Urgent.News

What's breaking now, across thousands of outlets.

Continued

Science

NASA Awards Launch Services for StarBurst Gamma-Ray Detector

NASA has selected SpaceX to provide launch services for the agency’s StarBurst mission, a small satellite designed to investigate neutron star mergers and the origins of short gamma-ray bursts. StarBurst will launch aboard a Bandwagon rideshare mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…

AI

The fix for rogue AI agents could be more AI

Y Combinator has funded 106 companies related to AI observability in recent years

  • AI agents can operate beyond human review capabilities, leading to oversight problems.
  • AI labs and startups propose adding another AI to monitor AI agents' actions.
  • Traditional network monitoring methods are being revisited for AI oversight.

Tech

Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data

Ars Technica reports: Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in…

  • Amazon confirms permanent loss of customer data after Iranian strikes
  • mec1-az2 in UAE region had entirely lost customer data
  • AWS suspended billing in Bahrain-based data center regions

World

US: Trump administration weakens Endangered Species Act

In a recent memo, the US government would no longer consider the unintentional killing of protected wildlife as unlawful.

  • US government overhauls Endangered Species Act.
  • Definition of 'take' narrowed to intentional conduct.
  • Unintentional wildlife deaths no longer considered unlawful.

AI

AI agents erase the paper trail, reshaping audit assurance

Enterprise audit teams are finding that the evidence trail they depend on does not survive contact with AI agents. Financial and operational data still sits across NetSuite, human resources platforms and data lakes, but the judgment calls once recorded in email threads, Slack messages and tick marks are increasingly made by software…

Tech

White House Considers Government-Led Cybersecurity Incubator

President Donald Trump’s administration is reportedly considering a plan to launch a government-led cybersecurity research incubator. This effort would invest in that research and help launch startups focused on building cybersecurity tools for the government to use, Bloomberg News reported Thursday (Sept.

Continue reading →