2026-08-25

New Windows malware lays dormant until a custom command activates it like a sleeper agent

No one knows who built it and to what end. [...]

2026-08-25

BBC fights Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit over VPN jurisdiction limits

The BBC has filed a motion to dismiss Donald Trump’s $10 billion defamation lawsuit, arguing that 34 unauthorized Florida streams accessed via VPNs cannot grant a U.S. court jurisdiction over British content. [...]

2026-08-25

Meaco fans sold out completely during the last heatwave — but the company just launched two new tower models, and they're both in stock right now

There are two sizes to choose from, both with 12 speed settings, eco and night modes, and glow-in-the-dark remote controls. [...]

2026-08-25

The best hair dryers of 2026, ranked by Consumer Reports

Hair dryers can run loud or make controls hard to read. Consumer Reports tested seven models for noise and usability [...]

2026-08-25

IBM’s Granite 4.2 Models Learn to Think and Act Inside Environments

IBM has released Granite 4.2, its first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning language models, in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and 30B parameters. Announced on August 25, 2026 with weights published under the Apache 2.0 license, the release gives every Granite model a switchable thinking mode and sends the two larger sizes through reinforcement learning inside real software-engineering, terminal, and we [...]

2026-08-25

Australia’s music industry bans AI-generated songs from official charts

AI-generated music would also be ineligible for the prestigious Australian Record Industry Association awards. [...]

2026-08-25

Xbox has a bunch of translucent green accessories for the console's 25th birthday

Xbox has a bunch of translucent green accessories for the console's 25th birthday. [...]

2026-08-25

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all

Apple decides undermining its own email privacy feature was a bad idea after all. [...]

2026-08-25

How Xbox controllers have changed in the last 25 years

Every Xbox controller has the familiar ABXY buttons and offset thumbsticks. But Microsoft has slowly evolved the controller over its quarter-century life. [...]