
Riot just gave up on 2XKO — 11 months after launch, and everyone's getting refunded
The fighting game launched in January to real critical love. Riot says it still isn't making enough money to justify building it.
Diego Santos · 2h ago · 6 min

The fighting game launched in January to real critical love. Riot says it still isn't making enough money to justify building it.
Diego Santos · 2h ago · 6 min
Local-AI hardware
Which card runs a model, what fits at your context length, and what it costs to rent — computed from each model's own config and live provider prices. Not opinion.
PhotoScan is still a research prototype, but its accuracy already lands closer to a real DXA scan than the sensor in your smartwatch.
Lena Fischer · 2h ago · 6 min

A memory chip shortage just forced Nvidia to do something it usually avoids: pass the bill straight to its biggest customers.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-65400 let anyone on the network log into a Mac as root with zero credentials. Apple patched it August 6. Attackers were already inside, planting a cryptominer.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-8037 lets anyone run root commands on Kemp LoadMaster appliances with zero credentials — and 792 attack attempts from 65 IP addresses landed before it made the federal watch list.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-20349 doesn't steal your data. It just reboots your VPN gateway on command, and Cisco's already watching it happen in the wild.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

A DeepSeek-powered agent tried to hack 460+ systems on its own, including a Windows VPN bug rated CVSS 9.8 — and got shut out everywhere authentication actually worked.
Priya Nair · 13h ago · 7 min

GuidePoint's threat intel team says the 'recovery firm' emailing breached companies with a $60,000 fix is running the same infrastructure as the original attack.
Priya Nair · 13h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-69414 lets a local attacker walk straight to SYSTEM through Windows Defender itself, there's still no fix nine days after the CVE was assigned, and CISA just started a clock on it.
Priya Nair · 13h ago · 6 min

A memory chip shortage just forced Nvidia to do something it usually avoids: pass the bill straight to its biggest customers.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 6 min

The Pulse Elevate ditches the headset entirely — planar magnetic drivers, PS5 spatial audio, and a built-in mic, out November 12 for $219.99.
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 6 min

somewhere between the memory shortage and the markup, Nvidia's flagship broke pricing so badly that skipping the DIY build is the actual smart move
Ravi Malhotra · 1d ago · 7 min
PhotoScan is still a research prototype, but its accuracy already lands closer to a real DXA scan than the sensor in your smartwatch.
Lena Fischer · 2h ago · 6 min

at one person typing, all three are basically tied. add a second and the gap turns into a cliff
Lena Fischer · 1d ago · 7 min

Archer's new AI predicts where planes move on the ground minutes before they do — and Wall Street bid the stock up before the company has flown a single paying rider.
Lena Fischer · 2d ago · 7 min

Circana's 2026 numbers put Xbox at just over 4% of new physical game sales in the US, miles behind Nintendo's 63% and PlayStation's 32%.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 6 min

Order of the Sinking Star drops October 8. The designers whose puzzles are baked into it are still publicly furious with the man whose name is on the box.
Diego Santos · 1d ago · 6 min

PlayStation 5 unit sales fell 58% and Xbox hit its worst month ever after price hikes tied to the AI memory shortage — while Switch 2 grew 38% by holding its price. That's about to change.
Diego Santos · 2d ago · 7 min

Namco's Cyber Cycles put players on a full-size lean-steer motorcycle cabinet in 1995. Thirty-one years later it's $17 on your couch, and HAMSTER swapped the handlebars for a control stick.
Tom Ashcroft · 3d ago · 6 min

The full trilogy collection launches October 8 as a native, physical Switch 2 release — two days after the cloud version everyone's been using gets shut off.
Tom Ashcroft · 6d ago · 5 min

Defender of the Crown: The Legend Returns launched August 13 with three different games in one box — critics say only the brand-new one is actually worth playing.
Tom Ashcroft · Aug 16 · 6 min

CVE-2026-65400 let anyone on the network log into a Mac as root with zero credentials. Apple patched it August 6. Attackers were already inside, planting a cryptominer.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-8037 lets anyone run root commands on Kemp LoadMaster appliances with zero credentials — and 792 attack attempts from 65 IP addresses landed before it made the federal watch list.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

CVE-2026-20349 doesn't steal your data. It just reboots your VPN gateway on command, and Cisco's already watching it happen in the wild.
Priya Nair · 11h ago · 6 min

A five-year-old firmware bug in Coldcard hardware wallets let attackers drain $116 million in Bitcoin this summer — and if you generated a seed on one between 2021 and July 2026, your coins might still be exposed.
Sam Okafor · Aug 16 · 7 min

DeadLock skips throwaway domains entirely. Its victim chat and leak blog run on Polygon smart contracts, and Microsoft says that's exactly why takedown notices don't work on it anymore.
Sam Okafor · Aug 15 · 7 min