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(Bandai Namco Image) Giant anime robots are landing in the Seattle area. Bandai Namco is opening an official Gundam Base retail store at Westfield Southcenter mall in Tukwila, Wash., this fall, giving Pacific Northwest anime and model-kit fans a permanent flagship destination for all things Gunpla. For the uninitiated, Gundam isn’t just a nostalgic cartoon; it’s a massive, multibillion-dollar global media franchise that revolutionized Japanese animation when the original “Mobile Suit Gundam” series debuted in 1979. Owned by Tokyo-based entertainment giant Bandai Namco, the IP spans decades of TV shows, video games, and movies, but its biggest cash cow is…

As I expand my writing career, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that I need to make a business website to showcase my talent and present my past projects. The problem is, although I love testing gadgets for WIRED, I’m definitely not a coder. Figuring out where to begin when building a website is daunting. How do I know the host is legit? How can I ensure my site is user-friendly? How much are annual costs, really? All of these questions and more have stopped me from taking the plunge and building my own website. That’s where Hostinger steps in to help.For…

Meta Platforms Inc. today announced plans to build an artificial intelligence data center campus in El Paso, Texas. The project is a collaboration with BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest asset manager. The two companies plan to invest $14 billion in the campus. Meta and BlackRock expect to finalize their joint venture agreement in the coming days. Upon signing, the Facebook parent will contribute $2.3 billion worth of physical assets including on-site facilities that are currently under construction. BlackRock, in turn, will invest $4.9 billion. The asset management also intends to make a $1 billion payment to Meta. BlackRock is set…

Most of us never consider how Linux determines who can view files, inspect processes, or perform administrative tasks. All of this is done automatically via integrated permission checks.Users and apps remain within their designated privileges when such checks function properly. When they don’t, attackers may gain unauthorized access. With CVE-2026-46333, that is precisely what occurred.This vulnerability revealed a weakness in the way the Linux kernel verified permissions when a process was shutting down. Even though the problem only lasted a short while, it was sufficient to give attackers access to private data and possibly elevate their privileges.CVE-2026-46333 reminds us that…

The fake package text. The too-good-to-be-true investment offer. The stranger in your DMs who quickly starts asking for money. Online scams have become a routine part of everyday internet use, and a new report estimates they may be costing Americans nearly $150 billion a year. Americans lost an estimated $148.2 billion to online scams and cybercrime in 2025, according to a new report from the Consumer Federation of America. That’s nearly 26% more than in 2024 and roughly three times the losses recorded four years earlier. The exact amount is impossible to know, and that is partly the point of the…

Every marketing team runs on research: Buyer profiles, competitive analysis, audience insights, content hooks. This is the intelligence work that feeds strategy and happens every day. It just rarely gets called research.

NVIDIA is negotiating a massive $250 billion financial backstop for OpenAI’s proposed 10-gigawatt Ohio data center. The AI infrastructure race just shattered every precedent in corporate finance. NVIDIA is negotiating a staggering $250 billion financial backstop for OpenAI. The proposed guarantee supports a massive 10-gigawatt data center campus in southern Ohio. SoftBank’s energy subsidiary is building the $500 billion project on a former federal uranium site. Because OpenAI lacks an investment-grade credit rating, lenders need reassurance before writing massive checks. NVIDIA’s corporate guarantee acts as the ultimate credit boost. From a strategic perspective, the move is brilliant: For OpenAI: The…

Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic’s released implementation gives an expected end-to-end runtime of about three hours and 42 minutes on a 96-core server. The AES result removes a 256-way guessing step from an existing meet-in-the-middle attack. Anthropic said neither result affects production systems. HAWK remains a candidate in a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) post-quantum standardization process, and the public recovery code…

Seven months into 2026, laundry pod brand Kapsä has made over S$1 million in revenue When Edison Lim and Lincoln Thong launched home fragrance brand Pristine Aroma in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, they had a problem most businesses would envy: their product was so popular, yet sales were highly seasonal.  Pristine Aroma’s reed diffusers and candles in scents like their signature Himalayan Tea, surged every Christmas but fell quiet every Jul and Aug. The duo knew they wanted their next business’s revenue to be somewhat steadier. The fix they landed on was taking the thing they…

Government-run dating apps sound like something out of a policy white paper. Tokyo built one anyway, and it’s already helping turn AI matches into real marriages (via Tech Xplore). So how does this app actually work? The Tokyo government launched Tokyo Enmusubi in September 2024, an AI-powered matchmaking app, with a pretty serious objective: combatting Japan’s plummeting birth rate. The idea came from a survey, which showed roughly 70% of people who wanted to marry simply weren’t actively dating.  Representative Image (AI-generated) To keep things on track, anyone joining had to prove they were legally single and pass an online…