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ESET's APT Activity Report for Q2-Q3 2026 documents the first destructive cyberattack attributed to a Belarus-aligned threat actor in the European theater. The group, FrostyNeighbor (also known as UNC1151), used tools including Chisel, UltraVNC, Cobalt Strike, and a VBScript wiper deployed via Group Policy against a Ukrainian manufacturing firm tied to the country's transportation sector.
A QR code hides its destination until you have already opened it. susQR is a free web tool that checks the link first, and it is worth keeping one tap away.
The games industry continues to revisit classic titles such as Ocarina of Time, Mario Kart, Final Fantasy and Pac-Man, updating them with modern graphics and expanded worlds for new generations of players. Researchers and gamers interviewed say the appeal lies largely in nostalgia, the emotional pull of revisiting familiar virtual environments tied to memories and relationships from earlier in players' lives.
An agent is a language model given tools and a loop. That single design choice explains both why agents can finish real work and why they fail in ways a chatbot never could.
General Motors has settled a lawsuit from 35 state attorneys general and Washington, D.C. over its OnStar Smart Driver program, agreeing to pay $220 million. Investigators found GM tracked driving behavior like speeding and hard braking from millions of customers between 2016 and 2024 and sold that data to brokers for insurance purposes, often without clear consent, and sometimes continued selling data on drivers it had mistakenly told were unenrolled. As part of the settlement, GM must limit data collection, undergo privacy audits, and add dealership training.
Quishing works because a QR code gives you nothing to judge before you commit. Here is what the scams look like in practice and the habits that defuse them.
Foxconn Chairman Young Liu told CNBC the company aims to grow its AI server market share from roughly 40% today to about 45% next year and 50% within a couple of years. Liu said Foxconn's production capacity is fully booked for at least 18 months, driven mainly by AI model developers and cloud providers, and that AI infrastructure could make up 60-65% of revenue within three to five years.
A new router upgrades the link between your devices and the router. Almost nothing people complain about lives on that link, which is why the box rarely delivers the numbers on it.
Samsung officially unveiled the W27, a China-exclusive luxury version of the Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra with a gold-toned textured frame and dark red or blue rear covers. It shares the same core specs—an 8-inch folding OLED display, Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, 5,000mAh battery, and 200MP main camera—but is only offered in 16GB/512GB and 16GB/1TB configurations, priced at roughly $2,852 and $3,303 respectively.
On October 29, 2026, an attacker drained roughly $6.36 billion from Binance wallets across ten blockchains, with most funds moved in about 20 minutes starting at 20:05 UTC. Binance confirmed a security incident and suspended withdrawals on several networks, while blockchain analysis firm TRM Labs says it has high confidence the theft was carried out by North Korea's TraderTraitor hacking unit. Issuers including Tether, Circle, Ripple and World Liberty Financial froze about $2.67 billion in stablecoins, and Arbitrum's Security Council froze roughly $30 million more, but the attacker still holds over $2.4 billion in ETH and BTC beyond recovery.
Waymo and Toyota announced a partnership under which Toyota will manufacture 2027 bZ4X electric vehicles fitted with Waymo's self-driving system at its Takaoka plant in Japan. Testing will begin in Japan next year, with plans to extend the right-hand-drive vehicles to the U.K., where Waymo has been testing Jaguar I-Pace vehicles in London ahead of a planned robotaxi launch.
404 Media reports that Proton CEO Andy Yen is pressuring engineers to rely more heavily on AI coding tools, based on interviews with eight current and one former employee, internal Slack messages, meeting recordings, and an AI manifesto from the company's CTO. Sources say Yen dismissed a request for extra security testing as 'loser thinking' and told staff that 'perception is more important than truth' regarding communication about Proton's post-quantum encryption rollout.