Disney’s first CTO led an AI startup it once accused of copying its characters

TechCrunch - Sep 18, 2026

The former CEO of Character.AI, which Disney previously sent a cease-and-desist letter to, will serve as the company's first-ever chief technology officer.

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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation

Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,"

Marineland beluga from Niagara Falls, Ont., dies at Spain aquarium, 3rd death after rescue transfer

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Michael Sheen's 'constructive' meeting with first minister over toxic dumping claims

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New cat species identified for the 1st time in a century

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A diminutive wild cat that inhabits Bolivia's cloud forest has been identified as a previously unknown species, marking the first time a new living cat species has been formally named and described in more than a century.

NASA Telescope Helps Scientists Find a New Type of X-ray Object

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NASA Telescope Helps Scientists Find a New Type of X-ray Object

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Have we all been wearing our AirPods wrong? Apple fans claim sporting the wireless earphones upside down and in the opposite ears results in better sound quality

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Have we all been wearing our AirPods wrong? Apple fans claim sporting the wireless earphones upside down and in the opposite ears results in better sound quality

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An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It.

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WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage

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Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and

Move faster to solve climate challenges, Prince William says

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