Four China-linked espionage crews fired one shared exploit kit called BlueMoon at Chrome and Windows while Google patched the year's seventh Chrome zero-day and Cisco confirmed attackers are walking past authentication on Secure Firewall Management Center.
Emerging Trends and Key Updates
- Trend CISA cataloged exploited flaws in Chrome 153 and Cisco Secure Firewall the same week ShieldCrash defeated Microsoft's Defender patch and a rootkit hid inside F5 BIG-IP.
- Trend AI is both prize and weapon as CISA, NSA and FBI accuse six Chinese firms of distilling American models, while Jacob Coxon's resignation warns of a superintelligence race.
- Trend The scam economy is under pressure from both ends, with $52.8 million seized from Xinbi Guarantee and Ukraine's top prosecutor out, even as DoppelCart runs 119,000 fake storefronts.
- Update · new New locally: Beechview merchants report heavier ICE activity, a coroner blamed measles for an infant's death, and a tornado warning preceded Thursday's building flooding risk.
- Update · updated Brent settled above $100 on the Iran strikes while the Treasury tripled Thursday's buyback to $6 billion and 10-year yields climbed anyway.
- Update · new UPMC doubled paid parental leave to four weeks, Bravo closed abruptly at the Galleria, and Deutschtown landed $600,000 for its business district facades.
Security
1. Chrome 153 Patches Seventh Zero-Day of 2026
Latest developments: CISA added CVE-2026-87491, the out-of-bounds write in Chrome's V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that attackers already exploit, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 9, 2026, a day after Google shipped Chrome 153.0.8010.36 and .37 for Windows and macOS and 153.0.8010.36 for Linux with fixes for 230 flaws; researchers separately named BlueMoon, a previously undocumented exploit kit that chains Windows and Chrome bugs, and counted four espionage clusters running it within a single week, the China-aligned APT31 first among them, a sharing pattern Ars Technica attributes to the patch gap and to faster AI-assisted vulnerability discovery.
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Google rates CVE-2026-87491 medium severity and says the exploit runs code inside the browser sandbox, and it withheld technical detail while users update. Every Chrome and Chromium-based browser deployment needs the update now.
Sources: SecurityWeek · The Hacker News · BleepingComputer · The Record · ↑ top
2. Ivanti, cPanel, and ICS Vendors Ship Critical Fixes
Latest developments: Cisco confirmed on September 9, 2026 that attackers exploit CVE-2026-20079, a maximum-severity authentication bypass in Secure Firewall Management Center software that Cisco Talos had flagged hours earlier, and CISA added that bug to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog alongside the Citrix NetScaler authentication bypass CVE-2026-19490, the Fortinet heap overflow CVE-2025-25249, and the Chrome V8 zero-day; Ivanti patched six critical remote code execution flaws in Neurons for ITSM plus authentication bypass bugs in Sentry and Endpoint Manager Mobile; cPanel disclosed that an account holder with mail privileges can write arbitrary files through EmailTrack and run code as root on every supported cPanel and WHM version; Fortinet closed critical unauthenticated flaws in FortiMonitorOnSight and its Chrome extension; Google's September Android updates fixed 180 vulnerabilities; Schneider Electric, Siemens, AVEVA, and Rockwell Automation released industrial control system patches alongside advisories from Nvidia, AMD, and Arm; and BleepingComputer counted more than 36,000 internet-exposed Plex Media Server installations still unpatched.
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The fixes cover firewall management consoles, shared hosting servers, mobile and IT service management platforms, plant floor equipment, and phones, each reachable from the internet in typical deployments. Operators should treat the exploited Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center bugs first, then the cPanel root escalation and the Ivanti Neurons for ITSM flaws, which yield full server control.
Sources: Cisco Talos · BleepingComputer · SecurityWeek · The Hacker News · ↑ top
3. US Agencies Accuse China of Distilling Frontier AI Models
Latest developments: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the National Security Agency, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation named six Chinese AI companies that have extracted billions of tokens from American frontier models since at least late 2024, listing Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's GPT, Google's Gemini, and xAI's Grok as the targets and calling that capture of reasoning, coding, and other restricted capabilities the core of those firms' development strategy; Google Threat Intelligence Group warned the same day that AI now hands lesser-resourced criminal and state crews the automation and scale of a nation-state operation; separately, a flaw in DeepSeek Harness, DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command, and researchers found information stealers such as Lumma Stealer and Vidar harvesting replayable session tokens that open AI accounts at Google and Anthropic without a second factor.
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Knowledge distillation trains a new model on the outputs of a stronger one, a standard technique the three agencies say Chinese companies run at scale to capture capabilities they cannot license. Model providers should hunt for high-volume output harvesting, and developers running DeepSeek Harness should move to a patched build.
Sources: SecurityWeek · BleepingComputer · The Hacker News · The Hacker News · ↑ top
4. Ukraine Prosecutor Quits Over Scam Center Bribes
Latest developments: The U.S. Department of Justice announced coordinated action against Xinbi Guarantee, an online marketplace that brokered scam services, seizing the Telegram channels that ran it, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, taking $52.8 million from 52 wallets, and sending its Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help break up 13 compounds run by Chinese organized crime; earlier in the day Ruslan Kravchenko resigned as Ukraine's prosecutor general over allegations that officials in his office took bribes to shield scam call centers from law enforcement, the FBI published its first public cybersecurity strategy, which senior official Brett Leatherman says aligns the bureau's teams, field offices, and global presence against cybercrime groups, and CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis credited the agency's Cyber Mission Center for its part in the January capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro.
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Ukraine hosts a dense cluster of call centers that defraud victims abroad, and the bribery claim reaches the office that decides which ones face charges. The Xinbi seizure, the FBI strategy, and the CIA disclosure together mark a push by United States agencies to state publicly how they aim their cyber capabilities and to strangle the payment rails behind scam compounds.
Sources: The Record · The Record · The Record · The Record · ↑ top
5. DoppelCart Runs 119,000 Fake Storefronts
Latest developments: Microsoft Threat Intelligence documented passkey-themed social engineering that talks targets into enrolling an attacker's authentication method, which gives the intruder multi-factor persistence, then queries Microsoft Graph for reconnaissance and pulls data out of SharePoint, OneDrive, and email; earlier today researchers named DoppelCart, a card-skimming operation running more than 119,000 domains as fake online shops, documented a phishing method that assembles the malicious page inside the victim's browser from Microsoft services and blob URLs, and Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 traced a pay-per-install network that used YouTube gaming lures and search engine poisoning to push multi-payload malware into enterprise networks.
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All four operations lean on scale and on infrastructure that reputation-based defenses trust, whether that is a fresh domain among 119,000, a Microsoft-hosted blob URL, a YouTube video, or the enrollment flow of a passkey. Blocklists alone will not hold, so defenders need content inspection at the browser and endpoint plus stricter identity verification when a user adds an authentication method.
Sources: BleepingComputer · SecurityWeek · Microsoft Security Blog · Unit 42 (Palo Alto) · ↑ top
6. Liquid Network Thieves Return $263 Million
Latest developments: Whoever drained nearly 4,000 bitcoin, roughly $320 million, from the Liquid Network federation wallet on September 6, 2026 through a bug in Elements returned 3,400 of those coins, about $263 million, the next day while demanding that the sidechain fix the flaw, and kept 598.5 bitcoin worth some $47 million; Liquid remains paused, so holders cannot redeem the L-BTC token for bitcoin.
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Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that locks up real bitcoin to back L-BTC, and the attackers reached the federation wallet that holds the reserve. In parallel prosecutions and investigations, Malone Lam, a 22-year-old Singapore citizen, pleaded guilty to racketeering charges over a $245 million crypto heist that funded Hamptons vacations, cars, and private jets, and CrowdStrike detailed Slim Spider, a Brazil-based crew that has stolen cryptocurrency custody secrets from Brazilian financial institutions since March 2026.
Sources: SecurityWeek · The Hacker News · The Record · The Hacker News · ↑ top
7. Border Patrol Screens Americans' Financial Habits
Latest developments: 404 Media identified predictive policing units inside U.S. Border Patrol that analyze Americans' financial data and then direct local police to pull drivers over who face no suspicion of a particular crime, and separately reported that Sinclair Broadcasting is casting public opposition to Flock Safety's license plate cameras as Chinese propaganda amplified by No Kings protesters; the State Department on August 26, 2026 labeled the Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati an extremist group hosting infrastructure for far-left militants and warned that anyone funding it risks sanctions, and the collective has now shut down; and the Pentagon switched off advertising identifiers across its phones after location data sold by the ad industry helped adversaries track United States troops.
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Commercially available financial and location data now drives both government targeting of civilians and foreign targeting of American service members. Any organization whose staff travel or handle sensitive work should disable mobile ad identifiers as the Defense Department did.
Sources: 404 Media · 404 Media · The Record · Graham Cluley · ↑ top
8. ShieldCrash Bypasses Microsoft's Defender Patch
Latest developments: Hours after Microsoft published its September 2026 updates, the anonymous researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse, who also goes by Chaotic Eclipse, released a proof-of-concept exploit named ShieldCrash that grants SYSTEM privileges and defeats Microsoft's fix for CVE-2026-69414, the 7.8-rated Defender flaw the same researcher reported last month as ShieldBreak.
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ShieldCrash leaves Microsoft Defender installations open to local privilege escalation with no vendor fix available, extending a run of zero-day drops by Nightmare Eclipse that has already covered CrowdStrike Falcon, Nvidia, Avast, and Kaspersky software. Administrators should watch for an out-of-band Microsoft update and monitor Defender's remediation routines for abuse.
Sources: BleepingComputer · The Hacker News · Help Net Security · ↑ top
9. F5 BIG-IP Rootkit Hides Web Shell in Memory
Latest developments: Sophos published an analysis on September 7, 2026 of a Linux rootkit tied to break-ins at F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager appliances that intercepts PHP file loading: when Apache loads any of three of the appliance's own PHP scripts, the rootkit appends a web shell to the copy in memory, so the file on disk still checks out clean.
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The technique gives attackers a fileless backdoor on internet-facing remote-access appliances that survives disk scanning and file integrity checks. F5 BIG-IP APM operators need memory-level inspection and should treat compromised appliances as unrecoverable without a rebuild.
Sources: The Hacker News · BleepingComputer · Help Net Security · ↑ top
10. Gentlemen Gang Claims Veradigm Patient Data Breach
Latest developments: Veradigm, the electronic health record company formerly known as Allscripts, disclosed on September 9, 2026 that attackers stole patient personal data through a third-party vendor, said the intruders reached one specific interface and left its networks, servers, and databases alone, and reported no operational disruption; the ransomware crew that calls itself the Gentlemen claims the attack, and on the same day AdaptHealth, the home medical equipment supplier, confirmed that a July 2026 cyberattack it attributes to ShinyHunters exposed data on 4.1 million people.
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Veradigm sells electronic health records and practice management software to physician practices, hospitals, and payers across the United States, so a vendor-side theft reaches patients who never dealt with the company. Health systems running Veradigm products should ask which interface the attackers used and whether their own patient records sit in the exposed set.
Sources: The Record · BleepingComputer · BleepingComputer · ↑ top
Business and Politics
Brent Crosses $100 a Barrel
Latest developments: Brent settled Wednesday, September 9, at its highest level since May 22, holding above $100, and U.S. stocks extended their slide as the U.S. military struck ships tied to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Iranian missiles hit American targets in Jordan, and Houthi militants pressed attacks on Saudi oil facilities.
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The blockade war between Washington and Tehran has drained tanker capacity and inventories, and traders see no credible path to de-escalation, so crude has run up through the $90s over two weeks. Gold climbed on the inflation and rate-hike implications, and European shares fell at the open as the oil move hit banks.
Sources: FT World · WSJ World News · FT World · WSJ Markets · ↑ top
Treasury Triples a Buyback and Yields Rise Anyway
Latest developments: The U.S. Treasury said Wednesday, September 9, that it will purchase up to $6 billion of Treasurys maturing in 10 to 20 years at Thursday's operation, triple the usual size, and 10-year yields climbed to their highest level in nearly three years as investors judged the program too small to steady the market.
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent expanded the buyback program to support a government bond market that has sold off for weeks, driving long yields to multiyear highs and lifting borrowing costs for the weakest American companies. Gold held steady as the yield move worked through the market.
Sources: FT Home · WSJ Markets · ↑ top
Trump Bans Canadian Dairy, Motorcycles, and Alcohol
Latest developments: President Trump signed orders late Tuesday, September 8, barring Canadian dairy, motorcycles, and most alcoholic beverages from the U.S. market, with the prohibitions taking effect in three weeks.
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The orders answer Ottawa's tariffs on roughly $20 billion of American goods, which took effect Tuesday. The ban covers a small subset of industries and could ruin the Canadian companies inside it, and Trump has also moved to bar Canadian firms from U.S. government contracts.
Sources: FT Home · WSJ World News · ↑ top
Bessent Warns Traders Off the Yen
Latest developments: Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told currency traders Wednesday, September 9, to stop betting against the yen, saying "I am the house now."
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The warning follows July's rare joint intervention by Washington and Tokyo to support the Japanese currency, and it lands as the yen trades near six-month highs on expectations of two more Bank of Japan rate increases by year-end. Bessent's line puts the U.S. Treasury explicitly behind the currency, raising the cost of short positions.
Sources: FT Home · WSJ Markets · ↑ top
Pittsburgh
Weather
Tonight: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Showers And Thunderstorms, low 71F.
Thursday: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, high 78F.
Thursday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, low 61F.
Business
UPMC Doubles Paid Parental Leave
Latest developments: UPMC confirmed Wednesday, September 9, that it will double paid parental leave for eligible employees to four weeks, and nurses at UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital immediately pushed for more.
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UPMC ranks among the largest employers in Western Pennsylvania, so its leave policy sets a benchmark other regional employers watch. The increase lands while Magee nurses press the system for a longer benefit and while Allegheny County Council weighs paid parental leave for county workers.
Bravo Closes at the Galleria
Latest developments: WPXI reported Wednesday, September 9, that the Bravo restaurant at the Galleria mall in Mount Lebanon has closed permanently, and that employees learned of it abruptly.
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Workers told WPXI the shutdown came without warning, leaving them asking what comes next. The Galleria, on Washington Road in Mount Lebanon, loses one of its anchor sit-down restaurants.
Deutschtown Draws $600,000 in Facade Money
Latest developments: Deutschtown business owners and Pittsburgh city leaders gathered Wednesday, September 9, to praise a $600,000 investment in the North Side neighborhood's business district.
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The money flows through the city's Main and Main Initiative, which has rebuilt 77 storefront facades across Pittsburgh neighborhood business districts. The spending follows months of new investment along East Ohio Street, the Deutschtown corridor.
Latrobe House Lists at $2.85 Million
Latest developments: WPXI published photographs Wednesday, September 9, of a Latrobe house on the market for $2.85 million in a community Arnold Palmer designed.
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The listing sits in the Westmoreland County golf community that Palmer, a Latrobe native, laid out. At $2.85 million it stands among the costliest homes for sale in the region.
Arnold Palmer Terminal Nears the Finish
Latest developments: TribLive reported Wednesday, September 9, that a leaking roof and finishing touches are all that remain in the first phase of the $22 million expansion at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, while the search for a commercial carrier goes on.
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The project doubles the size of the terminal at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport in Unity, Westmoreland County. The airport has no commercial airline flying passengers out of the enlarged building.
Lost Lizard Video Rents VHS Tapes Again
Latest developments: Pittsburgh City Paper profiled Lost Lizard Video on Wednesday, September 9, the video rental store Vincent Santis stocks with VHS tapes.
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Santis designed the shop as a communal gathering space and says he missed the era of browsing a rental counter. The store has drawn steady local attention for reviving a format the streaming services buried.
Sources: Pittsburgh City Paper · ↑ top
Pittsburgh Distillers Ride the Canned-Cocktail Boom
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Wednesday, September 9, that premixed ready-to-drink cocktails have never sold better, with Pittsburgh producers Wigle, Liberty Pole Spirits, and Lucky Sign in the category.
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Ready-to-drink cocktails have become one of the fastest-growing corners of the spirits business, and Western Pennsylvania distillers are putting their own bottled and canned versions on shelves. The format lets small producers reach drinkers who never visit a tasting room.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · ↑ top
Around Town
Beechview Reports Heavier ICE Activity
Latest developments: Latino business owners in Pittsburgh's Beechview neighborhood told TribLive and WPXI on Wednesday, September 9, that Immigration and Customs Enforcement activity has climbed over the past month, with masked agents, tense confrontations, and people taken into custody.
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Casa San José, the Latino resource nonprofit based in Beechview, says its staff has tracked the increase since early August, and merchants along Broadway Avenue describe customers staying home. Beechview holds one of the largest Latino business corridors in the city.
Sources: TribLive · WPXI · ↑ top
Coroner Says Measles Killed an Infant
Latest developments: A Pennsylvania coroner confirmed Wednesday, September 9, that both measles-related deaths in the state last month involved infants and that the virus itself caused one of them.
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The two deaths stand as the first U.S. measles-associated deaths of 2026, and U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has publicly called them possibly fabricated. The confirmation lands as Pennsylvania's outbreak keeps growing and families across the state move up their children's first vaccine doses.
Pitt, CMU, and Duquesne Fail a Free Speech Ranking
Latest developments: The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression gave failing grades to most of the 15 Pennsylvania universities it surveyed this year, including Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, and the University of Pittsburgh, TribLive and the Post-Gazette reported Wednesday, September 9.
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The national nonprofit ranks campuses on speech policies and on what students say about expressing themselves in class and on campus. All three big Pittsburgh institutions landed at the bottom of the Pennsylvania list.
Sources: TribLive · Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · ↑ top
Storms and Flooding Arrive Thursday
Latest developments: The National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of Beaver County until 8 p.m. Wednesday, September 9, and put several Western Pennsylvania counties under a severe thunderstorm watch, with the flooding risk building through Thursday, September 10, which WTAE has flagged as an Impact Day.
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Rain with embedded storms will work from north to south across Western Pennsylvania, with the flood threat concentrated Thursday morning. The region is still cleaning up from the September 3 storms that brought a 1-in-100-year rainfall and 120,000 outages.
Sources: KDKA · WTAE · WTAE · ↑ top
Stowe Township Rescinds Its ICE Agreement Again
Latest developments: PublicSource reported Wednesday, September 9, that Stowe Township commissioners voted again to rescind the township's 287(g) agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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Stowe Township, an Ohio Valley community northwest of Pittsburgh, has entered and exited the federal immigration partnership repeatedly and has taken part in no ICE operations under it. Residents have turned out against the agreement each time commissioners have taken it up.
Sources: PublicSource · ↑ top
Amtrak Adds a Second Pittsburgh-New York Train
Latest developments: WPXI reported Wednesday, September 9, that Amtrak's board created a committee to steer service expansion ahead of the November start of a second daily train between Pittsburgh and New York City.
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The new round trip gives Pittsburgh two daily departures for New York beginning in November, the first addition to the route in decades. Amtrak's new board committee will guide the wider expansion the railroad is planning.
Tree of Life Names Its Center for Humanity
Latest developments: Tree of Life announced Wednesday, September 9, that its center devoted to fighting hate and antisemitism will carry the name The Tree of Life Center for Humanity.
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The Squirrel Hill institution took shape after the 2018 attack on the Tree of Life synagogue and is building programming and a facility on the site. The name settles a question that has hung over the project through years of planning and fundraising.
County Council Targets AI in Campaign Ads
Latest developments: Allegheny County Council members introduced a bill Tuesday, September 8, requiring candidates to disclose artificial intelligence in their campaign materials.
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The measure would mandate a disclaimer on AI-generated political content, aimed at keeping voters from being misled by synthetic images, audio, and video. Council introduced it weeks before mail ballots reach voters for the November midterms.
Sources: TribLive · WPXI · ↑ top
Innamorato Makes Parental Leave a Campaign Plank
Latest developments: PublicSource reported Wednesday, September 9, that Allegheny County Executive Sara Innamorato's push for paid parental leave for county employees is shaping up as a signature plank of her reelection campaign.
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Innamorato backed paid parental leave before her own pregnancy and now presses Allegheny County Council to pass it, two days after the group Worker Speak Out marched for the measure in the Labor Day parade. Democratic officials in red and purple states are watching whether the policy carries politically.
Sources: PublicSource · ↑ top
Health Department Seeks Wider Outbreak Powers
Latest developments: TribLive's editorial board wrote Wednesday, September 9, that the Pennsylvania Department of Health wants to expand its authority to investigate disease and public health emergencies, and asked whether the state learned anything from its last outbreak.
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The department is pressing for broader investigative reach as Pennsylvania works through a measles outbreak that produced the first U.S. measles-associated deaths of 2026. The editorial weighs how much power the agency should hold before the next emergency arrives.
Glen Osborne Takes Policing Concerns to Sewickley
Latest developments: TribLive reported Wednesday, September 9, that Glen Osborne officials will bring their policing concerns to Sewickley police Chief Dave Mazza on Tuesday, September 15.
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Glen Osborne, a small borough on the Ohio River in Allegheny County, relies on Sewickley's department for police coverage. The September 15 meeting puts borough officials and Mazza in the same room to work through the complaints.
Westmoreland Youth Symphony Hands Out Free Instruments
Latest developments: KDKA reported Wednesday, September 9, that the Westmoreland Youth Symphony has created a scholarship fund giving middle school students free instruments and free classes.
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The fund removes the two costs that keep most beginners out of orchestra, the instrument and the lessons. The symphony draws its players from schools across Westmoreland County.
Events
Free Jazz Week at Pittsburgh International
Latest developments: TribLive reported Wednesday, September 9, that Pittsburgh International Airport will host five days of free jazz concerts next week as part of the city's 16th annual jazz festival.
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The performances run inside the airport terminal in Findlay Township and cost nothing to hear. They tie into the citywide festival celebrating the genre, now in its 16th year.
Donnie Iris Opens the Wylie
Latest developments: TribLive and KDKA reported Wednesday, September 9, that Donnie Iris and the Cruisers will headline a preview show at Citizens Live at The Wylie, Pittsburgh's newest music venue, ahead of its formal opening.
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Donnie Iris, the Pittsburgh rock singer behind "Ah! Leah!," gets the first crack at the room. The preview show precedes the venue's regular concert calendar.
Sources: TribLive · KDKA · ↑ top
Slow Tech Festival at the Children's Museum
Latest developments: The group PA Unplugged previewed the Slow Tech Festival on KDKA on Wednesday, September 9, alongside device suggestions for parents holding off on a first phone.
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The Slow Tech Festival runs Sunday, September 20, at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh on the North Side. PA Unplugged organizes the event around alternatives to smartphones for children.
Day on the Lawn Rummage Sale in Sewickley
Latest developments: KDKA previewed the sale Wednesday, September 9, with a walk through the goods on offer.
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Sewickley Presbyterian Church holds its annual Day on the Lawn rummage sale Saturday, September 12, in Sewickley.
Sports
Pirates (72-73)
Tue Sep 8 · Pirates 9 · White Sox 3 · Final
Up Next · Pirates @ White Sox · Wed Sep 9, 7:40 PM
Steelers (0-0, T-1st in AFC North)
Up Next · Falcons @ Steelers · Sun Sep 13, 1:00 PM
Around the Teams
Heyward Relates to Porter's Contract Standoff
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Wednesday, September 9, that Cam Heyward, who has fought his own contract battles with the Steelers, says he understands where cornerback Joey Porter Jr. stands in his unresolved stalemate with the club.
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Porter has yet to reach a new deal, and TribLive reported the same day that teammates expect Asante Samuel Jr. to take the job if Porter pursues his most drastic option. The standoff hangs over the roster four days before the Steelers open at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, September 13.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Acrisure Stadium Changes the Game Day
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette laid out Wednesday, September 9, the changes fans will meet at Acrisure Stadium this season, starting with the playing surface.
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The Steelers have reworked the turf and other elements of the stadium experience on the North Shore before Sunday's opener against the Atlanta Falcons. The changes arrive alongside a new concessions menu the paper catalogued the same day.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
SNR Drive Picks the Division Winners
Latest developments: Matt Williamson and Wes Uhler gave their 2026 NFL division winner and wild card predictions on SNR Drive on Wednesday, September 9, and previewed the league's Wednesday night opener.
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The Steelers channel also posted head coach Mike McCarthy's news conference before Wednesday's practice and quarterback Aaron Rodgers' session afterward, the last full media availabilities before Sunday's opener against the Atlanta Falcons at Acrisure Stadium.
Sources: Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube) · Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube) · Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube) · ↑ top
Hiles Calls the Pirates' Late Push Frustrating
Latest developments: Post-Gazette columnist Noah Hiles wrote Wednesday, September 9, that the Pirates' late-season surge makes the year harder to swallow.
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Hiles argues the recent stretch of good baseball shows what the roster could have produced earlier, with the club's playoff chances effectively gone in the final weeks. He called for a front-office overhaul in the same column space on August 30, starting with general manager Ben Cherington.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates · ↑ top
New Food Arrives at Acrisure Stadium
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette catalogued the new concessions at Acrisure Stadium on Wednesday, September 9, led by a Pittsburgh take on pigs in a blanket.
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The menu changes land four days before the Steelers open at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, September 13, at 1 p.m. Concessions rank among the visible changes fans meet at the gates this season.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Dulac Fields Week 1 Questions
Latest developments: Post-Gazette beat writer Gerry Dulac held his Steelers chat Wednesday, September 9, taking reader questions on the Week 1 roster and matchup.
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The chat runs four days before the Steelers open at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, September 13, at 1 p.m. at Acrisure Stadium. Aaron Rodgers starts at quarterback for a team Mike McCarthy coaches for the first time.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
The Post-Gazette Picks the Season
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette staff published its 2026 NFL predictions Wednesday morning, September 9, covering the Steelers' record, the Super Bowl, and the league's individual awards.
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The picks land four days before the Steelers open at home against the Atlanta Falcons on Sunday, September 13, at 1 p.m. at Acrisure Stadium. Pittsburgh enters the season with Aaron Rodgers at quarterback and Mike McCarthy in his first year as head coach.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Khristian Curtis Nearly Lost His Arm
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette profiled Pirates pitcher Khristian Curtis on Wednesday, September 9, tracing the botched surgery that came close to costing him his throwing arm.
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Curtis describes every pitch he throws now as a blessing after the operation and the recovery that followed. The piece runs as the Pirates play out the final weeks of a season whose playoff odds have faded.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates · ↑ top
Team USA
U.S. Women Meet Hungary in the Quarterfinals
Latest developments: United States coach Kara Lawson said Wednesday, September 9, that she wants her team sharper in each round, a day before the FIBA Women's World Cup quarterfinal against Hungary in Germany on Thursday, September 10.
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The Americans closed pool play with a 105-64 rout of Czechia after escaping Italy 55-52, the closest World Cup game they have played in two decades. Their World Cup winning streak stands at 32 games, and a loss to Hungary ends it.
Sources: ESPN Olympics · ↑ top
Reading
- Cal Newport — Anthropic Just Threatened to Kill Billions of People. This Is Not Okay.. Newport takes up the resignation of Anthropic engineer Jacob Coxon, who wrote on X that OpenAI and Anthropic are racing toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with everyone's safety, and argues that a company describing its own work in those terms deserves a far harsher public reckoning.
- Stratechery — OpenAI Does Math, Reward-Hacking, Meta Launches Personal Agent. Ben Thompson argues that OpenAI solving one of mathematics' famous open problems is technically impressive and nearly irrelevant to daily life, while Meta's Muse personal agent is the reverse: unglamorous and positioned to reach everyone.
- Ed Zitron — Concentration Risk. Zitron examines how much of the current market rests on a handful of AI-linked companies and the financing arrangements that tie them together, continuing the argument he built in his circular-financing series.
Markets
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