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Dropbox confirmed on September 1, 2026 that hackers compromised roughly 5,000 user accounts in an incident that ran through most of August, using a flaw in a little-known identity partnership with Lenovo rather than breaking into Dropbox’s own servers. The disclosure, first reported by Bloomberg and syndicated by Reuters, TradingView, and Security Magazine, lands at…
Roblox creators who sell shirts, pants, and other flat avatar items just watched their cut of every sale drop from 70 percent to 30 percent. The change, which took full effect on July 14, 2026, folds “2D” avatar items into the same publishing rules and revenue split that have long applied to 3D items on…
A 32GB DDR5-6000 memory kit that cost roughly $90 in the summer of 2025 now sells for $375 to $400, and builders on Reddit’s r/pcmasterrace and r/buildapc forums are calling late August 2026 the worst month yet to spec a new PC. The culprit isn’t a chip shortage in the old sense of factories going…
Every gaming platform has its own way of keeping score. Steam quietly tracks per-game achievement percentages, Xbox turns every unlock into Gamerscore, and PlayStation stacks bronze, silver, and gold into a single trophy level. Then there is RetroAchievements, a community-built platform that bolts a full achievement system onto games that were never designed to have…
Shadow PC promises a full Windows 11 gaming rig streamed from the cloud, but plenty of subscribers open a session and immediately hit stutter, ghosting cursors, or a blurry mess that never sharpens up. The frustrating part is that this happens even to people paying $54.99 a month for the top-tier Power plan. The problem…
Google keeps cranking out Flash models: the company on Wednesday announced two versions of a new 3.8 Flash. The variants include a standard Flash, a “workhorse” model for agentic tasks, software development, and multi-step reasoning, and Flash Cyber optimized for vulnerability detection and mitigation.Google CEO Sundar Pichai said in an X post that 3.8 Flash delivers…
Security teams shopping for a new detection platform in September 2026 keep landing on the same three names: CrowdStrike Falcon, Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR, and Microsoft Defender XDR. All three now market themselves as full extended detection and response (XDR) suites rather than plain endpoint tools, and all three claim to replace pieces of…
Google has dodged an effort to break up its ad business, but a judge said Wednesday that the company will need to adjust its business to benefit competitors.
Meta is entering the increasingly competitive real-time speech-to-text market with Muse Voice Transcribe, a new audio perception model that combines streaming transcription, endpoint detection and speaker diarization for more than 20 speakers — at a public API price of just $0.18 per hour of processed audio.Developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs, Muse is designed to process…
When enterprise buyers build out their next AI accelerator evaluation list this cycle, they're more likely to put a non-Nvidia chip on it than Nvidia's own next-generation GPU. According to VentureBeat's July VB Pulse survey of 170 AI infrastructure respondents, 39.4% said they're likely to evaluate non-Nvidia accelerators — AWS Trainium, Google TPU, AMD Instinct,…
