One weekend essay took about a tenth of the year's gain out of memory stocks. Every story that day, by desk. 516 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security52 stories
- MSPs say 46% of their customers now look to them for CISO-level leadership
- Amodei's call to pace the frontier drew rejections from Beijing and Trump within two days
- BambooToken moves its Windows and Linux command channel onto MQTT brokers
- JFrog says a stock Parallels Desktop install hands any local user a root shell
- Luciferus sells uncensored malware generation on the Exploit forum starting at $35 a month
- Ransomware gangs move onto the vCenter Syslog bug Broadcom patched on July 29
- Mass scanners are pulling AWS keys and Terraform state from Vite dev servers exposed with --host
- Microsoft's draft AI code of conduct blocks offensive cyberattack help outright, reserves review channel for defensive security work
- cPanel warns a single hosting account can take root on unpatched LiteSpeed Enterprise servers
- Patchable VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records on Japan's shared government platform
- Hiscox puts the UK small-firm attack rate at 38% against a 29% global average
Build157 stories
- Java 27 couples post-quantum TLS 1.3 to two newly flipped JVM defaults
- Delos Data raises more than $100M to keep inference running when a link drops
- A third bypass of the same Defender flaw landed hours after Microsoft's second fix shipped
- Verifying a WhatsApp number by MCP relays Meta's one-time code through the agent's chat
- AWS has written off the customer data that lived only in its Bahrain region
- Every agent CheatBench tested reached for a planted shortcut in at least one setting
- Reef's commit stage decides whether a learned candidate ever replaces the version serving traffic
- A 30-day retention clause routes Nvidia's sensitive work to its own Nemotron models
- A query string walks past server.fs.deny on Vite dev servers left on a public port
- Microsoft's MAI code outranks every operator rule an enterprise writes
- Digit 5's 20-hour day leaves nine minutes of slack per 108-minute cycle beyond running and charging
Invest144 stories
- Investors open talks that value OpenAI 20% above the IPO it postponed
- The failed Ethereum-Base account abstraction merge moves the cost onto wallet teams
- Software stocks rallied on Amodei's slowdown essay before Huang called it a false choice
- Factory's $5B lands at about a tenth of Cognition's mark from seven days earlier
- Sell-side unanimity on Wednesday's hike hides a 50-basis-point split over December
- Prosecutors test the Commodity Exchange Act on Robinhood engineers' $50,000 perp trades
- Standard Chartered sets 66x ARB target for 2030, betting on tokenization growth
- Washington's two AI drafts offer oversight where the Pro-Human Assembly asked for a pause
- India's new UPI fee set at 0.4%, will hit just 4% of merchant transactions, Finance Ministry says
- Waymo puts about 100 cars behind Japan's first commercial robotaxi service
- Frontier labs pledge employee-like audit access for evaluators, as a small field of third-party firms emerges
- Jack & Jill raises 2.7 times what Deel paid for its co-founder's last company
- Digital Realty's CEO points shareholders past the AI labs to a $20bn pipeline
- Grab is paying 12% of its market value in cash for control of Atome Financial
- Treasury Partners puts the equity trigger at a 5.25% ten-year Treasury yield
- Altman defers OpenAI's IPO past 2026 on safety grounds
- September's biggest Web3 exploit accounts for 2.4% of the month's DeFi losses
- Exein takes $270M at $1.7B two quarters before its first foundation model ships
- One weekend essay took about a tenth of the year's gain out of memory stocks
- Samsung co-leads EUCLYD's EUR 200m Series A against a 2028 hardware date
- Banks want "solely" struck from the CLARITY Act before Tuesday's cloture vote
- Buildots valued at about $1 billion after funding round, without disclosing revenue
Product76 stories
- Meta One Core undercuts the three app plans inside it by $2.98 a month
- Anthropic commits to one of the three steps in Amodei's pacing plan
- Apple's Reference Image mode signs a photo three times before it becomes a JPEG
- Apple drops the $50 upcharge for noise cancellation in its entry AirPods
- Gemini 3.8 Live keeps talking while it runs the tool call in the background
- Euclyd raises $230M for a 2028 agent chip built around its memory architecture
- Amodei and other AI leaders call for regulation to pace development, as critics warn a slowdown could favor China
- Salesforce's Koa model reaches pilots with two accounts of what it was trained on
- GM hands CarPlay its own window on the 2027 Silverado and Sierra
- Apple ships iOS 27 parental controls that wait for the whole family to update
- Apple folds Apple TV and Arcade into paid iCloud+ plans in more than 100 countries
- OpenAI reportedly buys camera software startup Glass Imaging for over $300M
- Volvo's bigger plug-in hybrid battery only pays off if owners actually charge it
Leadership28 stories
- Sanders and Bannon demanded AI guardrails from opposite sides of the China argument
- Supreme Court leaves the midterms running on the mail-ballot process states already use
- Kennedy Center's board votes to close the main building while the naming case is on appeal
- Trump phoned into Jensen Huang's on-stage interview to call AI safety warnings a hoax
Science59 stories
- Camera traps at 14 Senegalese sites film chimpanzees handing their tools to youngsters
- All 12 of the Parthenon's claimed optical corrections fail an Oxford mathematician's audit
- Uppsala's laser analysis finds an 18th-century blue in two patches of the 'L daVinci' Domitian
- Salk catalogs 1,067 uncharacterized microproteins in the human frontal cortex
- A timed Webb occultation shows Chariklo's inner ring gaining opacity and its outer ring losing it
- Great Salt Lake spent about 8% of the past 236,000 years as a deep lake
- Scientific American puts Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer first in line to fall to AI