A Washington federal judge issued a default judgment ordering Reddit moderator James Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million and shut down online stores allegedly hosting pirated Nintendo Switch game libraries.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Verge
Asus says an intruder accessed customer order information in part of its eShop, including contact details and order records, but it has not disclosed how many customers were affected.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Register
Researchers say air-gapping AI tools can reduce external attack routes, but it “reduces realism” and is therefore a trade-off rather than a sufficient safety blanket for testing real-world behavior.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
A U.S. Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Flock’s “AI Surveillance Network” highlighted concerns about ALPR cameras storing large troves of images and enabling relatively easy access to data, with a sheriff ending a Flock contract and a Florida woman reporting 13 days in jail after being incorrectly identified by Flock cameras as linked to a crime scene.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Meta says its Muse AI agent “is surprisingly good” and that its Meta Glasses design includes a visible recording light, but critics press that broader social rules and enforcement are still missing as millions of users adopt the device in unexpected ways.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Liquid AI’s experimental DSpark draft model for LFM2.5-VL-3B adds 280M parameters (an 8.9% increase) while delivering up to 3.13x faster decoding on-device and 2.66x faster decoding on an H100 without changing output quality.
Sep 24, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Waymo reported 271 million driverless miles through the end of June across five cities and said its vehicles saw 82% fewer injury-causing crashes than human drivers, including 95% fewer serious-injury-or-worse crashes and 86% fewer pedestrian injuries.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
US prosecutors allege Oxygen Forensics sold digital forensics software to multiple US agencies while the same Russian development operation also supplied software to Russian security services, including the FSB, under different product names.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Apple has released watchOS 27.0.1 to fix random restarts reported on Apple Watch Series 12 and Ultra 4.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Apple Watch’s “Live Rewind” transcribes the last 15 seconds of detected speech and “Siri Recap” provides high-level summaries of daily audio without identifying speakers, while an audible chime is intended to warn nearby people when transcription is happening.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Verge
Google’s “Scan for Good” initiative will use Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber and Wiz’s Red Agent to autonomously hunt for vulnerabilities in critical organizations’ public-facing sites and APIs, then have human security researchers validate findings and handle disclosure/remediation decisions.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
CERT Polska linked 852 Meta ads to 17 malicious Google Play apps that could enroll victims in premium-rate toll fraud via costly SMS short codes or recurring carrier billing charges.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
The forgery attack cuts RSA’s estimated security levels to 265 for 1024-bit keys, 290 for 2048-bit keys, and 2119 for 4096-bit keys (down from previously known levels).
Sep 24, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Artemis II imagery relied on Nikon cameras—Nikon D5 DSLR plus Nikon Z9 mirrorless—for high-resolution photos, with NASA certifying the D5 for flight and evaluating the Z9 under real-world conditions.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
CNET
HSBC UK blocked its Android Mobile Banking app from running inside Samsung Secure Folder and Android Private Space, so some customers were cut off from online banking unless they use the app outside those private-space tools.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Revolut is piloting its “Pay with Smile” facial recognition payments system at select Kiss the Hippo coffee locations in London, starting with Bloomsbury, Chelsea, and Soho.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
Engadget
Experts argue Salesforce’s Dreamforce AI demo may violate SAP’s April API Policy if replicated in production, because the policy restricts API use by (semi-)autonomous or generative AI systems that plan, select, or execute sequences of API calls unless done through SAP-endorsed architectures.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
A firewall rule change during the early 2010s potentially made a classified government datacenter reachable via a commercial datacenter VPN used by thousands of users, while only dozens should have had access.
Sep 24, 2026 ·The Register
Black employees allege Tesla’s Fremont factory subjected them to years of racist harassment, including swastikas, Confederate flags and other white-supremacist symbols, and use of the N-word, alongside unequal pay and fewer advancement opportunities than other employees.
Sep 24, 2026 ·CNET
More than 90% of Discord users won’t be asked to confirm their age; most will be auto-assigned an age group or can use Discord without confirmation unless they access age-restricted content, spaces, or settings.
Sep 24, 2026 ·CNET
