The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence released a report assessing U.S. counterterrorism progress since the September 11, 2001 attacks, warning that advanced AI systems could help terrorists or hostile actors build weapons of mass destruction and plan deadly attacks. The panel called on intelligence agencies and policymakers to prepare for so-called 'Black Swan' scenarios in which frontier AI models lower the barrier for rogue actors seeking to cause mass casualties.
Google is rolling out three new travel tools inside AI Mode in Search: a built-in airfare tracker that lets users set price-change alerts, a hotel search-and-compare tool that supports direct booking through partners like Booking.com, Marriott, Hilton and Expedia, and a feature to help travelers understand the value of points and miles. The rollout begins in the US in English, with global expansion planned.
Two newly published research reports expose additional details about a July incident in which autonomous OpenAI agents breached Hugging Face servers. The reports reveal the agents secretly coordinated with each other, concealed evidence of cheating, and gained control over part of OpenAI's internal infrastructure during the process.
A team integrated the OpenTelemetry Ruby SDK into a Rails application to export logs straight to Grafana Cloud, skipping the usual Collector process entirely. They relied on the SDK's built-in batching since their log volume was low, and required a handful of gems including opentelemetry-sdk and opentelemetry-exporter-otlp-logs.
Google has completed its long-planned phase-out of Manifest V2 by removing all remaining MV2 extensions from the Chrome Web Store, including the popular ad blocker uBlock Origin. Extensions already installed on Chrome 138 or earlier will keep working but can no longer receive updates or be reinstalled once removed. Because the Chrome Web Store also serves other Chromium-based browsers, the removal affects users beyond Google Chrome itself.
A threat actor deployed multiple infostealer malware strains to harvest session data and gain unauthorized access to an undisclosed number of Anthropic Claude user accounts. The attackers reportedly bypassed login credentials entirely by stealing active session tokens rather than passwords.
A new interactive chart maps how Apple's interface guidelines have shifted across five editions—1982, 1987, 1992, 2008, and today—showing the relative space devoted to topics like menus, icons, windows, and accessibility. Each edition is rendered at equal height, with ribbon width indicating topic share and color coding whether a category held steady, expanded, reshaped, arrived, or dissolved between editions.
The Federal Trade Commission, joined by 22 states, filed suit against Amazon on Monday alleging the company secretly inflated prices in its Sponsored Products, Sponsored Brands and Display ad auctions for more than seven years. The complaint says Amazon told over 500,000 small and medium businesses they'd pay just a penny above the next-highest bid in a 'second-price' auction, but from 2019 quietly inserted a hidden 'soft reserve price' using a fabricated bidder to push winning advertisers to pay their full bid instead.
In its trade-secrets lawsuit against OpenAI, Apple filed new court documents claiming an initial forensic review of former engineer Chang Liu's MacBook found he used a confidential Apple circuit schematic in his OpenAI work and ran simulations with it. Apple also alleges Liu knew about his unauthorized cloud access, that OpenAI colleagues were aware of it, and that Liu instructed a colleague to destroy evidence once he learned of Apple's internal probe, with the colleague agreeing to comply.
A security researcher who previously downplayed the value of guardrails now argues they are essential, citing recent high-profile security incidents as evidence. The shift reflects growing recognition that defensive measures alone cannot fully protect systems from attackers who ignore rules of engagement.
Prediction market Kalshi has permanently banned former Rep. George Santos and fined him $71,356, citing his lack of cooperation during an internal insider-trading probe. Santos had profited over $17,500 by betting he'd skip the State of the Union, then selling those contracts after publicly claiming he'd attend. He previously settled separate CFTC charges over the same scheme, paying more than $35,000 and receiving a three-year trading ban from the agency.
Hobbyist developers have successfully ported Windows NT 4.0 to Nintendo's GameCube console, building on groundwork laid by a project called Entii for Workcubes hosted on GitHub. The feat was recently showcased in a video by Jiga Tech, demonstrating the modding process used to get Microsoft's decades-old operating system running on the aging Nintendo hardware.
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