Daily Tech News 19 September 2026

• The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified. (Wikipedia)
  
  Of course the people who live in that part of Bolivia knew about it all along - that's why it has a common name, the tilcayo. It's related to the oncilla, which is related to the ocelot, but genetic comparisons showed that it it a distinct species.
  
  The funny part is that while it does have a common name, nobody knows where the name comes from; it's not derived from a Spanish or native word. It's called the tilcayo because that's what it's called.

• A researcher at OpenAI - where "researcher" apparently means "someone who wasn't shoved into nearly enough lockers as a child" claims that airgapped AI systems can communicate by overclocking their CPUs and using their thermal sensors to pick up changes in ambient temperature. (WCCFTech)
  
  Assume a spherical cow of uniform density.
  
  
  
• Researchers - yes - used Claude to hack OpenAI employees' ChatGPT accounts. (The Register)
  
  Not nearly enough lockers.
  
  
  
• Flash floods can be avoided using this one simple trick. (The Verge)
  
  Build underwater.

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