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Sling TV Drops Innovative Streaming ‘Day Passes’ After Disney, Warner Bros Sued

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Last year, Sling TV unveiled a rare bit of innovation in an increasingly enshittified streaming video market. They began offering what they called “mini-subscriptions,” allowing users to subscribe to live…

Technology

AI game clones are making indie developers afraid to show their work

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Since its earliest days, the video game industry has been built on developers creating clones of competing games, with varying levels of originality and varying levels of enforcement from game…

Technology

ReactOS reaches major milestone with NTFS install support

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Open source Windows alternative ReactOS has reached a major milestone: The operating system can now be installed directly onto an NT Files System drive partition. As reported by Phoronix, the…

Technology

Startup taps underwater volcano as energy source in “proof point” test

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

The world’s first demonstration of a subsea geothermal power plant has taken place near an active underwater volcano almost a mile below the ocean surface. It generated less than 10…

Cybersecurity

Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public.…

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‘We Didn’t Do This Perfectly’: American Fork Police Chief’s Understatement Now Anchors A Civil Rights Lawsuit By Reckless Ben’s Helpers

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

We’ve been covering a bunch of stories related to the saga of “Reckless” Ben Schneider and Bricks & Minifigs (“BAM”), which began with a series of videos Schneider produced about…

Technology

Daily Deal: Soundfreaq Sound Spot II Bluetooth Speaker

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

The Soundfreaq Sound Spot II combines wireless audio performance, ambient lighting, and relaxing sound features in a compact design built for modern lifestyles. Featuring a Bamboo and White finish with…

Cybersecurity

Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October…

Technology

Huge DMV data breach impacted current and former Florida residents

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has begun notifying victims impacted by a recent data breach of driver’s license and motor vehicle data, but not everyone…

Technology

Canadian YouTuber Visited By Cops After Building Mock Flock To Track Cop Cars

October 19, 2026 Blogmaster

If most cops had a sense of irony, they wouldn’t be cops. By that I mean that there’s little in the job that attracts people with tons of self-awareness or…

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