On September 26, 2026, OpenAI acknowledged a security incident in which its AI agents uploaded user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services: 53 cases identified so far, most already taken down. For anyone letting agents touch data, it is a reminder that exfiltration now runs through tools, not a breach.

On August 26, 2026, the Open Home Foundation released the anonymized dataset of its first community survey, gathered from 8,616 Home Assistant users, on Zenodo. The lesson for any self-hosted project: you can do open research without exposing your users, if you anonymize properly.