Daily Tech News 3 September 2026

• A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security)
  
  They advertised this with a photo of the drivers license of a certain... Brian Krebs.
  
  Uh.
  
  And he followed up by asking 10 friends to see if their redacted data was in the list. Nine times out of ten, it was.
  
  How did this happen? We may never know. Oh.

  Here's where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother's drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That's notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.

  Oops.
  
  So Hertz got hacked?
  
  Nothing so pleasant.

  Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.

  Not Hertz it would appear, but, the company that Hertz uses to verify IDs.

  Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.

  The birdbath is on fire.

• AI datacenter investment is projected to hist $32 trillion by 2050. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The future belongs to electricians.
  
  
  
• The Acer Veriton RI110 looks like a very nice mini PC. (Liliputing)
  
  Price not mentioned. It will not be cheap.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's new Legion Y700 Infinite is the ultimate small Android tablet right now. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's the premium version of the generation 5 model of the tablet that I bought generation 3 of recently. Better, yes, but not worth four times the price.
  
  
  
• Is this the future of America? (The Verge)
  
  Loudoun County? I fucking hope not. I live in Australia and I already know too much of that place.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:55 AM

| Access Comments