TLDR: We release MessageBoardAuditBench: a benchmark to measure how well agents can replicate the recent investigation into a swarm of OpenAI agents colluding via a message board on an online wiki. We open-source the benchmark as an Inspect eval. We find that top models cover up to 51% of findings…
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for September 2026, which includes 973 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 113 that Microsoft marked as "critical."
The deployment step is now about 10% faster, saving one second on average. Large applications can save up to 12 seconds. Previously, Vercel uploaded a separate routing metadata file for each function path. That metadata is now combined into a single manifest and uploaded once. builds This…
Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many…
Microsoft is publishing 974 own-product vulnerabilities on September 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 723 vulnerabilities in Windows. Along with Microsoft fixes for 25 non-Microsoft CVEs, that brings the total number of vulnerabilities on the table today to 999. Whether this is the biggest Patch…
.NET 11 Release Candidate 1 is available with improvements across libraries, runtime, SDK, MSBuild, NuGet, C#, F#, ASP.NET Core, .NET MAUI, and Windows Forms. The post Announcing .NET 11 Release Candidate 1 appeared first on .NET Blog.
Our community works locally, regionally, and globally to keep the Internet a force for good. We are highlighting a couple of their initiatives from August. The post Community Snapshot—August appeared first on Internet Society.
Up early, call with Naomi, then Damien. Showered, packed, lunch with Thomas, bid a very fond farewell to the excellent American Meeks' hospitality. Drove into Boston, visited the Library, admired the Singer Sergant murals, and other bits. Checked out some rattan Elephants, ice-cream at "JP Licks"…
CSET’s Sam Bresnick spoke with Sky News about China’s growing investment in humanoid robots and what it could mean for the future of warfare. The conversation explored China’s manufacturing advantage, its use of robotics to signal military strength, and whether humanoid robots could appear on the…
Submit your session proposal for the community-led .NET Conf 2026 Community Days by October 6, 2026. The post .NET Conf 2026 Community Days Call for Presenters Is Open appeared first on .NET Blog.
Vercel Sandbox Requests topublic domains are now routed 18x faster. sandbox.domain() Domains created with theSDK call are now resolved from the nearest regional replica, instead of a single centralized store. Incoming requests reach the process running in the sandbox with less latency. Median…
A recap of the latest servicing updates for .NET and .NET Framework for September 2026. The post .NET and .NET Framework September 2026 servicing releases updates appeared first on .NET Blog.
Funding includes nearly $3 million to UBC and almost half a million to Open Waters Solar. The post Feds pump $11 million into BC tech, including solar and drone delivery first appeared on BetaKit.
Sep 8, 2026 – Canonical and Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. announce the general availability of certified Ubuntu 24.04 LTS images for the Qualcomm Dragonwing™ IQ-8275 Evaluation Kit (EVK). Offering industrial-grade efficiency, this release provides production-ready software designed for building…
The action came a day after Cognizant announced plans to expand its American workforce. The company said it planned to hire 1,500 US college graduates and increase its Frontier Certified Engineer and Frontier Business Operator workforce to 15,000 people.
The Django Software Foundation is looking for people to join the Fundraising Working Group. This is a particularly interesting time to get involved. The DSF has raised its 2026 fundraising goal to $500,000. That funding is what allows us to continue supporting the Django Fellows, Django Girls…
A third shuttered U.S. nuclear power plant is set to attempt a comeback with hefty support from the federal government. On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Energy said it closed a loan of up to $1.9 billion to NextEra Energy to help finance the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa…
EFF sued the government back in March for information about the Wasteful and Inappropriate Service Reduction (WISeR) model, a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of records obtained…
Chronologies have become one of legal tech’s hottest categories, with a wave of AI startups promising to turn a messy evidentiary record into a structured timeline in minutes. Jeff Kerr and his company Casefleet were more than a decade ahead of the pack. Kerr finished law school in 2010 and made…
Calgary-based FinTech cut 102 employees to create a “simpler and faster team.” The post Neo Financial lays off roughly 10 percent of its staff first appeared on BetaKit.
A charcoal sketch of four slumped people being fed sheets of paper by a tall purple machine, while across the room one person writes at a wooden desk and a small purple Socrates leans in with open, empty hands/images/the-socrates-agent.webp/images/the-socrates-agent.webp One of the most serious…
In this article, we will try to understand how the transaction runs through such a cell-based architecture and how the payments are processed even when some services are failing.
AI/ML and complex batch workloads continue to push the boundaries of Kubernetes scheduling. Following the foundational workload-centric enhancements introduced in previous releases, Kubernetes v1.37 delivers the next major milestone in the Workload-Aware Scheduling (WAS) journey. In this release…
104Critical 860Important 0Moderate 0Low Microsoft addresses 964 CVEs, smashing July’s release as the largest Patch Tuesday release. This month’s updates include patches for two zero-days that were exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched a record 964 CVEs in its September 2026 Patch Tuesday…
Smart Cities AI Challenge is one of three reverse pitch competitions at Canada’s largest AI and tech event. The post Smart Cities AI Challenge: Taking urban challenges to Canada’s AI startups at ALL IN first appeared on BetaKit.
NoFence's cattle management platform includes offers ranchers a continuous, automated picture of what's happening on the land. The post NoFence’s new herd management platform points to virtual fencing’s next chapter appeared first on AgFunderNews.
D-Wave and Rigetti both receive $100 million as US government takes stakes in quantum companies. The post US government invests $200 million USD in Canadian-founded quantum firms first appeared on BetaKit.
Summary U.S. authorities charged two Jacksonville brothers with operating “BarbaraWhite,” a prolific darknet vendor account accused of distributing counterfeit pills… The post Tracing Crypto in a Narcotics Investigation: FBI Charges Alleged Opioid Distributors appeared first on Chainalysis.
Tenable is bringing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 into our enterprise security offerings. Adding frontier adversarial reasoning to the Tenable One Exposure Management Platform will help customers better anticipate how attackers could breach their environments and stay ahead of AI-fueled risk. Tenable…
Hello Windows Insiders, Today, we’re releasing new Windows 11 Insider Preview builds to the Beta and Experimental channels. New builds this week Select your channel below to view its release notes: Beta: <a href="http The post Announcing new builds for 8 September 2026 appeared first on Windows…
The latest Windows Family Safety improvements are part of a broader effort to create safer, age-appropriate digital experiences for kids and families. As we’ve <a href="https://blogs.windows.com The post Listening to families. Improving Microsoft Family. appeared first on Windows Blog.
AI generates more code than devs can track in 2026, so will the code review process have to adapt – or is it doomed? A look into this decades-old practice and the approaches that could replace it
Uncanny Alley: A New Day, an immersive theatre experience built for VRChat, won an Emmy for Outstanding Emerging Media Program at this year's Emmy Awards ceremony.
Superprof rachète Tutors.com pour renforcer sa position aux États-Unis Superprof annonce l’acquisition de Tutors.com, présentée par son fondateur Wilfried Granier comme la plus importante des 21 opérations réalisées depuis la création de l’entreprise. Le groupe consolide ainsi sa présence aux…
The chdb Postgres extension brings fast imports and exports across cloud storage platforms and data formats, powered by the embedded ClickHouse engine.
The Exploration Company renforce ses moyens pour conduire Nyx jusqu’à la Station spatiale internationale et accélérer le développement de son moteur Storm. Cette série C accompagne deux programmes aux horizons distincts, avec une priorité de court terme maintenue sur le transport de fret orbital et…
Finding the right UX research participants is hard, and AI has made verifying them even harder. Here’s how to recruit real users, screen for quality, and use synthetic participants without compromising your research. The post How to find quality UX research participants in the age of AI appeared…
Christian Catalini says we’re in a situation where we are vastly reducing the cost of generating things, but not the cost of verifying them:. This explains why the first major AI products appeared in chat, image generation, and code assistance. Not because these were the hardest human problems, but…
We are pleased to announce that we’re now working on the 2027 edition of the Energy Storage Report, our annual publication looking at the big trends shaping the industry.
Overview The UEFI Shell program may expose raw memory access capabilities that, if present in platform firmware for debugging or advanced support use cases, could be abused to undermine UEFI Secure Boot protections. When the UEFI Shell is included in SPI flash, an attacker with the ability to…
Samsung Electronics and ASML today announced an expansion of their long-standing strategic partnership, deepening collaboration on High NA EUV lithography and advanced semiconductor manufacturing technologies that will help drive the next generation of innovation in the AI era. Building on years of…
Overview Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds, running firmware version 1.0.0.28, accept a new Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) pairing request from an unpaired device without requiring the earbuds to be placed into pairing mode or requiring any physical confirmation or interaction from the owner…
Overview A Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability exists in Ascensio System SIA's ONLYOFFICE ownCloud integration plugin (version 9.12). The plugin’s backend endpoint does not adequately validate the user‑supplied document server URL before initiating outbound connections. An…
A critical unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) zero-day in Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source, dubbed StyleSmuggler, has been actively exploited since September 4 with attacks observed three days before a vendor patch became available. Key takeaways CVE-2026-75650 is a critical remote…