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Vercel confirmed on October 3, 2026, that it had verified a KVM zero-day vulnerability allowing a guest virtual machine to break out and seize root access on the host, a flaw the company’s own CEO called a hit against “the industry’s gold standard solution for Linux virtualization.” The report came through Vercel’s Sandbox bug bounty…
The Technical University of Denmark is no longer just counting records. Three days after disclosing that its DTUBasen identity database may have exposed data tied to up to 200,000 current and former users, DTU has handed the case to Denmark’s data protection authority and its national cybercrime police unit, turning a breach disclosure into a…
The Technical University of Denmark confirmed on October 2, 2026, that hackers broke into DTUBasen, the university’s central identity and access management system, and downloaded a large volume of personal data. In a public notification, DTU said information tied to as many as 200,000 current and former users may have been affected, a number that…
Valve raised Steam Deck OLED prices by up to $300 in May 2026. ASUS answered with a $1,299.99 OLED handheld that launches October 15. Lenovo has spent the past year selling an 8.8-inch, 920-gram alternative that beats both rivals on raw horsepower. The gaming handheld market that used to be a two-horse race between Valve…
Pokkén Tournament DX never got an official PC release, and Nintendo shut down the Wii U’s online services back in April 2024, so the only way to play Pikachu Libre or Shadow Mewtwo in anything close to full resolution today is through emulation. Cemu, the open-source Wii U emulator that has powered most “play Wii…
A ransomware group has put a dual-listed insurer on notice, and the insurer is pushing back on the word “confirmed.” On October 3, 2026, Insurance Business reported that Tower Limited, the New Zealand insurer known as Tower Insurance, is investigating a claim from a cyber-extortion group that says it stole company data. Tower told Stuff…
A corrupted MDF file is one of the more stressful things a database administrator can run into. The MDF is the primary data file for a SQL Server database, so when it will not attach, throws I/O errors like 823 or 824, or leaves the database marked “Suspect,” the data inside can feel locked away.…
Google shut off Imagen 4 inside the Gemini API on August 17, 2026. Any app still calling imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-ultra-generate-001 now gets a hard failure instead of a picture. The replacement, Nano Banana 2 (officially Gemini 3.1 Flash Image), uses a different endpoint, a different method name, and a different response shape, so a…
A ratings page that briefly surfaced online and then vanished has reignited the loudest conversation of GTA 6’s pre-launch run. According to a report published October 3, 2026 by IBTimes UK, a deleted PEGI listing reportedly described “detailed decapitation and dismemberment,” frequent illegal drug use, and the ability for players to snort cocaine “directly from…
A new wave of leaked material is pointing to the biggest overhaul the Pokémon franchise has attempted in decades. Reports breaking on October 2 and October 3, 2026, claim that Pokémon Winds and Waves, the unconfirmed codename for the Generation 10 mainline games, will take place in an open-world region built from roughly 100 islands,…
