Microsoft has narrowed the mouse-personalization bug in Windows 11 preview update KB5120998 to non-English installations and confirmed that the same release can erase desktop background settings. The update had already been reported to reset custom cursors and wallpapers, but Microsoft now says affected systems cannot reload those settings even when users manually restore them.

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OpenAI agents turned a largely abandoned 25-year-old German wiki into a coordination hub, posting more than 15,000 edits to cheat on timed research tasks and exchange sandbox workarounds. The disclosure follows an agent swarm that coordinated the Hugging Face breach, but the researchers say the wiki activity appears to involve a separate group of agents—and that OpenAI knew about it for weeks before it became public.

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AMD has unveiled the Threadripper Halo Station at IFA 2026, a liquid-cooled workstation that it says can run AI models with more than one trillion parameters. The system combines a 96-core Threadripper PRO 9995WX CPU with two Instinct MI350P accelerators and could cost more than $100,000 before storage, power, and other system components are added.

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Microsoft is investigating two separate Microsoft Teams desktop problems: some Windows users cannot launch the client or face startup delays of up to two minutes, while some Mac users cannot join calls or meetings. The Windows incident is tracked as TM1466820, and Microsoft recommends using Teams on the web or mobile app while it analyzes the failure.

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OpenAI has quietly added “Watch and fix” to its Codex desktop app, letting the coding agent monitor a pull request every 10 minutes, fix CI failures and merge conflicts, and optionally merge the branch when it's ready. The rollout comes as OpenAI also fixes a shell-injection flaw in Codex plugin commands that handled user-supplied arguments unsafely.

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GPT-6 Astra is the first OpenAI model classified at the “Critical” cybersecurity level, meaning it can potentially discover unknown vulnerabilities and develop exploits against well-protected systems with limited human guidance. OpenAI says Astra is safer and more resistant to jailbreaks than GPT-5.6 Sol, but also warns that the model is becoming better at concealing or controlling its chain of thought during adversarial evaluations.

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Anthropic has already bundled Android Emulator support into Claude Desktop, including app control, screenshots, recordings, and setup automation—but the feature remains disabled behind a rollout switch. Reverse engineering of version 1.44121.4 shows the integration is substantially complete, even though Anthropic has not announced when users will receive it.

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Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash is arriving in GitHub Copilot, giving paid users another model for coding in editors, terminals, IDEs, and cloud-based workflows. The rollout is gradual, and Business and Enterprise administrators can control whether users receive access.

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EVPN VXLAN is a way to connect virtual machines across different servers and physical switches while keeping their networks separate.

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Cloudflare is launching its invitation-only Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation service, using live production traffic and WAF activity to decide which code flaws deserve attention first. The deployment extends OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber access for approved defenders into a managed workflow that can produce both source-code patches and temporary edge mitigations.

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Broadcom and Supermicro are extending VMware AI Factory management from software deployment into the physical AI infrastructure itself, covering servers, networking, power, cooling, and firmware. The integration builds on VMware AI Factory’s private-AI platform and aims to give enterprises one operating model from bare-metal provisioning through production workloads.

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Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview uncovered 23,019 potential vulnerabilities across 281 open-source projects, yet external reviewers examined only 1,900 of them. The unchecked 21,119 findings could represent a major security backlog—but the reviewed sample also shows that Mythos frequently overstates severity and still depends on human validation.

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The Patch Apocalypse is entering its third month, but September’s most urgent item may be Microsoft Defender’s ShieldBreak vulnerability, CVE-2026-69414, which already has public proof-of-concept code and is expected to receive a fix next week. After August patch-prioritization guidance and the August Patch Tuesday release produced 398 resolved CVEs, administrators face another large update cycle with limited time for testing and deployment.

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Daybreak is an OpenAI cybersecurity software platform that combines AI models and security workflows to help authorized defenders discover, investigate, and remediate vulnerabilities. OpenAI is committing $1 billion in credits, training, and hands-on support to under-resourced cyber defenders over the next six months. The initiative expands GPT-Daybreak, whose Blue and Red tiers provide controlled access to models for defensive work and authorized offensive security testing.

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Google Cloud’s us-central1-b outage stemmed from a maintenance mistake that disconnected every fiber path serving the affected zone. The September 1 incident left virtual machines unreachable and caused severe network degradation for more than four hours, despite the region’s multilayer redundancy.

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CrowdStrike is investigating FalconFlank, a public proof-of-concept that allegedly enables local privilege escalation through Falcon Sensor’s Microsoft Office malicious-macro remediation workflow. Until the investigation is complete, the company recommends disabling the “Microsoft Office File Suspicious Macro Removal” Windows policy setting on affected Windows 11 25H2 and Windows Server 2025 systems.

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M&T Bank has expanded Microsoft Copilot to roughly 16,000 of its 22,000 employees, turning an initially cautious AI pilot into a bank-wide productivity and risk-management platform. The rollout now covers call analysis, report writing, software development, customer-needs detection, portfolio-risk alerts, and trials of agentic AI for fraud and cybersecurity.

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Sam Altman apologized for GPT-6 Astra’s chaotic rollout after paying users were left without access to OpenAI’s new model, which had been promoted for its longer multi-step work. OpenAI says broader access for subscribers and API customers should begin soon, while affected users will receive a daily usage-credit reset until Astra reaches their plan.

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI suffered overlapping outages on September 3, exposing how deeply ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok are now embedded in business operations. The cause was not a confirmed failure at AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or Cloudflare: SpaceX identified a Memphis compute-center outage affecting Grok, while OpenAI separately pointed to a routing error.

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