Skip to content

The Edge of the Cyber World See the latest

tech-insider

Cyber Security

Switch Pirates Mod Owes Nintendo $4.5M, Court Rules [2026]

Nintendo has won a $4.5 million default judgment against James Williams, an alleged moderator of the r/SwitchPirates subreddit who went online by the handle “Archbox.” The ruling, first reported by Aftermath and covered by Kotaku, CBR, and player.one, closes out a case Nintendo filed against Williams in 2024 as part of a wider legal offensive…

Read summary

Apps

Arm’s AGI CPU Takes Aim at AMD’s $6.7B Surge [2026]

Arm has never sold a data center CPU with its own name on the box. That changed on September 14, 2026, when the company introduced the Arm AGI CPU, its first ground-up silicon product for AI infrastructure, alongside a new semi-custom platform called Neoverse CSS N4. The launch lands three weeks after AMD posted the…

Read summary

Apps

Blackstone Pays $95M for Power-Rich Nvidia Building [2026]

Blackstone Real Estate has closed on a 134,200-square-foot research building at 350 Cobalt Way in Sunnyvale, California, paying $95 million for a property leased entirely to Nvidia through August 2036, according to The Business Journals. County records reviewed by The Registry put the actual transfer price at $99.6 million, a gap that reporters attribute to…

Read summary

Apps

Silent Hill Townfall Review: 92% Praise, 1 Big Flaw [2026]

Silent Hill: Townfall is out. Konami and Annapurna Interactive released the game globally on September 24, 2026, for PlayStation 5 and PC, and the review roundup that landed this week tells a familiar story for the franchise: critics like it, some love it, and almost none of them are calling it a classic. Developer No…

Read summary

Apps

Silent Hill Townfall Splits Fans: 68% Steam Score [2026]

Silent Hill: Townfall launched today, September 24, 2026, on PlayStation 5, Steam, and the Epic Games Store, and the review cycle that closed out this week tells a strikingly consistent story: critics like the mood, the puzzles, and the willingness to make players feel weak again, but almost nobody is calling the combat good. Steam’s…

Read summary

Apps

Control Resonant Hotfix 1.3.3 Fixes Combat Gripe [2026]

Remedy Entertainment did something publishers rarely do on launch day: it read its own reviews before the ink was dry and fixed the exact problem critics flagged. Control Resonant went live on September 24, 2026, on PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, and within hours a hotfix numbered 1.3.3 landed alongside it, rewriting the combat…

Read summary

Apps

Reality Defender vs Hive vs Sensity: $33M vs $3.2M Gap [2026]

A finance employee at a multinational firm wired $25 million in early 2024 after a video call with what looked and sounded like the company’s CFO. It wasn’t. That case, still cited as the reference point for deepfake-driven fraud, is why three companies — Reality Defender, Hive AI, and Sensity — now sell detection software…

Read summary

Apps

Unpatched OnePlus Root Flaws: 0 CVE, 0 Fix Yet [2026]

A malicious app that asks for zero special permissions can still take full root control of a stock OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS build. That is the finding published by The Hacker News on September 24, 2026, and it lands as one of the more alarming Android OEM disclosures of the year because there…

Read summary

Apps

Cassandra vs DynamoDB vs Cosmos DB: $0 vs $0.625 Gap [2026]

Three NoSQL databases now anchor most large-scale cloud applications, and picking the wrong one is an expensive mistake to unwind later. Apache Cassandra, Amazon DynamoDB, and Azure Cosmos DB all promise horizontal scale and high availability, but they get there through very different architectures, pricing models, and operational trade-offs. Cassandra shipped its 5.0 general-availability release…

Read summary

Apps

MotherDuck vs Snowflake vs BigQuery: $0.60 vs $2/Credit [2026]

A three-person engineering team building a usage-analytics dashboard for a B2B SaaS product does not need the same database as a bank running nightly batch jobs across forty petabytes. Yet for most of the last decade, “cloud data warehouse” meant picking between two or three enterprise-scale platforms and paying enterprise-scale prices no matter how small…

Read summary