Daily Drop on Technology – August 25, 2026 | DailyDrops

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• One Crucial 4TB SSD Customer Stands Ground And Refuses Lousy $200 Refund Offered By Company; Perseverance Finally Results In A “Direct 1:1 Replacement” (wccftech.com)
• The Wildest Camera Robot (youtube.com)
• The world's busiest spaceport is about to get a lot quieter, at least for now (arstechnica.com)
• Garmin’s new Fenix 9 adds brighter screens and smoother map panning (theverge.com)
• Microsoft hides watermarks in AI images made with Paint and Photos, researcher claims (neowin.net)
• Insta360 X3 Action Camera drops down to lowest price yet at $229.99 (neowin.net)
• Microsoft delays Whiteboard migration and retirement deadlines (neowin.net)
• Guitar Hero devs return with new game Stage Tour and proper hardware (neowin.net)
• Apple's new Mac mini #Vergecast (youtube.com)
• Good things come in little packages (youtube.com)
• Your Windows clipboard can remember 25 items — and it changes how you work (makeuseof.com)
• Brazil fined TikTok over data from users who never logged in (thenextweb.com)
• Cloud Report: Help us protect our soccer app | Amazon Web Services (youtube.com)
• Cerebras CS-4 Delivers A 30x Uplift In AI This Year, But Next-Gen Racks Already In Works With CS-5 Pumping Out 10K TPS Per User In 2027 & CS-6 Bringing 3D Wafer-Scale SRAM (wccftech.com)
• How to evaluate LLMs before production (github.blog)
• OpenAI's 'Bel' Has Over 10 Trillion Parameters, And It Might Just Be The World's First "AGI-Threshold" Base Model (wccftech.com)
• World humanoid robot games show runners breaking records, bursting into flames (arstechnica.com)
• Update: New domain for Sign in with Apple - Latest News - Apple Developer (developer.apple.com)
• How to Leverage Local Small Language Models for Your Projects - KDnuggets (kdnuggets.com)
• UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit (thehackernews.com)
• Weedhack Malware Spreads via Fake Minecraft Clients and SEO Poisoning (thehackernews.com)
• ⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More (thehackernews.com)
• Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account (thehackernews.com)
• The Outsized Shadow: Why 5% of AI Users Are Your Biggest Security Risk (thehackernews.com)
• Shipping More AI Code Than You Can Secure? Watch How to Control Remediation Debt (thehackernews.com)
• Operation QUICSILVER Targets Myanmar Government and IT with QUICAgent Backdoor (thehackernews.com)
• Exploited Zimbra Flaw Highlights Shrinking Window to Patch (darkreading.com)
• WordlistLoader Delivers Amatera via ClickFix, SynkLoader Phishes Windows Passwords (thehackernews.com)
• Foul Language: WordlistLoader Disguises Malware as Ordinary Text (darkreading.com)
• Tricky 'SynkLoader' Multitool May Herald Ransomware (darkreading.com)
• ToxicPanda Banking Trojan Matures Into Enterprise Threat (darkreading.com)
• The Vulnerability Gap: Why Discovery Is Outrunning Repair (darkreading.com)
• GitHub - murerkinn/bookshelf: Self-hosted ebook library that runs on object storage - a Cloudflare Worker over R2, or a Node server over a directory. No database. (github.com)
• The Harness Is the Thing — Scott Fryxell (scott-fryxell.github.io)