Arknights doesn’t hand you a guaranteed rate-up like some of its rivals do. Pull enough times on a standard banner and you’re mathematically guaranteed a 6-star operator by…
Two of Epic Games’ biggest live-service titles are hitting ranked milestones the same month. Fortnite is grinding out the final weeks of Chapter 7 Season 4 before its…
Pick the wrong hash function for a 64-bit server fleet and you can leave real throughput on the table. SHA-256 and SHA-512 come from the same NIST family,…
Nvidia is dealing with a new driver headache. On September 1, 2026, TechRadar reported that the company’s Game Ready Driver 616.56 is triggering screen flickering and color corruption…
Google shipped two new AI models on September 2, 2026: Gemini 3.8 Flash, a general-purpose reasoning and coding model, and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, a specialized variant built…
SteamDB, the third-party site millions of PC gamers use to check sale history, concurrent player counts and Steam Deck compatibility notes, has a new owner. On September 2,…
Kubernetes 1.34 stopped taking anything but critical security patches on August 27, 2026. Its upstream end-of-life date lands on October 27, 2026, and that deadline is turning into…
Nintendo confirmed The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake is still targeting a 2026 launch on Nintendo Switch 2, but nearly three months after the game’s June…
Salvatore Sanfilippo, the Sicilian programmer better known online as antirez and best known for creating Redis, spent September 1, 2026 doing something that would have sounded like science…
SonicWall confirmed on September 1, 2026 that attackers are actively exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in its SMA 1000 Series appliances, the hardware and virtual gateways thousands of…
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added a fresh batch of actively exploited vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this week, and the update lands at an…
Ethereum’s MEV-Boost relay market just flipped. New data from relay-monitoring dashboards shows that neutral, non-filtering relays now handle roughly 70% of daily block production, while relays that once…
Sony is running two PlayStation showcases back to back on September 3, 2026: a flagship State of Play followed immediately by State of Play Japan. The headline draw…
Acer used its IFA 2026 keynote in Berlin on September 2 to launch two new laptops built on Intel’s freshly unveiled Core Series 3 chips, known internally as…
OpenAI has designated Astra as the first model ever to trip the Critical cybersecurity threshold under its Preparedness Framework, and the company spent weeks quietly rewriting its own…
OpenAI spent the first days of September 2026 defending a decision most of the public had never heard of: how its next frontier model, code-named Astra, actually thinks.…
Google is rewiring how artificial intelligence shows up in classrooms, and the rollout lands this week across Gemini, Google Classroom, Google Search and Chromebook. The changes were detailed…
A dark web identity theft service calling itself Nexus is advertising more than 153 million scanned driver’s licenses from people across the United States and Canada, according to…
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