Author: NCIJ NETWNCIJ NETWORK

1Password faced immediate backlash from customers this week over a $300,000 pledge in support of a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published overtly racist blog posts that include comments calling for deportation of ethnic minorities in Europe. The popular password manager is now a “distinguished corporate patron” of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popular Linux distribution known as Omarchy.One viral blog post declared that 1Password “Supports the Ethnic Cleansing of Europe” because of the donation. Others on social media asked for suggestions for alternative password managers so they would not support the funding…

Google just announced Gemini 3.8 Flash and Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, three weeks after Gemini 3.7 Flash and marking the third Flash release in six weeks. Both variants run on the same foundational intelligence, refined through long-running agentic loops that recursively evaluate the underlying models. What separates them is not architecture, it is the safety envelope and who is allowed through it. Is it deployable? Gemini 3.8 Flash is generally available today through the Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Antigravity, Android Studio, and Gemini Enterprise, so you can route production traffic to it now. Weights are closed, so there is…

Rockwell Automation on Tuesday informed customers that patches or workarounds are available for more than a dozen vulnerabilities discovered across its industrial automation products. Only one of the new advisories describes critical vulnerabilities. It covers four critical and high-severity denial-of-service (DoS) issues affecting the RSLinx Classic communications software. Exploitation can cause the RSLinx Classic service to crash, requiring a restart for recovery. Rockwell’s advisory for CVE-2026-9637, a high-severity DoS flaw in ControlLogix and CompactLogix controllers, flags the vulnerability as exploited. However, it’s likely an error, as it’s only listed as such in the document’s header; elsewhere it’s listed as not…

New Jersey’s Attorney General and the state’s interim director for the Division of Gaming Enforcement have officially petitioned the US Supreme Court to hear a case aimed at resolving whether state authorities or federal agencies have jurisdiction over prediction market companies.On Wednesday, Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and gaming enforcement interim director Mary Jo Flaherty filed a petition for a writ of certiorari to the US Supreme Court over New Jersey’s enforcement against prediction market platform Kalshi over sporting event contracts. Officials cited civil cases brought by gaming authorities in “at least 20 states,” seeking the highest court in the US…

Reaching another star within a practical amount of time will require something far more capable than chemical rockets. One of the leading ideas is a solar sail, a large reflective structure that can be pushed by light. If extremely powerful lasers are aimed at such a sail, they could accelerate it to speeds well beyond what current propulsion systems can achieve. But there may be an unexpected problem once a lightsail begins traveling at a significant fraction of the speed of light. According to a new paper on arXiv by Chao Shen and Jiaze Li of the Harbin Institute of…

About a month ago, two wildfires ignited a day apart in southwest Montana. The Bobcat Lakes Fire started July 31 near Wise River, followed by the Sand Creek Fire on Aug. 1 near Wisdom.  Now, crews working to contain them are intentionally setting fire to vegetation in areas where steep, densely timbered terrain makes direct attack too dangerous.  The tactic, known as strategic firing, is being used where crews cannot safely work directly along portions of the active fire edge. Firefighters work from roads, trails or control lines they’ve dug and intentionally burn vegetation between those lines and the main…

Reading Time: 2 minutes Although Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson has announced new safeguards for the Milwaukee Police Department’s use of Flock Safety cameras, it remains unclear whether the rules will apply to all three of the city’s license plate reader systems or only to Flock. Flock is one of three automated license plate reader systems used by MPD. NNS previously reported that the department also uses Genetec and Axon systems. All three systems automatically capture license plate information that can be searched later. As of June, MPD had access to: 35 Flock cameras, 39 Genetec cameras and Axon license plate…

To outlast a prime minister always counts as some kind of achievement for an opposition leader, although Kemi Badenoch cannot claim credit for Sir Keir Starmer’s downfall. Sir Keir’s wounds were mostly self-inflicted. To the extent that opposition pressure was involved, it was electoral threats from Reform UK and the Green party that stoked Labour party frustration to a regicidal pitch. The Tory leader’s role was largely as a spectator.Mrs Badenoch still hopes to use regime change to her advantage. She thinks the economy, and fiscal discipline in particular, will be her most fruitful line of attack. In their first confrontation…

Claim: U.S. President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency approved the use of the pesticide trifludimoxazin, a known carcinogen and a PFAS “forever chemical.” Rating: What’s Undetermined The EPA classified trifludimoxazin as having “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential,” which essentially means that while there is evidence the chemical could potentially be one that causes cancer, there isn’t enough data to say for sure. Additionally, the EPA does not consider trifludimoxazin a PFAS, though the intergovernmental Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development does. In late summer 2026, some people on social media claimed that U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration approved the use…

Save the Children data shows toll on children in Lebanon, despite government agreement with Israel to halt fighting.Published On 2 Sep 20262 Sep 2026Israel has killed an average of seven children each day in Lebanon since March, according to the Save the Children relief organisation.In a release on Wednesday, the group said that despite agreements between Lebanon’s government and Israel aimed at ending the fighting, children remain at risk due to Israel’s ongoing aggression towards civilian infrastructure.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listOver the last six months, Israel has killed at least 4,300 people, wounded over 12,000 and destroyed between…