A University of California climate scientist received her fifth public-records request this year seeking all correspondence about a study linking fossil-fuel emissions to climate damages, filed via a law firm for Iowa-based Patriots Foundation. Nature identified at least 30 such requests since 2024 sent to 13 public universities, affecting dozens of climate scientists, legal scholars and attorneys; Politico separately found over 100 records requests since 2021 tied to climate-damage lawsuits.
nature.com
· 2026-10-19
Burger King Japan disclosed that unauthorized third parties accessed a server managing its official app's member data between October 2 and 7, 2026, exposing 11.18 million records including names, birth dates, gender, emails, phone numbers and order history. The company said it blocked the intrusion upon discovery, completed a follow-up investigation on October 13, and reported the incident to Japan's Personal Information Protection Commission.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-16
Tesla showcased the long-delayed Roadster 2 with compressed-gas thrusters, offering it in three configurations: a road-ready Performance model, a limited-production Thrust variant, and an invite-only single-seat Rocket version. The company did not disclose pricing, and only the Performance variant is currently open for reservations, which now require a $5,000 deposit plus $45,000 due within 10 days.
wired.com
· 2026-10-16
Future of Cancer Care Today has introduced a single standing authorization form that US patients can use to request or direct release of their medical records, imaging files, lab and genomic data, and available tissue to recipients of their choice. The form specifies the patient's information, any personal representative's authority, and the releasing institutions, and covers materials including pathology slides, tissue blocks, blood, plasma and bone marrow samples across all dates of treatment. The organization is inviting patients and data-holding institutions to use the form and provide feedback.
sijbrandijfoundation.org
· 2026-10-15
A compilation of cave mineral records spanning Asia, South America and Africa traces how summer monsoon systems in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres have shifted in tandem over the last 450,000 years. The records show these interhemispheric monsoon systems responding to shared climate forcings, including glacial cycles and abrupt cooling events like Heinrich stadials.
nature.com
· 2026-10-14
A federal judge ruled that Apple can obtain expedited access to OpenAI's interview materials for former Apple employees who applied to its consumer hardware and robotics teams. OpenAI must turn over already-collected documents within five days and remaining materials within 14 days. The judge also granted Apple access to private LINE messages between individuals named in the case, though he denied some of Apple's other document requests.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-13
Will Lachance describes his experience using Implementation Decision Records (IDRs), a practice he devised to get better output from LLM coding agents and keep a durable log of implementation decisions. He found that when given a vague prompt, an agent will often just fill in the IDR with a generic restatement of what it already intended to build, producing a document that is lossy and arguably worse than a plain code diff.
wrla.ch
· 2026-10-12
A writer for GoKawiil recounts buying an obscure vinyl record, 'Christ Liveth In Me' by the Toftwood Male Voice Choir, on March 11, 2017, as part of a long-running habit of collecting rare and unusual vinyl and vintage equipment. The purchase, made during a broader search for 1950s-60s demonstration and sound-effects records, turned into a personal investigation to trace the choir's origins and history.
ei3lh.eu
· 2026-10-11
A federal hearing examined whether President Trump can charge news organizations up to $100,000 a month for instant API access to his Truth Social posts, many of which announce government actions like military strikes or tariffs. DOJ attorney Brantley Mayers defended the fees by comparing Trump's posts to FDR's fireside chats, but US District Judge Paul Oetken pushed back, noting Roosevelt never charged for his broadcasts. News organizations suing argue the fee structure violates the First, Fifth, and Presidential Records Act protections against paid tiers of access to government information.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-08
Hackers gained control over DNS records for Google domains and ccTLDs in Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone by infiltrating third-party registries. They obtained valid HTTPS certificates for these domains, enabling impersonation and malicious content delivery. Google responded by revoking the certificates and working with authorities to prevent further misuse, affirming that its own systems remained unaffected.
bleepingcomputer.com
· 2026-10-07
Google disclosed that attackers hijacked DNS infrastructure of three country-code top-level domains — .gh, .sl, and .as — and used that control to obtain unauthorized TLS certificates for several Google domains and other major brands. Google says it has updated Chrome to block the identified fraudulent certificates and worked with other certificate authorities to do the same across browsers.
arstechnica.com
· 2026-10-06
An Entrepreneur contributor argues that small companies often rely solely on the owner's memory to explain past decisions, which creates risk when the owner isn't available. The piece recommends three recordkeeping components—a regularly updated business plan, bookkeeping, and corporate records—to document a company's direction, actual financial activity, and the authorization behind key decisions.
entrepreneur.com
· 2026-10-06
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