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DoorDash will pay $131.5 million for missing and miscalculated NYC delivery worker wages

The settlement covers late or missing payments for delivery workers, civil penalties and specifically "over $83 million to resolve a disagreement over how to calculate pay for time Dashers spend online between…

Bitdefender built a VPN that hides your AI agent, not you

It has to extend to the agent itself acting on their behalf. Ciprian Istrate said that on Tuesday. He runs consumer operations at Bitdefender, and the Romanian company was launching a VPN built for AI agents rather than…

Woman's brain worm infection confirmed after eggs grow tails in lab test

Schistosoma japonicum -paired male and female worms in copula microscopy preparation. Credit: Getty | Mohammed Al Ali Out of nowhere, a woman’s right arm and leg started shaking uncontrollably. In the moments leading up…

Windows CLOSEDQUORUM malware uses AI models to autonomously select post-compromise actions

Once deployed, the malware does not require continued commands from a human operator, according to Cisco Talos, which describes it as, to its knowledge, the first publicly documented Windows implant to use this approach…

New Anthropic, OpenAI models make same promise: A little more for a lot less money

Developers and folks working on enterprise AI deployments are comparing these two. Cost is a big part of that. Credit: Samuel Axon OpenAI and Anthropic both recently released new models aimed at lowering costs. Anthropic…

Cyera has now raised $1.4bn this year to police AI agents

The Cyera cofounder and chief executive was announcing a $400m investment from Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives. The money extends Cyera’s Series G, which Evolution Equity Partners led in June. In its…

Mistral denies a fresh security breach, but the code on sale looks a lot like May's leak

The September 16 2026 post by an account using the handle "mrwho" consists of a listing titled "Selling mistral.ai Source Code" on an English-language cybercrime forum, according to The CyberSec Guru , pricing the…

Cheap big-screen LCD TVs could be in trouble for Black Friday — panel prices are going up

That means the big TV brands are reliant on a handful of Chinese panel producers who now dominate the market: BOE, TCL CSOT, and HKC. . TCL CSO and HKC will raise the price of some products this month, September 2026…

The AI boom runs on tens of millions of workers nobody has figured out how to pay, Papaya Global wants to fix that.

The global-employment industry that grew up on “hire anyone, anywhere” is now racing to become something closer to infrastructure. Papaya Global, one of the largest players, made its case to analysts this month. Here’s…

Security firm finds naming AI agents after Seinfeld characters helps bots join the team

Newman received the award after being nominated by Jerry, another Seinfeld-inspired AI agent. Jerry's nomination message said, "Newman shipped 146 research findings in 60 days, but volume isn't why he wins. Every other…