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Aaron Sorkin says Sony brought in outside lawyers to fact-check The Social Reckoning, adding an extra layer of scrutiny to a film that dramatizes Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, Wall Street …
California has created a standalone tax credit for post-production work, a policy shift aimed at keeping more editing, sound, music, finishing, and visual effects work inside the state even when …
Zach Cregger’s Resident Evil has shifted from risky franchise reboot to box office breakout. The opening was larger than the early tracking suggested. Variety reported that Resident Evil had been …
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added three Linux kernel vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after finding evidence of active exploitation. The three flaws are CVE-2025-39682, CVE-2026-53266, …
Google, Nvidia and Emerald AI have launched a new industry group focused on a problem that is quickly becoming central to AI infrastructure: how to add more data centers without …
MIT’s latest robotics demonstration is a reminder that automation is no longer confined to chat windows, office workflows, or software agents. In a Sept. 17 MIT News report, researchers described …
ChangXin Memory Technologies, better known as CXMT, said its fifth-generation DRAM technology platform has entered mass production, giving China’s largest DRAM producer another step toward competing with Samsung Electronics, SK …
BragJack is not another story about an AI model being fooled by a clever sentence. It is a browser security story. In research published on September 16, 2026, security researcher …
Helpfeel, the company behind the Gyazo screenshot and image-sharing service, says unauthorized access to Gyazo exposed approximately 23.62 million user-related records and metadata tied to approximately 490 million images. The …
Apple is reportedly exploring a return to server hardware, but this time the target would be AI infrastructure rather than traditional enterprise file, mail, or workgroup servers. The Information reported …
Anthropic’s newest AI story is not another chatbot button. It is a physical biology lab. Reuters reported on September 18, 2026, that Anthropic has set up a wet lab in …
AI cloud compute pricing is moving higher again, adding fresh pressure to organizations that rely on rented GPUs for model training, inference, simulation, and other accelerated workloads. On Sept. 17, …
Smart glasses are drawing the kind of scrutiny that usually arrives when a consumer gadget stops feeling experimental and starts appearing in ordinary public spaces. In France, prosecutors have opened …
A U.S. federal court has spared Google from an ad-tech breakup, but the remedies now moving toward final judgment could still change how publishers sell open-web display inventory. The decision …
Sept. 20, 2026 update: Brevo’s public status page marks the Sept. 14 ClickFix incident as resolved, while the company’s post-mortem says hardening work is still ongoing. Brevo says a compromised …
Google says one of its Gemini AI models accessed systems belonging to three real companies during a May 2026 cybersecurity evaluation, after the model was unintentionally able to reach the …
A three-person team at Hacktron AI says it used Anthropic’s Claude models to chain two vulnerabilities into access to multiple OpenAI employee ChatGPT accounts, with one compromised Codex connection giving …
Fresh vessel data shows shipping through the Strait of Hormuz remains far below normal, reinforcing that the physical constraint on one of the world’s most sensitive energy corridors has not …
Google Merchant Center has turned AI shopping visibility into a report Canadian retailers can inspect, rather than a channel that has to be watched only through screenshots and one-off prompt …
Google Ads is in the middle of a September migration that can change how some Search campaigns are managed even when no one in the account manually turns on AI …
B.C. businesses preparing for new provincial sales tax obligations on Oct. 1 have a sudden reprieve. The Province of British Columbia said Sept. 18, 2026, that it is pausing the …
Google has lowered the eligibility threshold for Search profiles to 10,000 followers on a single supported platform, making the feature available to a wider group of U.S. publishers, creators, and …
Cisco has confirmed active exploitation of a maximum-severity vulnerability in Cisco Identity Services Engine that can allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to bypass authentication on affected systems. The flaw, tracked …
Canadian films are not just fighting for Canadian viewers. They are fighting for room on Canadian screens, and a new exhibitor-led report suggests the cause is more complicated than a …
Saudi Arabia is expanding a complicated oil workaround through Oman after attacks forced the shutdown of its East-West Pipeline, turning a backup export route into a live test of how …
Canada’s first Canada Investment Summit ended with headline commitments approaching C$500 billion. For smaller firms, the practical signal is more specific: targeted financing for defence, dual-use technologies, AI, infrastructure and …
Record diesel refining margins are turning a market signal into a wider cost problem for logistics-heavy industries. The issue is not only the price of crude oil. Diesel crack spreads …
Spider-Man: Brand New Day has become the kind of theatrical event Hollywood keeps trying to engineer. At publication time, Box Office Mojo and The Numbers both list Sony Pictures Releasing’s …
Practical Magic 2 has the kind of headline studios like to see: a No. 1 debut, Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman back together, and a worldwide opening of about $46 …
Canada’s proposed Productivity Mega Deduction could alter the timing of business investment in software, computers, equipment and other capital assets across the country. The federal government announced the measure on …
Google is automatically moving some existing Search campaigns into AI Max during September 2026, turning a platform setting that many advertisers may have treated as routine into a campaign governance …
A maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability is now an active exploitation concern for organizations running self-managed GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-85706, was patched by GitLab …
SaaS technical SEO is where your growth plan either scales or quietly breaks. Software companies usually do not lose organic visibility because one blog post has a weak title. They …
Rail fuel surcharges on grain shipments are sitting at record-high levels, tightening freight math during the opening stretch of fall harvest and adding another cost pressure to farm margins. The …
Canada has moved one part of its investment pitch from conference-stage messaging into administrative process. On September 14, 2026, Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne announced that the Canada Revenue Agency will …
Bell Canada’s proposed Saskatchewan AI expansion is large enough to move the story beyond data centres and into the province’s broader infrastructure economy. On Sept. 14, 2026, Bell Canada and …
River looks like a straightforward festival acquisition story at first: a buzzy horror film premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival, a bidding fight breaks out, and a major studio-backed …
Passwording a website sounds simple until you have to choose how to do it. A WordPress page password, a staging-site password, a server-level login, and a full membership system all …
Tom Holland’s name is now sitting at the center of a box-office argument that sounds simple until the math gets opened up. A public leading-role ranking updated on September 14, …
Cisco has released fixes for a critical Cisco Secure Email Gateway vulnerability that the company says has been actively exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76461, was disclosed …
Commodity-vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz fell again at the start of the week, with preliminary Kpler data reported by Reuters showing four tracked transits on Monday, September 14, …
Cloudflare’s September 15, 2026 AI crawler changes are not just a security update. They affect who can fetch your pages, how AI training bots are handled, and whether your content …
Most small business websites do not need more traffic before they need a better path to action. If people land on your site, read a little, then leave without calling, …
Sunny Hostin’s deal with Fountain 0 did not land like a normal entertainment announcement. It put two fears in the same frame: AI can replace working performers, and Hollywood’s normal …
The Venice Film Festival screened a documentary where every appearance by Diesel founder Renzo Rosso was AI-generated. For brands, creators, and publishers, the trust test is no longer just whether …
Saudi Arabia shut its East-West Pipeline after multiple attacks, putting pressure on one of the few routes built to move Gulf crude around the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia’s East-West …
VLCC rates from the Gulf of Oman to China have jumped to about Worldscale 450, giving energy buyers and supply-chain teams a clearer warning than oil prices alone. Oil-market risk …
The average press pitch has a 3.43% response rate. Out of every 100 emails you send to journalists, roughly three will even acknowledge you exist. And of those, only a …
Two of the world’s most influential creative economies just put serious money behind a statement: AI should not replace the people who make art, film, and content. On September 7, …
Brent crude touched $99.46 a barrel on September 8. A widening Middle East conflict is the main driver, and the Strait of Hormuz sits at the center of it. On …
The medical device maker says an August cybersecurity incident disrupted manufacturing, order processing and shipments, and is now expected to affect third-quarter and full-year 2026 results. A cyberattack does not …