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Security researcher Brian Krebs brings us the news that America’s Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has had a large store of plaintext passwords, SSH private keys, tokens, and “other sensitive CISA assets” exposed in a public GitHub repo since at least November 2025. The now-offline public repo—named, somewhat aspirationally, “Private-CISA”—was brought to Krebs’ attention by GitGuardian’s Guillaume Valadon, who was alerted to the repo’s presence by GitGuardian’s public code scans. Krebs says that Valadon approached him after receiving no responses from the Private-CISA repo’s owner. In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s…

We saw the bulk of the Android news last week, so it was time to check out what’s coming to another pillar of Google’s empire: Search. Perhaps the biggest change is an overhaul of the Search box, which has been the de facto front page of the internet for hundreds of millions of people for decades. Starting today, Google is deploying “an intelligent AI-powered Search box” in all languages and countries in which AI Mode is available. The company says this will offer suggestions to users “that go beyond autocomplete,” as it designed the Search box to better anticipate their…

Google I/O 2026 is set to take place today when the tech giant will share its latest advancements in artificial intelligence, products and, hopefully, some hardware. Last week, Google took the wraps off the latest version of Android and announced a new laptop platform, Googlebooks, which uses a new operating system that’s a merged version of Android and ChromeOS. Google’s mission to fuse AI into all of its products will undoubtedly continue, and we’ll likely get details on the latest from Gemini, more agentic AI efforts, Android XR glasses and more. We saw some of the fruit of the tech giant’s latest efforts…

Meta will receive $3.3 billion in tax breaks for Louisiana datacenterThe company will pay zero sales tax on GPU purchases for the siteThe number of natural gas turbine plants needed to power the campus has been tripledAcross the US, AI data centers are being planned and constructed at a scale never before seen, and many states are attracting new investments by offering generous tax breaks.Meta’s Hyperion campus, set to cost around $10 billion, will grant the company $3.3 billion in tax breaks according to a Sherwood News analysis.The campus will cover 2,250 acres of Richland Parish, Louisiana, or, as Mark…

Catch the Canadian Grand Prix live on a service that isn’t Apple. Netflix Heads up, racing fans. May 22-24 is the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix and for the first time, Netflix viewers in the US can tune in live to watch the high-speed action. Streaming services are typically pretty protective of their exclusive deals, but Apple has taken a different approach with F1 programming. Even though Apple TV is the primary source for watching F1 content this year, in February the company agreed to grant Netflix the rights to air select races. The partnership makes…

PlayStation Plus, Sony’s subscription gaming service for its consoles, is increasing its price for new subscribers. The company blamed “ongoing market conditions” for the price increase. It’s the go-to explanation for gaming hardware companies, including Microsoft and Nintendo’s increases in pricing for the Xbox and Switch 2 consoles. The price for PS Plus subscriptions for new customers will increase by $1 from $10 to $11 for a one-month subscription starting on May 20, according to a post from the official PlayStation X account on Monday. The three-month subscription price will jump by $3, from $25 to $28, on the same effective…

Disconcerting indie game HoverGrease 2 is set to launch this weekIt’s a top-down hero shooter with both a story campaign and multiplayer modesThe oddly realistic art direction and bizarre title has gamers confused on social mediaEverywhere I go, I see HoverGrease 2. At least, everywhere I go on Instagram, because for some reason, my algorithm has decided that I simply have to know all about it.It’s an onslaught, with endless posts about the upcoming game (mainly from the official HoverGrease account) appearing after every other reel that I watch. Although the account only has a few hundred followers, many of…

Epic Games/Disney/Lucasfilm The Mandalorian and Grogu hits theaters on Friday, and Fortnite is hosting a special Watch Party Island this Tuesday so players can get in on the hype a bit early. After completing a few activities, Fortnite players will get access to 10 minutes of the movie, and hear a message from director Jon Favreau. The Mandalorian and Grogu Watch Party Island opens at 10AM ET on May 19. Here’s how it’ll work, according to the Fortnite team: “Created with Fairview Portals and Beyond Creative, you’ll be recruited as…

Marshals, a new Yellowstone spinoff starring Luke Grimes as Kayce Dutton, is airing on CBS right now. You can also tune in with Paramount Plus. The Yellowstone sequel series sees Grimes’ former Navy SEAL join an elite unit of US Marshals to bring range justice to Montana, according to a synopsis from CBS.The show includes Yellowstone actors Gil Birmingham as Thomas Rainwater, Mo Brings Plenty as Mo and Brecken Merrill as Tate. Spencer Hudnut is the showrunner of Marshals — formerly known as Y: Marshals — and Taylor Sheridan is an executive producer.When to watch new Marshals episodes on Paramount PlusEpisode 12 of Marshals…

Acasis FlowCore Series introduces an independent bandwidth design for each NVMe bay systemEach drive reportedly maintains full Thunderbolt 5 speed simultaneouslyFour-bay and ten-bay models target different storage capacity needsAcasis has announced the FlowCore Series, a new line of Thunderbolt storage systems.This device claims to solve the shared bandwidth problem of conventional multi-bay storage devices — where multiple drives operating simultaneously cause significant slowdowns — by offering an independent full-speed bandwidth architecture for each M.2 NVMe bayEach bay can access nearly the full 80 Gbps of Thunderbolt 5 bandwidth without the usual speed reductions.Latest Videos From You may like Per-bay bandwidth…