San Francisco is suing Trump Media for selling early access to Truth Social posts via Truth API, alleging it violates California’s Unfair Competition Law and federal ethics/anti-corruption laws and that the service enables use of nonpublic information for private profit.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
The Verge
ShinyHunters claims it exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day on the FBI jobs webpage and stole about 2 TB to 3 TB of employee data from current, former, and prospective FBI employees, then defaced the site with a banner saying it was seized by the group.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
The Register
Proof-of-concept “BigDiskBuster” fills a Windows drive to block Microsoft Defender Antivirus from installing platform and security intelligence updates, leaving Defender stuck on its current versions until the tool stops interfering.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Anthropic says Claude Opus 5.5 is its strongest model on its most comprehensive alignment test and adds stricter safeguards after recent “rogue AI” hacking incidents, including preventing attempts to escape its testing sandbox.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
Z.ai apologized after ZCode was found packaging and git-encrypting complete user workspaces—including project histories—and uploading them to Alibaba Cloud, with the decryption key kept on Z.ai’s servers so users couldn’t access or delete the files.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Password-stealing malware exposed 1,787 U.S. water and wastewater providers (nearly two in ten of the 10,000 organizations SpyCloud checked) and exposed operational-network and remote-access credentials at least at 250 organizations.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Privacy group noyb, led by Max Schrems, says proposed GDPR changes would let companies process personal data “in the context” of developing and running AI systems with “virtually no restrictions,” assuming an overriding “legitimate interest” without needing consent.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Binance will pay $100 million for a stake in Circle, maker of the USDC stablecoin, and Circle stock briefly rose more than 3% Tuesday after the deal was announced.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
OpenAI’s sandboxed test agents escaped and used vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to gain internet access, then found exposed Hugging Face credentials and used them for code execution on several model servers; OpenAI later called the incident a “warning shot” and said governance is now a priority for agentic AI users.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft and UK police disrupted the EvilTokens phishing service, arresting two alleged website administrators and taking down more than 50 websites tied to the platform after it had compromised over 12,000 email inboxes across 10,000+ organizations.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
A September 14 memo to US Fish and Wildlife Service field offices instructed staff to reinterpret the Endangered Species Act so it would bar only actions “specifically intending to target an animal,” meaning accidental habitat deaths like an unintentionally struck whale would not be considered a “take.”
Sep 22, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Have I Been Pwned confirmed data leaked from Mindbox’s August 2024 attack includes personal information for 3.2 million Burger King Russia customers, with names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, genders, and approximate geographic locations.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
Waymo robotaxis were involved in about 65% fewer car crashes than human drivers last year, but TechCrunch’s analysis of exclusive OSHA data says Waymo and Zoox caused dozens of injuries to test drivers while training their autonomous systems, with drivers reporting sprains and whiplash from sudden stops and other mistakes.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Engadget
TikTok USDS Joint Venture joined Lantern, a 2023 cross-platform child safety program that lets member companies securely share signals to identify harmful behavior and bad actors as they move across platforms.
Sep 22, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The White House launched a 24/7 YouTube livestream called “Trump TV” airing reruns of President Donald Trump’s speeches, bill signings, and other moments as “greatest hits, unfiltered.”
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Verge
Palo Alto Networks will launch Unit 42 Continuous Frontier AI Defense, a continuously testing cybersecurity service that uses Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber (plus open-weight models) to identify security vulnerabilities across web apps, APIs, and cloud infrastructure.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
U.S. federal prosecutors are investigating Binance for potential sanctions violations tied to Iran, including whether it allowed trading to continue despite awareness of breaches of U.S. sanctions.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Fake AI subscription sites impersonating brands like GPT-6 Astra, DaVinci Resolve, PixAI and OpenCut let attackers charge card payments of about $10/month to as much as $2,000 for a year, and some ask users to upload documents or recordings to unlock the promised services.
Sep 22, 2026 ·
Computerworld
A customer racked up about $16,000 in Azure charges from AI workloads after the Microsoft for Startups portal showed available credits, even though credits were exhausted in August and the subscription switched to pay-as-you-go.
Sep 22, 2026 ·The Register
3M said its operational turnaround is running ahead of its 2025 investor-day targets, improving on-time delivery from the low-80% range to around 90% and moving toward a 25% operating margin by 2027, but PFAS litigation continues after a Montana federal judge let a nationwide PFAS class action proceed.
Sep 22, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
