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Lead storyCybersecurityWorldwide30 Sep 2026
Official MCP Python SDK flaw let malicious servers steal OAuth credentials
A missing check in how MCP clients find their login service shows why AI integrations must treat every server answer as untrusted input.
What you can learn from it
- 1Discovery answers are untrusted input
- 2How the OAuth authorisation code flow and PKCE work
- 3Issuer binding is the control that was missing
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30 SepWednesday · 4 stories
- Programmable quantum photonic chip shows two-photon interference in orbit A small satellite payload proved quantum light can be made, steered and measured in space, and its failures show what space-ready quantum hardware needs. 30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Quantum Insider
- Edge AI chipmaker SiMa.ai raises $150m at a $1.45bn valuation Investors are backing chips that run AI on robots and cameras rather than in the cloud, which rewards learners who can make models small and fast. 30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · TechCrunch
- Dutch nonprofit DIVD says an autonomous AI agent ran the attack that breached it A security nonprofit watched an AI agent carry out a messy break-in step by step, a preview of the noisy automated attacks defenders now need to spot. 30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · BleepingComputer
- OpenAI launches Dots, always-on agents that keep working in the background AI is moving from chat windows to agents that run for days with their own identities and tools, which makes permissions and memory the skills to learn. 30 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · TechCrunch, The Register
16 SepWednesday · 5 stories
- China-linked hackers chained two Chrome bugs and a Windows flaw to plant a backdoor on NGOs Volexity found a three-bug chain, BlueMoon, that went from a phishing link to code running outside the browser sandbox, in the gap between an upstream Chromium fix and the stable Chrome release. 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Hacker News
- USC and Quantum Elements show surface-code error correction scaling on IBM Heron processors A Nature Communications paper reports below-threshold logical qubits on hardware whose layout does not match the code, by pairing error correction with dynamical decoupling to tame idle-time noise. 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Quantum Insider
- Salesforce builds Koa, its first reasoning model, by post-training Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron Rather than licensing a frontier model, Salesforce fine-tuned an open-weight base on synthetic CRM data and keeps inference in-house. It is a template for how domain-specific models are now made. 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · TechCrunch, Salesforce
- Bell quadruples its Saskatchewan AI data centre plan to 1.2 GW, with 900 MW of its own power The $50 billion-plus expansion keeps 300 MW from the grid and adds up to 900 MW under a bring-your-own-power rule, a sign that generation, not land or chips, now sets the size of AI campuses. 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · Government of Saskatchewan, Global News
- Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw exploited in the wild lets a crafted email run root commands A 9.8-rated bug in the appliance's email parsing turns an inbound message into root command execution, with no workaround other than the patch. A clear lesson in why parsers are the most dangerous code you run. 16 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Hacker News
12 SepSaturday · 4 stories
- d-Matrix to link Raptor inference chips into Nvidia racks through NVLink Fusion A specialist inference chip joining Nvidia's interconnect shows that rack fabrics, not just silicon, now decide who wins AI hardware deployments. 12 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · ServeTheHome, The Register
- Apple's A20 Pro posts record Geekbench 7 single-core score on TSMC's 2nm process A six-core phone chip out-running 16-core desktop parts in single-thread tests shows why core design, clock speed and memory bandwidth matter more than core count for many tasks. 12 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · Tom's Hardware
- Anthropic CEO sets out three-step plan to slow frontier AI development Embedded third-party evaluators are the first step, and the proposal shows how AI oversight is shifting from published statements to physical access. 12 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · TechCrunch, iTnews
- Researchers link May's RubyGems flood of junk packages to a swarm of OpenAI agents When autonomous agents can register accounts and publish packages, every public registry becomes part of their action space, and guardrails need to sit on the tools. 12 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Hacker News, Simon Willison
11 SepFriday · 3 stories
- Microsoft targets 38GW of data centre capacity by 2032, Bloomberg reports Tripling a hyperscaler's footprint in five years turns on gigawatts, grid connections and lease deals as much as on chips. 11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · Data Center Dynamics
- Attackers chain JFrog Artifactory flaws to seize admin control and plant Rust backdoors A two-step token swap turned an anonymous request into an administrator account within minutes, a reminder that authentication and authorisation are separate gates. 11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · BleepingComputer, The Hacker News
- DeepSeek V4.1 Flash packs 763 billion parameters while keeping GPU memory needs in check By parking 196 billion parameters in lookup tables and shrinking the KV cache, DeepSeek shows model size and serving cost are no longer the same thing. 11 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Register
10 SepThursday · 3 stories
- Nscale accounts for $3.7bn of the $5.7bn raised by UK datacentre companies, Tracxn figures show Funding concentrated in one AI infrastructure firm shows how capital, power and location decide where compute actually gets built. 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · The Register
- AI-assisted campaign exploited two PaperCut flaws to breach 395 organisations across 48 countries The print-server intrusions show what changes when an attacker hands exploit development and target selection to AI agents. 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · BleepingComputer
- OpenAI releases GPT-6 Astra, a model built for coding, computer use and long-running agent tasks Computer-use benchmarks and a million-token window show what agentic models are being optimised for, and where they still fail. 10 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · InfoQ
9 SepWednesday · 2 stories
- Arm launches Neoverse CSS N4, a 3nm compute subsystem for next-generation server CPUs and DPUs A pre-built processor design shows how chipmakers now assemble server silicon from licensed blocks rather than starting from scratch. 9 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · ServeTheHome
- AWS extends EBS Volume Clones to copy block storage across accounts with optional KMS re-encryption A small storage feature is a useful way to understand how cloud accounts, resource sharing and key management fit together. 9 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · AWS News Blog
8 SepTuesday · 2 stories
- Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday fixes 974 vulnerabilities, its largest batch on record With two flaws already exploited and 113 rated critical, the month is a lesson in ranking patches by exploitation rather than by count. 8 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · Krebs on Security
- Google Cloud shows how to build custom agent harnesses with the Antigravity SDK Skills, sandboxed tools, persistent sessions and hooks are becoming the standard parts of an agent, and the harness is now the real engineering. 8 Sep 2026 · 5 min read · Google Cloud Blog
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