The UK Ministry of Defence has launched Project PANOPTES, a £5 million bid to develop an autonomous vehicle-mounted counter-drone system that can detect, track and defeat swarm-style attacks without rapidly exhausting ammunition.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
The Register
Some Chinese rare earth suppliers are declining to ship to U.S. customers amid fears of repercussions from Beijing, with refusals tied to both broader geopolitical concerns and sanctions on the Responsible Business Alliance (RBA) imposed in early August.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Google Cloud says a partial outage in us-central1-b on September 1 (07:41–11:52 PT) was triggered when an engineer inadvertently disconnected 100% of fiber paths across all network devices during routine hardware maintenance, causing severe network degradation, unreachable VMs, and up to 100% traffic-flow drop rates at peak.
Sep 4, 2026 ·The Register
AI-generated food menus can look eerily “too pleasing” because models trained on narrow datasets tend to “shave off the edges,” producing smoother, more homogenized images that many people recognize as wrong even when they can’t articulate why.
Sep 4, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
The FCC asked a federal judge to toss Disney’s lawsuit over the agency’s early review of licenses for Disney’s eight company-owned ABC stations, arguing a win for Disney would block the FCC from using evidence in its investigation into alleged unlawful discrimination.
Sep 4, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Blackstone capped withdrawals from its $77.2 billion Blackstone Private Credit Fund (BCRED) at 5% of shares after investors requested 10% in Q3, which would have amounted to $4.3 billion in equity.
Sep 4, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Cisco warned of multiple critical vulnerabilities in IOS XR and Cisco networking gear and released new IOS XR versions that fix the issues, including CVE-2026-20212 affecting Nexus 9000 Series Switches that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute code with root privileges.
Sep 4, 2026 ·The Register
OpenAI is pledging $1B in credits under its “Daybreak for Frontline Defenders” initiative to subsidize access to its services and training for under-resourced cyber defenders over the next six months.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
The NBA suspended Steve Ballmer for a year and fined the Clippers $30 million while requiring the team to forfeit five future draft picks, after a league report found Ballmer’s claims about a $28 million “endorsement” deal involving Kawhi Leonard were “inaccurate (at best)” and “clearly false.”
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Verge
Oura filed with the SEC to go public, reporting revenue rising from $697 million in the nine months ended June 30, 2023 to $1.2 billion in the corresponding nine months in 2024.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Stryker’s SportSuite Vision Apple Vision Pro app was used during the first real-world SportSuite Vision procedure, a hip arthroscopy at Duke Health.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
A 2-year Shigella outbreak at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center generated data from 169 microbiologically confirmed shigellosis cases in non-human primates, including 151 Shigella isolates (whole genome sequencing on 95) and immune sampling from 41 infected animals.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Sen. Ron Wyden asked the NSA to update its public VPN guidance, including whether single-hop VPNs are adequate, whether multi-hop architectures are preferable, and how to address timing-pattern and message-size attacks through techniques like random delays and cryptographic padding.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
The Take It Down Act makes it a federal crime to publish or threaten to publish nonconsensual intimate imagery—including AI deepfakes—and requires online platforms to remove such content within 48 hours.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
CNET
Utah’s Department of Commerce agreed not to enforce Utah’s SB 73 VPN age-verification measure, which took effect Thursday, while a federal judge decides a legal challenge.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Engadget
New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to rule that sports markets offered on Commodity Futures Trading Commission-registered exchanges are still “sports bets” that states can regulate, arguing Dodd-Frank does not preempt state sports-gambling laws for Kalshi’s products.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Three climbers on California’s Mount Shasta relied heavily on Google Gemini for route and packing advice, were advised to bring far less food and water than needed, and after one fell and injured his leg they needed a multiday rescue following two failed helicopter airlifts and an extended descent over roughly three days.
Sep 3, 2026 ·CNET
DOJ alleges Linqto founder William Sarris boosted revenue by lying about pre-IPO securities prices, fabricating scarcity, and imposing customer markups that reached over 200% in some cases (median 60%, with over a quarter exceeding 80%).
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Abliteration.ai offers a commercial service that hosts open-weight models with AI guardrails and refusals removed—saying it enables users to run “offensive cyber, red-teaming, and agent testing” that other models refuse, including an abliterated version of Z.ai’s GLM-5.3 accessible via web or API.
Sep 3, 2026 ·TechCrunch
TikTok backed out of a House Select Committee on China “public roundtable” set for this month, with the chair John Moolenaar (R-MI) saying it refused to appear to avoid broader scrutiny of its child safety practices.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Verge
