Cyber Security
Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of…
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication…
In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Microsoft rolled out patches for cloud services, hackers compromised 5,000 Dropbox accounts, and Guardio is now valued at $1.1 billion. The post In Other News: Microsoft’s Cloud Patches, Hacked Dropbox Accounts, Guardio’s $1.1B Valuation…
Privacy & Identity
Court Rules Against Citizen Journalists in DMCA Takedown Case—EFF Will Appeal
Judge Rules DOD Unlawfully Retaliated Against Anthropic
EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California’s AB 1709
EFF to Courts: Don’t Rewrite Copyright Over AI Hype
Enterprise Tech
Microsoft built a prompt injection detector. Then it caught a phishing campaign instead.
“1% of my engineers are responsible for 40% of token spend”: Why Coder and SpaceXAI want to give developers nice things
OpenAI is putting $1 billion behind Daybreak for defenders working without enterprise budgets
How to find failures without drowning in tracing data
Developers
Blume: Zero-Config Docs Framework That Turns a Markdown Folder into an AI-Ready Website
Redefining GIS: Declarative Symbology and Collaborative Workflows in JupyterGIS
Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration
Airbnb Cuts Authentication Code by 60% with Server Driven Architecture
Policy & Regulation
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The nation’s cartoonists on the week in politics
Regulators Knew This Marijuana Product Was Harming People. It Stayed on Shelves for More Than a Year.
Missouri Supreme Court pauses GOP gerrymander, likely netting Democrats 1 House seat
Markets & Economy
Satya Nadella Has Delivered a More Than 10X Return for Microsoft Shareholders Since Becoming CEO in 2014, a 30% Annualized Growth Rate. Is That Pace Still Achievable From Here?
Americold (COLD) Raised $1.1B by Contributing 12 Warehouses to a Joint Venture. Is Deleveraging Worth Ceding 70% of the Economics?
Here’s How Rubrik Stock Gained 28.6% Last Month
Commvault (CVLT) Triples Its Cloud Safety Net While Wall Street Cools
Tech Careers
Amtrak’s ‘relaxed’ COVID-era FMLA policy didn’t cover plaintiff’s unexplained absences, judge rules
Race bias claims tied to drug test can go to jury, 11th Circuit says
Another ‘whiplash’ month for the labor market as August beats expectations
Finance is ‘leaning in’ to manage healthcare costs, WTW exec says
Technology
Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement
The Generation That’s Never Had to Say ‘Hello?’
Marvel Has Assigned 42 Hours of Homework Before ‘Avengers: Doomsday’
‘We’re plausibly close to crossing the line’: are warnings of uncontrollable AI coming true?
Latest News in details
Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement
The tech giant must pay $3,000 per pirated book that it used to train its chatbot. Many authors fear they could lose funds to others in the book business. Read More about Authors Wrangle With Publishers Over $1.5 Billion Anthropic A.I. Settlement
Secret Dossier Adds to Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Sudan
The documents bolster allegations that the Sudanese military developed and used toxic bombs to gain an edge in the country’s devastating civil war. Read More about Secret Dossier Adds to Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Sudan
Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out.
Researchers want to explore the idea that microscopic particles shed by alien civilizations have accumulated on the lunar surface, making it an archive of extraterrestrial technology. Read More about Is There Alien Debris on the Moon? Some Scientists Plan to Find Out.
Flee, Hide or Sit Tight? Russians Are on Edge Over Rumors of a Draft.
The Kremlin has denied that a mass mobilization is being prepared, but some military-age men are taking no chances. Read More about Flee, Hide or Sit Tight? Russians Are on Edge Over Rumors of a Draft.
Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline. Read More about Kenyans Made a Living Writing College Essays. Then A.I. Arrived.
A Glitz-Free Place Named for Trump? Welcome to the Golan Heights.
The bare-bones village of prefab homes has none of the gilded Trump aesthetic, and the Israelis there are weary of being seen as a gauge of their country’s roller-coaster view of the president. Read More about A Glitz-Free Place Named for Trump? Welcome to the Golan Heights.