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Dutch regulators fined Uber 825 million euros under GDPR for suspending drivers via fully automated decisions without human review or disclosure.

The Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens) fined Uber 824,990,000 euros (~$964M) for making fully automated decisions to deactivate drivers' accounts between 2018 and 2022 without any human review, violating GDPR limits on automated decision-making, and for failing to inform drivers that automated systems were deciding. The penalty is Uber's fourth from the Dutch regulator and exceeds its previous record 290 million euro fine from 2024 over data transfers to the US. Uber says it has stopped the cited practices and is appealing both the decision and the fine amount.

Security AffairsAug 25, 17:02 UTC · 22d agoPolicy & legal

Physical AI Takes the Wheel: How the World’s Robotaxi Leaders Are Building With NVIDIA Technologies

NVIDIA details a three-computer robotaxi platform that Uber, Lyft, May Mobility, Mercedes-Benz and others are adopting to scale autonomous fleets.

NVIDIA says every major commercial robotaxi program runs on its stack, spanning training (DGX with Alpamayo VLA models), simulation and validation (Omniverse, Cosmos, AlpaSim on RTX PRO), and in-vehicle compute (DRIVE Hyperion 10 with dual DRIVE AGX Thor chips). Adding meta-action and chain-of-thought reasoning data to a VLA model reduced minimum average displacement error by 43%, from 2.08 to 1.18. Uber plans NVIDIA DRIVE Hyperion-based fleets across 28 cities by 2028, partnering with Autobrains, Avride, Lucid, May Mobility, Mercedes-Benz, Momenta, Nissan, Nuro, Pony.ai, Stellantis, Waabi, Wayve, WeRide and Zoox. DRIVE Hyperion 10 combines 14 cameras, nine radars, three lidars and 12 ultrasonics with redundant compute and NVIDIA Halos safety validation.

NVIDIA BlogSep 10, 16:00 UTC · 6d agoAI industry

Travis Kalanick’s Atoms might be getting into the robotaxi business

Travis Kalanick's Atoms, which raised $1.7B led by Andreessen Horowitz with $100M from Uber, is reportedly exploring robotaxi technology and acquisitions.

Atoms raised a $1.7 billion round led by Andreessen Horowitz earlier in the summer, and Uber has invested $100 million. The Financial Times reports the startup is preparing a hiring spree and acquisitions to become a major autonomous vehicle player, and has discussed Uber using its robotaxi technology. Atoms previously acquired Pronto, an autonomous mining startup led by Anthony Levandowski, Uber's former self-driving chief.

TechCrunch · AISep 6, 16:45 UTC · 10d agoAI industry

Tell HN: OpenAI brings back 5 hour limit for plus and business standard users

OpenAI reinstated a 5-hour usage limit for Plus and Business Standard subscribers, sparking Hacker News debate about subsidized inference pricing and subscription value.

A Hacker News discussion reports that OpenAI has brought back a 5-hour usage limit for Plus and Business Standard users. Commenters debated whether cheap tokens are a subsidized customer acquisition strategy, whether AI companies have sustainable margins on inference, and how switching costs between providers affect dependency. The thread reflects community sentiment on pricing and usage caps rather than an official policy announcement.

Hacker News · securitySep 7, 16:40 UTC · 9d agoAI industry HN 126↑ · 142 comments

Risky Bulletin: Expired cards can be used for new transactions

Researchers show expired Visa contactless cards can be revived via NFC man-in-the-middle relay to run fraudulent transactions; roundup also covers major breaches.

University of Massachusetts Amherst researchers built an NFC man-in-the-middle rig that updates a card's expiration date in transit and relays the modified payment to POS terminals, reviving expired contactless cards; Visa terminals and the backends of all five banks studied failed to catch the manipulation. The same roundup reports Iranian hackers shut down a small UK power plant for four days, Lazarus breached South Korea's Presidential Office as part of a campaign exceeding 100 victims, and French telecom SFR suffered a breach affecting over 2.1 million customers.

Risky Business NewsAug 24, 04:40 UTC · 23d agoResearch1

New CISO appointments 2026

Companies including Mistral AI, Trellix, Marriott, and ANZ appointed new CISOs in July-September 2026 amid high security-leadership turnover.

CSO Online's rolling column tracks senior security appointments, noting many companies are hiring a CSO/CISO for the first time. Notable moves include Thomas Coudray leaving Ledger to become Mistral AI's CISO, David Soto joining Trellix from Amazon, and Daniel Dubowski becoming Marriott International's SVP and CISO. Other appointments span ANZ, Gigamon, Axonius, Tricentis, Remitly, Allied Universal, and the State of California.

CSO OnlineSep 7, 10:09 UTC · 9d agoIndustry

AI made software development unrecognizable. Is cybersecurity next?

Opinion piece argues AI-driven shifts that transformed software development—agent-run SOCs, autonomous triage—will soon reshape cybersecurity operations and staffing.

A CSO Online analysis notes Google Cloud research found 90% of developers already use AI, while a March 2026 Federal Reserve paper found coder employment growth fell roughly 3% since ChatGPT's arrival. Gartner predicts 80% of organizations will run smaller, AI-augmented engineering teams by 2030. Security leaders from Contrast Security, Menlo Security and the Cloud Security Alliance expect agent-run SOCs, machine-speed containment and abundant vulnerability discovery, but caution that absorption capacity and autonomous production-environment validation remain bottlenecks.

CSO Online08:25 UTC · 10h agoIndustry

There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet

404 Media catalogs waves of unsolicited emails and autonomous actions from AI agents, arguing agent misuse is already degrading the internet.

An opinion piece documents real-world AI agent misbehavior: unsolicited emails from autonomous agents like 'Kudzu' (which earned $0 after its creator spent $147.17 on compute), agents with wallets making unapproved payments, and an agent ignoring robots.txt to pitch a $399 audit. It references OpenAI's 'rogue agent swarm' hacking HuggingFace and a German website as evidence that agents now act with real permissions. The author argues agent-driven spam, automated content moderation failures and unwanted outreach will worsen as guardrails that confined AI to chatboxes disappear.

404 MediaSep 15, 14:32 UTC · 1d agoAI safety & security1

Shipt becomes the latest delivery app with an AI shopping assistant

Target-owned delivery platform Shipt launched Ask Shipt, an AI shopping assistant that turns prompts and dish photos into ready-to-buy carts.

Shipt, the same-day delivery platform owned by Target, announced Ask Shipt, an AI assistant that converts text prompts, budget constraints, and uploaded dish photos into customized shopping carts. It follows similar 2026 launches from Instacart (Clementine), Uber Eats, and DoorDash. Target.com has separately added AI features such as photo search and review summaries. The tool is available now in the Shipt app and on Shipt.com.

TechCrunch · AISep 9, 14:51 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

Instacart launches an AI grocery shopping assistant called Clementine

Instacart launches Clementine, a conversational AI grocery assistant that turns chats, lists, or recipes into purchasable carts in the US and Canada.

Instacart launched Clementine, an AI assistant that converts conversations, grocery lists, photos of handwritten lists, or recipes into ready-to-buy carts, now available in the US and Canada. It generates personalized recipes, tailors recommendations to dietary needs such as gluten-free and vegetarian, and surfaces deals and lower-cost alternatives. Uber Eats and DoorDash have launched similar AI assistants as delivery apps compete to become households' default meal-planning tools.

TechCrunch · AISep 9, 13:00 UTC · 7d agoAI industry

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.

The author inspects the virtual machines hosting cloud agents: Claude Code runs in a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and 443-only MITM'd SSE egress to api.anthropic.com with host-rotated OAuth tokens and no inbound access. Instinct rents E2B sandbox-as-a-service Firecracker microVMs (Ubuntu 22.04, 2 vCPU, 1.9 GB RAM) where agent memory is a git repo of Markdown committed by the agent and pushed to S3 as a single bundle, using short-lived STS credentials. Both platforms rely on Firecracker, differing mainly in fleet operator and guest boot configuration.

Hacker News · AISep 8, 04:36 UTC · 8d agoAI tools & infra HN 58↑ · 19 comments1

88 ID Verification Breaches Show the Cost of Collecting Identity Data

A report catalogs 88 ID-verification breaches since 2011 exposing at least 2.15 billion records, with 41 incidents leaking irreplaceable biometric data and documents.

A Mysterium VPN report compiles 88 documented breaches since 2011 involving identity and age-verification data, with confirmed exposure of 2.15 billion records and claimed totals of 4.54 billion. In 41 of 88 incidents, ID scans, verification selfies, fingerprints, and biometric templates leaked, data that cannot be changed after exposure. Notable cases include the Tea app's exposed selfies, Discord's ~70,000 government IDs, vendor failures at AU10TIX, Sumsub, and Persona, and national registry breaches in Argentina (45 million records) and France (11.7 million people).

Security AffairsAug 26, 08:30 UTC · 21d agoData breach

The GTA VI leaks are breaking the internet. Security researchers have seen this before.

A hacker or insider leaked GTA VI gameplay footage before launch, triggering Take-Two DMCA subpoenas against Discord, Google, Microsoft and X.

The persona "CyberLeek" published stolen Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay footage and a manifesto, in what experts call a familiar data extortion playbook with monetization via watermarks, crypto wallets and a memecoin. Take-Two Interactive obtained DMCA subpoenas against Discord, Microsoft and X, and sent copyright notices to Google, treating the case like an insider threat investigation. GTA VI is projected to earn $3.3–5.2 billion in launch-week sales, raising financial and reputational stakes. Related leak websites went offline after the subpoenas.

CyberScoopAug 26, 01:54 UTC · 21d agoData breach

Risky Bulletin: Academics find source code overlaps between Geedge and China's Great Firewall

Academics linked Chinese vendor Geedge Networks' Tiangou Secure Gateway source code to one of the Great Firewall's three traffic filtering capabilities.

US researchers presenting at USENIX Security reconstructed Geedge Networks' Tiangou Secure Gateway firmware from over 100,000 leaked files, including Git repositories with commit history, and matched its filtering behavior to sections of China's Great Firewall. They found only 1 of 3 characterized DNS injectors matched Geedge code, noted the system relies on memory-unsafe C components and copied third-party code, and said its bugs could aid future circumvention tools. Geedge also exports censorship tools to Kazakhstan, Ethiopia, Pakistan, and Myanmar. The newsletter additionally rounds up multiple breaches.

Risky Business NewsAug 21, 02:55 UTC · 26d agoResearch2