IJR News — today's news from every sideRachel Meyers My dad taught me something similar years ago and it is still the most reliable way in tight spots. Ranked-Choice Voting Debate Expands Across StatesPolitics — Sep 19, 2026Across Irvine, Longmont, Alaska, and Montana, advocates push ranked-choice voting as expanding voter choice and moderating outcomes, while critics warn it adds ballot exhaustion, cost, and complexity; Alaska voters also face a parallel battle over open primaries, campaign disclosures, and other election reforms, including a ballot measure to keep or repeal RCV. Montana defends the preservation of write-in rights even as election reforms and Alaska’s ballot measures reshape how votes are cast and counted.
Google infiltrates TeamPCP, disrupts attacks on 1,000 firms — Sep 18, 2026Google’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.
Short Interest Falls Across Five Stocks — Sep 9, 2026Five stocks—Replimune Group, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Frontier Group Holdings, Lucid Group, and indie Semiconductor—showed notable declines in short interest on August 14, with short floats at 43.08%, 34.79%, 39.54%, 41.01%, and 32.43% respectively and days-to-cover ranging from about 6 to 13.37. In parallel, institutional activity shifted across these names, with large players like BlackRock, State Street, UBS, and others increasing or decreasing stakes, and insider trading across the period mostly involving sales rather than purchases.
