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10/13/2026

USA Today has joined a growing list of publishers suing large AI platforms for violating copyrights to train their models.

USA Today’s parent company sued OpenAI in a New York federal court on Thursday for allegedly using content from 19 publications without permission.

10/06/2026

Good news?

When AI company Hugging Face was hacked by a swarm of rogue OpenAI agents who had escaped their testing environment, the company’s CEO had many things to say.

09/29/2026

An AI agent hacked the computer systems of a foriegn government. OpenAI's response? "Whoops."

OpenAI apologised for the hacking of an Australian government website by a rogue AI agent, committing funding to improve cyber defences and to establish a ​local response taskforce as scrutiny mounts over the high-profile incident.

09/22/2026

Google has a bad day in the EU.

Google has been fined 403 million euros for breaching the EU's privacy rules by mishandling users' location data.

09/15/2026

Using your phone to pay? What are the differences in the two most prominent solutions?

Apple Pay and Google Pay both serve the same function for different ecosystems, but how they handle mobile payments and passes isn't identical.

09/08/2026

Scammers are targeting Instagram posters with fake copyright claims.

Users say they are losing money or risk having their accounts suspended because Meta struggles to identify scammers.

09/04/2026

MCT will be closed on Monday in observance of Labor Day. Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!

09/01/2026

It wasn't just you--a major outage at Microsoft caused widespread issues with mail and other systems yesterday.

Microsoft is investigating a widespread service issue causing authentication issues, email delays and failures, and various other issues for Exchange Online customers.

08/31/2026

Microsoft has reported a major outage that is affecting email via Office 365

08/25/2026

The next Windows feature update is bringing some big changes.

We're expecting the Windows 11 2026 Update to ship in about a month, around the end of September or early October, and I found some details.