Judge Dismisses Unusual Climate Suit Claiming Oil Giants Broke Antitrust Law

New York Times - Sep 22, 2026

The lawsuit, filed by Michigan, claimed oil companies colluded to obstruct solar power and to misrepresent climate risks, making energy costlier.

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$345 Million Verdict Against Greenpeace Should Be Overturned, Lawyers Say

A group of civil-rights and free-speech lawyers accused the judge of bias and “general incompetence.”

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Anthropic Releases a New A.I. Model, Opus 5.5, Amid Safety Debate

The company released a cheaper, faster model that it said was the strongest performer on its most rigorous internal safety tests to date.

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WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers

WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPress 7.1.2, with fixes for every branch the project still supports, back to 4.7, and WordPress is telling site owners

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Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named "tw-pkgprobe-7731," was first uploaded to the npm registry in mid-August 2026 by an npm account named "twdepprobe7731."

Sep 22, 2026

5 things to know about Trump’s speech to the United Nations

President Trump used the United Nations podium to issue an ultimatum to Iran on Tuesday: Pursue a deal to settle the war, or risk annihilation. The president used a large portion of his 40-minute speech to defend the war, which is deeply unpopular at home and abroad, contributing to economic chaos globally by disrupting major...

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Trump failing to block China’s access to American AI technology, say senior Senate Democrats

A group of Senate Democrats on Tuesday said President Trump is failing to block China from accessing sensitive American technology to accelerate its development of artificial intelligence, ahead of the Chinese leader's state visit to Washington this week. Trump must close loopholes that China has used to subvert U.S. export bans on sensitive American technology,...

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Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises

Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, involved the efforts of Health-ISAC, alongside Cloudflare, Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, The Shadowserver

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Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials

A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-90898 (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.1.0 when management authentication is

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The Big Threat Has Been Climate Change. Now Comes A.I.

Both are human-caused, both are frightening, and one of them has raced to the forefront of the global conversation.

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Sea turtle laying eggs at Huntington Beach is first known instance of nesting on West Coast

At least one olive ridley sea turtle has laid its eggs on the sand in Huntington Beach.

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73 percent say AI firms not doing enough to prevent disaster: Survey

Nearly three-quarters of Americans are worried that artificial intelligence companies have not done enough to prevent the technology from causing serious harm, according to a new survey released Tuesday. The Reuters/Ipsos poll found 73 percent of respondents did not agree that the technology companies have implemented safeguards to prevent serious harm, sharing in the rising...

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