A UK lawsuit filed at London’s Competition Appeal Tribunal seeks £2 billion (about $2.7 billion) against Apple over claims that its App Tracking Transparency consent prompts impose stricter requirements on third-party app developers than on Apple’s own advertising services.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Meta agreed to pay up to $17 billion over 10 years to settle lawsuits brought by more than 40 states, the District of Columbia, and several territories, and will overhaul Instagram and Facebook teen features including a two-hour default daily time limit and overnight blocking from midnight to 6 a.m.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI said it will disclose six new examples of “model misalignment at OpenAI” from the past six months, alongside a new framework for reporting future incidents.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple agreed to let EU apps that request tracking consent use an alternative App Tracking Transparency (ATT) prompt with modified wording/formatting and a link to “additional information” instead of the standard ATT screen while still requiring a prompt.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon said federal oversight of the AI industry should be “light touch,” arguing that differing state laws would make AI commerce “almost impossible” to deal with.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NOAA says summer 2026 was the hottest on record for the continental US, with an average temperature of 75.6°F and average daytime maximums of 88.6°F, beating prior records that were a tie between 2021 and 1936.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
CNET
Environmental groups sued the EPA over its plans to repeal climate rules for power plants, warning the rollback would increase heat, storms, premature deaths, and health and insurance costs across the U.S.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The SEC issued a rule that clears the way for tokenized stock trading on authorized venues using blockchains as the settlement/trading ledger.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Microsoft rolled back a configuration change after it prevented some users from loading SharePoint Online sites and pages on September 16 from 16:04 to 17:30 GMT, returning the error “Sorry, something went wrong: Thread was being aborted.”
Sep 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Waymo reported it detected a violation involving a firearm inside one of its robotaxis and pulled the car over, after which police arrested two teenagers who allegedly had a loaded AR-style “ghost gun” in the vehicle.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
A 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision let stand an NLRB finding that Starbucks illegally threatened to deny maternity leave benefits to a pregnant employee if workers unionized, even as it rejected most other anti-union claims in a 2-0 ruling.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
NASA plans to order two additional Boeing Starliner crewed missions, fund fixes for Starliner’s thruster issues, and help certify Starliner for launches on a new rocket after Atlas V retires.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Stop Bleeding the Future, a coalition led by QuitGPT, is asking US congressional candidates and elected officials to refuse and publicly condemn support for Leading the Future, a pro-light-regulation AI super PAC network that has raised more than $140M for the 2026 election cycle.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
SOL rose nearly 3% in the past 24 hours and recovered back to the $100 level after Kevin Warsh’s hawkish comments pushed it to around $96, with bulls defending $100 and targeting a break above $105 to start the next upswing.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Huawei says its Ascend 960DT AI chip is expected to be ready in Q1 2027, earlier than its prior Q3 2027 plan.
Sep 17, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Pew Research’s survey of 42,151 people in 37 countries (Feb 8–May 13) found that in 34 countries respondents are more likely to believe AI will lead to job losses over the next 20 years than to create new ones—rising particularly high in Australia and South Korea (76% each) and the US (71%).
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Verge
Microsoft says the September 2026 security update (KB5124008) can break secure channel connections for Credential Guard–protected machine accounts on on-premises Active Directory, preventing Windows 11 24H2, 25H2, and 26H1 users from signing in with valid domain credentials and triggering trust-relationship warnings between the device and domain.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
US single-family housing starts rose 7.6% in August to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 918,000 units, but single-family building permits fell 1.8% to 878,000 units, signaling the rebound may be temporary amid higher mortgage rates.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The European Commission’s proposed EU Kids Act would ban social media access for children under 13, allow supervised access for ages 13–14, and require kids to be 15 before creating their own social media accounts.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
Lasso Security says watermarking used for AI provenance can change AI agents’ tool-calling accuracy and refusal behavior, and under adversarial prompt injection it increased attack success rates by making models less likely to refuse harmful requests.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
