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It’s unclear when exactly the National Archives, which runs the Federal Register website, began offering visitors the option to use one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to search public comments on proposed regulations.
US government website used Chinese model the FBI called "malicious"
The Federal Register website briefly used an open source Chinese AI search tool.
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September 18, 2026 at 8:17 PM
It’s unclear when exactly the National Archives, which runs the Federal Register website, began offering visitors the option to use one of Alibaba’s Qwen AI models to search public comments on proposed regulations.
The breach allowed a small cybersecurity group to gain access to an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account, which permitted them to read private software information and suggest changes.
Researchers used Claude to hack OpenAI
Researchers used Claude to reach an OpenAI employee account and sensitive GitHub data.
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September 18, 2026 at 6:48 PM
The breach allowed a small cybersecurity group to gain access to an OpenAI employee’s ChatGPT account, which permitted them to read private software information and suggest changes.
The new members announced by Kennedy are largely out of line with previous appointments to the nonpartisan independent panel, and many of them have expressed a shared ideology with the health secretary and the Trump administration.
RFK Jr. names 8 new members to influential preventive medicine task force
The USPSTF sets insurance coverage for preventive services, like colonoscopies.
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September 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
The new members announced by Kennedy are largely out of line with previous appointments to the nonpartisan independent panel, and many of them have expressed a shared ideology with the health secretary and the Trump administration.
An OpenAI executive similarly warned that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content in an internal message, according to newly unsealed documents.
Microsoft exec called AI scraping the “largest theft of labor in human history”
Microsoft, OpenAI emails reveal fear of AI “doom loop” killing news orgs.
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September 18, 2026 at 5:17 PM
An OpenAI executive similarly warned that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content in an internal message, according to newly unsealed documents.
The people had received IV drips containing glutathione, which is sold—without evidence—for purposes like detoxification, immune support, increased energy, and skin brightening.
IV drips used for "detoxification" actually filled with toxins; dozens poisoned
The IV drips included glutathione, which was not made to be injected.
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September 18, 2026 at 5:04 PM
The people had received IV drips containing glutathione, which is sold—without evidence—for purposes like detoxification, immune support, increased energy, and skin brightening.
Advocacy groups opposing the bill say it would impose a broad censorship regime and disrupt small businesses falsely accused of piracy.
Republican bill would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites
Bill would help rightsholders obtain court orders to block foreign piracy sites.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:58 PM
Advocacy groups opposing the bill say it would impose a broad censorship regime and disrupt small businesses falsely accused of piracy.
AI watermarking can change not just the word selection an LLM uses, but also the tools a model invokes and the chances it will adhere to or disregard safety guardrails it has been trained to follow.
LLMs respond differently to harmful prompts when AI watermarking is used
SynthID can cause models to follow harmful instructions they would otherwise refuse.
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September 18, 2026 at 3:56 PM
AI watermarking can change not just the word selection an LLM uses, but also the tools a model invokes and the chances it will adhere to or disregard safety guardrails it has been trained to follow.
Multiple sources confirmed that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional Starliner crewed missions, pay some of the costs to fix the spacecraft’s thruster issues, and provide support to certify the spacecraft’s launch on a new rocket.
After being sidelined, Boeing's Starliner to get starring role in NASA's spaceflight plans
They should fly their capsule. The government paid a lot of money for that."
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September 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Multiple sources confirmed that as early as next week, NASA will announce that it will order two additional Starliner crewed missions, pay some of the costs to fix the spacecraft’s thruster issues, and provide support to certify the spacecraft’s launch on a new rocket.
Since OpenAI’s disclosure of the infamous Hugging Face hacking incident in July, the concept of “AI alignment” has increasingly become a mounting concern and subject of conversation among the general public.
Covert uploads and megalomania: OpenAI details new "misaligned" agent incidents
Model maker commits to new framework for reporting misaligned models.
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September 18, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Since OpenAI’s disclosure of the infamous Hugging Face hacking incident in July, the concept of “AI alignment” has increasingly become a mounting concern and subject of conversation among the general public.
In the EPA’s announcement of the proposed repeal, the agency claimed that its action was based on “the best reading of the Clean Air Act," an assertion that has drawn scrutiny from a long list of public health and environmental groups.
EPA immediately sued over plans to repeal climate rules for power plants
Public health groups warn EPA rule will cost Americans billions in health bills.
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September 17, 2026 at 8:17 PM
In the EPA’s announcement of the proposed repeal, the agency claimed that its action was based on “the best reading of the Clean Air Act," an assertion that has drawn scrutiny from a long list of public health and environmental groups.
If the survivors win, they’ve asked the court to require Epstein's estate to preserve the full record of what’s in the collection so that each survivor can find out exactly how many of their images the financier exploited.
Epstein had huge cache of child sex pics; victims sue to find out who's in them
Survivors appalled nobody will tell them if they’re in Epstein’s CSAM collection.
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September 17, 2026 at 8:16 PM
If the survivors win, they’ve asked the court to require Epstein's estate to preserve the full record of what’s in the collection so that each survivor can find out exactly how many of their images the financier exploited.
