Links 9/26/2026 | naked capitalism

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Iran Strikes Mossad Proxies As Yemen Collapses Saudi-Israeli Plot In Dramatic Fashion

Iran Strikes Mossad Proxies As Yemen Collapses Saudi-Israeli Plot In Dramatic Fashion

As US President Donald Trump threatens Iran with annihilation, Iranian missiles and drones have been targeting Israeli Mossad proxies, American bases and destroying tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. Washington’s allies in Riyadh are meanwhile suffering enormous losses due to their war on Yemen, which has collapsed a joint project that sought to inflict regime … Read more

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead

Welcome to Kernel Panic! A weekly newsletter by Lily Hay Newman and Matt Burgess from inside the new world of privacy and digital security. To receive this newsletter in your inbox each week, sign up here. When every random text message feels like it’s a scam, and with AI supercharging digital fraud, old-time credit card … Read more

Salmon Introduces Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for Securing AI Agents

Salmon Introduces Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for Securing AI Agents

San Francisco, USA, September 25th, 2026/CyberNewswire/–Archipelo today announced Salmon, Execution Verification Infrastructure (EVI) for AI agents and autonomous systems, powered by a cryptographic protocol designed to make execution history verifiable. Salmon establishes verifiable execution history and state lineage across humans, AI agents, and automation. The launch follows the OpenAI–Hugging Face incident, in which OpenAI reported … Read more

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

I created an interactive digital avatar of myself — and you can talk to it

When Alexandru Voica, head of corporate affairs at the video-generation startup Synthesia, sent me a link this summer to the newest addition to their PR team, I was surprised. It was an interactive virtual avatar of him, trained to answer common press questions about Synthesia, like what it does and how it works. The day … Read more

Nintendo Wins $4.5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod ‘Archbox’ * TorrentFreak

Nintendo Wins .5 Million Judgment Against r/SwitchPirates Mod ‘Archbox’ * TorrentFreak

Home > Lawsuits > A Washington federal court has ordered former r/SwitchPirates moderator James ‘Archbox’ Williams to pay Nintendo $4.5 million in damages. The default judgment includes a permanent injunction that prohibits Williams from distributing pirated games and circumvention tools, or encouraging others to use them. Whether Nintendo will be able to recoup the damages … Read more

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not The Mission: When They Still Understood Us

The Metric Is Not the Mission is a ten-part examination of how Big Tech moved from building and expanding the open internet to increasingly shaping it around its own metrics, incentives and assumptions. Across the series, the argument follows the evolution of the platform economy—from the optimism of the early internet to the growing tensions around … Read more