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Roughly two and a half minutes of unfinished footage from EA Motive’s long-dormant Marvel’s Iron Man spread across ResetEra and then Reddit on August 28, 2026, watermarked “AUG26 TEST.” Instead of firing off copyright takedowns, Electronic Arts did something it almost never does: it picked up the phone. EA contacted Kotaku directly to confirm the…
A clean gaming PC build isn’t just about looks anymore. In 2026, cable management directly affects GPU safety, thermal performance, and how long your components last. With PCIe 5.0 12V-2×6 power connectors under scrutiny for overheating when improperly seated, and a new wave of back-connect motherboards from ASUS, MSI, and Gigabyte changing how builders route…
Pogacar’s Vuelta Red Jersey Bet: Why Traders Price a Wire-to-Wire Hold at Just 1%. A Manifold market asking whether Tadej Pogacar will hold the red leader’s jersey for the entire 2026 Vuelta a Espana has drawn a sudden rush of activity, with roughly 68% of its all-time volume traded in a single day. As of…
Traders bet Google Maps will rename Lake Ontario to “Lake America” in 2026. A Manifold market on whether Google Maps will relabel Lake Ontario as “Lake America” sits at roughly 83% implied probability of YES as of August 29, 2026, after more than half of its all-time volume changed hands in a single day. The…
OpenAI has become the fourth major AI player to put hard performance numbers behind a custom chip built to outrun Nvidia at the one job that now eats the industry’s electricity bill: inference. On August 25, 2026, OpenAI published the first benchmark results for Jalapeño, the inference accelerator it built with Broadcom, and the numbers…
Security teams picking a phishing simulation and awareness platform in late 2026 are stuck choosing between three very different bets. KnowBe4 is the incumbent with the biggest content library and the widest brand recognition. Proofpoint Security Awareness Training (PSAT) is the safe pick for shops already paying for Proofpoint’s email security stack. Hoxhunt is the…
Frontier AI models get the headlines, but most production API bills are actually driven by a quieter category: fast, cheap, high-volume models built for everyday coding and agent tasks rather than PhD-level reasoning. In the last four weeks, all three major labs refreshed their budget tier at nearly the same time. DeepSeek shipped V4-Flash-0731 on…
A cybercriminal operating under the alias “TheHatman” is selling roughly 3.6 million employee-directory records allegedly pulled from the Microsoft Azure and Entra ID tenants of nine large companies, according to cybercrime intelligence firm Hudson Rock. The victim list includes McDonald’s, Vodafone, Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Kyndryl, HCL Technologies, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Gap Inc., Hexaware…
Credential stuffing has quietly become the default way attackers break into APIs. Bots armed with billions of leaked username-password pairs no longer bother guessing passwords character by character — they replay credentials stolen from other breaches, betting that people reuse logins across services. According to an authentication threat report published by MojoAuth, defenders blocked 4.2…
Rockstar Games spent the better part of two weeks watching unauthorized footage of its unfinished game spread across every corner of the internet. Then, on August 27, 2026, the company’s parent Take-Two did something that would have seemed unthinkable a month earlier: it let Netflix premiere an official 26-minute look at Grand Theft Auto VI…
