A ransomware crew calling itself “Kyber” spent the spring of 2026 doing something no criminal group had done before: encrypting victim data with a NIST-standardized post-quantum algorithm. According…
Xiaomi has pulled back the curtain on its most aggressive in-house silicon yet. The Xring O3, a new flagship smartphone system-on-chip built on TSMC’s 3nm N3P process, is…
DeepSeek just changed the terms of its own bargain. On August 13, 2026, the Chinese AI lab pushed out DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, an updated reasoning model that…
Microsoft did something on September 2, 2026 that Wall Street had asked for since Azure launched in 2010: it published a real dollar figure for the business by…
A fresh wave of leaks claims Nintendo has a Super Metroid remake ready to show, possibly during one of the two Nintendo Direct broadcasts the company has scheduled…
Google has done something it avoided for months: it put a real, published dollar figure on its newest piece of hardware. On September 8, 2026, Google Cloud’s pricing…
Arm used its hardware newsroom on September 8, 2026 to introduce the Arm C2-Ultra CPU and the Mali G2-Ultra NX GPU, the two building blocks of what the…
A number that should never exist just cost a DeFi lending protocol $1.73 million. On September 4, 2026, an attacker drained a legacy escrow contract on Notional Finance…
Malone Lam pleaded guilty before a federal judge in Washington, D.C. on September 8, 2026, in what prosecutors call the largest known single-victim Bitcoin theft in U.S. history.…
Valve spent four years treating SteamOS as a one-device operating system. If you wanted the company’s Arch Linux-based, console-like interface, you bought a Steam Deck, full stop. That…
A wallet cluster that had not moved a single satoshi since Bitcoin’s earliest days woke up on September 5, 2026. Twelve addresses holding mining rewards from March 2010…
Less than 24 hours after a leak claiming a brand-new Super Smash Bros. is in development for Nintendo Switch 2 spread across the gaming press, the story has…
AMD says it has built the first x86 chip that can run a 300-billion-parameter language model without ever touching the cloud. The claim landed on May 20, 2026,…
Every team running a public web app or API eventually asks the same question: which web application firewall actually stops the next attack without breaking the checkout page.…
ChatGPT’s long slide in web traffic share appears to have broken, at least for now. New data from Similarweb shows OpenAI’s chatbot grew again after two straight months…
UK regulators say two of the world’s best-known AI labs just supplied a preview of what “agentic” cyber risk looks like in practice. In early August 2026, the…
Overwatch 2 does not hand you an API key for your own rank. Blizzard’s Battle.net developer portal covers account and game data broadly, but competitive tier and division…
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