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The Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 hacking competition has come to an end. Hackers have received $1,262,000 in rewards after exploiting 98 zero-day vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Ikotas Labs won this year’s Pwn2Own Ireland edition with 42.5 Master of Pwn points and $361,000 earned over the three-day competition after hacking the Samsung Galaxy S26, OpenAI Codex and … Read more
Amazon has killed off its Fire tablets and replaced them with a new Alexa-branded slate, including the brand’s first true high-end tablet. I had a chance to try out the new tablets ahead of launch, and first impressions are good. Amazon has been selling Fire tablets for years, and they’re very popular, Amazon says. I’m … Read more
Ethereum client developer Nethermind and bitcoin and lightning wallet ZEUS are among several crypto companies to apply for a newly launched Anthropic program that gives open-source projects access to security reports from its most powerful AI models. The projects submitted enrollment requests Friday for the OSS Scanner, which Anthropic launched Thursday with the goal of … Read more
Cisco on Wednesday announced patches for 35 vulnerabilities in its products, including more than a dozen critical-severity bugs. A new security hardening release from Meraki fixes several bugs grouped into seven CVEs depending on the type of underlying vulnerability. The most serious of these is CVE-2026-76464, which covers memory issues such as buffer overflows and … Read more
Apple TV subscribers can now watch Apple TV’s “Matchbox The Movie,” a new stage action comedy inspired by the iconic Mattel toys. Watch the trailer below. ‘Matchbox The Movie’ is now streaming on Apple TV If you’ve been watching anything on Apple TV for the past few weeks, you’ve definitely seen the trailer (or at … Read more
Credit: Dhruv Bhutani / Android Authority Android fans will notice that Google loves wavy progress bars these days. They’re part of the company’s broader Material 3 Expressive design, and you’ll find them in Google apps and interfaces, including Android Auto. But as we’ve seen curved design make its way into more places, we’ve got less … Read more
Shure has introduced the MV6 Gen 2 USB Gaming Microphone, which brings advanced audio processing and noise reduction features to gamers and streamers to capture clearer audio without a complicated setup process. The new entry-level microphone draws inspiration from Shure’s professional SM7 and MV7 models, combining a cardioid dynamic capsule with built-in digital sound processing. … Read more
China’s P2P Stablecoin Wallet Grows 43x Despite Crypto Restrictions: Chainlysis The number of unique wallets sending peer-to-peer (P2P) stablecoin transactions in China increased 43 times between the first quarter of 2024 and the second quarter of 2026, according to Chainanalysis. The blockchain analytics company recorded $104.1 billion across 18.1 million transfers involving China’s self-regulated stablecoin … Read more
A malware campaign dubbed “Midnight Mimosa” has been discovered on low-cost Android smartphones that ship with malware embedded in their firmware, allowing attackers to silently install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into private proxies. The malware is believed to have been introduced somewhere in the device’s supply chain. However, it remains unclear who … Read more
Video streaming platform Netflix has released a trailer for its eight-episode series about the lead-up to the fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, focusing on former CEO Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried and his colleague and girlfriend, Caroline Ellison, who headed the company’s sister research arm. Thursday on X Post, Netflix showed Footage from the upcoming series released … Read more