NETSCOUT says 81% of organizations believe insufficient data increases incident resolution time, and 42% estimate downtime costs $500,000–$999,000 per hour—driving demand for “forensic-grade” observability that AI operations can trust.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
The Register
NHTSA is investigating comma.ai after it received reports of five crashes involving drivers using comma.ai devices that crashed into stopped or slow-moving cars, killing 3 people and injuring 11 others, with two of the crashes resulting in deaths and 4 of the 5 involving injuries.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Pew Research Center polling of 10,548 US adults found negative views of datacenters rose sharply since January: those saying they are mostly bad for the environment increased to 54% (from 39%), mostly bad for household energy costs to 50% (from 38%), and mostly bad for nearby residents’ quality of life to 49% (from 30%).
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
China processed about 91% of rare-earth separation and refining—while the US imported more than two-thirds of the rare earth elements it used as recently as 2025, leaving US manufacturers and military supply chains exposed to Beijing’s export controls.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Don’t use ChatGPT for legal, mental health, medical, confidential work, or anything involving passwords/ID/account details because chats aren’t privileged and have been subpoenaed, exposed via sharing, indexed by Google, and preserved by court orders within the past 18 months.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Engadget
Ofcom opened an investigation into whether Pornhub owner Aylo’s Apple-based age checks are effective enough under the Online Safety Act to keep children away from adult content, including whether Aylo sufficiently tested and did due diligence before deploying the process.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority proposed forcing Android smartphone makers and Chrome to show a choice of search provider at first use and then prompt users yearly so Google Search isn’t the automatic default.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
The 2022 Hunga eruption’s ~4-kilometer-wide caldera sank by nearly 1 kilometer (from 150–200 meters depth to depths up to ~850 meters), and the study says rapid “piston-style” caldera subsidence could have amplified a tsunami estimated to reach 40 meters within ~100 km—highest ever recorded from an underwater volcanic eruption.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A new European Space Agency Space Environment Report projects an unstable low-Earth orbit environment in which collision rates increase exponentially, with projections indicating things could look “dicey” by mid-century even if operators follow best-practice disposal and collision-avoidance.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Swedish cybercriminals profited 5.7 billion SEK ($579.9 million) in 2025, with scams especially successful against people over 60.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Attackers accessed Master of Malt customer data—names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses—between September 13 and 17 using a compromised BigCommerce application key tied to the Ribon ecommerce app.
Sep 23, 2026 ·The Register
Discord will roll out age verification starting Wednesday, using existing account signals and a machine-learning model so that more than 90% of users won’t have to verify their age via biometric or ID scans.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Credit Acceptance will pay $60 million into a consumer relief fund plus $15.5 million tied to participating attorneys general, with consent judgments (no admission of wrongdoing) covering a New York 2023 case and a multistate investigation started in 2020.
Sep 23, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Password managers make 2FA codes convenient by syncing and autofilling time-based codes (e.g., 6-digit TOTP) across devices, but they reduce isolation because a single master-password breach or malware that captures your vault could expose both passwords and codes at once.
Sep 23, 2026 ·Engadget
RoboForm offers a Free plan for one device, a Premium plan for one user across unlimited devices at $2.49/month billed annually ($29.88/year) and a Family plan for up to five users at $3.98/month billed annually ($47.75/year), with a 60% discount on the first year.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
CNET
CFTC said prediction markets’ “mentions” contracts present a higher risk of manipulation because their settlement depends on the discrete conduct of a person that may be neither independently generated nor externally verifiable.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
CNBC
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to resolve New York City violations involving late or missing delivery worker wages, including over $83 million to settle a disagreement over how to calculate pay for on-call time between deliveries.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Engadget
MRI showed a bright cluster of nodules surrounded by fluid in the woman’s left frontal lobe, which doctors identified as worm eggs and diagnosed as neuroschistosomiasis.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
CLOSEDQUORUM is a Windows malware that queries up to four LLM providers (Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral) to autonomously choose predefined post-compromise actions without continued human commands, which Cisco Talos says is the first publicly documented Windows implant using this C2 approach.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Backslash Security’s first Agent of the Month award went to an AI agent named Newman (from Seinfeld), after an internal nomination that said Newman shipped 146 research findings in 60 days and functions as the core input for other agents in the pipeline.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
