There aren’t AirPods with cameras yet and I hope it stays that way
Apple hasn’t announced any AirPods Pro with cameras, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports they’re delayed until 2027.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Verge
Apple hasn’t announced any AirPods Pro with cameras, and Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports they’re delayed until 2027.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
A newly observed exploit kit, BlueMoon, chains a Chromium V8 type-confusion flaw (CVE-2026-85046) and a V8 sandbox escape with a Windows privilege-escalation bug (CVE-2026-85880) to run browser-surveillance and credential-stealing payloads, with Microsoft patching CVE-2026-85880 on Tuesday and Google patching CVE-2026-85046 in Chrome by Sept. 3.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
Paul Christiano, who warned of a “meaningful risk” of rapid AI acceleration causing “catastrophic and irreversible loss of control,” is joining the OpenAI Foundation board and the Safety and Security Committee.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
F5 federated its F5 AI Guardrails into Salesforce’s MuleSoft Agent Fabric Omni Gateway, enabling centralized policy enforcement and proactive threat mitigation for agentic AI governance without re-architecting existing infrastructure.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Proofpoint says at least four hacking groups are actively using the BlueMoon exploit kit, which chains two Chromium vulnerabilities plus a Windows kernel flaw to install attackers’ chosen malware.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Apple says the raw audio used by its new Siri AI “Audio Intelligence” features is handled only within dedicated Secure Exclave hardware, is not saved as a file, and is not accessible to the operating system, apps, or Apple.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
The US alleges that DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI have conducted industrial-scale distillation attacks against US frontier AI models since at least late 2024, aimed at extracting restricted proprietary capabilities from models including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The U.S. Administration is considering measures to involve U.S. companies in Venezuela’s gold and critical minerals after President Donald Trump took majority control of Venezuela’s 65 billion barrels of proven crude oil reserves.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
October WTI crude oil (CLV26) closed up +3.02 (+3.25%) and hit a 3.25-month high as Middle East hostilities raised fears of further global supply disruption.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Amazon is accused in a class-action lawsuit of violating the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by denying pregnant warehouse employees basic accommodations—such as bathroom breaks, an extra 15-minute break, and the option to sit while working—and then terminating or punishing them after medically necessary breaks between April 2025 and July 2026.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A jailbroken LG TV was shown collecting and storing an IP address, geographic location, an advertising ID, and nearby Wi-Fi network names, and researchers say it can exfiltrate plain-text transcripts of voice conversations and capture audio via its embedded microphone even when the TV appears to be turned off or in standby.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Microsoft agreed not to use teachers’ or students’ data to train AI models, with only narrow safety and security exceptions, under a legally enforceable deal with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT).
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Engadget
Charles Liang’s spouse sold 200,000 Super Micro Computer shares for about $7.7 million at a weighted average price of $38.59 per share under a broker-assisted Rule 10b5-1 trading plan set on May 26, 2026.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A Microsoft Defender zero-day called ShieldCrash is claimed to enable arbitrary file reads as SYSTEM on Windows machines that already have Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday updates applied, while not providing arbitrary writes or a full SYSTEM shell.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft agreed to 10 contract-enforceable AI safety and privacy principles for schools with the American Federation of Teachers and the United Federation of Teachers, including not training on student or educator data and requiring human review for “high-risk” decisions.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Verge
Defiance ETFs filed for 16 new leveraged ETFs—each “2X Hourly Reset”—and the funds’ offer explicitly resets 2x leverage six times per day but does not reset for days, months, or years, meaning results are permanent after each window closes.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Chinese researchers at Dalian University of Technology report that an egg-inspired “bionic” armor design can reduce a simulated hypervelocity projectile’s velocity by 64.9%, outperforming a single aluminum plate’s 51% reduction.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
The Justice Department issued a “second request” to Fox and Roku for additional data and documents as it reviews Fox’s $22 billion deal to buy Roku for potential antitrust issues.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
UK Cabinet Office Parliamentary Secretary Mark Ferguson says Fujitsu’s voluntary bidding moratorium applies to call-off contracts arising via its place on GCA frameworks, so inclusion on DOS7 and other frameworks does not override Fujitsu’s commitment not to seek work with new public sector customers.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon resigned, warning that unrestrained development of self-improving AI could kill all humans by the end of the decade and calling it “gambling with our lives.”
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
