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If you’re looking for a solar-powered smartwatch, this Garmin Solar Edition Marine GPS Smartwatch is now 50% off, making it $549, down from $1,099.99—an all-time low price, according to price trackers. When fully charged, it has 37 days of battery life and connects to other compatible Garmin marine devices. In addition to traditional buttons, this smartwatch has a highly responsive touch screen, making it quick and easy to use, and its 1.4 inch display is scratch resistant, so it can take some wear and tear.

Whether you’re trying to figure out the tides or navigate your way through uncharted land, this watch includes built-in sensors for three-axis compass, gyroscope, and a barometric altimeter, so you always know where you are and what the weather has in store for you. When you pair the Garmin Solar Edition Marine GPS Smartwatch with your smartphone, you can access pre-loaded activities like a variety of water and land sports, as well as training features. It also monitors your health through the wrist-based heart rate by tracking your sleep cycles and stress.

With this smartwatch, you'll have thousands of maps to various golf courses and ski resorts at the tip of your fingers and the preloaded TopoActive maps offer access to paths, trails, international borders, and even historical sites. Although not entirely waterproof, it has a water rating of 10 ATM, meaning it can withstand pressure up to 100 meters deep. It allows contactless payments and is Bluetooth enabled.


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If you've been using Gmail to manage multiple email accounts, including third-party addresses, you'll soon have to find an alternative. Google is ending support for the "Send as" feature that allows users to send emails from external services like Hotmail, Yahoo, and Outlook as well as custom domains using their primary Gmail account.

According to Google's support document, "Send as" will be discontinued in January 2027 for Gmail's web and mobile app interfaces. You'll still be able to add third-party accounts on mobile, meaning you can check your email on iOS or Android, but not send messages from those aliases. (Third-party accounts won't sync at all on the web.) Google is also eliminating "Gmailify," which allows you to add Gmail features like spam protection and inbox organization to third-party email accounts, as well as POP fetching on the web. Current users can continue to access these features until January 2027, but new users can no longer add them.

This change does not affect "Send as" for other Gmail or Google Workspace accounts, nor does it impact Gmail access through third-party email clients like Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail if you already have these set up through IMAP or POP. You can also continue to forward messages from third-party providers to Gmail.

One workaround is to send emails directly from the service provider's dedicated website or app. Obviously, managing multiple emails within Gmail is a way to streamline and consolidate disparate addresses into one interface, so this isn't the most convenient option if you have accounts across Outlook, Yahoo, and Google. Google also cautions against third-party tools and browser extensions that promise "Send as" functionality, as these require access to your credentials and may introduce security risks.

Switch to a desktop mail client instead

If consolidation is your goal, your best bet is likely to switch to a desktop mail client and connect your third-party accounts via IMAP/SMTP. There are a handful of options that support multi-account setups, including Gmail addresses, and have "Send as" features. Our friends over at PCMag recommend the following email clients for most users:

  • Apple Mail: For those in the Apple ecosystem, Apple Mail supports any email address and has solid privacy features.

  • Microsoft Outlook: If you're already a Microsoft 365 subscriber and use Outlook, this is an obvious choice. Outlook is also available for free as a standalone app. It works especially well for users who want the ability to separate messages into a Focused inbox.

  • Mozilla Thunderbird: This is a free and open source platform from Mozilla, makers of Firefox. It works with all major email services, but there's currently no iOS app.

These clients also have mobile apps (again, with the exception of Thunderbird on iOS) so you can keep the experience consistent across devices.


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If you have an Android device, you officially have a new app store to try out—the first of likely many to come. Unless you've dabbled in sideloading before, all of the apps on your smartphone or tablet probably came from the Play Store, Google's own app marketplace, or the official app store of your device's manufacturer, e.g., the Samsung Galaxy store. Starting today, however, you can download this new third-party app store from the Google Play Store.

Aptoide Games is Google Play's first third-party app store

As reported by The Verge, starting today, Aug. 10, you can download the "Aptoide Games" app marketplace on your Android directly through the Play Store. Aptoide isn't necessarily new: The company has operated an unofficial app store that you could sideload on your Android before this change, helpful for accessing apps you couldn't find on Google's official store. But now, you're able to install it on your smartphone like any other app from the Play Store.

While today is newsworthy, this development could have happened any time over the past two and a half weeks. Google has actually allowed developers to create and distribute third-party app stores on the Play Store since July 22. That decision wasn't really Google's, however, as the company would likely prefer keeping the Play Store as the only official app marketplace available to most Android users. Instead, the change in policy is the result of an agreement between Google and Epic Games, following years of litigation. Epic Games, maker of Fortnite, has long fought both Google and Apple in court, claiming the companies had unfair controls over app marketplaces.

While not all of Epic Games' suits have been fruitful, the company has certainly succeeded: A judge found Google had an illegal monopoly over Android applications and needed to open up its platform to third-party options. Google fought the ruling, then tried to compromise with Epic Games to allow for third-party app stores—just not through the Play Store. The company rather abruptly changed course, however, and agreed to host third-party app stores on the Play Store.

While app marketplaces like Aptoide Games are now allowed on the Play Store, they have to operate under some specific rules set out by Google, especially as it pertains to security, privacy, and user safety. They can distribute their own apps, as well as apps found on the Play Store, but they must pay Google certain fees to maintain the overall integrity of the platform.

Aptoide might be the first, but it won't be the last. Expect Epic Games to launch its own app store imminently, seeing as it was the company leading this charge in the first place. But more app marketplaces will likely follow suit.


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The EU’s fight to regulate AI models entered a new chapter on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act.

AI Act violation report

The AI Act is the EU’s law regulating AI, the first broad legal framework of its kind. It creates a common set of rules for AI systems used or sold in the EU, with the goal of encouraging innovation while protecting people’s safety and fundamental rights.

In recent weeks, we’ve witnessed powerful AI models managing to breach systems despite oversight. An OpenAI benchmark model escaped its sandbox and breached Hugging Face’s infrastructure hunting for test answers.

Then, on 30 July, Anthropic disclosed that three of its Claude models had breached real organizations during cybersecurity evaluations, after a misconfiguration left supposedly isolated test environments with live internet access.

These are precisely the incidents Brussels is trying to get ahead of, and the reason its enforcers now have the power to hold the world’s largest AI companies accountable. With fines reaching €15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher, the penalties should be enough to get even the largest providers’ attention.

However, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, expects corrective orders to outnumber major financial penalties during the first year of enforcement, drawing a comparison to how GDPR and NIS2 played out early on. He said the bigger risk likely won’t be the fine. It’ll be getting told to stop using a system until compliance can be proven, a disruption he argues could hit harder than a one-time penalty.

To make enforcement work in practice, the AI Office rolled out several tools aimed at individuals and businesses.

Complaints tool

The AI Act complaints tool allows individuals and organizations to report suspected violations by providers or deployers of AI systems under the Office’s authority.

The Commission describes it as a way for people to “support and strengthen the rule of law.”

Complaints must fall within Article 85 of the AI Act, ruling out issues tied to national laws, other EU legislation, or GPAI model obligations covered separately under Articles 53 to 55.

The process is not anonymous. Applicants must submit identification and contact details along with a description of the incident and the country where it occurred, in any official EU language.

Once filed, a complaint receives a reference number, and the AI Office reviews it confidentially, with the option to forward it to a national market surveillance authority if warranted.

Whistleblower Tool

This one is built for people with inside knowledge, engineers, contractors, compliance staff, professionally connected to providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models or of AI systems falling within the AI Office’s enforcement remit, meant to help “make AI in Europe safe, transparent, and trustworthy.”

If you’ve seen something that could endanger fundamental rights, health, or public trust, this is the channel designed for you.

The standout feature is anonymity. You submit your report, in any EU language, through a secure inbox that also lets you track its progress and answer follow-up questions without ever revealing your identity.

Alongside the secure tool, the AI Office has committed to a high standard of confidentiality, with documented internal procedures meant to protect whistleblowers’ identities.

The downstream complaints channel

This channel is narrower and more technical. It’s for downstream providers, companies that build an AI system on top of someone else’s general-purpose AI model, who suspect the underlying model provider has infringed Articles 53 to 55 of the AI Act.

Under Article 89(2), these providers can lodge a complaint with the European Commission.

This concerns obligations for providers of all GPAI models, covering:

  • technical documentation obligations
  • information owed to downstream providers
  • copyright policy
  • publishing a summary of training data
  • incident reporting and cybersecurity
  • risk evaluation for the most advanced, systemic-risk models

To file, you explain why you qualify as a downstream provider, lay out a reasoned case, and attach supporting evidence where you can. The completed and signed form goes by email to the AI Office’s downstream provider complaints address.

Like the general complaints tool, this channel isn’t anonymous, and it isn’t meant for issues that fall under the AI Office’s other complaint routes.

Whether any of this actually takes hold remains to be seen. Most seem to agree that AI models need firmer regulatory oversight, though a smaller share worry it’ll leave European companies falling further behind in the race against American and Chinese rivals.


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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos:

Week in review

Mapping the malware blast radius a single alert won’t show you
In this interview with Help Net Security, Mike Wiacek, founder and CTO of Stairwell, explains Backstory, an AI agent that takes a single alert and works outward to map how far a malware campaign spread. He walks through the research behind the claim that each published sample hides an average of 2.4 undocumented variants, describes what counts as a related variant, and explains why Stairwell keeps every executable that runs on customer endpoints.

Elastic Defend now covers 800+ vulnerable drivers, with automated troubleshooting and ARM support
Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw. That flaw gives them enough room to tamper with memory or disable the security software watching the host.

Analysts got 19 minutes back every hour in Stellar Cyber’s agentic auto triage trials
An analyst opening a queue on Monday morning will spend most of it on tickets that amount to nothing. Stellar Cyber’s Agentic Auto Triage closed 8,047 of those tickets on its own during customer trials, filing them as confident false positives.

OWASP’s subtractive security project measures the attack paths you erased
An attacker who talks a user into opening an attachment gets whatever that machine still permits: a service account with rights across the domain, an outbound route to anywhere, a scripting engine sitting there for the taking. Christopher Frenz wants those capabilities deleted before anyone writes a detection rule for them.

Digital executive protection is a strategic imperative for CEOs
In this interview with Help Net Security, Brian Hill, Field CISO, Client Advisory for BlackCloak, explains how attackers reach companies through the personal lives of executives. He describes a case where a draft report sat in an executive’s personal email with no multifactor authentication, and traders acted on it before the news went public.

What stops attackers wrecking industrial plants is knowing how
Engineers at an Israeli food producer spent most of a week rebuilding a refrigeration system after an intruder switched the gas cooler and receiver valves to manual and pinned them open. Liquid CO2 flooded the compressors and destroyed them. The replacement units did not match the originals, so the whole system had to be reworked and recharged with gas. That incident is one of roughly forty in Kaspersky ICS CERT’s quarterly roundup of attacks on industrial organizations covering the second quarter of 2026.

15 TP-Link Omada vulnerabilities let attackers hijack routers and intercept camera traffic
TP-Link prints Omada router serial numbers on the device and packaging. Because the serials are sequential, guessing one and querying the Omada cloud reveals the device’s MAC address and model. For example, serials starting with 22460J500 map to ER605 routers, while 224608100 identifies ER7206 models. Forescout’s Vedere Labs used this behavior as part of an attack chain, one of several built from 15 vulnerabilities affecting TP-Link’s Omada networking platform.

Code review used to be the only way to catch these bugs
An automated system called NOVA read the source code of 3,915 open-source projects over two months and came back with 14,090 vulnerabilities, each one confirmed through the system’s validation pipeline. Vulnerability researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 built the system and checked its output against the public record afterward.

Pre-auth RCE in enterprise Java hits Bonita and OFBiz servers
A single unauthenticated web request let attackers reach an internal Bonita API and execute code on the server. The flaw affected Bonita BPM, widely used to automate workflows in banking, insurance, and government. Researchers at Novee discovered the pre-auth remote code execution vulnerability and presented their findings at Black Hat USA 2026.

Cloudflare OS goes open source with a record of everything its agents read
Cloudflare open sourced Cloudflare OS, the AI agent platform its employees had been using internally since May. The platform tracked every resource an agent accessed and carried that context into the agent’s outputs. When someone opened the output, Cloudflare OS verified they had permission to access the underlying data before revealing it. For example, a dashboard built from a sensitive database table remained hidden from users who lacked access to that table.

August 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: How do we deal with the patch apocalypse?
July 2026 Patch Tuesday was record-setting in so many ways. The sheer volume of security patches for almost every product in the Microsoft portfolio was the highest ever and, of course, well over 600 CVEs were identified in the Security Updates Guide.

ShieldFont fights AI scraping by handing crawlers the wrong words
Isaque Seneda and Gabriel Abrucio built a web font that draws one set of words on screen and leaves a different set in the page’s source code. A person reading in a browser sees the writing as written. A scraper pulling the HTML gets different words in the same grammar, at the same URL, off the same bytes.

What the first year of EU AI Act transparency enforcement could look like
In this Help Net Security interview, Edwin Weijdema, Field CTO at Veeam, answers questions on Article 50 of the EU AI Act and what the first year of enforcement might bring.

Browser security is where software, data, and AI meet
In this interview with Help Net Security, Rui Ribeiro, CEO of Jscrambler, explains why the browser has become a security problem organizations do not control. Companies do not own the device, the extensions, or the network path, yet that is where application logic, third-party code, customer data, and AI meet during every customer interaction.

Three in four AI-generated vulnerability patches leave something broken
Ask a frontier model to patch a real vulnerability and it often produces code that looks convincing. It resembles a maintainer’s fix and may even pass tests, but researchers at 1Password found that only about one in four patches for six newly disclosed CVEs actually fixed the vulnerability. The rest often addressed only part of the issue or introduced new flaws.

200 accounts compromised in Swiss government’s Microsoft SharePoint breach
Hackers exploited vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint servers belonging to Switzerland’s Federal Office of Information Technology, Systems and Telecommunication (BIT), compromising the login credentials of around 200 accounts.

OpenAI drops ChatGPT text chat limits for free users, adds new safeguards for teens
OpenAI has updated GPT-5.6 Sol, the model behind ChatGPT for Plus and Pro subscribers, and pushed a new model, GPT-5.6 Luna, out to everyone using the free tier.

KindaRails2Shell threatens Ruby on Rails apps (CVE-2026-66066)
A critical security vulnerability (CVE-2026-66066) in Ruby on Rails (aka Rails), one of the most widely used frameworks for building websites and web apps, may allow attackers to read sensitive files off a server and, in some cases, take full control of it.

Attackers exploit N-able N-central flaw to reach managed endpoints (CVE-2026-18577)
Attackers are exploiting an authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-18577) in N-able N-central, a remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution widely used by managed service providers, to gain access to managed endpoints.

Bank of America impersonators weaponize ScreenConnect, then make it hard to remove
A phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America (BoA) is underway, trying to trick Windows users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software and then making it difficult to uninstall it.

AI agent deception moves from theory to reality in UK cyber tests
“During a routine cyber evaluation, AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned action directed at real people and organisations,” UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed on Tuesday. The agents’ actions included an attempted supply-chain attack that saw them create malicious pull requests and try to socially engineer an open-source maintainer into approving the malicious code (they refused).

OWASP 2026 LLM Top 10: “The model will be fooled”
The OWASP GenAI Security Project has released the 2026 edition of its Top 10 for LLM Applications and, for the first time, the list was influenced by real-world incidents. The two top entries – Prompt Injection and Sensitive Information Disclosure – remained constant, but the order shifted more than in past years below them.

Critical Cisco IMC bug gives attackers root, PoC is out (CVE-2026-20200)
Cisco has fixed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-20200) in its Integrated Management Controller (IMC), which allows an attacker to run commands as root through the controller’s web interface. The fix was part of Cisco’s August 5 advisory batch, and unlike the bugs squashed by the hardening releases for IOS XE and SD-WAN, this one has a public proof-of-concept exploit.

AI cut phishing from hours to seconds, which is where DMARC and BIMI come in
In this Help Net Security video, Mike Boyle, VP of Business Units at GMO GlobalSign, and Rahul Powar, CEO and founder of Red Sift, unpack the evolution of email security and why it matters for business trust.

Photos: Black Hat USA 2026 Arsenal
Help Net Security was at Mandalay Bay, where Arsenal ran alongside the Briefings. If you’ve never been, it’s the part of Black Hat that felt least like a conference and most like a workshop: a room full of stations where the people who built the tools stood behind laptops and demonstrated them. Everything on display was open source, and nearly all of it was available to download immediately.

Chinese hacker used DeepSeek to launch autonomous cyberattacks on vulnerable servers
A Chinese threat actor operating under the aliases “knaithe” and “KnYuan” used multiple LLMs to automate cyberattacks against internet-facing systems with limited human intervention. Researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 uncovered the operation after the threat actor’s AI agent misconfigured a file server, inadvertently exposing the entire infrastructure.

Fake IRS letters direct crypto holders to bogus compliance portal
Scammers are sending physical letters to cryptocurrency holders that copy the look of official IRS notices. The letters tell recipients they must enroll in something called a Digital Asset Compliance Portal before a deadline, or risk penalties.

EU begins enforcing AI Act, putting AI models under the microscope
Europe’s fight to regulate AI models moved from paper to practice on 2 August 2026, when the European Commission’s AI Office and national authorities began enforcing the AI Act. On the same date, new transparency rules took effect, requiring certain AI systems to tell users when they’re interacting with AI and when content has been generated or altered by it.

Russian hackers abuse hotel Wi-Fi networks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials and deploy malware
Midnight Blizzard, the Russian threat actor tied to the country’s foreign intelligence service, has spent months targeting users of public Wi-Fi networks at places like hotels and conference centers, according to new findings from Microsoft Threat Intelligence.

AI developers targeted via trojanized GitHub repositories
Cybercriminals are cloning popular GitHub repositories for AI tools and developer resources to distribute an infostealer, according to Netskope Threat Labs. Netskope came across the campaign while tracking a Windows-based MaaS infostealer, first reported in April 2026, that was spread through the ClickFix social engineering trick.

Discounted Claude access bought on the gray market may expose every prompt you send
More than half a dozen services advertised on underground forums and messaging platforms, offering discounted or “unlimited” token access to frontier AI models, were discovered by Okta. The trend is likely driven by Chinese users seeking access to AI models that are unavailable because of regulatory and provider restrictions.

Snowflake hacker pleads guilty, faces up to 32 years in prison
A Canadian man is facing decades in prison for hacking customer accounts at cloud storage provider Snowflake and stealing data from more than 165 organizations.

Buying TikTok followers can expose users to scams and account theft
Buying TikTok followers, likes, or views could do more than inflate engagement metrics. According to Malwarebytes, many services selling social media growth operate through deceptive practices that can expose customers to scams, stolen accounts, and financial loss. The market for artificial social media engagement also creates security risks for both buyers and other platform users.

Product showcase: Guardio Mobile Security turns breach alerts into a recovery plan
Guardio Mobile Security brings several protection features to iPhone and Android, allowing users to monitor exposed personal information, identify phishing attempts, and receive alerts about emerging threats from a single application. It is available on smartphones and tablets, while browser extensions support Chrome and Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktop computers.

SkillSpector: NVIDIA’s open-source security scanner for AI agent skills
SkillSpector is an open-source scanner from NVIDIA that reads an agent skill and tells you whether to install it. Point it at a directory, a zip file, a single SKILL.md, or a Git URL, and it returns a list of findings, a risk score, and recommendations.

OpenAI reveals how criminals used ChatGPT to run scams
OpenAI banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts that likely originated in Cambodia’s Preah Sihanouk province, a region reports have linked to online scam compounds and human trafficking operations. The network used the company’s models to create and manage fake online personas, generate and translate messages sent to scam targets, produce promotional content for fraudulent schemes, and support daily operations.

Qodana 2026.2 adds post-quantum crypto checks for JVM code
Qodana 2026.2 shipped with new security inspections, published benchmark results, post-quantum cryptography checks, and coverage reporting that no longer has to be pointed at the reports.

CISA lays out new guidance for using open-source software
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the Open Source Software: Security Principles and Practices guide, which provides federal agencies with recommendations for managing the security of open source software, contributing to OSS projects, and evaluating open source AI systems.

Microsoft shortens NuGet API key lifetime to improve supply chain security
Microsoft is reducing the lifetime of new NuGet.org API keys from 365 days to 30 days starting August 17, 2026, to improve the security of NuGet, its package repository for .NET developers. API keys created before August 17 will remain valid until November 1, after which developers will need to generate new keys or switch to NuGet Trusted Publishing.

Uptime Kuma 2.5.0 waits two weeks before trusting a new npm package
Uptime Kuma checks whether a website, a Docker container, a DNS record, or a Steam game server is still answering, and pushes a message to Telegram, Slack, or email when one stops. The change with the widest reach in version 2.5.0 is that the project now sets a 14-day cooldown on npm updates to minimize supply-chain attacks.

Your enterprise AI footprint is about three times bigger than your model list
Organizations are building AI systems that combine models, agents and external tools instead of relying on standalone AI, according to Snyk’s latest State of Agentic AI Adoption report. The study analyzed 3,044 enterprise environments and 1.39 million code repositories to examine how enterprises are deploying AI.

Future AGI: Open-source platform for shipping self-improving AI agents
Future AGI is an open-source platform for tracing, evaluating, simulating, and guardrailing LLM agents, licensed Apache 2.0 and self-hostable. Self-hosted instances register with Future AGI on first boot and send an instance ID, a version string, a deployment type, and the email addresses and domains of active admin users.

Cloudflare gives AI agents wallets with built-in spending controls
Cloudflare’s Wallets will give AI agents running on its platform a human-readable wallet handle for paying APIs and online content within limits set by their creator. Handle reservations have opened, while the service will become available in the coming months. It will include two types of digital wallets: Account Wallets and Virtual Wallets.

INTERPOL flags AI as the new engine of African cybercrime
Africa’s growing digital economy is exposing governments, businesses and internet users to a rising wave of cybercrime. The continent recorded more than 1.1 billion mobile subscriptions and over $1.1 trillion in digital transactions in 2025, while more than 570 million people relied on the internet for banking, government services, healthcare and education.

Top product launches at Black Hat USA 2026
Black Hat USA 2026 took place in Las Vegas, where vendors used the event to unveil technologies they hoped would shape the next year of cybersecurity. Here were the announcements that drew the most attention, and why they mattered for teams evaluating new security investments.

Non-human identities are 91% of everything active in production
A backup job fires at two in the morning. A scanner walks the same AWS account an hour later, a deployment pipeline assumes a role at four, and a logging agent runs straight through the night. Each of those actions carries a credential issued to a machine.

Suppliers, logins, and AI tools are all becoming attack paths
Cybercriminals and state-backed hacking groups are abusing trusted identities, cloud services, AI tools, and software supply chains to gain access while avoiding detection, according to CrowdStrike’s 2026 Threat Hunting Report.

Microsoft extends zero trust deeper into enterprise AI
Microsoft expanded its Zero Trust for AI strategy with updates to the Zero Trust Assessment tool and the Zero Trust Workshop. The additions help organizations assess security posture, prioritize remediation, and apply zero trust principles to AI agents and AI-assisted software development.

Product showcase: Material unifies Google Workspace email, file & OAuth defense
Here’s an uncomfortable truth: the attack that gets you probably won’t look like an attack. It’ll look like a normal login, file share, or permission request. Phishing, data loss, and OAuth abuse aren’t isolated problems, they’re different ways attackers exploit the same cloud workspace. Material Security secures Gmail, Drive, identities, and third-party apps as one surface, not four separate ones.

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: August 4, 2026
We’ve scoured the market to bring you a selection of roles that span various skill levels within the cybersecurity field. Check out this weekly selection of cybersecurity jobs available right now.


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While there are plenty of new speaker releases to get excited about this summer, there’s nothing like a tried-and-true, well-rounded option from a reliable brand. The JBL Charge 6 is exactly that. Designed to survive everything from pool parties to camping trips and beach adventures, a brand-new unit is currently 35% off on Woot, bringing it to an all-time low of $129.95 (originally $199.95), according to price trackers.

With an IP68 rating, it’s fully waterproof, dust-proof, and drop-proof (surviving up to three feet), making it nearly invincible for all kinds of shenanigans. The 34-watt-hour battery lasts up to 24 hours, and you get an extra 4 hours with its Boost mode on, though you will sacrifice a bit of bass in exchange. It also acts as a power bank for other devices, letting you charge a phone or tablet. The speaker weighs 3 pounds and has a convenient handle looped through either end for carrying, 

Controls are located on the top, and the companion app is relatively simple, with a few EQ presets and a seven-band custom EQ. PCMag, which gave the Charge 6 an "Excellent" rating, calls the sound “surprisingly punchy” with “substantial bass, even at low volume.” The review notes that it delivers booming volume while maintaining clarity and balance, and that the sound holds up well outdoors.

If you want a loud, portable speaker that doubles as a charger and delivers superior sound despite its relatively compact size, the JBL Charge 6 speaker is your best bet, and at a record-low price, it’s worthy of your attention. Keep in mind that on Woot, shipping is free for Amazon Prime members and $6 for non-members, and products come with a limited 90-day warranty.

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Futurama has been one of the smartest and funniest TV shows for so long, it’s managed to get canceled and brought back several times. It’s easy to see why: Every single episode is jam-packed with jokes, and those jokes range from the incredibly stupid to jokes based on science that about four people in the world understand (and they all work in the Futurama writer’s room, apparently). Its bent vision of the future of the universe is always a delightfully deranged adventure, and if you’re looking to bring a little more of that vibe into your life (and you’ve already binged the hilarious TV shows in that category), you should absolutely watch Idiocracy immediately.

Why you should watch Idiocracy after Futurama

Idiocracy and Futurama share a fundamental premise: A man of average intelligence is frozen, wakes up in the far future, and has adventures. In Futurama, Philip J. Fry (Billy West) fits right in with the ludicrous sci-fi universe he finds himself in; but in Idiocracy, Soldier Joe Bauers (Luke Wilson) emerges from hibernation five centuries later to discover that humanity has regressed so drastically he is now the smartest man on Earth—by a long shot. And if you’re thinking that Futurama played around very specifically with that premise, you’d be right—in season 3, episode 7, “The Day the Earth Stood Stupid,” floating alien brains use a beam of energy to turn humanity stupid—but the beam doesn’t affect Fry, because—stay with me here—he is his own grandfather and thus lacks a crucial “delta wave” in his brain function, leaving him briefly the smartest human on the planet.

Idiocracy is more a tightly focused satire than Futurama, using its premise to mock modern problems and behaviors, but it’s very much on the same wavelength as the show. Just like the show, Idiocracy has loads of hilarious jokes about consumerism and how we’re all manipulated by advertising and marketing tricks, and the film is populated by the kinds of ridiculous characters fans of the show will recognize and love—like Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews), the deeply stupid and incredibly violent President of the United States (whose hair is a character unto itself in this movie).

Like Fry often does, Joe finds himself responsible for saving the day despite being, well, pretty average in most ways. Exasperated by the dumbness all around him (this is a future America where the death penalty involves monster truck demolition derbies, the Supreme Court has been renamed the Extreme Court, and an energy drink called Brawndo is used for literally everything from medicine to crop irrigation), Joe plods along, doing his best, and (again, just like Fry) eventually scores a win.

For fans of Futurama, there’s no better choice for movie night. Rent Idiocracy on Prime Video.

More movies that fans of Futurama should watch

Need more to watch? The obvious choice would be the actual Futurama films that were released—Bender’s Big Score (2007), The Beast with a Billion Backs (2008), Bender's Game (2008), and Into the Wild Green Yonder (2009). You can find them on Hulu as part of their Futurama collection, but the movies have been cut into episode-length slices. You can also buy each movie individually on Prime Video.

But if you’ve already watched the Futurama movies (and you probably have), here are a few more movies that aren’t Futurama but offer a similarly wacky sci-fi experience.

Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989)

As a sci-fi series, Futurama has played around with actual time travel several times, so Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure is the perfect movie for fans of the show. In San Dimas, California, in 1989, Bill Preston (Alex Winter) and Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves) are slacker high school students in danger of failing history—which would have dire consequences for the rather utopian future of humanity. A man named Rufus (George Carlin) is sent back in time to help by giving them access to a time machine—and hilarious shenanigans ensue. Stream Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure on Tubi or rent it on Prime Video.

Spaceballs (1987)

Futurama’s writers love a good movie parody—they’ve hit Willy Wonka, Armageddon, Animal House, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest among many others. So one of the best parodies of one of our most cherished sci-fi franchises is the perfect follow-up to the show. It’s a Mel Brooks joint, so obviously this send-up of all things Star Wars (original trilogy only) can lean into the juvenile side, but it remains a demented takedown of a foundational science fiction universe. Plus, the long-awaited sequel is due in 2027, so a refresher is in order. Stream Spaceballs on Fubo or rent it on Prime Video.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (2005)

In a lot of ways, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy crawled so Futurama could walk. While this film, based on Douglas Adams’ original book, isn’t as pop-culture focused as Futurama, it has the same spirit of dizzy sci-fi craziness, from poetry as a torture device to an Infinite Improbability Drive that warps and bends reality every time it’s used. There are bizarre aliens, smart observations about the nature of our existence, and a rumination on the fundamental importance of towels. Rent The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy on Prime Video.

WALL-E (2008)

Futurama is funny, but it’s also very sweet-natured—Philip J. Fry may not be the brightest guy, but he means well, and the Planet Express crew almost always does the right thing. WALL-E has that same spirit while also hilariously lampooning modern life, giving us both an adorable, lonely robot marooned on an environmentally ruined Earth and a vision of humanity’s very fleshy, lazy, and kind of dumb future if we don’t change our ways. Stream WALL-E on Disney+ or rent it on Prime Video.

Megamind (2010)

If you love the rapid-fire gags in Futurama and enjoy the absurdity of wildly impractical technology, you’ll love Megamind. A parody of superhero stories, the film follows two alien babies who are sent ot Earth, Superman-style, when their worlds are destroyed. One becomes arch-villain Megamind (Will Ferrell), the other hero Metro Man (Brad Pitt), who battle each other until Megamind finally gets the drop on his rival, killing Metro Man—and deleting all meaning from his life in the process. With stuff like dehydration guns and realistic holographic disguises, Megamind riffs on sci-fi tropes in ways that Futurama fans will love. Stream Megamind on Peacock or rent it on Prime Video.


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