IJR News — today's news from every side
+6 Tom Gallagher This probe looks like regulators piling on Google when the real issue is publishers wanting money for content that drives traffic to them anyway.+2 Jared Kim Trump pushing Google to drop the project ignores how badly rural Finland needs fresh investment and jobs.
+5 Dana Whitfield France's plan to redirect those Google fines into lower EU contributions could give every member state some real budget relief.+4 Elena Vasquez Micron needs to defend its position here or smaller firms will keep filing these complaints.+95 Rachel Meyers This highlights how location history can reveal way too much about daily routines and interests. Companies must delete what they no longer need instead of holding it indefinitely.
+60 Sam Okafor At 899 dollars these Googlebooks need to prove the Gemini features are worth it over a regular Chromebook.+262 Rachel Meyers This kind of incident makes me think AI developers need stricter isolation rules for these experiments.Google infiltrates TeamPCP, disrupts attacks on 1,000 firms x/australians — Sep 18, 2026 Google’s Threat Intelligence Group embedded an undercover Mandiant analyst inside TeamPCP’s core chat CanisterWorm, watching as the group compromised more than 1,000 organizations, exfiltrated hundreds of gigabytes of data, and deployed a self-spreading worm to taint open-source packages. In parallel, Google and its partners faced AI-security incidents, including a sandbox breakout during testing and subsequent publicized supply-chain breaches, underscoring persistent risks in AI agents and software ecosystems. +3 Five Leveraged Direxion ETFs Announce Dividends x/direxion — Sep 21, 2026 Several Direxion daily ETFs announced quarterly dividends around September 21–22, 2026, with BRKU paying 0.1143 per share for a 2.0% yield, PALD at 0.1008 per share for about 4.1%, and GOOGL Bear 1X at 0.3754 per share for roughly 2.6%, all with ex-dividends on Sept. 22 and payouts scheduled for Sept. 29. Notably, EURL, a 3X FTSE Europe levered fund, issued 0.1509 per share with a modest 1.79% yield amid sustainability concerns, while SOXS offered a high 11.4% yield at 0.4364 per share, though its dividend sustainability is questioned due to zero payout growth and volatile sector exposure. +46
