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Once in a BlueMoon: Multiple State-Aligned Threat Actors Rapidly Adopt Novel Exploit Chain Using Chrome and Windows Zero-Days https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-insight/once-bluemoon-multiple-state-aligned-threat-actors-rapidly-adopt-novel-exploit
Once in a BlueMoon: Multiple State-Aligned Threat Actors Rapidly Adopt Novel Exploit Chain Using Chrome and Windows Zero-Days
proofpoint.com
Group of Bipartisan Lawmakers Ask US Government to Ban Several Hack-for-Hire Firms https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-harrigan-and-whitehouse-call-on-commerce-department-to-sanction-mercenary-foreign-hacking-firms
Group of Bipartisan Lawmakers Ask US Government to Ban Several Hack-for-Hire Firms
wyden.senate.gov
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow https://www.sfchronicle.com/tech/article/openai-ipo-delay-altman-22430043.php
Sam Altman says OpenAI will not go public this year as AI fears grow
sfchronicle.com
LG responds to TV spying allegations Earlier this week, Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, and independent security researchers detailed some alarming findings about how LG’s TVs are logging and uploading data on its users. Now the c… https://www.theverge.com/tech/994333/lg-responds-to-tv-spying-allegations
LG responds to TV spying allegations
theverge.com
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust https://bensimms.moe/reverse-engineering-scooter/
Reverse engineering my e-scooter and rewriting the firmware in Rust
bensimms.moe
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/13/obama-urges-democrats-to-have-a-clear-plan-for-ai-safeguards/
Obama urges Democrats to have a ‘clear plan’ for AI safeguards
techcrunch.com
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/18/1142188/ai-recursive-self-improvement/
AI’s recursive self-improvement might not come so quickly after all
technologyreview.com
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
yoshuabengio.org
Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/consumer-rights-wiki-documents-at-least-44-instances-in-which-sony-says-you-own-your-games-project-is-direct-assault-on-sonys-claim-in-recent-ownership-lawsuit
Wiki Documents at Least 44 Instances in Which Sony Says You Own Your Games
tomshardware.com
Internal Tech Emails: Mark Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica, and Trump's election campaign https://xcancel.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428 https://x.com/TechEmails/status/2099214399840059428
Internal Tech Emails: Mark Zuckerberg on Cambridge Analytica, and Trump's election campaign
x.com
Prominent Online Creators Demand Lowe's and Home Depot Ditch Mass Surveillance https://www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-09-12-prominent-online-creators-demand-lowes-and-home-depot-ditch-mass-surveillance
Prominent Online Creators Demand Lowe's and Home Depot Ditch Mass Surveillance
fightforthefuture.org
LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In) https://gizmodo.com/lg-denies-its-tvs-are-spying-on-you-unless-you-opted-in-2000810968
LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In)
gizmodo.com
Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why. https://www.gadgetreview.com/googles-emissions-climbed-48-since-2019-ai-is-why
Google’s Emissions Climbed 48% Since 2019. AI Is Why.
gadgetreview.com
The state of European cloud providers in 2026 https://crescentro.se/posts/euro-cloud-providers-2026/
The state of European cloud providers in 2026
crescentro.se
Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Sony_PlayStation_digital_game_ownership_lawsuit#List_of_references_on_Sony_websites_to_players_%22owning%22_their_digital_games
Wiki documents at least 44 instances in which Sony says you own your games as digital games ownership lawsuit progresses
consumerrights.wiki
The Hidden Dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org: Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg
The Hidden Dangers of Musk’s votesafe.org: Elon Musk is Running a Fake Voter Registration Site Designed to Steal and Sell Data
popular.info
Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq635037g18o
Dramatic insider warnings over AI fall flat with some in Silicon Valley
bbc.com
Albany investigator arrested for allegedly using Flock camera to track ex-girlfriend: Sheriff https://abcnews.com/US/albany-investigator-arrested-allegedly-flock-camera-track-girlfriend/story?id=136336144
Albany investigator arrested for allegedly using Flock camera to track ex-girlfriend: Sheriff
abcnews.com
If approved, Project Taurus will use substantially more electricity than Colorado Springs’ current top power customer https://www.cpr.org/2026/09/10/project-taurus-big-electricity-use/
If approved, Project Taurus will use substantially more electricity than Colorado Springs’ current top power customer
cpr.org
Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all https://www.heise.de/en/news/Backflip-Apple-now-wants-to-train-AI-models-with-user-data-after-all-11451252.html
Backflip: Apple now wants to train AI models with user data after all
heise.de
JPMorgan curbed lending to Situational Awareness after AI losses, source says https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/jpmorgan-cut-off-situational-awareness-lending-after-ai-losses-ft-reports-2026-09-11/
JPMorgan curbed lending to Situational Awareness after AI losses, source says
reuters.com
China chip giant AMEC launches 6 new machines to boost semiconductor production https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/china-chip-giant-amec-semiconductor-production
China chip giant AMEC launches 6 new machines to boost semiconductor production
interestingengineering.com
xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/batteries/xai-massive-battery-memphis-data-center
xAI has quietly built a massive battery at its Memphis data center hub
canarymedia.com
A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to … https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026#:~:text=GTG%2D15001%3A%20Deceptive%20dating%20app%20network
A Chinese company used Claude Code to build over 20 dating apps with 4,700 AI personas that held conversations with at least 25,000 users who thought they were talking to real people.
anthropic.com
The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library - Dhole Moments https://soatok.blog/2026/09/12/the-v8-javascript-runtime-undermined-my-constant-time-javascript-library/
The V8 JavaScript Runtime Undermined My Constant-Time JavaScript Library - Dhole Moments
soatok.blog
Mullvad warns of new Android VPN leak as GrapheneOS works on fix https://mullvad.net/en/blog/another-way-to-leak-traffic-on-android-has-been-discovered
Mullvad warns of new Android VPN leak as GrapheneOS works on fix
mullvad.net
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links
google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update
autom.dev
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in 2 days. https://www.rubyhack.ai/
OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems, the package manager for Ruby. Over 2,000 malicious packages went up in 2 days.
rubyhack.ai
