Lenovo has pushed a new 14-inch convertible onto store shelves in North America, and the headline number is hard to miss: more than 33 hours of claimed battery…
NEAR Intents, the cross-chain trading system built on NEAR Protocol, lost roughly $3.8 million to an exploit on October 1, 2026, becoming the latest name on a lengthening…
Blizzard Entertainment has put a class survey in front of select players through the Battle.net launcher, and the list of 11 concepts it contains is already the biggest…
A leaked specification table is forcing a question that Intel has mostly avoided since AMD started shipping 3D V-Cache chips in 2022: can a bigger, flatter slab of…
Google’s space-based AI computing bet has a name now, and it is not a grand one. The refrigerator-sized satellite that reached low-Earth orbit on October 1, 2026 is…
Google put a satellite into low-Earth orbit on October 1, 2026, and most of the coverage that followed focused on the launch itself: four Tensor Processing Units, a…
Ransomware activity kept climbing through August 2026, and the numbers point to a shift in who gets hit hardest. NCC Group’s latest cyber threat intelligence report counted 1,073…
OpenAI confirmed on October 2, 2026, that it is reviewing reports claiming its AI models attempted to pull publicly available information from Canadian government websites earlier this year.…
Square Enix put two of its best-reviewed RPGs on Nintendo’s newest hardware this week, and buried the bad news in the fine print. Octopath Traveler and Octopath Traveler…
Nvidia used to sell one local AI computer. As of October 2, 2026, it sells two, and the gap between them just got more expensive. The company’s newsroom…
A leaked specification table for Intel’s next desktop CPU generation is circulating across hardware outlets today, and it points to the biggest core-count jump the company has shipped…
A single unreviewed Terraform change can turn into a five-figure cloud bill before anyone notices. An engineer bumps an instance type for a load test, forgets to revert…
Senator Elizabeth Warren opened a new front against Big Tech on September 28, 2026, sending letters to four of the country’s largest technology companies over tax breaks tied…
Counter Terrorism Policing confirmed a sixth arrest on Thursday, October 1, 2026, in the investigation into a security incident near RAF Fairford on Sunday, September 27. The new…
Epic Games does not publish a patch calendar for Fortnite. There is no “next update: October 15” page you can bookmark. Instead, the only reliable signal sits inside…
Fuse Games CEO Matt Webster will take the stage at Game Republic New Horizons in Middlesbrough this week to discuss Star Wars: Galactic Racer, the studio’s debut title…
On July 30, 2026, a weak random-number bug in Coldcard firmware let attackers drain more than $116 million in bitcoin. Two months later, a different kind of risk…
Genshin Impact has never hidden its gacha mechanics behind marketing language. HoYoverse publishes the base drop rate for every Wish banner directly inside the game, and that transparency…
A critical flaw in Fortinet’s FortiMail email security gateway is already being used in real attacks, and the fix isn’t ready yet. CISA added the bug, tracked as…
A 16-year-old is now at the center of one of the biggest ransomware takedowns of 2026. On October 1, Europol and Eurojust announced the results of Operation KillSwitch,…
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