Prime Day hasn't started, but the XPS 13 is already $200 off
Prime Day hasn’t started yet, but Dell’s XPS 13 is already down to $799 with a $200 discount. There’s even a model for just $599 if you can live with 8GB of RAM.
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NVIDIA PAIR Links Idle PCs for 1.9x Faster Local AI [2026]
NVIDIA wants the gaming PC sitting idle in your bedroom to start pulling double duty as an AI server. At IFA 2026 in Berlin on September 3, 2026, the company unveiled Personal AI Router, known as PAIR, a free and open-source tool that quietly scans a home network, finds machines with spare compute, and routes…
The AirPods Pro 3 are a fantastic deal at $179
It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good discount on the Apple AirPods Pro 3, but like the latest iPad Mini and the M5 MacBook Airs, a great one is happening now for October Prime Day. You can snag a pair of the noise-canceling earbuds that include five ear tip sizes, live translation, and…
The MacBook Air M5 is $200 off for the first time in months
Amazon’s October Prime Day has effectively chopped off Apple’s June price increases. Usually $1,299, the 13-inch MacBook Air with the M5 chip and 512GB of storage is on sale for $1,099 at Amazon. That’s a more palatable price for a machine that’s significantly faster than Apple’s $699 MacBook Neo. The 15-inch version, also with 512GB…
How to Set Up Velociraptor DFIR: 13 Steps, 90 Min [2026]
A ransomware affiliate gets a foothold on a mid-size company’s network on a Friday night. By Monday, the incident response team needs answers from 400 endpoints: which machines talked to the command-and-control server, what persistence mechanisms got dropped, and whether the attacker touched the file server. Pulling that picture together with ad hoc scripts and…
What Amazon Actually Released
Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
Amazon Strands Decider 2B: Open Agent Model in 106ms [2026]
Amazon pushed a new open-source model onto Hugging Face and GitHub on October 1, 2026, and it does something most AI releases don’t: it refuses to write a single sentence. Strands Decider 2B, built by the Strands Labs team inside AWS, is designed to do one job — pick an option from a list, score…
AppleWin vs Virtual II vs GSplus: $31 Price Gap [2026]
Apple II emulation does not get the attention that Nintendo or Sony emulation gets, but the numbers tell a different story. “Apple ii emulator” pulls roughly 720 monthly searches in the US, and the three programs fighting for that traffic, AppleWin, Virtual ][, and GSplus, take almost completely different approaches to keeping 1977-era hardware alive…
macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor
The dropper “carries a complete universal Mach-O inside itself, roughly 756 KB in the development build, and extracts it at runtime. The post macOS Users Targeted by Fake Zoom Installer Carrying CloudSyncD Backdoor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
No$GBA Pokémon Setup: 13 Steps, Free Debugger [2026]
Most Pokémon emulation guides point you toward melonDS, DeSmuME, or mGBA, and for good reason: those projects ship frequent updates and handle modern hardware well. No$GBA (short for NO-CASH GBA) rarely gets the same attention, yet Martin Korth’s emulator and debugger is still the fastest way to boot a Game Boy Advance Pokémon ROM on…