Month: May 2026
North Korean hackers target gamers with trojanized platform – here’s what to look out for
North Korean APT37 (ScarCruft) gang compromised a Yanbian gaming platform to deliver the BirdCall backdoor On Windows, it enabled data theft and command execution; on Android, it exfiltrated contacts, messages, media, and ambient audio The malware is actively maintained, with Android versions still hosted, targeting ethnic Koreans and defectors in…
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Nintendo announces a new Star Fox for the Switch 2
It turns out Fox McCloud’s appearance in the Super Mario Galaxy Movie was a tease of things to come: Nintendo just surprise announced the first new Star Fox game two decades. The game is called, simply, Star Fox, and it’s out very soon: it’s launching on June 25th. Nintendo says…
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This foldable, futuristic neck massager will heat your aching muscles and talk to you while it does so — yes, really
The best massage guns are brilliant at soothing soreness in easily accessible muscles like the quads, calves, and glutes, but they aren’t so adept at reaching those pesky knots in the neck and shoulders. If you’ve ever spent more than 10 minutes in my company, you’ll know that I suffer…
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Canadian officials claim OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws
Regulators took issue with the amount of personal data the company collected and its approach to consent. Source
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Google shuts down Project Mariner
Google has pulled the plug on Project Mariner, an experimental feature designed to perform tasks for you across the web, as reported earlier by Wired’s Maxwell Zeff. The Project Mariner landing page now contains a message that says: “Thank you for using Project Mariner. It was shut down on May…
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Snap’s $400 million deal with Perplexity is dead
The planned AI search feature for Snapchat never fully rolled out. Source
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