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The SecTor cybersecurity conference concluded in Toronto last week, drawing its largest crowd yet with attendance up 22% over the prior event. Industry experts used the gathering to discuss emerging security risks facing organizations.
Bluesky announced at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 that its experimental Attie platform now lets users build websites, games, quizzes and polls using AI, not just custom social feeds as before. CEO Toni Schneider described it as 'vibe coding' for communities, with creations tied to users' AT Protocol identities and built using either a user's own AI model or open-weight options.
Hackers have been exploiting a critical command injection vulnerability in Nextcloud's built-in Collabora Online CODE server app since at least September 10, weeks before the issue received a formal advisory and CVE number. The flaw lets unauthenticated attackers send a crafted request to the app's proxy.php endpoint and run system commands when the bundled CODE server is down, such as after a restart or crash, allowing them to plant PHP webshells and hunt for passwords and crypto wallets.
Candidates in Mississippi, Texas and Colorado are sparring over meat consumption as beef prices rise. In Mississippi, Democrat Scott Colom released an ad mocking GOP Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith's suggestion that shoppers pick other proteins, while Texas Democrat James Talarico has been eating barbecue publicly to counter claims he's vegan, and Colorado Republicans are attacking Democratic candidate Manny Rutinel over his past anti-meat activism.
TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 held its third and final day at Moscone West, drawing over 10,000 founders, investors and technology leaders. The day included AI, fundraising and growth-strategy sessions, a Startup Battlefield component, and an Expo Hall featuring more than 320 exhibiting startups.
Acros Security's 0patch service released micropatches fixing CVE-2026-62878, a remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows DNS Server service, for Windows Server versions that no longer receive official Microsoft updates. Microsoft had already patched the flaw in supported editions in August 2026 by capping DNS query recursion nesting depth at 62, and 0patch used a public proof-of-concept exploit credited to researchers Nicolas Alejandro Malizia and Joaquín Grassi to build equivalent fixes for legacy systems.
ASML's Q3 2026 earnings showed net profit of €4.96 billion on €11.7 billion in sales, with CEO Christophe Fouquet saying customers are already booking advanced lithography machines for delivery in 2029 and 2030. The company will raise prices starting in 2027, fully reflected by 2028, even as it adds 30% capacity in both 2027 and 2028, and lifted its full-year sales guidance to €44-45 billion.
Flock founder and CEO Garrett Langley publicly defended his company's license-plate camera and surveillance systems at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, arguing that halting the technology's expansion would hinder crime accountability. He addressed criticism that has led some cities to cancel contracts and the company to lay off staff, but largely responded with anecdotes from police chiefs rather than direct solutions to privacy concerns.
TechCrunch has selected five startups to compete in the Startup Battlefield finals at Disrupt 2026, chosen from 20 companies that pitched across four categories: space and physical AI, energy and manufacturing, health tech and life sciences, and enterprise and security. The finalists include Apate.ai, which uses AI agents to bait scammers; Flox Intelligence, which builds a sensor-based wildlife deterrent system; and Intero Biosystems, which grows lab organoids that mimic human intestines for drug testing. The finals take place the following day, with a judging panel awarding the winner a $100,000 equity-free prize and the Startup Battlefield Cup.
Gudea, founded in 2023 by Keith Presley, Jonathan Sperber, and James Thomin, presented its platform at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026's Startup Battlefield. The company uses AI to analyze behavior and information flow across more than 500 websites and platforms, including X, Reddit, and TikTok, to help organizations detect potentially damaging narratives before they escalate.
Ahead of the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm elections, CNET reports a wave of AI-generated political ads, some disclosed and some not, including manipulated content targeting Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and James Talarico. A CNN analysis cited in the report found campaigns and groups have spent more than $16 million on AI-generated ads this cycle, following a 2024 incident where an AI voice clone of Joe Biden was used in illegal robocalls that led to a $6 million fine.
A high-severity authentication bypass and remote code execution vulnerability in Ivanti ICS, tracked as CVE-2026-104935, was only partially fixed when Ivanti issued a patch in July. Threat actors have since exploited the remaining gap, according to reports, allowing attacks to continue despite the earlier remediation attempt.