Oct 1, 2026 ·
Engadget
Neon said it is developing a SCP Foundation-based anthology film that will be released under the SCP Wiki’s required Creative Commons ShareAlike (CC BY-SA) license and arrives in theaters in 2027, after earlier A24 plans drew SCP Wiki criticism for not contacting the community or offering open-source licensing.
Sopra Steria says an unredacted Capita–DWP contract includes a Project Change Clause that lets the DWP fund technology to compensate for deficiencies in Capita’s tender, shifting risk away from Capita and toward the DWP.
Oct 1, 2026 ·
The Register
Women make up 16% of the UK cybersecurity workforce—the lowest since 2021—and fall to 12% in the senior workforce (6+ years of experience), versus 48% across all UK industries.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Register
A poll of 2,000 Brits found that about 33% believe life would get better if social media sites were erased from the internet tomorrow, despite 7% saying social media is a force for good.
Oct 1, 2026 ·The Register
California’s new laws prohibit employers from relying only on AI to make disciplinary or termination decisions, require transparency when AI contributes to mass layoff/relocation/termination, and ban AI-powered surveillance of employee bathrooms.
Oct 1, 2026 ·Engadget
Microsoft warned ExpressRoute Gateway, Azure VPN Gateway, and Azure VMware Service users that they may see degraded or interrupted network connectivity and failures in some network management operations during an incident that began at 20:30 UTC on 30 September 2026.
Sep 30, 2026 ·The Register
Neel Kashkari said “Inflation is still too high,” noting that inflation has been elevated at around a 3% annual pace for more than five years and that Wednesday’s cooler-than-expected August PCE data “didn’t really change that story.”
Sep 30, 2026 ·
CNBC
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth launched Project Meridian, a 120-day Pentagon effort to study future battlefields and propose “actionable solutions” to start developing, testing, and fielding advanced military technologies.
Sep 30, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The U.S. Department of Defense launched Project Meridian to study future battlefields and propose actionable solutions to develop, test, and field weapons and technologies for “21st century and beyond” overmatch, led by Elon Musk, Palmer Luckey, and Newt Gingrich.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Engadget
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
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
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
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
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
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
Two dozen AI and Big Tech firms agreed to undergo independent safety audits testing internal controls, monitoring, and detection for “cybersecurity, biosecurity, chemical threats, and unintended actions by AI models,” but the accord is voluntary and carries no legal weight.
Sep 30, 2026 ·Ars Technica
