A 31.4 Tbps distributed denial-of-service attack hit Cloudflare’s network in November 2025, the largest ever publicly recorded, and it lasted just 35 seconds before automated systems shut it down. That single data point sums up where DDoS protection stands heading into late 2026: attacks are getting bigger and faster, and the vendors racing to stop…
Home labs and small businesses buying network attached storage in September 2026 are picking between three very different hardware philosophies. Synology just rolled out its RS1226+ and RS1226RP+ RackStation line for edge deployments, Asustor is betting its Flashstor Gen3 series on all-flash NVMe speed, and QNAP keeps stacking on PCIe slots and 10GbE ports at…
Jim Cramer spent Tuesday night on CNBC’s Mad Money talking up Anthropic as a company that “could be a gigantic IPO,” the kind of listing that pulls money out of other stocks just so investors can get a piece. By Wednesday morning, September 9, 2026, he was on Squawk on the Street comparing the company’s…
New Hampshire’s highest court has confirmed that a stranger had access to more than a decade of case records before anyone noticed. The state’s Judicial Branch says names and addresses tied to cases filed between 2002 and 2015 sat exposed inside a vendor-run system for roughly three months this year, part of a wider breach…
Google’s Gemini 3.1 Flash Image, better known by its internal nickname Nano Banana 2, has been sitting in the Gemini API since early 2026, but the model ID, pricing tiers, and batch discounts still confuse most developers who try to wire it into a real project. The docs are scattered across three different Google properties,…
A Steam backend slip that started surfacing late on September 8, 2026 has turned into one of the biggest accidental spoiler events in PC gaming history. Achievement lists for dozens of unreleased and previously unannounced titles, including Persona 6 and Kingdom Hearts IV, appeared on the third-party tracking site Exophase and spread across gaming media…
Nintendo has locked in a release date for one of the most requested remakes in gaming history. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time launches on Nintendo Switch 2 on November 5, 2026, with preorders now live at Amazon, Walmart, Best Buy, and GameStop. The confirmation came during Nintendo’s Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on September…
Azure PlayFab Multiplayer Servers 2.0 lets a studio spin up dedicated game server VMs on demand instead of running a fleet of always-on machines. Microsoft’s own billing example prices a D2v2 instance at $0.252 per VM hour in US East, US South Central, US West, and West Europe, while the same VM costs $0.302 per…
A Chinese boutique PC maker just made the case that a 2.6-liter box can hold as much graphics muscle as a mid-tower gaming rig. FEVM put its new FN80G mini PC on sale in China on September 3, 2026, pairing desktop-class Intel Core Ultra 200S processors with Nvidia RTX 50-series GPUs, including a laptop version…
Meta introduced Muse on September 8, 2026, calling it a personal AI agent built to run errands, manage schedules, and carry out multi-step tasks across a user’s digital life. The rollout, confirmed by TechCrunch, CNET, and SiliconANGLE, arrives in the US first, restricted to users 18 and older, and pushes Meta further into a race…