A new unredacted filing in The New York Times’ copyright lawsuit says a top Microsoft executive privately called AI scraping “the largest theft of labor in human history,” and describes NYT-facing AI products as causing “doom loop” market harm, including Copilot answer-engine click-through drops of up to 93% versus traditional Bing search.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Researchers demonstrated an EM side-channel injection attack (InjectEave) that can recover intelligible headphone audio from up to 30 meters away, including through walls.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
The Register
Rep. Darrell Issa’s “American Copyright Protection Act of 2026” would let copyright owners use a court “foreign piracy site” declaration to obtain blocking orders that require ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs (with at least 100,000 US monthly users/subscribers) to block targeted foreign piracy websites, with judges able to speed up deadlines for time-sensitive live or within-24-hour releases.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AI watermarking using SynthID-Text can change LLM responses to harmful prompts—especially prompt-injection attacks—so on several open-weight models it made the model more likely to answer harmful requests it otherwise would refuse.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Salt Typhoon (tracked as FamousSparrow) deployed a new modular C++ backdoor called SparroWocky against organizations in Central and South America, with 90% of its targets located in that region from mid-2025 into 2026 and the backdoor first found in August 2025 across multiple countries including Argentina, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Venezuela.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
Glutathione injectable “detoxification” products recalled by three Texas compounding pharmacies were found to contain elevated bacterial endotoxins, and at least three people were hospitalized after IV use, including one who required intensive care for shock and abnormal blood clotting.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The US military leaders said the Joint Force has “on-orbit space control weapons” capable of defending the United States and its interests against hostile adversary actions, but they did not specify the weapons’ type, targets, or operational status.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
CNET
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
Bad actors can upload AI-generated “slop” songs onto a real artist’s existing Spotify (and other) catalog via a distribution loophole, letting them collect the track’s proceeds while the real artist is not paid.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
Engadget
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
At least five people were killed and five others were injured when a Boeing 767-300 Prime Air cargo flight overran the runway while landing at Miami International Airport on September 6, 2026, briefly closing all four runways.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
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
Xbox’s disc-to-digital feature works by having Xbox consoles read a unique serial number embedded on Xbox game discs, enabling you to turn a physical Xbox One disc into a digital copy by slotting it into the console’s disc drive.
Sep 17, 2026 ·
The Verge
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
City Relay says intruders accessed its Metabase Cloud instance twice and may have exposed customers’ financial data, passwords, and lockbox-key access codes, and it has since updated the codes so the previously exposed ones can no longer be used.
Sep 17, 2026 ·The Register
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
Ethereum (ETH) jumped from session lows near $2,370 to about $2,470 after a U.S. Federal Reserve rate hike, with the article saying the $3,300 level remains in play even with macroeconomic worries.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI denied Apple’s trade-secret theft allegations and said Apple failed to show any confidential information was actually stolen by former Apple employees in its August 31 filing in U.S. District Court in San Jose.
Sep 17, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
