[…]Attackers hijacked top-level domains, allowing them to alter DNS records and mint fraudulent HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, and those belonging to other organizations.
Google said it became aware of the series of attacks last week in the .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa) country-code top-level namespaces (ccTLDs).
“During these hijacks, attackers modified authoritative DNS records and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates covering several Google domains, as well as domains belonging to other organizations,” Google security warned on Tuesday.
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Attackers hijacked top-level domains, minted fake security certs for Google and other orgs
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Microsoft is about to let Copilot loose on your file system
If you thought Windows Recall was creepy, buckle up. Microsoft is about to shoehorn even more AI into its desktop operating system, giving Copilot access to every file on your PC.
But don’t worry, Redmond insists it’s totally secure and safe since the agents powering the functionality will run entirely on your PC — some of the time.
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ICANN reveals bids for new top-level domains
ICANN has revealed the applicants for new generic top-level domains (GTLDs).
As The Register reported in August, this is just the second time ICANN has accepted applications for GTLDs, strings like “.com” or “.net”.
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For years, only ICANN could create and operate GTLDs. The governance body changed that policy and in 2012 allowed over 1,200 new GTLDs.
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Amazon’s delivery driver smart glasses will reportedly take photos ‘almost constantly’ , no opt-out
And of course it’s not a problem. A bit like it’s not a problem that your doorbell camera takes images and videos and sends them to law enforcement.
Amazon deliveries could soon come with a new catch: the delivery driver’s smart glasses will be snapping photos of anything they see while they’re in use, including people and private property.
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Guy Who Made Millions by Creating AI Music and bots to listen to his music Receives 18-Month Prison Sentence
it turns out the version where you make AI bots listen to AI songs and collect millions of dollars in streaming royalties can result in a year-and-a-half prison sentence. A guy named Michael Smith, who pleaded guilty to doing just that back in March, has just learned this the hard way.
U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald describes Smith’s crime less appreciatively in a Justice Department press release about the sentencing, which uses the term “Super Intelligence,” as is required by a recent executive order from the President.
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Feel like your airline is gouging you for being a loyal customer? Yes, absolutely it is.
Up until very recently indeed, airlines were the only businesses that I dealt with regularly that practiced “price discrimination,” charging different customers different prices for the same seats.
Economists broadly like this “second-order” price discrimination, where a company charges customers different prices based on the circumstances of the purchase, such as a bakery discounting bread at the end of the day.
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Goodbye joint replacements? Stanford scientists found a way to regrow cartilage and stop arthritis
Scientists have identified a way to restore cartilage in aging knee joints, at least in mice, by blocking a protein whose levels rise with age. The approach not only reversed naturally occurring cartilage loss in older animals, but also protected mice from developing arthritis after knee injuries similar to ACL tears in people.
The findings also showed promise in human tissue.
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Meta’s Muse Is Collecting Information on Everyone in Your Life
[…] Nearly a month after its launch, researchers are digging into how Muse works. It turns out the AI agent will openly share internal files and instructions when users ask, offering a peek at how it operates.
One of the somewhat unsettling details is an hourly process that instructs Muse to create and update “a page for every person in the user’s life,” Wired reports.
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Hackers steal 8 million citizens’ records from Danish government database
The Danish government has confirmed that its central database of citizens’ data was breached and most of its contents were stolen. The data breach affects some 8 million citizens and residents of Denmark, including people living abroad and the deceased.
In a statement, Danish minister Christina Egelund said the breach of the country’s Central Person Register (CPR) was a “serious incident,” which allowed hackers to steal names, addresses, Danish social security numbers, and other information.
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Jev introduces a new shape of LLM—System One, aka Decision Models
Last week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev, their first example of a new category of model that they are calling “System One models” (I’m with Maggie Appleton, I think “decision models” is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still accepts text inputs, but instead of text output it returns floating point numbers corresponding to categories, yes/no questions, ratings, and associated confidence scores.
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Valorant Player Banned Due To Previous CPU Owner’s Cheating
This shows you how far reaching the spyware / anti-cheat technologies are that come with games.
[…] There can be secrets dwelling in our computer parts. Corrupted files. Spyware. Unused memes. Rarely paranormal spirits, but sometimes a previous life will linger. One German Valorant player reportedly experienced an unforeseen interruption when they were unceremoniously blocked from the game.
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ALL Social media users in UK must have passport checked to enforce under-16 ban
Yes, Age Verification really is blanket surveillance. How to create the most hackable database of your personal data and follow absolutely everyone online for all kinds of stuff.
Social media companies will be required to implement “hard checks” on people’s ages such as demanding passports or driving licences under plans to stop children from using their platforms.
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Ubiquiti: The U.S. Tech Enabling Russia’s Drone War
Ubiquiti radio bridge antennae serve a critical communications need for the Russian military in Ukraine, including for drone operations, according to our investigation. A Ukrainian communications officer estimated 80% of Russian radio bridges they’d observed on the battlefield were made by Ubiquiti. “Ubiquiti is made for regular people — basically plug-and-play. Tons of tutorials on YouTube,” the officer explained.
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Simulcra – drown your device ID by throwing out loads of fake IDs
A modular, multi-node ESP32 anti-tracking system. Simulacra continuously fabricates a churning crowd of plausible-but-fake wireless devices around you – drowning your real devices in noise so that passive trackers, ALPR add-ons, and co-travel correlators can’t reliably pick your signal out of the crowd – while passively watching for the trackers that follow you.
It is built from cooperating nodes, each playing to a different board’s strengths, coordinated over an encrypted ESP-NOW link.
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Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach
Following on the FBI breach, it’s not a good look for the government and centralised databases.
The U.S. government is alerting millions of current and former U.S. military service members and staff that their personal information was stolen during a months-long breach of the Pentagon’s personnel records, the latest in a spate of thefts involving federal workers’ data in recent months.
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Stop Killing Games Issues EU Kids Act Warning
The EU Kids Act was officially proposed on September 17, 2026. According to the outline provided for the EU Kids Act on the official European Commission website, the proposal in question primarily “seeks to protect minors from risky digital services and AI systems, uphold the digital single market and maintain a coherent regulatory framework and enforcement structure for the protection of minors online.”
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Google launches first datacenter satellite and research says they could work, but not yet
Google’s first “Suncatcher” datacenter satellite has made it into space, but the company has cast doubt on whether its orbital ambitions can scale.
As The Register reported last week, Project Suncatcher aims to test whether Google’s tensor processing units (TPUs) can survive a launch and the harsh environment of space. The Big G hopes to validate theories that the limitless supply of solar energy available in space makes the cost of putting servers into orbit sensible.
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‘This Matters’: Researchers Identify Thousands of New Tells in AI Writing
A new study from Graphite (a marketing company, so you know, take it with a grain of salt) has identified about 13,000 words and phrases that it believes are likely indicators that an AI model produced text—and warns that in at least one case, the tells might be getting harder to spot.
Gone are the days when excessive em dashes were the primary flag of AI-generated content (and thank god, some of us need those).
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DDR memory maker Micron Posts Record Revenue and Earnings for 2026, margins of 83 – 90%
With margins this high the consumer is being ripped off, especially with most of the produced RAM sitting in warehouses waiting for datacentres to be built.
Micron Technology reported record fiscal fourth-quarter and full-year 2026 results on September 30, 2026, posting quarterly revenue of $54.23 billion and annual revenue of $133.19 billion for the fiscal year ended September 3, 2026.
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Wigle: global database of Wifi SSID locations
We consolidate location and information of wireless networks world-wide to a central database, and have user-friendly web and Android applications that can map, query and update the database via the web.
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Intro to Reality Pentesting – A Conceptual Field Topology for Proactive Cognitive Defense
This is a really interesting look at comparing cybersecurity frameworks to psychology. It’s pretty deep, so what I have quoted here is very much only scratching the surface. How to hack humans!
A framework for mapping and red-teaming the human cognitive attack surface.
[…]a summary of the field topology of human cognition: a five-layer model of the human cognitive field, its attack surfaces, and a proposal for what proactive defense might look like.
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OpenAI Faces First Lawsuit Over Rogue AI Agents That Hacked Hugging Face, but only to stop them from doing it again, not to punish them for hacking
So people who are hackers get years in jail, but this lawsuit wants to tell the people directing the agents to not do it again. Nothing about punishment. And the Feds are still not doing anything either, even though there is an admission of guilt. I guess there is one law for people and another for billion dollar companies and owners.… Read the rest of this article “OpenAI Faces First Lawsuit Over Rogue AI Agents That Hacked Hugging Face, but only to stop them from doing it again, not to punish them for hacking”
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500,000 live facial recognition scans, 100 hours of police time in London stations leads to no arrests and one false positive. So they extend the trial.
You can’t make up how much money is being wasted on privacy intruding technologies.
A six-month trial of live facial recognition (LFR) technology in London’s railway stations that cost more than £320,000 and almost 100 hours of police officers’ time led to one false match against a watchlist of suspects and no arrests.
More than half a million faces were scanned between February and July this year in some of the capital’s busiest transport hubs during the British Transport Police (BTP) trial of the surveillance technology, which aimed to help catch offenders and people breaching court orders.
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Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections
Basically when you (un)intentionally create an endless loop – so you task the agent to do X and Y and then it just keeps doing Y continuously afterwards.
[…] “We have found instances of our GPT models being susceptible to an AI-version of a worm attack that we call ‘self-replicating prompt injection,’” OpenAI said in a Friday alignment research blog.
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PixelLeak: AI agents go and upload internal screenshots to github
Every day, developers hand the last mile of their work to an AI coding agent: summarize your changes, attach screenshots showing the changes, then submit them for review. It’s common sense that screenshots of internal, unreleased development work should not be posted where anyone can see them.
But many AI agents have been doing just that.
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