Longtime Slashdot reader belmolis writes: Part of New York City’s 911 emergency system was offline from about 3:13 a.m. to 10 a.m. on August 18th due to a software update, according to Medical Daily. Of 5,659 calls to the Bronx call center during that period, about 1,700 calls connected but could not be heard by emergency operators. Some were rerouted to other call centers, but an estimated 400 human callers never got through. The potentially serious consequences of delayed response to emergencies are not yet known. The city did not notify the public and only released information when journalists inquired. How buggy software came to be installed on a running system is not yet known. The early-morning software update was pushed by Motorola, though exactly what it changed or why it caused the failure remains unknown. The city is still investigating whether the update was adequately tested and whether the same software release was deployed elsewhere.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
People keep saying the same thing about the Skyrover X1, priced at $699 (was $819), is that it’s a DJI Mini 4 Pro with a different badge. That rumor isn’t just forum gossip because fans have discovered code that still points to DJI cloud services, encryption keys that match DJI software, and FlySafe references that have been awkwardly renamed. The arms fold in the same way. Sensor windows are in the same locations. If you’re looking for a compact travel drone that you can still order in the United States, this might be it.
This is the bundle to talk about, as it includes the 249-gram airframe, a 5.5-inch touchscreen remote with a brightness of 700 nits, three clever batteries, a charging hub, an extra set of propellers, a gimbal cover, and a USB-C cable. If you fly recreationally in the United States, this weight will put you well below the registration level. Simply pop it out, wait for the satellites to lock on, and you’re airborne; no need to dangle your phone from the sticks.
Sale
The camera has some serious capabilities, similar to those seen on the Mini 4 Pro. We’re talking about a 1/1.32 inch CMOS sensor, an f/1.7 lens, 4K at 60fps with HDR, 4K at 100fps for slow motion videos, and 48 megapixel still images. That vertical capture uses the entire sensor, not just a crop. Skyrover promises SR-Log, 10-bit HLG, and an AI night mode, and the colors will be a little punchier and more saturated than what DJI offers, which isn’t always a bad thing. People who grade using D-Log M may want for a little more leeway, while others who want their film to seem finished right out of the camera will not be concerned.
It has obstacle sensors all around, which used to be the feature that separated high-end minis from low-cost ones. Yes, real-world testers have flown this thing into poles and signs on purpose to observe how it performs. Of course, lighting remains vital, as it is with any vision system. According to Skyrover, it requires texture and adequate lighting to truly shine. Return-to-home planning is an option, and if you switch to sport mode, you can disable some of that protection; however, keep in mind that this mode is mostly clear-sky only.
In terms of range, SkyBridge is capable of covering around 9.32 miles with a 1080p/60 live broadcast. Don’t get too enthusiastic; legally, you’ll never fly that far. When the trees and houses start eating up your 2.4 and 5.8 GHz signal, you’ll really want a clear feed for several hundred yards. The range testing with this thing have been all over the place, which is exactly what you want. We’ve seen one test in which the X1 went somewhat further than a Mini 4 Pro, but this was before signal loss and battery exhaustion. DJI’s O4 system still has the edge on paper at 20 kilometers, but for weekend trekking and beach work, it’s more than enough for most people.
The screen-equipped remote, however, is the true game changer in this combination. At 700 nits, it’s bright enough to see in the middle of the day, even in a crowded parking lot, and the best thing is that you can choose between modes on the glass screen instead of having to deal with glare on your phone. The controller battery lasts roughly three hours, which is far more than you’ll need for a single flight session. Beginners will like having access to options like Auto Track, Dual Tracking, Spotlight, and one-tap pathways, which have fancy names like Lift, Loop, and Asteroid.
Wild Dog just announced Japanese Ramen Simulator, a Steam management sim scheduled for September 2026 that puts as many as six people behind one counter. Players run the entire shop. Prep work, broth, noodles, toppings, service, conversation with guests, and cleanup all happen on the same shift. Orders arrive in a steady stream. Noodle texture, broth temperature, aroma, umami, and how long the bowl waits on the pass all affect the result.
Soup can be made using any combination of ingredients. Toppings fall according to physics, thus two bowls made from the same recipe will look slightly different. Recreate one of your shop’s most popular items or make something completely new that no consumer has ever requested. Gyoza are prepared in the same kitchen as the other items on your menu. The manner you sear them on the dumpling is important, and don’t forget you can utilize ramen toppings on a rice bowl, which opens up options like chashu don. Beer is also on tap, and obtaining precisely the correct amount of froth in the pour is part of the game. Rather than being shoved to one side of the dish, the side work can sit right next to the main bowl.
Sale
The shop layout is very open, allowing you to position the cooking equipment, furniture, storage, and decorations wherever it makes the most sense for you, whether to help you get through the rush or simply to make the area seem lovely. The Custom Design function allows you to go crazy sketching on your posters and Noren curtains, and you can even invite your friends to come over and leave their mark. In terms of decor, you can even include a strange toilet or two if that’s your style. One plan may be all about speed, while another is more concerned with making the location look so Instagrammable that it attracts a flow of people.
Online co-op allows you to team up with up to five friends, each taking on a different task, such as splitting the prep, cooking, plating, serving, and washing the dishes while the tickets keep flowing in. If you don’t want to enlist the support of your pals, you can always hire some part-time workers to cover the same tasks and keep things moving at a slower pace. Business hours aren’t exactly the quietest because a ramen critic may simply stroll in and demand a fresh bowl that’s excellent on all counts, scent, umami, toppings, you name it… or a burglar could try their luck with the register. Then there are the odd flames that start for no apparent cause… but you’ll have shuriken and fire extinguishers on hand to deal with those. If your shop is really in a jam, there’s always the next door gambling den.
Wild Dog is a minor Japanese studio started in October 2022 by Hiroto Nakajo, a 25-year-old engineer who previously worked on Palworld’s network. Their team has worked on both AAA and independent games, and their previous title, Keep Digging, sold a solid 450,000 copies. To get this game just right, they visited a lot of ramen shops, cooked their own ramen a few times (because you can’t really say you’ve done the research unless you eat the food), recorded real kitchen sounds, and even scanned in real materials to make it feel like you’re standing in front of a real counter.
Their goal is to release the game on Steam for Windows 10 and 11 in September 2026, with an initial Early Access run in the coming days. They expect it to continue about six months, during which time the game will change and expand in response to player feedback. Prices will rise over time, but anyone who purchases in Early Access will keep the game and be able to enjoy the updates for free. They also intend to perform a closed beta via Discord in August, and languages covered include Japanese, English, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Korean.
Prepare for six stars, two playable characters and one hell of a ride.
Arguably the most anticipated video game of all time is almost upon us. Netflix bagged an exclusive 26-minute extended look of GTA VI for all of six hours, before the bumper trailer hit YouTube and other platforms ahead of the game’s release on November 19. Now that we’ve been given our deepest glimpse yet into Vice City and the surrounding bayous and forests of Leonida, what new information can we glean from a potential open-world opus that is poised to smash every sales record?
It turns out… a lot. Seeing as Grand Theft Auto VI could take you more than 80 hours to finish, it’s no surprise Rockstar North has cooked up a bunch of new in-game mechanics. Key improvements to gunplay, more in-depth carjacking, a whole new respect-style system and a plethora of refreshed minigames are just the tip of the homicidal iceberg. Let’s get into all the details from the GTA VI extended look you may have missed.
You sure can. Much like large parts of GTA V, you can readily swap between Rockstar’s take on Bonnie and Clyde in the sequel. There’s a good example of this at the 18:41 mark in the extended look, when the action switches from Jason to Lucia, as both leads try to manage the chaos of a high-octane chase sequence from their red convertible.
It also looks like certain missions will only allow you to play as one character, making you choose between the two crooks or forcing the decision upon you in a cutscene. There’s a brief moment at 10:50 in the extended-look trailer when Lucia and Jason are offered a job by their criminal chum Brian Heder , while having drinks in a glitzy rooftop bar called the Effluvia in downtown Vice City. The couple briefly discuss who is going to accept the mission before Lucia stands up, leaving Jason with the gig and his Pißwasser (that’s GTA’s trademark lager, in case you’d forgotten).
A real “blink and you’ll miss it” moment occurs 14 minutes into the extended look. As Jason does his best to keep cop cars and a whirlybird at bay with an automatic rifle while hanging out the back of a getaway vehicle, you can briefly spot the return of six Wanted Stars. This is significant, as GTA V capped its Wanted system at five stars. That makes the Los Santos masterpiece stand out in the GTA pantheon, with every other 3D iteration adding an additional sixth star (signaling the SWAT-like NOOSE forces, in the case of GTA IV).
This beefed-up Wanted level is joined by a new Criminal Profile system. Detailed in IGN‘s preview, it apparently acts a bit like Red Dead Redemption 2‘s Honor system, though it promises to be more nuanced. The site claims that GTA VI doesn’t view all crimes as equal; firing back at an angry NPC who is acting as the aggressor won’t be judged as harshly as going on an unhinged killing spree.
The game will also give you the chance to walk away from potentially violent encounters by deescalating situations through onscreen dialogue options that let you either taunt or talk nice (another throwback to RDR2). Rockstar North co-studio head Rob Nelson told IGN that “consistent actions may have an impact in terms of how the world reacts to you and how the narrative plays out,” while chatting about GTA VI‘s big new mechanic. Apparently, throwing trash in a garbage can or feeding one of Leonida’s many critters can help improve Lucia or Jason’s Criminal Profile.
Rockstar has been tight-lipped on what changes it has made to GTA’s gunplay and melee systems. Still, eagle-eyed fans may have spotted a few clues as to how GTA VI is evolving the franchise’s trigger-happy skirmishes. The first major tweak is that you can finally swap between two firearms on the fly, without dipping into a weapon wheel. You can see this as Lucia blasts her way around an outdoor target range at 18:31 of the extended preview, with the bank robber seamlessly swapping between a high-powered rifle and her pistol.
There are other subtle evolutions from GTA V‘s combat model if you squint hard. Guns appear easier and quicker to pick up, as seen when Jason smoothly equips an enemy’s Duke 556 assault rifle during a hectic office firefight toward the end of the trailer. Aiming also appears to be more seamless overall. At various points during the latest trailer both Mr. Duval and Ms. Caminos down goons in extra slippery style — though how much of this is down to the studio using auto-aim during the recorded gameplay footage is tough to tell. Oh, and it looks like you can now wield certain weapons one-handed. Witness Lucia wasting fools at the 09:21 mark as she wields a shotgun in one hand while the other is lugging around a big bag of cash/weapons/narcotics.
Grand Theft Auto has continually set the bar when it comes to open-world minigames and side activities. Darts! Golf! Pool! Tennis! Triathlons! Blowing all your criminal earnings on Los Santos’ seedy stock market! Though it’s unclear whether GTA V‘s, ahem, “BAWSAQ” exchange is returning to Rockstar’s Miami-inspired follow-up, GTA VI isn’t messing around with new side activities that you’ll likely lose all the hours to.
Throughout the trailer you can catch Lucia and Jason indulging in all sorts of relaxing (or occasionally exhilarating) pastimes. Basketball, dirt bike races, scuba diving, timed target practice challenges, stock car racing, kayaking and backyard wrestling with WWE signature finishing moves can all be spotted at various points. If the standard that GTA V set with its minigames is anything to go by, each of these activities will lean on strong mechanics that make them a pleasure to replay.
There’s also a new minigame that makes carjackings a little more interesting. Whereas Franklin merely had to press Triangle/Y to break into any vehicle scattered across Blaine County, there’s a moment at 06:07 when you can witness Jason initiating a “Slim Jim” minigame that prompts him to use a flat metal tool to enter the car via a right-stick-timed meter. Nelson also told IGN that fancier vehicles with electronic locks require key cloners before you can thieve them (it looks clear you won’t be able to hot-wire every car in GTA 6). And if you skip to around 8 minutes in, these hotly stolen rides will be easier to drive around town, thanks to a new in-game map HUD where buildings now appear in 3D.
There are a veritable boatload of sly winks to past Rockstar titles in the GTA VI extended look trailer. Let’s reel through them quickly. A scene where our deadly duo and Brian Heder are out on the water suggests a take on RDR2‘s fishing minigame has returned. Speaking of the drink, there’s an earlier moment where Jason’s reckless driving causes a dude to dangle off a bridge, perhaps hinting at a return of GTA IV‘s random Stranger Encounters. Going back even further in the timeline, a moment where Lucia is going hard on the bench press is a clear nod to GTA: San Andreas‘ muscle-building minigames.
The callbacks keep on coming: RDR2-style face coverings that can be accessed through an item wheel for robberies, and a new animation that sees the lead pair conceal their firearms behind their backs before entering a store. Staying with Arthur Morgan’s Old West quest, the addition of onscreen icons that appear to highlight the duo’s health, wardrobe and vehicle condition will be familiar to Red Dead fans. GTA VI also has in-game binoculars — though peeping at a dude through a window who’s clearly using his VR headset in ultra sleazy fashion is a far cry from Morgan spotting elk on the horizon.
Hardcore GTA V fans will appreciate some returning features, too. There’s a nod to that game’s Lifeinvader social media as an optional livestream feed appears with a click of R3 as Lucia speeds away from the cops with an unwitting hostage hanging out of the boot of her stolen ride. There’s also an in-game TV ad featuring boars and deer frolicking around Leonida’s countryside, suggesting Trevor-style hunting missions are set for a return. More significantly, in the final moments of the trailer, you can see Jason inheriting Michael De Santa’s slow-mo shooting and Max Payne 3 killcam shots. Even more intriguing, GTA VI appears to introduce a new vitals targeting system: Red points indicate killing blows, while yellow markers around joints seemingly give you the opportunity to non-lethally disarm foes, à la GTA IV.
PwC projects U.S. data center investment will hit $118.4B by 2027, up 116%. Deloitte shows data center job postings grew 64% vs 4% economy-wide, with electrical technician postings up 180%. Patrick Doyle argues the industry is pulling workers from restaurants and grocery stores into high-risk construction without adequate mentoring or safety culture. He advocates one-to-one mentoring for new hires, conversational safety analyses before each task, and protected stop-work authority.
The data center boom will be judged not only by how much infrastructure we build, but by whether the people building it return home safely. Major opportunities bring a rush for capital, market share, and industry leadership. Schedules tighten, hiring accelerates, and safety can be treated as an obstacle. From what I have seen in high-risk work environments, that is a costly mistake. Cutting corners can hurt people, stop projects, and consume the capital everyone was racing to protect.
The scale of the current buildout makes that risk difficult to ignore. PwC forecasted that annual U.S. investment in data center infrastructure will rise 116%, from $53.2 billion in 2024 to $118.4 billion in 2027. This is not a gradual expansion. It is an enormous amount of complicated physical work being compressed into a short period.
The workforce is being stretched just as quickly. Deloitte found that data center job postings for core roles grew 64% between 2023 and 2025, compared with 4% across the broader economy. Postings for electrical technicians climbed more than 180%. In Deloitte’s survey, 63% of data center executives identified skilled-labor shortages as their leading talent obstacle. The opportunity for workers is real, but so is the pressure to deploy people before they are prepared.
I have watched workers move from restaurants, grocery stores, and other settings into construction and energy jobs. Their experience has value, but the hazards are different. A person using a hand drill may not understand how it will react if it seizes. Someone new to night shifts may arrive exhausted because the body has not adjusted. Outdoor work introduces heat, cold, hydration, and other factors that can affect judgment.
New workers are not the problem. Employers are responsible for preparing them. A certificate earned in a day or two is not the same as competence, and orientation is not supervised experience. When demand outpaces the supply of qualified people, employers may shorten training, accept questionable credentials, or assume a new hire will learn on the job. On a complex data center site, that assumption can endanger everyone nearby.
The answer begins with controlled onboarding. I favor a short-service employee program pairing each new worker with an experienced journeyman or senior employee, ideally one-to-one for high-risk work. The mentor tracks progress and helps the employee understand both the task and the site. A program might last 90 days, six months, or longer. The duration matters less than demonstrated competence.
Preparation must also happen before each task. Job safety analyses and pre-job risk assessments should be conversations, not compliance paperwork. Teams should review what will happen, how they will work, what could change, and when they should stop. Rehearsal lets people visualize the task before tools, vehicles, and changing conditions enter the picture.
Most importantly, workers must know that stopping a job for safety will be supported. Too many people hesitate because they fear retaliation or believe they will be blamed for missing a deadline. Leaders create culture through what they reward. Reporting a hazard, asking a question, or declining to complete an unsafe task should be treated as responsible performance. If employees hear “see something, say something” during orientation but watch supervisors punish delay in the field, the real policy is obvious.
The data center industry has an unusual advantage. Its workforce is arriving from different trades and backgrounds, and the industry is still establishing its norms. It can define safe work as professional work from the beginning. That takes more than a seminar. It requires qualified supervisors, manageable spans of control, recurring coaching, and consistent expectations when deadlines are under pressure.
Some executives may still see those measures as extra time and expense. The business case points in the other direction. EY notes that shortages of skilled workers and specialized contractors are already contributing to higher costs and longer timelines, while construction delays can bring substantial financial penalties. An incident adds its own chain of consequences: an investigation, damaged equipment, lost production, absent qualified workers, legal exposure, and potentially a shutdown. A rushed decision intended to save one shift can jeopardize an entire schedule.
That discipline matters even more as investors question the scale and timing of AI infrastructure returns. A credible safety system can instead become evidence that a project is being managed for reliable delivery rather than a single rushed milestone.
Safety should therefore be presented to customers and investors as an operating capability. Developers should explain how they verify competence, mentor new hires, assess risk, protect stop-work authority, and learn from reported hazards. These systems protect people first while also supporting continuity, quality, and trust.
The data center boom is a historic opportunity, but speed alone will not make it a success. We can build an industry in which people are rushed into unfamiliar work and learn its hazards through injury, failure, and loss. Or we can build the training, supervision, and speaking-up culture at the same time as the facilities themselves. The infrastructure will be judged by what it enables. The industry should also be judged by whether the people who built it returned home safely.
There’s still a massive effort afoot to implement statewide “right to repair” laws that try to make it cheaper, easier, and environmentally friendlier for you to repair the technology you own. All fifty states have at least flirted with the idea, though only Massachusetts, New York, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, California, Oregon, and Washington have actually passed laws.
US PIRG tells the Guardian that this year alone, legislators have introduced more than 50 bills across 22 states, including a Florida bill that addresses wheelchairs, a motorcycle-oriented bill in Missouri, and a proposal in Ohio that would apply broad new consumer repair protections across everything from digital devices to aircraft and construction equipment.
In Iowa, state lawmakers passed a first draft of right-to-repair legislation in April that focuses heavily on agricultural equipment and tractors, a subject that has driven broad, bipartisan support:
“Farmers have been fixing their own equipment as long as they have been farming, and it’s essential to the sustainability of our farms that we be able to have that control over the equipment,” said Aaron Lehman, who is also president of the Iowa Farmers Union.”
And on the federal level, efforts remain slow but ongoing to pass the Repair Act, which states that “a motor vehicle manufacturer may not employ any technological barrier or specified legal barrier that impairs the ability of a motor vehicle owner” to “access vehicle-generated data.”
One strange trend I keep seeing however (and this is perpetuated in the Guardian piece): despite major progress on passing new legislative proposals, I’ve yet to see a single state enforce any aspect of a new right to repair law despite absolutely no shortage of corporate offenders. And in several of these states these laws are approaching four or five years of age.
So while the momentum the movement has built is impressive, it’s decidedly less impressive if the new laws passed are so full of loopholes as to be pointless (as we saw when New York’s right to repair law was watered down post-passage), or enforcement doesn’t result in any actual observable reform. At some point activism has to start hammering real-world enforcement of laws already on the books.
Filed Under: consumers, hardware, independent repair, right to repair, software, state law, tractors
Plaud has unveiled the Plaud One Explorer Edition, a new pair of AI-powered earbuds designed to capture conversations and turn them into actionable tasks.
The $249.99 wearable combines earbuds with a standalone case, built-in 4G connectivity and Plaud’s latest AI platform, with pre-orders now open in selected markets.
Unlike conventional earbuds, Plaud One is designed primarily around conversation rather than music. It can capture phone calls, online meetings, face-to-face conversations and ideas on the go, with the company positioning it as a new interface for interacting with AI.
One of the more interesting aspects is that the earbuds don’t need to stay connected to a phone to upload recordings. Plaud One has a built-in eSIM and 4G LTE connectivity, allowing conversations to be uploaded for transcription and summarisation as they happen. The standalone case can also be used to capture conversations.
The captured information feeds into Plaud Intelligence, the company’s conversation-focused AI platform. At its centre is Plaud Agent, which is designed to understand the context and intent behind conversations and then act on that information.
That includes connecting to services such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Notion and Slack. Plaud says its AI can use predefined workflows, called Skills and Plugins, to handle specific tasks, while its Artifacts feature can produce finished work such as emails, documents and presentations.
The idea is that you could leave a client meeting and have Plaud prepare a follow-up email, or ask for a briefing on a previous conversation before another meeting. Plaud also says the system builds up memory and context over time, allowing it to connect information from different conversations.
The hardware itself includes three microphones, with the company claiming they’re tuned to work together for clearer calls and voice recordings. There’s also a 3.5mm headphone jack, speakers positioned above and below the display, a barometric pressure sensor and support for microSD cards up to 2TB.
Plaud One Explorer Edition costs $249.99 and comes with $200 in Plaud Credits for the company’s upcoming agent features and other AI capabilities. Pre-orders opened on August 27, with shipments expected to begin in Q4 2026.
I have a Plaud Note Pro, and it’s great. It’s a credit-card-sized device that records meetings and then transcribes that content and uploads it to the cloud. It works very well, and it’s very discreet.
I’m sure the tech inside these buds will be great. I am not sure though, whether having AI earbuds is something I would ever want. I’d much rather keep it within a more subtle product, rather than have it on my face. Maybe I can be convinced, but currently I am struggling to see the issue this solves.
Opinion
PaperCut has released a second emergency security update for two actively exploited vulnerabilities in its PaperCut NG and MF print management software after researchers discovered multiple ways to bypass the initial fixes.
As BleepingComputer reported yesterday, PaperCut warned that hackers were exploiting a vulnerability in zero-day attacks against customer servers and released an initial emergency patch for PaperCut NG/MF versions 25 and 26.
At the time, however, the company had not disclosed CVE identifiers or technical details about the vulnerabilities, saying it was withholding information while it investigated the attacks and gave customers time to apply emergency fixes.
PaperCut has now shared technical details and CVE identifiers for the two vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578. These vulnerabilities can be chained to bypass authentication and execute code on vulnerable servers.
CVE-2026-81578 is a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability rated 8.8 that impacts the PaperCut NG/MF web management interface.
“Under specific conditions, unauthenticated remote requests targeting administrative functions can trigger backend actions prior to the completion of access validation checks,” explains PaperCut’s updated advisory.
The second vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-82078, is a critical unsafe dynamic class-loading flaw rated 9.4 that exists in PaperCut’s database connection utilities.
The application loads database driver classes based on configurable driver names without validating them against an approved allowlist.
“If an attacker can manipulate system configuration parameters, this enables the execution of arbitrary Java bytecode residing on the application classpath under the security context of the PaperCut server process,” explains PaperCut.
Cybersecurity firm watchTowr, which has been working with PaperCut during the incident, said on LinkedIn that the vulnerabilities allow unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and gain remote code execution on affected PaperCut NG/MF instances.
On Friday, PaperCut released Emergency Patch Release 2, an updated security fix that includes additional hardening developed after further analysis with its internal security team and researchers at Huntress and watchTowr.
“Following further work with our internal security team and external researchers, including Huntress and watchTowr, we have released an updated Emergency Patch (Release 2) that includes additional hardening beyond the original emergency patch,” PaperCut said.
The company is urging all customers to install Release 2 even if they already installed the first emergency patch.
This second release comes after watchTowr said its researchers fully reproduced the vulnerabilities, discovered multiple patch bypasses, and identified an additional authentication bypass vulnerability.
Huntress, which has been working with PaperCut during the incident, says it observed exploitation in two customer environments and reproduced the full pre-authentication RCE chain.
The company told BleepingComputer that PaperCut logs captured commands used by the attackers for system reconnaissance, while hex-encoded Java `.class` files found in the logs acted as an RCE bridge between PaperCut and the underlying operating system, allowing commands to be executed and files to be read or written.
The commands observed by Huntress appear to have been used for reconnaissance rather than to deploy malware or establish persistence.
Huntress also says it discovered multiple bypasses for the original emergency patches and an additional authentication bypass vulnerability, which it shared with PaperCut.
Emergency Patch Release 2 is available for PaperCut NG and MF versions 24, 25, and 26 on Windows, Linux, and macOS. Customers running version 23 or earlier are advised to upgrade to the latest version rather than wait for a patch for those releases.
PaperCut says Site Servers and secondary/print servers should also be upgraded to patched versions. Other components, like Print Deploy and Mobility Print, are not affected and do not require updates.
Even though patches are available, PaperCut to urge customers to restrict access to the web interfaces to trusted IP addresses using firewall rules, network access controls, or equivalent measures.
Administrators should also look for suspicious post-exploitation activity from the pc-app.exe process, missing or truncated server.log files, and the following errors in the server.log.
ERROR No suitable driver found for jdbc:no:x
ERROR DatabaseUtils - Database error looking up cardID: VALUES CAST
The company has not disclosed who is behind the attacks or what threat actors are doing after compromising vulnerable servers.
PaperCut told BleepingComputer that the attacks appear limited and targeted, and that it is withholding details about post-exploitation activity while it continues its investigation.
“Our investigation into what attackers are doing post-compromise is still active, and premature detail could complicate any affected customers’ own response,” PaperCut told BleepingComputer.
“What we can say: the bulletin advises customers to watch for intrusion-detection, endpoint, or network-monitoring alerts tied to the PaperCut Application Server, and we’ll publish indicators of compromise as they’re verified.”
PaperCut servers were previously targeted in 2023 after attackers began exploiting CVE-2023-27350, an authentication bypass and remote code execution vulnerability.
Those attacks were ultimately linked to numerous threat actors, including the Clop and LockBit ransomware operations, Iranian state-backed hacking groups, and the Bl00dy Ransomware Gang.
Update: Added information from Huntress.
Overall prevention scores can hide what happens after initial access. Once attackers are using valid credentials, prevention drops sharply.
The Blue Report 2026 measures defenses technique by technique across 338 million simulations run in customer production environments.
Intel used its slot at Hot Chips 2026 to lay out three architectures it says will carry agentic AI from the rack to the laptop.
The already-shipping Wildcat Lake Core Series 3 SoC is for mainstream client and edge machines, Crescent Island is an inference-optimized data center GPU, and Diamond Rapids is its next-generation enterprise-class data center CPU that can be configured with up to 256 cores.
Pushkar Ranade, Intel’s chief technology officer, said in a statement accompanying the announcement that agentic AI is changing how the company designs computing from the transistor upward.
Latest Videos FromTechRadar
Intel’s Diamond Rapids, which it plans to brand as Xeon 7, is where the chipmaker provides the most information, unsurprisingly, in an industry that plans purchases and upgrades years in advance.
Its flagship offering can encompass as many as 256 cores, backed by 1.28G of fast last-level cache, 16 memory channels, 128 PCIe 6 lanes, and CXL 3.0. ServeTheHome reported that the maximum configuration uses 16-core chiplets, built on Intel’s 18A-P process node.
Rival chipmaker AMD also offers a 256-core trim: the EPYC 9996, built on TSMC’s 2nm node, keeps hyperthreading in play, effectively doubling its thread count versus Intel’s flagship.
Its Crescent Island GPU is arguably the most interesting design of the three, but the least detailed: a 350W air-cooled PCIe card built on its Xe3P GPU architecture, with 32 cores feeding 256 third-generation XMX engines and 32 MB of unified L2 cache. It surprisingly uses LPDDR5X rather than HBM, but the choice seems rationalized to offer capacity at a power and cost profile that lets Intel compete meaningfully with Nvidia and AMD.
Interestingly, the 480GB figure Intel touts in its press release isn’t what it will ship; Intel-branded cards cap at 160GB, and 480GB is a ceiling available to ODM partners building their own configurations. Intel also remains mum on memory bandwidth specifics and told Chips and Cheese it won’t disclose the figure; this is crucial for many AI applications, as memory bandwidth determines decode throughput, and decode throughput essentially determines token economics.
Of the three architectures that Intel talked about, Wildcat Lake is the only one you can pick up off a shelf (as a miniPC or laptop) today; it launched as Intel’s Core Series 3. Intel stated that it replaced the Foveros packaging used in Panther Lake with an organic multi-chip package, eliminating the base die and, with it, assembly cost and yield loss. Compute die area fell by 38 percent, and I/O tile area by 15 percent.
The 17 TOPS NPU available to such CPUs sits well below the 40 TOPS Microsoft requires for Copilot+ certification. The 40 TOPS Intel cites is a platform total across CPU, GPU, and NPU, which arguably can be met elsewhere, but it’s a sticking point for the chipmaker’s AI push, which has otherwise been concentrated on capturing enterprise and hyperscale customers.
Follow TechRadar on Google News and add us as a preferred source to get our expert news, reviews, and opinion in your feeds.
Healthcare and pharmaceutical distribution giant McKesson has disclosed a cybersecurity incident involving unauthorized access to third-party applications and data theft, with the ShinyHunters extortion group claiming it stole 284 million patient data records.
McKesson is a major U.S. healthcare company and pharmaceutical distributor that provides medicines, medical supplies, technology, and services to healthcare providers and pharmacies.
CyberInsider first reported the breach earlier today, and McKesson later disclosed it in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
McKesson says it discovered the cybersecurity incident on August 25, 2026, and that its investigation remains in the early stages.
“Information about the incident, including any updates, is available on the company’s website at www.mckesson.com/cybersecurity,” McKesson said in its SEC filing.
“As of the date of this filing, the company has not determined that the incident is material or that the incident has had, or is reasonably likely to have, any material impact on the company, including its financial condition or results of operations.”
In a separate notice to customers, McKesson confirmed that the incident involved third-party applications and the unauthorized access and exfiltration of data.
“We take the security and privacy of our partners, customers and their patients very seriously. Upon discovery, we immediately activated our incident response protocols, launched an investigation, and engaged leading cybersecurity industry experts to assist in our response,” reads McKesson’s notice.
The company said its investigation is ongoing to determine the full scope of the incident.
McKesson also warned that customers may experience intermittent service degradation believed to be related to the attack, although the company said it was not proactively disconnecting systems within its environment.
At this time, McKesson has not publicly disclosed which third-party applications were compromised, how the attackers gained access, or what information was stolen.
McKesson says its investigation remains ongoing and that it will provide additional information as it develops a more complete understanding of the incident.
The ShinyHunters extortion group told BleepingComputer that it was behind the attack, claiming it gained access after conducting voice phishing, or vishing, social engineering attacks against multiple McKesson employees.
ShinyHunters declined to provide many technical details about the social engineering attacks, including the domain used during the campaign. However, BleepingComputer learned from another source that the threat actors used the mckesson[.]claims domain as part of the attack.
This domain matches a ShinyHunters campaign recently documented by ReliaQuest’s Threat Research team, which said the extortion group was registering .claims domains containing the names or abbreviations of targeted companies to impersonate their help desks and IT teams.
“ReliaQuest is tracking a widespread ShinyHunters campaign using domains that follow the company[.]claims pattern. These domains incorporate the targeted organization’s name or abbreviation under the .claims TLD,” ReliaQuest said in a now-deleted post on X.
ShinyHunters told BleepingComputer that the vishing attacks led to the compromise of multiple employees’ Okta single sign-on accounts, which they then used to access the company’s Salesforce and Snowflake environments.
The threat actor claims it fully compromised the Salesforce environment, including support cases. The threat actor also allegedly stole a much larger collection of patient-related data from Snowflake.
According to ShinyHunters, the threat actor exfiltrated about 1TB of data over four days, between August 21 and August 25.
The threat actor also claims the stolen Snowflake data contains approximately 284 million data records of patient-related information. However, this does not mean that the breach impacted 284 million patients.
Previous reporting stated that information belonging to 284 million patients had been exposed. ShinyHunters clarified to BleepingComputer that the figure is actually a raw count of approximately 284 million data records, or lines, rather than a count of unique individuals.
The threat actor told BleepingComputer that it has not fully analyzed the stolen data and does not know how many unique people are in those records.
ShinyHunters claims the stolen information includes names, addresses, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, patient IDs, phone numbers, email addresses, Medicaid numbers, medical record numbers, medication and allergy information, illnesses, disabilities, appointment information, and physician information.
The group also claims the data contains information related to deceased and terminally ill patients, prescriptions and medication shipments, invoices, employee information, Salesforce records, internal communications, and healthcare providers and clinics using McKesson’s services.
BleepingComputer has not independently verified these claims, and McKesson has not publicly disclosed what information was stolen.
The group says it contacted McKesson after completing the data theft on August 25 and demanded a $55,236,150 ransom, giving the company 72 hours to respond. According to ShinyHunters, McKesson did not respond to or negotiate over the ransom demand.
The attack comes amid an ongoing wave of data-theft attacks targeting healthcare and health technology organizations attributed to ShinyHunters.
Health-ISAC recently warned healthcare organizations about increasing ShinyHunters attacks involving social engineering designed to compromise corporate accounts and gain access to cloud and SaaS platforms.
Other healthcare technology companies targeted in recent ShinyHunters data-theft attacks include Medtronic, DentaQuest, iRhythm, OneMedical, and AdaptHealth.
Overall prevention scores can hide what happens after initial access. Once attackers are using valid credentials, prevention drops sharply.
The Blue Report 2026 measures defenses technique by technique across 338 million simulations run in customer production environments.
“Grand Theft Auto 6” is the biggest and most-anticipated game release in a decade, at least. Despite a reported budget of more than $1 billion, it’s expected to make money back for developer Rockstar and publisher Take-Two Interactive in a matter of days. There’s also a reasonable case to be made for “Grand Theft Auto VI: An Extended Look” being the biggest game trailer release of all time. It’s certainly the first trailer to get a six-hour exclusive run on Netflix (with some stray Twitch streamers thrown in for good measure) before debuting on YouTube and other platforms.
There’s plenty to see for yourself, so if you’re at all interested it’s well worth spending 26 minutes and 49 seconds to take a look ahead of “Grand Theft Auto 6” release on November 19. But, we spotted a bunch of things you may not notice at first glance, and we also dove through several interviews Rockstar gave — timed for the trailer’s release, of course — to pull out the things you need to know about “GTA 6.”
We had a suspicion that this would be the case, but thanks to some media work Rockstar executives did around the extended look’s release, we can better quantify what that means. Speaking with YouTuber TGG, Rockstar co-studio head Rob Nelson claimed that the game’s map is twice the size of the “GTA 5” map, and three times the size of the “Red Dead Redemption 2” map. As for Vice City, TGG said, “Vice City itself is twice the size of Los Santos. And Vice City and its [surrounding suburbs] is 11 times bigger than Los Santos and its [surrounding suburbs].”
This is all obviously a far cry from the maps of multi-planetary games like “No Man’s Sky” and “Starfield,” but Rockstar’s games are on a different level to those when it comes to density and unique touches. A giant planet with a couple of buildings vs. a large portion of the state of Florida (sorry, Leonida), isn’t the fairest comparison to make.
We also got a clue as to just how long “Grand Theft Auto 6” is. In a different interview with The New York Times, Nelson told games journalist Christopher Byrd that he spent 80 hours playing through the main story and a handful of optional goals. Your mileage may vary, but that’s a much longer time than the average player logged completing “Grand Theft Auto 5,” according to the site How Long to Beat.
It wouldn’t be a modern Grand Theft Auto without minigames, and we spotted multiple new options in the extended look. We knew from earlier leaks that basketball was going be an option, but during the 27-minute trailer Rockstar showed off at least six other activities.
Vice City has always had a dirt track, so the inclusion of off-road races isn’t a huge surprise, but the brief snippet shows dirtbikes and ATVs racing alongside trucks. There’s an even-more-brief segment where we see a Fast and Furious-style street race, full of exotic imports, neon underglow mods and, of course, nitrous boosts.
There even appears to be a professional series on a full-blown race track inspired by real circuits. In the trailer we see a multi-lap race with track-modified sedans and souped-up muscle cars decked out in (pretty silly) sponsored liveries. There are open-wheel racing series in “GTA Online” and figure-8 racing events in “San Andreas,” but this latest addition looks impressive, to say the least.
Finally, while we didn’t see any jet ski races in the trailer, the vehicles do feature prominently, so we wouldn’t be surprised if that’s an option come November 19. If racing isn’t your speed, there seem to be a handful of less adrenaline-fueled activities on offer, including kayaking, diving, weight lifting and target practice challenges.
We still don’t have a full rundown on the fine details of the “GTA 6” combat system, but we did learn a lot from the extended look.
One big quality-of-life improvement coming is swapping between two firearms on the fly. The weapon wheel is still there, but around 18 and a half minutes in, you can see co-protagonist Lucia on a target range switching between a rifle and a pistol without needing to pull up the wheel.
Bullet time — which was an ability locked to Michael De Santa in “GTA V” — is confirmed to be making a return, at least for Jason. While he clears an office space of goons, we see him slow down time and a new vital targeting system. Some areas are lit up in red and appear to be indicating lethal shots, while others in a pale yellow are centered on joints and may be there for you to incapacitate someone in a less-lethal way. Oh, and there’s even a killcam straight out of “Max Payne 3” in one scene.
One perhaps pointless but very cool addition is the ability to wield certain weapons in one hand. In one scene, Lucia is carrying a duffel bag in one arm and a shotgun in the other. She’s able to both fire and rack her shotgun without skipping a beat. Those are some strong forearms. And ribs, for that matter.
Going all the way back to 1997’s “Grand Theft Auto,” you’ve been able to break into any car and, with the press of a button, magically hot-wire it. Those days are over. Around six minutes into the trailer, we see Jason attempting to steal a car and a “Slim Jim” minigame where the player has to time their inputs to get into the car using a slide tool.
According Rockstar, that’s just one of the new layers of complexity to the grand theft auto of “GTA 6.” Speaking with IGN, Nelson (the same co-studio head who spoke with TGG) gave a few interesting examples: Vehicles with electronic key fobs may require a key cloner, while cars with GPS tracking enabled might require you to drive below a certain speed threshold to avoid triggering an alarm.
Apparently there’ll be an in-game app on the protagonists’ cellphones that will let you scan a car to discover what security features are optioned. “Grand Theft Auto VI” has a number of new rides and returning classics, and it sounds like many will require a different approach to steal. The app will also reveal how much money you can make selling it or how much it’ll cost to file down those VINs add it to your collection.
SpaceX stock could rise 75% to $240, JPMorgan says
Bitcoin’s 22% rally now needs real demand to outlast Treasury liquidity boost
Musk’s Tesla, SpaceX Confirm $16.8 Billion ‘Terafab’ Chip Plant as World’s Largest Building in Texas
anatomy of crypto’s biggest liquidation event since 2021
A $30 Billion AI Fund Implodes, Now the SEC Is Investigating Wall Street’s Role
Warsh Jackson Hole keynote puts financial innovation first
Weekend Open Thread: Maeve – Corporette.com
Salesforce Stock Soars 19% as Blowout Earnings and Agentforce AI Growth Silence Software Skeptics
6 months on, Irish renters crushed by effects of government housing bill
Did Trump Just Move SpaceX Stock With One Truth Social Post?
Mystery AI Model ‘Ox Alpha’ Draws Developers With Free Access as Chinese Lab Origins Remain Debated
The ‘Lucky Dip Gang’ causing carnage for clicks: After five thugs were killed speeding in the wrong direction on a motorway, GUY ADAMS investigates a sick new trend… and why police aren’t even allowed to pursue them
Walmart takes aim at younger shoppers with new fashion brand
Lindsay Clancy jury braces for closing arguments as judge tells court: ‘You’ve heard all the evidence’ – Live updates
Moderna CEO warns China is pouring state money into mRNA technology
Will Tesla Stock Be Higher or Lower a Year From Now? Here’s What Wall Street Analysts Are Saying
NVIDIA Stock Drops Nearly 2 Percent to $210 on Seventh Losing Day Ahead of Critical AI Earnings
$92 Billion Nvidia Earnings Could Make or Break the AI Trade
Thailand’s Eastern Economic Corridor Capital City (EECiti): Key Developments and Investment Opportunities
iPhone 18 Pro Pre-Orders Could Shift to Saturday as Apple Reportedly Avoids September 11 Anniversary
You must be logged in to post a comment Login