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US authorities say Siemens controllers used for water and other infrastructure are being targeted by hackers — agencies claim threat actors use AI tools to generate exploitation scripts (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-22 | by Jowi Morales | tags: siemens s7-series, cisa, ai tools

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Redeeming Google Play Points could win you a vintage Spider-Man comic worth crazy money (androidauthority.com)

2026-08-21 | tags: google play points, marvel amazing fantasy #15, new york comic con

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US says hackers are targeting vulnerable water systems with the help of AI (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-20 | by Zack Whittaker | tags: siemens, cisa, water systems

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RISC-V: They should have known better (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: risc-v, microcontrollers, supercomputers

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RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-14 | tags: risc-v, microcontrollers, supercomputers

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Kubernetes on Oxide: How Customer Needs Shaped Our Integrations (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | by Matthew Sanabria | tags: kubernetes, oxide, floating ip

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Spaghettifying DRAM (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-13 | tags: dram, amd, memory controller

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This $57.99 8BitDo Ultimate 2 wireless controller is a brilliantly customizable option for PC gamers — fully customizable gamepad with Nintendo Switch compatibility includes dual triggers, TMR joysticks, and adjustable RGB lighting (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-13 | by Ben Stockton | tags: 8bitdo, ultimate 2, nintendo switch

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US Hires Over 2,000 Video Gamers As Air Traffic Controllers (slashdot.org)

2026-08-12 | tags: faa, air traffic controllers, sean duffy

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Xbox’s Leaked Elite 3 Controller Straddles the Brand’s Warring Identities (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-12 | tags: xbox, elite 3 controller, cloud gaming

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Transportation Secretary Announces That the Air Traffic Controller Crisis Is History Now That He’s Hired Thousands of Epic Gamers (futurism.com)

2026-08-12 | by Frank Landymore | tags: air traffic controllers, sean duffy, epic games

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The unreleased Xbox Elite Controller 3 may have ended up in an unsuspecting buyer's hands (engadget.com)

2026-08-12 | by Mariella Moon | tags: xbox elite controller 3, microsoft, anatel

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US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-08-11 | by Megan | tags: federal aviation administration, sean duffy, new jersey airport

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PlayStation 5 Is Getting a Wolverine Yellow Makeover, and It’ll Cost You $650 (cnet.com)

2026-08-11 | by Oscar Gonzalez | tags: playstation 5, marvel’s wolverine, dualsense controller

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How to fix stick drift on PS5 and Xbox controllers (engadget.com)

2026-08-11 | by Dave Meikleham | tags: ps5, dualsense, xbox controllers

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The Transportation Department is recruiting gamers to solve its air traffic controller shortage (feeds.feedburner.com)

2026-08-11 | tags: transportation department, air traffic controllers, sean duffy

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Hackers breached a small Polish energy plant via private APN last year (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: polish energy sector, electrum threat group, private apn

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Valve slowly expands SteamOS support on non-Valve hardware (arstechnica.com)

2026-08-10 | tags: steamos, valve, intel

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Steam hardware shipper breach leaks customer data, including names and addresses (theverge.com)

2026-08-10 | by Emma Roth | tags: steam, valve, ceva logistics

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Hands-on: This modular controller slides open to transform your iPhone into a mobile game console [Video] (9to5mac.com)

2026-08-09 | by Fernando Silva | tags: controller, experience, magsafe

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Modder turns Steam Controller trackpad haptics into stereo speakers with custom HID tool — Wired connection transmits 16-bit audio that sounds surprisingly full (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-08 | by Hassam Nasir | tags: audio, controller, hardware

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Cyberattacks hit water facilities in seven states across the US (engadget.com)

2026-08-01 | by Mariella Moon | tags: fbi, programmable logic controllers, water facilities

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CISA warns of cyberattacks disrupting U.S. water utilities (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-31 | tags: cisa, water utilities, programmable logic controllers

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Thousands of Data Center Controllers Open to Takeover (darkreading.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: data center, remote hardware, password cracking

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Flaw From 2002 Exposes Data Centers to Server Takeover (darkreading.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: server management controllers, password-cracking, data centers

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CubePilot drone software dev hit by DNS hijacking to intercept traffic (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-07-28 | tags: cubepilot, dns hijacking, australian cyber security centre

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Recursive Filters: SMA, EMA, Low‑Pass, and a Tiny Kalman (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-28 | by Kamil Staszewski | tags: sma, ema, kalman

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The first watch featuring computer functions (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-26 | tags: wrist computer, basic programming, controller console

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Running a 28.9M parameter LLM on an $8 microcontroller (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-25 | tags: esp32-s3, gemma models, per-layer embeddings

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Netflix includes 80+ ad-free iPhone and iPad games, here’s every app (9to5mac.com)

2026-07-22 | by Zac Hall | tags: netflix, apple arcade, app store