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Dick's Sporting Goods is closing more Foot Locker stores in 2026 as part of an ongoing effort to shrink that chain's retail footprint. The company's stock dropped sharply after it issued a revised financial outlook, signaling that its turnaround plan for Foot Locker is behind expectations.
ZDNET released its updated roundup of top reading tablets for 2026, based on hands-on testing, research and comparison shopping across vendor listings, retailer data and customer reviews. The guide explains its methodology, noting that while affiliate commissions from purchases support the site, they do not influence which products are recommended or their pricing.
Threat intelligence firm Defused reports that hackers are actively probing SharePoint servers by combining two vulnerabilities: an authentication bypass in JWT token validation (CVE-2026-55040) and a Business Connectivity Services flaw (CVE-2026-63520) that enables remote code execution. Proof-of-concept code for both bugs was published publicly in August by researchers at Rapid7 and VulnCheck, and Defused says it has already observed the bypass being exploited alongside admin enumeration on honeypots, though no successful code execution has been confirmed yet.
TECNO's bezel-less concept phone, first teased weeks ago, got its first hands-on demonstration from Marques Brownlee ahead of its planned IFA 2026 debut. The device uses internal display stacking so its metal frame sits slightly above the screen, hiding the bezel but creating a raised edge that can interfere with Android's edge gestures. It also packs a 144Hz display, triple rear cameras, a 6,000mAh battery, and a holographic lenticular back panel.
CISA has added a critical Gitea vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming attackers are exploiting it in the wild. The flaw, found in the diffpatch API endpoint, lets someone with repository write access run shell commands as the Gitea service account, and since many installations allow open self-registration, even unauthenticated attackers can gain that access simply by signing up and creating a repository. Gitea patched the issue in version 1.27.1 released July 27.
Geoff Keighley's Gamescom 2026 opening ceremony delivered a wave of trailers, including HoYoverse's co-op action game Nodus Fall, Iceflake Studios' LEGO-themed city builder LEGO Skylines, and Rainbow Six Tactics, a turn-based spin-off due in 2027 that marks the franchise's first single-player entry since 2008. Microsoft also showed the first campaign footage for Gears of War: E-Day ahead of its October 6 launch, while Pearl Abyss unveiled an enhanced version of Crimson Desert.
Lego Group reported record revenue for the first half of 2026, driven by a wave of roughly 330 new product releases spanning entertainment tie-ins, sports-themed sets and its traditional core lines. The company credited the breadth of its lineup for appealing to a wide range of customers despite broader economic pressures on household spending.
At Hot Chips 2026, Intel disclosed full specifications for its Crescent Island AI accelerator, including 32 Xe3P cores, 256 XMX engines, 32MB of L2 cache, PCIe Gen5 x16, and a 350W TDP. Shipping units will carry 160GB of LPDDR5X memory, though ODM designs can scale up to 480GB of VRAM.
Shadowserver identified 274 Zimbra Collaboration Suite instances already breached through exploitation of CVE-2026-73570, a command injection flaw in the SNMP monitoring component that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. Synacor patched the bug in ZCS 10.1.20 on July 20, but Shadowserver still counts over 8,200 unpatched instances exposed online, though not all are necessarily exploitable due to non-default configuration requirements.
At Hot Chips 2026, IBM unveiled an early look at a future mainframe processor featuring 11 IBM Z cores on a 2-nanometer process, clocked above 5.7 GHz, capable of natively executing both z/Architecture and AArch64 instructions on the same cores without emulation. The chip will include specialized accelerators for AI fraud detection, I/O, compression, cryptography and sorting, plus a large cache hierarchy topping out near 3.5 GB of virtual L4 cache. IBM hasn't named the chip or its host system but expects it around 2028, likely powering a future z18-class mainframe.
CISA has issued an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to fix a Zimbra vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-73570, within just three days. The flaw is severe enough that exploitation could give an attacker complete control over a victim's email and communications.
At Hot Chips 2026, SK hynix's Jaesik Lee said hybrid bonding won't be ready in time for HBM4E and will instead debut with HBM5, as current HBM4 packages are already constrained by a 775-micron thickness ceiling matching standard logic wafers. To keep scaling within that limit, 16-Hi HBM4 stacks now use dies thinned to about 50 microns with half the interlayer gap of 12-Hi designs, while SK hynix continues using its existing MR-MUF bonding method through upcoming Nvidia Rubin-generation products.