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Logitech increased prices by up to 25 percent last year.

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of trojanized npm packages that masquerade as working calendar and streak utilities but are engineered to stealthily deliver an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Linux implant dubbed RedC2 4.0. "When the module loads, it locates the bundled binary, marks it executable, and launches it as a detached background process," TrendAI, Trend Micro's

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Tesla's solar roof was an experiment that never really caught on for the company. But does that mean the concept of roof-integrated solar is dead?

Chinese safety regulators have cracked down on doors that don't open in a crash.

The responses to NHTSA's questions so far are redacted entirely, citing "confidential business information."

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Andreessen Horowitz has two partners sitting on the boards of companies that now compete with each other: Ben Horowitz at Databricks and Martin Casado at Fivetran. Nothing too scandalous on the surface, except the Department of Justice has reportedly been investigating the arrangement for almost a year, dusting off a 112-year-old antitrust law that’s rarely used against VCs.  Board conflicts aren’t exactly new, and these companies weren’t necessarily direct competitors when a16z first invested […]

Romania blew up drone boat to protect lives of several hundred rig workers.

Keychron’s C2 Pro full-size wired mechanical keyboard hits an all time low of $29.99 at W00t with code KEYCHRON ($24.99 if you’re new to Woot) - QMK programmability, pre-lubed switches, make this a great find while the deal lasts

Some Americans fear the FTC may be thinking about personalized pricing all wrong.

Ukrainian hacktivists exploiting the bugs, but TrueConf's reach stretches well beyond home turf

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Billionaire walks back earnings call optimism as orbital test approaches

Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March, and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually knocking out real UIs for my other projects yet, but I'm running out of excuses! Thomas: If you haven’t tried your hand at turning one of your 500 throwaway CLIs into a native app, you’re doing yourself a disservice. Go build a native UI. It’ll probably change the way you think. Tags: thomas-ptacek, ai, generative-ai, llms, vibe-coding, coding-agents

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The security review is being performed by the Idaho National Laboratory, and the research is being funded by a company -- or a group of companies -- in the electric and autonomous vehicle industries.

Broadcom is in talks to raise upwards of $70 to $80 billion in debt for a chip financing deal, CNBC's David Faber reported on Friday.

Check Point Research has disclosed a technique that uses Microsoft Defender's own legitimately signed boot-time remediation driver to perform arbitrary kernel-level file and registry operations on Windows systems ranging from Windows 7 through Windows 11 25H2, with no software flaw exploited and no driver imported from outside the machine. The driver, BTR.sys (Boot Time Removal Tool), is a

Toronto org says it wasn’t the only one to be affected by the third-party software vulnerability

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new malware family that's specifically designed to infect Android-based vehicle head unit firmware developed by DoFun. Kaspersky, which discovered the threat in June 2026, said the end goal of the malware is to serve a multi-stage downloader to enable ad fraud and creation of a proxy botnet. "The malware spread through the built-in updaters of

SPX Express has deployed 10 DFSK EC35 electric vans for daily parcel deliveries in Klang Valley, sourced from Dongfeng Commercial Vehicle Malaysia (a Sunway Group subsidiary). The EC35 offers 200-275km range, 4.8m³ cargo capacity, 1,015kg payload, and charges 20-80% in 39 minutes on DC, but SPX disclosed no details on charging infrastructure or expansion zones beyond this initial evaluation batch.

Corsair launches a back-to-school promotion offering $75 off qualifying purchases of $350 or more in the U.S.

The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 expansion cards for the Xbox Series X|S are now available on Amazon starting at $249.99 for the 1TB variant. While gamers can use external drives to copy and backup games from the Xbox consoles, they need expansion cards like these from SanDisk or Seagate if they want to install more games.

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