pixel 11 earns its $69 starting price.
Take-Two Interactive has moved past public relations and into federal court paperwork. On August 20, 2026, the publisher filed DMCA subpoena applications demanding that Microsoft and Discord unmask the accounts behind the leaked Grand Theft Auto VI footage that spread across the internet starting August 18. Both companies face a September 4 deadline to hand…
