The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed this week that ransomware gangs are now exploiting a critical WatchGuard Firebox firewall vulnerability, a flaw that has sat on the agency’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog since December 2025. The update, reported first by BleepingComputer, arrived in a routine Thursday KEV catalog refresh that flipped the entry’s…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency confirmed on September 15, 2026, that ransomware gangs have joined an already active espionage campaign targeting a critical VMware vCenter Server flaw, according to BleepingComputer. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59310, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 and lets an unauthenticated attacker with network access to a vCenter instance execute…
The trust establishes itself between players in the online gaming community through a series of small interactions, like providing a timely tip, making a nice comment after a tough game, or executing a winning strategy. These little encounters eventually transform haphazard teammates into a team you genuinely enjoy playing with. The Odd Power of Collaborating…
Introduction Security teams have gotten pretty good at testing against what can hurt them. Can this EDR agent catch this payload? Will my organization fail the phishing simulation? Does this SIEM rule fire on this particular technique? And, in more mature organizations, this testing happens continuously rather than as a one-off exercise. But no matter…
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. The AI industry has taken a doomer turn. What now? AI chiefs Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and Demis Hassabis are suddenly all in agreement: the latest generation of LLMs…
Remote development is where the VS Code vs Cursor debate gets uncomfortable for Cursor fans. Both editors share the same Electron shell and the same extension API, but the moment you SSH into a cloud box, spin up a dev container, or try to code from a machine with 4GB of RAM, the two editors…
Fujitsu announced on September 14, 2026, from Kawasaki, Japan, that it will begin global sales of FUJITSU-MONAKA, a next-generation CPU designed and built entirely in Japan, starting in November 2026. Alongside the chip, the company is launching the Fujitsu MONAKA Server, a made-in-Japan system the company is positioning as sovereign AI infrastructure for data center…
Three California gamers filed a class action lawsuit against Valve Corporation and ten of the video game industry’s largest publishers on August 27, 2026, accusing the companies of conspiring to keep PC game prices identical across every digital storefront. The complaint, Shimota v. Activision Blizzard, Inc., was lodged in San Mateo County Superior Court and…
Every distributed database vendor now claims to offer global scale with strong consistency, but the three products actually shipping that promise in production take wildly different paths to get there. Amazon Aurora DSQL bills by the Distributed Processing Unit and forces you to give up foreign keys. CockroachDB runs anywhere you can run a container…
AWS and Google Cloud are no longer fighting for the same growth curve. Amazon still runs the biggest cloud on the planet by a wide margin, but Google Cloud posted 82% year-over-year revenue growth in its most recent quarter against AWS’s 37%, according to earnings breakdowns reported by The Motley Fool on September 9, 2026.…