Meta's Muse 0-day, the $899 Googlebook, Zyxel switches - September 22, 2026
A zero-day in Meta's fully autonomous assistant, Google's $899 Gemini laptop, and California making AI data centers pay their own power and water bills.
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Intro
Muse, Meta's AI assistant, has a serious zero-day two weeks after launch
https://www.techtimes.com/articles/327842/20260921/meta-muse-ai-assistant-suffers-zero-day-vulnerability-despite-promise-privacy-security.htmGoogle's $899 Googlebook is a bet that you'll buy a new laptop for Gemini
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/googles-899-googlebook-is-a-bet-that-youll-buy-a-new-laptop-for-gemini/Attacker compromised nearly 1000 Zyxel switches since August (CVE-2026-7273)
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/22/zyxel-switches-cve-2026-7273-vulnerability-exploited/LimeLeads - 17,838,396 breached accounts
https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/LimeLeadsNewsom signs seven laws making AI data centers pay grid and water upgrade costs
https://calmatters.org/economy/technology/2026/09/new-california-laws-data-centers/Anthropic, OpenAI call for Australia to relax ban on training of AI models
https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/anthropic-openai-call-australia-relax-075931499.htmlOpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems/Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/cloudflare-python-worker/X will now tell users when governments have forced it to limit their posts
https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/x-will-now-tell-users-when-governments-have-forced-it-to-limit-their-posts/The TASK#STOMP Windows backdoor takes Wi-Fi passwords, screenshots, and business files
https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/21/taskstomp-windows-backdoor/Sign-off