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The fallout has continued for Good Good Golf.

The bodycam footage from the arrest of 49ers owner Jed York was released Wednesday. York was pulled over by police in a rental vehicle when he tried to meet with a prostitute at an Ohio trailer park. He allegedly arranged on a known prostitution website to have sex with a woman for $160. Body camera...

Moscow is refusing to halt attacks on peaceful food shipments leaving Ukraine, that could mean famine in the developing world and high food prices everywhere — unless the US acts.

"When we started going door to door two weeks ago, that’s when the fines started," Garcia told The Post, saying some have been served with penalties as stiff as $1,000. "The owners don’t speak English."

OpenAI's cyber agents banded together to perform a hack during a security test.

Another Major Russian Refinery Up In Flames As Diesel Nears Historic Highs

On Wednesday Ukrainian forces struck a Wildberries facility deep inside of Russian territory for the second time this summer.

The warehouse in the central Tambov region city of Kotovsk was first targeted in July, but this time the large complex has been "completely" destroyed in the resulting fire, Governor Yevgeny Pervyshov confirmed.

Wildberries plant burns. @exilenova_plus/Telegram

The city's mayor, Alexey Plakhotnikov, wrote on social media that "A massive fire at the Wildberries warehouse complex, smoke and smog are quickly spreading throughout the city."

He urged residents to shelter in place as a massive black cloud of smoke has reached high into sky, and enveloped the city and its environs.

"To avoid carbon monoxide poisoning and combustion products, I strongly urge you to refrain from active movement around the city for the next two days. Keep your windows and balconies closed," he instructed.

Regional media recounts of the same site, "The Ukrainian Armed Forces previously attacked the Wildberries logistics center in Kotovsk. On July 18, seven employees were killed and 23 more were hospitalized."

At this point over a dozen key Wildberries logistics hubs have been hit. The online retailer is considered to be the Amazon of Russia, but Ukraine has argued it is assisting the Russian military with supplies and so is fair game for targeting. The latest overnight drone onslaught across Russia killed three people overnight.

Ukraine also struck Russia's NORSI oil refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod region in the overnight attack. It is a Lukoil refinery that is one of the most important in Russia, and Ukraine's military says it is now up in flames.

President Zelensky is vowing to keep up these punishing long-range drones strikes, but also as residents of the Ukrainian capital brace for potential Russian ballistic missiles.

Regional unconfirmed reports say the Norsi complex has suffered a forced shut down as diesel prices soar near all time highs. DropSite News reviews of the significance:

• Ukraine’s General Staff said its forces struck Lukoil’s Kstovo (NORSI) refinery in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod region about 250 miles east of Moscow.
• It is Russia’s 4th-largest oil refinery and 2nd-largest gasoline producer, and can process roughly 125 million barrels annually, or about 320,000–340,000 barrels per day. The strike sparked a fire and forced the refinery to suspend crude oil processing, according to Reuters.
• U.S. retail diesel prices meanwhile have surged near historic highs, reaching a national average of $5.62 to $5.65 per gallon. 
• Prices jumped by 20 cents per gallon this week alone, driven by a global supply crunch linked to the Middle East conflict and refinery disruptions there and in Russia. 
• Current diesel prices are nearly $2.00 per gallon higher than they were at this time last year. 

While there's still yet to be official Kremlin confirmation of the Norsi refinery attack and destruction, videos like the below have been spreading quickly online:

🔥 15 to 17 million metric tons.

That's the annual crude throughput at Lukoil's NORSI refinery in Kstovo, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, which is now burning after local Telegram channels and residents reported an air raid alert, drones overhead, and then a drone strike overnight.… pic.twitter.com/t5kwRxEbGA

— Jack Prandelli (@jackprandelli) August 26, 2026

"The war must return to where it came from. Ukraine responds to Russian strikes, and we do so in a way that ensures the cost of the war for the aggressor inevitably rises." Zelensky wrote in a post on X.

Tyler Durden Wed, 08/26/2026 - 18:00

Chipmaker's $96bn quarter beat forecasts as demand for AI hardware continues to accelerate.

Israel Developing Offensive Space Capabilities

Authored by Ioannis Vlahos via Antiwar.com,

Israel is currently prepared to begin development of offensive space capabilities, including systems designed to defend Israeli satellites from hostile spacecraft, and weapons (including lasers) capable of striking targets from space.

It is part of the Defense Ministry's multiyear budget plan for the space sector, which will include upgrading and expanding IDF (Israel Defense Forces) intelligence and communications capabilities. The plan will also dedicate a budget to support offensive space operations, which will focus on weapons designed to protect Israeli satellites as well as weapons designed to strike targets on Earth.

Defense Minister Israel Katz spoke earlier this summer about Israel's commitment to becoming the world leader in space-attack capabilities, a realm of warfare that has experienced a surge in Israeli military interest given its extensive use for intelligence gathering in Iran.

"One of the central goals that the prime minister [Benjamin Netanyahu] and I set is that we are recruiting the best minds," he said. "As of today, no country has the ability to mount attacks in space. We must be the leading country in the world with this capability."

"If we achieve this, it will ensure the advantage of deterrence, of the ability to attack, destroy, and all of the other matters versus our enemies with large resources."

Global space warfare development has been on the rise in recent years, and some speculate that Israel's recent activity is an effort to catch up with China and Russia, who have been testing their own offensive space capabilities. US President Donald Trump has also expressed his desire for America to do the same, by signing Executive Order 14369, "Ensuring American Space Superiority."

However, experts warn that Israel and others' offensive space weapon programs have increased proliferation concerns. Satellite miniaturization, falling launch costs, and the commercialization of the space industry have also allowed more countries to create their own space programs, and not all of them are peaceful. Furthermore, space weaponry not only threatens satellites and other non-military technologies operating in space, but the growing prevalence of and reliance on the latter will make cyberattacks all the more dangerous.

Tyler Durden Wed, 08/26/2026 - 17:40

Observations from Wednesday's Giants practice.

The arrest of San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York on Sunday was captured on police bodycam.

The deal has been reached during a California federal court trial over claims brought by US states.

Mayor Zohran Mamdani stubbornly insisted the Big Apple will still collect $500 million through the new pied-à-terre tax — despite his own officials slashing the number of properties that could be hit with the levy by 4,000. “We continue to be confident in that assessment of what the annual revenue will look like,” Mamdani told...

"New York State is like a giant rushing river and there’s a very thin dam holding them back right now."

The NFL Pro Bowl is going the way of the dodo.

Chinese Hackers Broke Into NASA, Federal Reserve, DOJ & Senate: FBI Announces

The United States Department of Justice has on Wednesday announced US authorities thwarted a major state-sponsored hack which saw a temporary intrusion into NASA, the Federal Reserve, Senate, the DOJ, Department of Energy, and the Department of Health and Human services, along with four unnamed companies in the US and South Korea.

"Today we announced the disruption of a global botnet and hacking platform used by Chinese state-sponsored hackers to target U.S. critical infrastructure," said FBI Director Kash Patel.

"These tools were used by PRC cyber actors to hide the origin of their attacks. Thanks to the work of FBI San Diego, FBI Cyber Division, and DOJ partners, we seized adversary infrastructure and shut these platforms down," he added.

via Reuters

Domains utilized by two hacking platforms identified as "QScan" and "QTRouter" were seized by the DOJ in the large scale counter-cyberespionage operation.

Describing a pervasive botnet which was ultimately believed to be backed by Chinese state actors, The Wall Street Journal details that the "goal was to blend in with legitimate networking traffic, making the hacking activity hard to trace, federal officials say."

"The group exploited software vulnerabilities to launch cyberattacks against U.S. government agencies, power companies and hospital systems, and operated a worldwide network of hacked devices—known as a botnet—to conduct its hacking campaigns, according to Brett Leatherman, the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s top cyber official," WSJ continues.

As for the specific allegation that this had state backing, the DOJ press release states:

People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored group known as “QTFY,” employed by China-based Nanjing Xinjiuwei Network Technology Company, created and operated QScan and QTRouter.

The DOJ announcement additionally outlines efforts at concealment and 'plausible deniability' in the following:

QTRouter consists of these compromised IoT devices, as well as commercial proxy service devices and leased virtual private servers. QTRouter then serves as an “obfuscation network” – meaning it allows QTFY and other malicious cyber actors to conceal the PRC-origin of their computer intrusion activities because the malicious communications appear to originate from computers (such as those compromised by QScan) that are outside of the PRC and may even be local to the targeted networks. Because the seized domains were hard-coded into both the QScan and QTRouter malware and used for essential tasks such as communication and authentication, the court-authorized seizures made QScan and QTRouter inoperable. 

Neither Beijing's foreign ministry nor the Chinese embassy in Washington have officially responded to the allegations, and as has been the pattern in the past is likely to reject the US charge altogether.

Earlier this year Google was among those warning of imminent stepped-up Chinese and Russian targeting of US defense companies. 

Google's prior report seemed to preview some of the techniques on display in this latest hack. The report cited observations of "more China-nexus cyber espionage missions directly targeting defense and aerospace industry than from any other state-sponsored actors over the last two years."

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"But the hallmark of many operations has been their exploitation of edge devices to gain initial access," it said, referring to hardware components positioned at the edge of a network. "We have also observed China-nexus threat groups leverage ORB networks for reconnaissance against defense industrial targets, which complicates detection and attribution."

Tyler Durden Wed, 08/26/2026 - 17:20

The recall affects Kia EV9 electric SUVs from the 2025 and 2026 model years.

It’s no secret that the 2026 College Football Season is a make-or-break year for Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans. With so much pressure facing the Trojans, college football analyst RJ Young said he believes this year’s USC team is a “sleeper” to win the National Championship. “I think we should be paying attention to...

US Attorney Leah Foley says police arrested Massachusetts state Rep. Francisco Paulino early Wednesday morning.

Mark Zuckerberg and Co. are implementing landmark restrictions as part of a massive settlement, and they're urging Snap, TikTok and YouTube to follow suit.

Gov. Gavin Newsom ripped Solano County officials for stalling California Forever’s shipyard — while throwing his weight behind its billionaire backers.