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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 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously — and in some cases, inadvertently — conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon.
Nintendo confirmed on September 4, 2026 that it will run back-to-back livestreams next week: The Legend of Zelda 40th Anniversary Direct on Tuesday, September 8, followed by a general Nintendo Direct 9.9.2026 on Wednesday, September 9. The announcement, posted through the Nintendo Today app and Nintendo’s official site, ends weeks of speculation about how the…
Kalshi traders put 93% odds on U.S. labor force participation staying above 56% through 2028. A contract on the CFTC-regulated exchange asking whether the December 2028 labor force participation rate will be above 56.00% is showing a 93% implied probability of YES as of September 04, 2026, after the market recorded 100% of its all-time…
An ARC-AGI-3 “above human” bet just spiked to 92% on Manifold after OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra. A Manifold market asking whether an AI will post above-human scores on the ARC-AGI-3 benchmark in 2026 jumped to a 92% implied probability of YES as of September 04, 2026, with 46% of its all-time volume changing hands in a…
Type “Android emulator” into Google in September 2026 and you will get three completely different kinds of software mixed into the same results page. Google Play Games for PC is a first-party sync layer that lets you carry your mobile library to a laptop. GameLoop is Tencent’s dedicated client for playing its own battle royale…
The trend is being driven by the shortage of memory chips, and accompanying soaring costs, stemming from the massive buildout of artificial-intelligence infrastructure.
In controlled offline evaluations, HydraFusion’s selective coding workflows matched or exceeded the evaluated Opus 5 baseline while reducing estimated workflow cost. Now available as a research preview in GitHub Copilot. The post Project HydraFusion: Frontier quality via multi-model orchestration appeared first on The GitHub Blog.
Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as ‘funding’ to prevent email filters from parsing them,” the Microsoft…
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11,…
