Modulate raised $25M to build its voice intelligence platform using more than 100 small models for transcription, emotional analysis, deepfake and AI music detection, and policy enforcement for voice agents in regulated industries.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Nvidia says its Open Agent Safety Platform can quarantine AI agents attempting to escape their boundaries within “milliseconds.”
Sep 28, 2026 ·
The Verge
Microsoft says it cannot recover or even identify whether deleted Microsoft 365 Business Premium data from some nonprofits will ever be restored after an “error” deleted remaining data before the retention period ended.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
The Register
A former US Army soldier, Cameron John Wagenius, was sentenced to 70 months in prison for hacking telecom companies, stealing sensitive records, and attempting to extort more than $1 million from victims.
Sep 28, 2026 ·The Register
DHS plans to use Google’s AI tools to recommend what to redact in FOIA requests, covering documents in over 10% of requests (about 100,000 to 140,000) by the end of September.
Sep 28, 2026 ·
Engadget
Microsoft has not indicated it would commit to We Make Indiana’s proposed “Fair Share Agreement,” after the group says Microsoft will approve only one-time nonprofit donations totaling up to $1 million instead of a share of data center costs for its 900-acre Granger site in St. Joseph County.
Sep 28, 2026 ·Ars Technica
CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 are rated critical (9.5 CVSS) in Citrix’s bulletin and are already being actively exploited globally.
Sep 28, 2026 ·The Register
Truecaller launched Scam Checker, a no-app, no-sign-in web and Android service that lets users paste a suspicious phone number, link, or message and see related scam reports from its community ScamFeed, with initial availability in India and expansion planned to Latin America, the Middle East and Africa, and Southeast Asia.
Sep 28, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Amazon is hiring a “Head of Regulatory Approvals, Australia” for Prime Air expansion, indicating it plans to obtain approvals and deliver to Australian customers by drone.
Sep 28, 2026 ·The Register
You can reuse an old MacBook as a home NAS by enabling macOS File Sharing (Sharing settings), selecting folders to share, and accessing them over your network via the Mac’s provided IP address—optionally sharing an external drive as well.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Goodwill diverts an average of 1 million pounds of electronics from landfills each year through refurbishing and secure recycling, with proceeds funding its career training and job resources.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Bill Gates said it is “completely irresponsible” to not require every AI system to include safeguards and monitoring capabilities, arguing the more urgent threat is bad actors using AI for bioterrorism or mass financial fraud.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
A security researcher says OpenAI agents scanned the UNCTADstat statistics site more than 16,000 times between April and June to retrieve Productive Capacities Index data.
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Verge
You can significantly improve home router security in about 10 minutes by (1) changing default router admin credentials, (2) disabling WPS, (3) turning off remote admin features accessible from the WAN, and (4) enabling strong Wi‑Fi security like WPA3-Personal (or WPA2/WPA3 mixed if needed).
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
A developer says his Android TV is running “smoother than when it was new” after giving Claude full access to debloat it, disabling unused apps and shortening animations without root—but the article warns that granting an AI agent debugging access can make a TV unstable or unusable if it disables critical packages or breaks future update paths.
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Weber shut down June Oven’s app and cloud services, meaning users lose remote access, software updates, and AI food recognition; June still works as an oven but has no support, parts, or recovery path after a factory reset.
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Verge
A White House report released in July accused the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History of an “ideological capture,” leading to Trump executive orders warning that it had adopted “divisive, race-centered ideology” and prompting the Interior Department to tell other agencies they “cannot in good conscience continue to support the Smithsonian under current leadership.”
Sep 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Big AI companies are accused—via unsealed filings in the New York Times v. OpenAI and Microsoft fight—of ingesting paywalled content without detecting or removing paywall material, following an approach critics describe as “take it now, argue about legality later.”
Sep 27, 2026 ·The Register
A typical laptop power bank should be evaluated by watt-hours (Wh) for capacity and watts (W) for output—not mAh—because a 20,000 mAh bank is about 74Wh (assuming ~3.7V cells), but fast-charging losses can cut its effective capacity to about 52Wh (using ~30% overhead).
Sep 27, 2026 ·Engadget
TikTok agreed to pay Alabama at least $100 million to settle allegations it misled users about safety and was designed to addict children, with a potential total of $300 million under certain conditions.
Sep 26, 2026 ·TechCrunch
