The ShinyHunters extortion gang is bypassing web application firewall rules meant to block exploitation of Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 by using a URL-encoding trick, resuming attacks against organizations across healthcare, government, education, and other sectors.
A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages after finding Apple infringed two haptics patents related to the Taptic Engine used in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple has vowed to appeal.
Alabama reached a settlement with TikTok and ByteDance requiring a two-hour daily usage limit for teens and stricter age verification, with the company paying at least $100 million — and potentially up to $300 million if 40 other attorneys general join similar agreements.
College graduates aged 22 to 27 faced a 5.7% unemployment rate as of June 2026, while AI-powered screening tools are reshaping early-career hiring — and dividing a generation on whether AI skills are worth building at all.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Ohio and Tennessee can apply state gambling laws to Kalshi's sports event contracts, marking the second appellate defeat for the prediction market industry and heightening the likelihood of Supreme Court review.
CISA has added four actively exploited vulnerabilities affecting WSO2, Adobe Commerce, Microsoft SharePoint, and Mikrotik RouterOS to its KEV catalog, as file transfer platform Kiteworks separately warned customers to take systems offline amid a potential zero-day threat flagged by federal intelligence agencies.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Max subscription, priced at $500 per month, has surfaced inside the platform's subscription interface, featuring "Fastest Work and Codex" access, 100GB of file storage, and the company's most capable frontier models.
A federal jury in San Diego awarded Taction Technology more than $5.7 billion in damages after finding Apple infringed two haptics patents related to the Taptic Engine used in iPhones and Apple Watches. Apple has vowed to appeal.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously that Ohio and Tennessee can apply state gambling laws to Kalshi's sports event contracts, marking the second appellate defeat for the prediction market industry and heightening the likelihood of Supreme Court review.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Polymarket on Thursday, accusing the prediction market platform of running an unlicensed gambling operation. Polymarket responded the same day by filing a countersuit in federal court, arguing states cannot regulate federally overseen derivatives exchanges.
College graduates aged 22 to 27 faced a 5.7% unemployment rate as of June 2026, while AI-powered screening tools are reshaping early-career hiring — and dividing a generation on whether AI skills are worth building at all.
OpenAI's ChatGPT Pro Max subscription, priced at $500 per month, has surfaced inside the platform's subscription interface, featuring "Fastest Work and Codex" access, 100GB of file storage, and the company's most capable frontier models.
Meta's Muse AI personal agent has topped Apple's App Store and sent Meta's stock up more than 20% since launch, but Amazon has blocked the agent from its platform, citing terms-of-service violations — a conflict that analysts say may define the future of agentic commerce.
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