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Chris Harper - Thu, Jul 16, 2026
Amidst the discussion around game preservation for Xbox and PlayStation gamers in the digital era, one Redditor has created a unique game cartridge system for Steam. The game cartridges are each individual SATA 2.5-inch 128GB SSD drives...
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Chris Harper - Tue, Jul 14, 2026
It's been a tumultuous time for game preservationists as of late, with Sony potentially ditching physical media despite vocal outcry, and numerous stories of digital content being deleted after it's been bought and paid for. Today though...
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Tim Sweezy - Tue, Jun 30, 2026
Anyone who's rooted their Android phone or jailbroken their iPhone to squeeze out a little extra control over the device is about to hit a wall, at least when it comes to using it for work or school. Microsoft has quietly armed...
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Chris Harper - Thu, May 07, 2026
An unexpected feature buried within free Nintendo Switch 2 game Super Animal Royalecaught the Internet's attention this week. Specifically, some web pages viewable within the game and Nintendo Switch 2's system-level browser contain...
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Chris Harper - Sun, Feb 15, 2026
During the Super Bowl, Amazon's Ring advertised a feature called Search Party in collaboration with Flock Safety, which was billed as an AI-accelerated way to make it easy for Ring customers to "help families find lost dogs" and help users...
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Chris Harper - Sat, Jan 31, 2026
Google has a deeply-vested interest in cybersecurity and unparalleled resources to take down bad actors. The latest target on Google's kill list was a malicious proxy network called IPIDEA, and through coordinated efforts inside and...
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Chris Harper - Sun, Jan 25, 2026
Like the winter storm currently raging across the United States, a chilling wave of cybersecurity alarms is making the rounds as well. And with over 149 million users impacted across major email providers, Meta-owned Facebook & Instagram...
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Chris Harper - Thu, Jan 01, 2026
The PlayStation 5 has essentially been cracked, just in time for 2026, and it would appear that short of releasing a new hardware revision, there's not much Sony can do about it. This is because PlayStation 5 hackers have found the BootROM...
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Chris Harper - Sat, Dec 20, 2025
Compromised home networks are an increasing concern. Most recently we've written about theSantaStealer malware, budget Android TV boxes doubling as botnets, andcompromised routers. Fully securing your home network requires an assortment of...
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Chris Harper - Sat, Nov 15, 2025
Metroid Prime 4 is due to release on December 4th, 2025, and some outlets were invited to a hands-on preview. When the embargo lifted, early testers posted their impressions of the first few hours of the game, mainly across the space...
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Alan Velasco - Wed, Oct 15, 2025
A recent Discord data breach, which included users government issued IDs, has taken taken another twist after the hackers disputed the accuracy of the companys disclosure. This time, 5CA, the contracting company Discord pinned the blame on...
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Chris Harper - Mon, Sep 08, 2025
Nintendo has secured a victory in court against Ryan Daly, creator and seller of the MIG-Switch flashcart, to the tune of $2 million. This judgement comes a year after the lawsuit was initially filed against Daly and his website, Modded...
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Alan Velasco - Fri, Aug 22, 2025
Update, 8/23/25, 1:45 PM ET: The company that makes the Flipper Zero has released a blog post in response to recent stories regarding stolen vehicles. The blog post states that, "the so-called hacker firmwares for Flipper Zero dont add anything new they just reuse techniques documented since...
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Victor Awogbemila - Wed, Aug 13, 2025
This month's edition of Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes hundreds of security flaws, including 13 critical flaws and a zero-day vulnerability. It also contains security updates to vulnerabilities initially patched in July's Patch...
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Aaron Leong - Fri, Jul 11, 2025
Russian professional basketball player Daniil Kasatkin, known for his moves on the court, has found himself in an entirely different kind of court facing accusations of being a ransomware negotiator. The 26-year-old, who once graced the...
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Victor Awogbemila - Thu, Jul 10, 2025
Australian airline company, Qantas, has revealed that it suffered a sophisticated cyberattack that affected over 5.7 million of its customers' data. In an update on the incident, the company revealed that of the 5.7 million unique customer...
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Bruno Ferreira - Fri, Jun 27, 2025
It isnot a good time to be a network administrator,especially for businesses with Brother printers. Security researchers published a laundry list of vulnerabilities affecting a total of 748 printer models, most of them (and the worst of...
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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, Jun 19, 2025
It might be high time to rotate your least-changed passwords, if not all of them. The research team at Cybernews has been quietly tracking stolen credential datasets released this year, and the figures aren't good: a total of 16 billion...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jun 16, 2025
We may never truly know just how close NVIDIA came to actually releasing a GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20GB of GDDR6X memory (versus the actual configuration that we reviewed), but there is new evidence to suggest it was at least a...
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Bruno Ferreira - Thu, May 29, 2025
Heads up if you have an Asus router in your home or office, as there's a backdoor exploit doing the rounds affecting 9,000 devices and counting. This event came to light by way of the security firm GreyNoise and its Sift AI tool that...
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Zak Killian - Tue, May 27, 2025
It might surprise you to learn this, but cybercriminals are usually fairly protective of the data they steal, because things like credentials and login details have value, and can be sold to the right buyer. That's why it's so unusual that...
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Bruno Ferreira - Fri, May 09, 2025
Hive Systems has released the 2025 edition of its password crack time estimate table, and it's a doozy. Among many other findings, the company's researchers calculated that all random passwords around 8 characters in length are easily...
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