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We are used to seeing satellite images of tropical storms from above the clouds, featuring the characteristic white swirls around the eye of the storm. This false-colour, polarised image from Copernicus Sentinel-1 shows us the surface of the sea beneath the clouds, as seen by the satellite’s radar instrument. The sea conditions reflect the strong winds as Typhoon Surigae passes over.

The image, captured on 28 September 2026, shows Typhoon Surigae as it was moving north-eastwards in an area of the Philippine Sea about 200 km south of the island of Shikoku, Japan. By 1 October, the storm, also known as Typhoon no. 26, was almost 1000 km away, roughly 200 km south of Tokyo. It is one of several typhoons in the Pacific Ocean at the moment.

The relatively calm seas at the eye of the storm are clearly visible in dark blue in this image. The colorful effect is created using two radar polarisations, each assigned to a different colour. The orange-yellow ring in the image is where the radar instrument has detected rough ocean conditions and strong winds.

The lighter blue areas of the image show where the radar has detected a different kind of signal and it most likely denotes ocean and wind conditions that differ to the bright yellow and orange areas. Some of the possible causes are lower wind speeds, less sea surface movement or areas of rain.

Some bright yellow flecks are seen in the lower part of the image. While these look like small islands, there are no land masses in that region – they are most likely to be areas of concentrated wind and rain.

When this radar image was acquired, Typhoon Surigae had strong winds with maximum gusts of up to 240 km per hour, with dangerous ocean conditions including strong swells and waves reaching up to 7 m. Since then, it has weakened considerably and is currently classed as a tropical depression, with maximum wind speeds of 55 km per hour.

Credits: contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2026), processed by ESA; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO

We start this week with Joseph’s stories on the massive FBI hack. 404 Media broke this news and continued to cover the breach of data on all FBI employees and their spouses. After the break, Jason tells us how a surveillance company is telling cops it wants to add facial recognition tech to Flock camera data. In the subscribers-only section, Jason and Joseph chat all about Muse, Meta’s new agentic AI, and how humans are actually behind some of the tasks. Because of course.

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• ⁠‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees⁠
• ⁠FBI Hack Exposed FBI’s Own Hacking Unit⁠
• ⁠FBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee Data⁠
• ⁠Surveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock Cameras⁠

OpenAI's agents have repeatedly strayed beyond their intended scope. Two separate reports detail the activity, including one from Sam Altman’s company saying it has notified more than 100 organizations about potentially problematic model activity. OpenAI, in a late Wednesday update to its ongoing Hugging Face investigation, said it has notified more than 100 organizations that “misaligned models” may have accessed their systems. “Notification does not mean that any private information was accessed, or that there was a compromise of any third-party system,” the update said. A separate Thursday report from digital forensic and incident response startup Asymmetric Security said OpenAI’s rogue agents accessed data belonging to 55 organizations. These include the US Department of Education, UN Trade and Development, US Bureau of Economic Analysis, MAX.gov containing federal budget documents, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the International Energy Agency, and the FBI Crime Data Explorer. Asymmetric used only publicly available data to compile this list, and said the activity occurred between March and September. The agents’ probes indicate they were tasked with researching public health and other data, “possibly as part of an evaluation,” according to the report. “We found successful access to staging environments; evidence of the use of attacker reconnaissance tactics; and evidence of probing a broader set of websites, including those of the CDC, SEC, International Energy Agency, and Mayo Clinic,” it said, noting that the investigation also uncovered some “novel tactics” the agents used to break out of their sandboxes and gain full web access. “Some of these tactics left records erased or inaccessible, making it impossible to rule out access to sensitive data based on public information alone,” the authors wrote. The Register asked OpenAI if the organizations on Asymmetric’s list were among those notified by OpenAI. The model maker declined to say which orgs had been notified, but previously confirmed to the New York Times that its agents probed websites for the US Education Department, Commerce Department, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. An OpenAI spokesperson sent us this statement via email: “As we previously announced, we’re reviewing misaligned model activity and notifying organizations when we identify potential impacts to their systems. We’re also investigating findings in third-party reports, comparing them with our own and seeking additional information where needed. Our priority is to provide affected organizations with accurate, useful information, and we’ll keep refining our approach as we learn more. Most of the activity we’ve reviewed involved routine research tasks, including accessing public web content. Some involved government websites, which our models often use as authoritative sources of public information.” The growing number of rogue agent hacking incidents raises questions about AI makers’ safety and security practices during testing - and has increased calls for holding AI executives legally liable for their models’ criminal activities. According to Horizon3 CEO Snehal Antani, who builds and tests agents at his threat-exposure startup, the term “misalignment” lets frontier model makers off the hook too easily. “A ‘misaligned models incident’ is basically a fancy way of saying a model didn't respect scope - or wasn't given one - had no audit logs or observability in place to detect breakout, and accessed third-party systems without authorization,” Antani told The Register. “The responsibility sits with the labs that build and deploy these models,” he added. “The safety-versus-security framing lets them sidestep accountability, and they are not incentivized to prioritize security because moving fast is the priority.” OpenAI’s most recent rogue agent disclosure comes as it - and every other major AI company - drinks from the firehose of near daily security and safety concerns surrounding its models. Last Friday, OpenAI quietly paused training of its most advanced models after admitting an agent used DNS to reach an external chatbot. On Monday, it postponed its planned release of GPT-6.1 Astra after the model showed higher levels of deception than its predecessor, including not always accurately telling users what actions it had or hadn't taken. It also performed unsolicited supply chain attacks in simulated security evaluations, according to the UK Artificial Intelligence Security Institute. On Wednesday, OpenAI accused rival Chinese model maker Moonshot AI of distillation - essentially copying OpenAI models’ reasoning at scale - and said that poses a national security concern. Early Friday, OpenAI confirmed to The Register that it fired two safety researchers and a program manager for allegedly mishandling sensitive company information.®

Mattie Music Group, owners of Bill Withers’ back catalogue, contend the Grammy winner infringed on Just the Two of Us

Olivia Dean has been accused of plagiarizing the Bill Withers classic Just the Two of Us.

The owners of Withers’ back catalogue aimed that allegation at his fellow Grammy winner in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed on Thursday in US federal court in Los Angeles.

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Five defendants accused of being part of ‘black team’ tasked with overcoming security at Israel-linked firm Elbit near Bristol

Palestine Action activists brandished whips, hammers and kebab skewers to intimidate security guards and keep them at bay during a break-in at an Israel-linked arms factory, a court has heard.

Five defendants are accused by prosecutors of being part of a “black team”, wearing black jumpsuits, whose role was to overwhelm security guards, so that a “red team”, wearing red jumpsuits, could break into the Elbit systems factory in Filton, near Bristol, and smash up equipment including drones.

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As members of Orange Lodge No 1 gather and residents occupy Garvaghy Road, each side speaks of grievances that go back decades and centuries

Half a mile of countryside separates Drumcree parish church and Garvaghy Road. You can walk it in 15 minutes, listening to birdsong. The protesters gathered at each end, however, speak of grievances that go back decades and centuries to explain why a dispute once thought settled has returned to torment Northern Ireland.

Up on the hill at Drumcree this week, Paul, a 64-year-old Orangeman who declined to give his surname, said for too long he and his brethren had been denied the right to parade along a traditional route that would honour Protestant forefathers who fell at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690 and the Somme in 1916.

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Fred Vasseur says Ferrari had to act to end a week of rumours about his future, as he defended both his team and his relationship with the Scuderia's leadership.