Opinion | Young Americans and the Flock Camera Controversy
Students discuss the trade-offs between safety and privacy in high-tech surveillance.
Month: September 2026
Apple Maps follows Google in renaming Lake Ontario
Apple Maps has officially changed the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, as reported earlier by Bloomberg. The company joins Google in re-labeling the Great Lake following an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in the midst of a trade dispute with Canada. The Canadian version of Apple Maps still shows “Lake Ontario”…
Open AI’s Astra model is on the way — and very good at breaking into computer systems
OpenAI previewed the precautions it is taking as it prepares to release Astra, its newest, cyber-critical LLM.
AfterQuery reportedly becomes Y Combinator’s fastest-ever unicorn, now valued at $3.2B
AI model-training startup AfterQuery has reportedly raised a round that valued it at $3.2 billion, just five months after announcing its $30 million Series A at a $300 million valuation in April.
Apple follows Google in adopting Trump’s ‘Lake America’ name
Apple Maps is following President Trump’s executive order to change the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America.
Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console
The cybersecurity giant announced the acquisition alongside quarterly results showing a 34% increase in revenue and strong growth in next-generation security ARR. The post Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console appeared first on SecurityWeek.
AI Model Evaluator METR Hit by Credential Theft, Probing
In one attack, threat actors stole an API key that ultimately led to the consumption of $600,000 in public AI model credits for the security nonprofit.
Critical Langflow Flaw Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise
The attacks targeting CVE-2026-0768 are the latest threat against the low-code AI development platform, which is receiving more attention from adversaries this year.
Nvidia DLSS 5 Launches Sept. 3 in NBA 2K27: 370 FPS Claim [2026]
Nvidia’s most contested piece of graphics software in years goes live this week. DLSS 5 arrives September 3, 2026 at 9:00 PM Pacific Time inside NBA 2K27, the first title to ship with Nvidia’s new 3D-Guided Neural Rendering pipeline, according to Nvidia’s official GeForce news post. The rollout covers every GeForce RTX 50 Series desktop…
AMD MI355X Goes Live in Saudi Arabia: 1GW by 2030 [2026]
AMD, Cisco and the Saudi state-backed AI firm HUMAIN flipped the switch on a production AI computing cluster in Saudi Arabia on August 31, 2026, running AMD Instinct MI355X GPUs over a Cisco Silicon One network fabric. The announcement, distributed via GlobeNewswire and picked up by outlets including The National and Network World, marks the…