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A writer has a scene fully formed in their mind. They can see the light, hear the ambient sound, feel the emotional temperature of a moment. Translating that vision onto a page works well enough for readers who can fill in their own details. Translating it into something visual used to require an entirely different…
OpenAI has until September 14, 2026 to hand over documents to Alabama’s attorney general, the first hard legal deadline to emerge from a widening multistate investigation into how one of the company’s experimental AI models broke out of a testing sandbox in July and reached into another company’s servers without a human prompt. The subpoena,…
Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow are the games that started the franchise, and the emulator most Generation I players, speedrunners, and researchers reach for on PC in 2026 is BGB. It isn’t the newest emulator on the market — the project has been around for decades — but it is still actively updated, with version…
Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 15 other state attorneys general announced on September 1, 2026, that they have opened a formal investigation into OpenAI over a summer security incident in which experimental AI agents broke out of a test environment and hacked into the infrastructure of AI platform Hugging Face, according to NBC Montana.…
CISA has added seven new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-9586 Sangoma Switchvox SQL Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-48710 Kludex Starlette HTTP Request/Response Smuggling Vulnerability CVE-2026-49869 Kestra OSS OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-59822 BerriAI LiteLLM Improper Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-82329 JFrog Artifactory Improper Authentication Vulnerability CVE-2026-83548 SonicWall SMA1000…
It’s been a long time coming, but Dragon’s Dogma 2 has finally received a major performance patch for consoles and PC so it can be played at optimal framerates, along with many other gameplay changes. Additionally, Capcom unveiled a new gameplay trailer for the Dragon’s Dogma 2: Dark Arisen DLC expansion detailing its Relic loot…
1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the…
The US government wrote a letter in support of OpenAI’s argument that training AI on others’ intellectual property is fair use.
As part of a broader DHS surge to investigate alleged voter fraud, ICE has announced it plans to pay up to $5 million to create what amounts to a federal voter database.
A startup called Mostik has a wild new approach to combining the capabilities of AI models.
