Unusual Call Options Activity in Takeover Target GFL Environmental Stock
GFL Environmental’s board is weighing takeover offers said to be around $50, after the stock trades at about $42.90 midday (down 1.90%).
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
GFL Environmental’s board is weighing takeover offers said to be around $50, after the stock trades at about $42.90 midday (down 1.90%).
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A group of Claude subscribers filed an expanded class action alleging Anthropic misled power users about how much extra usage the $100/month “5x” and $200/month “20x” Max subscriptions provide, because the fine print limits the “x” increases to five-hour sessions within weekly caps rather than the larger totals users understood from marketing graphics.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Verge
Water-filled eggshell-shaped 3D-printed aluminum arrays reduced projectile velocity by nearly 65% in hypervelocity-impact tests, versus 51% for just aluminum plates.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A Pennsylvania Qdoba franchisee, The Integritty Group (TIG), defaulted on a $20 million loan taken out in April 2025, leaving about $18.3 million outstanding across 41 restaurants.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Chrome switched to a two-week release schedule, with Chrome 153 launched on desktop, iOS, and Android.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Organizations increasingly rank security as the top purchase criterion for videoconferencing/hybrid meeting room products (31%), with IDC also citing cyberattack exposure (47%), missing patch/update non-compliance (39%), and risky employee behavior (37%) as the biggest security concerns.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
The Register
Novartis shares fell after its late-stage treatment for a rare muscle-wasting disease failed a clinical trial, marking its third clinical-trial setback in a week.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The paper shows that on Qwen3-8B, a political-refusal safety-tuning setup can raise in-distribution political refusal from 9.47% to 84.75% while XSTest over-refusal jumps from 2.00% to 74.00%, meaning the “best” harmful-refusal configuration can become a near-blunt refusal machine unless the benign side of the boundary is measured too.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Hugging Face
Gamers Nexus said its inspection of LG smart TVs found plaintext transcripts generated from audio captured by the TV, plus other information such as nearby Wi‑Fi IP addresses, location data, and nearby networks’ names, signal strengths, and channel numbers, alongside device enumeration and continued audio capture in standby and after internet disconnects.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
A hacker stole roughly 4,000 bitcoins worth about $340 million from Liquid Network, then returned about 3,400 bitcoins worth most of the funds, leaving about 600 bitcoins (about $47 million) still under the hacker’s control.
Sep 8, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Microsoft is set to deliver another Patch Tuesday record with more than 650 security fixes for Windows alone, the third such record in a few months.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Verge
You can update GPU drivers in Windows 11 either through Windows Update (Settings > Windows Update > Check for updates) or via Device Manager (Start Menu > Device Manager > Display adapters > your GPU > Driver tab > Update Driver > Search automatically for drivers).
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Engadget
Google’s Mandiant incident response team investigated extortion intrusions in which attackers exfiltrated proprietary AI data (including a proprietary AI model at a healthcare company, and AI media-generation assets like source code, prompts, skills, model scripts, and secrets at another) and then demanded payment to avoid publishing the stolen data publicly.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Boston Scientific said it no longer expects to meet its previously issued 2026 third-quarter and full-year sales and adjusted profit forecasts after a cybersecurity incident disrupted its global operations.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
LG smart TVs can continue capturing microphone audio in standby and even after the internet is disconnected, storing the audio offline and uploading it once a connection is restored.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Verge
Switzerland’s federal government launched a pilot to assess whether Microsoft 365 can be replaced with similar open-source services, initially migrating 3,000 computers (7% of the federal workforce) out of more than 54,000 workstations.
Sep 8, 2026 ·
Computerworld
CloudSEK linked the BigBear 2.0 phishing-as-a-service campaign to 5,137 credential records across 461 Microsoft 365-targeted organizations and 4,148 stolen Microsoft-authenticated session cookies, including 474 cases showing attackers capturing sessions after victims completed MFA.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Computerworld
Grindr agreed to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a UK class action alleging it shared sensitive user data, including HIV status, with third parties, with no finding or admission of liability.
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Ministers told UK departments that the default should be to make decisions and move on, cutting back “consultation culture” that they call an “industry of dither and delay.”
Sep 8, 2026 ·The Register
Prosecutors allege a gold, bitcoin and cash “scheme” fleeced more than 200 US seniors out of over $250 million, with gold allegedly melted at a Florida refinery into molten puddles.
Sep 8, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
