McLean, Va. – September 28, 2026 -- ID.me, the digital identity wallet serving over 170 million users, has appointed Susannah Stroud Wright as Chief Legal Officer and Darragh Whelan as Executive Vice President of Engineering, expanding its executive team as the company scales AI-driven identity verification across federal and state agencies.

Shanghai – September 28, 2026 -- The9 Limited (Nasdaq: NCTY) said its mobile simulation title "The Greed of Man《大時代》" reached No. 1 in the Simulation Games category on both the Hong Kong Apple App Store and Google Play following its September 24, 2026 launch.

ZURICH – – September 28, 2026 -- A UK family would need 83 hours, or 10.4 eight-hour working days, to read all the privacy and terms documents tied to one ordinary day of digital activity, a new Web3 Foundation White Paper finds.

New York – September 28, 2026 -- Noma Security has expanded its AI and agent security platform to cover autonomous agents, MCP servers, and skills running directly on employee laptops, closing what the company calls one of the largest blind spots in enterprise AI security.

Piscataway, N.J. – September 28, 2026 -- IEEE will host the 2026 IEEE Tech Summit: Ethical AI in Budapest, Hungary, on October 1-2, gathering researchers, policymakers, and industry executives to tackle algorithmic bias, AI regulation, and data privacy standards.

Samarkand, Uzbekistan – September 26, 2026 -- Timur Turlov has been elected President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), winning a second-round runoff vote at the FIDE General Assembly in Samarkand, becoming the first Kazakh national to lead the organization.

Delray Beach, Fla. – September 25, 2026 -- The Shadow AI Risk & Governance Market is set to expand from USD 1.39 billion in 2026 to USD 8.64 billion by 2032, a compound annual growth rate of 35.6%, according to MarketsandMarkets. The 2025 baseline stood at USD 1.02 billion, underscoring rapid acceleration as enterprises confront AI tools deployed outside centrally managed IT environments.

Burlington, Vt. – September 25, 2026 -- nuHarbor has launched a new Managed Extended Detection and Response (mXDR) offering built on Splunk, targeting state and local government agencies that operate fragmented security stacks across dozens of separately procured tools.

San Francisco – September 25, 2026 -- Omneky has launched TASTE BENCH, an evaluation suite that scores whether AI-generated image and video ads are ready to run without human rework.

Waterloo, ON – September 25, 2026 -- OpenText Corporation (NASDAQ: OTEX; TSX: OTEX) has slashed the ceiling on its cash tender offer for outstanding 3.875% Senior Notes due 2028 to $300 million from $450 million, while pushing back key deadlines by one day.

OpenText lowers aggregate maximum tender amount by $150 million

The amended terms cut the Aggregate Maximum Tender Amount for the Bonds from $450 million to $300 million aggregate principal amount, according to the company's announcement modifying the Offer to Purchase dated September 23, 2026.