Author: techbullion
Read the healthcare data breach 2026 headlines quickly and you’d think the worst is behind us. HHS logged 397 large breaches in the first half of the year, the lowest H1 total since 2023. Fine. But nine of those incidents each exposed over a million people, and the biggest passed 5.8 million. IBM now says the average healthcare breach costs $6.64 million. And the HIPAA Security Rule overhaul everyone was waiting on? Pushed to July 2027. So no, hospitals aren’t safer. The danger just changed address. The numbers below come from HHS filings, IBM’s 2026 cost study and breach notices…
Sony pushed firmware 14.00 on 16 September, and for a couple of weeks it looked like the PS5 hacking scene had been shut out again. Then Relapse dropped. The PS5 jailbreak 13.60 release went public on a Tuesday, and it works on any console that hasn’t taken the 14.00 update yet. If yours updated itself overnight, you’re out of luck. If it didn’t, you’ve got a decision to make, and not much time to make it. So What Is Relapse, Exactly? The PS5 jailbreak 13.60 release is a browser-based exploit that supports firmware 7.00 through 13.60. Both the regular PS5…
Try finding a Huawei Mate XT 2 right now and you’ll understand the story. Huawei unveiled it on September 7 and opened sales five days later. By September 29, Richard Yu, head of the company’s consumer business, told journalists that demand was running ahead of supply. About 100,000 phones had shipped by then. He expects the total to pass one million, the same milestone the first two tri-folds reached. Why the rush? Because the first Mate XT was a showpiece. Gorgeous, sure, but the big screen faced outward, and anyone who carried one probably flinched every time it went into…
Today, October 13, 2026, Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro stop getting updates. Two weeks ago, on September 29, Microsoft released 26H2, so most people already know their next step. Yet the question I keep seeing in forums is about Windows 11 27H2. Microsoft hasn’t confirmed that version exists, but its own guidance on 26H1 and 26H2 leaves a trail. It leads somewhere interesting for anyone with a new Snapdragon X2 laptop. Why Is Windows 11 Running on Two Different Engines? For the first time, Microsoft has split the Windows 11 userbase across two platforms. Most of us are on…
If you’re still on Windows 11 24H2, tomorrow matters. October 13 is the last day Home and Pro users get updates on that version. And right on cue, Microsoft released Windows 11 26H2 KB5121794 on September 29, a small package that moves you onto a version supported into 2028. It’s only 174 KB. Seriously. I know, I know. Yearly Windows upgrades used to mean a huge download, an hour of staring at a progress bar, and a desktop that looked slightly different afterwards. Windows 11 26H2 KB5121794 does none of that. It’s about 174 KB, needs one restart, and bumps…
Android Auto 17.9 needed only four days to go from its first beta build to a stable release. The stable build, 17.9.6640, is now reaching phones through Google Play. If you’ve been waiting for the redesign Google showed off in May, this release is the one to temper expectations on. It is a maintenance update that fixes a long-running annoyance and leaves the headline features for later. Here is what’s in it, what’s hiding in the code, and whether you should hurry to install it. Four Days From Beta to Stable: How the Rollout Played Out Version 17.9.1640 beta appeared…
Most of us three putt more than we like to admit. A big reason is pretty simple. We almost never hit the dead center of the face, and a putt struck off the toe usually dies short. That is exactly the problem the Odyssey Ai One putter was made to fix, and people are still talking about it in 2026. Prices have dropped, the lineup has grown way past the first four models, and new colors keep popping up on tour practice greens. So is it actually worth your money? Let’s get into it. What Makes This Face So Different…
Somebody has to tell ChatGPT when it gets an answer wrong. That somebody is a person with a laptop, and yes, they get paid. It’s the idea behind every ai training atiost job, and this year it turned into a real remote work category, not just a quirky side hustle. Labs need humans to judge and fix what their models write, and the appetite for an ai training atiost job isn’t fading. So what’s the work like, what does it pay, and where do you even sign up? Let’s go through it, scams included. What the work looks like Picture…
October has barely started and mobile technology news is already crowded. Apple opens pre-orders for the iPhone Duo, its first foldable, on October 16, and the phone ships on October 23. Samsung is rolling One UI 9 out to older Galaxy models. Google released its October patch. Chinese brands are firing off flagships almost every week. I’ll go through the parts worth your time. Apple’s Foldable Finally Has a Price and a Date Apple unveiled the iPhone Duo on September 9 at its Surprise and Shine event, the first big launch since John Ternus became CEO. The price is $1,999…
By late September 2026, Washington quietly turned the tech world on its head. Direct executive actions tagged “Super Intelligence” as a top-priority national defense asset. Overnight, what used to sound like speculative whiteboard talk turned into a brutal, multi-billion-dollar government race. Every major player in Silicon Valley is now chasing one thing: AI Superintelligence—software designed to run circles around human experts in software design, medicine, and global logistics. There’s just one huge problem: we’re running out of power to fuel AI Superintelligence. Even with hundreds of billions in fresh funding, engineers building AI Superintelligence are bumping into real-world walls. Local…
