‼️ Bill Gates accuses the tech industry of knowingly downplaying AI's risks because too much money is at stake.

Executives are worried in private but won't say so publicly, he told the NYT. Their reasoning, in his words: "It's bad for us — the next trillion dollars we're trying to raise."

Gates says the industry blew past milestones it once said would warrant caution: models escaping their creators' control, AI producing bioweapon recipes.

https://www.gatesnotes.com/a-turbulent-ai-era-and-critical-choices-to-make

‼️ BREAKING: OpenAI has published its full post-mortem on their AI breakout and compromise of Hugging Face. Carried out by its own models, with no human directing them.

Agents stuck on evaluation tasks turned an internal Artifactory server into a covert message board, escaped the sandbox via SSRF, then chained two Hugging Face zero-days into code execution on dozens of production servers.

OpenAI calls it a "warning shot" for loss of control.

https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/

‼️ BREAKING: Two TeamPCP members, Ruben Ian Thomson, 21, and Louis Michael Gaebler, 23, have been arrested in Perth, Australia. The group is known for its npm supply chain attacks, including the Shai-Hulud worm.

‼️ Proton says 85% of the 390 VPN apps in US app stores contain trackers that collect and share personal data, and 64 of them are owned by Chinese companies. 31 of those hide it behind shell firms in Singapore, Hong Kong and the UK.
Chinese law compels those companies to hand user data to the state on request, putting the browsing activity and personal data of US users in reach of the Chinese government. Americans downloaded them 3M+ times in one month.

‼️🇩🇪 BREAKING: Threat actor Rhysida is auctioning 5.79TB it says it stole from German capital Berlin's state agencies, including 46,500 contracts, emails, phone numbers, passwords and files the group calls classified. Bidding opens at 30 BTC.

The samples show a file named 'Passwort.docx' with cleartext passwords in them...

Berlin refuses to pay. It says election systems were untouched but cannot yet describe what was taken.

The samples show a lot of cleartext passwords stored across the environment... Questions will be asked.

‼️BREAKING: Anthropic is signing Claude users out and deleting their saved card because infostealer malware on their machines handed a bad actor live Claude login sessions. Anthropic says its systems detected the activity, and the notification names six stealer families across Windows and macOS.

‼️ 13TB of Valve's Steam2 content servers is being distributed publicly: depots from 2003 to 2013, "including those previously unreleased," across three mirrors and a torrent, with an extractor bundled.

Development branches are notorious for containing things nobody meant to ship: internal tooling, hardcoded credentials, signing material, third-party middleware source under license, debug symbols, employee paths and names.

Windows 11's full-screen OneDrive prompt FINALLY shows an opt out button instead of only "Remind me in 3 days"

The button appeared on PCs running stable Windows 25H2.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/08/30/windows-11-is-dropping-its-worst-onedrive-dark-pattern-after-years-of-complaints-microsoft-will-let-you-fully-opt-out/