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Updated 2026-09-17 19:16
China's Salt Typhoon backdoors Latin American orgs with new snooping malware
Beware the SparroWocky, my son! The backdoor that bites...
Scientific papers become agentic chatbots with new tool
Why go through the hassle of reading a study for yourself when you can turn it into an AI agent and tell it to reproduce the analysis for you?
London property manager breach may have exposed bank details and lockbox codes
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and extracted customer data
Microsoft configuration change leaves SharePoint pages drawing a blank
Validation? Apparently that comes after deployment
Grassroots coalition asks politicians to choose voters over Big AI's $140M machine
QuitGPT-led pledge targets Leading the Future's push for lighter regulation ahead of the midterms
Microsoft patch gives domain-joined Windows PCs trust issues
Machine Identity Isolation policies can reject valid credentials unless controllers meet the Server 2025 functional level
AI model watermarking changes agent behavior
Lasso Security sees differences in tool handling and model refusals
Cisco drops another exploited zero-day, this time a perfect 10
ISE authentication bypass under active attack just days after another Cisco zero-day sent admins scrambling to patch
Microsoft AI chief warns Anthropic not to put ideas in Claude's head
Mustafa Suleyman claims model welfare language could make future systems harder to control - while sparing OpenAI the same scrutiny
Test environment let anyone access live customer data
Even a temporary staging server needs to be locked down.
Omarchy gains $18.5M in backing, fresh converts – and fierce critics
DHH's Arch-based desktop becomes the latest front in FOSS's culture wars
Ofcom discovers issuing Online Safety Act fines is easier than collecting them
Platforms comply just enough to avoid being blocked, leaving the regulator chasing debt
Government Digital Service move 'grinds gears' in UK's e-government
As team responsible for tech strategy shunted to third department in three years, experts fear exodus of talent
Judge orders Microsoft to spill internal docs and scour execs' comms in secondhand licensing case
Yes, the 'Secondhand Software Presentation' does sound like it might be an adverse document...
Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers
Clouds, the sovereign-sensitive, and the inferencing-interested are also about to get sales calls
Swift 6.4 unifies building across Linux, macOS, Windows
Swift Build is now the default engine for the Swift Package Manager
OpenAI admits its agents went off the rails another six times
Startup says it's learned from these mistakes and that they shouldn't happen again ... which is just what Zuck has said about 100 times
If a Mac mini is agentic overkill, try this glowing pyramid that runs personal bots
'Intern 2' offers an isolated environment and cloudy inference to automate your world
AI agents can modify themselves without humans telling them to do so
This is a test - it is only a test
Nvidia goes green to keep grid capacity from zapping its revenues
GPUzilla woos neoclouds into another walled garden, promising smarter, more efficient, and profitable bit barns
CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore
Agency's shift from static CVSS scores to risk-based prioritization sends the old format packing September 28
OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things
Advertisers can now ask ChatGPT to help create their ChatGPT ads, because what's more relatable than an ad crafted by a bot?
Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks
CISA gives federal agencies just 3 days to patch
Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows
Hardware such as mainframes found to hold the data and business logic needed to build those AI services
Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel
He'll need to earn around $13K a year to pay pops back between now and when he turns 18, so at least there's that free labor to look forward to
Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century
Kmscon brings smooth scaling, richer colors, and better Unicode support beneath GNOME 51
SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22
Flight test 14 angling for 10 hours in space and a splashdown in the Pacific
AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good
Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack
Data protection chiefs call for 'immediate review' of data protection models
Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy
It looks like you're trying to write some code. Perhaps a shortcut is in order?
Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files
Sensitive personal data was involved, but there is no evidence it was shared with third parties
Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage
As thousands attend annual conference in San Francisco, customers get 'severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access services'
BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs
Telco says accounts are secure as customers report hundreds of mystery codes arriving in rapid bursts
UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below
70M ARIA program backs 18 projects aiming to keep connectivity aloft for a week
Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free
Frontier-level AI runs everywhere, so attacks will never stop
Mythos has made 2026 patching hell. It might make 2027 a breeze
Gartner sees huge amounts of technical debt paid down, and better scanning that could make software safer sooner
Java 27 grows up, makes better choices
Improvements in JDK garbage collection, header sizes, data security and quantum key support all should minimize developer friction
TypeSafe AI debuts model for machines that plays Doom
'Jev' doesn't chat. It produces typed probabilistic decisions
The vulnpocalypse rains iBugs down on Apple with record-setting number of patches
September Patch Tuesday part 2?
AI networking startups race to replace Nvidia's NVLink
Intel spin-off Cornelis and newcomer Delos Data pitch open alternatives for scaling AI beyond the rack
Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS
Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!
Low-quality casino sites conceal highly dangerous threat actors
Security firm Infoblox shines light on malicious infrastructure lurking beneath illegal gambling sites
Iranian spies hit Windows machines with Chosen Brick data-stealing malware
'Enemies of the regime' on notice
Higher-enriched uranium for datacenters has DoE all aglow
HALEU is still being produced at a snail's pace; Nusano says its federal backing could speed things up - eventually
America is building datacenters faster than the grid can power them
Meeting expected energy consumption through 2030 will require $110 billion in new generation resources
Cisco email security boxes can be rooted by... an email
Attackers already exploiting the critical flaw, and Cisco warns they may be able to cover their tracks once they're in
Twitter workaround worked around again: X's lawyers cancel XCancel again
Nitter's repository archived as of September 11, 2026
Who's governing your AI? A trust framework for enterprise agents and models
SPONSORED FEATURE: DigiCert wants to hand every agent a passport, complete with an expiry date and a named human owner
CenterPoint Energy confirms intruder helped themselves to customer information
Forum post claims 7.49 million files up for grabs as Texas utility investigates breach
September's Windows 11 patch needs an emergency patch of its own
Microsoft fixes RDP and Hyper-V fallout, but some USB audio stays silent
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