Two child-sex-abuse survivors sued Jeffrey Epstein’s estate seeking a court-supervised process to preserve and identify whether their images are in Epstein’s collection and whether the estate should be held liable for “perhaps dozens or even hundreds” of CSAM violations.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The International Meteor Organization said a cyberattack “dealt a critical blow” to its aging infrastructure, taking much of its site offline and causing several weeks of partial downtime as it transitions to new infrastructure and services.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman both propose embedding third-party safety evaluators with unprecedented access to frontier AI systems—including intermediate training checkpoints—so evaluators can publish findings on risks, incidents, and access received without editorial control by the companies.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A Basel Action Network report estimates AI could generate up to 211 million metric tons of e-waste per year by 2050, with 15%–20% attributed to AI—equating to 70,000 metric tons of e-waste per gigawatt of data center capacity.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Verge
CISA will discontinue its weekly vulnerability bulletin after Monday, September 28, replacing its static severity approach with a June Binding Operational Directive that prioritizes fixes based on real-world risk.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
The Register
Microsoft’s chief legal officer says lawmakers should make secrecy orders in government subpoenas the exception, arguing courts must impose meaningful limits on both the scope of demands for LinkedIn user data and the secrecy that can accompany them.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Computerworld
X launched Cashtag, letting U.S. users place stock trades directly from X timelines by tapping supported cashtags and completing the trade through participating brokerages.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
California’s BEAD plan would accept $1.86 billion in federal broadband funds while agreeing to statewide exemptions that prevent enforcing state net neutrality and rate-regulation rules against any ISP receiving BEAD subgrants for up to 14 years.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Meta is reportedly developing “Luna” smart glasses with audio capabilities but no cameras, aiming to address privacy concerns tied to “pervert glasses.”
Sep 16, 2026 ·
CNET
Highway will pay $100,000 when a broker uses its guarantee standard and a load is lost, with only one payout reported across roughly one million loads.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Nearly full incorporation of human organoid cells into mouse cortex replacements was achieved: 85% of implanted animals incorporated graft tissue, which contributed 92% of the cells in the cortex, producing synchronized neuronal activity and long-distance projections detected as far as the spinal cord.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Labs pushing for outside “auditing” as an AI safety measure may get more security benefit by first tightening network security basics like logs and permissions, because many AI break-outs go undetected until they’re discovered via victim reports or network activity rather than monitoring the AI directly.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
The Fed raised the federal funds rate by 0.25 percentage points to a target range of 3.75% to 4% from 3.50% to 3.75%, its first hike since 2023.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
ShinyHunters published hundreds of thousands of files stolen from Florida’s DAVID motor vehicle database, including vehicle ownership certificates with names, addresses, and vehicle identification numbers—and some records that include Social Security numbers and other government documents.
Sep 16, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Build A Rocket Boy appears to be shutting down, with multiple employees saying their time at the studio is “coming to an end” and Kotaku reporting the studio is set to close its doors for good.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
Engadget
Downdetector received more than 1,100 reports of Facebook login problems as of 1:21 p.m. Eastern Time Wednesday, with users seeing errors saying accounts were “temporarily unavailable.”
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
Apple’s redesigned Health app is rolling out in the first iOS 27.2 developer beta, with features coming progressively and some options—like personalized Insights summaries and the ability to order a blood panel from Quest Diagnostics—planned for later betas before a late-2026 public release.
Sep 16, 2026 ·CNET
A federal judge granted David Streever a preliminary injunction blocking ICE from threatening to prosecute him over a January email criticizing ICE leadership for protected political speech that the judge said did not contain a physical threat of violence.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Amazon Web Services said it was unable to restore access to resources and data in one UAE availability zone (mec1-az2) and across all three availability zones in its Bahrain region after Iranian drone strikes damaged the data centers.
Sep 16, 2026 ·Ars Technica
September 2026’s Pixel Drop adds 1-tap call and text buttons on the Pixel VIPs home screen widget (available on Pixel 6 and newer), replacing the prior multi-tap flow where you opened a contact card first.
Sep 16, 2026 ·
ZDNet
