At least five unvaccinated people have died of measles in the outbreak, while the CDC is still reporting only two measles deaths after changing its Pennsylvania death-count criteria.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI says an adversarial distillation campaign running nearly all of July started on July 1 and hit high-volume spikes on July 24–25 with 16,000 requests using an extraction pattern from over 4,000 users, and that it fully disrupted the campaign on July 28.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Register
CBP says it searched the electronic devices of 55,318 of the 419 million+ international travelers it processed in FY 2025 (about 0.0013%) without a warrant under the border-search exemption, which Kennedy says CBP violated when it confiscated and copied the contents of his phone.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Flow Engineering raised a $50M Series B at a $750M valuation, co-led by Valar Equity Partners and Atreides Management with Sequoia Capital also participating.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The White House’s AI chatbot America.gov responded to the prompt “hotdog” by displaying a virtual life-size Frankfurter and offering a complimentary virtual wiener to users, with “condiments sold separately.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Georgia Tech researchers developed SWANS (Smart Wireless Autonomous Networking System), which uses ionic-conduction–style voltage pulses through body tissue to coordinate multiple syringe-injectable implants without antennas or radio waves.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Neon has announced it is producing an SCP Foundation film to be released under the Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license, unlike A24’s earlier SCP Foundation film work that allegedly had not complied with the wiki’s licensing requirements.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
The Verge
CVE-2026-73570 is being exploited to run unauthenticated remote operating-system commands on vulnerable Zimbra Collaboration Suite servers, enabling email backup and authentication/mailbox data theft.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google’s next frontier AI model, Gemini 4 Argon, is being limited at launch to a “set of trusted cyber defenders,” with access expanded gradually after “critical frontier safeguards” are strengthened.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Verge
A YouTuber built a palm-sized, working mechanical calculator from 3D-printed plastic filament using a Leibniz stepped drum mechanism, supporting inputs from 1 to 999 and performing addition and multiplication (but not subtraction or division).
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Factory CEO Matan Grinberg accused VC board adviser Chris Degnan of sharing confidential information with Factory’s biggest competitor, Cognition, after Degnan joined Cognition as chief revenue officer two hours after Grinberg fired him as an adviser.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Neko Health, founded by Spotify billionaire Daniel Ek, raised $700 million to build a body-scanning preventative healthcare business as other consumer-health startups like Midjourney and Function Health also pursue similar scanners and platforms.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Google’s Gemini 4 Argon AI model will be offered via API at $2 per million input tokens and $10 per million output tokens (with cached input tokens discounted 95%), but it remains unavailable for general testing for now.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
America.gov, a US government chatbot announced by Donald Trump, uses Google Gemini and xAI’s Grok and currently answers only common service questions (like passport applications, voter registration, tax tracking, and Medicare/Social Security), but it can generate politically contradictory replies and other bizarre outputs when prompted.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNET
Reddit says it will further restrict access to Old.Reddit.com so that logged-in users can only access it if they have used Old Reddit while logged in within the previous six months, with moderators exempt as long as they’re logged in.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. argued that AI would let Americans bypass doctors and health experts—using AI to “get second opinions” that could contradict expert guidance on masks, social distancing, and vaccines—but the article reports that Gemini and ChatGPT both answered “yes” to masks and “yes” to social distancing working to reduce spread of infectious diseases.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Hackers exploited a security vulnerability in a Pentagon file-sharing system over several months from October 2025 to mid-July 2026, stealing unencrypted military personnel records containing Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable information affecting about 2.8 million living people and close to 300,000 deceased people.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Disney’s bid to settle an antitrust lawsuit by acquiring Fubo effectively ended Fubo’s fight against Disney’s alleged streaming power, after Fubo accused Disney, Fox, and Warner Bros. Discovery of “antitrust” behavior in a proposed sports-streaming app launch in February 2024.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
DoorDash unveiled DoorDash Air, a drone delivery service built after focusing first on ground logistics like loading systems, food handoff, and packaging, and it will use its Autonomous Delivery Platform (ADP) for routing decisions based on factors including weather, flight range, and ground traffic.
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The 2027 BMW 3 Series electric (i3 50 xDrive) costs $61,500—$4,400 less than the gas M350 xDrive’s $65,900 (both excluding destination charges).
Sep 30, 2026 ·TechCrunch
