Tech & AI News Roundup — October 3, 2026, 1:00 AM UTC

Quick links to what's actually happening in AI, tech, and IT right now — curated from real reporting, not rewritten, so you can go read the full story wherever it's genuinely worth your time.

Meta wants your next gadget to be Muse-infused

Meta wants Muse in your TV and your toaster, so it's giving the code away for free. — TechCrunch

Sanders introduces bill to ban the federal government from using Flock

The proposed legislation would extend to all automotica license plate readers. — TechCrunch

Someone got Doom in an SQL database

1,300 lines of SQL querying renders accurate bitmapped views of Hell at 35 fps. — Ars Technica

Apple will limit Mac disk access as AI agents ‘substantially’ increase risk

Apple will add new limits for "full disk access" on Mac in response to risks posed by AI agents, as reported earlier by TechCrunch. In an update on Friday, Apple says it's rolling out new controls to "ensure that users who genuinely wish to grant an app this extraordinary level of access can only do so with very explicit user action." The change comes just weeks after Inc's Jason Aten found that M — The Verge

Sling TV drops its one-day cable passes

Dish-owned Sling TV will no longer be offering its Sling Pass feature that allowed people to buy a single day of cable TV programming at a time, as reported by The Desk. The feature was announced last year and offered a day pass, a weekend pass, and a week-long pass option to be able to watch channels like ESPN and CNN without a full-month cable subscription. But soon after it launched, Disney and — The Verge

Lyft settles landmark driver misclassification lawsuit for $272.5M

Critics say workers are still owed far more. — Ars Technica

Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar, involves the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Antino. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster — The Hacker News

Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an — The Hacker News