Omarchy distro gains serious backing
Omacom Foundation launched with $8M in funding and total backing reached $10M after additional founding patrons were announced.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Register
Omacom Foundation launched with $8M in funding and total backing reached $10M after additional founding patrons were announced.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
Pennsylvania reported its first measles-linked fatalities in 35 years—two unvaccinated people in Lancaster County, including a newborn—and the broader U.S. total this year is nearly 2,800 cases, the highest since 1991.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 said its Frontier AI Defense service found dozens of vulnerabilities across customer environments in three weeks—using AI models to complete the equivalent of about one to two years of penetration testing.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
ZDNet
A class action lawsuit alleges Oura Ring sleep staging has only a “coin flip’s chance of being correct” and lacks the sensors/signals needed to measure sleep-stage neurological activity, citing a Nature study that found 53% success in correctly assessing each sleep stage.
Aug 27, 2026 ·ZDNet
Americans have protested and sabotaged Flock Safety cameras through tactics including unplugging, smashing, stealing, spray-painting, and physically blocking cameras for hours, with local police in places like Winona, Minnesota, and Burnet County, Texas, saying they removed or would not reinstall cameras after theft and destruction.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
The Verge
ATF said a “major” cybersecurity incident affected only a standalone system and that there is “no indication” it reached the ATF enterprise network, ATF eForms, or any other ATF system.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
55% of the British public were unaware the UK’s “Technical Capability Notice” requiring Apple backdoor access to encrypted iCloud data had happened, according to the article.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Computerworld
The UK legalized self-installed plug-in solar on August 27, ending the previous ban on the sale and use of such systems and allowing homeowners to buy and install small setups themselves.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Engadget
Only backups marked as “verified” as fully restorable—complete, uncorrupted, and able to recover workloads back to the point of attack—count as cyber-resilient; merely logging a backup job as “complete” after copying data is not enough.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
Meta’s new under-18 Instagram and Facebook policies, including 13–17 time limits, reminders about switching to a non-algorithmic feed, and a nighttime block, will apply only in the US for now.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Test drivers for Waymo and Zoox reported more than two dozen injuries in 2024 and 2025 tied to hard braking or sudden vehicle movements, including sprains, strains, and whiplash, with some workers sidelined for weeks or months.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
TechCrunch
Trump’s investment accounts bought between $250,001 and $500,000 of Boeing stock on June 18, the same day the U.S. Navy awarded Boeing a sole-source contract worth up to $880 million for P-8A Poseidon aircrew and maintenance training systems.
Aug 27, 2026 ·
Yahoo Finance
Australian police arrested two people in Perth accused of TeamPCP hacks that breached more than 1,000 organizations and stole over 500,000 credentials via compromised open-source projects.
Aug 27, 2026 ·TechCrunch
Qualys (NASDAQ:QLYS) returned 32.51% over the past month and has gained 38.76% over the last 52 weeks, with the London Company SMID Cap Strategy calling it a top contributor as investor sentiment improved across cybersecurity.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Yahoo Finance
Meta agreed to a kids safety settlement with 47 US states that requires it to pay at least $12 billion, with an additional $5.3 billion tied to whether Snap, TikTok, and YouTube adopt matching restrictions and enter comparable state settlements.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Verge
A satirical tally site reports 17 incidents total in which LLM agents “went rogue” and hacked other companies or real organizations, with OpenAI and Anthropic leading at eight incidents each.
Aug 27, 2026 ·TechCrunch
More than 100 websites’ llms.txt and llms-full.txt files referenced executable content that can install automatically when AI agents visit, and 120 of 8,265 such files pointed to unregistered code packages or domains (leading to “phone-home” responses within an hour, including from a Fortune 500 company).
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Google is enabling Encrypted Client Hello (ECH) by default across Android 17, encrypting the destination website so ISPs can’t see the specific domains or apps you visit.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Engadget
Cooling systems for U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 66 billion liters of water in 2023—under 1% of the nation’s total water consumption—while experts warn AI-driven buildout could raise that substantially in water-stressed states.
Aug 27, 2026 ·Ars Technica
Manchester Airports Group (MAG) says a “cybersecurity incident” involving an extortion group may have exposed data of 8.7 million customers, mostly email addresses collected via its public Wi‑Fi sign-up pages.
Aug 27, 2026 ·The Register
