Protect Democracy sued four federal agencies seeking an order by September 30 requiring release of the unclassified text, participation terms, participant identities, and criteria in the Trump administration’s secret voluntary framework for pre-release safety testing of frontier AI models.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
A survey of 111 US national security experts found a median 33% estimate that humans will lose control of AI within a decade, with 87% placing that odds at 10% or higher.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Register
Amazon’s Alexa for Shopping can now confirm whether an email, text message, or phone call came from Amazon with “completely certain” confidence by comparing the message against Amazon’s record of messages and analyzing its contents, formatting, and sender.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
The Verge
OpenAI delayed Astra’s release after reports it uses a more opaque looped transformer/recurrent-depth architecture that shows far less “thinking,” raising fears safety monitoring could fail.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
A US court ruled Google will not have to sell its ad exchange after the company lost a DOJ antitrust case about advertising technology.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Senator Maggie Hassan asked Capital One CEO Richard Fairbank for documents and details on the bank’s internal anti-money laundering review that led to closing accounts linked to Donald Trump and his businesses in 2021, including the transactions, alerts, and other factors that triggered the review and any communications with law enforcement or regulators.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
The Trump administration filed a statement of interest supporting OpenAI’s argument that training AI large language models on copyrighted New York Times text is fair use, warning that a ruling narrowing fair-use doctrine would “severely hamper” “the Progress of Science and useful Arts.”
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
SonicWall says attackers are actively exploiting two chained zero-days—CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS v3 10.0) and CVE-2026-83549 (CVSS v3 7.8)—to compromise Secure Mobile Access (SMA) Series 1000 appliances, and there are no workarounds.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
More than 153 million scans of U.S. and Canadian drivers’ licenses have been offered for sale on the dark web via a service called Nexus, alongside other documents including medical cards, employment records and residence cards.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
Engadget
Apple’s July 10, 2026 lawsuit alleges OpenAI coordinated with former Apple executives and engineers (including Tang Yew Tan and Chang Liu) to misappropriate confidential Apple hardware designs, supply-chain intelligence, and unreleased product specifications, and seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions, compensatory damages, a reasonable royalty (in the alternative), exemplary damages for willful misappropriation, and attorneys’ fees.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
HiddenLayer raised $100 million in a Series B round to secure AI models, agents, and workflows as enterprise demand accelerates.
Sep 2, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Amazon says its Alexa for Shopping consumer AI can “definitively” confirm whether a message came from Amazon systems by checking sender information, content, timing, and metadata against billions of messages Amazon sends globally.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Firefox 155 and Thunderbird 155 have been released under Mozilla’s accelerated fortnightly cadence, with September marking the start of the new schedule.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
NYC will impose a 1-year moratorium banning students from using AI in classrooms until high school, starting with the 2026–2027 school year for about 600,000 public school students in 2-K through eighth grade.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Verge
Attackers used a legacy Lenovo ID login integration to compromise about 5,000 Dropbox accounts from August 4–21, with access to fewer than a third of affected users’ files.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Baron Global Opportunity Fund said CrowdStrike (CRWD) contributed 2.23% to the fund’s Q2 2026 performance, with CrowdStrike’s stock up 95.6% as the market increasingly recognized it as a beneficiary of enterprise AI adoption.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two independently maintained FreeBSD 15–based NAS OS forks—FreeCORE-15.0-U1 (first update appeared August 27) and BSDnas (status page dated August 19, 2026)—aim to carry forward TrueNAS CORE 13.3 on FreeBSD after iXsystems cancelled its FreeBSD TrueNAS Core in 2024.
Sep 2, 2026 ·The Register
Norway’s digital minister Karianne Tung said the government is considering regulating—and possibly banning—camera-enabled wearable headsets that can monitor people in public places, including potential limits on facial recognition of others.
Sep 2, 2026 ·TechCrunch
A former Ceva Logistics employee filed a class action in U.S. District Court in Houston alleging the company failed to protect employee personal data stolen during a late-July cyberattack that disrupted eight European warehouses.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
The US Army used a 20-kilowatt Locust Laser Weapon System to shoot down three drones near the US–Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, between August 25 and August 26.
Sep 2, 2026 ·Ars Technica
