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Three handhelds, three completely different bets, and a $174 gap between the cheapest and the most expensive. Between early August and late June 2026, Anbernic, AYANEO, and Retroid each shipped a device aimed squarely at the retro and budget-Android handheld buyer, and none of them are chasing the same customer. The Anbernic RG SP launched…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S.…
In 2007, the US was on the cusp of an economic recession, and Buddy Rizer was tasked with finding Loudoun County, Virginia, a new way to make money. Rizer’s earlier career as a radio DJ didn’t exactly make him an obvious candidate to find a solution, but he was looking for what he called a…
The National Vulnerability Database entered September 2026 carrying more than 27,000 unprocessed CVEs, a backlog that grew from roughly 13,000 in mid-2024, according to a June 2026 inspector general report from the US Commerce Department. In April 2026, NIST reclassified close to 29,000 of those backlogged entries as “Not Scheduled,” meaning they get no automatic…
The video game industry is in the middle of what GamesIndustry.biz has taken to calling “the reset”, a multi-year stretch of layoffs, studio closures and funding contraction that, four years in, still isn’t slowing down. New tracking data published this week shows just how much worse 2026 has gotten than anyone forecast at the start…
Nintendo 3DS emulation on PC looks nothing like it did two years ago. Citra, the emulator that defined the category for a decade, went dark on March 5, 2024, after Nintendo’s parent company Tropic Haze settled a lawsuit tied to the Yuzu Switch emulator for $2.4 million. That settlement didn’t just kill Yuzu — it…
OpenAI said this week that its next model, code-named Astra, has crossed the company’s own “Critical” cybersecurity threshold, the highest tier in its internal risk-classification system. TechCrunch reported on September 1, 2026 that internal testing showed Astra could find previously unknown security flaws and exploit them without a human walking it through each step. Fortune’s…
Type “AI chatbot builder” into Google in September 2026 and three names dominate the results: Chatbase, Voiceflow, and Botpress. All three let a business spin up an AI-powered support agent without writing a full application from scratch, and all three now plug into frontier models like GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini. But they solve different problems…
“We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity,” Jensen Huang told a sold-out crowd at CrowdStrike’s Fal.Con 2026 in Las Vegas Tuesday. Attacks are now automated. Defense has to be, too. The NVIDIA founder and CEO joined CrowdStrike CEO and founder George Kurtz to announce CrowdStrike SafeMind, its agentic cybersecurity system developed by the CrowdStrike Cyber…
Aesto Health, a Birmingham, Alabama-based healthcare technology vendor, disclosed on September 1, 2026 that a security incident tied to its Amazon Web Services (AWS) infrastructure exposed personal and health data belonging to 9,540,683 patients, according to reporting from BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek, and HIPAA Journal. The disclosure makes Aesto Health’s breach the second-largest confirmed U.S. healthcare data…
