People who want to use AI to understand animals say we will be able to talk to them and have two-way communication before 2030.

That could mean finally cracking the code and understanding what animals are truly feeling or saying. For this, AI needs to be fed giant datasets of animal calls.

Scientists expect that once we can talk to animals, we will show more compassion towards them and do more to protect their habitats.

A $10 million prize is on offer for the first AI that can converse with an animal without the animal realising a human is behind it.

If you play one animal's call to its own group over and over, and it works like a deepfake in its likeness: researchers warn the group may start ignoring the real animal's calls.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2096728334130405487?s=20

Jensen Huang has declared that the race to AGI is over, without explaining what he means by that.

The benchmarks don't obviously support it. According to Epoch, Astra is marginally better than Claude Fable 5.1 and not significantly off-trend.

There is, however, a quantifiable framework that defines AGI as matching the cognitive versatility and proficiency of a well-educated adult.

See: https://www.agidefinition.ai/

‼️ BREAKING: Your LG TV is eavesdropping on you. It transcribes what you say, copies what is on your screen, and scans every device on your network, and researchers say the collection keeps running after you disconnect it, uploading the moment it reconnects.

LG's ad-tech arm says it out loud: "We own the glass." It pitches marketers on the ability to "own the living room," using data harvested from the TV you paid thousands for.

Gamers Nexus, working with Level1Techs and independent researchers, compromised an LG G5 and turned it into a listening device: it recorded room audio while the screen appeared off and the Ethernet cable was unplugged, then exfiltrated the file once the TV was back online.

LG has publicly said its TVs "do not collect, record, or store ambient conversations." Gamers Nexus found the TV converts speech to plain text and stores it in on-device logs, and that the mic window stays open 10 to 15 seconds after talking stops, sweeping up bystanders who never addressed the TV.

These sets are everywhere: hospitals, waiting rooms, boardrooms, hotels. ACR keeps running even when the TV is a dumb HDMI monitor, and a compromised set can pull the audio of a call off that HDMI feed. A surgeon asked Gamers Nexus where that leaves patient confidentiality.

Researchers advise disconnecting LG TVs from any network.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IFVTcM28KA

❗️Attackers are chaining two critical MikroTik RouterOS bugs to take full control of any router with SSH exposed to the internet. Polish CERT has confirmed exploitation since at least 2 September.

The vulnerabilities being exploited are an SSH authentication bypass and a privilege escalation, CVE-2026-67276 and CVE-2026-86060, both CVSS 9.2.

Patch ASAP.

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/09/vulnerabilities-in-mikrotik-routeros-actively-exploited/

‼️ Grindr will hand over £26m to settle claims from 12,000 UK users that the app passed sensitive details from their profiles, HIV status among them in some cases, to advertising firms.

Grindr blames the era, not the app. Grindr told the SEC the case covers "historical data practices before 2020" — when it was owned by Beijing Kunlun Tech, the Chinese owner a US national security panel later forced out.

‼️ Microsoft's patch for Windows Defender zero-day ShieldBreak (CVE-2026-69414) is still bypassable, a new PoC called ShieldCrash was published today by researcher Nightmare-Eclipse. It demonstrates arbitrary file read as SYSTEM on all supported Windows versions running the September 2026 patches.

The researcher describes it as a "skeleton PoC" and says a full SYSTEM exploit may follow.

Link to PoC: https://github.com/MSNightmare/ShieldCrash

A cyberattack stopped Boston Scientific from shipping medical devices to hospitals and clinics for more than a week. In a recent update the company said its systems still weren't restored, and gave no date for when they would be.

It has now cut its sales and profit forecast for the year and told the SEC that attackers took patient health data along with confidential company information. The shares fell.

Boston Scientific hasn't said what kind of attack hit it on 25 August, or how the attackers got in.

https://news.bostonscientific.com/update-on-recent-cybersecurity-incident

A group that came together through online gaming platforms stole more than $245 million in cryptocurrency. Its ringleader, a 22-year-old Singaporean living in Miami named Malone Lam, pleaded guilty in Washington today.

He picked the targets and assigned the roles, prosecutors say. Conspirators talked victims into handing over the information that let them drain the wallets, with occasional home break-ins alongside the deception.

The money went on nightclub tabs of up to $500,000 a night, designer handbags given away at those parties, private jets, a private security team and a fleet of exotic cars topping out at $3.8 million. Lam was arrested at his Miami rental home last September.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/singaporean-ringleader-245-million-cryptocurrency-racketeering-enterprise-pleads-guilty