This Week In Techdirt History: September 6th – 12th
This Week in 2016 Warner Bros. Issuing Takedowns For Its Own Site Is No Laughing Matter Roger Ailes Hires Peter Thiel’s Favorite Lawyer To Threaten NY Mag For Its Stories…
CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports…
I spent $4,000 on a robot dog from China
On a sunny morning in June, I walked to work with a quadruped robot beside me. I’ve never gotten more attention from strangers. A bunch of people snapped pictures of…
When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC
Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered…
OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers
The “major malicious attack” that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas…
Microsoft Slaps Hours Limits On Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming
There’s enshittification, and then there’s enshittification. Allow me to give you an example of each. For what we’ll call enshittification classic, there’s Xbox’s Game Pass service. A mere two years…
Some satellite companies still have an appetite for boutique launch services
If you ask most satellite companies aside from SpaceX, they will tell you the world doesn’t have enough capacity for launching payloads into orbit. This is despite the blistering launch…
ChatGPT-using lawyer punished for citing fake testimony from made-up witnesses
The New Mexico Supreme Court held a ChatGPT-using lawyer in direct contempt of court for submitting a brief with “false testimony from wholly fabricated witnesses,” including fake police testimony and…
Trump’s forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge
The use of coal to generate electricity on the US grid has been plunging for nearly two decades, and the first Trump administration was unable to affect the trend. So…
Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland
For a child bursting with energy, few things are more fun than hurtling through a bouncy castle, launching into the air, and ping-ponging between every surface. But that childhood buoyancy…