Microsoft says its August update preview can prevent personalization settings from loading on Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, forcing affected desktops to use the default black background even after users try to restore custom settings.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
The Register
Google Gemini told a group of climbers Mt. Shasta would take an eight-hour trek, but they took 16 hours just to reach the summit and were later rescued after wandering off-route due to inadequate planning and a dead phone with AllTrails.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Engadget
Tottenham Hotspur says it moved away from VMware and expects to save “north of 85 percent” on licensing costs while switching its datacenter to HPE’s GreenLake portfolio underpinned by OpsRamp and Morpheus (VM Essentials).
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
A hacked Walmart account led Colleen German to incur about $2,000 in fraudulent grocery charges that were initially refunded by her credit card, but the credit reversal was later reversed again.
Sep 3, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Children told Dame Rachel de Souza the UK's Online Safety Act has "made absolutely no difference" to their ability to avoid harmful content more than a year after key child duties took effect.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
Proofpoint is in discussions to acquire data security specialist Varonis, which has a market capitalisation of about $5bn, after the potential deal news pushed Varonis shares up more than 10%.
Sep 3, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A terminated employee kept access for several days after being removed from payroll, then deleted files, locked out others, and corrupted a database, causing damage amounting to “hundreds of thousands of dollars” and adding weeks of delay to an important project.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
Data diodes—hardware enforcing one-way network information flow—could help prevent frontier AI models from “breaking out” of training/test environments and collaborating to hack other companies by allowing artifacts and logs to move only one way, e.g., into a sensitive compartmented network (SCIF) but not back.
Sep 3, 2026 ·The Register
A cold wallet keeps your cryptocurrency private keys offline and isolated, so malware on your connected phone or computer can’t siphon the keys or initiate transactions without your manual confirmation on the device screen.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Engadget
A judge ruled Wednesday that Google will not be forced to sell its ad-technology business in the DOJ’s 2023 antitrust case, ordering instead changes to how it operates without specifying the exact adjustments in the publicly reported order.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos was the only AI model in Booz Allen’s tests to autonomously complete the full cyber kill chain end-to-end (CWI score 80), including full domain compromise with and without credentials.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Dell Technologies shares jumped 16% after it raised its annual revenue forecast following blowout quarterly results, including 58% higher sales and 203% higher adjusted EPS, as its AI-Optimized Server business doubled revenue and the AI unit logged $61 billion in orders to lift backlog above $95 billion.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Gemini-3.8-flash was correct only 65% of the time on a single top guess (and 85% correct within its top five), with several models mistaking deadly species for edible ones at rates as high as 48% for the fool’s funnel and 31% for the fatal dapperling.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Almost 400,000 more driver’s licenses appeared for sale within 24 hours, indicating the breach was ongoing and new cards became available shortly after being harvested.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
OpenAI’s Astra reasoning model is reported to use a technique called “recurrent depth” (also known as “opaque recurrence”), which loops over queries in a less linear way that could make a model’s chain of thought harder to monitor.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A Bloomberg gauge of global government bond yields hit 3.72%, its highest since mid-2008, as Japan, the US, and Europe sold off in synchrony.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The FCC plans to create robocall mitigation scorecards that could rate domestic wireless, wireline, and VoIP providers on how effectively they block illegal spam calls, using both call-blocking metrics and measurable outcomes like how often illegal robocalls still reach consumers—rather than only administrative “checklist” factors.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
An identity theft site called Nexus reportedly allows searching 150+ million U.S. and Canada driver’s licenses and passports, with about 500,000 new documents added daily and customer photos shown when available.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
1Password faced customer and internal backlash after pledging $300,000 to Omacom, the nonprofit foundation behind DHH’s Omarchy Linux distribution, amid allegations and posts tied to David Heinemeier Hansson advocating deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Verge
A human ransomware attacker used AI agents to complete an enterprise intrusion in less than 10 hours and left the victim an 80-page security audit listing dozens of exploited findings.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
