Google unveiled the Pixel 11 Pro Fold on August 12. The device builds on prior models with targeted upgrades in weight, durability, and tools for daily use. Pre-orders opened immediately, with shipments set for August 20 at a starting price of $1,899 for the 256GB model.
The foldable measures nearly 10 percent lighter and about 1 millimeter thinner than its predecessor. Thinner bezels and new color options like Olive join the standard Obsidian finish. These changes aim to improve pocket comfort and one-handed handling, according to the company’s announcement.
uBlock Origin maintainers have called it quits on Facebook ads. The small volunteer team behind the popular blocker announced they will stop updating filters to counter the social network’s constant changes. Users who relied on the extension for a clean feed now see ads returning as Facebook tweaks its code.
Organizations pour money into AI security tools. Yet breaches climb higher each year. A new survey from more than 1,000 security and IT leaders shows 93 percent invested in fresh technologies. Still, 65 percent suffered a data breach in the past 12 months. That marks an 18 percent jump from the prior year and nearly 40 percent over three years, according to the 2026 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey cited in TechRadar Pro.
Tailscale engineers spent months chasing database corruption that knocked out shards and forced manual recoveries. Their persistence led to the identification of a rare data race in SQLite’s Write-Ahead Logging mechanism. The issue had lingered undetected since 2010.
Customers noticed the effects through status-page alerts and occasional lost configuration changes. Metadata only, never keys or traffic. Recovery times dropped from over an hour to under one as automation improved. Still, repeated incidents tested trust in a service built for reliability.
North Korea’s Lazarus group has taken a notable step in its operational playbook. The hackers folded a post-quantum key exchange into the delivery chain for a fresh Windows zero-day exploit. The move surfaced this week in a sophisticated espionage effort aimed at defense and aerospace outfits across Europe and India.
Automatic license plate readers, or ALPRs, have spread across American roads. Mounted on poles, patrol cars and even private property, these systems snap images of passing vehicles and log plate numbers with time and location stamps. Agencies use them to spot stolen cars and wanted suspects in real time. Databases built by vendors such as Flock Safety now hold millions of records that officers can query for historical movements.
Microsoft shipped fixes for 421 vulnerabilities this month. Among them sits one already under active attack. The exploited zero-day targets a core networking driver present on virtually every Windows system. And security teams can’t afford to wait.
California set out to ease the pain of vanished federal support for electric vehicles. The state poured money into a new point-of-sale rebate aimed squarely at first-time buyers. Yet the program’s early days delivered an unexpected verdict on demand. Tesla customers claimed the automaker’s full allocation faster than anyone anticipated.
Security teams know the script all too well. A business unit spots a promising new tool. Operations praises its efficiency gains. Finance signs off on the budget. Momentum builds fast. Then, days or sometimes hours before the contract lands, someone remembers cybersecurity. The CISO team scrambles. Questionnaires fly back and forth. Calls stretch late into the night. Vendors grow frustrated. Deals slow. Risks linger.
Las Vegas has long served as the backdrop for cybersecurity’s biggest stage. This year’s Black Hat USA 2026 proved no different. Yet the conversations among security chiefs shifted noticeably. Prevention alone no longer cuts it. Recovery speed now defines whether a program succeeds or fails when systems go dark.
Cyber resilience takes center stage as AI reshapes the CISO role