German cybersecurity firm Nebty identified DoppelCart, a fraud operation running over 119,000 fake e-commerce domains, mostly on the .SHOP TLD, with more than 105,000 sites still active. The shops clone 44,182 real brands using copied catalogs and branding, luring shoppers with steep discounts, then harvest card numbers, security codes, and personal details via checkout forms that stream data to attackers in real time.
The White House quietly removed 'Build the Wall,' a Tetris-inspired browser game from its new WhiteHouse.gov 'Arcade' section, after The Tetris Company publicly disavowed the game and warned it takes copyright infringement seriously. The game had players stack border-wall bricks to block pixelated 'zombies' representing migrants, but unlike real Tetris, completed lines never cleared, making every round end in a 'Border Breached' message. Other games in the same arcade, modeled on Flappy Bird and Snake, remain live.
A workplace commentary describes how a manager repeatedly solved her own problems simply by talking them through while her boss mostly listened and asked a few clarifying questions. The piece uses this anecdote to argue that effective leadership depends more on skilled listening than on providing solutions, and outlines three listening skills leaders should develop.
LiDAR on iPhone Pro models works by emitting light pulses and timing their return to measure distances to nearby surfaces, giving the device a sense of depth alongside camera imagery. Apple's ARKit uses this data to build a 3D mesh of a room's floors and walls, which apps like RoomPlan use to map furniture, doors and windows into a full 3D model. The sensor also boosts photography, enabling faster autofocus and Night mode portraits in dim lighting.
An open-source maintainer describes receiving an extortion attempt disguised as a bulk vulnerability report—95 claimed flaws, only two or three real—followed by a $100,000 ransom demand threatening public disclosure. He argues this scenario foreshadows a legal reality coming for far more companies: starting September 11, 2026, the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires any manufacturer selling connected products into the EU to notify ENISA within 24 hours of learning that a vulnerability in their product is being actively exploited.
Sixty years after its 1966 debut, Star Trek is being credited with popularizing several concepts that eventually became real-world technologies. Despite airing only three seasons before cancellation, the show grew into a massive media franchise with films, spinoffs and merchandise, and its speculative gadgets influenced generations of engineers and inventors.
Scientists in China have developed a new aluminum-based material modeled on the microstructure of eggshells, aiming to better protect spacecraft from high-speed debris impacts. The work, published in the Journal of Applied Physics, builds on decades of research into how an egg's curved geometry gives it surprising rigidity despite its thinness and fragility.
Google Cloud and Accenture are forming the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a joint unit that will place trained engineers directly inside client companies to help them adopt Google's AI tools. Google plans to train up to 1,000 Accenture engineers for this 'forward-deployed' role, following similar moves by OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon.
Slow Horses season 6 premieres September 16 on Apple TV with weekly episodes through October 21, marking the show's first season under new creative leadership and adapting two Mick Herron novels instead of one. Early critic reviews from outlets like Decider, Comic Book Club, and Next Best Picture praise the season as the strongest yet, citing sharp twists and strong character work.
A global analysis covering 204 countries found that nearly 3 billion people are regularly exposed to second-hand smoke, contributing to roughly 1.7 million deaths each year. The research highlights that passive smoke exposure remains a major public health burden despite decades of anti-smoking campaigns.
Nintendo will hold its second Direct of the week at 10AM ET on September 9, streaming on YouTube and the Nintendo Today! app, running roughly 45 minutes and centered on Switch 2 titles arriving this winter. A follow-up Nintendo Treehouse stream lasting about 110 minutes will show gameplay footage from featured games afterward.
A technical analysis by Valentin Ignatev, discussed by a Python performance blogger, shows that Python's set and dict data structures, though usually treated as constant-time O(1) for lookups and insertions, can be forced into quadratic-time behavior. By constructing integers that share the same hash value (using a Mersenne prime modulus), it's possible to trigger repeated hash collisions that slow insertion and lookup dramatically as the collection grows.
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