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October 4, 2026

Google froze its open source bug bounty program due to a ‘significant rise’ in AI submissions

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ai-slop-bug-bounty-reports-1646637201.jpg?resize=1200,863 Blaming a “significant rise” in AI submissions, Google has paused its open source bug bounty program until next year. Last year, TechCrunch reported that cybersecurity […]
October 3, 2026

Federal judge calls Flock ‘indiscriminate mass surveillance’

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/flock-camera-pole.jpg?resize=1200,799 A federal judge ruled this week that a Tulsa, Oklahoma sheriff’s deputy violated a woman’s Fourth Amendment rights when using Flock Safety to search for […]
October 3, 2026

OpenAI safety employee resigns, claiming the company’s ‘culture is broken’

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/openai-logo-code-background.jpg?resize=1200,798 By his own admission, David Robinson is “something of a cliché”: an employee at a leading AI company who issues a dire warning while resigning […]
October 2, 2026

Apple says it’s tightening macOS ‘Full Disk Access’ controls due to new risks from AI agents

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/CMC_1580.jpg?resize=1200,800 Days after a journalist claimed that Meta’s Muse app on Mac read their private messages — a claim that Meta disputed — Apple announced that […]
October 2, 2026

Medical records giant Epic pauses product development to fix security bugs that risk patients’ data

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/faulkner-1825451690.jpg?resize=1200,800 Epic, the software technology giant that makes the widely used MyChart software for accessing patients’ medical data, has paused most of its product development as […]
October 1, 2026

Kevin Mandia’s new ‘agent swarm’ security startup Armadin raises $255.5M at $2.5B valuation

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Networked-AI-swarm-with-glowing-nodes.png?resize=1200,600 Kevin Mandia, best known as the founder of cybersecurity startup Mandiant that sold it to Google for $5.4 billion in 2022, has raised $255.5 million for […]
October 1, 2026

OpenAI cuts ties with 3 safety researchers, WSJ reports

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/openai-logo-code-background.jpg?resize=1200,798 OpenAI has parted ways with three researchers on its safety team who allegedly shared confidential company information with a third-party AI safety organization, The Wall Street […]
October 1, 2026

California governor vetoes bill banning use of ‘pervert glasses’ to secretly record people

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/zuck-glasses-2173579471-e1788354102893.jpg?resize=1200,761 California Governor Gavin Newsom has used his veto authority to send a bill passed by the state’s legislature back to lawmakers, which would have made […]
October 1, 2026

Hearing tech startup Legato launches its AI hearing glasses

https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Symphony-Lifestyle-Image-2.png?resize=1200,670 Hearing tech startup Legato announced on Thursday that its flagship AI-based hearing glasses are now available for purchase. The glasses, called Legato Frames, integrate the […]