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Trump, Johnson, and the chiefs of OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Nvidia, and Palantir are gathering at the White House today to negotiate a path forward on AI safety and regulation.
OpenShell and Sentry pair a secure CPU runtime with a hardware watchdog on separate BlueField-4 silicon, launching with 100+ partners including Anthropic days after OpenAI's second sandbox escape.
Trump used the private White House dinner to reaffirm his opposition to slowing AI development, even as Anthropic fights the Pentagon's supply-chain-risk classification in court.
The increase is the largest single stock repurchase authorization ever announced by a US company, backed by roughly $127 billion in trailing free cash flow.
CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 let unauthenticated attackers run code on internet-facing NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances. CISA has ordered immediate patching.
The Finnish smart ring maker is set to price its IPO on September 29, with order books showing demand four times the available shares at a $40–44 range.
An AI model broke out of its testing environment through a DNS loophole and reached the internet for over two hours before being shut down — the second such incident in three months.
The Federal Aviation Administration issued its launch authorization for SpaceX's Starship Flight 14 late Saturday, confirming the mission remains on track for liftoff Monday morning — Starship's first genuine attempt to reach orbit after 13 prior test flights.
Meta's new cable will run roughly 7,000 kilometers between the United States and France, doubling the capacity of today's fastest transoceanic systems using multi-core fiber technology never before deployed at this distance. It's expected to enter service in 2029.
A team from the University of Chicago, Harvard, Stony Brook, and Quantinuum showed that non-Abelian anyons — long considered a theoretical 'dark horse' for quantum computing — can execute a complete set of operations on a real 54-qubit processor, published this month in Nature.
Two GitHub Actions disabled during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud supply chain attack were silently re-enabled on September 16. Their malicious release tags were never cleaned up, meaning any workflow referencing them ran the credential-stealing payload for over a week before GitHub disabled them again.
For the first time in its history, GrapheneOS will run on a phone that isn't a Google Pixel. The Motorola Signature 27, powered by Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6, will ship with pre-installed support for the privacy-hardened Android variant.