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Bouncy castle launches horrifying MRSA outbreak, striking 48 kids in Ireland

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 will quickly deflate when it turns out those…

Credible Captain Launches Independent Consumer Review Platform Focused on Transparency, AI and Trust

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Credible Captain Launches Independent Consumer Review Platform Focused on Transparency, AI and Trust

Sacramento, Calif, September 11th, 2026/TechnologyWire/-- Credible Captain has officially launched its independent consumer review platform, giving consumers a place to share authentic experiences and businesses an opportunity to be…

Hacker Noon

GTA 5 Mod Adds Flock Surveillance Cameras So Players Can Blow Them Up

GTA 5 Mod Adds Flock Surveillance Cameras So Players Can Blow Them Up

Built to highlight real-life surveillance, the mod includes 235 virtual cameras that you can destroy for in-game cash.

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Y Combinator’s Garry Tan wants U.S. open-weight AI labs to ‘distill’ frontier models, too

Tan argues that frontier models themselves trained on public human knowledge so access to capable AI should be "a form of public good."

OpenAI’s feud with mathematicians is only escalating

Twenty-five leading mathematicians signed an open letter arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work.

A Breakthrough? Or Just Breakable? Apple Unveiled the iPhone Duo, and CNET Writers Have Many Thoughts

It’s the folding phone that launched a thousand takes.

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Weapons, spyware and AI scams: Anthropic exposes Claude misuse

Philippine Daily Inquirer

Weapons, spyware and AI scams: Anthropic exposes Claude misuse

WASHINGTON, United States — Anthropic has released a 154-page report describing how bad actors used its Claude AI system for state-sponsored surveillance, propaganda operations and other activities. Here’s a look at some of the cases…

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

The Verge

Lawyer fined $5K over AI-hallucinated witnesses in a murder case

New Mexico's Supreme Court is punishing a lawyer for including AI-fabricated witnesses and fake police testimony in an appeal for his client's murder conviction, according to a report from Reuters. In a filing on Wednesday, the court fined…

The Verge

US lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case, blames ChatGPT

Al Jazeera

US lawyer cites fake witnesses in murder case, blames ChatGPT

State supreme court fined the attorney and held him in contempt for not verifying facts in a court filing.

Al Jazeera

One week left to book your exhibit table at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026

Only one week left to secure your exhibit table. Tables are limited and can sell out before the September 18 deadline.

Trump's forced coal plant extensions thrown out by judge

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 his second administration has attempted more aggressive interventions to…

Final, final, final call for TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 Side Events

The absolute last chance to apply to host an official Side Event during TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 is tonight, September 11, at 11:59 p.m. PT.