The Edge of the Cyber World See the latest
Renting a cloud gaming subscription starts to feel wasteful once you notice you already own a decent game library and just need horsepower on demand. That is the pitch behind self-hosting: spin up a GPU instance on AWS, install the open-source pair Sunshine and Moonlight, and stream your own games to any laptop, phone, or…
Session hijacking has quietly become the top way attackers get into corporate accounts in 2026, and it works whether or not you have MFA turned on. A single infostealer infection now yields an average of 44 passwords but 1,861 cookies, according to password and passkey usage research published in mid-2026, and cookies are what attackers…
Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome’s JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. “Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.82…
The modern workspace is no longer built around a single computer. A developer might use a laptop for coding, a tablet for reviewing documents, and an external display for video calls. For remote workers, a well-organized remote working setup may involve moving between laptops, phones, tablets, and other connected devices throughout the day. Cloud services…
Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk’s xAI, went dark for users across X and its mobile apps on the morning of September 3, 2026, and the company says the blame sits squarely on its own hardware. In a statement flagged by Engadget, the SpaceXAI account apologized “for the issues you may have experienced with…
Valve did not mean to show anyone the Steam Frame. But on August 19, 2026, an update to the ARM build of the Steam client quietly pushed out eight finished promotional videos, including a full unboxing walkthrough, before anyone at the company noticed. Dataminers grabbed the footage within hours, and by the time Valve pulled…
ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini went down within hours of each other this week, leaving thousands of people staring at error screens instead of AI answers. The outage hit on Thursday, September 3, 2026, and reporting on it carried into Friday, September 4, as the New York Post, Mashable, NewsNation, Newsweek, 9to5Google and Futurism all logged…
The nations warn that governments and industry can no longer treat quantum codebreaking as a distant or theoretical possibility. The post The G7 tells industry to hurry up and prep for post-quantum encryption appeared first on CyberScoop.
Anthropic used the first days of September 2026 to push out three things at once: Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Mythos 5.1, and a new security architecture called Enterprise Frontier Safeguards (EFS). Fortune, VentureBeat and CNBC each covered a different slice of the story, but stitched together, the announcement reads less like a routine model refresh…
Anthropic shipped Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on September 1, 2026, and buried inside the release notes was something more interesting than another benchmark chart: a named defense against model theft. Fortune broke down the release on September 2 under the headline “What’s inside Anthropic Claude Fable, Mythos 5.1,” and the detail that…
