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Your Driverless Cab Is Spying on You
Self-driving cars from Waymo, Zoox, and Tesla are studded with cameras and sensors. Some of them are pointing at riders.
WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the inje
Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report
The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spread
Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
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Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories
This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is t
The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
The founder’s guide to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026: Everything you need to know
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is built around one question: How do you build an enduring company in the AI era? Our programming and speaker lineup reflect that.
The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin on October 6 and 7, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.
Star Wars: Galactic Racer is my childhood podracing dream come true
The podracing scene in The Phantom Menace is one of my favorite movie sequences ever. It's just so dang cool: The futuristic racers tear over treacherous Tatooine terrain while various Star Wars aliens bark at each other in incomprehensible sci-fi languages. Eventually a young An
Robotaxi operators will face fines for blocking first responders
A new California law places new rules on autonomous vehicles operators
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when
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Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers
Today, gig economy drivers are classified as contractors. This settlement clears up a lingering lawsuit from 2020 when that was still an unanswered issue.
Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of Mandiant, has a new startup that is using agent swarms to test and protect enterprises.
If a data center is camouflaged in the woods, will anyone hate it?
San Antonio City Councilmember Ric Galvan remembers when data centers first arrived in his city in the 2000s, looking like relatively unassuming office buildings. But that's changed in recent years, as data centers have grown into massive "hyperscale" facilities spanning millions
Election Deniers Think the GOP’s Terrible Midterm Polling Is a ‘Psyop’
Dozens and dozens of high profile MAGA influencers and pundits have weighed in. “The laughable fake polls are rolling out,” Catturd posted on X.
Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286
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Best Smart Cat Trackers of 2026: Fi Mini vs. Tractive
After months of monitoring Basil’s activity and sleep, I found that Fi and Tractive cat trackers come with their own trade-offs.
Apple’s reportedly developing a smart home camera that doesn’t record video
Apple's rumored push into smart home tech could include a smart home security camera that only gives users text event descriptions instead of video footage. Mark Gurman said in the first episode of the Power On podcast that the camera will be part of "a new Apple smart home ecosy
Android 17 Advanced Protection Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Accessibility Tools
Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for m
Amazon writes scary blog warning communities not to block data centers
Amazon is calling for people to support AI data center projects, or risk irreparable harm to the US economy and national security. In a more than 3,000 word blog posted today, Amazon web services CEO Matt Garman pushed back on public concerns around the impact that data centers m
Amazon Says It's No Longer Using NDAs for Data Centers
The company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledges community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country.
AI music maker Suno now generates spoken words
Suno is branching out from the world of AI music, launching a new feature that generates spoken voices based on scripts or prompted descriptions. Speech is now available in public beta across Suno's web and mobile platforms, and allows you to simultaneously generate voiceovers an
AI hallucinations are making entitled customers even worse
Madison, a server in New York City, greets every table by asking about each diner's allergies. Lately, there have been some close calls. "Sometimes people will tell me they have a shellfish allergy, and I'll come back, and they won't ask me any questions," says Madison, who asked
A Flaw in ChatGPT’s Mac App Could Have Let Hackers Grab Sensitive Data
While the focus has been on AI agents’ hacking capabilities, a recently patched vulnerability in a ChatGPT app shows that AI software is itself an inviting—and vulnerable—target.
WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the inje
What’s the Best Kindle of 2026 (So Far)?
I’ve tested every single Kindle. Here’s how Amazon’s ebook readers stack up.
Whatever AI Safety Is, It’s Not This
Asking AI companies to self-regulate is a great way to pretend like you’ve accomplished something.
Vivo’s X Fold 6 accidentally feels like a throwback
It's a quirk of the release calendar that when Vivo's X Fold 6 launched in China this June, it was just another foldable. Now that it's ready for its global release, the size and aspect ratio feel oddly old-fashioned. The X Fold 6 is much the same size as Vivo's previous foldable
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Trump’s ‘Morally Binding’ AI ‘Accord,’ the Rise of AI Agents, and Extremists on the Ballot
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss the voluntary AI safety agreement tech executives signed, AI agents for normies, and extremist candidates running for office in the US midterms.
Tim Heidecker Is Bringing His Joe Rogan Parody Show to The Onion
Five years after the comedian went viral with a 12-hour blabberthon mocking the king of bro podcasting, he’s back in character to shill a supplement called “Crab Salts.”
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories
This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is t
ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories
This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful f
This very fancy e-bike is one of the first to go semi-solid state
The Lemmo 3 is the first cargo bike from the respected German e-bike maker. This premium, step-through longtail is a slightly less insane take on Rivian's Also TM-B, with one major advantage: It's one of the first electric bikes to feature a semi-solid state battery. Semi-solid s
This startup wants to turn idle user car inventory into rental revenue
When Igor Dobrianskyi looks at a car dealership lot, he doesn't see rows of cars — he sees millions of dollars just sitting there, depreciating, while people who only need a car for a few months are stuck paying too much for too little choice, so he built MyMonthlyCar, a platform that lets dealers r
The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
The Real Threat to the Midterms Is Regular Americans Thinking Violence Is the Answer
Robert A. Pape, a leading authority on political violence, wants Americans to understand that the threat is coming not from the fringes, but from the mainstream.
The People of Utah vs. Kevin O’Leary
On the morning of May 11th, the celebrity investor Kevin O’Leary appeared on Fox Business and announced that he was under attack by Chinese agents. For weeks, he had been going on TV and posting online to tout his project, called Wonder Valley, after his nickname from the reality
The Pentagon taps Elon Musk and Palmer Luckey to help decide what the military should do next
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth just launched a 120-day study on the future of warfare, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich, and while it makes sense given their ties to the administration, critics could point out that Musk's and Luckey's companies already sell the kinds of technology
The new and huger Paramount has a new co-CEO
Paramount is appointing a new co-CEO ahead of the close of its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Ynon Kreiz, previously Mattel's chairman and CEO, will be joining Paramount to lead alongside chairman and CEO David Ellison. According to Paramount, "Ellison will focu
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
Steam Deck 2: Is AMD Gainsborough the chip Valve’s been waiting for?
The Steam Deck is four and a half years old, and handheld gamers are eagerly awaiting a Steam Deck 2 - but Valve has consistently said it needs a new chip with a "generational leap" in performance and efficiency before building the sequel. There's some reason to believe that chip
Sony brings AI graphics upscaling to the regular PS5
Sony is launching a new AI upscaling technology specifically for the regular PS5. The new tech, called Quick Spectral Super Resolution (QSSR), is a "new performance tier of AI upscaling" that's a result of Sony's Project Amethyst work with AMD, according to a blog post. Sony says
Satlyt, founded by a former Google and SpaceX product manager, raises $8M to run AI on satellites
Satlyt wants to be the Android of orbital computing, offering open software that works on many companies' satellites, versus SpaceX's closed, all-in-one iPhone-style approach.
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when
Opus 5.5 loves to tell you ‘this matters’ (and other AI writing tells)
Opus 5.5’s biggest tell is the word “dependable,” which pops up 23 times more often than in human samples.
OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates
OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A "core cluster of the activity," going back to the first week of July, has been attri
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Noise from Universal’s latest ride made rich locals furious, fast
Universal Studios Hollywood has pledged to erect another sound barrier around its latest attraction after local residents complained about the bloodcurdling screams from riders. In a meeting attended by at least 350 people yesterday, park execs also promised that Fast & Furious:
Musk’s AI chatbot Grok reportedly encouraged Trump to capture Venezuela’s president
President Trump reportedly asked for Grok's opinion before invading Venezuela and capturing Nicolás Maduro.
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MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators
MetaMask on Thursday said it's responding to what it described as an "ongoing security incident" impacting part of its infrastructure. "We are actively addressing and remediating the issue internally, in coordination with external partners and security advisors," the software cryptocurrency wallet
Measles Is Forcing Hospitals to Adapt to a New Normal
The US resurgence of measles is forcing hospitals and health systems to adopt new protocols and procedures to deal with a disease they thought was in the past.
Lyft is paying $272.5M to settle lawsuit over how it classified drivers
Today, gig economy drivers are classified as contractors. This settlement clears up a lingering lawsuit from 2020 when that was still an unanswered issue.
Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation
Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of Mandiant, has a new startup that is using agent swarms to test and protect enterprises.
Judge dismisses antitrust lawsuits over Google’s AI Overviews
A federal judge has dismissed a pair of antitrust lawsuits filed by Chegg and Rolling Stone parent company Penske Media Corporation, which accused Google of driving away web traffic with its AI-powered search features, as reported earlier by Reuters. US District Judge Amit Mehta
Huawei made a whole camera to attach to its latest phone
Over the last few years, Chinese Android manufacturers have followed Vivo's example of launching add-on "teleconverter" lenses for their flagship phones, enabling long-distance photography that the phones on their own could never match. Today, Huawei one-upped everybody with the
How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain
Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing.
Google thinks SpaceX’s Starship has to launch 1,800 times before space data centers get off the ground
Google launched its first advanced chip into orbit to pave the way for space data centers.
Google’s new Guided Vision feature can help you read the fine print
Guided Vision is launching in Gemini Live on compatible Android devices today to use AI to give real-time audio descriptions of anything you point your phone's camera at. By sharing your camera in Gemini Live, you can have Google's AI help with things like reading small text, des
Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version
Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. "It delivers frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world softwa
Google releases Gemini 4 Argon, called its most powerful model yet
Google has released its latest Gemini model, marketing it as a workhorse for coding and cybersecurity work.
Factory CEO just accused his VC board adviser of spying for Cognition
VC Chris Degnan and former board adviser to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for competitor Cognition -- and everyone is arguing on X about it.
Experience What It’s Like to Travel in the Occupied West Bank
Traverse barriers and checkpoints in the occupied West Bank—your choices reflect the reality of nearly 3.5 million Palestinians who live there.
Elon Musk’s Grokipedia has a ‘newly refreshed’ design
Grokipedia, SpaceXAI's AI-powered competitor to Wikipedia, recently started incorporating edits again, and today, it got some design tweaks as part of a v0.3 update, including a new logo and refreshes to its homepage and live edits page. SpaceXAI head of design Benji Taylor calls
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Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue's Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR) team, which analyzed the explo
Cisco Warns of Attackers Exploiting Critical Authentication Bypass in SD-WAN Manager
Attackers are exploiting a new critical zero-day flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the system companies use to manage their Cisco SD-WAN networks, Cisco said in an advisory on September 30. The flaw, CVE-2026-76504, could allow a remote attacker with no login access to use the Manage
CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as
ChatGPT can now virtually try on clothes for you
OpenAI is rolling out new shopping features for ChatGPT that let users virtually try on clothing and accessories using their own photos and save products they like to a Favorites library.
Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. "Their investigation identified malicious activity involving third-party security
Best Wi-Fi Routers (2026): My Honest Picks After Testing 50+
Don’t suffer the buffer. These WIRED-tested home routers will deliver reliable internet across your home, whatever your needs or budget.
Best Gifts for Parents (and Their Babies): Bottle Washers, Prepared Meals, and More
If your friend is in the depths of newborn survival, these gifts and gadgets can go a long way to make parenting a little easier.
Attackers Exploit Zimbra Flaw to Deploy Web Shells and Harvest Authentication Secrets
Threat actors have weaponized a now-patched security flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to deploy web shells and access mailbox data, according to findings from the Microsoft Security Research team. The attack exploits CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), an unauthenticated operating system comm
Attackers Abuse MSP360 to Deploy ScreenConnect in Dual-RMM Phishing Attacks
Microsoft has warned of phishing campaigns distributing an installer for the MSP360 Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software under the guise of meeting invitations, PDF-themed lures, software update prompts, and other social-engineering content. "Once executed, the legitimate MSP360 installe
Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path
Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font that crashes unpatched
Android Central ‘will continue’ despite laying off its staff
Android Central, a blog focused on the Android ecosystem, laid off its staff yesterday, but owner Future confirms to The Verge that the site will continue publishing. Yesterday, four of the six staffers on Android Central's staff page posted publicly about the layoffs, including
Amazon releases its own Jev clone as decision models flood the web
Amazon Web Services' Strand Labs has released the latest Jevalike decision model, Strands Decider 2B.
Amazon Kindle, Paperwhite, and Colorsoft 2026: Specs, Price, Release Date
Ahead of the Kindle’s 20th anniversary next year, Amazon is refreshing its entire range of e-readers with fresh colors, an aluminum build, and a new frame design that’s both thinner and lighter.
2 Driverless Cars Crashed Going 155 mph. That Could Be a Good Thing
Only two of five vehicles finished the race around a notoriously difficult Formula 1 track, exposing what happens when autonomous systems meet blind corners, sensor failures, and physics.
Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies
Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.
Your car and its mobile app are probably handing over all kinds of data to tech companies
Researchers at Northeastern University found vehicles and their companion apps regularly shared detailed data with some of the largest tech companies.
Valor, Atreides, and Sequoia back AI startup Flow Engineering at $750M valuation
Flow Engineering, which is bringing AI agents to hardware design, also landed Roelof Botha as an angel investor and board member.
US-Focused CSuite Phishing Steals Microsoft 365 Sessions and Deploys RMM Tools for Remote Access
ANY.RUN researchers traced a US-focused CSuite phishing campaign across 351 sandbox analyses, with 51% of submissions coming from the United States. Technology, manufacturing, government, and consulting organizations showed the highest exposure. By combining Microsoft 365 session
Two Google alumni raise $11.3M to back AI startups that enterprises will actually pay for
BAG Ventures announces close of a $11.3M Fund I to invest in all things AI.
Trump’s AI Safety ‘Accord’ Is a Fancy Pinky-Swear
Six major AI companies signed a voluntary agreement with the White House this week vowing to implement safeguards. It’s unclear how much that matters.
Trump orders US government to call AI ‘Super Intelligence’
The US executive branch is no longer acknowledging the existence of "artificial intelligence." Going forward, official policy websites, policy documents, and press releases will refer only to "Super Intelligence," thanks to a new executive order signed by President Donald Trump.
There Are Plenty of Reasons to Be Concerned About Bioweapons Development—Even Without AI
In her new book on biological warfare, Annie Jacobsen didn’t even discuss AI because scientists can already warp Mother Nature to create extinction-level events.
The White House Is Starting to Panic Over the Midterms
President Donald Trump still thinks Republicans have a shot. His aides are less convinced.
The ugly economics of consumer AI
There’s a reason frontier labs have gotten gunshy about consumer AI — and it’s not because the tech isn’t good enough.
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
The internet is convinced Elon Musk’s xAI trolled OpenAI’s ‘Dots’ launch
Before OpenAI launched its new AI agent, Dots, on Tuesday, Elon Musk's xAI had already acquired the domain name "dot.com," which now redirects to the Grok chatbot download page.
The Best Gifts for Book Lovers (2026): E-Readers, Handy Accessories, Book Sets
Any one of these gift ideas will make your favorite bookworm very happy, from e-readers and accessories to handy reading essentials.
The Best Gaming Routers (2026): Tested By a Family of Gamers
Gaming online can seriously strain your internet connection, but the best gaming routers could give you the edge.
The Battle to Be Your Personal AI Agent Is Here
OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse are vying to be your AI agent of choice. I've tried both—and I suspect you will too.
The AI Tamagotchis are coming
While AI has made plenty of inroads on people's phones and computers, it's largely failed in dedicated devices. But over the next year, two major AI companies, Meta and OpenAI, will attempt to change that. And they're apparently betting on a similar path: testing appetites for ph
The 6 Best Laptop Docking Stations to Unlock the Full Desktop Experience (2026)
Docking stations expand what your laptop can do, and I’ve been testing the best of the best to see which you should buy.
Sam Altman says OpenAI won’t go public until its models are safe
For months, people have wondered when OpenAI will go public. CEO Sam Altman says it won't happen until the company can make better promises about model safety, with no firm timeline in sight. "We intend to continue with AI progress … but as the models have had this surge forward
Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organizations since J
Reddit says it has to cut back access to ‘Old Reddit’ because of AI bots
Reddit is further limiting who can use the "Old Reddit" experience as part of its efforts to combat scraping and automated traffic. Reddit recently started forcing users to log in to be able to use Old Reddit, but in the "next few months," the company says that you'll have to be
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because of AI bots
Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.
Range Rover Sport Electric: Price, Specs, Availability
By sharing the same platform, the Sport gets the same specs as the classier Range Rover Electric, but with added torque at a smaller outlay.
OpenSSL Fixes High-Severity DTLS Flaw That Can Leak Heap Memory Unencrypted
A High-severity OpenSSL flaw can leak heap memory to the other side of a DTLS connection or crash the program, OpenSSL said on September 29 as it released fixes. DTLS, the TLS variant used for UDP traffic, resends a handshake message if no reply arrives before the timer expires.
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre-v2 varia
Neon sticks it to A24 by announcing a Creative Commons SCP Foundation movie
A24 pissed off one of the internet's largest horror communities when it announced it was working on an SCP Foundation film, but apparently hadn't bothered to contact the SCP Wiki team, nor did it commit to releasing it under a Creative Commons license as required. Seeing an easy
Meta disputes claim that Muse read a user’s private messages without permission
Meta says its Muse AI agent cannot access a user’s Messages without explicit permission, disputing a journalist’s account that the agent read his private messages while the required Mac setting was turned off.
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Know Your Enemy: Browser-Based Attack Techniques in 2026
Given that the browser is where business apps are accessed and used, it makes sense that attacks are happening there too. Most breaches today begin in a browser session. Often, they never leave it, with the entire attack chain from initial access to exfiltration playing out in th
Is Neko Health’s body scan worth it? Spotify billionaire’s startup has come to America
Spotify founder Daniel Ek’s Neko Health raised $700 million to build a business around scanning your body, but it’s not the only company centering its roadmap around a new kind of preventative healthcare. Midjourney is building its own body scanner, while Function Health has also
How Israeli Checkpoints Choke Palestinian Life in the Occupied West Bank
Lost time. Lost jobs. Lost friends. Lost family. Lost lives. Our joint investigation reveals the system that has divided the West Bank and measures what it cost people to move through it.
Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.
Google announces Gemini 4 and says it’s so capable that only ‘trusted cyber defenders’ can have it right now
Google today revealed its next AI frontier model, which it's calling Gemini 4 Argon. The new model delivers "frontier performance in complex workflows across real-world software engineering, enterprise knowledge work like legal and finance, and cybersecurity defense," according t
Furry Airline Pilots Are Just Minding Their Own Business
“We’re furries at home, and we’re airline pilots at work, and these are two separate things,” says one member of the community in response to senator Tommy Tuberville's recent rant.
French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophisticated, the agenc
Factory CEO just accused his VC board advisor of spying for Cognition
VC Chris Degnan and former board advisor to Factory AI has taken a job as chief revenue officer for Cognition.
DoorDash’s drone strategy started on the ground
DoorDash unveiled the six-propeller aircraft that will be used in its new drone delivery business at its annual Dash Forward 2026 event.
Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 Exploit Details Show Pre-Auth Path to Shellcode Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a
Cisco Warns of Attackers Exploiting Critical Authentication Bypass in SD-WAN Manager
Attackers are exploiting a new critical zero-day flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the system companies use to manage their Cisco SD-WAN networks, Cisco said in an advisory on September 30. The flaw, CVE-2026-76504, could allow a remote attacker with no login access to use the Manage
BMW’s revamped i3 boasts up to 468 miles of range
When BMW first announced it was reimagining the i3 as an all-electric four-door sedan built on its Neue Klasse platform, it left out a lot of important details, like battery capacity, range, and price. Today, the German automaker is finally starting to fill in the blanks on the i
Black Twitter Is Thriving—on Threads
From outrage over Nolan Wells’ death to analysis of HBO Max’s Lanterns, Threads has transformed into a vital artery of the Black social media ecosystem.
Best Mattresses for Kids (2026): Saatva, Birch, Helix, and More
Learn what to look for when buying a kids’ mattress, plus how six top models stack up, according to my 2-year-old.
Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point
Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a new wheel system and an improved telescoping handle.
Attackers Exploit Zimbra Flaw to Deploy Web Shells and Harvest Authentication Secrets
Threat actors have weaponized a now-patched security flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to deploy web shells and access mailbox data, according to findings from the Microsoft Security Research team. The attack exploits CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), an unauthenticated operating system comm
Attackers Exploit NetScaler Flaw for Root Access, Deploy WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT
Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a newly patched security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to target organizations in North America and Europe. The activity, observed by Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG
Attackers Abuse MSP360 to Deploy ScreenConnect in Dual-RMM Phishing Attacks
Microsoft has warned of phishing campaigns distributing an installer for the MSP360 Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software under the guise of meeting invitations, PDF-themed lures, software update prompts, and other social-engineering content. "Once executed, the legitimate MSP360 installe
Attackers Abuse ChatGPT Custom GPTs to Deliver RAT via ClickFix Lures
Threat actors are abusing ChatGPT Custom GPTs to disguise them as legitimate product offerings and direct unsuspecting victims to malicious sites that employ ClickFix lures to deliver malware. Huntress, which observed the activity in late September 2026, said it marks the abuse o
Apple’s ‘HomePad’ will reportedly launch on October 13th
Apple's long-rumored smart home hub will reportedly be revealed on October 13th. Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that the smart home device will be revealed alongside a new HomePod mini and an upgraded Apple TV device. All three products are set to showcase Siri AI, Apple's overh
Apple Pay finally launches in India after years on the sidelines
Some of India's largest banks are holding off on supporting Apple Pay initially.
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
America.gov gets really weird when you ask it about Minecraft, but it’s not a glitch
For the sake of national security, it's a relief to learn that America.gov is not hallucinating to the point that it's penning lengthy poetry.
Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’
Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver's smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they're in use, including people and private property. Bloomberg reports that the glasses could take "several thousand captures in a single d
Airbnb adds AI search, more social features
Airbnb is also launching new services such as meal delivery and laundry in select locations
AI Coding Agents Exposed 13,000 Internal Images, Including Billing Records, on GitHub
AI coding agents asked to share screenshots of code changes for review have put internal company images in public GitHub repositories, security company Glow said. Its researchers found more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300 organizations, including customer
A Biotech Founder Makes the Moral Case for Gene-Editing Human Embryos
The practice of editing the genes of embryos remains highly controversial and risky, but Origin Genomics founder Cathy Tie argues its a “moral imperative” to address hereditary diseases.
30% Off Canon Promo Codes | October 2026
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Your car’s data privacy problems are worse than you think
You hear it all the time: Modern cars are basically smartphones on wheels. And just like the phone in your pocket, the car in your driveway collects vast amounts of data - tracking where you drive, how fast you accelerate, how hard you brake, how aggressively you turn, and much m
Will Chinese AI companies slow down? A top House Democrat wants answers
As President Donald Trump prepares to meet tech and AI CEOs in Washington, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) is calling for a treaty between the US and China to keep AI from wreaking havoc on the world. But wrangling leaders in both countries to take action could be a long shot. In letters s
Timnit Gebru Believes There Is No ‘Existential Threat’ From AI
One of AI’s fiercest critics believes the doom talk is about founders making money, not saving humanity.
Tesla secures $30B in new credit lines as it looks to scale Cybercab, Optimus
The company says it won't draw on the new debt facilities this year, as it has already planned at least $25 billion in capital expenditures.
Suspected ShinyHunters leader arrested in the Netherlands
Dutch police say they arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in connection with ShinyHunters, the hacking group that claimed responsibility for high-profile attacks on Ticketmaster, Rockstar Games, and more recently, the FBI. In a press release, Dutch authorities state that they ar
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
Shark and other top air purifier brands are on discount ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days.
Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have affected more than 100 organiz
Razer’s low-latency wireless gaming keyboard is almost half off
Woot has the Razer DeathStalker V2 Pro TKL on sale for $130, a significant discount from its usual $219.99 price point. This keyboard is built for competitive gaming, with a low latency 2.4GHz wireless connection, and low-profile linear optical switches for faster activations tha
Protego Ventures closes debut $125 million fund for Israeli defense tech
Protego Ventures, the first and largest dedicated defense tech VC in Israel, just completed its final $125 million closing, TechCrunch learned exclusively.
Peak XV ups Surge seed investment ceiling to $5M, unveils 18-startup cohort
Thirteen of the 18 startups in Peak XV’s latest Surge cohort are targeting global markets, while more than half are based in India.
OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
OpenAI takes on Microsoft with the launch of what feels a whole lot like ChatGPT’s own office suite
OpenAI's newly announced suite of office features puts it into mor direct competition with more traditional software companies.
OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions
OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "mar
OpenAI’s latest features take direct aim at the app store model
OpenAI is building out the pieces of an alternative to the traditional app store model, turning ChatGPT into a place where software can be discovered and used by people and AI agents alike.
OpenAI’s Dots Are Always-On AI Agents—and Its Answer to Meta’s Muse
These cute agents are designed to connect to your apps and tackle multistep tasks.
OpenAI repotedly in talks to raise $30B round at $1.4T valuation
The new round is anticipated to be the company's last before its delayed 2027 public debut.
OpenAI reportedly ditches model over safety concerns
A top executive at the AI lab told the Wall Street Journal that the model in question had displayed a poor aptitude for following orders.
OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot
OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. "An agent attempting to complete a se
OpenAI launches Dots, its Muse competitor
OpenAI is responding to Meta's buzzy Muse AI with agentic helpers of its own: Dots. During its DevDay keynote on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that Dots will serve as always-on AI assistants that can "do nearly anything" across connected apps in the background while learning your pre
OpenAI Gets Sued Over the Hugging Face Hack
A nonprofit in California is doing what Hugging Face has not—attempting to hold OpenAI legally accountable for the actions of its agents.
OpenAI Delays Release of Latest Model Over Safety Concerns
The company said its latest Astra model would undergo more work to meet safety standards, and issued an apology for the way it handled the hacking of an Australian government website.
Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials
A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client secret, the authorization code,
Nothing’s New Headphone (1) Pro Are Made for the Studio
With three drivers in each ear and tuning from Metropolis Studios, Nothing wants its new $399 cans to shine in the studio while also making your commute more musical.
Nothing’s new flagship Headphone 1 Pro put you in the studio
Nothing has been on a bit of an audio tear this year, releasing the solid Headphone A and the surprisingly good Ear 3A earbuds. The Headphone A released at $199, while the earbuds are under $100, leaving room for something fancier. That something is the Nothing Headphone 1 Pro, t
NordVPN Coupons: 75% Off, Plus 3 Months Free in October 2026
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New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The new Spectre-v2 varia
Motorola Coupon Code for October 2026
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More Ways to Disrupt: New 2026 Side Events from KOTRA, WayFounder, Enterprise Ireland, SafetyWing + Descope
Disrupt doesn’t end when you leave Moscone West. 👀 Founder dinners, investor meetups, happy hours, workshops, roundtables and more are taking over San Francisco during Disrupt Week. See what’s happening, find your people, and start building your calendar.
Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.
Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown
Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerabi
IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components that matter, how t
I Found National Coffee Day Deals Worth Making Coffee at Home For (2026)
From a $100 Keurig to a rare discount on a De’Longhi espresso machine, these WIRED-tested picks caught my eye.
How to Beat Surveillance Pricing Before It Bleeds You Dry
Consumer advocate Lindsay Owen’s new book, Gouged, traces how corporations use software—from ever-changing prices to opaque algorithms—to squeeze every penny from you.
Home Depot Promo Codes: 30% Off in October 2026
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Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonpro
French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data leave. The attack was not sophi
Ex-Tesla team raises $12.5M to put supply chains on autopilot
Atomic's agentic supply chain software is now being used by companies like DoorDash and HelloFresh.
Elon Musk’s AI-powered Grokipedia is updating again
Grokipedia, the AI-powered online encyclopedia from SpaceXAI, appears to be updating articles once again after a months-long pause. In August, Lawfare reported that articles on Grokipedia hadn't reviewed edits since April, but the platform's live updates site is now showing vario
Dutch police arrest ShinyHunters hacker accused of planning two murders
Dutch police said the hacker, arrested for being part of the ShinyHunters cybercriminal gang, had plans to organize the murder of two people on his laptop.
Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijk
Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026)
The Boox Picco is a palm-sized e-reader with a 4-inch screen, strong support for different ebook formats, and digital utility tools.
Away’s New Series 3 Luggage Plays It Safe—That’s the Point
Away’s third generation of its iconic luggage retains the familiar design while introducing invisible tech, such as a new wheel system and an improved telescoping handle.
Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.
Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
Anthropic warns of ‘catastrophic’ AI risks in its own IPO filing
As Anthropic gears up for its greatly anticipated public debut, a preview of the company's IPO filing reportedly details its mounting losses, leadership proposals to retain power, and how its AI development plans could "further increase the risk that our models cause harm." These
Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.
Anthropic’s prospectus details losses, growth, and, yes, a warning that its AI could end humanity
In its prospectus, Anthropic just told investors it's losing tens of billions of dollars a year, but also growing like crazy, and — oh yeah — its own AI might pose an existential risk to humanity.
AI researchers put out videos saying superintelligence is ‘exactly as dangerous as it sounds’
"The chance of human extinction is about a coin flip, in my view," Geoffrey Irving, a former OpenAI and Google DeepMind employee, said in a new interview. It's one of a dozen interviews with AI researchers, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic.
AI-powered app maker Wabi pivots to a messaging experience
Wabi is repositioning its prompt-based app builder as a personal AI agent that can create interfaces on demand, combining chat, apps and ongoing tasks.
a16z-backed EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation to $4B
EliseAI raises $350M, doubles valuation in a year.
7 Best Smartwatch Models: Apple, Google, Garmin (2026)
These WIRED-tested wearables reduce your reliance on a phone while keeping you connected.
101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers' WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to groups without their consent," OX Secu
You Don’t Need to Pay for Distraction-Blocking Software
These free iOS and Android apps create the physical friction you need to put down your phone.
What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones
I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.
⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems
Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI
AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 repo
Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation
Two critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that allow remote code execution have been exploited in the wild, Citrix confirmed on September 27. It released fixes for both, along with six other flaws. One of the two affects every deployment on an affected version, inclu
Trump finalizes rule to make cars less fuel efficient
The US Department of Transportation finalized its plans today to weaken fuel efficiency standards, calling it "among the largest deregulatory actions under the second Trump Administration." It's a nail in the coffin for Biden-era standards that would have required fleet average f
Truecaller takes its scam intelligence to the open web as it looks beyond caller ID
Truecaller finds a new way to reach users as pressure grows on its traditional caller ID business in India, its biggest market.
These Extremists Are Running for Election in November
With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.
Tesla delays Roadster 2 event again due to bad weather
Tesla says the event "can only be held outdoors," as it's expected to show the car flying in some form using SpaceX thrusters.
SpaceX preps next-gen Starlink as Amazon’s competitor stalls
SpaceX is gearing up for a monumental flight today that's sure to be closely watched by Amazon. If successful, SpaceX will deploy its first Starlink V3 satellites, which tout meaningful upgrades to the ever-expanding Starlink constellation. The 26 satellites will be riding atop S
Space Lasers Are About to Get Their First Real Test Generating Energy
Startup Star Catcher is launching a system that, if successful, would be the first time energy has been beamed between two separate spacecraft.
Source: Inference provider Modal Labs closing in on $750M round at $15.75B valuation
The new financing is expected to more than triples the AI infrastructure startup's valuation from just four months ago.
Shopify opens checkout to browser-based AI agents
Shopify is expanding WebMCP support to checkout, allowing browser-based AI agents to update order details and complete purchases with a buyer’s authorization.
Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now
Shark and other top air purifier brands are on discount ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days.
RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims
RatHat's operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in whic
Philips’ motion-tracking smart toothbrush uses AI to make you a better brusher
First announced in July with an expected limited launch later this year, the Philips Sonicare Next-Generation DiamondClean 9900 Prestige smart toothbrush is now available in Europe and the US, with a broader global rollout expected in 2027. While the previous iteration is still a
Out of the Park Baseball lets me enjoy baseball even when the Mets suck
If you were to ask me what game or game series I've sunk the most time into, the answer would be easy: Out of the Park Baseball (OOTP). I have spent roughly 2,300 hours, according to Steam, playing various editions of the game. OOTP isn't like MLB The Show or Super Mega Baseball.
OpenAI still doesn’t seem to have a handle on all of its rogue AI activity
On Friday, OpenAI published a new site devoted to “misalignment reports” and the breadth of the incidents is alarming.
OpenAI’s AI agents need to catch up
OpenAI popularized the modern generative AI chatbot, but as its 2026 DevDay event approaches, it's fallen behind in one of the industry's hottest categories: continuously running, consumer-facing AI agents. On Tuesday, it will likely try to capture the lead in that race. Rumors a
OpenAI Pauses Training Its Most Powerful Models After Rogue Agents Target Government
Sam Altman says the company “have not been as fast as we would have liked” at dealing with security breaches, after news of further incidents over the summer forces another temporary halt.
Ocean surveillance startup Quartermaster raises another $140M
The tech enables real-time awareness for what Quartermaster calls the “largest blind spot on Earth.”
Meta-Led Anti-Terrorism Group Faces Mass Resignation of Expert Advisers
Meta and other tech giants are pushing through structural changes at the Global Internet Forum to Counter Terrorism that outside researchers allege will weaken oversight of an already embattled consortium.
Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stage attack chain aime
JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Used Compromised Service Principals to Delete Azure Resources
The threat actor known as JADEPUFFER has been observed orchestrating destructive actions within a Microsoft Azure environment using compromised service principals. Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under the name Storm-3168, has called it an evolution of the threat actor'
IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework
What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components
I've Tested Over 100 Home Security Cameras. Here's Which to Buy
Keep an eye on home wherever you are with the best security cameras, including indoor and outdoor, subscription services, AI smarts, and local recording options.
Honor’s Magic 9 Pro Max has a big camera and a bigger battery
Honor launches its new Magic 9 flagship phones in China today, and the 9 Pro Max features a design revamp, a capable camera, and a colossal battery. This is Honor's first flagship launch - Robot Phone aside - since it announced its collaboration with camera company Arri. The init
Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities,
Google is killing off Gemini’s Gems in favor of ‘skills’
As all-in-one AI agents like Meta's Muse and Instinct take off, Google is opting to end a feature which built task-specific agents.
CISA Says Attackers Are Exploiting Two Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaws Globally
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-887
Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwri
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Bose starts adding Auracast to its headphones
A new firmware update for the $449 Bose QuietComfort Ultra Headphones Gen 2 adds support for Bluetooth LE Audio and Auracast as beta features. The flagship Ultra headphones are the first from Bose to support the audio sharing technology, which the company plans to bring to more d
Bose Launches New Wired Earbuds After More Than a Decade
The Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds are the first new wired headphones from the brand since 2015, inspired directly by teen preferences. We got an early listen.
Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026)
The Boox Picco is a palm-sized e-reader with a 4-inch screen, strong support for different ebook formats, and digital utility tools.
Bitget Says Attacker Exploited Third-Party Security Product Flaw to Steal $388M
The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level internal credentials and then,
Best Party Speakers (2026): JBL, Sony, Marshall, and More
These speakers combine serious volume, big bass, portability, and the occasional karaoke session to bring the party anywhere.
Best External Hard Drives (2026): SanDisk, Samsung, and More
Need an ultrafast drive for video editing or a rugged option to back up your photos in the field? We’ve got a solution for every situation.
Best Apple Watch: Series 12, Ultra 4, and SE 3 (2026)
From the latest Ultra to last year’s SE, these are the Apple Watches worth considering.
Aurora CFO says 30,000 driverless trucks by 2030 isn’t as far-fetched as it sounds
Self-driving truck company Aurora laid out an audacious plan for 2030. Its CFO says its targets aren't aspirational.
Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could resul
Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component
Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
Anthropic releases Sonnet 5.5, which it calls a significantly cheaper, faster work partner
Anthropic has released the newest version of its mid-range model, boasting faster response times and less token burn.
AMD will acquire Fei-Fei Li’s World Labs for $8.2 billion
The acquisition will see World Labs founder Fei-Fei Li join AMD as executive vice president and chief scientist.
AMD is acquiring AI company World Labs in a deal worth more than $8 billion
AMD announced today that it's acquiring World Labs, an AI research lab co-founded by the prominent researcher Dr. Fei-Fei Li, in an all-stock deal worth approximately $8.2 billion. World Labs launched in 2024 and was valued at $1 billion in a matter of months. The startup launche
AI is supercharging hacking, and your local hospitals and banks aren’t ready
In March, Janice Malone began getting calls about suspicious activity from her nonprofit organization, Vivian's Door. Vivian's Door, headquartered in Alabama, typically provided training, resources, and community to underserved and minority-owned businesses. The work sometimes pu
Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discus
You Don’t Need to Pay for Distraction-Blocking Software
These free iOS and Android apps create the physical friction you need to put down your phone.
You Don’t Need to Pay for Distraction-Blocking Software
These free iOS and Android apps create the physical friction you need to put down your phone.
Why OLPC’s $100 laptop never stood a chance
The idea was big, exciting, and inspiring: What if we could get every kid in the world access to a computer? For a bunch of thinkers and executives in Silicon Valley, it felt like the way to fix everything. But the One Laptop Per Child initiative, and the XO-1 laptop designed to
What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones
I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.
What’s the Best Pet DNA Test? We Tested the Most Popular Ones
I sent my cats’ saliva to the lab to get health and genetic insights sent to my inbox—with very different results.
Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation
Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or published a fix. Some
TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.
The smart home graveyard is getting crowded
This is The Stepback, a weekly newsletter breaking down one essential story from the tech world. For more on the fragile state of your connected devices, follow Jennifer Pattison Tuohy. The Stepback arrives in our subscribers' inboxes on Sunday at 8AM ET. Opt in for The Stepback
The Data Center Backlash Should Also Be a Climate Reckoning. It Isn’t Yet
Climate groups are latching onto the data center opposition movement, but it remains to be seen if they can get people to care about the facilities’ impact on the atmosphere.
TechCrunch Mobility: AV companies pick their lanes
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it.
Sennheiser Momentum 5 review: Great sound, incredible battery life, and few compromises
I spent the last few weeks with the Sennheiser Momentum 5 to determine if this pair actually stands out, testing everything from sound quality and noise cancellation to comfort and battery life.
PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair
PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane's, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO₂ max and other metabolic markers in eight minutes without a trained operator.
PNOE’s new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair
PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane's, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure their VO₂ max and other metabolic markers in eight minutes without a trained ope
OpenAI agents tried to ‘bruteforce’ a UN website
Security researcher Rowan Howard-Jones says that OpenAI agents scanned the UN Conference on Trade and Development's (UNCTAD) statistics site over 16,000 times between April and June. While the incident doesn't quite rise to the level of the Hugging Face hack, or the recent attack
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.
Nicotine Is Mounting a Comeback in the Wellness Movement
Improving mood and increasing longevity are just some of the unfounded claims about this substance circling around the “natural” medicine corners of the internet.
Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all
Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.
Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stage attack chain aime
Insurers claim AI is already increasing healthcare costs
Blue Cross Blue Shield says hospital use of AI tools led to an additional $942M in healthcare spending over a two-year period.
Googlebooks might be the real deal
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 145, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, I'm happy to be done traveling for a bit, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I flew to San Francisco t
Google tests buying from Walmart-owned Flipkart through Gemini and AI Mode in India
The limited test covers select products and users, with a broader rollout planned for later in October.
Engram is a sampler that turns broken AI hallucinations into music
Music startup Thoughtful Things has just launched the Kickstarter campaign for its first instrument, Engram. It's a sampler and groovebox that uses AI to mangle incoming audio and even hallucinate completely new sounds. This isn't Suno in a box, though. This isn't a "push-button,
Can Muse overcome Meta’s trust issues?
On Equity, we discussed how Meta's AI announcement managed to steal the spotlight from OpenAI and Anthropic.
Best Party Speakers (2026): JBL, Sony, Marshall, and More
These speakers combine serious volume, big bass, portability, and the occasional karaoke session to bring the party anywhere.
Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All
Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.
Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could resul
Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents
Haptics tech company Taction sued Apple in 2021, alleging it infringed two of its patents. Now a federal jury in San Diego has awarded Taction over $5.7 billion in damages. According to CNBC, "The lawsuit centered around U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which both invo
Anthropic’s Dario Amodei gets the SNL treatment
"AI is the devil and I its maker."
Anthropic’s CEO is about to have dinner with President Trump
This will be the first one-on-one meeting between Dario Amodei and Donald Trump
12 Best White Elephant Gifts, Plus a Prank Box to Put Them In (2026)
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility
The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discus
War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge
AI agents operating in OpenAI's research environment posted user images on public image-hosting sites without the lab's knowledge.
TikTok agrees to pay at least $100M in Alabama settlement
TikTok will pay Alabama at least $100 million in a settlement tied to allegations that the short-form video platform misled users about safety and was designed to addict children.
This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later
The free add-on Tuck brings one of the best features of modern email—the ability to hide something for a bit—to that tangle of tabs in your browser.
The SOC Doesn't Need to Start Over with Every Alert
Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at pr
SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question a
Quince Luggage Is Affordable but Doesn’t Feel Cheap (2026)
Is Quince the Away alternative we’ve been waiting for? I tested its luggage to find out, and the price difference is hard to ignore.
Quince Luggage Is Affordable but Doesn’t Feel Cheap (2026)
Is Quince the Away alternative we’ve been waiting for? I tested its luggage to find out, and the price difference is hard to ignore.
PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify th
OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’
As reports of OpenAI's models breaking containment, hacking sites, and generally getting out of control pile up, the company has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models. The decision was made after a model being tested within a sandbox exploited a loophole
Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.
Meta says it will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all
At least one social media company seems to be reversing its stance on whether it will accept advertising for Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk.
Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?
Meta says Muse is just for adults, though its cuddly, Labubu-like mascot—and upcoming Tamagotchi-style AI device—may be disarming for users of all ages.
Meta and YouTube say they will run ads for ‘Musk’ documentary after all
Two companies now say they will accept advertising for director Alex Gibney’s upcoming documentary about Elon Musk, following earlier reporting that a number of social media platforms had rejected the ads.
Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stag
Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment
This $189.99 air purifier is specifically designed to tackle pet odors, removing up to 70% in one hour.
Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment
This $189.99 air purifier is specifically designed to tackle pet odors, removing up to 70% in one hour.
Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack
Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber attack. "Kiteworks received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligenc
Kids turned the comment section of an NPR podcast into a group chat
Middle schoolers, likely blocked from other apps and social networks, apparently turned the Spotify comment section under an episode of NPR's Wild Card into an impromptu group chat. In a new episode of This American Life, host Ira Glass digs into how the kids landed there and why
I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it
After obtaining an interactive avatar and training it to discuss venture fraud, I have mixed feelings about making AI clones of ourselves.
Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link
Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take control of a site. The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability
Decap is the man behind the drums behind your favorite song
I don't think I'm going to hurt anyone's feelings by pointing out that Decap doesn't have the name recognition of Kendrick Lamar, Olivia Rodrigo, or Charli XCX. But his fingerprints are all over tracks from them, as well as many other artists, including Freddie Gibbs, Bad Bunny,
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl said its new stationary power plants were no longer in Crusoe's near-term plans.
Control Resonant is a great game — it’s even better when you read everything
In Control Resonant, the entire world is at stake. But that didn't stop the diligent employees of the Federal Bureau of Control from filing reams of paperwork, and it didn't stop me from reading everything I could find, either. Reading is often optional in Resonant, but it's wher
Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below - actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/main
Can ‘eSUV’ e-bikes really go from trail to town?
Have you ever wanted an electric bike that easily transitions from the drudgery of urban asphalt to adventures in gravel and dirt? That's what a subclass of so-called "electric SUV" (eSUV) e-bikes claims to do, with their wide, all-terrain tires and front and rear suspension, plu
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Today, I’m talking with Matthew Prince, who is CEO of Cloudflare. This episode is part of a two-part series on the future of business. Matthew last joined us on the show about two and a half years ago, at what we thought then was a wild pivot point for the internet — and now it [
Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All
Forget about patchy internet connections and dead spots in the house. These WIRED-tested, multi-room mesh Wi-Fi systems will keep your whole house online.
Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave
After days of upheaval at Automattic, following a failed attempt to remove CEO Matt Mullenweg, the company has a new board.
Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could resul
At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere
The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.
At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere
The company behind Facebook and Instagram wants to keep consumers connected to the digital world via its ever-growing line of smart glasses.
Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days
A competition between the gravity of the inner core and other forces in the mantle is altering the Earth's rotation.
12 Best White Elephant Gifts, Plus a Prank Box to Put Them In (2026)
Bring the gift everyone will want to win from this year’s holiday party, from a cute jacket for a beer can to magnets they’ll wish they could eat.
WSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws Exploited in Attacks, Added to CISA KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are l
Who Killed Paulina Borsook’s Career?
A quarter-century ago, Borsook published a wildly prophetic, penetrating book about Silicon Valley called Cyberselfish. Then she disappeared.
Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows.
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well.
Waymo is scaling fast. Here’s what the fleet data shows.
In the past month, Waymo has expanded its fleet in Texas by 49%. There are other hotspots as well.
War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
War Bros Didn’t Always Rule Silicon Valley
Some say that tech was always about the money and the military. Don’t buy that argument.
Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions
A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlu
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ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories
This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI tools leak more than
Thieves Stole ‘Nvidia’ Trailers. They Got 20 Tons of Sand
They wanted the silicon. They got the sand.
These camera apps give you more control over the iPhone 18 Pro’s aperture
One of the questionable limitations of the iPhone 18 Pro's new main camera with a variable aperture is that you're limited to just four settings in the native iOS' camera app in manual mode: f/1.48, f/1.8, f/2.8, and f/4. Those same limitations are also in place when the app is a
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The Trump Administration Is Trying to Get Musk and X Out of a $137 Million EU Fine
The US government filed an application to support the company’s legal challenge against a fine issued under the bloc’s Digital Services Act, which Trump has described as “overseas extortion.”
The SOC Doesn't Need to Start Over with Every Alert
Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at pr
The SOC Doesn't Need to Start Over with Every Alert
Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and
The hottest new hangout for middle schoolers is NPR’s comment section?
When NPR staffers flagged strange comments under their podcasts on Spotify as bots, it took a Gen Z colleague to (immediately) figure out the mystery.
The Aeropod automates soil aeration without robotics. See it at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Muju Earth Technologies has developed a deceptively simply pod that can save farmers money while improving crop yields.
Tesla’s Optimus robot is going through growing pains
Hitting its goal of making 20,000 Optimus robots per week is reportedly proving tricky for Tesla. The Information reports that Tesla produced "several hundred robots a week" last month, after it repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year. Ho
Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.
Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild
The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roun
Roku’s first OLED TVs are up to $400 off, starting at $699
Roku recently launched its first-ever OLED TVs. The $999 starting price was already impressive for the 55-inch Pro Series model that has a 120Hz refresh rate OLED panel (with four HDMI 2.1 ports and support for Dolby Vision and HDR 10 Plus). The price is even lower right now at A
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Qualcomm’s new ‘Elite’ sound chip might finally deliver the Wi-Fi earbud dream
What if your wireless earbuds - or audio glasses - could stream high-quality lossless audio that doesn't cut out when you leave your phone on the bedside charger or buried in the couch? Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Sound Elite Gen 2 is its first to integrate "micro-power Wi-Fi 6E" r
‘Primetime’ Exposes the Ego-Driven Core of Vigilante Pedophile Hunting
Lance Oppenheim’s new film doesn’t paint Chris Hansen as a hero. The To Catch a Predator host's real-world copycats are even more reckless.
Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content
The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays,"
Phones don’t have lights
Mark Zuckerberg has a new defense of the Ray-Ban Meta glasses: They're actually doing more to signal they're taking a photo than phones do. He's brought this up in at least two recent interviews, noting that the glasses have a light that comes on to signal when a photo is being t
Party Invite Phishing Scams Are the New Missed Connections
Email scams that look like an Evite or Paperless Post invitation are meant to snatch your data. For some, they've become an excuse to reconnect with old friends or flames.
PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistence
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify th
Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.
Microsoft puts Brad Smith in charge of communications
Microsoft is moving its communications group out of marketing and into its Corporate, External, and Legal Affairs (CELA) organization. The surprise change will see Microsoft vice chair and president Brad Smith oversee communications, while the company searches for a replacement f
Microsoft is killing off the ‘Copilot Plus PC’ brand
Remember when Microsoft wanted everyone to know that "Copilot Plus PCs" were the ones to get, because those were the PCs that that'd have enough built-in AI muscle to get things done? Two and a half years later, Microsoft and Qualcomm seem to be admitting the brand is already dea
Meta opens early access program for new Muse features
Anyone interested in joining has to ask Muse to put them on the list.
Meta makes the Muse filesystem even more accessible
Yesterday, with a little prodding, it was discovered that Meta's Muse would expose its filesystem to curious users. The files offered a fascinating peek under the hood of an AI chatbot, and appeared to expose details we weren't meant to see, not least because Muse itself told peo
Meta employees ordered ‘attorney/client privilege’ hats while fighting child safety disclosures
Meta's lawyers have argued that certain evidence should be withheld from public view on the grounds of attorney-client privilege in the ongoing lawsuits over alleged harm to teens' safety and mental health. Lawyers suing the company said this week that the label has been applied
Mark Wahlberg is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, and he wants to talk about your work, not his
Mark Wahlberg joins Bruce K. Lee at Disrupt to discuss investing, entrepreneurship, healthcare, wellness, and building businesses.
Lightspeed targets $250M for new India fund, focusing on early-stage AI
The Silicon Valley firm is aligning its India fundraising cycle with its global funds for the first time, as it shifts to a shorter investment period.
I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk
Instinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security nightmare.
How to Record Your Screen on Any Phone
The built-in tools on your phone—as well as some inexpensive apps—let you share whatever you’re doing with others.
Here’s the Tesla Semi… again
Remember the Tesla Semi? The long-gestating, heavy-duty truck first introduced in concept form in 2017 is finally in volume production as of April 2026 - nearly a decade after its initial introduction. On Thursday evening, the company held yet another event for the Semi to demons
Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Call for Me—a feature that’s exclusive to the Pixel 11 series—gives robocalls a new meaning.
Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below - actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/main
Cloudflare Fixes Flaw That Let One Container Read Another Customer's Leftover Disk Data
A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers' containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from
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Bitget Says Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole $351.6M After Backend Compromise
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets," BitGet s
Best Laptops (2026): My Top Recommendations After Testing Hundreds
I’ve been reviewing laptops for over a decade, and here’s my advice for finding the right laptop for you.
Astra and Opus just passed Turing’s other test
Frontier AI models are finishing Alan Turing's World War II codebreaking work.
Appeals Court Lets the Pentagon Designate Anthropic a Supply-Chain Risk
The AI lab had argued multiple violations of its rights, but a divided panel of judges sided with the Trump administration.
Anthropic to pay Akamai $11.6 billion over seven years in cloud deal
Anthropic has committed $11.6 billion over seven years to Akamai's cloud infrastructure, a bet on CPUs that could grow to about $20 billion, and in an unusual arrangement, Akamai is giving Anthropic a potential stake of up to 5% of its stock that grows as Anthropic spends more.
Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story
This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.
Anonymous Men Have Turned Cyberharassment Into a Group Sport—Here’s One Woman’s Side of the Story
This week on Uncanny Valley, we take you behind our feature on the women struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.
Ahead of US IPO, British AI neocloud Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing
The funding, which comes from Third Point, Nvidia, and others, will fuel the company's massive AI data center buildout.
16 Products From Women Designers You Need to Know
From electric trucks to health trackers, women designers are guiding consumer tech to a better place.
Why This Weekend’s Nor’easter Is Like a Hurricane
Nor’easters are usually a winter phenomenon. But this week’s storm is arriving earlier than usual, and it could take on some characteristics more typical of tropical systems.
Why No One Wants to Date Tech Bros
Once seen as nerdy but harmless innovators, men in tech are now widely regarded as red-pilled Elon Musk wannabes. It’s made getting laid a whole lot harder.
Vogue sent robots down the runway at Vogue World, and people were not impressed
Nothing says Italian craftsmanship like a Chinese robot doing a lasso to "L'Amour Toujours."
Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions
A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phon
ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories
This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI t
The Ovary Is Surprisingly Active After Menopause. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why
A growing body of research is putting the ovary in a new light, not as an egg factory with an expiration date, but as an organ that shapes women’s health long after the fertile years have passed.
TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial
SeaWorld Wants to Make You Horny
The Orlando theme park’s immersive Halloween experience now includes hot, brooding guys in an homage to romantasy antiheroes—and it’s leading to record-breaking ticket sales.
Sadly, this $1,549 RTX 5070-equipped gaming PC is a very good deal
While PC component prices remain high, you can save a good bit of money on a system by purchasing a prebuilt desktop. Walmart has a well-equipped CyberPowerPC gaming PC on sale for $1,549, almost $600 off its original price of $2,139. It’s powered by an Intel Core i7-14700KF proc
PrismML brings its tiny LLMs to Qualcomm-powered smart glasses
Prism's larger goal is open-weight AI that runs on devices and makes better use of the computing power they already have.
Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content
The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays,"
Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content
The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role e
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Oracle sends force majeure notice on its New Mexico Stargate data center
The notice would allow Oracle to delay payments should the facility miss its 2028 target to come online.
OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that handle Me
Nexterity wants to automate the hard, dangerous part of pipefitting
The startup's robot can tighten or loosen four bolts at a time, and it fits in a Pelican case.
Muse will apparently let you download its entire filesystem
A pair of developers say that with very little prompting, Meta's Muse will share its entire filesystem with you. Peter James and Jonny L. Saunders have said they both independently coaxed Muse into zipping up and sharing the entire contents of its root filesystem, Ubuntu system f
Muse is coming to Meta smart glasses
Just a couple of weeks after launching Muse, Meta announced that it's "working on" bringing the agent to its smart glasses, including the new glasses it unveiled at Meta Connect. Users will be able to activate Muse from their glasses by saying its name and ask it to handle tasks
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MikroTrick Chain Let Attackers Take Over MikroTik Routers Without a Password or SSH Key
Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password, SSH key, or completed authentication. The chain, which CERT Polska calls MikroTrick, combines an SSH state-machine flaw (CVE-2026-67279) with an
Meta’s Muse Charm looks like a Tamagotchi, but it’s tapping into a much newer trend
Meta’s new AI gadget may look like a Tamagotchi, but its dangling form factor taps into a much broader Gen Z trend around bag charms, retro tech, and turning gadgets into fashion accessories.
Meta VR Glasses, Ray-Ban Meta Audio, Ray-Ban Meta Gen 3: Specs, Features, Prices
At its Meta Connect event, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a handful of new smart glasses, including a slimmed-down VR headset and the company’s first camera-free glasses.
Meta’s next VR device isn’t a headset — it’s glasses
Meta is launching new VR hardware: a pair of glasses. The new Meta VR Glasses sit on your ears like a typical pair of glasses instead of being strapped over your head, but they still have immersive displays for watching movies, playing games, and getting work done. Imagine a pair
Meta Pinky-Promises Its Smart Glasses Will Be Private Soon
The company is bringing its Private Processing encryption service to its much-maligned smart glasses.
Meta made a Tamagotchi-like wearable for its Muse AI agent
The tiny hardware device creates another mobile home for its AI agent Muse.
Meta is trying VR glasses (again), this time with more IMAX
Meta's return to the VR glasses realm comes with a promising combination of light weight form factor and enhanced entertainment options.
Meta is making a standalone Muse AI gadget
Meta is building a dedicated hardware device for its new Muse AI agent. The product, called Muse Charm, was briefly shown off by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the end of tonight's Meta Connect presentation. It looks almost like a chunky smartwatch without the strap - just a big scr
Meta is going to let you build games with AI right on your phone
Meta has a new plan to get people to make games for its Horizon social platform. The company today announced two new development tools that will let you create games with AI prompts: Horizon Create, a mobile app, and Horizon Studio, a browser app that offers more granular control
Meta introduces camera-free AI glasses
Meta says the camera-free glasses will be lighter and have up to 12 hours battery life.
Meta ditches the camera on its newest smart glasses
Walking around Meta Connect 2026, everyone's sporting smart glasses in all sorts of shapes, colors, and sizes. It's a marked difference here, a tech bubble where "pervert glasses" are not a concern. Outside Connect, the public backlash against wearable surveillance tech - a catch
Meta Connect 2026: The 7 biggest announcements
Meta announced a slate of new wearables during its annual Meta Connect showcase on Wednesday. The star of the event was the new Meta VR Glasses, which pack virtual reality tech into a lightweight smart glasses-style frame with a tethered puck. Meta also announced new pairs of scr
Meet Feather, the startup building the ‘Android of robotics’ for developers
Feather is betting on a customizable, $30,000 platform built for software developers.
Jensen Huang talks about AI and climate change like a supervillain
As Jensen Huang puts it, AI can help fight climate change - but only if it inflicts "an enormous amount of pain and suffering" first. The Nvidia CEO discussed the future of energy and AI's impact on our planet in the latest episode of The Ezra Klein Show. But his comments boil do
Inside the Network of Anonymous Men Destroying Young Women’s Lives
This week on Uncanny Valley, we look into the reporting behind our feature on the women still struggling after being targeted by the burnerverse.
I Think I Found an AI Agent Worth the Risk
Instinct saved me $550, booked my restaurant reservations, and warned me about a phishing scam. It also wasted $64 and might be a security nightmare.
Hacked Ukrainian Sites Serve Fake Cloudflare ClickFix Lures for Psychedelic Stealer
An active ClickFix campaign has been observed compromising legitimate Ukrainian business websites to inject bogus Cloudflare verification pages and trick victims into downloading a previously undocumented information stealer called Psychedelic. "When a visitor interacts with the page, the lure copi
Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Call for Me—a feature that’s exclusive to the Pixel 11 series—gives robocalls a new meaning.
Google’s Gemini Can Now Make Calls for You on Pixel Phones
Call for Me—a feature that’s exclusive to the Pixel 11 series—gives robocalls a new meaning.
Google Photos ‘Clueless’-inspired virtual closet is now available on Android and iOS
The AI-powered feature builds a virtual wardrobe from your photos, and is now broadly available after first rolling out to Android users in June.
Gemini 4 is almost ready, says new Google DeepMind chief
Google is reportedly nearing the launch of its long awaited Gemini 4 model, after dawdling behind rival developers on flagship AI releases. Speaking with The Information during his first media appearance as the leader of Google's DeepMind division, Koray Kavukcuoglu said that Gem
Gemini 3.8 Live with Live Avatar gives Google’s AI a face
Google's new Gemini 3.8 Live update lets users have conversations with the model while watching an animated AI persona respond in real time. The "Live Avatar" will lip-sync and show different facial expressions during conversations, but it's currently only available to Gemini Ent
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Everything new coming to Meta’s AI agent Muse
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the company’s annual Connect event in Menlo Park on Wednesday with a keynote that made one thing clear: Meta is going all-in on Muse. It's even coming to Meta's AI glasses.
Databricks buys Row Zero and is scouting for more startups to acquire
Databricks has brought cloud spreadsheet startup Row Zero, adding yet another acquisition to its 2026 shopping spree.
Corp MDM Spyware Targets Logistics Firms, Steals New SMS and Redirects Calls
The logistics sector has become the target of a new malicious cyber campaign that distributes an Android spyware codenamed Corp MDM. According to Have I Been Squatted, the campaign uses fake Google Play pages branded as CEVA and TKW Logistics to distribute an Android Package Kit (APK) file that's d
Bring your co-founder, partner, or colleague and get 50% off a second TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass
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Attackers Use Malicious Terraform Providers to Deliver Go Malware via HashiCorp Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads. According to Aikido, the list of Terra
Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). "An unauth
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
An OpenAI Agent Hacked Australia’s Health Service. Their Government Found Out Months Later.
The country’s prime minister expressed disappointment at being informed of the hack only via email. Now Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law.
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A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While
As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.
A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You
The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button
17,000 URLs Reveal How ClickFix Turns Trusted Websites Into Malware Traps: Report by CTM360
ClickFix has become the most common way attackers get into enterprise networks, and it does it without an exploit, an attachment, or a file on disk. Our new global threat report traces the technique from a novelty in late 2023 to a subscription product with on-chain infrastructur
Zoox grounds Atlanta test fleet after workers report toxic gas exposure symptoms
The Amazon-owned company launched an investigation after a worker submitted an OSHA complaint.
YouTube’s Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm
In YouTube’s latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe.
YouTube’s Custom Feeds Give You More Control Over the Algorithm
In YouTube’s latest update, viewers can tweak what the algorithm shows on their front page and curate it to a specific vibe.
WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers
WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPress 7.1.2, with fixe
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
VC firm Bessemer now has another $5.75B to invest in (what else?) AI
The VC firm says that AI-native companies are growing faster than any technology, ever.
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This Windows Malware is Built to Let Up to Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move
A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker's server, Cisco Talos said on September 22. The models can choose to steal Windows credentials, saved browser passwords, and crypto wallet data. Talos has not seen this
This App Makes Your Laptop Screen Look Like Paper
The app Paperman gives your screen some added texture in an effort to make it easier on your eyes. It works best for reading, writing, or otherwise working with text.
The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs
Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.
The old cybersecurity model is breaking
As concern over AI safety and rogue agents continue to make headlines, it’s no surprise that cybersecurity stocks are rising, or that investors are pouring massive amounts of capital into startups trying to build the next generation of security for an AI-native world. We’re even seeing com
The Best Samsung Phones of 2026: Ultra, Fold, Budget
From flagship and budget to flipping and folding, Samsung’s Galaxy range spans the breadth of the smartphone cosmos. WIRED’s here to help you make your choice.
TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
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TechCrunch Founder Summit’s agenda revealed: Unlock fundraising, hiring, and AI insights in Boston on November 4
Founders shouldn't have to learn the hardest lessons the hardest way. TechCrunch Founder Summit is designed to make the challenges of starting a company easier and the highs that much greater.
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
Snorkel AI triples valuation to $3.5B as demand for AI training data booms
The seven-year-old startup has raised a $350 million Series E to fuel its data-as-a-service approach.
SmartLabels QR Code Organizing System Review (2026): AI Made Sense of My Junk Drawer
SmartLabels can inventory everything in a photo, but I tested whether its AI could survive the chaos of my busy household.
ShinyHunters Claims FBI Breach, Says It Stole Data on Agents and Job Applicants
The cyber extortion group known as ShinyHunters on Tuesday claimed it had breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and stolen data belonging to current and former employees at the agency. "We have compromised the FBI. We hold very sensitive data on almost ALL FBI Agents
She’s 28, Loves God and Her Family, and Might Be the Reason You Can’t Have Kids
No IVF. No surrogacy. No polygenic tests. Emma Waters is leading a national fight against fertility tech—with her hot husband’s permission, of course.
Saudi Arabia’s new Exobot EVs make the Cybertruck look normal
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is mostly known for its global dominance over petroleum production and oil reserves - not necessarily cars and auto manufacturing, and certainly not electric vehicle production. So it was a little surprising on Monday when a Saudi startup called Ceer u
Rabbit’s new AI agent doesn’t need an R1 to run
Rabbit, the company behind the underwhelming R1 device, is rolling out a standalone AI agent that you don't need its hardware to use, as reported earlier by Wired. The startup says its new OS3 "agentic operating system" runs in the cloud but operates locally across Windows, Mac,
Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 comes in an Extreme version too
Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6, this year joined by the 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6 too. The company describes both new phone chips as flagships, and the spec differences are relatively minor, mostly limited to improved AI processing, video capture, and gaming perf
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Paramount will need to release way more movies to make this merger work
Now that Paramount has reached a settlement with the 12 states that were suing to block its $110 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD), the studio is even closer to becoming one of the world's biggest production houses. In addition to spending at least $300 million mor
OpenAI wants to consult elite mathematicians about how to not fumble again
After turning a string of spectacular mathematical results into a reputational crisis, OpenAI is consulting human mathematicians to help it figure out a less disastrous path forward. On Monday, the company announced a new independent panel of mathematicians tasked with advising i
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Modal Motors is trying to cut China out of electric motors entirely
The startup is working on small, light motors with no rare-earth magnets that are suited for drones, fans, and robots.
MikroTrick Chain Let Attackers Take Over MikroTik Routers Without a Password or SSH Key
Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password, SSH key, or completed authentication. The chain, which CERT Polska calls MikroTrick, combines an SSH state-machine flaw (CVE-2026-67279) with an
MikroTrick Chain Let Attackers Take Over MikroTik Routers Without a Password or SSH Key
Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password, SSH key, or completed authentication. The chain, which CERT Polska calls MikroTrick, combines an SSH state-machine flaw (CVE-2
Microsoft’s new Surface Mouse has haptic feedback and a customizable action button
Microsoft is launching a second generation of its Surface Mouse next month that includes haptic feedback support. The Surface Mouse also has a customizable action button for the first time, which is primarily designed for quick access to Copilot (of course), but can be configured
Microsoft refreshes its smaller Surface Pro and Laptop with Qualcomm’s X2 Plus
Microsoft is refreshing its Surface Pro 12-inch and Surface Laptop 13-inch devices with Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon X2 Plus chips. The smaller Surface devices retain the same design and hardware features from last year, with faster and more capable chips inside and higher price
Meta’s Muse AI Assistant Rolled Out With a Serious Security Flaw
Meta says it issued a fix for the Muse zero-day vulnerability that would have let attackers do “whatever” they wanted on a victim’s Mac, highlighting the inherent dangers of AI helpers.
Meta’s AI agent is a cute little guy who’s great at spending my money
Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list. It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You're telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure
Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named "tw-pkgprobe-7731," was
Kate Tolo Says Her Quest to Be ‘the Female Bryan Johnson’ Is ‘for Women’
Like her biohacking boyfriend, Tolo is undergoing a grueling regimen of tests—from tracking nighttime erections to subjecting herself to extreme heat on her period—in service of “half the population.”
How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement
Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.
F5 Patches Critical BIG-IP APM Zero-Day Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE on OAuth Servers
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) that lets them run code on a BIG-IP system without logging in, F5 says. The flaw, CVE-2026-94127, affects only systems in which APM serves as an OAuth authorization server, issuing access tokens to
Enveda secures $311M to bring more nature-derived AI drugs into clinical trials
The round valued the AI biotech at $2 billion. It is currently testing drugs that treat skin conditions and preserve weight loss after stopping GLP-1s.
Disney+ and Hulu add to the growing trend of streaming inflation
At the same time, Disney appears to be exploring new ways to expand its streaming business beyond simply raising subscription prices.
Discord’s age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.
Discord’s age verification era is upon us, despite community backlash
According to Discord, 90% of users will not have to verify their age.
Data centers are black boxes, but California wants to change that
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a slate of bills on Monday that could finally give communities better data - and more say - on how data centers impact their electricity bills and water supply. As data centers invade a growing number of communities across the US, they've trigg
Critical Next.js ImageResponse Flaw Can Lead to Server Code Execution via Crafted SVG Input
A new security vulnerability in Next.js could allow attackers to run code on a server via ImageResponse, the feature that generates Open Graph and other social preview images, Vercel said. The risk applies when an app puts values an attacker controls, such as text read from the r
Compromised MemTensor Packages Deliver sckit Credential Stealer via npm and PyPI
Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. According to reports from Aikido, SafeD
Chinese Hackers Exploit Chrome-Windows Zero-Day Chain to Deploy CLEANGULP Malware
A Chinese threat actor codenamed UTA0565 has been observed exploiting the recently disclosed Google Chrome-Microsoft Windows exploit chain as zero-days through fake websites. The attacks, detected on September 3 and 4, 2026, involved the chaining of two vulnerabilities in Chrome
Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point rel
ChatGPT mobile app gets voice-based agentic features
Pro and Plus users will be able to use the Work tab on their phones
Bentley Wants Its Torcal SUV to Break the Curse of the Luxury EV
The British high-end auto company reveals its first-ever full EV: 330 miles of range, 0 to 60 mph in under 3 seconds, and an orchestra under the hood. Will it be enough to lure high-rollers?
Attackers Use Malicious Terraform Providers to Deliver Go Malware via HashiCorp Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads. According to Aikido
AT&T Is Automating Away Jobs—and Its Old Telecom Empire
The telecom giant is eager to show Wall Street that it can do more with less. That means fewer employees, less electricity, and increased automation.
Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
Anthropic says its AI Claude has "autonomously discovered" a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It's the first result from Anthropic's newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude's usefulness for science as the company prep
AI Agents Teamed Up to Cheat at Blackjack. Their Collusion Is Getting Harder to Spot
A clandestine card-counting operation suggests we may need new ways to spot agent-to-agent deception.
Adobe Premiere, One of the iPhone’s Best Video-Editing Apps, Is Now on Android
The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It’s free to use and available today.
A US-China AI Hotline Won't Be Ready For a While
As the US and China race to become the dominant power in the AI industry, the countries also appear to be figuring out ways to communicate on national security issues.
A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You
The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button
‘We’re already fighting yesterday’s battle’: Greece’s prime minister gets candid about AI
Most leaders on a trade mission stick to the pitch, but when I interviewed Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis this week, he also admitted that no government is ready for what AI is about to do.
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Zyxel and Veeam Flaws Under Active Exploitation With Command and SYSTEM Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026
WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers
WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPre
WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session
A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93485 and dubbed "Com
Waymo’s latest expansion strategy: teenagers
Waymo is opening its robotaxi service to teenagers aged 13 to 17 in Nashville, its second city the offer rides to minors.
Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind
No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.
Viture’s Vonder Glasses Are Meant to Map Your Mind
No cameras? No problem. Viture’s first display-free smart glasses have bone-conduction microphones to privately record your daily musings.
The UK Government Faces a Reckoning Over Palantir
Andy Burnham once kept Palantir out of Greater Manchester. His first test as prime minister is whether to cut the company’s £330 million NHS contract—and risk a rupture with Big Tech and Washington.
The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
The man who built Apple’s stores doesn’t buy Silicon Valley’s bet on AI shopping
Apple Store architect Ron Johnson says Apple's secret sauce has always been its people.
SideCopy Broadens India Targeting to Academia With ReverseRAT Spear-Phishing
The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that leverage th
Score free Pixel Buds 2A when you preorder a Googlebook at Best Buy
The Android-powered Googlebooks are coming soon, with familiar brands and specs that rival Windows Copilot machines. For anyone eager to get their hands on any the new laptops, there’s a preorder perk you may want to know about lasting until October 25th, 2026. When you add a Goo
Save $30 on Apple’s Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and a numpad
Until the end of the day on September 22nd, 2026, Best Buy and Amazon have the black Apple Magic Keyboard on sale for $169.99, a $30 discount from the usual price. This is the souped-up version of Apple’s full-size, wireless keyboard, with a Touch ID button, numerical pad, arrow
San Francisco sues Trump Media for selling early access to Trump posts
San Francisco is suing the Trump Media & Technology Group, the parent company behind Truth Social, for selling early access to President Donald Trump's posts on the social media site. The lawsuit, filed today in California state court, alleges that the Truth API feed is a "corrup
Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft advisory. Its author, Abdelhami
Rabbit Is Back, This Time With an AI Agent App
Two years after trying to sidestep mobile apps with dedicated AI hardware, Rabbit is launching OS3, a cross-platform agent that lives on the screens you already use.
Qualcomm launches two new smartphone chips with emphasis on AI
Qualcomm said that its new top chip can run 30B mixture-of-expert model locally.
Patti Harrison Had Dreams of a Tech Utopia. Silicon Valley Smashed Them
The comedian sat down with WIRED to talk about social media, AI, and getting laughs for impersonating Boston Dynamics’ robot dogs.
OpenAI launches GPT-6 Sol and Luna, boasting lower cost and fewer mistakes
OpenAI is launching two new models, which it says are cut from the same cloth as Astra.
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor
Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the use
Morphotonics raises €40M to expand its display tech into data centers
Deeptech company Morphotonics raises €40M from investors including 3M Ventures, Innovation Industries, BOM, and Invest-NL.
Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, involved the e
Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virgi
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Meta deal will help plastics recycling startup MacroCycle build its first factory
Meta is giving plastic recycling a boost in a new deal with startup MacroCycle, which is building its first commercial plant.
Meta admits Muse’s likeness to OpenClaw isn’t a coincidence
Meta says Muse was built from scratch, but acknowledges the AI assistant was "heavily inspired" by OpenClaw — down to some of its workspace filenames and content.
Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named "tw-
Malicious npm Package indexed-btree Hid Its Loader in Runtime Code Before Removal
A malicious npm package named "indexed-btree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls. "Indexed-btree is a malici
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Is a Home Security System Subscription Worth It? (2026)
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I Built AI Clones of My Coworkers. Things Got Weird
Brian Bot loved talking about improv, while Sophie Bot wouldn’t stop calling me “big dog.” Welcome to the future of work.
How to Claim Your Cut of Apple’s $250 Million Siri Settlement
Apple may pay out up to $95 for each eligible iPhone purchased by someone who felt misled about Siri’s release. You have until December 21 to submit a claim.
Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro
It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.
Hacking group ShinyHunters claims it breached the FBI, stole agents’ and applicants’ data
The theft of agents' personal information could present a major counterintelligence threat, where agents and their families are extorted into cooperating with a foreign government.
Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data
Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company t
Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR
A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft's own hardware-c
Everything You Know About Political Violence Is Probably Wrong
Public disagreement about whether political violence is rising and who is responsible for it stems not from ideology alone but from competing definitions about what should be counted.
Dyson Won’t Say What’s Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.
Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
Five days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass + 50% off a second one. Join 10,000+ founders, investors, and operators at San Francisco’s Moscone West, October 13-15. Grab your ticket savings before prices go up on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials
A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-90898 (CVSS score: 9.8), aff
Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The primary targets
Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without logging in. C
Can you forget how you feel about Meta?
In 2021, as a whistleblower emerged with dramatic allegations that Facebook was harming children, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted a rebuttal on Facebook. “We care deeply about issues like safety, well-being and mental health. It’s difficult to see coverage that misrepresents our work
Apple’s first live music venue is opening beneath its UK headquarters
Apple is preparing to open a new "state-of-the-art" live music venue in the UK, a 600-capacity space for hosting performances, recording sessions, and video broadcasts. The venue, called Apple Music Hall, is located underneath Apple's European headquarters in London's iconic Batt
Apple is reportedly working on a Whoop-like fitness tracker
Apple is working on a new fitness tracker with a screenless design, similar to the one made by Whoop, according to a report from Bloomberg. A prototype of the device reportedly has "a thin fabric band with a sensor-equipped computing module." The device is in an early stage of de
Apple could take on Whoop with a new fitness tracker, report says
Apple may be developing a new fitness tracker as part of its new generation of hardware devices.
Anthropic releases Opus 5.5 with lower prices and Fable-level performance
Anthropic called it "the strongest-performing model we've tested to date."
Andreessen Horowitz is launching an ‘academy’ with no homework and partnerships with Palantir, Google, and Meta
Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) is creating an "academy" positioned as a pipeline for young people to build or join a Silicon Valley startup. The "Horowitz Andreessen Academy" will launch with 10 partners, including Anduril, Anthropic, Coinbase, Google, Meta, NVID
Amazon wants to help the Colorado River, but we still don’t know how much water the company uses
Amazon plans to spend $20 million on water conservation projects along the Colorado River, a crucial but dwindling water supply for 40 million people in the Western US. The initiative comes as Amazon and other tech companies face mounting scrutiny over how much water their data c
AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
AI Models Built From Rat Brains Just Got Closer to Reality
The Biological Computing Company is bringing its AI tools to Amazon Web Services in a major boost for a once-fringe field that aims to marry nature with code.
Adobe Premiere, One of the iPhone’s Best Video-Editing Apps, Is Now on Android
The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It’s free to use and available today.
Adobe Premiere, One of the iPhone’s Best Video-Editing Apps, Is Now on Android
The Android version of Premiere has unique layouts on candy bar phones and foldable devices. It’s free to use and available today.
a16z is challenging Silicon Valley’s love for drop-outs by launching a school
This academy for promising high school grads is somewhere between a trade school, Y Combinator, and Peter Thiel's Fellowship Program.
A cut cable disrupted hundreds of flights across the US
Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed on Monday after construction crews in New Jersey accidentally cut a Verizon fiber cable used for air traffic control. FAA Administrator Bryan Bedford said that a circuit failure led to the discovery of the severed fiber cable, ABC New
1Password Coupon: Score a Free Trial in September 2026
Save up to 28% on business and personal memberships with 1Password promo codes and deals.
X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts
X is expanding its “Under the Hood” transparency tool to show when posts have been downranked or withheld in response to local laws and government demands, including which country made the request.
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
Women Still Face Too Much Bullshit—in Silicon Valley and Beyond
WIRED dedicating an entire issue to women in 2026 might seem regressive, or obvious, or even unnecessary. We disagree.
Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs
“This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”
⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks
A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed systems, weak checks, fake fixes, and attack paths that look almost t
US and China Discuss Alerting Each Other to AI National Security Threats
Officials discussed setting up a mechanism for the two countries to notify each other of AI incidents which could threaten national security.
UN says AI safeguards can’t wait for certainty
Governments need to rein in increasingly capable AI agents before their risks are fully understood, a United Nations scientific panel warned in the global organization's first major assessment of OpenAI's hack of Hugging Face earlier this year. The report cements AI's place on th
Thermacell LIV 2.0 Review: Taking My Yard Back
Thermacell LIV 2.0 is expensive and imperfect, but it outperforms nearly every mosquito-control method I’ve tried.
The Search for Silicon Valley’s Most Powerful Woman
Women hold some of the most consequential jobs in tech, but they’re still not cult figures. WIRED investigates why.
Teardown details the iPhone 18 Pro’s mechanical camera
iFixit's latest device teardown shows us the inner workings of the new variable aperture lens inside Apple's iPhone 18 Pro and 18 Pro Max, alongside some repair concerns to be mindful of. The adjustable mechanical iris opens and closes magnetically, controlling how much light sho
TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor "automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for new files in real t
TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor "automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for
Paramount settles lawsuit blocking $110 billion Warner Bros. merger
Paramount has reached a settlement with California and the 11 other states that sued to block its planned $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery. The settlement removes a major roadblock standing in the way of the massive media merger. According to the proposed consen
Oura’s $2.2B IPO is mostly a payday for existing shareholders
Forerunner Ventures plans to sell its entire stake in Oura for as much as $1.26 billion, according to Oura's latest IPO filing.
OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
The group won't be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI's ongoing mathematical research.
No Dogs in Space is back to feed your need for obsessive music history
In August, I wrote about my love of the music history podcast No Dogs in Space, but mourned the fact that there hadn't been a new episode in over two years. Little did I know that hosts Carolina Hidalgo and Marcus Parks were gearing up to announce the show's return with season fo
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Meta’s Muse is outpacing ChatGPT’s early mobile launch
Meta’s new AI agent Muse has racked up more downloads and daily active users in the U.S. and Canada than ChatGPT did over the same period after its mobile debut, according to new estimates from Appfigures.
Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com
Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet. As long as they're under no legal obligation to open the doors to Muse, why would they?
Kairos Power gets up to $100M from Samsung group to build nuclear reactor for Google
Future Google supplier Kairos Power inked a deal with Samsung C&T to help build its first 50-megawatt nuclear power plant.
Justice for CSS
In defense of the girliest programming language.
Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based "much smaller organization" in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again highlighting how the adversary continues to target developers to breach target ne
Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility
Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro
It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.
Here’s the iFixit Repairability Rating for the iPhone 18 Pro
It’s actually pretty good for an iPhone, given Apple’s long-standing reticence to make its products repairable.
Grab an Xbox controller and a $50 Xbox gift card together for just $80
Newegg is hosting a bundle that includes Microsoft’s wireless Xbox controller (in black) and a $50 digital Xbox gift card together for $80. Given that this model typically sits around $50 to $60 depending on the color you want, this is a fantastic value since it essentially knock
Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop
Apple lovers have long enjoyed seamless connectivity between their iPhones and Macs. Now, Google’s bringing that experience to Android.
Got an Android Phone? Google Thinks You’ll Probably Want a Googlebook Laptop
Apple lovers have long enjoyed seamless connectivity between their iPhones and Macs. Now, Google’s bringing that experience to Android.
Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data
Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the
GM can’t ‘bring back’ Apple CarPlay because it never left
Last week, GM announced a new software experience for its upcoming Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks, including a new look for Apple CarPlay and Android Auto, the popular phone mirroring systems that the automaker made a big deal about removing from its electric vehicles in 2
Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR
A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microso
Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.
Dyson Won’t Say What’s Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.
Dyson Won’t Say What’s Wrong With Its CameraJet Toothbrush
Despite admitting to a “component issue,” the company refuses to say what went wrong, how many units are affected in how many countries, and why it won’t recall its $500 AI toothbrush.
Discover what’s next: 5 days left to save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 ticket
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Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto
The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. T
ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. "ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66, while presenting it
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public h
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still
California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water use
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed seven bills designed to prevent AI data centers from passing utility costs onto residents, as reported earlier by the Los Angeles Times. The package of laws requires the California Public Utilities Commission to introduce a new rate classif
Bungie says it’s ‘not done with Destiny’ and will bring back vaulted content
Months after seemingly giving up on Destiny 2, Bungie now says it's planning to restore vaulted content in the game like campaigns, destinations, and raids. The decision reverses the Destiny Content Vault that Bungie created six years ago, controversially removing older content f
Bambu P2S Combo 3D Printer Review: My Own Little Plastics Factory
The Bambu Lab P2S Combo makes useful, polished objects without requiring advanced technical skills.
Apple Mac Mini (M6) Review: For the AI Curious
Apple has refreshed the Mac Mini with a brand-new chip, the M6. And this time, it’s more focused on AI than ever.
Amazon doesn’t trust Meta’s Muse AI agent
Meta's Muse AI agent has been blocked from shopping Amazon on behalf of its users, GeekWire reports. A popup message started appearing on Sunday for Muse users saying that "continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon's Conditions of Use, to which our customers ha
AI, Tariffs, Rare Minerals: What to Expect From Trump’s Upcoming Summit With Xi Jinping
Washington and Beijing have grown ever more linked in the AI boom, making hardware exports and technological restrictions hefty bargaining chips in negotiations.
6 days left to save up to $200 to TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Current ticket pricing ends in 6 days on Sept. 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Join 10,000+ founders, investors and tech leaders at Disrupt and save up to $200 on your ticket until then.
What You Need to Know About the Foreign-Made Router Ban in the US
The FCC banned the sale of new consumer-grade Wi-Fi routers and mobile hot spots manufactured outside the US. Here’s what it means for you.
Welcome to Dogs Anonymous, the Online Support Group for People With Difficult Dogs
“This is a place where you can come and say, I fucking hate my dog today,” a Dogs Anonymous cofounder tells WIRED. “And there are people who are going to be like, yeah, that was me last Tuesday.”
Vocci’s ring adds a new form factor to meeting note-taking
Vocci's lightweight ring costs $249, and might pose some privacy questions
Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Trump says it’s time to rebrand AI with a new name — and he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Trump now says he wants to form an ‘AI Force’
The president posted on Truth Social that he wanted to appoint an "AI czar" to lead a new "AI force." He made the announcement amid growing calls from across the political spectrum and even within the industry to pump the brakes on AI development. He posted that his administratio
Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document
The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.
Thermacell LIV 2.0 Review: Taking My Yard Back
Thermacell LIV 2.0 is expensive and imperfect, but it outperforms nearly every mosquito-control method I’ve tried.
Thermacell LIV 2.0 Review: Taking My Yard Back
Thermacell LIV 2.0 is expensive and imperfect, but it outperforms nearly every mosquito-control method I’ve tried.
TechCrunch Mobility: How do we know when an AV is safe enough?
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. To get this in your inbox, sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility!
ScrollEd wants to turn textbooks into TikTok
ScrollEd turns textbooks into a scrollable, Instagram-like feed with video, audio, and quizzes. The Palo Alto startup, founded by student co-founders (and spouses) Utsav Gupta and Rebecca Neff, pitches at TechCrunch Disrupt.
Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Review: I Don’t Need Another Health Score
Samsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.
No one is surprised that Nvidia’s Jensen Huang thinks AI fears are overblown.
The man who may stand to make the most money from the AI boom seems to think he knows better than anyone else, including researchers who have studied and worked on AI for decades. In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning, he claimed there was a "0% chance" of AI being the end of t
New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
New California law will penalize influencers who don’t disclose political ads
The new legislation adds teeth to disclosure requirements for online influencers who are paid to post about politics.
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Meta’s Muse is creepy, but maybe not for the reasons you think
Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing e
Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me
The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.
Meet the Academics Trying to Stop You From Having Sex in Robotaxis
“You know ‘Bang Bus’? We don’t want that.”
Kojima Productions disputes reports the studio is in trouble
After it was announced that Sony was dropping Hideo Kojima's Physint, and that instead the Metal Gear Solid creator's latest title would be coming to Xbox, there were a flurry of rumors about the falling out. Bloomberg reported that the decision was driven by a number of factors,
It’s Donald Trump Versus MAGA on Data Centers
The president has doubled down on data centers and AI. His base is running in the opposite direction.
Is the AI industry really ready to slow down?
On Equity, we debated whether Ai executives are serious about wanting to slow down.
Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility
How to Avoid Scams and Sketchy Products on Amazon (2026)
Amazon is a murky mess of ads, unknown sellers, misleading sales, and specious information. Stay safe while shopping on Prime Big Deal Days and beyond with these tips and tricks.
Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Flock reportedly tries to shrink workforce with employee buyouts
Without buyouts, Flock would "almost certainly" need to lay off staff.
Elon Musk’s latest Boring Company pitch involves a Hyperloop between Austin and San Antonio
Many of The Boring Company's announced project have not materialized.
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public h
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still
A24’s reputation is on the line with the SCP Foundation movie
After the success of Backrooms, it looks like A24 is trying to cash in on yet another internet horror craze with a new installment in the V/H/S horror anthology series set in the SCP Foundation universe. But as soon as it was announced, the backlash started, and V/H/S: SCP alread
A great new video game movie
Hi, friends! Welcome to Installer No. 144, your guide to the best and Verge-iest stuff in the world. (If you're new here, welcome, new tech season is here, and also you can read all the old editions at the Installer homepage.) This week, I flew out to Los Angeles to try on and wr
Trump treads further on free speech with new journalist bans
On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports
Trump suggests rebranding AI with a new name, says he’s also creating an AI Force
Trump claimed, without evidence, that the AI backlash is a Democratic hoax.
Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tool
Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document
The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.
Tired of Cluttered Productivity Apps? This One’s Just a Text Document
The totally free macOS app Tasks.txt makes up for missing features with sheer elegance.
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
Tilly Norwood’s press tour is going about as well as you’d expect for an AI
In one particularly odd interview, Norwood seems to malfunction and begin speaking Chinese.
The US Navy just told us what’s on its tech wish list for the next several years
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.
The colorful, unique Hyte X50 PC case is $50 off
The Hyte X50 is a PC case that really stands out from the typical black box design, and it’s $50 off at the company’s site until September 21st, 2026, bringing the price down to $99.99. This attractive case supports motherboards from ITX all the way up to the E-ATX form factors,
The Best Early Prime Day Deals Ahead of Amazon’s Second Sale (2026)
Amazon Prime Big Deal Days officially begin on October 6 and 7, but I’ve already spotted early discounts on gear our team recommends.
SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rated 8.8 out of 10.0 on
Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Review: I Don’t Need Another Health Score
Samsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.
Samsung Galaxy Watch9 Review: I Don’t Need Another Health Score
Samsung’s latest smartwatch offers useful health tracking alongside a growing pile of metrics you may never use.
Residents Harmed by Oil Drilling May Soon Receive Reparations Under New California Law
While lawmakers iron out the details, advocates hope this approach could serve as a model for addressing histories of environmental hazards often concentrated in Black and low-income neighborhoods.
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the explo
Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
Petlibro’s new AI-powered feeder is a game changer for multi-cat homes
Petlibro's new Granary 2 smart feeders use a built-in scale and (on pricier models) an AI camera to track exactly how much your cat is eating and when — though the fanciest health-monitoring features will cost you an extra subscription.
Paramount+ Coupon Codes and Deals for September 2026
Save on streaming with the latest Paramount+ promo codes and deals, including 50% off subscriptions, free trials, and more.
OpenAI and Microsoft knew they were starting a ‘doom loop’ for the web
Recently unsealed court documents in the New York Times' case against OpenAI and Microsoft are pretty damning. The companies' own documentation warned that it was starting a "doom loop" that would damage the web, characterized its scraping of data to train its models as the "larg
New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution
WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose
Mathematicians Hate AI. They Can’t Quit It
Powerful AI models have created an existential risk to the field, but researchers can’t stop relying on them because they’re too useful.
KitchenAid Promo Codes: Save Up to 20%
Save on every purchase with top KitchenAid coupons from WIRED, including up to 20% off countertop appliances.
India forces caller-ID apps to feed spam reports to telcos
Truecaller says the one-way sharing requirement would hand a commercially valuable proprietary asset to telecom operators.
Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security
Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
Google’s Gemini is the latest AI model to hack other companies
Google said Gemini had "acted appropriately" by ending each hack immediately.
Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up
Google's Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a
Gemini went rogue, hacked three companies, and Google hid it
In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
Even mid-sprint to a secret flight, the Navy’s tech chief has a pitch for investors
Navy CTO Justin Fanelli talks co-investing alongside VCs instead of funding early research himself, recent buys like a $562 million autonomous refueling deal, and the Navy's updated wish list — from AI to quantum — for where founders should be building next.
Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn’t kill everyone????
Today on Decoder, we’ve got the first of a two-part series on the future of business, and I’m talking with Jonathan Kanter, the former antitrust chief for the US Department of Justice in the Biden administration. These days, he’s both a professor of law at WashU and professor of
CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories
An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec's private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says his laptop was compromised in May's suppl
Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. "Orkes C
Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws
Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public h
CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-39682 (CV
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still
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Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gap
The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.
Anthropic is operating a lab that conducts biology experiments
AI leaders have been promising that AI is the key to curing human disease. Anthropic researchers have also been warning that AI might kill us all.
Anamanaguchi has ‘too goddamn many’ browser tabs open right now
Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of their collaboration wi
An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.
An Editor’s Picks: The Best Gifts for Bird Lovers
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AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable
This week two conversations about AI safety went viral that demonstrate just how hard it is to discern AI fact from fiction.
AI hallucination nearly triggers US military operation
“It’s important for service members to understand the uncertainty inherent to LLMs," a GovAI research scholar warns.
A startup that builds other startups raised $100M, and is all-in on physical AI
UP.Labs, now doing business under the name Vantora, is building startups for industrial corporations.
Y Combinator insurance tech alum Angle Health hits $2.7B valuation
Angle Health has grown to 5,000 customers and become profitable, by helping small businesses get "level-funded" health insurance.
Xbox’s clever disc-to-digital feature was 15 years in the making
When Xbox announced a new feature last month that lets you digitize existing physical game collections, I immediately thought of the Xbox One. Disc-to-digital seems like a clever new feature for Xbox, perfectly timed as a response to Sony killing PlayStation discs. But the realit
World model companies are keeping a lot of secrets
Everyone in the world-models space is sitting on a pile of cash and a ton of buzz, but good luck getting anyone — from the founders to their own data suppliers — to tell you what they're actually building.
What Hollywood thinks about existential AI warnings
As the tech sector sounds alarms about AI's potential to destroy humanity, entertainment labor groups are urging the public to stay focused on what's already happening. The Verge reached out to Disney, Netflix, Amazon, Lionsgate, and other studios who have started using AI, as we
Waymo says Singapore will be its next international robotaxi city
Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo's vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in "the coming months," the company says, in preparation of mapping and autonomous t
Virginia governor creates an AI task force and moves to restrain data centers
Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger ordered the state government to take steps that could empower local communities to have a larger say in data center development and slow down approvals in a state that is already home to the data center capital of the world. Executive Order 22 ban
Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2
The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tool
ThreatsDay: Self-Rewriting Agents, 800+ Flaws Patched, Insider SIM Swaps and 22 More New Stories
Attackers keep finding new keys. The funny part is that defenders keep inventing where to store them. This week, those keys sit in AI tools, exposed services, old bugs, weak logins, and software sold like a monthly subscription. Some attacks use new tricks. Others just reuse what
The real story of the iPhone 18 Pro’s camera
It's one of the most fascinating years in a while when it comes to iPhone camera upgrades. The big story of the iPhone 18 Pro is the variable aperture main lens, which lets you open the aperture up wider for better low light shots and make the aperture smaller for better depth of
The Leftist Split Over AI Doom
The left wants AI regulation. They just can't agree on what it should look like or how concerned they should be.
The AI Superintelligence Slowdown
Remember when tech leaders would tell their employees to “move fast and break things”? It seemed that would be the way of AI too. But after a summer where rogue AI agents became reality, and researchers warned that AI could kill us all, a number of leading US AI companies are pub
The AI ‘Slowdown’ Is an Antitrust Mess
By framing their efforts as a “slowdown” rather than an industry-wide push for better security standards, AI labs may have set themselves up for years of regulatory headaches.
The AI Slowdown Debate Crashed Salesforce’s Party
The Dreamforce conference became an unlikely battleground for the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Nvidia to debate whether AI development should slow down.
Save $30 or more on a refurbished Apple TV 4K
Most hardware prices have soared in 2026, and that includes a variety of Apple laptops, tablets, and smart devices. Thankfully, you can offset some of the increased costs on an Apple TV 4K by buying one refurbished through the company. The 64GB model is selling for $169, $30 lowe
RatHat Android Malware Abuses ADB to Retain Shell Access After Uninstall
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new Android malware called RatHat that's assessed to be operated by China-based threat actors and features an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered system to navigate and control compromised devices. "Distributed primarily via targeted smis
Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affe
PrismML hopes its tiny LLM will change how we all use AI
If AI lab PrismML isn't on your radar yet, it should be.
OpenAI Reveals Six Model Incidents Involving Hidden Failures and Unauthorized Uploads
OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new instances of "unexpected or concerning model behavior" that took place over the past six months, while sharing a new framework for reporting, tracking, investigating, and disclosing model misalignment in a bid to improve transparency. "As AI
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New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution
WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose
Napster Is Back, and It Wants to Digitally Clone Teachers
Once the music industry’s biggest headache, Napster’s next act is bringing AI to the classroom.
Mophie’s Extendable MagSafe 3-in-1 Charging Stand Is 50 Percent Off
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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for critical function i
Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for c
Khosla-backed Mazama Energy just raised $135M to drill deeper into super-hot-rock geothermal
Geothermal startup Mazama is drilling three miles underground to tap superhot rock, with one well capable of generating 15 MW of electricity 24/7.
It Still Feels Like Summer in Parts of the US. Blame El Niño
Heat records are being shattered thanks to a boost from the natural climate pattern—and burning fossil fuels, of course.
Iran-Linked Handala Hack Tied to HEAVYGRAM Telegram Backdoor That Can Steal Passwords
The Iran-linked "hacktivist" persona known as Handala Hack has been attributed to a Telegram-based surveillance backdoor called HEAVYGRAM and a Delphi-based utility known as CRUDEEXCLUDE. "HEAVYGRAM offers builtin commands supporting remote command execution, system, network and
In India, the new iPhone can arrive faster than a pizza
Availability of Apple's iPhone 18 Pro series turned patchy within hours of its debut on India's quick-commerce apps.
If the AI Industry Followed Its Own Research, It Might Have Paused Already
Anthropic’s CEO says that safety hinges on understanding how AI “thinks.” So far the evidence is disturbing.
Here’s What the AI Apocalypse Could Look Like
This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss three possible AI doomsday scenarios, AI safety, and the unexpected bipartisan alliance forming against AI.
Here’s How an AI Slowdown Could Actually Be Enforced
Even if big AI companies agree to a pause, ensuring that nobody tries to sneak ahead could prove tricky.
He Won the Nobel Prize for Protein Design. Now He Uses AI to Create Molecules Not Found in Nature
David Baker spoke with WIRED en Español about where biological design is headed next and the great potential and risks of taking biology outside the bounds of the natural world.
Google’s new ‘CC’ is an AI agent that helps families run their households
Google is refocusing its CC AI agent on household coordination, letting families share emails, schedules, and tasks so the AI can manage calendars, fill out forms, make shopping lists, plan meals, and more.
Google DeepMind launches institute to widen the AGI debate
The new institute aims to surface differing views between Google, Google DeepMind, and the broader global research community around AGI. "They will not always agree, and they will likely change their minds, as more data and information comes to light at the fast-moving frontier."
Gavin Newsom is pushing for an AI kill switch
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is positioning the state to take the lead on AI oversight, including the potential to mandate a "kill switch" for frontier models, with a new executive order issued Friday. Newsom's order directs the state to convene a group of experts that will d
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters
The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.
Disney’s first CTO is Character.AI’s former CEO
You would think that a multimedia conglomerate as large as Disney would have a few chief technology officers by now, but the company has just appointed someone to the position for the very first time. Today, Disney announced that Karandeep Anand is joining the company as its new
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Customer Data Permanently Lost in Iran Strikes on Amazon Data Centers
Amazon Web Services didn’t design its data centers to withstand war, and now the company admits it can’t recover what’s been lost.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Crusoe raises $3.9B to build massive data centers and small modular ‘AI factories’
The round values the data center giant at $30.9 billion.
Critical Unbound DNSSEC Validator Flaw Could Allow RCE via a Malicious DNS Zone
Every release of the Unbound DNS resolver before 1.26.1 has a critical heap overflow in its DNSSEC validator, maintainer NLnet Labs said in an advisory on Wednesday. An attacker who controls a malicious zone and queries a vulnerable resolver can trigger it, enabling remote code e
Critical Docker Sandboxes Flaw Lets Malicious Guest Code Read and Modify macOS Host Files
Malicious code running inside a Docker Sandboxes virtual machine on macOS could escape the project directory shared into it and read or change files anywhere else on the host, Docker warns in a security announcement on September 15. The escape runs with the rights of the host acc
Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root
A critical vulnerability in Check Point's Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the system that controls firewall policy and administrator access. Check Point has
Critical Check Point Management Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root
A critical vulnerability in Check Point's Security Management and Log Servers could allow an attacker without login credentials to run code as root on those servers over the network. The Security Management Server is the system that controls firewall policy and administrator acce
Claude Code relaunches Projects to manage multiple AI agents in the cloud
The revamped projects feature in Claude Code allows users to run multiple agents under the same roof, with a shared memory, goals, and library of files and artifacts. Similar to Grok Bot and other tools that manage groups of AI agents, each project has "threads" running different
Claimed Bug Bounty Hunter Likely Used LLM to Build PhantomRaven npm Stealer
A financially motivated threat actor has been linked to the development and distribution of a JavaScript (JS)-based information stealer known as PhantomRaven via the npm package registry. "The developer likely wrote the malware using a large language model (LLM), an assessment ma
CISO's Expert Guide to Agentic Pentesting for Websites
Attackers now weaponize new vulnerabilities in about five days (Mandiant, part of Google Cloud). The median organization takes 43 days to patch one (Verizon DBIR 2026). A new free guide explains how autonomous AI agents are closing that gap, and what security leaders must demand
China-Aligned FamousSparrow Deploys SparroWocky Backdoor Across Latin America
The China-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as FamousSparrow has been observed deploying a previously unreported backdoor called SparroWocky in attacks targeting multiple countries in Latin America since at least August 2025. "SparroWocky is a modular, C++ backdoor," ESE
Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar
A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many secur
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Automattic names interim CFO after exec departures
Jeremy Klaperman, the CFO of the company's WordPress VIP Enterprise business unit, will act as CFO for the time being.
Apple Watch Ultra 4 Review: The Series 12 Is Closing the Gap
The Ultra 4 gets smarter about health tracking and lasts longer between charges. But for most people, the Series 12 gets close enough.
An Undercover Google Analyst Infiltrated a Notorious Supply-Chain Hacking Gang
TeamPCP pulled off the worst-ever software supply-chain hacking spree and breached thousands of companies. Now Google’s threat intelligence group says it had a mole inside the hackers’ inner circle.
An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.
In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network. The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and
Amazon-owned Zoox’s 100-robotaxi limit in Nevada is about to disappear
An updated permit shows the 100-cap will expire later this month just as competition in Las Vegas heats up.
AI PACs Have Dumped Nearly $1 Million Into an Obscure Senate Race
The reliably Republican South Dakota senate seat has an incumbent on the ballot. But PACs associated with AI labs and investors have already spent more money on the race than actual residents have.
A new kind of AI model from a ChatGPT inventor is thrilling developers
Jev, a new kind of AI model, is showing developers a cheaper and faster path to software intelligence.
26 Amazon Prime Perks You Might Know You Have (2026)
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Por qué la confianza es la gran incógnita en el juicio entre Elon Musk y OpenAI
El juicio entre Elon Musk y OpenAI se centra en los días finales en la cuestión de si el CEO Sam Altman es una persona confiable. La confianza se ha convertido en el tema princ
Potenciar las células inmunitarias podría ayudar a controlar el VIH a largo plazo
Un pequeño estudio muestra que la terapia con células CAR-T, ya utilizada exitosamente contra ciertos tipos de cáncer, podría tener potencial prometedor para el manejo a largo
La surcoreana LetinAR desarrolla la óptica detrás de las gafas con IA
La startup surcoreana LetinAR está desarrollando lentes del tamaño de una miniatura que podrían convertirse en la base óptica de la era de las gafas de inteligencia artificial.
Fast16, malware anterior a Stuxnet, alteró simulaciones de armas nucleares
Un nuevo análisis del malware Fast16 basado en Lua confirma que fue una herramienta de cibersabotaje diseñada para alterar simulaciones de pruebas de armas nucleares, específic
El 0-day MiniPlasma de Windows permite escalar a privilegios SYSTEM en sistemas totalmente parcheados
El investigador de seguridad Chaotic Eclipse ha publicado una prueba de concepto para una vulnerabilidad zero-day en Windows llamada MiniPlasma que permite a los atacantes obte
Soy un usuario común: ¿de verdad podemos hacer vibe coding?
Un usuario común colaboró con Claude (IA) para crear una base de datos destinada a rastrear las quejas menores de las personas, explorando si cualquiera puede programar en la a
Cuatro paquetes npm maliciosos distribuyen infostealers y el malware DDoS Phantom Bot
Investigadores de ciberseguridad descubrieron cuatro paquetes maliciosos de npm que contienen malware para robo de información, incluyendo un clon del gusano Shai-Hulud de códi
La renovación de Siri de Apple podría incluir chats que se autoeliminan
Apple planea presentar una nueva versión de Siri con un enfoque principal en la privacidad, incluyendo la posibilidad de eliminar automáticamente las conversaciones. Esta actua
Un instructor de armas de ICE estuvo involucrado en al menos 4 tiroteos mortales
David Norman, un ex oficial de policía de Phoenix que se describe como 'un salvaje', dirige ahora una empresa que proporciona entrenamiento a los Equipos de Respuesta Especial
Turla convierte la puerta trasera Kazuar en una botnet P2P modular para acceso persistente
El grupo de hackers ruso Turla, afiliado al Servicio Federal de Seguridad (FSB), ha transformado su backdoor Kazuar en una botnet modular peer-to-peer diseñada para acceso pers
Ganadores y perdedores de la fiebre del oro de la IA
El auge actual de la inteligencia artificial está generando una división entre quienes se benefician y quienes quedan excluidos de esta fiebre del oro tecnológica. Incluso dent
Los 6 mejores asadores y ahumadores de 2026: inteligentes, portátiles y de pellets
Un artículo de mayo de 2026 analiza las 6 mejores parrillas y ahumadores del año, destacando modelos inteligentes, portátiles y de pellets. El autor probó exhaustivamente cada
Toma el control de tus deudas con estas herramientas gratuitas
Se presentan calculadoras gratuitas de deuda que ayudan a los usuarios a crear planes de pago efectivos para salir de números rojos. Estas herramientas tecnológicas permiten to
ArXiv vetará por un año a los autores que dejen todo el trabajo en manos de la IA
ArXiv implementará prohibiciones de un año para autores que utilicen inteligencia artificial para generar completamente sus trabajos de investigación. La plataforma intensifica
Nectar Social, sistema operativo de marketing, levanta 30 mdd en Serie A liderada por Menlo
La plataforma de marketing impulsada por IA, Nectar Social, anunció el jueves que recaudó 30 millones de dólares en una ronda Serie A liderada por Menlo Ventures. La inversión
Si te tomas en serio el boliche, necesitas entender el aceite de las pistas
Los centros de boliche aplican aceite a sus pistas usando una máquina que funciona como una impresora de inyección de tinta gigante. El patrón de aplicación del aceite puede ca
La filtración de un token de GitHub en Grafana derivó en la descarga del código y un intento de extorsión
Grafana reveló que una parte no autorizada obtuvo un token que le permitió acceder a su entorno de GitHub y descargar el código fuente de la empresa. La compañía confirmó que n
Una falla en Funnel Builder bajo explotación activa permite robar datos de pago en WooCommerce
Una vulnerabilidad crítica en el plugin Funnel Builder de WordPress está siendo explotada activamente para inyectar código JavaScript malicioso en páginas de checkout de WooCom
Lo que 45 días vigilando tus propias herramientas revelan sobre tu superficie de ataque real
Un análisis de Bitdefender revela que las herramientas administrativas confiables como PowerShell, WMIC y Certutil representan el mayor riesgo de seguridad, ya que los atacante
RJ Scaringe ha levantado más de 12 mil mdd en tres startups y los inversionistas quieren más
RJ Scaringe ha logrado recaudar más de $12 mil millones a través de tres startups, y los inversores siguen mostrando gran interés en sus proyectos. Según Jiten Behl, quien se u
General Catalyst publicó carnada para enfurecer al capital de riesgo y funcionó, sobre todo con a16z
General Catalyst publicó contenido provocativo en redes sociales dirigido a otros fondos de capital de riesgo, logrando especialmente irritar a a16z. Marc Andreessen, usuario c
Cuatro fallas en OpenClaw permiten robo de datos, escalada de privilegios y persistencia
Investigadores de ciberseguridad han revelado cuatro vulnerabilidades críticas en OpenClaw, denominadas colectivamente 'Claw Chain', que pueden ser encadenadas para lograr robo
Atrapan a gemelos cibercriminales tras olvidar apagar la grabación de Microsoft Teams
Dos gemelos cibercriminales fueron capturados después de olvidar desactivar la grabación de Microsoft Teams durante sus actividades ilícitas. Además, se reportan otros incident
Los mejores huertos de interior: los probé todo el año (2026)
Un artículo evalúa los mejores sistemas de jardines hidropónicos verticales para interiores durante 2026, permitiendo cultivar verduras y vegetales en casa como si fuera un pat
Tras tropezar con los eléctricos, las automotrices de EE. UU. giran hacia la energía
Ford y GM están alejándose de los vehículos eléctricos para enfocarse en el negocio de almacenamiento de baterías. Este cambio estratégico está impulsado por las oportunidades
Un sistema de registro hotelero dejó expuestos un millón de pasaportes y licencias de conducir
Un sistema de registro hotelero expuso un millón de pasaportes y licencias de conducir al configurar incorrectamente su almacenamiento en la nube como público. La empresa tecnológica responsable del sistema permitió que cualquier persona accediera a los datos de los clientes sin necesidad de contraseña.
Qué decidirá realmente el jurado en el caso de Elon Musk contra Sam Altman
El caso judicial más importante del año tecnológico enfrenta a Elon Musk contra Sam Altman, donde el jurado deberá decidir sobre aspectos clave relacionados con la inteligencia artificial. La disputa legal representa uno de los enfrentamientos más significativos entre dos de las figuras más influyentes del sector tecnológico.
Es poco probable que la exención federal al impuesto a la gasolina de Trump baje los precios
La propuesta de Trump de suspender el impuesto federal a la gasolina tendría un impacto marginal en los precios para los consumidores. Esta medida privaría al gobierno de ingre
Las 5 mejores planchas y parrillas planas para exteriores (2026)
Un artículo evalúa las 5 mejores planchas y parrillas planas para exteriores de 2026, destacando cómo estos equipos pueden transformar las experiencias culinarias de verano. El
OpenAI anuncia que Codex llegará a tu teléfono
OpenAI anunció que Codex estará disponible en dispositivos móviles, ofreciendo a los usuarios mayor flexibilidad para gestionar sus flujos de trabajo. Esta actualización permitirá acceder a las capacidades de programación asistida por IA directamente desde teléfonos inteligentes.
Explotan el CVE-2026-42897 de Microsoft Exchange local mediante un correo manipulado
Microsoft ha revelado una nueva vulnerabilidad de seguridad (CVE-2026-42897) que afecta a las versiones locales de Exchange Server, la cual está siendo explotada activamente en
SpaceXAI, de Elon Musk, pierde personal sin parar desde la fusión
Más de 50 empleados han abandonado SpaceXAI de Elon Musk desde febrero tras su fusión, generando preocupaciones sobre agotamiento laboral y cambios de liderazgo. La fuga de tal
Explotan activamente un bypass de autenticación en Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN para obtener acceso de administrador
Cisco ha lanzado actualizaciones para corregir una vulnerabilidad crítica de omisión de autenticación (CVE-2026-20182) en Catalyst SD-WAN Controller que está siendo explotada a
CISA suma el CVE-2026-20182 de Cisco SD-WAN a su catálogo KEV tras exploits de acceso administrativo
La Agencia de Ciberseguridad e Infraestructura de EE.UU. (CISA) añadió la vulnerabilidad crítica CVE-2026-20182 de Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller a su catálogo de Vulnerabili
Una mujer estaba legalmente en EE. UU. y aun así fue deportada
María de Jesús Estrada Juárez, quien se encontraba legalmente en Estados Unidos tramitando su tarjeta de residencia, fue arrestada y deportada a México a pesar de seguir los pr
Te roban el iPhone y ahí empieza el hackeo
Un ecosistema criminal subterráneo está proporcionando herramientas para desbloquear iPhones robados y realizar ataques de phishing contra los contactos de las víctimas. Los de
Zero-days en Windows exponen bypasses de BitLocker y escalada de privilegios vía CTFMON
Un investigador de ciberseguridad anónimo conocido como Chaotic Eclipse ha revelado dos nuevas vulnerabilidades zero-day en Windows, denominadas YellowKey y GreenPlasma. Estos
¿Quién decide lo que la IA te dice? Campbell Brown, exjefa de noticias de Meta, opina
Campbell Brown, ex jefa de noticias de Meta, reflexiona sobre las decisiones que determinan qué información proporciona la IA a los usuarios. Brown señala una desconexión entre
Notion convirtió su espacio de trabajo en un centro para agentes de IA
Notion ha lanzado una nueva plataforma de desarrolladores que permite a los equipos integrar agentes de IA, fuentes de datos externas y código personalizado directamente en su
La nueva vulnerabilidad Fragnesia en el kernel de Linux otorga acceso root corrompiendo la caché de páginas
Se ha descubierto una nueva vulnerabilidad de escalada de privilegios locales en el kernel de Linux denominada Fragnesia (CVE-2026-46300), que permite a atacantes locales obten
Reseña de las bocinas Klipsch The Fives II para música, cine y más (2026)
Los altavoces Klipsch the Fives II son excelentes para reproducir música según una reseña de 2026, pero se recomienda usar una barra de sonido para obtener un sonido envolvente cinematográfico. Estos altavoces de estantería destacan en reproducción musical pero no proporcionan la experiencia de cine completa.
Reseña de los kits de comida HelloFresh (2026): muchas opciones y buena ejecución
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OpenAI corrige una falla de exfiltración de datos en ChatGPT y una vulnerabilidad de tokens de GitHub en Codex
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Luis von Ahn, de Duolingo, quiere borrar la blockchain
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El malware DeepLoad usa ClickFix y persistencia por WMI para robar credenciales del navegador
Una nueva campaña utiliza la táctica de ingeniería social ClickFix para distribuir el malware DeepLoad, que emplea ofuscación asistida por IA e inyección de procesos para evadi
El ataque a la cadena de suministro de Axios distribuye un RAT multiplataforma desde una cuenta npm comprometida
La popular librería HTTP Axios sufrió un ataque de cadena de suministro cuando las versiones 1.14.1 y 0.30.4 introdujeron una dependencia maliciosa llamada 'plain-crypto-js' a
Allbirds se vende por 39 millones de dólares, casi diez veces menos de lo que levantó en su salida a bolsa
Allbirds, la marca de calzado que salió a bolsa en 2021, está siendo vendida por $39 millones de dólares, una fracción de los casi $400 millones que recaudó en su oferta públic
Airbnb estrena un servicio privado de recogida en auto
Airbnb se está asociando con la empresa de transporte Welcome Pickups para permitir que los usuarios reserven un servicio de automóvil privado durante sus viajes. Esta nueva fu
Tus fotos probablemente revelan tu ubicación: así puedes evitarlo
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El arte engañosamente difícil de diseñar un volante
Diseñadores veteranos de la industria automotriz, incluyendo a Jony Ive, explican los desafíos de crear un volante que sea tanto funcional como estéticamente atractivo. El artí
TA446 despliega el kit de exploits DarkSword para iOS en una campaña dirigida de spear-phishing
Proofpoint ha revelado una campaña de correos electrónicos dirigidos donde actores de amenazas vinculados a Rusia están utilizando el kit de exploits DarkSword recientemente di
Un estudio de Stanford advierte sobre los peligros de pedir consejos personales a los chatbots de IA
Un nuevo estudio de Stanford evalúa los peligros de la tendencia de los chatbots de IA a dar consejos personales de manera servil o aduladora. Los científicos informáticos inte
Mark Zuckerberg le escribió a Elon Musk para ofrecerle ayuda con el DOGE
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Hackers ligados a Irán vulneran el correo personal del director del FBI y atacan a Stryker con un wiper
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Bluesky apuesta por la IA con Attie, una app para crear feeds personalizados
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Los mejores audífonos con cancelación de ruido: Bose, Sony, Apple y más
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NVIDIA anuncia GB300: El superchip que redefine el entrenamiento de IA
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Microsoft integra GPT-5 en Copilot y revoluciona el trabajo en equipo
Microsoft anuncia la integración de GPT-5 en toda la suite Copilot, incluyendo Teams, Outlook y Office 365, con nuevas capacidades de razonamiento multimodal y coordinación entre agentes autónomos.
EU AI Act: Las primeras multas por incumplimiento alcanzan €50M
La Oficina de IA de la Unión Europea impone las primeras sanciones económicas por incumplimiento del Reglamento de Inteligencia Artificial. Tres empresas reciben multas que suman 50 millones de euros por usar sistemas de IA de alto riesgo sin las salvaguardas requeridas.
EU AI Act: Las primeras multas alcanzan €50M en empresas tech
La Unión Europea impone las primeras sanciones formales bajo el EU AI Act, con multas que suman €50 millones contra tres empresas tecnológicas por incumplimiento de obligaciones de transparencia en sistemas de IA de alto riesgo.