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  1. Help Net Security

    Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026

    Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Sift is a free...

  2. Help Net Security

    Cybersecurity jobs available right now: September 29, 2026

    Application Security Researcher Novee Security | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As an Application Security Researcher, you will test web applications and APIs to verify vulnerabilities found by Novee’s AI platform and document how they can be exploited. You will help customers reproduce and fix...

  3. The Next Web

    Soneium and DayOneDream partner to bring K-pop IP onchain

    Soneium has partnered with DayOneDream to bring K-pop intellectual property onchain as tokenised assets. Sony Group and Startale Group developed the Soneium blockchain. DayOneDream is the entertainment group behind K-pop artists including BTOB, LEE CHAE YEON, MEMI and 2F. It also runs global...

  4. CSO Online

    Nvidia releases Open Agent Safety Platform to monitor and govern agentic AI

    Nvidia on Monday rolled out an agentic governance system called the Open Agent Safety Platform that combines software with out-of-band DPU-based silicon in a reference system design that it says will secure agents “from testing to deployment.” But while the Nvidia design’s silicon-based component...

  5. Wired

    Nothing’s New Headphone (1) Pro Are Made for the Studio

    With three drivers in each ear and tuning from Metropolis Studios, Nothing wants its new $399 cans to shine in the studio while also making your commute more musical.

  6. NY Times

    OpenAI Says It Will Not Release Newest Astra A.I. Model Over Safety Concerns

    The company’s researchers raised questions about the security of the model, known as GPT-6.1 Astra.

  7. Washington Post

    OpenAI cancels new AI launch, citing safety issues

    The cancellation of the new release comes days after OpenAI said it stopped training powerful new AI after safety incidents.

  8. Dark Reading

    Nvidia Launches AI Agent Safety Platform to Prevent Rogue Activities

    The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on both hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they cause harm.

  9. Washington Post

    Bill Gates warns of ‘a billion’ deaths if AI goes wrong

    ‘There’s never been a weapon as powerful as the combination of people with ill intent using the latest AI tools,’ he said in a recent interview.

  10. Wired

    Shark’s NeverChange Air Purifier Is Nearly Half Off Right Now

    Shark and other top air purifier brands are on discount ahead of Amazon Prime Big Deal Days.

  11. Dark Reading

    One Packet Can Crash OT Servers in Industrial Sectors

    A high-severity zero-day vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments.

  12. The Next Web

    Cloudflare’s Prince tells The Verge bots could be 1,000x human traffic

    Bots could make up 1,000 times more web traffic than humans within five years, Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince told The Verge. He made the forecast on Nilay Patel’s Decoder podcast. He added that each of his earlier predictions on bot traffic had been wrong. They were wrong because bots...

  13. The Next Web

    Hinton, Bengio and AI lab scientists warn of an intelligence explosion

    More than 20 AI researchers have warned that AI systems that automate AI research could set off an “intelligence explosion”. They include OpenAI’s chief scientist and an Anthropic co-founder. Such an event could compress years of progress into months or less, they wrote in a paper published on...

  14. Dark Reading

    Carbonato Botnet Puts an AI Agent on Hacked Docker Hosts

    The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.

  15. NY Times

    Nvidia Adds $150 Billion to Massive Stock Buyback, the Largest Ever

    The increase comes four months after the chip giant added $80 billion to its buyback program, bringing the total remaining authorized amount to $235 billion.

  16. Wired

    Boox Announces the Picco, Its Smallest E-Reader Ever (2026)

    The Boox Picco is a palm-sized e-reader with a 4-inch screen, strong support for different ebook formats, and digital utility tools.

  17. The Next Web

    SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation for physical AI chips

    SiMa.ai has raised $150m in a Series C round that values the company at $1.45bn, it announced on Monday. The San Jose startup makes chips and software that let robots, drones and cars run AI on the device itself. Fidelity Management & Research Company and Amplify co-led the round. Alter Venture...

  18. The Hacker News

    Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks

    Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to...

  19. The Next Web

    UK AI minister says AI testing is not enough, Fortune reports

    The UK’s AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, says countries must “harden” their defences against AI risk. Testing models is no longer enough, he said. He was answering a question from Fortune at the Labour Party’s annual conference. Fortune’s Kamal Ahmed asked him about a warning from Jacob Coxon, a...

  20. The Next Web

    Anthropic ends discounts once tokens run out, The Information reports

    Anthropic ends enterprise customers’ discounts once they use up the tokens covered by their contracts, The Information reported on Monday. OpenAI takes a more flexible approach, the report said. Kevin McLaughlin of The Information spoke to software company managers who buy from both AI companies...