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- Former US Army soldier Cameron Wagenius, who pleaded guilty in 2025 to hacking into telecom companies and to extortion, is sentenced to 70 months in prison (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security) [48d]
- TikTok reaches a settlement with Alabama over social media addiction claims; Alabama will receive at least $100M, and up to $300M if certain conditions are met (Gnaneshwar Rajan/Reuters) [48d]
- OpenAI says the 53 images its agents uploaded were on "image-hosting sites as links that weren't publicly listed" and "most" of the images have been removed (@openai) [48d]
- FTC Chairman Andrew Ferguson says he resists anthropomorphizing AI agents as autonomous actors with "wills and desires", suggesting developers hold liability (Reuters) [48d]
- Sources: OpenAI found ~24 incidents of its agents acting in undesirable ways as of mid-September; OpenAI says its agents leaked 53 images from ChatGPT users (Reuters) [48d]
- Sources: Oura IPO is roughly four times oversubscribed; Filing: Oura and the selling shareholders are offering 50M shares for $40 to $44 each to raise ~$2.2B (Bloomberg) [48d]
- Researchers add details to the Hugging Face incident, including OpenAI agents creating ~1M shortened URLs to encode information in an attempt to solve CAPTCHAs (Dylan Freedman/New York Times) [48d]
- A US appeals court rules that Kalshi's sports contracts are not "swaps" subject only to CFTC regulation, allowing states to regulate them under gambling laws (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters) [48d]
- A look at Holograms, Meta's take on Apple Vision Pro's Personas, launching with a shoulders-up version this fall for WhatsApp calls on Ray-Ban Display glasses (David Heaney/UploadVR) [48d]
- Microsoft confirms that 2026 Surface PCs have dropped the Copilot+ PC branding, even though they meet all the requirements of Copilot+ devices (Zac Bowden/Windows Central) [48d]
- Nscale secures $3.36B in convertible financing led by Third Point ahead of its US IPO, with $2.36B available immediately and $1B from Nvidia in November (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch) [48d]
- A jury finds Meta liable for misleading New Mexico residents about third-party data sharing, content moderation, and more in the Cambridge Analytica scandal (Diana Novak Jones/Reuters) [48d]
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- Bitdefender first to launch free 'temporary' VPN for AI Agents because they're worth it — but you can only use it on Apple M-series Macs for now [48d]
- Quordle hints and answers for Saturday, September 26 (game #1706) [48d]
- NYT Connections hints and answers for Saturday, September 26 (game #1203) [48d]
- NYT Strands hints and answers for Saturday, September 26 (game #937) [48d]
- USAF considering 'very large' autonomous airborne tankers to replace KC-135, KC-46 — and Boeing's MQ-25 Stingray UAV is only the beginning [48d]
- An Audi just set a new 831-mile EV range World Record [48d]
- HP debuts $7,449 Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 495 laptop — ZBook Ultra G3a has 192GB RAM, 512GB SSD, and can handle up to 300B parameters [48d]
- Rebellion confirms Alien Deathstorm uses the same engine as Atomfall, but it's 'a more advanced version' that offers a new lighting system, 'which for an action horror game is actually a must' [48d]
- Alibaba wants to expand data center capacity past 20 GW by 2032, says its new V900 AI chip can scale to 500,000-card clusters, but will 'China's most powerful AI chip' be enough to displace Nvidia GPUs? [48d]
- The Pixel Watch 3, 4, and 5 are now getting a free upgrade [48d]
- The Jackery Explorer 2000 v2 'saved our sanity' in recent tests — now the portable power station is $100 off [48d]
- This 20,000mAh mini power bank has a few clever tricks for $27 [48d]
- Meta unfurls Petal, a 1,000,000 Gbps internet cable 4,300 miles long — that's 3.3 million times quicker than the average US connection, and probably fast enough to transfer all original songs ever produced in less than a second [48d]
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- 60 Best Lego Prime Day Deals to Shop Now and Save Big on Star Wars, Marvel, Harry Potter and More [48d]
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- Build Your Wishlist Now with These 40+ Lego Deals Already Live Ahead of Prime Day [48d]
- Oh, Snap! These Early Prime Day Lego Deals Are the Missing Piece in Your Life Right Now [48d]
- Today’s NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints and Answers for Sept. 26, #733 [48d]
- Today’s NYT Strands Hints, Answers and Help for Sept. 26, #937 [48d]
- Today’s NYT Connections Hints and Answers for Sept. 26, #1203 [48d]
- Today’s Wordle Hints, Answer and Help for Sept. 26, #1925 [48d]
- You Might See Prime as a Shipping Option on Sites Other Than Amazon. How It Works [48d]
- Watch UEFA Nations League Soccer: Livestream Italy vs. Belgium From Anywhere [48d]
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- Gemini’s Live Avatar Puts a Face on Its AI Agent. It’s Freaking Me Out [48d]
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