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Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US #Canada

Hazardous Canadian wildfire smoke choking millions in US
The Manhattan skyline was obscured by thick haze, and Chicago closed its beaches Thursday as out-of-control Canadian wildfires raged, sending smoke spewing into the United States and exposing millions of people to dangerously unhealthy air.

Customer engagement service MoEngage acquires Aampe, whose AI agents help brands personalize messaging, for "tens of millions", per a source; Aampe raised ~$28M (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/23/indias-mo…

India's MoEngage bets that the future of marketing is millions of AI agents | TechCrunch
The all-cash deal gives MoEngage access to technology that assigns AI agents to individual customers.

“The El Nino has blossomed. It is off the charts. Usual measures of El Nino have blown past prior record levels in the period with good data, even though maximum effects are still several months in the future”
https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2026/The.Bi…

Plugin4Shell: #ZeroClick RCE Vulnerability found in top 4 most popular coding agents, millions of agents affected
#Plugin4Shell is a zero-click, high-severity #RCE affecting all four major

Plugin4Shell - Zero Click RCE Vulnerability found in top 4 most popular coding agents, millions of agents affected
Plugin4Shell is a zero-click, high-severity RCE affecting all four major AI coding agents - Claude Code, Codex, Copilot, and Gemini. In this first-of-its-kind AI supply-chain attack, a trusted plugin is silently swapped for a malicious one and auto-installed past the agent's SHA pinning - a flaw no marketplace can fix, so users must update their agent.

At a liquor store, bar, or casino, getting carded is part of the cost of entry.
Now the internet is carding people, too
—and the companies doing the carding are cashing in.
New laws and platform rules are pushing games, social platforms, AIproducts, and adult sites to replace birthday boxes
(the fields where you enter your DOB)
with identity checks.
What was once a compliance tool for sellers in age-restricted industries is becoming infrastructure for the i…

The Internet Is Starting to Card Everyone. These Startups Are Making Millions From It
Age-verification systems are increasingly sophisticated. They're lucrative for the businesses creating them, too.

lkml_thread: Linux kernel mailing list
A bipartite network of contributions by users to threads on the Linux kernel mailing list. A left node is a person, and a right node is a thread, and each timestamped edge (i,j,t) denotes that user i contributed to thread j at time t. The date of the snapshot is not given.
This network has 379554 nodes and 1565683 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Timestamps

Cybersecurity companies say hackers are exploiting vulnerable WordPress versions to take over websites; WordPress patched two critical security flaws last week (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/20/hack

Hackers are exploiting recently patched WordPress bugs, putting millions of websites at risk | TechCrunch
Two critical security flaws in WordPress’ software have given hackers the chance to remotely take over tens of millions of websites, according to an estimate by a cybersecurity researcher.

A Google study using millions of de-identified AI interactions finds AI is helping workers, not replacing them, and much AI use is "shallow" for certain tasks (Justin Lahart/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/te…

Tencent launches TenPayGo, a payment app for foreign visitors to China that lets them pay tens of millions of merchants via Visa, Mastercard, and Apple Pay (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-24/tencent-…

Alex Bores, a NY congressional candidate at the center of a proxy war over AI regulation involving millions in AI PAC spending, was defeated by Micah Lasher (Ben Kamisar/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-electi…

New York Democrat Micah Lasher wins House primary that drew big spending from AI groups
NBC News projects that Lasher, who was backed by retiring Rep. Jerry Nadler, emerged from a crowded field in the Manhattan-based 12th District.