About 12TB of gaming data from Steam—covering what was published on Valve’s Steam from roughly 2003 to 2013—was reportedly extracted and exposed in a public repository, including Valve and non-Valve game entries like Grand Theft Auto 5.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
CNET
Instagram will require creators to label profiles that feature people “generated or substantially created with AI” as an “AI-generated profile,” and creators that don’t do so will see reduced reach.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
OpenClaw released version 2.0 of its self-hosted AI agent harness, focusing on simpler installation, a redesigned “first-class” browser interface, and shared cloud sessions—while multiple security fixes are positioned as insufficient for strong isolation needs.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
The Register
Microsoft said an issue with an authentication component was contributing to a widespread, multi-hour Outlook/Exchange Online outage affecting degraded functionality across Exchange Online services.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Kalshi banned former Rep. George Santos from its prediction market platform for life and fined him $71,356 after allegations he bet $17,839 on whether he would attend President Trump’s State of the Union address.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Trump demanded the FCC rebuke or punish NBC host Kristen Welker for saying his election endorsement results were “mixed,” calling it a “purposeful inaccuracy.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Blue Voice, a Boston AI startup providing real-time police policy guidance, is emerging from stealth with $6M in funding and says its tool is used daily by officers at 225 county agencies across 25 states.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
TerminalFix lures victims into pasting a “Cloudflare verification” PowerShell/Terminal command, leading to a multi-stage infection that ultimately deploys a custom reverse WebSocket tunnel implant on the machine for persistent SOCKS-style TCP proxy access to the attacker.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Register
A $604 million verdict in a Dallas County case tied to a 2021 accident has pushed freight brokers to treat carrier vetting as a “defensible standard,” with plaintiff attorneys increasingly seeking “true vetting” beyond verifying operating authority and insurance.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
OpenClaw 2.0 is the “largest update” to the open-source, device-running AI agent, with changes spanning installation, messaging, memory, skills, browser, plugins, security, and numerous fixes.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
Music publishers, including Sony, EMI, and Warner Chappell, sued Anthropic alleging it admitted to pirating more than 7 million books and later paid authors a $1.5 billion settlement—while they argue the damages are too small to stop ongoing infringement tied to Claude AI and music-rights markets.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
McKesson said hackers broke into several cloud-hosted accounts earlier in the week and exfiltrated data, with the company expecting “intermittent service degradation” from the incident.
Aug 31, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Microsoft 365 says an authentication component issue is affecting Exchange Online, with a remediation being tested first on part of its infrastructure before a broader rollout.
Aug 31, 2026 ·CNET
OpenAI says AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated in the coming months, and urges “cyber defense at local, national, and international levels.”
Aug 31, 2026 ·
ZDNet
Windows 11 September preview update (KB5120998), released August 27, is reverting or wiping mouse cursor personalization settings, causing cursors to appear too large/too small or not show up at all after installation.
Aug 31, 2026 ·ZDNet
Raindrops charged by slide electrification can punch through insulating protective coatings via electrical breakdown: after about 3,000 charged impacts, a 60-nanometer Teflon film failed in nanometer-deep pits that reached the underlying copper, while drops that did not slide (and thus arrived uncharged) left the surface pristine.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Installing SuperBox can be exploited via an open ADB port plus root access to silently install arbitrary APKs, bypassing Android’s signature verification, “unknown sources” restriction, permission-review dialog, and Play Protect scanning.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Broadcom will take responsibility for security of key open-source components used by its Tanzu suite by introducing “TrueSource trusted artifacts” for Spring and RabbitMQ, plus other Java ecosystem code and Python libraries.
Aug 31, 2026 ·The Register
Kalshi permanently banned former congressman George Santos from its platform and imposed a $71,356 penalty after alleging he didn’t fully cooperate with its investigation into alleged insider trading.
Aug 31, 2026 ·
Engadget
Mark your phone as lost to remotely disable digital wallet access: on Android, “Mark as lost” removes all cards from Google Wallet after you enter your PIN/pattern/password; on iPhone, enabling Lost Mode locks the iPhone and prevents access to Apple Pay until you re-authenticate.
Aug 31, 2026 ·Engadget
