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Garry Tan, CEO of Y Combinator, said at the accelerator's Demo Day that regulators should take no action against AI model distillation, even as OpenAI and Anthropic accuse Chinese firms like DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax of copying their models' outputs to train cheaper alternatives. His comments come days after the NSA, CISA, and FBI issued a joint advisory warning about the practice.
A developer found that copying the login.keychain-db file from one Mac to another no longer works on macOS Tahoe when the destination Mac has a Secure Enclave chip. Previously, users could transfer this SQLite-based keychain file and unlock it on a new machine simply by entering the correct password, but that method now fails.
Users of multiple Excel versions, from Office 2016 through 2024 including LTSC 2021, report that this week's KB5002914 security update, part of Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday, disables copy-paste and formula-dragging functions. Complaints surfaced on Reddit and Microsoft's Q&A forums, with some teams reporting workflow disruptions after widespread installation of the patch. BleepingComputer could not reproduce the bug on a tested Excel 2019 build, suggesting the issue may not affect all configurations equally.
Syq is a new command-line utility for copying, reorganizing, and deleting files between machines, positioned as an alternative to rsync. It supports resuming interrupted transfers, running remote commands from a server without needing SSH access on the client machine, and scripting via a JSON API or Python SDK.
The NSA, CISA, and FBI jointly identified six Chinese AI companies—DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI—as running large-scale campaigns since late 2024 to extract the underlying capabilities of leading US AI systems like Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok. The agencies said these firms likely operated with the Chinese government's awareness and used tactics such as mass fake-account API abuse and prompt injection to expose hidden reasoning processes.
Microsoft, acting through TracerAI, has withdrawn its DMCA takedown notice that accused the open-source voxel game Luanti of infringing Minecraft's copyright. The Luanti app has been reinstated on Google Play immediately, without needing to wait out the standard counter-notice period, signaling Microsoft has abandoned the case entirely.
The White House deleted a Tetris-style browser game called 'Build The Wall' from its website days after The Tetris Company publicly objected to the unauthorized use of its game mechanics and look. The company said on X it had no involvement in creating the game and takes copyright infringement seriously. The White House has not explained the removal or responded to media inquiries.
Suno introduced its new v6 model family, trained entirely on licensed music data from partners including Warner Music Group, BMG and Believe, replacing the data used to build earlier versions. The lineup includes a standard v6 model, an experimental 'wild' version, and a faster 'mini' model for free users, with older models set to be phased out. New editing tools let users tweak lyrics, isolate instruments, and use text, images or video as creative references.
The NSA, CISA and FBI issued a joint advisory alleging that Chinese AI companies including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun and Z.AI extracted billions of tokens from US frontier models such as Claude, GPT, Gemini and Grok since 2024. The agencies say this data was used to train competing systems like DeepSeek's R1 and Moonshot's Kimi K2/K3, describing the practice as 'distillation activities at an industrial scale.'
The White House removed a browser game called 'Build the Wall' from its website after the Tetris Company said it had no involvement in the title and takes copyright infringement seriously. The game, which used block-stacking mechanics resembling Tetris, tasked players with building a wall to stop a 'zombie border siege' and drew criticism for its racist framing. The page now returns a 404 error, though another game on the site, Rio Run, which involves deporting immigrant characters, remains live.
The White House has taken down Build the Wall, a browser game styled after Tetris that had players stack bricks to construct a border wall, from its online arcade. The removal followed public criticism from The Tetris Company, which said it had no involvement in the game and cited copyright concerns over its close resemblance to Tetris.
The White House quietly removed 'Build the Wall,' a Tetris-inspired browser game from its new WhiteHouse.gov 'Arcade' section, after The Tetris Company publicly disavowed the game and warned it takes copyright infringement seriously. The game had players stack border-wall bricks to block pixelated 'zombies' representing migrants, but unlike real Tetris, completed lines never cleared, making every round end in a 'Border Breached' message. Other games in the same arcade, modeled on Flappy Bird and Snake, remain live.