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Kubernetes clusters waste money in a very specific way: they hold onto nodes that pending pods no longer need, and they lean on Cluster Autoscaler’s coarse-grained node group logic instead of picking the right instance for the job. Karpenter, the open source node provisioning project originally built by AWS, fixes both problems by launching exactly…
DOS gaming never really died, it just moved into three competing forks of the same open-source project. DOSBox, the original emulator that has powered digital re-releases on GOG and Steam since the mid-2000s, has not shipped a new stable build since June 2019. In the vacuum, two active forks took over: DOSBox-X, a monthly-release project…
Three companion chatbots now dominate the AI relationship category, and their 2026 pricing tells three completely different stories. Character.AI charges $9.99 a month for its only paid tier. Nomi AI sits in the middle at $15.99 a month. Replika, meanwhile, quietly rolled out a $120-a-month Max tier this year, on top of its existing $19.99…
A ransomware crew that built its reputation on mass file-transfer hacks has pulled off something different this month. Cl0p, the extortion group behind the 2023 MOVEit breach, has spent August 2026 naming Shell, Philips, General Electric, Fiserv and roughly 45 other companies on its dark-web leak site. The common thread isn’t a shared vendor for…
McKesson Corporation, the pharmaceutical distribution giant that moves roughly a third of the prescription drugs sold in the United States, confirmed on August 28, 2026, that it suffered a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and theft of data. Hours after the disclosure, the extortion group ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer it had pulled roughly…
Hundreds of unionized video game developers stood outside Xbox studio buildings in Austin, Dallas, Seattle, Rockville, Hunt Valley, Montreal and Minneapolis on August 18 and 19, 2026, holding signs with a blunt message: stop the cuts. The rallies, organized under the banner “Save Our Devs,” mark the second coordinated protest wave against Microsoft’s plan to…
The leaker behind this month’s Grand Theft Auto 6 footage dump appears to have finally shown its hand. On August 27, 2026, blockchain investigators traced roughly $270,000 in transactions out of wallets linked to the anonymous group known as Cyberleek, the same entity that spent the previous two weeks flooding the internet with GTA 6…
Apple spent August 25, 2026 rewriting its desktop lineup without much warning. The company introduced M6, its first chip built on TSMC’s 2-nanometer process, inside a redesigned Mac mini, and paired it with M5 Ultra, a four-die monster chip that tops out at an 80-core GPU and 512GB of unified memory inside the new Mac…
Nvidia has told major customers that prices on servers packed with its artificial intelligence chips are going up more than 15% in many cases, and the pain has already spilled into the consumer graphics card market. Newegg data tracked through late August 2026 shows RTX 50-series cards climbing as much as 39% since June, with…
React and Vue teams keep circling back to the same argument: which framework wins? But by August 2026, the sharper question for anyone shipping AI-assisted, data-heavy frontends is different. It’s not React vs Vue anymore. It’s how you fetch, cache, and sync server data inside whichever framework you already picked. That’s where TanStack Query and…
