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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Who’s liable when AI agents go rogue? Over the past few months, a cascade of cyberattacks by AI agents has stunned the world. In July, OpenAI disclosed that a swarm of its agents…
Building a financial bridge: Organizations where CISOs and CFOs align on cybersecurity strategy to protect assets, manage risk and enable business growth are better prepared to face today’s threat landscape.
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Financial Services Committee, on September 26, 2026, called for federal law-enforcement investigations into OpenAI and its executives and demanded a moratorium on the release of more advanced AI models, according to Unite.AI and shattered.io. The statement lands three days before a scheduled September 29, 2026…
Fortnite has quietly become the easiest way to prove that cloud gaming works without a wallet. No Xbox console, no Game Pass Ultimate, no download. Sign in with a free Microsoft account at xbox.com/play, pick a device, and you are dropped into a match streamed from a Microsoft data center. That setup has been live…
The FBI confirmed on September 26, 2026 that it is dealing with what the bureau called a “cybersecurity incident,” following claims from the extortion group ShinyHunters that it stole more than two terabytes of employee data from the FBI’s own jobs portal, FBIJobs.gov. The confirmation, first reported by NewsNation and picked up by outlets including…
Every AI coding agent that writes and runs its own code needs somewhere safe to do it. That is the entire premise behind cloud sandboxes: isolated, disposable machines that spin up in milliseconds, execute untrusted code, and disappear before anything can go wrong. By September 27, 2026, three names dominate that market conversation: E2B, Modal…
Indie studios building session-based multiplayer games face a decision that has nothing to do with game design: which cloud service will sync player state, broadcast chat, and update leaderboards in real time. Firebase, Supabase, and AWS AppSync all promise real-time data sync without a dedicated game server. As of September 2026, their pricing, connection limits,…
Three days after Control Resonant launched worldwide on September 24, 2026, Remedy Entertainment’s sequel is sitting at a Metascore of 83 across 71 critic reviews on Metacritic, with an 8.8 user score from 318 ratings on the same aggregator. On Steam, the game holds an 89% positive rating from more than 2,220 English-language reviews. Both…
The Trump administration’s Justice Department waded into the six-year war between Apple and Epic Games on September 22, 2026, filing an amicus brief at the U.S. Supreme Court that backs part of Apple’s appeal while rejecting other pieces of the contempt order Epic won last year, according to MacRumors. The filing lands eight days after…
