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2026.09.217 min read
ChatGPT's ad cookie follows you to advertiser sites, and OpenAI files it under analytics
A researcher documented a one-year __obi cookie that links ChatGPT accounts to browsing on advertiser sites. OpenAI's cookie policy calls it analytics, not marketing.
2026.09.206 min read
Android 17 QPR1 gives Pixels three months of exclusive APIs and security fixes
Google shipped API level 37.1 to Pixels on September 15 with no AOSP source drop. Other OEMs get the APIs, and some platform security patches, in December with QPR2.
2026.09.196 min read
Cisco ISE has four CVSS 10 bugs this week, and one was already being exploited
Cisco patched CVE-2026-76460, an unauthenticated bypass to root in ISE, after finding it in a customer's TAC case. Three more CVSS 10 ISE bugs shipped the same day.
2026.09.187 min read
Nvidia's CUDA Rust is two toolchains, and only one of them runs on stable Rust
Nvidia published CUDA Rust on September 8 and joined the Rust Foundation the next day. cutile-rs runs on stable Rust 1.89. cuda-oxide needs a pinned nightly and is alpha.
2026.09.176 min read
AWS says data hosted only in Bahrain is gone, six months after the strikes
AWS told customers on September 15 it cannot restore data hosted exclusively in its Bahrain region or one UAE zone. Three zones inside one small country were never built to survive drones.
2026.09.167 min read
Java 27 changes the defaults under every untuned JVM you run
JDK 27 shipped September 15 with G1 and compact object headers as defaults on every JVM, and those two changes reach untuned containers before anyone plans an upgrade.
2026.09.1510 min read
Why AI companies keep asking for regulation
Leading AI labs want rules, but the details matter: compliance costs, restrictions on Chinese rivals, liability protection and a cleaner path to public markets.
2026.09.156 min read
Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday broke Remote Desktop on every supported Windows Server
The September 8 update fixed 972 CVEs and broke RDS, USB audio, WSL folder shares, and Excel paste. An emergency patch on September 14 fixes RDS. Audio is still open.
2026.09.148 min read
Homebrew 7.0.0 drops Intel Macs to Tier 3 and adds a vulnerability scanner
Homebrew 7.0.0 shipped September 13. Intel Macs drop to Tier 3, macOS 10.15 is out, brew vulns checks installed formulae against OSV data, and Landlock replaces Bubblewrap on Linux.
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