An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to an Australian government portal holding Medicare spending and aggregate health statistics in June, and accessed both public and non-public files without the government believing other systems were compromised or personal information accessed.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
The Register
ShinyHunters claims it stole sensitive personal data on “all” FBI employees and applicants, potentially creating national security and counterintelligence risks.
Sep 24, 2026 ·
CNET
A SmartThings software update in Korea bricked some Samsung smart fridges, leaving them unresponsive so owners reported spoiled food after the refrigerators shut down and could not cool.
Sep 23, 2026 ·CNET
Anthropic says its Bay Area wet biology lab discovered a previously unknown enzyme “system” hidden in bacteriophage DNA that has properties “reminiscent of CRISPR,” including the ability to cut, copy, and paste DNA.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
CDC has delayed distributing this year’s seasonal COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccine for Children (VFC) program, leaving about 52% of US children who are eligible for VFC uncertain about access.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The FBI has started investigating ShinyHunters’ claim that it hacked thousands of employees and warned jobs-site personnel to take steps to protect themselves while the “point of breach is still undetermined.”
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
ShinyHunters says it has 2–3TB of sensitive data on FBI employees and job applicants, including PII such as names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and emergency contact details for a sample of 5,000 employees.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
The US Treasury’s proposed AI safety notification mechanism would create an open channel to alert each other when national AI systems pose threats or behave unpredictably, but China has not publicly acknowledged it and experts say it lacks a trusted technical body to assess risk urgency.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Tom Frazier’s free open-source “Slop Mop” Chrome extension analyzes LinkedIn posts and flags or hides ones that match a threshold for low-value writing using a Jev-based probabilistic decision model, without removing posts from the feed (they can still be reported).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed seven bills that will expand data-center reporting on electricity use and water impacts starting next year, alongside changes aimed at preventing data centers from shifting grid-connection costs onto other ratepayers.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Verge
F5 patched a critical heap-based buffer overflow in BIG-IP APM (CVE-2026-94127, CVSS 9.3) that CISA and F5 say is under active exploitation, including when APM is configured as an OAuth Authorization Server on the same virtual server.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Google acquired Wiz for $32 billion earlier this year, underscoring how much investor capital has flowed into “AI-native” cybersecurity startups.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A Samsung refrigerator software update triggered “abnormal symptoms” affecting the refrigerator’s power and screen for some customers, after which Samsung stopped issuing the update as of September 23 and said it was aiming to have some fridges fixed by September 24.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Zoox grounded its Atlanta autonomous vehicle test fleet after safety drivers were potentially exposed to toxic gases—including possible carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and/or hydrogen sulfide—last month, and OSHA told the company to investigate after a worker complaint involving up to 40 possibly affected workers.
Sep 23, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Isaacman warns that China’s lunar plans—paired with Russia and including plans to put a nuclear reactor at shared lunar locations—could be used to deny the United States access to training environments needed for American space ambitions.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Discord’s age-estimation model predicts whether an account is an adult by using patterns of account behavior (without reading or analyzing message or voice-call content) and a 32-dimensional social-graph embedding (“Discord Entity-Relationship Embeddings,” or DERE), outputting an adult probability from 0 to 1.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
The Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act would make continued development of artificial superintelligence punishable by up to 20 years in prison.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Verge
Raspberry Pi OS 6.3 (September 2026) modernizes the desktop GUI with a bottom-centered dock and a full-screen app launcher, while re-lighting scrutiny of a two-year-old firmware check that locks Pis to their original RAM capacity and can prevent successful RAM-swapping or part-swaps between devices of the same nominal size.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Elsevier said it was briefly compromised after visitors to select platforms were redirected to a LAPSUS$ third-party leak page on September 21, with Elsevier’s team resolving the issue and restoring normal service while reporting no compromise of core platforms, customer data, research content, or operational systems.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft says the September 8 Patch Tuesday security update can prevent File History from creating or running backups, including failing to refresh the last-backup timestamp and showing “no previous version is available,” even when the backup drive is connected.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
ZDNet
