Russia's Sandworm group chained Cisco firewall flaws to spread a rebuilt Cyclops Blink botnet while Microsoft rushed emergency out-of-band updates to undo the Remote Desktop failures its record September patch caused.
Emerging Trends and Key Updates
- Trend Attackers keep targeting developer infrastructure, with Red Heron scanning 1,386 Gitea servers, a third JFrog Artifactory flaw planting Rust backdoors, and ConnectWise patching a wormable ScreenConnect bug.
- Trend Dario Amodei's call to slow the AI frontier drew a Beijing reply, a global selloff led by Nvidia, and Ben Thompson's rebuttal reading it as a control play.
- Update · new Russia's Sandworm is now named as the operator chaining Cisco Secure Firewall flaws to spread an upgraded Cyclops Blink, while China-aligned crews ride a Sogou bug to GrayRabbit.
- Update · updated Microsoft shipped emergency out-of-band Windows updates late Monday repairing the Remote Desktop Services, Hyper-V, and USB audio failures that its September security rollup caused.
- Update · new New owners take over Penn Brewery, superloads start rolling Wednesday toward the Homer City data center, and PRT shuts the downtown light rail this weekend.
- Update · new Mike McCarthy opened preparation for the Patriots without committing to any return date for cornerback Joey Porter Jr., whose absence the Post-Gazette expects to cost Pittsburgh later.
Security
1. September Windows Updates Break Remote Desktop and USB Audio
Latest developments: Microsoft shipped emergency out-of-band Windows updates late on September 14, 2026 that repair the Remote Desktop Services failures its September security updates caused, along with Hyper-V faults and the USB audio breakage that followed the KB5124008 and KB5124012 updates.
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The Remote Desktop failures block user connections on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025, and some hosts recover only after a hard reset, fallout from a September rollup that fixed roughly 972 vulnerabilities. Administrators should install the out-of-band updates and retest remote access and audio hardware before they widen the September deployment.
Sources: BleepingComputer · BleepingComputer · BleepingComputer · Schneier on Security · ↑ top
2. Revolut and Telus Disclose Customer Data Theft
Latest developments: The Record reported on September 14, 2026 that the fraudsters who extracted Revolut customer records submitted emergency data requests from a working government email account, sharpening the disclosure Revolut confirmed on Saturday, September 12, 2026, and Telus warned subscribers the same day that intruders used stolen credentials across a multi-month campaign to reach personal data and billing records.
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The Revolut notification to affected customers lists birth dates, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and copies of identity documents including passports, and the company told TechCrunch a limited number of customers lost data and that it contacted each of them directly. Customers of both companies should treat unsolicited contact referencing their account details as fraud and watch for identity theft.
Sources: BleepingComputer · The Record · Help Net Security · SecurityWeek · ↑ top
3. Amodei Calls for Control as Beijing Answers
Latest developments: Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, told the industry on September 14, 2026 to slow frontier model improvement so that security and risk prevention catch up, and China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs replied to his essay urging limits on Chinese AI development by saying all parties should work together on the technology.
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Amodei's argument extends the warning he gave a day earlier that an AI system could soon direct a swarm of agents across the internet, and it lands as Anthropic's own misuse report documents a cell in northern Yemen that used Claude on three weapons development programs, among them a guided rocket and a ballistic missile with a stated range above 2,000 kilometers. Enterprises weighing frontier model deployments should read the safety timeline as contested and plan controls that do not depend on vendor restraint.
Sources: Dark Reading · SecurityWeek · Schneier on Security · SecurityWeek · ↑ top
4. Third JFrog Artifactory Flaw Joins Backdoor Campaign
Latest developments: SecurityWeek reported on September 14, 2026 that attackers chain three JFrog Artifactory vulnerabilities, one more than the pair CISA cataloged on September 11, to bypass authentication and raise their privileges to administrator before planting a backdoor, and CISA warned the same day that hackers now exploit CVE-2026-85706, the 10.0-rated path traversal flaw that reaches both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition.
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CISA already lists the incorrect authorization bug CVE-2026-42016 and the improper authentication bug CVE-2026-42018 as actively exploited, and Wiz dated the campaign against self-hosted Artifactory servers from August 15 through September 8, 2026, finding it reached only operators who had skipped JFrog's earlier fixes. Anyone running Artifactory or self-managed GitLab should install every available update and hunt for a Rust backdoor and unfamiliar administrator accounts.
Sources: SecurityWeek · BleepingComputer · Dark Reading · ↑ top
5. Deepfake Sites Target More Than 100 European Politicians
Latest developments: Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg announced on September 14, 2026 that his office seized 12 celebrity deepfake websites carrying hyper-realistic sexual imagery of roughly 1,200 people, the largest legal action yet against such sites, hours after Wired published an analysis of 160 deepfake websites that found more than 100 politicians from 22 countries in Europe on them, with women accounting for nearly every target.
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The sites run openly and pull public images of serving politicians and celebrities into explicit video and photographs. Bragg's seizures give prosecutors a template, and the European totals hand regulators a concrete test of the push to hold platforms and tool makers accountable for synthetic sexual imagery.
Sources: Wired Security · 404 Media · Wired Security · ↑ top
6. Sandworm Chains Cisco Flaws to Deploy Cyclops Blink
Latest developments: Dark Reading named the operator on September 14, 2026: Russia's Sandworm group chains Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center vulnerabilities to spread an upgraded Cyclops Blink, the botnet malware the FBI disrupted in 2022, and CISA added a separate Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL injection flaw, CVE-2026-76461, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog the same day.
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Three intrusion clusters exploit CVE-2026-20079, the 10.0-rated authentication bypass in the Secure Firewall Management Center web interface, and CVE-2026-20316, stealing credentials and in some cases deploying Qilin ransomware. Anyone running Secure Firewall Management Center or Secure Email Gateway should patch now, rotate device credentials, and hunt for modular implants that survive reboots.
Sources: Dark Reading · CISA Advisories · ↑ top
7. Chinese Hackers Ride Sogou Flaw to GrayRabbit
Latest developments: SecurityWeek reported on September 14, 2026 that CVE-2026-51990 in Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows hands attackers remote code execution from a single click, the mechanism behind the China-aligned espionage campaign that BleepingComputer tied a day earlier to the GrayRabbit backdoor.
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Sogou Input Method ranks among the most widely installed tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, and operators start each intrusion with a crafted link that plants GrayRabbit carrying the logged-in user's full rights. Anyone running Sogou Input Method should update it or pull it off corporate machines.
Sources: SecurityWeek · BleepingComputer · ↑ top
8. CISOs Fight Over-Privileged AI Agents as AWS Measures False Positives
Latest developments: Amazon Web Services released its Deception Benchmark publicly on September 14, 2026, a dataset and evaluation process that scores how well AI models separate genuine vulnerabilities from code that merely looks risky, and found the models piling up false positives; SecurityWeek reported the same day that security leaders are struggling to rein in over-privileged agents without stripping out the value those agents deliver.
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Security teams now point AI at vulnerability triage, penetration testing, threat modeling, incident response, and code review, and every false positive adds work for the humans reviewing the output. Teams should benchmark any model before they trust its findings and scope agent permissions to the narrowest set of systems each task requires.
Sources: Help Net Security · SecurityWeek · ↑ top
9. Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE Across Six Countries
Latest developments: Acronis Threat Research Unit reported on September 14, 2026 that the Chinese threat actor it tracks as Red Heron turned a recently disclosed Gitea remote code execution flaw against internet-facing servers within days, scanning 1,386 Gitea instances in seven countries, keeping a separate list of 477 systems in Taiwan, and breaking into 13 organizations across six countries.
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Gitea is self-hosted Git software that many engineering teams run on their own servers, which puts source code, build credentials, and deployment keys behind a single internet-facing application. Anyone operating Gitea should patch immediately, pull the server off the public internet, and review repositories and access tokens for tampering.
Sources: The Hacker News · ↑ top
10. ConnectWise Patches Wormable ScreenConnect Flaw
Latest developments: ConnectWise released the fix on September 14, 2026 for the ScreenConnect file transfer flaw it had covered with temporary mitigations a week earlier, closing a hole that lets an attacker send files through an active remote session and execute them without authorization.
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Huntress traced three unrelated intrusions in which backdoored ScreenConnect instances pushed a four-stage Visual Basic Script payload to every newly connected host, a spread that started with a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake update. The flaw reaches both the ConnectWise cloud service and on-premises installations, so every operator should apply the patch and audit recent session file transfers.
Sources: SecurityWeek · ↑ top
Business and Politics
Trump Says Kyiv and Moscow Agreed to an Energy Truce
Latest developments: President Trump announced Monday, September 14, that Russia and Ukraine have agreed to stop striking each other's energy infrastructure, an announcement that caught Kyiv off guard.
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Trump spent Sunday pressing Ukraine to halt its attacks on Russian oil refineries, blaming them for record diesel prices, and earlier attempts to spare power plants and refineries fell apart. Russian drones and missiles are meanwhile battering Ukraine's railway system, and U.S. retail diesel set a record last week above $6 a gallon as Middle East supply disruptions piled up.
Sources: FT Home · The Economist · WSJ US Business · ↑ top
Oil Reaches $108 as Riyadh Quits the Hormuz Talks
Latest developments: Crude futures settled higher again Monday, September 14, with Brent near $109, and Chevron Chief Executive Mike Wirth and other oil executives declared the great fuel crisis already here while Trump administration officials called the disruption temporary.
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Saudi Arabia's drone-damaged East-West pipeline carries crude from the kingdom's eastern fields to the Red Sea and served as the main workaround for the blocked Strait of Hormuz, and Riyadh has now walked out of the regional talks to de-escalate the standoff. Houthi fighters hold the Bab al-Mandeb chokepoint as well, putting both of the region's vital energy corridors under the sway of Iran and its allies.
Sources: FT World · WSJ World News · FT World · WSJ US Business · WSJ Markets · ↑ top
Warsh Faces Trump Over Wednesday's Rate Increase
Latest developments: The 10-year Treasury yield touched 5% Monday, September 14, the first time since 2023, then eased back by the close, while Germany's 10-year Bund yield reached a 15-year high and Wall Street weighed whether borrowing costs now settle into a new era.
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The Federal Reserve meets September 16 and the Bank of Japan follows September 18, with both expected to tighten, the Fed for the first time in years, and Chair Kevin Warsh raises rates over President Trump's objections. Mohamed El-Erian argues that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has misdiagnosed the bond selloff as a passing fever, and Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda faces competing pressure from Tokyo and Washington.
Sources: FT Home · FT Home · FT Markets · The Economist · WSJ Markets · FT World · ↑ top
A Call to Slow AI Knocks Down Tech Shares Worldwide
Latest developments: President Trump dismissed the AI warnings as a hoax Monday, September 14, saying the industry already carries enough regulation and needs only a smart president, hours after memory-chip makers and Nvidia led a global selloff touched off by Anthropic Chief Executive Dario Amodei's weekend essay against a race to the bottom in model development.
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Steve Bannon and Senator Bernie Sanders joined to demand stronger regulation as Congress began weighing its own response, and the Nasdaq pared its early losses through the session. Anthropic, the maker of Claude, told investors it expects a second straight profitable quarter as it prepares an initial public offering that could value it near $2 trillion, and the market read Amodei's plea for restraint as a threat to the earnings the buildout promises.
Sources: FT Home · WSJ Markets · FT Home · WSJ World News · The Economist · WSJ Markets · ↑ top
Pittsburgh
Weather
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Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, low 62F.
Business
New Owners Take Over Penn Brewery
Latest developments: WTAE reported Monday, September 14, that a new ownership team will run Penn Brewery, the Pittsburgh brewer that filed for bankruptcy earlier this year.
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Penn Brewery makes German-style beer in Pittsburgh and has operated under the bankruptcy filing since earlier in 2026. The change settles who controls the brewery and its taproom going forward.
Homer City Superloads Start Rolling Wednesday
Latest developments: TribLive reported Monday, September 14, that superload deliveries from the Armstrong Terminals in Gilpin to the data center project near Homer City in Indiana County will begin Wednesday, September 16, after the hauls slipped past their announced start last week.
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The oversized trucks carry turbines and other equipment weighing as much as 380 tons to the Homer City Energy Campus, where more than 1,800 construction workers are building a data center on the site of a retired coal plant. The convoys will slow traffic on roads across Armstrong, Westmoreland, and Indiana counties for months.
Woda Cooper Gets $4.85 Million From the URA
Latest developments: The Urban Redevelopment Authority board voted 4-0, with one member absent, to approve two loans totaling $4.85 million for Woda Cooper Cos.' next conversion of a downtown Pittsburgh building into apartments, WPXI reported Monday, September 14.
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Woda Cooper Cos. builds and manages affordable housing and has already worked on downtown Pittsburgh office-to-residential conversions. The URA lends city money to close the financing gaps on these projects, and this was the board's first action after the August recess in city public meetings.
Citizens Leaves the Giant Eagle for Walnut Street
Latest developments: Citizens filed with the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on September 4 to close its Shadyside branch inside the Giant Eagle at 5550 Centre Avenue and move it to a standalone storefront at 5508 Walnut Street, WPXI reported Monday, September 14.
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The bank told WPXI it is targeting late in the fourth quarter of 2026 or early 2027 for the move. The Walnut Street space last housed an Apple Store, and Citizens trades a supermarket kiosk for a larger presence on Shadyside's main shopping street.
Alcoa Nears a Data Center Sale
Latest developments: Alcoa Chief Financial Officer Molly Beerman said the Pittsburgh-based manufacturer is in talks to sell its closed Messina East smelter in Messina, New York, for use as a data center site, WPXI reported Monday, September 14.
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Alcoa shut the Messina East smelter and has looked for a buyer since. Data center developers keep buying old aluminum and coal sites for the heavy electrical connections already built into them, the same logic behind Project Phoenix, the data center that broke ground beside a former coal plant campus in Beaver County last week.
Heating Bills Climb Into Winter
Latest developments: WTAE reported Monday, September 14, that the average American household will spend $1,030 on heat this winter, an increase that arrives with household budgets already stretched.
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The forecast lands on a region that watched retail diesel pass $6 a gallon Friday, September 11, as the Middle East conflict squeezed global fuel supply. Families with no slack left in their budgets face trade-offs between heat and other bills.
be.wild.er Farm Becomes a Cooperative
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Monday, September 14, that be.wild.er, the Natrona Heights farm now in its tenth year, has converted to a cooperative.
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Small farms around the country have turned to shared ownership to spread the cost and risk of land, equipment, and labor across their workers. be.wild.er sells online and joins that shift in the Pittsburgh region.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · ↑ top
DeFoor Audits the Medical Marijuana Program
Latest developments: Pennsylvania Auditor General Timothy L. DeFoor released a performance audit Sunday, September 13, of the Department of Health's handling of the state Medical Marijuana Program.
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The Department of Health licenses the growers, processors, and dispensaries that serve Pennsylvania's registered medical cannabis patients, and the auditor general's office reviews how it runs that program. The findings bear on operators across Western Pennsylvania and on the patients who buy from them.
Around Town
PRT Closes the Downtown Light Rail This Weekend
Latest developments: TribLive reported Monday, September 14, that Pittsburgh Regional Transit will shut its light rail line between the First Avenue and Steel Plaza stations this weekend for maintenance.
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Those two stations sit on the downtown stretch that carries PRT's light rail riders between the South Hills and the North Shore. The closure takes that segment out of service for the weekend.
Eradicate Hate Summit Puts Young People Onstage
Latest developments: The Eradicate Hate Global Summit opened in Pittsburgh this week with young people leading much of the program, KDKA reported Monday, September 14.
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The summit gathers researchers, educators, law enforcement, and advocates from around the world each year in Pittsburgh to work on reducing the influence of hate. This year's agenda hands the main stage to youth participants.
Oakmont Carnegie Library Reopens Its Main Level
Latest developments: The Oakmont Carnegie Library welcomed visitors back to its main level Monday, September 14, after flood damage closed the building for nearly a week.
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Storms the week of September 1 ruined walls, flooring, and electrical systems at the borough library in Oakmont, Allegheny County, and crews have worked on the cleanup since. The rest of the building stays closed.
EPA Scraps Power Plant Carbon Limits
Latest developments: The Environmental Protection Agency moved Monday, September 14, to repeal the rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from power plants burning coal and natural gas.
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Administrator Lee Zeldin says the repeal removes billions of dollars in costs from the industry and will unleash American energy. Pennsylvania runs one of the largest coal and gas generating fleets in the country and exports power across the PJM grid, so the change reaches plants throughout Western Pennsylvania.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · TribLive · ↑ top
Penn State Clears the Way to Sell Campuses
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Monday, September 14, that legislation passed quietly in Harrisburg lets Penn State proceed with potential sales of campuses it is closing, among them Penn State Shenango and Penn State Wilkes-Barre.
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Penn State decided to shut several of its Commonwealth campuses, including Shenango in New Castle, Lawrence County. The new law governs what the university may do with those buildings and grounds once the students leave, which determines what the host communities get in their place.
Sources: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette · ↑ top
Measles Deaths Reach Three in Pennsylvania
Latest developments: TribLive reported Monday, September 14, that the Jefferson County woman who died of measles complications had several chronic respiratory conditions and is the first adult among the state's three measles-related deaths this year.
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The two earlier deaths involved infants, and a coroner confirmed last week that the virus itself caused one of them. Pennsylvania counted 676 measles cases as of Friday, September 11, the largest outbreak in the country this year.
A Sinkhole Swallows a South Strabane Fire Station Lot
Latest developments: WTAE reported Monday, September 14, that flash flooding opened a 40-foot sinkhole under a fire station parking lot in South Strabane Township, Washington County, with repairs estimated as high as $750,000.
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The collapse follows the storms that filled streets in the city of Washington and pushed the city to declare a state of emergency on Saturday, September 12. The repair bill falls on a volunteer department's home station in a township of roughly 9,000 people southeast of Pittsburgh.
Rabies Baits Drop From Helicopters This Week
Latest developments: The U.S. Department of Agriculture began distributing oral rabies vaccine baits by helicopter across Western Pennsylvania this week, WPXI reported Monday, September 14.
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The agency drops the baits each year to vaccinate raccoons and other wildlife and hold the rabies front line along the Appalachians. Residents who find the packets should leave them alone and keep pets away.
County Rebuilds Its Addiction Treatment System
Latest developments: The Allegheny County Department of Human Services announced an initiative Sunday, September 13, to restructure how the county delivers drug and alcohol treatment.
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The department funds and coordinates the providers that treat county residents for substance use disorder, and the restructuring changes how those services fit together. It touches the treatment options available to families across Allegheny County.
Shapiro Holds a 38-to-1 Cash Lead
Latest developments: PublicSource laid out Monday, September 14, the scale of Governor Josh Shapiro's fundraising advantage over Republican challenger Stacy Garrity, a 38-to-1 lead in cash on hand as of June, much of it raised outside Pennsylvania.
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Shapiro, the Democratic incumbent, faces Garrity, the state treasurer, in the November 3 election for governor. PublicSource will track contributions in the race through Election Day.
Sources: PublicSource · ↑ top
A Cool, Clear Start to the Week
Latest developments: WTAE and WPXI forecast Monday evening, September 14, another fall-like morning Tuesday with temperatures in the upper 40s and low 50s, then warmth and humidity building back toward an Impact Day later this week.
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A cold front swept the region Sunday with damaging wind, hail, and heavy rain through Allegheny, Butler, and Beaver counties. The break in the heat lasts only a couple of days.
Sources: WTAE · WTAE · WPXI · ↑ top
Events
Clothesline Sale Returns to Sewickley Academy
Latest developments: TribLive reported Monday, September 14, that Sewickley Academy's annual Clothesline Sale runs daily from Thursday, September 17, through Monday, September 21.
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The school holds the secondhand sale each year in Snyder Gym on the Sewickley Academy campus in Sewickley, Allegheny County.
Sports
Pirates (75-75)
Sun Sep 13 · Pirates 4 · Cubs 3 · Final
Up Next · Brewers @ Pirates · Tue Sep 15, 6:40 PM
Steelers (1-0, T-1st in AFC North)
Sun Sep 13 · Falcons 13 · Steelers 20 · Final
Up Next · Steelers @ Patriots · Sun Sep 20, 1:00 PM
Around the Teams
The Offense Leaves Plays on the Field
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette reported Monday, September 14, that the Steelers offense, hemmed in by penalties and missed chances in the opener, believes it sits close to connecting on the big plays it drew up for Aaron Rodgers and DK Metcalf.
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Head coach Mike McCarthy built this offense around Rodgers, Metcalf, and Michael Pittman, and the defense carried the Week 1 win over the Atlanta Falcons. The unit gets its next test at the New England Patriots.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
McCarthy Turns to New England
Latest developments: Head coach Mike McCarthy met the media Monday, September 14, on the Steelers' channel to open preparation for Week 2 at the New England Patriots, set for Sunday, September 20, at 1 p.m. ET on CBS.
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McCarthy won his first game as Steelers head coach at Acrisure Stadium against the Atlanta Falcons and now takes the team on the road for the first time. The Post-Gazette's Christopher Carter also fielded reader questions on the Steelers and Pitt in his Monday chat.
Sources: Pittsburgh Steelers (YouTube) · Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
The Bill for Porter's Standoff Comes Later
Latest developments: Head coach Mike McCarthy declined Monday, September 14, to commit to any timeline for cornerback Joey Porter Jr. to play, a day after the Post-Gazette concluded the Steelers got through the opener without him and warned that his absence will start to hurt soon.
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Porter sat out Sunday's game against the Atlanta Falcons with his contract unresolved, and sources told the Post-Gazette he is healthy enough to play. The Steelers travel to face the New England Patriots on Sunday.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · Post-Gazette Steelers · Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Greensboro's Prospects Carry a Playoff Run
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette's MiLB Monday column on September 14 reported that the Pirates' best young hitters, outfielder Edward Florentino among them, are driving a playoff run at the organization's Greensboro affiliate.
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The Greensboro Grasshoppers play in the High-A South Atlantic League and hold much of the talent the Pirates expect to promote over the next two seasons. The column tracks those prospects each week as the minor league postseason runs past the end of the major league schedule.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates · ↑ top
The Trade Deadline Comes Back to Bite the Pirates
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette's Off The Bat column argued Monday, September 14, that the Pirates' choices at this year's trade deadline should haunt the front office as the club's playoff hopes slip away.
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Pittsburgh sold at the deadline and then played well enough down the stretch to stay on the edge of the wild card race, a late push that manager Don Kelly kept alive by avoiding a sweep at Wrigley Field on Sunday. The Pirates open their final homestand at PNC Park this week.
Sources: Post-Gazette Pirates · ↑ top
Brisker's Hometown Debut
Latest developments: Safety Jaquan Brisker intercepted a pass in his first game for the Steelers on Sunday, September 13, and the Post-Gazette's notebook made it the centerpiece of the defense's day alongside Cam Heyward and kicker Chris Boswell.
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Brisker, a Western Pennsylvania native, signed with Pittsburgh this offseason after his run with the Chicago Bears, and he took the field at Acrisure Stadium for the first time as a Steeler in Mike McCarthy's head coaching debut.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Highsmith's Sack Sealed It
Latest developments: The Post-Gazette broke down late Sunday, September 13, the Alex Highsmith sack that closed out the Steelers' win over the Atlanta Falcons, the second defensive play that decided the game.
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Highsmith and T.J. Watt both drew A-plus grades in the paper's report card on the opener, with Watt's pick-six the other turning point. The two outside linebackers carried a defense that head coach Mike McCarthy plans to rotate more heavily this season.
Sources: Post-Gazette Steelers · ↑ top
Team USA
Macario's Season Ends in San Diego
Latest developments: San Diego Wave FC placed United States forward Catarina Macario on the NWSL's season-ending injury list Monday, September 14, over a continuing knee problem.
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Macario has scored for the United States women's national team since her debut in 2021, and knee injuries have repeatedly interrupted her career. The Wave now finish the NWSL season without her.
Sources: ESPN Soccer · ↑ top
Sullivan Scores Twice Before the Squad Reveal
Latest developments: Philadelphia Union midfielder Cavan Sullivan scored twice and set up another goal in a 5-0 win over San Diego on Sunday, September 13, his first two-goal game in Major League Soccer, days ahead of a United States men's roster announcement.
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Sullivan is the teenage Union midfielder United States coach Mauricio Pochettino asked fans to be patient with last week, alongside New York Red Bulls forward Julian Hall. The performance lands just as Pochettino names his next squad.
Sources: ESPN Soccer · ↑ top
Team USA Credits Stewart for the Title Run
Latest developments: ESPN reported Monday, September 14, that players and staff on the United States women's team pointed to Breanna Stewart as the force behind the fifth straight FIBA World Cup title, calling her the program's greatest winner.
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The United States beat France in the final in Germany on Sunday, September 13, a rematch of the 2024 Olympic gold medal game, with Stewart scoring 22 points under coach Kara Lawson. Spain took the bronze medal, beating host Germany 81-58.
Sources: ESPN Olympics · ↑ top
Rodman Leaves a Spirit Loss for the US Open
Latest developments: Trinity Rodman flew from the Washington Spirit's 3-0 defeat straight to Flushing Meadows to watch Ben Shelton play the US Open final, ESPN reported Monday, September 14.
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Rodman, a United States women's national team winger and Olympic gold medalist, plays for the Spirit, whose loss dropped the club in ESPN's NWSL Power Rankings as Gotham FC took over the top spot. Shelton, an American, reached his first US Open final.
Sources: ESPN Soccer · ESPN Soccer · ↑ top
Reading
- Ed Zitron — AI Is Already In Dangerous Hands. Zitron argues that AI already sits in dangerous hands, and points at the executives and investors who steer the technology today as the industry's leaders warn about future superintelligence.
- Stratechery — Pacing the Frontier, AI's Digital Limits, AI Commissars. Ben Thompson calls Dario Amodei's proposal to pace the AI frontier unrealistic and reads it as a bid for political control over who builds what.
- Cal Newport — Superintelligence is a Fairy Tale. But Chasing It Can Still Cause Harm.. Newport argues that superintelligence remains a myth, and that the industry's race toward it does real damage anyway, writing in response to Anthropic employees who said publicly that the systems they build could kill billions.
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