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AI & Tech4 min readGoogle Ships Gemini 3.8 Flash and a Locked-Down Cyber Sibling
Google's third Flash release in six weeks pairs a cheaper coding-and-agents model with Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, restricted to vetted defenders.
Cybersecurity4 min readAI Agents Breached a Company's Network in Under 10 Hours, Unit 42 Says
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 says an attacker used AI agents to go from zero access to root credentials in under 10 hours, then had the AI write up the findings.
Web Development4 min readBun 1.4.1 Adds HTTP/2 and Shrinks Compiled App Sizes by 45 Percent
Bun 1.4.1 adds HTTP/2 to Bun.serve, streams large writes to disk, and cuts compiled binary sizes by up to 45 percent.
AI & Tech4 min readOpenAI Pledges $1 Billion in AI Credits for Under-Funded Cyber Defenders
OpenAI is giving water utilities, power grids, small banks and local governments $1 billion in Daybreak AI credit for cyber defense.
Cybersecurity4 min readCisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Get Root Access
A 9.8-severity Cisco Nexus 9000 bug lets anyone who can reach two TCP ports run code as root with no login at all.
AI & Tech4 min readOpenAI's Astra Is the First Model to Hit Its 'Critical' Cyber Threshold
OpenAI says its new Astra artificial intelligence model can find and exploit unknown flaws on its own, tripping a safety line it set itself.
Cybersecurity4 min readThomson Reuters Discloses Court Records Breach Across US and Canada
A breach of Thomson Reuters' C-Track platform exposed Social Security numbers and sealed files from courts in 11 US states and Ontario.
Web Development4 min readChrome 153 Replaces Its XML Parser With a Memory-Safe Rust Rewrite
Chrome 153 swaps the C-based libxml2 for a Rust XML parser after a run of memory-safety CVEs, and adds new camera and microphone HTML elements.
AI & Tech4 min readEU Declares ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine
The EU designated ChatGPT a Very Large Online Search Engine under the DSA on August 31, triggering audits and risk reports by January 2027.
Cybersecurity4 min readTwo SonicWall SMA1000 Zero-Days Are Already Being Exploited
SonicWall's SMA1000 appliances face two zero-days, one rated CVSS 10.0, being chained for remote code execution without valid credentials.
Business & IS4 min readDescartes Buys Warehouse Software Maker Extensiv for $120 Million
Descartes acquired warehouse and fulfillment software maker Extensiv for $120 million, its second acquisition in eight days.
Web Development4 min readChrome Web Store Permanently Purges the Last Manifest V2 Extensions
Google deleted every remaining Manifest V2 extension from the Chrome Web Store on August 31, 2026, ending a four-year phaseout.
AI & Tech4 min readPentagon Adds ChatGPT and Grok to Its AI Portal, Still Without Claude
Days after a judge called its Anthropic ban unlawful, the Pentagon expanded its AI portal to 3 million users, leaving Claude out.
Cybersecurity4 min readJFrog Artifactory Auth-Bypass Bug Is Being Exploited Days After Patch
A critical JFrog Artifactory flaw lets attackers mint admin tokens with no login, and exploitation began within days of the fix shipping.
Web Development4 min readAliExpress Used a Silent Audio Trick to Fingerprint Visitors' Browsers
A developer's headphones cutting out led to the discovery that AliExpress was using inaudible audio signals to track browsers.
AI & Tech4 min readSony and Warner Chappell Sue Anthropic, Naming Its Co-Founders Too
Sony Music Publishing and Warner Chappell are suing Anthropic and personally naming CEO Dario Amodei and co-founder Benjamin Mann.
Cybersecurity3 min readPaperCut Ships a Second Emergency Patch for an Actively Exploited Flaw
PaperCut rushed out a second emergency patch after researchers broke its first fix for a bug already under attack.
Web Development4 min readhtmx 4.0 Rewrites Its Networking Core Around fetch()
htmx 4.0 replaces XMLHttpRequest with fetch() to enable response streaming, breaking some 2.x behavior along the way.
Business & IS4 min readAWS Buys DuckLabs, the Company Behind Analytics Database DuckDB
AWS is acquiring DuckLabs but says DuckDB will stay free, open source, and independently governed by its own foundation.
AI & Tech4 min readOpenAI Will Cut Off Cursor's Model Access Over SpaceX Deal
OpenAI is ending direct access to its models inside Cursor on November 12, citing distrust of new owner SpaceX.
Cybersecurity4 min readRansomware Gang Threatens to Leak Berlin Government Data
Rhysida is threatening to leak 5.79 terabytes of Berlin state government data after officials refused its 30 bitcoin ransom.
Web Development4 min readFirefox Moves to Two-Week Releases, Matching Chrome and Edge
Firefox switches from monthly to two-week releases starting September 1, matching Chrome and Edge's faster release cadence.
Business & IS4 min readAmazon's Mechanical Turk, the Original AI Data Mine, Is Closing
Amazon will shut Mechanical Turk on September 30, ending the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor platform that helped train early AI models.
AI & Tech4 min readFederal Judge Rules Pentagon's Anthropic Blacklist Unlawful
A federal judge ruled the Pentagon illegally retaliated against Anthropic by labeling it a supply chain risk over its AI safety limits.