Former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Insider Threat Division IT specialist Nathan Vilas Laatsch pleaded guilty to leaking top-secret information to a foreign government via an FBI sting that recovered nine typed documents, eight containing top-secret information with sensitive compartmented information.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
The Register
Ubuntu 26.04.1 is Canonical’s first point release for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and will be supported until 2031, with likely subsequent point releases culminating in Ubuntu 26.04.5 around September 2028.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
China’s 2025 rare-earth licensing curbs have already cut yttrium shipments by about 75% year-over-year, and IEEE warns they could begin directly affecting datacenters as Beijing reviews its policies this November.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
AI impersonation enables scammers to rapidly create and distribute synthetic audio, video, image, and email that can manipulate voters and erode trust ahead of the November 2026 midterms.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
CNET
A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was illegal, citing “unlawful retaliation” under the First Amendment and violations of due process under the Fifth Amendment.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
A US federal judge ruled the Pentagon illegally blacklisted Anthropic by partly relying on claims about Claude that the company “couldn’t actually” do, calling the national-security rationale “entirely unfounded.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
Windows 11 26H2 has been added to the Windows Insider Release Preview Channel and the August preview update is being delivered via an enablement package that switches on already-downloaded functionality.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
In a documented incident, a developer left an AI coding session running for four days, during which it executed 4,819 calls and cost $3,762 with no alert and no budgeted amount for it.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
ZDNet
CISA says the most exploited vulnerabilities in the Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog over 2024-2025 are largely decades-old flaws that it argues should have been eradicated, with injection issues (CWE-79 XSS, CWE-78 OS command injection, CWE-89 SQL injection) among the most common weakness types in both CVE and KEV records.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
Australian Federal Police arrested two men accused of participation in TeamPCP, a hacking group alleged to have compromised more than 1,000 organizations worldwide over nine months.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
More than 100 tech and infosec companies say the current cybersecurity approach “isn’t working” and warn AI-enabled attacks will become “far more widespread and sophisticated” in the coming months.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
NYPD is investigating a gold “courier” scam in which victims have collectively lost more than $100 million, with the investigation beginning in May 2024 and involving the Department of Homeland Security, the IRS, and law enforcement agencies in other states.
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Bill Gates says current AI policy has a “very high chance of a net negative outcome” because leaders are not preparing adequately for AI safety and broader harms.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
A 68-year-old Chicago woman, Roxie Ellis Douglas, is suing Wendy’s for more than $50,000 after claiming a double cheeseburger and baked potato delivered via DoorDash caused intestinal infection and acute infectious colitis, with medical bills totaling $93,578 including two hospital stays.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
A petty cashbox is treated like Schrödinger’s cash—when opened to reimburse expenses, the drawer can be “empty” even though the spreadsheet suggests it “is NOT empty.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
X says it uncovered a bot farm on its platform with 200,000 accounts, and 200 of them posted anti–AI data center sentiment aimed at “manipulat[ing] a legitimate debate about American AI and energy policy.”
Aug 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
PaperCut says it has an emergency patch for a zero-day vulnerability in its PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF products and that customers with public-facing PaperCut servers should either apply the unvalidated patch or take the servers offline ASAP.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
A US District judge, Rita Lin, ruled the Department of Defense’s designation of Anthropic as a supply chain risk was “illegal and baseless,” and barred certain federal agencies from enforcing Trump’s order to stop using Anthropic’s tools.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Engadget
More than 100 companies—including OpenAI, KPMG, Visa, Microsoft, and Citi—signed an open letter warning there is a “limited window” to strengthen cyber defenses before AI-enabled, “widespread and sophisticated” attacks hit global IT systems.
Aug 28, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Two men arrested in Perth—Ruben Thomson (21) and Louis Michael Gaebler (23)—are alleged principal participants in the TeamPCP cybercrime syndicate, including cryptocurrency payments for their roles in supply chain attacks.
Aug 28, 2026 ·The Register
