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A screenshot tool that most people use without a second thought just became one of the biggest data breach stories of September 2026. Helpfeel Inc., the Kyoto-based company behind the widely used image-sharing service Gyazo, confirmed on September 16 that an attacker broke into its systems five days earlier and walked away with roughly 23.62…
Xbox 360 emulation has quietly split into three competing camps in 2026, and the split is confusing enough that Reddit threads about it get relitigated every few weeks. Mainline Xenia, the project that started this whole research effort back in 2013, has not shipped a tagged release since February 2026. Xenia Canary, the fork that…
A malware family stayed hidden inside enterprise networks across Asia and South America for more than three years by doing something almost no defender was watching for: talking over MQTT, the lightweight messaging protocol built for smart thermostats and factory sensors, not spyware. Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs disclosed the campaign on September 18-19, 2026, naming…
Atom’s official archive notice from GitHub has been up since December 2022, but the Atom code editor never really died. A community fork called Pulsar picked up the codebase, kept shipping monthly releases, and by August 2026 had pushed its stable build to version 1.132.1. If you still have muscle memory built around Atom’s keybindings,…
Valve’s Steam Deck OLED now costs up to 46% more than it did a year ago, and the company that builds it says the pressure has not eased. On September 15, 2026, Valve developer Pierre-Loup Griffais confirmed that an industry-wide memory shortage has not derailed Steam Deck 2 development, but he stopped short of promising…
Getting a ROM library into Steam used to mean adding each game one by one as a “non-Steam shortcut,” typing out launch commands by hand, and hunting down box art on Google Images. Steam ROM Manager automates all of it. Point it at your emulator folders, and it scans your ROMs, matches them against the…
Three frontier AI models shipped inside a single ten-day window this month, and the price gap between the cheapest and the most expensive one now runs past 80x for the same million output tokens. OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra landed on September 3, 2026, priced at $50 per million output tokens and carrying the company’s first-ever Critical…
Amazon spent the first four months of 2026 tearing Luna apart. It killed the game store on April 10, cut off access to purchased titles by June 10 with zero refunds, and quietly turned what used to be a Netflix-for-games pitch into a free perk bundled inside Prime. Then, on September 10, Amazon added a…
AGI in 5 Years? Manifold Bettors Put It at 62% After the GPT-6 Astra Launch. A Manifold Markets contract asking “Will AGI be achieved in the next 5 years?” is trading at a 62% implied probability of YES as of September 19, 2026, one of the busiest questions on the platform this week. The jump…
Every backend team building a new service in late 2026 hits the same fork in the road: Node.js, Bun, or Deno. The question used to have an easy answer — Node, because it was the only mature option. That is no longer true. Bun’s 1.4.x line is now running production traffic at companies that once…
