SIGNAL // Faan's Daily Briefing

⚡ HIGH SIGNAL — MUST READ

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

💀 The Hacker News · 26 Sep

ShinyHunters hacked Clop leak site using Grav CMS path traversal flaw

🖥️ BleepingComputer · 25 Sep

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia

🔐 Krebs on Security · 27 Aug

Kiteworks urges 6-hour server shutdown over potential zero-day attacks

🖥️ BleepingComputer · 25 Sep

Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process

🕵️ Dark Reading · 25 Sep

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

📺 The Verge · 26 Sep

U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

🔐 Krebs on Security · 25 Sep

Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

💀 The Hacker News · 26 Sep

Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware

💀 The Hacker News · 25 Sep

What We Missed: Google Gemini Joins the AI Escape Party

🕵️ Dark Reading · 25 Sep

Russia's Hybrid Cyber-Physical War in Europe Heats Up

🕵️ Dark Reading · 25 Sep

BYD sets launch date for the new flagship Han EV with over 1,000 km of range

⚡ Electrek · 25 Sep

🔐 🛡️ CYBERSEC

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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions

🔐 Krebs on Security 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Data Broker Radaris Loses Domains in Privacy Fight

🔐 Krebs on Security 16 Sep

Microsoft Plugs Nearly 1,000 Security Holes

🔐 Krebs on Security 08 Sep

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

🔐 Krebs on Security 01 Sep

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia

🔐 Krebs on Security 27 Aug ▲ SIGNAL

Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out

🔐 Krebs on Security 14 Aug

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

💀 The Hacker News 26 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility

💀 The Hacker News 26 Sep

Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

💀 The Hacker News 26 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

💀 The Hacker News 26 Sep

Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack

💀 The Hacker News 26 Sep

Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware

💀 The Hacker News 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer

🖥️ BleepingComputer 26 Sep

Microsoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivations

🖥️ BleepingComputer 26 Sep

GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini Shai-Hulud payload still active

🖥️ BleepingComputer 26 Sep

OpenAI's AI agents accidentally uploaded user-provided images to third-party sites

🖥️ BleepingComputer 26 Sep

Kiteworks urges 6-hour server shutdown over potential zero-day attacks

🖥️ BleepingComputer 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

ShinyHunters hacked Clop leak site using Grav CMS path traversal flaw

🖥️ BleepingComputer 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

AI Sandbox Escapes: Why Forensic Readiness Matters More Than Containment

🕵️ Dark Reading 25 Sep

What We Missed: Google Gemini Joins the AI Escape Party

🕵️ Dark Reading 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process

🕵️ Dark Reading 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Russia's Hybrid Cyber-Physical War in Europe Heats Up

🕵️ Dark Reading 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

'Salesbleed' Exploits Salesforce Agents to Enable Slack Phishing

🕵️ Dark Reading 24 Sep

SectopRAT Returns, Hiding Inside a Legitimate Application

🕵️ Dark Reading 24 Sep

⚡ 🤖 AI INTELLIGENCE

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I'm the Mom in That Viral Giants Clip. Let Me Tell You About My Husband

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

Show HN: A Claude Code skill to analyze your chess games

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

New Satellite Engine Could Use Earth's Atmosphere to Stay in Orbit Indefinitely

⚡ Hacker News 26 Sep

The Download: the Pentagon’s AI-powered lie detector and young organ limits

🧠 MIT Tech Review 25 Sep

The Pentagon wants $30 million to build an AI-powered lie detector

🧠 MIT Tech Review 25 Sep

Young organs may not be a fountain of youth for recipients

🧠 MIT Tech Review 25 Sep

The Download: a bid to scrap the virtual wall and AI hits Climate Week

🧠 MIT Tech Review 24 Sep

AI is dominating the conversation at Climate Week

🧠 MIT Tech Review 24 Sep

A congressional representative just proposed killing America’s border tower program

🧠 MIT Tech Review 23 Sep

After Orthogonality: Virtue-Ethical Agency and AI Alignment

📈 The Gradient 18 Feb

AGI Is Not Multimodal

📈 The Gradient 04 Jun

Shape, Symmetries, and Structure: The Changing Role of Mathematics in Machine Learning Research

📈 The Gradient 16 Nov

What's Missing From LLM Chatbots: A Sense of Purpose

📈 The Gradient 09 Sep

We Need Positive Visions for AI Grounded in Wellbeing

📈 The Gradient 03 Aug

Financial Market Applications of LLMs

📈 The Gradient 20 Apr

🏁 🚗 MOTORWORLD

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This Tiny Car Launched Honda in America

🏁 Car and Driver 26 Sep

How Does the New Chevy Bolt’s Charging Time Compare with the Old One’s?

🏁 Car and Driver 26 Sep

2027 Subaru Forester Prices Hold Steady, but Nonhybrid Lineup Shrinks

🏁 Car and Driver 25 Sep

This Lowered Chevy Silverado 1500 Is a 675-HP V-8 Street Truck

🏁 Car and Driver 25 Sep

The Renault 8 Gordini Revived as a 270-HP Electric Concept

🏁 Car and Driver 25 Sep

Patent Suggests the Tesla Roadster Might Get a Clever Rear Wing

🏁 Car and Driver 25 Sep

Renault 8 Gordini reborn as 270 hp electric rally retromobile

⚡ Electrek 26 Sep

JUNA puts more than 100 Scania electric semi trucks to work

⚡ Electrek 26 Sep

BYD sets launch date for the new flagship Han EV with over 1,000 km of range

⚡ Electrek 25 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Want to get off gas? Learn how at Drive Electric Month events across the US

⚡ Electrek 25 Sep

Bluetti Early Prime Day drops 2,765Wh Apex 300 to $1,424, exclusive $600 savings on 2,048Wh + 3,584Wh Jackery stations, more

⚡ Electrek 25 Sep

The Genesis GV90 has a clever trick: A pop-up 24.6″ theater [Video]

⚡ Electrek 25 Sep

📱 💻 TECH

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Levoit’s new air purifier is for the pet odors that have taken over your apartment

📱 TechCrunch 26 Sep

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

📱 TechCrunch 26 Sep

At Meta Connect, the company’s smart glasses were everywhere

📱 TechCrunch 26 Sep

Crusoe abandons $1.25B plan to use Boom turbines at AI data centers

📱 TechCrunch 25 Sep

Automattic has a new board after failed attempt to put CEO on leave

📱 TechCrunch 25 Sep

Unsecured OpenAI agents posted 53 user images on the internet without the lab’s knowledge

📱 TechCrunch 25 Sep

Tesla’s big electric truck faces an even bigger infrastructure challenge

🔧 Ars Technica 26 Sep

Can Trump ever be wrong? His pick to lead FDA refused to say.

🔧 Ars Technica 25 Sep

Court rules Pentagon can blacklist Anthropic for refusing to enable Claude features

🔧 Ars Technica 25 Sep

Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

🔧 Ars Technica 25 Sep

Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?

🔧 Ars Technica 25 Sep

Review: The iPhone 18 Pro is Apple's coolest smartphone (but only literally)

🔧 Ars Technica 25 Sep

OpenAI pauses training of its ‘most capable models’

📺 The Verge 26 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?

📺 The Verge 26 Sep

Control Resonant is a great game — it’s even better when you read everything

📺 The Verge 26 Sep

Pokémon card resellers have turned collecting into an online blood sport

📺 The Verge 26 Sep

Can ‘eSUV’ e-bikes really go from trail to town?

📺 The Verge 26 Sep

Roku’s first OLED TVs are up to $400 off, starting at $699

📺 The Verge 25 Sep

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

12 Best White Elephant Gifts, Plus a Prank Box to Put Them In (2026)

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

Best Mesh Wi-Fi Systems (2026): I Tested Them All

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

Meta’s Muse Is Adults-Only. Why Does It Look Like a Kids’ Toy?

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

This Browser Extension Lets You Snooze Open Tabs Until Later

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

A Gravitational Battle Within the Earth Is Changing the Length of Days

🔌 Wired 26 Sep

TikTok will pay Alabama $100 million to settle social media addiction lawsuit

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

The MacBook models that macOS 27 Golden Gate does not support

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

Garmin Fenix 9 vs Fenix 8: How much of an upgrade is the new model?

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

Why NVIDIA's most powerful GPU is so rarely sold to consumers

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

Get better audio quality from your vinyl by upgrading this part

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

Is your Roku TV talking to you? Here's why and how to turn it off

🎮 Engadget 26 Sep

🍎 🍎 APPLE

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Apple Watch Series 12 one week later: There’s so much more than meets the eye

🍎 9to5Mac 26 Sep

These are my favorite iPhone 18 Pro & Pro Max cases so far [Video]

🍎 9to5Mac 26 Sep

Apple @ Work: The enterprise needs to kill the SSO tax, and it’s an opportunity for Apple

🍎 9to5Mac 26 Sep

Weekend Apple deals: Beats 360, AirPods Pro 3, Mac Studio, MacBook Air, more

🍎 9to5Mac 26 Sep

OpenAI accuses Apple of improperly adding new evidence to trade secrets case

🍎 9to5Mac 26 Sep

macOS 27 adds new Apple Intelligence features to your favorite apps

🍎 9to5Mac 25 Sep

🖥️ MacRumors 26 Sep

watchOS 27: 12 New Things To Check Out on Your Apple Watch

🖥️ MacRumors 26 Sep

Banks and Credit Unions to Team Up Against Apple Pay Fees

🖥️ MacRumors 25 Sep

Apple Finally Shares tvOS 27 Release Notes With List of New Features

🖥️ MacRumors 25 Sep

Amazon's $199 Discount on Apple Watch Ultra 3 Returns to Help Clear Stock

🖥️ MacRumors 25 Sep

Apple Code Confirms iPad 12 Specs: A19, 8GB RAM, N1, C1X Modem

🖥️ MacRumors 25 Sep

How to create profiles in the Apple TV app for your child or family

📲 iDownloadBlog 25 Sep

Paste Snippets Keyboard: the iPhone app to quickly insert repetitive text

📲 iDownloadBlog 24 Sep

How to add borders around system elements on iPhone, iPad, Mac

📲 iDownloadBlog 24 Sep

Looped glass ribbon wallpaper for iPhone and Android

📲 iDownloadBlog 23 Sep

How to use Visual Intelligence on Mac in macOS 27

📲 iDownloadBlog 23 Sep

How to turn off Time Sensitive notifications on iPhone and Mac

📲 iDownloadBlog 22 Sep

🌍 ⚔️ WORLD CONFLICTS

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Trump rejects Iran deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days

🌍 BBC World 26 Sep

Pope praises 'energy and commitment' of young people as huge crowds join open-air Mass in Paris

🌍 BBC World 26 Sep

British national among six dead in building explosion close to Acropolis in Athens

🌍 BBC World 26 Sep

Security lapses at Utah campus where Charlie Kirk was killed, review says

🌍 BBC World 26 Sep

Bangkok roads submerged as flood disaster declared

🌍 BBC World 26 Sep

South African white genocide does not exist, new ambassador to US tells BBC

🌍 BBC World 25 Sep

Women take up arms as sexual violence ravages eastern DRC

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep

At least 10 people killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep ▲ SIGNAL

Jerusalem Daily: violence continues as the world watches the UNGA

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep

Manchester City confident they can prove ‘innocence’ over charges: Chairman

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep

LIVE: England vs Spain – UEFA Nations League

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep

Several hundred thousand people gather for Pope Leo’s mass in Paris

🌐 Al Jazeera 26 Sep

📡 🇿🇦 SOUTH AFRICA

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South African mobile networks’ prepaid fortunes riding on credit

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

Cell C keeping its Black Friday plans close to its chest

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

R22,500 for a heavy-duty electric motorcycle in South Africa

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

Employees wearing AirPods could land South African companies in big trouble

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

South African digital panic button saved 389 lives in 6 months

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

South African telescope detects radio signals on exoplanet 63 light-years away, and Mark Zuckerberg loses R145.7 billion in one day

📡 MyBroadband 26 Sep

The Western Cape town where crime is so bad that it’s becoming known as “Crimefontein”

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

R165 for a full tank of petrol in South Africa

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

New lifestyle estate coming to rising millionaire hotspot in South Africa

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

The cheapest sport to watch live in South Africa, with tickets starting at R40

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

South Africa’s secret R84 billion economy

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

Time is running out for one of South Africa’s biggest employers, with 113,000 jobs at risk

💼 BusinessTech 26 Sep

Woan’s ghost exorcised

🎯 TechCentral 25 Sep

Mteto Nyati to stay on as Eskom chairman

🎯 TechCentral 25 Sep

Meta’s new gadget is a pocket watch for its viral AI agent

🎯 TechCentral 25 Sep

Insurers carry the can for MIP breach, regulators say

🎯 TechCentral 25 Sep

South Africa’s car exports face an EV reckoning

🎯 TechCentral 25 Sep

Rogue AI agents are already loose inside big companies

🎯 TechCentral 23 Sep

🔧 🌐 REDDIT

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Hi Reddit, I'm Katie Paul, a Reuters journalist who unveiled Mark Zuckerberg's plan to replace Meta staff with AI — and how it imploded. AMA.

🔧 r/technology 02 Sep

Amazon's delivery drones are annoying an entire Texas neighborhood, and there's nothing they can do about it

🔧 r/technology 26 Sep

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History”

🔧 r/technology 26 Sep

Federal bill would force VPN providers, ISPs, and DNS services to block foreign piracy sites

🔧 r/technology 26 Sep

PNY allegedly refuses to cover melted RTX 5090 powered by native power supply cable — company closes user's ticket when questioned on policy

🔧 r/technology 26 Sep

Scientists Detect Radio Signals From an Exoplanet for the First Time in History

🔧 r/technology 26 Sep

🌍 🏈 SA SPORT

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Russell wins despite late Verstappen challenge

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

No Premier League appetite to strip Man City of titles - but threat remains

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

England's Harrison scores last-gasp try to beat Black Ferns

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

England secure win over New Zealand with last-gasp try

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

Man City chairman confident club will prove innocence

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

The computer hacker who tried to take down Man City

🌍 BBC Sport 26 Sep

Nations League: England vs Spain team news LIVE!

🏆 Sky Sports 25 Sep

Harrison's late try wins thriller for Red Roses over New Zealand

🏆 Sky Sports 26 Sep

Red Roses win thriller vs New Zealand - as it happened

🏆 Sky Sports 26 Sep

Wigan and Wakefield face off for Super League Grand Final spot LIVE!

🏆 Sky Sports 26 Sep

Putellas grabs first WSL goal as London City lead Brighton LIVE!

🏆 Sky Sports 26 Sep

Big moment! Putellas nets her first WSL goal

🏆 Sky Sports 26 Sep