FBI and CrowdStrike Disrupt 20-Year-Old Sality Botnet Controlling 15,000+ Infected Systems

We're used to modern NVMe SSD transfer speeds, which have touched 15,000 MB/s with PCIe 5.0 drives. They eclipse anything that came before — SATA SSDs and hard drives alike. Even if you don't have a high-end Gen5 SSD on your system, your Gen4 SSD is running pretty fast right now. ➪ Continue reading the full article on www.xda-developers.com … [Read More...]

It's Bullitt meets Christine meets Waymo. A new short film imagines a San Francisco car chase where the other driver isn't human - and the car may be trying to kill you. That a robotaxi can now be cast as the villain with almost no explanation says something about the present moment. Autonomous cars have gone from sci-fi curiosities to fixtures in some American cities, where they've become … [Read More...]

Refurbished phones can be safe to buy in India when purchased from a manufacturer, known retailer, or reputable physical refurbisher. Before buying a refurbished phone, shoppers should check hardware features, warranty, and the seller's reliability. Here is a complete checklist that can help you choose and buy a refurbished phone in India. ➪ Continue reading the full article on www.gadgets360.com … [Read More...]

Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers' licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more. ➪ Continue reading the full article on www.wired.com … [Read More...]

With AAA titles taking up more than 100GB of storage space these days, even a 2TB SSD won't cut it unless you're okay with uninstalling and reinstalling games as you need them. For years, I never really had more than four or five games installed on my PC at any given time, so storage space wasn't something I was worried about. That changed after I installed three AAA games that took up about 150GB … [Read More...]

Microsoft is investigating an ongoing issue causing some Windows users to face significant delays or outright failures when launching the Microsoft Teams desktop client. The company acknowledged the problem, tracked internally as TM1466820, and confirmed it remains unresolved as engineers continue digging through service logs to find a root cause. According to Microsoft's incident notice, affected … [Read More...]

The iPhone 18 Pro is expected to bring several internal upgrades while retaining much of the iPhone 17 Pro's design. Rumours point to a 2nm A20 Pro chip, a new C2 modem, LTPO+ display technology and a larger battery. Apple could also introduce a variable-aperture main camera and a smaller Dynamic Island. The phone may arrive in four colours, including a new Dark Cherry shade. Pricing could rise … [Read More...]

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that … [Read More...]

A human attacker armed with frontier artificial intelligence models breached an enterprise network and seized root credentials in under 10 hours, a timeline that would normally take human red teams roughly two weeks to complete, according to a new incident response report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The threat actor told Unit 42 investigators during ransom negotiations that they relied on … [Read More...]

Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as ➪ … [Read More...]