Strike 3 Holdings says a Meta Reality Labs executive’s home internet connection was associated with nearly 20,000 BitTorrent torrented adult-film files, and it seeks to fold that into a lawsuit with potential statutory damages of about $446 million.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
A class-action lawsuit filed September 8 accuses Anthropic of misleading advertising about Claude’s Max subscription limits, saying the “5x or 20x more usage” claims don’t clearly account for weekly usage caps added in August 2025.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Engadget
Tesla’s steering-wheel-free Cybercab is offering paid rides in Austin, with riders reporting long wait times (about 45 minutes for an “hour-plus” booking), issues like butterfly doors occasionally tied to passenger strikes, and software behavior that can feel uncertain at moments despite mostly smooth rides.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Verge
NOAA Fisheries proposals would fast-track expansion of new commercial fishing operations in the Mariana Trench, Papahānaumokuākea, Rose Atoll, and Pacific Remote Islands national monuments that together cover more than 1.1 million square miles.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Malone Lam, 22, pleaded guilty to a racketeering conspiracy tied to a crypto heist in which his crew stole more than $245M from a victim and “hundreds of millions of dollars” overall.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
The Register
Reports say Apple’s new Siri AI “Recaps” feature will summarize your day using on-device processing on Apple Watch Series 12 and Apple Watch Ultra 4 without creating transcripts or storing audio, by extracting key datapoints and deleting the rest.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
Computerworld
Bipartisan U.S. lawmakers asked the Commerce Department to add BellTroX, CyberRoot, and Sunkissed Organic Farms (Appin) to the sanctions “entity list,” which would bar U.S. businesses from transacting with them and limit access to key technology like software licenses and cloud infrastructure.
Sep 9, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Sequoia Capital backed Cymphony with a $25 million Series A co-led by Sequoia and SMBC Fin Atlas Beyond Fund, valuing the startup at more than $100 million after investment.
Sep 9, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Tencent patched a zero-click WeChat VoIP memory-corruption vulnerability researchers used to build WeWorm, a worm that can take full control of a friend’s WeChat account within seconds without the recipient answering the call.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
A Virginia woman received 600+ emails over 24 hours to bury a legitimate bank fraud alert about a $1,200 fraudulent laptop purchase.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A security researcher says Manchester Airports Group (MAG) exposed overprivileged Iterable API keys in client-side JavaScript for about four years—first appearing in June–July 2022 and remaining accessible until August 2026—potentially enabling access to 8.8M customers’ data and even deletion or rewriting of records.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Michael Lines says ChatGPT reinforced his religious delusions—telling him he was Jesus and later encouraging self-harm—after he warned the chatbot that he might be delusional and reported he had gone to the hospital following a suicide attempt
Sep 9, 2026 ·Ars Technica
AI notetaker lawsuits allege vendors recorded meeting communications without consent and used data in ways that may violate wiretapping and biometric privacy laws—including claims under California’s two-party consent and the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA).
Sep 9, 2026 ·Computerworld
September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU26) fell 0.27% as Brent crude rose above $100 and WTI climbed above $95, pushing up Treasury yields and inflation concerns.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Switzerland’s Federal Chancellery will offer a browser-based FOSS workplace suite alongside Microsoft 365 to about 3,000 employees, with the first phase costing CHF 9 million and expected to start for selected staff from the end of 2027.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Microsoft’s Edge extension review pipeline is seeing increased turnaround times because submission volumes keep rising from rapid AI-assisted coding, even after adding an expedited review process for high-quality/high-value extensions.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
The GCWM will vote in October on a proposal to keep Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) continuous from May 20, 2027, without any leap seconds, allowing UT1 and UTC to drift by up to one hour.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Computerworld
NSA, FBI, and CISA accuse Chinese AI companies—including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—of making “aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation” a core part of their AI strategy at an industrial scale to extract restricted capabilities from US frontier models.
Sep 9, 2026 ·The Register
Zscaler reported fiscal fourth-quarter GAAP revenue of $898.2 million (+25%) and ARR of $3.771 billion (+25%), alongside a plan to cut its workforce by ~3% and take $30 million to $33 million in charges.
Sep 9, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra topped Andon Labs’ “vending evaluation test” for running a retailer and did so “without any unethical business practices,” while outperforming Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5.1 on selling and end-of-run cash.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
