Attackers took over HBO Max's official, verified Reddit account and used it to post 108 malicious ads over roughly two days, tricking Windows and macOS users into installing information-stealing malware. The ads used the ClickFix technique, luring victims into pasting attacker-supplied commands into Run, PowerShell, or Terminal under the guise of fixing errors or verifying CAPTCHAs, with some posts impersonating a fake HBO Max app and others posing as AI tools or developer utilities.
A Reddit user on r/pcmasterrace posted photos of two abandoned crypto mining rigs found in a basement, containing a dozen Zotac RTX 3070 graphics cards along with DDR4 memory, SSDs, power supplies and MSI Z390 motherboards. The rigs had been used for Ethereum mining during the pandemic and sat unused after home mining stopped being profitable, with the owner giving them away once asked.
Security researchers report that ClickFix-style attacks, which trick users into copying and running malicious commands via fake CAPTCHA pop-ups, are proliferating across both Windows and Mac systems. Researcher Kevin Beaumont notes victims are flooding Reddit for help, and attackers are now compromising legitimate websites to embed these prompts, making the scam harder to spot.
HP has begun taking orders for its ZGX Fury AI workstation, a system based on Nvidia's GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra Desktop Superchip pairing a Blackwell Ultra GPU with a 72-core Grace CPU. The machine offers 748GB of unified, coherent memory and up to 20 petaFLOPS of FP4 compute, and ships alongside a new partnership between HP, Red Hat, and Nvidia to run Red Hat AI Factory software on the hardware.
A developer released ChaosTree, a zero-dependency Java library implementing multiple sorted-tree data structures—AVL, Red-Black, B-Tree, and B+ Tree—with Set and Map APIs modeled on JDK's NavigableSet, NavigableMap, SequencedSet, and SequencedMap interfaces. It also includes specialized bulk-construction methods like buildFromSorted and importFlatMatrix that let developers tune node occupancy directly.
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania used AI to analyze over 400,000 Reddit posts from nearly 70,000 users discussing GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro and Zepbound. The analysis, published in Nature Health, surfaced patient-reported symptoms—particularly menstrual changes and temperature issues like chills and hot flashes—that appear underrepresented in clinical trials and regulatory data. The team stresses this doesn't prove the drugs cause these effects, but flags them as signals worth further study.
A volunteer has created a public GitHub mirror and continuation of the freedesktop.org SPICE Windows guest agent project after Red Hat stopped maintaining it. The fork keeps building and packaging the Windows service that enables clipboard sharing, resolution matching, and file transfer for VMs, with fixes like a multi-GPU mouse tracking patch for passthrough setups.
Scientists at the University of Utah, including former BYU football player Larry Carr, are researching intranasal transcranial photobiomodulation (itPBM), a red-light therapy aimed at reducing brain inflammation and improving cognition, mood and motor function. A recent study of 26 BYU football players published in the Journal of Neurotrauma found the therapy may help protect neurological health without requiring reduced playing time or contact exposure.
An account of a manager named Cheryl illustrates a common organizational hazard: after losing two team members in layoffs, her product marketing lead quit for a competitor, and shortly after she was told to cut two more roles. The pattern highlights how organizations can become dangerously dependent on a handful of critical employees whose departure or removal destabilizes operations.
Google Search has begun rewriting organic result links from readable URLs into a new google.com/goto?url= format that hides the actual destination inside an encoded, Google-specific parameter. Unlike the older google.com/url redirect wrapper, which kept the target link visible in plaintext, the new format requires a request back to Google's servers to retrieve the real URL from the Location header. As of late August 2026 this behavior appears consistently for logged-out and private browsing sessions, suggesting a wider rollout rather than a small test.
WhatsApp is rolling out a new iPad interface that replaces the bottom tab bar with a Mac-like sidebar for navigating Chats, Updates, Communities, Calls and Meta AI. Users can hide the sidebar to expand the chat list and conversation view for a less cramped layout. The feature is currently reaching some TestFlight beta testers as well as a portion of regular App Store users.
Maersk has installed a giant spinning cylinder, known as a rotor sail, on one of its cargo vessels carrying 8,700 shipping containers. The 115-foot-tall device uses wind power through the Magnus effect to help propel the ship, reducing the amount of fuel the engines need to burn.
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