TechWalrus

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Latest Articles

Russian spies had AI rewrite their malware until antivirus missed it

Zelda's Ocarina of Time remake launches November 5

Steam.com sold for $390K, then went back on sale

A real web address doesn't make a screenshot real

Check a suspicious link without opening it yourself

Syncthing moves files between your devices, no cloud account

Firefox translates pages without uploading your text

Test sketchy apps in Windows Sandbox

Check for leaked passwords without sending yours

An AI image passed as a real Pixel photo

X's legal letters took Nitter and XCancel offline

Link straight to the sentence you want someone to read

Zen Browser fixes your tab mess but cannot play Netflix

Splunk explained: one search box for every server log

Windows malware can steal every passkey in Google Password Manager

Windows can record your network traffic, no downloads needed

Free code on GitHub claims to break Firefox and Docker

The free Google Photos replacement can now undo edits on your phone

A gift from Soviet children spied on America for 7 years

An FBI agent memorized a suspect's crypto keys

700 OpenAI agents joined forces to hack Hugging Face

His Uber Eats orders busted a $220,000 Steam malware ring

Thieves can pull your Dell BIOS password off a chip

Sony is about to erase 551 movies and shows Europeans paid to own

A Twitch star nearly crashed live and was back in a day

Spotify pulled 500,000 fake streams tied to a chart bet on Kalshi

Codex's $230 keyboard turns chats into glowing keys

Fake boss emails made one gang 140 million euros

Hackers cost London's transport system £29 million

Leaked plan would turn school buses into roaming plate scanners

US charges three Russians for renting servers to ransomware gangs

Chrome turns off uBlock Origin on June 30, no way back

A memecoin project lost $20M after a bad vote passed

A Windows 11 bug can quietly eat 500GB of your storage

The Steam Machine can't run Fortnite, Battlefield, or Call of Duty

A 15-year-old Linux bug lets any user become root

Xbox lays off 3,200 workers and cuts four studios loose

YouTube just killed the dislike button on Shorts

Maxthon browser was caught sending user data to Beijing

DOJ seizes hundreds of World Cup piracy domains

Claude Code quietly checks if your timezone is Chinese

Introducing Claude Sonnet 5

LG and Samsung TV apps resell your home internet connection

Meta recorded staff keystrokes for AI, then exposed it company-wide

A tiny AI erases strangers from your photos

Unpatchable flaw lets a thief run their own software on the iPhone XR, XS, and 11

Codex wrote 37 TB to one user's SSD in 21 days

Anthropic says Alibaba-linked operators ran 28.8 million Claude chats

Attackers hijacked 1,500 Arch Linux packages to steal developer logins

Fake LinkedIn recruiters hide a backdoor that fires on npm install

10,000 cloned GitHub repos slip trojans past VirusTotal link checks

Police officer accused of faking evidence with AI

An Alabama town fights a data center offering just 20 jobs

A new CRISPR tool destroys cancer cells by shredding their DNA

Free tool ranks Reddit, X and YouTube by engagement

An AI agent ran up a $6,531 AWS bill in a day

SpaceX IPO makes Elon Musk a trillionaire

UK PlayStation adults must pass an age check to keep voice chat

Musk didn't start Tesla, a lawsuit made him a founder

13 fake companies used AI faces to fish for US secrets. The FBI seized them all.

This Creative soundbar can be hacked to type on your PC

The solar-versus-nuclear fight won't keep your lights on

TI-84 calculator OS now has a searchable wiki

Fake reward surveys use a $5 to $10 fee to steal card data

Mega IPOs still have to earn the S&P 500

Your toaster needs an update

Anthropic reportedly helps NSA use a cyber AI model

OpenAI adds ChatGPT Lockdown Mode for sensitive files

Anthropic says Claude writes 80% of its code now

AI that rewrites its own code is now a funded lab, not just a theory

Google must let UK publishers opt out of AI answers

Google will pay SpaceX $920M a month for AI servers

Your email is probably in a data breach. Here's how to check in seconds

Valve says its Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer

An Auburn student feared AI was wasting the planet's water. He was found dead in Japan.

Microsoft just put Linux's command-line tools inside Windows, no WSL needed

Connecticut just made social media apps check your age, and minors need a parent's yes

A bad code download steals every password the moment you install it. Red Hat tools are the target.

Why you should never run an 'npx' command from a social post

How a Reddit user turned Windows 11 into Windows 98

A walking tour shows you all the surveillance quietly watching downtown Seattle

Anthropic built an AI that hunts security holes, and governments get it first

A Windows server bug is now being exploited, and domain controllers are the prize

California wants to stop game makers from killing the games you paid for

Most big AI image tools will make you a fake government ID, a new audit found

Windows 11's old security keys expire this month, and ignoring it quietly weakens your PC

Florida is suing OpenAI and Sam Altman, blaming ChatGPT for a deadly shooting

Hackers took over top Instagram accounts by just asking Meta's AI to do it

AV2, the free follow-up to AV1, just shipped its finished 1.0

Flipper Zero now has a ready-made kit for building apps in Zig

Michael Saylor said never sell Bitcoin. His company just did.

A new AI image model runs entirely on a high-end iPhone, no internet required

Anthropic filed to go public, getting ahead of OpenAI

Dutch police kill off a botnet hiding inside 17 million phones, routers and PCs

Cloudflare's 'verify you're human' box admits it fingerprints you

A 1992 game looked impossibly good. Fly through it in your browser.

Someone built a modern web browser for Mac OS 9

AnandTech shut down, and its archive didn't even last a year

A website can spy on you through your SSD

Minnesota just made running a betting app a felony

The smartest AI still can't spell Google

A 4chan vibe coder says he made AI 28x faster. Genius or AI psychosis?

Your leaked API keys are this month's favorite hacker loot

A little-known Tencent model is handling more traffic than Claude, and no one knows why

A developer hid a trap in his code to make AI bots delete their work

There's a free map of every license plate camera watching your car

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket exploded on the launch pad

GTA 6 developers formed a union after 31 staff were fired

An AI broke an 80-year-old math problem

Poisoned Nx Console update put developer secrets at risk

Claude Opus 4.8 tops most benchmarks

Microsoft Exchange exploit lets attackers in through a single email

28% of new security bugs get exploited within a day

Monolith saves any web page as one file that outlives dead links

Meta cut 8,000 jobs and called it AI strategy

AI notetakers are auto-joining calls without consent and the lawsuits started

Passkeys work, but account recovery is still the weak spot

RAM prices doubled in eight months and AI is the reason

Your Home Wi-Fi Is Configured Wrong

Picking an AI Coding Agent in 2026: Claude Code vs Cursor vs Copilot

YouTube finally lets you hide Shorts from search

The floppy disk is still running critical infrastructure in 2026

AI coding subscriptions are switching to pay-by-the-token billing

A nine-year Linux bug let any user become admin with one command, now fixed

Anthropic doubled Claude Code limits, and SpaceX is why

YouTube TV now lets you build your own multiview

ChatGPT's default model is now GPT-5.5 Instant

Why Custom Mechanical Keyboards Took Over the Enthusiast Scene

RSS isn't dead and you should use it

Self-Hosted Bitwarden vs the Cloud

On Steam, more people now game on Linux than macOS, two to one

Four years in, the Steam Deck is still the handheld to beat

How TLS 1.3 actually works, in plain English

Browser fingerprinting tracks you after you block every cookie

Cheap USB-C cables can damage your devices and you can't tell by looking

Passkeys Were Supposed to Kill Passwords. So Why Is Everyone Still Confused?

What Is Crypto Malware and How Cryptojacking Works

A voice call can expose your IP address

Anyone can talk a chatbot into leaking secrets

FDA approved the first brain implant trial for synthetic speech

Why Gemini's Nano Banana Pro image limits feel random and what to do

Florida is building a road that charges your car as you drive

The free way to upgrade Rocky Linux 8 to 9 is gone

How modern email scams beat your spam filter

Winhance strips bloat from Windows in a few clicks

Make YouTube run smoother in Firefox

Firefox has the subdomain password switch other browsers lack

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