Hackers Now Want Your Browser Sessions More Than Your Passwords, but You Can Stop Them

November 11th, 2026 12:00 AM

In April of 2023, the FBI took down an invite-only dark web marketplace called Genesis Market. The seizure was part of “Operation Cookie Monster,” a DOJ collaboration with law enforcement agencies across 17 countries. They discovered 80 million stolen credentials from approximately 1.5 million devices, including session cookies that let scammers log into a user's account without even entering a password. Genesis Market may be gone, but bundles of leaked session cookies called “...

Federal judge allows Trump’s $10bn defamation lawsuit against BBC to proceed

November 11th, 2026 01:18 AM

Trump-appointed judge Jeffrey T Kuntz partially denies British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss over editFederal judge Jeffrey T Kuntz ruled on Tuesday that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against the BBC can proceed, denying in part the British broadcaster’s motion to dismiss the case. The president’s $10bn defamation lawsuit stems from the BBC’s splicing together of disparate comments he made before the 6 January US Capitol insurrection, as rendered in a Panorama documentary called Trump: A Second...

The Company Behind GameOS is Now Building an AI Desktop OS Based on Linux

November 10th, 2026 03:01 PM

Kirt McMaster founded Playtron in 2022, and the company went on to build GameOS, a Linux-based operating system for gaming PCs. It now goes by KORA Systems Inc. and is launching a new AI-focused desktop operating system.The OS shares the KORA name, with GameOS living inside it as GameFrame, a dedicated mode for turning the system into a game console. We received a press release regarding this weeks before the launch, so this write-up might be missing some updates.A major component of this OS...

What is the average lifespan of recordable Blu-ray discs?

November 11th, 2026 01:00 AM

How long they will last depends on a few factors.

X launches its own clipping feature to spur influencer engagement

November 11th, 2026 01:02 AM

X is jumping into clipping, the popular practice of cutting long videos into short, shareable clips that can go viral.

Hope and Horror: Reviewing Two Essential Tales from Trench Crusade

November 9th, 2026 07:00 PM

In a special Monday edition of Trench Crusade, Jay looks at two short stories from the growing library of fiction for one of gaming's hottest new properties.

Samsung Rolls Out One UI 9 Watch With Wear OS 7 to the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic

November 10th, 2026 04:01 PM

Samsung has started rolling out One UI 9 Watch to the Galaxy Watch 8 and Galaxy Watch 8 Classic. The update is based on Google's Wear OS 7 and arrives after about two and a half months of beta testing. The rollout has begun in the US.The Galaxy Watch 9 and Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 already shipped with Wear OS 7, so this update brings last year's models to the same software.One UI 9 Watch Update DetailsThe stable update carries these firmware versions: L320XXU2BZJ7 for the Galaxy Watch 8...

AMD says Zen 6 delivers its biggest performance jump since the original Zen

November 10th, 2026 05:00 PM

AMD says its upcoming Zen 6 processor architecture will bring the largest generational performance improvement since the first Zen chips arrived in 2017.The company shared architectural details at a briefing for journalists and analysts in Las Vegas, describing changes to core design, instruction support, chiplet p ...