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An Australian energy retailer has joined the country’s growing list of major cyberattack victims after confirming hackers accessed customer data, including partial banking information. Origin Energy confirmed that hackers accessed and stole customer information after an unauthorized party sent samples of the allegedly stolen data to an Australian media outlet. The company said the exposed information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, and some account details. While Origin Energy says no complete financial credentials were exposed, the combination of personal and partial financial information could still give attackers enough context to launch convincing phishing campaigns, impersonate victims, or commit…

Washington Youth Aerospace, the winners of the International Rocketry Challenge, from left in black shirts, Mikhail Antipin, Antoine Vigneron, Anay Mediwala, Nikhil Sirivara, Daniel Tadesse and Bao-ky Tran, pose with European Space Agency astronauts Meganne Christian, left, and John McFall at the Farnborough International Airshow south of London. (Photo courtesy of Sudheer Sirivara) A team of Bellevue, Wash., high schoolers soared above teams from France, Japan, the UK, and Ukraine to win the International Rocketry Challenge in England over the weekend. Washington Youth Aerospace, a team made up of six ninth graders from Bellevue’s Interlake High School, represented the United…

Compare Our PicksOthers We TestedPhotograph: Molly HigginsRiccar Gem Handheld Vacuum With Tools for $70: This model is very similar to the Simplicity corded model above, and although it’s portable and handheld, this big boy needs to be plugged in for power. I like how basic it is: It just has a top switch for on/off, and a button on top to release the dust canister, which is at the front of this model rather than behind. Once disengaged, you just need to pull up the semi-spherical fabric mesh filter and dump out debris. Unfortunately, lots of fur and dust get…

The comical charm of Meta’s new AI-enhanced, smart glasses is that they’re seemingly made for someone unimpressed, perhaps thoroughly, with the way they’re experiencing life.Being unhappy with life in its current state is, of course, intrinsically human and a problem that is as old as time. In fairy tales and folklore, the motif ends with a lesson — sometimes with the aid of magic, divine punishment, and maybe a witch or two — to be thankful for the things you have. More contemporary interpretations involve time travel and alternate realities, and perhaps some kind of Christmas theme.Now, in 2026, we…

Cloud AI infrastructure is shifting into a new cycle, defined by who can deliver the strongest performance per dollar on a global setup that also meets different countries’ sovereignty rules. That’s the premise Vultr is executing on, according to Kevin Cochrane (pictured), chief marketing officer at Vultr Holdings LLC. The company began its AMD partnership on the CPU side with EPYC and has since expanded to the Instinct GPU line, building a full public cloud platform across 33 global regions on the back of AMD’s predictable generational roadmap. For Cochrane, the reliability of that roadmap serves as the infrastructure of Vultr’s…

A new adult T’Challa is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kevin Feige hit the stage for Marvel’s Hall H Comic-Con showing on Saturday and, toward the end, gave the audience an update on Black Panther 3. Director Ryan Coogler and actors Winston Duke and Letitia Wright were on hand to welcome David Jonsson to the MCU, who will play T’Challa’s son, T’Challa Jr. Jonsson has appeared in films such as Alien: Romulus and The Long Walk. While no official title has been shared, Feige revealed that Black Panther 3 is due to hit theaters Dec. 15, 2028. Coogler, who’s writing…

Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.3 server that has not taken the update. Any authenticated user who can push to a project can run it. The attacker commits a crafted Jupyter notebook and opens its commit diff, which leaks a heap pointer. Enough of those and an automated probe can locate the libraries in memory. Two more notebooks then fire the payload. No administrator rights, no CI or runner access, no victim interaction, no…

White House officials claim Chinese startup Moonshot AI used restricted NVIDIA GB300 chips routed through Thailand to train its powerful Kimi K3 model. The White House is aiming at one of China’s hottest AI startups. Top White House tech official Michael Kratsios publicly accused Beijing-based Moonshot AI of using banned NVIDIA hardware to train its flagship model, Kimi K3. According to Kratsios, Moonshot acquired servers packed with high-end NVIDIA GB300 Blackwell chips. The company reportedly routed training workloads through infrastructure in Thailand to bypass strict US export controls. Kratsios also claimed Moonshot covertly distilled Anthropic’s Claude models to boost Kimi…

One of Singapore’s oldest vintage furniture businesses runs a 7,000 sq ft store and offers refurbished furniture ranging from S$15 to tens of thousands of dollars. In a world driven by consumerism, one Singapore business is giving pre-loved furniture a second life. Meet Hock Siong & Co., a family-run business that has spent decades collecting, restoring, and reselling secondhand furniture. Today, the business is run by sisters Brillyn Toh, 38, Beaunice Toh, 33, and Blessance Toh, 30, who grew up surrounded by used furniture and discarded household items. The trio are the second generation of a family deeply rooted in…

That $100 phone you were going to grab for your kid’s first device, or hand down to grandma, could become a dream in a while. AI’s hunger for memory chips just made the entire budget phone category borderline impossible to build. So how bad are we actually talking? According to research firm Omdia, memory costs for phones priced under $100 are set to surge 400% in the third quarter of 2026. If that happens, the bill of materials for the most common configuration will jump from just $14 a year ago to roughly $70 (via South China Morning Post).  Samsung…