Cybersecurity
US Air Force pilots used malware-laden USB drives to plan Afghanistan missions
The term military intelligence seems like an oxymoron in this case
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Big Walk devs House House announce support for BDS Microsoft boycott, say the co-op puzzler isn’t coming to Xbox
House House, creators of breezy co-op puzzle adventure Big Walk, have become the latest high-profile game developers to express support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) movement’s ongoing Microsoft boycott.
Mobile
Google is handing out a surprise 30% discount on the Pixel 11 series
A welcome discount on the Pixel 11 lineup
Hardware
Meta’s smart glasses were recording conversations without the wake phrase, company admits
A redditor recently wrote that they’d noticed something concerning with Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses: they were capturing conversations when they were talking to other people despite the “Hey Meta” wake phrase not being used.
Hardware
Save 30% on this ASUS ROG Gaming laptop with RTX 5060 — $600 discount makes this hefty machine just $1,399
Get an RTX 5060 gaming laptop for just $1,400.
Cybersecurity
Novel Android Banking RAT ‘Hirudo’ Replaces Banking Apps With Trojanized Copies
The Hirudo malware combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured RAT.
Software
YouTube is reportedly gearing up to offer audiobooks
YouTube is already talking to publishers about offering audiobooks on its platform, The Wall Street Journal says.
Gaming
Big Walk skipped Xbox to boycott Microsoft’s involvement with Israel
Big Walk’s co-op multiplayer walking adventure has proved popular since launching in August, but Xbox players have been excluded from the fun - and now the game’s creators have explained why.
Artificial Intelligence
AI Storagemaxxing: Your GPUs are optimized, what about your data?
As organizations scale AI workloads, the ability to optimize, protect and move data will become as important to infrastructure strategy as access to compute.
Mobile
My Windows install is ten years old, and a handful of maintenance habits are why it still runs like new
Essential maintenance keeps my old Windows 11 system running smoothly.
Gaming
Penguin Colony Rips Lovecraft’s Horror From His Racist Hands
Penguin Colony reclaims H.P. Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and weaponizes it against the writer’s own beliefs in a vital piece of apocalypse art.
Hardware
NVIDIA Expands Advanced Technology Access for Europe’s Scientific Community Through Open Learning Resources, Collaborations and Compute
Much of today’s scientific progress begins with computation. But turning accelerated computing’s potential into scientific progress — modeling climate systems, designing molecules, simulating materials and more — depends on more than breakthrough technology.
Mobile
Why my favorite 2026 smartwatch isn’t a Pixel Watch or Galaxy Watch
Instead, it’s the Amazfit Balance Ultra.
Cybersecurity
Citizen Lab says governments are abusing online ads to hack people with ‘zero-click’ spyware
The digital rights unit found evidence that dozens of devices at media organization Al Jazeera were hacked after being shown malicious online ads.
Artificial Intelligence
‘The EU’s next chapter in AI is agentic’: New OpenAI report claims agent use is on the rise across Europe — but it still has some way to catch up to other markets
While European SMBs are starting to adopt agentic AI at a meaningful level, growth still falls short of other global regions.
Artificial Intelligence
Unsupervised AI agent deletes TV show’s entire edit weeks before release; program can’t air
The Challenge Sweden’s season 2 edit was deleted by an AI agent put on the production server. The program director blames “the human factor” instead of AI.
Software
Grafana Tempo 3.1 Adds Query-Based Trace Redaction and Sampling-Aware TraceQL Metrics
Grafana Labs has released Tempo 3.1, the first minor update to the 3.0 architecture.
General Tech
Japanese consortium bets on building bobbing bit barns
Four firms believe server farms on barges in ports will help solve the problem of finding suitable sites
Mobile
‘Nightmare Scenario’: Zero-Click Spyware Is Infecting Phones via Targeted Ads
Researchers at The Citizen Lab have for the first time released technical evidence of sophisticated mercenary spyware being distributed via online advertising.
General Tech
CenterPoint Energy Data Breach Impacts 1 Million Texans
Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised.
Mobile
Motorola Signature 27’s seven-year update promise comes with a pretty big asterisk
The Signature 27 sounds like Motorola’s software comeback until you read the fine print.
Startups
Glean CEO Arvind Jain says he wants Glean to be easy to replace
Glean has no plans to raise more money and no concrete plans to go public, founder and chief executive Arvind Jain told TNW. The enterprise AI company could list if it wanted to, he said, and it is getting its internal processes ready.
Gaming
Ubisoft reportedly look to cut 100 more jobs by proposing voluntary redundancies at studios including lead Anno devs Ubisoft Mainz
Ubisoft have initiated talks over voluntary redundancies at three German studios under their banner, reportedly seeking to cut around 100 workers via the move.
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