Tech news, AI, hardware, and cybersecurity - explained clearly.https://nerdiess.com/https://nerdiess.com/post/ai-research-startup-listen-labs-scrubbed-a-15b-funding--e9590b/https://nerdiess.com/post/ai-research-startup-listen-labs-scrubbed-a-15b-funding--e9590b/Listen Labs walked away from a signed $125M Series C term sheet, reportedly due to acquisition talks with Salesforce valued at around $2B.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/anthropic-discloses-fourth-ai-hacking-incident-involvin-df4965/https://nerdiess.com/post/anthropic-discloses-fourth-ai-hacking-incident-involvin-df4965/Anthropic disclosed a fourth incident in which its AI model broke into real third-party systems, involving an early version of Claude Opus 4.6.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/check-point-discloses-two-98-rated-vpn-certificate-flaw-ccfe6c/https://nerdiess.com/post/check-point-discloses-two-98-rated-vpn-certificate-flaw-ccfe6c/Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/cisa-flags-exploited-cisco-citrix-fortinet-flaws-sets-s-9d2ea7/https://nerdiess.com/post/cisa-flags-exploited-cisco-citrix-fortinet-flaws-sets-s-9d2ea7/CISA added three actively exploited flaws affecting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet to its KEV catalog, requiring FCEB agencies to patch by September 12, 2026.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/gigabud-creates-android-work-profiles-to-hide-from-bank-e45718/https://nerdiess.com/post/gigabud-creates-android-work-profiles-to-hide-from-bank-e45718/The Gigabud banking trojan now installs a second Android app that creates a work profile on an infected phone and drops a tampered banking app inside it.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/half-your-case-fans-are-plugged-into-headers-your-mothe-6bc6e3/https://nerdiess.com/post/half-your-case-fans-are-plugged-into-headers-your-mothe-6bc6e3/A 4-pin header doesn't always mean your motherboard has proper control over whatever fan you connect to it.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/i-automated-my-20-year-old-appliances-with-home-assista-f56801/https://nerdiess.com/post/i-automated-my-20-year-old-appliances-with-home-assista-f56801/The most reliable appliances in a power user's home are often 10 to 20 years old - and they can still join your Home Assistant setup.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/i-gave-windows-proper-tiling-and-stopped-dragging-windo-c5a6fb/https://nerdiess.com/post/i-gave-windows-proper-tiling-and-stopped-dragging-windo-c5a6fb/Snap Layouts feels bare-bones after a while. Switching to GlazeWM, an i3-style tiling manager, changed how I manage windows on Windows 11.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/i-let-this-free-tool-re-encode-my-plex-library-overnigh-41b400/https://nerdiess.com/post/i-let-this-free-tool-re-encode-my-plex-library-overnigh-41b400/Adding new content to your Plex library is so easy that you don't realize how quickly you've accumulated terabytes' worth of media.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/i-run-lossless-scaling-on-old-tv-shows-and-they-look-be-9d997b/https://nerdiess.com/post/i-run-lossless-scaling-on-old-tv-shows-and-they-look-be-9d997b/Lossless Scaling is known for frame generation, but its upscaling layer can make old DVD box sets look surprisingly good.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/nearly-1-in-10-exposed-litellm-gateways-accepted-the-ex-d7fc96/https://nerdiess.com/post/nearly-1-in-10-exposed-litellm-gateways-accepted-the-ex-d7fc96/Nearly one in ten internet-facing LiteLLM servers scanned by Wiz Research in February accepted sk-1234, the example admin key from LiteLLM's own setup guide.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/old-powerful-pc-parts-are-affordable-but-they-have-an-u-bf8911/https://nerdiess.com/post/old-powerful-pc-parts-are-affordable-but-they-have-an-u-bf8911/PC parts have been exorbitantly expensive for the past few years, with no clear sign of going back down.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/papercut-attacker-uses-hundreds-of-ai-agents-to-comprom-e71df4/https://nerdiess.com/post/papercut-attacker-uses-hundreds-of-ai-agents-to-comprom-e71df4/A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor used AI agents to exploit two PaperCut NG/MF flaws, compromising 440+ instances across 395 organizations.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/project-dream-rom-the-prototype-that-became-banjo-kazoo-4910d9/https://nerdiess.com/post/project-dream-rom-the-prototype-that-became-banjo-kazoo-4910d9/The ROM for Project Dream, a cancelled Rare game that predates Banjo-Kazooie, has been dumped online in a call for preservation.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/proxmox-wastes-power-by-default-and-the-fix-takes-a-sin-a9ad54/https://nerdiess.com/post/proxmox-wastes-power-by-default-and-the-fix-takes-a-sin-a9ad54/Proxmox ships with the performance CPU governor enabled by default, which can waste power when your server is mostly idle.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/someone-made-their-own-gba-to-switch-2-pokmon-transferr-27f288/https://nerdiess.com/post/someone-made-their-own-gba-to-switch-2-pokmon-transferr-27f288/A hardware tinkerer has figured out a way to transfer Pokémon from a GBA directly to the Switch 2, without Nintendo's services.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/ai-spend-per-employee-slumped-at-top-firms-in-august-su-5f6bd3/https://nerdiess.com/post/ai-spend-per-employee-slumped-at-top-firms-in-august-su-5f6bd3/AI tool adoption by businesses slowed in August, according to spending data from 70,000 companies collected by payments company Ramp.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/alby-hub-critical-flaw-could-let-attackers-take-over-in-e52b94/https://nerdiess.com/post/alby-hub-critical-flaw-could-let-attackers-take-over-in-e52b94/Alby has warned of a critical flaw in Alby Hub that could let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apple-ceo-john-ternus-says-the-best-ai-device-is-still--974e0d/https://nerdiess.com/post/apple-ceo-john-ternus-says-the-best-ai-device-is-still--974e0d/Apple's new CEO, John Ternus, used the opening of the company's Surprise and Shine event to make its AI strategy clear.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apple-debuts-129-airpods-5-with-better-noise-cancellati-199d61/https://nerdiess.com/post/apple-debuts-129-airpods-5-with-better-noise-cancellati-199d61/Apple has debuted the new AirPods 5 with improved active noise cancellation and sound quality, priced lower than the AirPods 4.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apple-has-a-new-way-to-prove-your-iphone-photos-arent-a-c9b53f/https://nerdiess.com/post/apple-has-a-new-way-to-prove-your-iphone-photos-arent-a-c9b53f/Apple announced Apple Reference Image, a feature it says can prove whether a photo taken with the iPhone 18 Pro is authentic.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apple-starts-preorders-for-watch-series-12-ultra-4-with-dfbfb4/https://nerdiess.com/post/apple-starts-preorders-for-watch-series-12-ultra-4-with-dfbfb4/Apple claims the new wearables have the most accurate heart rate sensing in any wearable, based on a study of over 1,000 participants.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apple-watchs-new-ai-features-normalize-the-idea-that-te-24345b/https://nerdiess.com/post/apple-watchs-new-ai-features-normalize-the-idea-that-te-24345b/Apple is trying to get consumers to accept, and even welcome, a new reality: Your tech is always listening.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apples-iphone-18-pro-adds-variable-camera-aperture-and--befd3d/https://nerdiess.com/post/apples-iphone-18-pro-adds-variable-camera-aperture-and--befd3d/Apple's iPhone 18 Pro features a variable aperture on its 48-megapixel main camera and improved thermals, starting at $1,199.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apples-long-rumored-foldable-becomes-reality-with-the-2-58b4e4/https://nerdiess.com/post/apples-long-rumored-foldable-becomes-reality-with-the-2-58b4e4/Apple ended today's hardware event with a "One more thing" reveal: the iPhone Duo, its first foldable smartphone.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/apples-revamped-health-app-will-calculate-your-health-a-41fc24/https://nerdiess.com/post/apples-revamped-health-app-will-calculate-your-health-a-41fc24/Apple introduced a redesigned Health app using Apple Intelligence to make better sense of your health data.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/chrome-v8-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-e-c9249a/https://nerdiess.com/post/chrome-v8-zero-day-exploited-in-the-wild-enables-code-e-c9249a/Google patched 230 security vulnerabilities Tuesday, including CVE-2026-87491, a V8 out-of-bounds write under active exploitation.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/controlais-connor-leahy-on-why-superintelligence-is-not-76cee2/https://nerdiess.com/post/controlais-connor-leahy-on-why-superintelligence-is-not-76cee2/AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it's inevitable, but recent safety incidents are demonstrating the potential dangers.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/deepseek-harness-flaw-let-ai-agents-disable-their-own-f-9f8ebd/https://nerdiess.com/post/deepseek-harness-flaw-let-ai-agents-disable-their-own-f-9f8ebd/A flaw in DeepSeek Harness let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command, tracked as CVE-2026-82533.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/four-spy-groups-used-the-same-chrome-and-windows-exploi-738736/https://nerdiess.com/post/four-spy-groups-used-the-same-chrome-and-windows-exploi-738736/Multiple espionage-motivated threat clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/gambling-with-our-lives-anthropic-researcher-quits-warn-466985/https://nerdiess.com/post/gambling-with-our-lives-anthropic-researcher-quits-warn-466985/Jacob Coxon, who spent three years at OpenAI and Anthropic, resigned over fears that unrestrained self-improving AI development could kill us all.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/infostealer-logs-expose-replayable-ai-tokens-that-can-b-a01e50/https://nerdiess.com/post/infostealer-logs-expose-replayable-ai-tokens-that-can-b-a01e50/Cybercriminals are hijacking AI user accounts via infostealer logs to create "stolen keys" that bypass MFA on major AI platforms.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/massachusetts-hits-data-centers-with-new-clean-power-ru-7540bc/https://nerdiess.com/post/massachusetts-hits-data-centers-with-new-clean-power-ru-7540bc/Massachusetts became the latest state to force data centers to bring their own power, but this time there's a twist.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privil-5d79a0/https://nerdiess.com/post/new-cpanel-flaw-lets-a-hosting-account-with-mail-privil-5d79a0/cPanel has patched a flaw that lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server via an SQL injection issue in EmailTrack.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/openai-adds-a-prominent-ai-doomer-to-its-board-of-direc-a62cde/https://nerdiess.com/post/openai-adds-a-prominent-ai-doomer-to-its-board-of-direc-a62cde/Paul Christiano, an influential AI researcher focused on keeping AI systems aligned with human interests, is joining the OpenAI Foundation board.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/popular-navigation-apps-unlikely-to-ditch-mercator-maps-5f2668/https://nerdiess.com/post/popular-navigation-apps-unlikely-to-ditch-mercator-maps-5f2668/Nearly every UN General Assembly country voted to promote more accurate world maps, but the resolution is unlikely to change navigation apps.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/shipt-becomes-the-latest-delivery-app-with-an-ai-shoppi-7b3bab/https://nerdiess.com/post/shipt-becomes-the-latest-delivery-app-with-an-ai-shoppi-7b3bab/Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, has launched "Ask Shipt," an AI tool that turns prompts into ready-to-buy carts.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/superintelligence-is-coming-should-we-let-it-21c2a2/https://nerdiess.com/post/superintelligence-is-coming-should-we-let-it-21c2a2/AI companies have been talking about superintelligent AI like it's inevitable, but recent safety incidents are demonstrating the potential dangers.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/us-agencies-accuse-china-ai-firms-of-distilling-claude--cf80be/https://nerdiess.com/post/us-agencies-accuse-china-ai-firms-of-distilling-claude--cf80be/U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based AI companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities from AWed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/us-disrupts-xinbi-guarantee-scam-marketplace-freezes-52-c67bcc/https://nerdiess.com/post/us-disrupts-xinbi-guarantee-scam-marketplace-freezes-52-c67bcc/The U.S. Department of Justice announced coordinated actions against illicit online marketplace Xinbi Guarantee, seizing Telegram channels and freezing $52.8 miWed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/viral-ai-assistant-instinct-now-has-its-own-email-addre-aea2bc/https://nerdiess.com/post/viral-ai-assistant-instinct-now-has-its-own-email-addre-aea2bc/Instinct, the buzzy new AI assistant now valued at $2.5 billion, is rolling out a new feature: its own email addresses for users.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/webinar-learn-how-to-answer-are-we-exposed-faster-after-993e1b/https://nerdiess.com/post/webinar-learn-how-to-answer-are-we-exposed-faster-after-993e1b/A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed?Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/years-after-leaving-google-photos-the-thing-i-miss-most-e1ccb5/https://nerdiess.com/post/years-after-leaving-google-photos-the-thing-i-miss-most-e1ccb5/For years, Google Photos was the place where I kept my entire photo collection. Eventually, I switched to Immich.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/5-claude-productivity-workflows-i-discovered-after-thin-49c87e/https://nerdiess.com/post/5-claude-productivity-workflows-i-discovered-after-thin-49c87e/I used Claude for writing and research, but a few workflows changed how I treat it as a productivity tool.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/adobe-patches-magento-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-rust-4af955/https://nerdiess.com/post/adobe-patches-magento-zero-day-exploited-to-deploy-rust-4af955/Adobe released patches for CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS 10.0), a Magento zero-day under active exploitation since September 4, 2026.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/bengalseo-poisons-bing-search-results-to-deliver-mayabo-80a388/https://nerdiess.com/post/bengalseo-poisons-bing-search-results-to-deliver-mayabo-80a388/Researchers have disclosed a sprawling SEO poisoning campaign, codenamed BengalSEO, that delivers MayaBot malware and routes victims to tech support scams.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/freeipa-flaw-chain-lets-anonymous-clients-create-reusab-7ef766/https://nerdiess.com/post/freeipa-flaw-chain-lets-anonymous-clients-create-reusab-7ef766/A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing and end up in the administrators group.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/google-complies-with-eu-rules-for-travel-searches-says--680f89/https://nerdiess.com/post/google-complies-with-eu-rules-for-travel-searches-says--680f89/Google has made changes to comply with the EU's Digital Markets Act, but claims the result is a massive reduction in search quality.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/grindr-to-pay-26-million-to-settle-uk-claims-over-hiv-s-9ebb55/https://nerdiess.com/post/grindr-to-pay-26-million-to-settle-uk-claims-over-hiv-s-9ebb55/Grindr has agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a U.K. lawsuit alleging it shared users' HIV status with third parties.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://nerdiess.com/post/i-ditched-my-cars-basic-equalizer-for-poweramp-and-andr-e684e0/https://nerdiess.com/post/i-ditched-my-cars-basic-equalizer-for-poweramp-and-andr-e684e0/Most car stereos give you a basic equalizer, if that. Poweramp and Android Auto can go much further.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT