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Guardian investigation: sensitive UK police data on Microsoft Azure was deemed vulnerable to compromise by foreign actors and the US government.
TechRadar reported U.S. inherited Venezuelan surveillance state using banned Chinese tech and AI, with no sign of switching.
The FBI and U.S. Coast Guard boarded U.S.-bound tankers in the Gulf of Mexico after suspected foreign cyber compromise. One vessel, VL Prosperity, reported engine, fuel and communications disruptions; Iran is under investigation.
An 18-year-old Swede known as Chai has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for attempted murder, rape and aggravated assault carried out over the internet against victims in Germany and Australia.
A Brown University-led study of federal health data found that younger US veterans have PFAS blood levels 13% to 24% higher than non-veterans, and many exceed thresholds for medical monitoring. The findings raise questions about contamination at military bases and government health monitoring for service members.
Le Monde reports that Macron has ordered infrastructure protection against Russian hybrid attacks. The supplied report gave no further details.
CNBC reports that some U.S. employers are seeing parents intervene in teenagers' first jobs. A new book covered by Slashdot warns that Big Tech has captured computer science and AI education in public schools.
Leaders at Anthropic and OpenAI are warning that advanced AI could aid bioweapon development, while an Australian parliamentary inquiry hears that the country’s cyber agency relies entirely on US-based processing and that Microsoft Copilot gave an MP inappropriate advice on assisted dying. Canberra is considering local datacentres, tighter standards and copyright reform to bring frontier AI firms under Australian law.
Zhipu has raised about $5 billion to fund next-generation GLM models, self-training and compute infrastructure, while its RSI work on 100,000 domestic chips and a fierce MaaS price war reshape China's AI cloud market.
Foton Motor unveiled a Europe-focused localization strategy and the Cavan BEACON new energy heavy truck at the Hannover commercial vehicle show, while marking its 13 millionth vehicle delivery.
South Korean Prime Minister Han Seong-sook on Friday urged thorough readiness for security threats and contingencies at a meeting reviewing the Ulchi civil defense exercise, citing armed conflicts and new drone and cyber risks.
A joint South Korean-Chinese study in Science says seismic activity near North Korea's Punggye-ri test site surged after the 2017 nuclear test, with 1,330 quakes detected and a warning of a possible magnitude-6.4 event.
Waymo said it will expand to Singapore, with its first Jaguar I-PACE vehicles arriving in the coming months and rides for the public planned to begin in 2028.
South Korea plans to launch its Nuri rocket on Oct. 7, 2026, carrying five NEONSAT Earth-observation satellites and 10 CubeSats. The mission would mark the country's first microsatellite constellation and test technology that could support a future Starlink-style network.
DigiCert's World Quantum Readiness Day highlighted a shift from post-quantum planning to execution, with 2029 and 2030 deadlines driving cryptographic inventories, PKI modernization, regulatory alignment and live hybrid-key pilots.
Forensic research reported by The Guardian finds Russia's Max super-app can screenshot devices, read mini-app data and impersonate users as millions are pressed to install it.
Lucid and Bolt plan 25,000+ robotaxis in Europe; Bolt will own the fleet. No launch date was disclosed.
The Traitors: New Blood premieres on NBC on Sept. 17 with an all-civilian cast, while Outlander: Blood of My Blood returns for season 2 on STARZ on Sept. 18, with international streaming following on MGM+ and Stan.
Lucid Motors and Bolt announced a partnership to deploy at least 25,000 autonomous vehicles in Europe using Lucid's upcoming mid-size EV platform. No orders, payment, or deployment timeline have been disclosed.
Stanford researchers say they replaced nearly half the brain volume of mice with human cells. MIT Technology Review also names young climate innovators and rounds up AI policy and science news.
Yao Xingcheng, former pretraining lead for Tencent Hunyuan, has joined Thinking Machines Lab, the North American AI startup founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, Leiphone reported. His Tencent annual package was reportedly in the tens of millions of yuan, and he had previously been linked to Meta.
Anthropic has merged its Claude Chat and Cowork interfaces and introduced Claude Docs and Claude Slides, letting users create documents, presentations and design work inside Claude. The unified entry is rolling out first to Pro and Max users, while the new office tools remain in beta for paid subscribers.
Three endangered African wild dog brothers travelled more than 2,500 miles across Zambia over eight months, the longest recorded single journey by any mammal from Africa, in a dispersal that researchers say shows connected landscapes still matter.
India's UPI will charge merchants 0.4% on payments above 2,000 rupees next month; person-to-person transfers stay free.