Collaborate Disseminate
Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT and security professionals at organizations that had experienced at least one s… Continue reading Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families
While Hackaday doesn’t maintain a crime blotter, we couldn’t help but start this week’s post off with a bit of civil disobedience — a retired professor from the University of …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: October 17, 2026
“A human defeated two of the three robots he faced in a cage fight recently held in San Francisco,” reports the Los Angeles Times, noting that videos of the event drew more than 10 million views on YouTube.
But “the humans behind that fight could fac… Continue reading ‘Human Vs. Robot’ Cage Match Was Illegal, Says California
Party like it’s CVE-2026-99999 – a 9.3-rated nasty called PwnEscape Continue reading Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking
“When you pay for a game, you should own it,” says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of “a rental disguised as a sale”.
Kotaku reports:
The fifth best-selling game of 2024 in the U.S. was NBA … Continue reading New Video Game Law Proposed: ‘If You Pay For It, You Own It’
“When you pay for a game, you should own it,” says U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (D-NY), introducing a new bill to fight the practice of “a rental disguised as a sale”.
Kotaku reports:
The fifth best-selling game of 2024 in the U.S. was NBA … Continue reading New Video Game Law Proposed: ‘If You Pay For It, You Own It’
Refrigeration has been a challenge for humanity since the start. Ancient civilizations in dry climates like Persia and Egypt could use evaporative cooling on a large scale with specialized architecture, …read more Continue reading Off-Grid Refrigeration Using Fire and Salt
Dear blog readers,This is Dancho.The following is a set of personally identifiable email address accounts from the Exploit.in cybercrime-friendly forum community.Sample screenshots:Personally identifiable email address accounts from the Exploit.in cybe… Continue reading A Portfolio of Personally Identifiable Email Address Accounts from the Exploit.in Cybercrime-Friendly Forum Community – An Analysis
July: Nvidia-backed Nscale is building a £2bn data centre at Loughton in Essex, with Microsoft signed up as its anchor tenant. But it can’t get the electricity to switch on, reported The Next Web:
Nscale’s problem is not really Nscale’s. It is Br… Continue reading Planned UK Data Center Delayed Until 2030s Over Power Grid Delays. Microsoft Pulls Out
Gizmodo reports:
Roughly 84.4% of the world’s coral reefs suffered bleaching-levels of heat stress during the last major marine heat wave from January 2023 to September 2025, with over half already lost compared to coral coverage in the 1950s… But… Continue reading Researchers Discover How To Lead Dying Coral Reefs To a ‘Fast And Full Recovery’