This ZDNET article is not a cyber threat report. It covers US state legislation on plug-in (balcony or backyard) solar systems, which consist of panels, an inverter and a battery that connect to a standard 120-volt outlet. Utah was the first state to legalize them, and ten states have now done so. About two dozen others are still working …
Meta is updating its commercial terms for Meta Business Suite, effective Oct. 30. Under the new terms, accounts authorize Meta and any entity acting on its behalf to use scrapers, bots, crawlers and user agents on domains and URLs "associated with" the account, including news publisher sites. Nieman Lab first reported the change, and lega…
Munich's chief digital officer, Dr. Laura Dornheim, said at Open Source Summit Europe in Prague that the city is returning to open-source software, but only for infrastructure and not for desktops. The city is replacing VMware with Proxmox, Jira and Confluence with OpenProject and XWiki, and adopting PostgreSQL as an alternative to Oracle…
Anthropic announced that six evaluators from METR, a third-party nonprofit that tests frontier models, will get "employee-like access" to its hardware, office space and internal tools roughly on par with those of its own risk assessment teams. Exclusions are limited to a few categories: customer data, attorney-client privileged informatio…
Apple's online store in the US began showing a January 25 ship date for every iPhone Duo configuration within about 30 minutes of preorders opening on October 16, 2026. The article describes this as the longest preorder delay Apple has recorded. According to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, the main cause is "extraordinary supply chain constraint…
The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) maintains a Wage Loss Dashboard that estimates the economic cost of US job cuts companies attribute to AI. It was updated this month with September data. It shows just over 117,000 AI-attributed job cuts nationally since January 2026, equal to about $8.5 billion in estimated annual wage losses. This is indu…