Tech News

1. Data Breaches:

   • American Airlines subsidiary Envoy Air confirms a data theft attack impacting its Oracle E-Business Suite application after the Clop extortion gang listed American Airlines on its data leak site. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Auction giant Sotheby’s reports a data breach that exposed sensitive information, including financial details of users. (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Prosper, a financial services company, suffered a data breach impacting 17.6 million accounts. (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • New York Times reports Salesforce pitched ICE on using its AI tech to help the agency nearly triple its workforce. 👉 nytimes.com^$
   • 404 Media reports hackers have posted the names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram. 👉 404media.co
   • The European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) warns of a substantial disruption to production after China cut off Nexperia's outbound shipments due to the Netherlands' seizure of Nexperia. 👉 ft.com^$
   • A report indicates European Union will likely fail to increase its 10% global chip manufacturing share to a targeted 20% by 2030. 👉 foreignaffairs.com

2. Vulnerabilities and Exploits:

   • Hackers are exploiting a critical zero-day vulnerability in Oracle’s E-Business Suite software to perform unauthenticated remote code execution, customers are urged to apply an emergency update. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
   • Europol dismantles a SIM box operation that rented numbers for cybercrime, affecting over 3,200 fraud cases and causing at least 4.5 million euros in losses. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A new campaign, codenamed Operation Zero Disco, exploits a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco IOS Software and IOS XE Software to deploy Linux rootkits on older, unprotected systems. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Security researchers have disclosed details of a recently patched critical security flaw in WatchGuard Fireware that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • CISA has warned that attackers are actively exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability in Adobe Experience Manager to execute code on unpatched systems. (2 days ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • A report details how hackers are exploiting WordPress sites to spread information stealers, using a technique called 'EtherHiding' to place malicious code on a public blockchain. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • A group of hackers from the Com posted the alleged names, phone numbers, and addresses of hundreds of US DHS, ICE, FBI, and DOJ officials on Telegram. 👉 404media.co
   • A report finds that hackers have been exploiting an unpatched hole for months in F5 Networks BIG-IP devices. (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Microsoft has fixed a Windows bug that breaks localhost HTTP connections after installing recent security updates. (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

3. Malware and Ransomware:

   • North Korean hackers are combining BeaverTail and OtterCookie malware for advanced JS malware attacks, refining their toolset. 👉 thehackernews.com
   • Microsoft disrupted Rhysida ransomware attacks targeting Teams users by revoking over 200 certificates used to sign malicious Teams installers. (2 days ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Analysis finds nearly five times more planet-heating pollution comes from plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) than official figures show. (2 days ago). 👉 theguardian.com
   • The Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. and OpenAI have worked together to address concerns about MLK’s likeness being represented in OpenAI’s Sora video generations, which has led to OpenAI pausing generations depicting Dr. King as it strengthens guardrails for historical figures. 👉 techcrunch.com

4. Artificial Intelligence:

   • OpenAI pauses Sora's ability to generate videos resembling MLK Jr. at the request of his estate after some users created "disrespectful depictions". 👉 techcrunch.com
   • Karpathy in Q&A says AGI is still a decade away. 👉 dwarkesh.com
   • Wikimedia says Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic, as more people access the site's information via AI chatbots without clicking through. 👉 404media.co
   • Salesforce was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its AI software. (2 days ago). 👉 reuters.com
   • Dwarkesh Podcast says Andrej Karpathy states AGI is still a decade away, and that reinforcement learning is terrible. 👉 dwarkesh.com
   • Simon Willison writes Anthropic's Claude Skills, which are conceptually extremely simple, may become a bigger deal than MCP, whose high token usage is its most significant limitation. 👉 simonwillison.net

5. Microsoft News:

   • Microsoft is testing limits on how many messages a user or business can send monthly on WhatsApp to unknown people without a response. 👉 techcrunch.com
   • New parental controls to give parents simple ways to oversee their teens' interactions with AI characters on Instagram. 👉 about.fb.com
   • Microsoft to test Copilot Actions, an AI feature that performs work on local files in Windows 11. 👉 cnbc.com
   • Microsoft is making Word automatically save documents to OneDrive, its cloud platform. 👉 zdnet.com
   • Microsoft has reminded customers that Office 2016 and Office 2019 have reached the end of extended support on October 14, 2025. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • Three labor unions file a lawsuit in NY federal court to block the Trump administration from searching visa holders' social media for posts it deems hostile. 👉 nbcnews.com

6. Business and Finance:

   • Fortune reports Tempo, a stablecoin-focused blockchain developed by Stripe and Paradigm, raised a $500M Series A led by Greenoaks and Thrive Capital at a $5B valuation. 👉 fortune.com
   • Bloomberg reports Samsung plans to unveil its trifold phone at APEC later in October, attendees won't be allowed to touch it as it's expected to be displayed under glass. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • Adweek reports Google is phasing out its Privacy Sandbox technologies; the initiative was launched in 2019 to develop privacy-protecting tech to replace third-party cookies. 👉 adweek.com^$
   • Bloomberg reports Revolut is nearing the completion of a $3B fundraising round that values the company at $75B, up from $45B in a 2024 secondary share sale. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • Bloomberg reports Meta is set to seal an almost $30B financing package for its Hyperion data center in Richland Parish, Louisiana, with Meta retaining 20% ownership. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
   • Crunchbase News reports Dreamdata, which offers a B2B marketing analytics platform, raised a $55M Series B led by PeakSpan, bringing its total funding to $67M. 👉 news.crunchbase.com
   • Reuters reports Lila Sciences, which uses AI to develop novel drugs and materials, raised $115M at a $1.3B valuation, bringing its Series A to $350M and total funding to $550M. 👉 reuters.com
   • Sam Altman says ChatGPT will soon allow erotica for adult users. (3 days ago). 👉 techcrunch.com

7. Cybercrime and Hacking:

   • Security Affairs reports Microsoft patched a vulnerability that was flagged with the "highest ever" severity rating received by an ASP.NET Core security flaw. (1 day ago). 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
   • The Post Millennial reports hackers doxed hundreds of FBI, ICE, DHS officers on Telegram. 👉 thepostmillennial.com
   • Sam Altman's OpenAI Shuts Down ‘Disrespectful’ AI-Generated Videos of MLK Jr. (1 day ago). 👉 breitbart.com
   • The Register reports labor unions sue Trump administration over social media surveillance. 👉 theregister.com
   • Reuters reports Nvidia, TSMC start making first ‘Made in USA’ Blackwell AI chips in Arizona. 👉 asia.nikkei.com

8. Formula 1 and Apple TV:

   • Apple and Formula 1 announce a five-year US media rights deal for all races, starting in 2026, for ~$140M/year. 👉 cnbc.com
   • Apple is paying a significant premium over the $90 million per year currently paid by ESPN, whose F1 broadcast deal expires at the end of 2025 after holding the rights in the U.S. since 2018. 👉 variety.com

9. Other News:

   • Instant coffee beat drip coffee in blind taste tests conducted by researchers at the Drexel Food Lab. (1 week ago). 👉 theguardian.com
   • New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has signed into law legislation banning the use of price-fixing software by landlords to set rental rates. (1 week ago). 👉 theverge.com
   • Samsung Electronics will unveil its trifold smartphone when world leaders and global dignitaries gather at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in South Korea later this month. 👉 msn.com
   • Atari has announced yet another retro console revival, the Intellivision Sprint, in collaboration with Plaion. (2 days ago). 👉 theverge.com
   • Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) pump out nearly five times more planet-heating pollution than official figures show. (2 days ago). 👉 theguardian.com
   • Texas is being sued by a Big Tech lobby group over the state's new law that will require app stores to verify users' ages and impose restrictions on users under 18. (2 days ago). 👉 arstechnica.com
   • Major General William Taylor told reporters that he and the Eighth Army he commands out of South Korea are regularly using AI for decision-making. 👉 arstechnica.com
   • Cloud-computing firm Salesforce was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit by two authors who alleged the company used thousands of books without permission to train its AI software. (2 days ago). 👉 reuters.com
   • Jason Allen has responded to critics who say he is not an artist by filing a new brief and announcing plans to sell oil-print reproductions of his AI-generated image. (3 days ago). 👉 404media.co
   • Backblaze's latest analysis of approximately 317,230 drives shows that peak failure rates have dropped dramatically and shifted much later in a drive's lifespan. (3 days ago). 👉 arstechnica.com
   • Hyperscale datacenters stateside will consume 22 percent more grid power by the end of 2025 than a year ago, and are forecast to need nearly three times as much electricity by the end of the decade. (2 days ago). 👉 theregister.com
   • Foreign institutional investors have pulled nearly $30 billion from Indian equity markets over the past twelve months with a substantial portion of that capital moved to Korea and Taiwan. (2 days ago). 👉 indiadispatch.com

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