NetScaler attackers tunnel into victims' internal networks. Attackers stage a RAT lure on chatgpt.com itself. Every story that day, by desk. 598 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security57 stories
- Google gives vetted defenders a Gemini 4 Argon build without cyber guardrails
- FTC confirms it is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI developers over consumer risks
- Treasury sanctions 10 over Ploutus ATM jackpotting it ties to Tren de Aragua
- OpenAI says a distillation campaign got its models to decrypt their own protected reasoning
- Graphite spyware maker Paragon heads to Nasdaq at a $1.25 billion valuation
- WatchGuard's BOVPN over TLS bug gives the far-end server root on connecting Fireboxes
- Truffle Security finds 543,699 live credentials left public on GitHub for a median 784 days
- Phishing campaign uses signed MSP360 installers to plant ScreenConnect as a backup channel
- One phishing click let attackers copy over 150,000 foster-care reports from Arizona court backups
- Microsoft puts a Linux container runtime on Windows laptops with an Intune off switch
- CISA warns a single unauthenticated request can root MikroTik RouterOS below 7.24
- Crafted emails give attackers shells on Zimbra servers running SNMP notifications
- Attackers reach admin on Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager by encoding one URL character
- MI5 warning puts UK academics still working with CGTRI within reach of espionage law
- Google traces most of 2026's exploitation growth to fast n-day weaponization
- Entra ID sign-in pages will run only Microsoft-hosted scripts from mid-October
- Cloudflare's planned certificate authority targets Q1 2027 for post-quantum Merkle Tree Certificates
- A quarter of security staff polled by Swimlane say AI has limited their skill-building
- AI coding agents posted 13,000 company images to developers' public GitHub repos, Glow says
- Bitget's $387.5 million theft began with zero-days in two of its security appliances
- Ransomware at Tokyo rail operator Keio reaches the group's hotel business
- NetScaler attackers tunnel into internal networks with a new Python proxy
- China-nexus UAT-11587 runs its Antino backdoor through Outlook and OneDrive
- Signal's new on-device backups restore across five platforms under one recovery key
- Attackers stage a RAT lure on the real chatgpt.com using a Custom GPT
- Trump's AI accord leaves model safety checks to the model makers
- OpenSSL patches a DTLS flaw that sends heap memory to unauthenticated peers
- Citrix's NetScaler shipped a preauth DTLS overflow reachable in its default state
- Ransomware tooling turns up in weather OT at South Africa's air traffic operator
Build120 stories
- Salesforce agrees to buy Listen Labs to run real and simulated customer interviews in its CRM
- OpenAI and Synopsys build GPT-Synopsys to run chip-design tools in an agent loop
- Cohere says Embed 5 Fast keeps 98.4% of Pro's retrieval score when querying a Pro index
- Factory's CEO says a board observer leaked to Cognition before becoming its revenue chief
- Google publishes Gemini 4 Argon's token prices before most teams can call the model
- ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22 billion in a $300 million employee share sale
- Gemini Skills reach Google Workspace through an administrator's Gemini Beta setting
- Nvidia's board adds a record $150 billion to its share buyback
- AWS embeds DuckDB in Aurora PostgreSQL to query Iceberg and Parquet in S3
- Attackers chain three JFrog Artifactory flaws to mint their own admin tokens
- Microsoft 365 Copilot now draws business context from Fabric IQ by default
- DeepSeek's Ascend ports swap a CUDA dependency for Huawei's CANN
- Cloudflare opens a closed beta that bills AI agents per request over HTTP 402
- Florida asks a judge to ban ChatGPT's human-like framing and 'conversation prolongation'
- Firefox 157 ships Mozilla's Nightly-tested redesign to every desktop and mobile user
- Anthropic says a freely downloadable model builds exploits nearly as well as its restricted tool
- OpenClaw Enterprise borrows Kubernetes' control-plane split to govern persistent agents
- EmDash 1.0 moves plugin vetting from manual review to a site owner's signed allowlist
- One model string moves Vercel AI Gateway traffic to Claude Sonnet 5.5
- NVIDIA moves agent policy enforcement onto a separate chip in the week OpenAI's Dots went always-on
Invest163 stories
- MSCI's own simulation drops Strategy and Metaplanet as non-operating companies
- Salesforce pays 67 times revenue for Listen Labs and its 50-million-person research panel
- Robinhood picks its own Bitstamp over Lighter for US crypto perpetuals
- SEC proposals give advisors more room to take a share of client capital gains
- Arizona appeals court throws out a 10.5-year sentence shaped by an AI avatar of the victim
- Flow Engineering's $750 million valuation leans on customer signal from Rivian and other clients
- China's datacenter fleet tops 24GW in SemiAnalysis's building-level count
- Hegseth hands the Pentagon's 120-day capability-gap study to the heads of SpaceX and Anduril
- US second-quarter growth revised up to 2.2%, fueled by consumer spending, AI investment, and stock-market wealth effects
- SEC's new pre-IPO fraud cases trace investor money away from the deals it was raised for
- Kalshi's $40 billion round prices the prediction market at 20 times its revenue run-rate
- Two phrases will decide what California's AI workplace laws cost employers
- Fundsz victims hold a $15.7 million claim inside the CFTC's $31 million default judgment
- Micron plans $25 billion of first-half capex for a memory shortage it expects to deepen through 2028
- DogeOS's Dogecoin testnet rests its bridge on validators and a trusted enclave
- Battery Ventures puts $40 million behind Miter's push beyond construction payroll
- Grindr bets up to $320 million that PrEP care can match its dating app
- Stand With Crypto answers the 49-50 Clarity Act defeat with three Senate endorsements
- Husted's data-center ratepayer bill dies 57-43 in the Senate after passing the House 417-3
- America.gov's new chatbot recites an unclaimed 1,800-word rewrite of Minecraft's End Poem
- Gracy Chen measures Bitget's odds of recovering $388 million against Bybit's 3.5%
- Base's Cobalt upgrade has the chain itself hold traders' private conditional swaps
- ElevenLabs doubles its valuation to $22 billion on a sale of 1.4% of its stock
- CFTC tries to settle its prediction-market fight with the states by redefining swaps
- MI5's first standalone Espionage Alert says China institute with MSS ties funded work by 100-plus UK academics
- BMW will use agentic AI to cut a fifth of its managers by mid-2027
- OpenAI says it disrupted Moonshot-linked users trying to extract its models' protected reasoning
- Amazon's new Vega-built Fire TV stick gets the Alexa+ hub after Hisense and TCL sets
- FTC plans to compel testimony from OpenAI, Anthropic and METR over agents that exceeded their scope
- AMD's nearly 30% September run briefly lifted its market value past $1 trillion
- Bitget's hackers push $3.9 million of stolen ZEC into Zcash's untraceable Ironwood pool
- Bitcoin gains 0.9% after August core PCE comes in at 3.0% against 3.3% expected
- Dangote's $16 billion Lamu refinery needs neighbors' crude that Uganda wants to refine at home
- Netanyahu says a FlyDubai pilot stabbed a colleague before the Israel-bound jet dropped 16,000 feet
- Former NCA officer's £1.81m order prices each recovered bitcoin at what all 50 were worth in 2017
- Macron and Sanchez welcome a UK return that Burnham has only floated
- OpenAI shelves GPT-6.1 Astra after the model regressed on alignment against its predecessor
- AllUnity's fourth stablecoin chases dollars while its euro token sits near $400,000
- UAE security chiefs join the first high-level Saudi talks since the Yemen split
- Kinzinger's $823 from bets on his own pardon draws a CFTC inquiry, Politico reports
- Altcoin deposits to exchanges jump 160% in two weeks to their highest count since October 2025
- UK crypto firms that file by February 2027 can keep operating while the FCA decides
- ETF buyers carried bitcoin to a 6% gain in a month the dollar rose nearly 2%
- Mastercard gives card issuers AI scores to find suppliers who will take cards over checks
- Bitcoin ETFs' $3.1 billion nine-day streak turned their year's net flows positive
- Bitcoin's two-week range pits $3 billion of ETF buying against the highest Treasury yields since 2007
- Suspected North Korean hackers have hidden about 1% of Bitget's $387.5 million loss in Zcash
- Olympus Partners collects two-thirds of Accelevation's $540 million IPO
- French harmonised inflation of 3.4% tops every forecast in a Reuters poll of 19 analysts
- Israeli designations supply most of the wallets in a Senate report's 84% Tether finding
- DeepSeek gives away an Ascend 950 version of the toolkit it built for Nvidia chips
- Palo Alto Networks built a service on the Anthropic model that found 75 flaws in its own products
- America.gov's chatbot began refusing election questions while Trump was still launching it
- Florida wants an outside party to decide when OpenAI can resume training its top models
- Coinbase's new clearinghouse stops short of the leveraged contracts that dominate crypto volume
- OpenAI's $1.4 trillion ask would mark up its biggest backers' stakes by about two thirds
- Meta pitches its Muse AI agent to the 200 million small business owners on its platforms
Product47 stories
- Factory's CEO accuses an advisor turned Cognition executive of sharing confidential information
- Musk, Luckey and Gingrich have until 28 January 2027 to name the military's next technologies
- Restate raises $20 million to take its durable execution runtime to San Francisco
- Trump orders federal agencies to write "Super Intelligence" in place of AI
- Oura delays its $2.2bn IPO as shares reportedly head for the low end of its range
- Nonprofit uses California's AB 316 to pin the Hugging Face hack on OpenAI
- OpenAI cancels GPT-6.1 Astra after it got better at finishing tasks and worse at asking first
- Meta's Edits Assistant turns a creator's Instagram retention and share data into posting advice
- Google prices the Fitbit Air in India about 47% above its $99 US tag
- One 'Allow Always' tap let Meta's Muse agent hand a seller's address to a Marketplace buyer
- Sonos's $449 Ace Ultra can pull music off any Sonos speaker over Wi-Fi
- Bank credit supplies two-thirds of the $663M GMI Cloud raised to expand GPU rentals
- Sonnet 5.5 comes within two points of Opus 5.5 at half the per-token price
- Samsung's SmartTag 3 lets the iPhone owners in a Galaxy household help find lost things
- Speaker clicks on some iPhone 18 Pro units persist through iOS 27.0.1 and phone swaps
- Anthropic spent about $1.60 on compute for each dollar of revenue in 2025, leaked prospectus shows
- $200 ChatGPT Pro seats lose half their Codex compute on October 30
- OpenAI's 10-cent GPT-6.1 Sol price covers only cached input
Leadership57 stories
- Gemini 4 Argon ties two rivals on a leading AI index while some Google staff doubt its coding
- Trump pairs $500 HealthCare.gov fee refunds with a letter selling his health record before the midterms
- Meta's AI data centers test how far the federal research tax credit can stretch
- Newsom signs laws barring California employers from relying on AI to fire workers
- Paramount names Mattel's Ynon Kreiz co-CEO as a judge clears its $81 billion Warner deal
- FTC's rogue-agent probe extends to the group OpenAI and Anthropic used to investigate agent incidents
- Oracle signs on as the fourth hyperscaler to run NetApp's Ontap storage natively
- DoorDash moves checkout into Apple Messages for 20,000 pilot users
- Treasury expects automatic Trump Accounts to draw billions more a year from donors
- UK employers' tech hiring plans run into a cyber workforce that grew 2% in a year
- Ken Griffin's record $3 billion gift funds a Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami built around grand challenges
- Burnham pledges 45-day work placements for young people, with eye on Milburn's NEETs report
Science154 stories
- Anglo-Saxon pennies found near the Vatican suggest the English spent their own coin in part of Rome
- Volunteer excavations on Lismore uncover the early monastery of Lios Mòr
- Moon occults Jupiter before dawn on Oct. 6 for eastern North America
- Four mummies buried beside a Wari temple reopen the question of whether the Wari conquered the Nasca
- Chalmers AI scientist designs and interprets its own brewer's yeast experiments
- Synchrotron scans find gills in Westlothiana, the fossil long cited as the earliest land-adapted amniote
- Divers raise 10,500-year-old cut timber from a sunken Mesolithic shore in Lake Arendsee
- Stripe-owned Bridge issues Open Standard's OUSD stablecoin natively on four blockchains
- Speech clock trained on 2,928 Spanish speakers rates cognitively impaired people as older
- Ball-and-socket joints let each oarfish fin ray swivel in a full circle
- Adult skull fragment from Drimolen backs a 2-million-year date for Homo erectus in South Africa
- Oldenburg physicists cross two laser pulses to reach electron states known only from theory
- Restoring brain blood flow reversed autism-linked behaviours in adult mice
- Super El Niño's Kelvin wave could lift California sea levels by up to 30 centimetres
- DeepMind's SynthIDBio embeds a detectable watermark in AI-designed proteins without loss of function
- Self-play system Ataraxos outplays top-ranked human Stratego players on a smaller training budget
- Blood-cancer patients who ate more sugar on antibiotics lost more gut microbiome diversity
- Butterfly wing patterns throw off predator strikes with a barber-pole motion illusion
- Filmed live without oxygen, Asgard archaea crawl on protrusions that actin inhibitors stop
- Lilly's amylin add-on pushes tirzepatide weight loss to 23 percent among patients who stayed on it
- Middle-aged adults on creatine gained lean tissue and strength without a structured workout plan
- Einstein Probe's minutes-long X-ray flash hints at a magnetar born in a neutron-star merger
- Romanian physicists image lead bricks with laser-made muons for the first time
- Earth snow physics shrinks the dust estimate for Mars's north polar ice from 25 to 3 percent