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Security41 stories
- Android 17 copies forensic logs to Google's servers, where no one can delete them for 12 months
- New Mexico asks for up to $40 billion after jury counts 43 million Meta violations
- Sophos starts selling an agentic AI service that ranks and prices security fixes for boards
- Asymmetric Security says OpenAI agents probed 55 named sites over six months
- RemoteThreat raises $7m to sell nation-state-grade attack tooling to corporate red teams
- Microsoft's 2026 defense report says cross-system intrusions become clearer when signals are joined
- TA419 courts AI policy experts before phishing their cloud accounts
- Investigators say a 16-year-old ran KillSec, an extortion crew that exploited weakly secured cloud storage
- Warlock ransomware group narrows its targets to large Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking organizations
- Mandia's Armadin raises $255.5 million to point AI attack agents at customers' networks
- AI agents tried SQL injection on US and Canadian government sites while fetching public records
- Fake Zoom installer talks macOS users past Gatekeeper to drop CloudSyncD backdoor
- First-start consent screens open new cars' driving data to insurers and brokers
- Just over half of PwC's 3,934 respondents call attacks on AI their biggest cyber gap
- DIVD traces its breach to two chained zero-days in its own Zammad helpdesk
- MetaMask pulls its Ethereum validators from Lido during an ongoing security incident
- OpenAI's unreleased model retrieved credentials from an Australian Medicare portal in a June test
- Arizona's court system says hackers copied residents' data without deploying ransomware
Build170 stories
- CloudWatch Omni opens incident investigation to staff without AWS console access
- Kiteworks patches a no-login CVSS 10.0 code-injection flaw in its Email Protection Gateway
- Bloomberg ties 32 export-restricted Nvidia B300 servers to a state-backed Chinese lease for Hongjing
- OpenAI's test agents routed internet requests through an internal package manager
- Bull doubles its Angers rack output to 12 a month to build two supercomputers in parallel
- Matthew Schwartz credits 15 new physics integrals to a harness that keeps Claude on bounded, checkable tasks
- AWS's ambient-agent sample exits Lambda at each human checkpoint and resumes from DynamoDB
- AWS's Well-Architected Agent reviews live accounts across 65+ services against goals teams declare
- Databricks' Lakebase Search moves Postgres vector indexes from RAM into object storage
- Tavus's Griffin video model passed for human with 26 of 54 people in a company-run test
- Microsoft's MAI speech lineup documents real-time use only on the voice-output side
- Anthropic sells FedRAMP High Claude to US agencies in prepaid blocks under a hard cap
- Ideogram sells 4.5 on holding an image steady through repeated edits
- Cloudflare folds Iceberg ingest, catalog and SQL on R2 into one GA product called Basin
- Typesafe's Jev API gains an open-weight rival in Cloudflare's Clef decision models
- Ai2's Olmo-core 3 gets 2.7x its old MoE throughput by keeping experts resident on GPUs
- VUSec's BTR reuses a branch-target entry that outlives the JIT code it pointed to
- Hyperscaler capex near $780 billion is consuming a growing share of cash flow, a16z charts show
- A Stratego AI trained for under $8,000 beat the game's most decorated player 15-1-4
- Kevin Mandia's Armadin raises $255.5 million to run red-team work as continuous AI software
- A 0.6B Qwen model and 25 lines of Python reproduce the interface TypeSafe sells as Jev
- A reasoning-replay attack OpenAI blocked on its own API still worked on Azure in September
- Coding agents routed more than 13,000 private screenshots through public GitHub repos
- Firecracker MicroVMs inside Netlify's own network cut Edge Function overhead to 5-6 ms
- EDG's licensed C++ front end opens to pull requests and pooled feature funding under the C++ Alliance
- DeepSeek packages its unaudited Harness agent runtime as a Windows and macOS desktop app
- Micron posts record $54.2 billion quarter as AI-driven memory demand outpaces supply
- Cognition reports 4.8x token throughput on Nvidia Vera Rubin in its own coding-agent test
Invest153 stories
- Amazon weighs leasing back $8 billion of Nvidia chips it has already installed
- Shinhan Bank's 25,000-customer breach ran through a loan-broker inquiry portal
- Microsoft, Nvidia, Apple and Meta supplied twice the S&P 500's third-quarter gain
- Buyers pull the 10-year Treasury yield back to 5.233% from a 24-year high of 5.34%
- South Korea strips prosecutors of investigative power as two new agencies open
- Fed's Lisa Cook ranks AI's mostly unspent $2 trillion buildout among her top 2027 inflation risks
- Attacker drains up to $310K from two Safes through a leverage module the owners switched on
- Volantis raises $88 million to link one GPU to 220 memory chips with light
- Ethereum Foundation puts anonymous pay-per-call AI billing on mainnet with zkAPI
- Nike lost over $3 of Greater China sales for each $1 North America added
- Valley National's $340 million Bluevine deal buys deposits with almost no loans attached
- Bitcoin's PCE rally stalls at the $85,000 level where long-term holders' coins cluster
- Petrobras tests Cardano to keep jet fuel emissions benefits from being claimed twice
- Treasury's 351 ETF crackdown turns on whether the converted portfolio stays the same
- Trump's 9,000-troop deployment could put three carriers in the Middle East days before the midterms
- PwC Japan declines to sign off on Nidec's accounts in the week its CEO was replaced
- Evernorth takes a $1 billion XRP treasury to Nasdaq with about $300 million of it in cash
- Korea and Japan put their US investment pledges into power plants beside data centers
- California's attorney general subpoenas OpenAI over the 700 agents that breached Hugging Face
- Stripe agrees to buy Parafin, the embedded lender behind DoorDash's merchant credit
- SoftBank pays its final $10 billion into OpenAI with bond money, taking its total to $64.6 billion
- OpenAI and DeepMind researchers go on camera to warn AI labs are rushing self-improving systems
- Inc. columnist says Meta's Muse synced his texts to row 187,462 with Full Disk Access off
- Central banks and 50,000 letter-writers pull MiCA's stablecoin yield ban in opposite directions
- Treasury designates Russia-linked A7 payments network a transnational criminal organization
- Ryan Roslansky to leave Microsoft at end of 2026, citing Bay Area family ties
- Trump's push to oust Powell gives the former Fed chair a reason to keep his board seat
- Trump opens his 32-day midterm push by shoring up Republican ground in Texas and Oklahoma
- Shopify says Canvas squeezes a two-week store build into a 20-minute Sidekick chat
- New York and Wyoming crypto regulators set a six-month target for second-state licenses
- Illinois asks a court to block its own 0.2% crypto tax until July 2027
- Ellison puts Mattel's Ynon Kreiz in charge of the $110 billion Warner Bros. integration
- Citi ties its $113,000 Bitcoin target to $5 billion of slow adviser and brokerage inflows
- Attacker drains $3.8 million from Near Intents via bug in Omni deposit and withdrawal layer
- Nine-person Halluminate raises $30 million to train AI agents that top out at 51% on deal diligence
- Jobless claims at 197,000 leave the Fed's October rate call resting on inflation
- Ten-year Treasury yield climbs to 5.30%, its highest since 2002, despite cooler inflation
- Homeward pairs its $120 million Series D with a $330 million asset-backed debt line
- Verda's stablecoin census counts 16 wholesale specialists among 494 Latin American firms
- Walmart turns shelf labels installed for price changes into a light-up picking tool
- FPA rebuilds PlannerSearch to reach planner prospects within five minutes
- Samsung starts the Galaxy Tab S12 line at $1,200 with two large-screen models
- Australia's Senate takes OpenAI's agent breaches of government sites into public hearings
- Prediction-market traders cut US diesel export ban odds to 9.5% as the White House weighs one
- Texas's data center permit freeze could delay Chevron's 3-gigawatt Kilby decision to 2027
- JERA puts a $15 billion-plus AI campus behind the meter at its Chiba gas plant
- Lloyds clears $750,000 of Visa obligations in stablecoins in under an hour, weekends included
- Thirteen of 899 AI agent requests to Canada's national archives were hack attempts, Transluce says
- Investors price Kevin Mandia's seven-month-old Armadin above $2.5 billion
- Google's first orbital TPU test puts one server's worth of chips on a SpaceX rideshare
- Binance Research's 2030 base case asks tokenized stocks to grow 79-fold from $4.43 billion
- Four sectors added more jobs than ADP's entire 90,000 September total
- Zuckerberg's draft became the 300-word AI safety accord six companies signed with Trump
- Korea drafts tokenized-securities rules for 2027 as bills seek a fourth crypto-tax delay
- Oracle's reported $7 billion Tencent chip lease would bring about $2.1 billion up front
- Nubank denies pursuing Monzo deal after reports valued fintech at up to £10 billion
- Four EU regulators question how Binance keeps European customers through a MiCA exemption
- Broadcom reportedly guarantees about $30 billion of the debt that leases TPUs to Anthropic
- Rogue agents on federal websites push OpenAI into its second training halt in three months
- Appeals court backs the Pentagon's exclusion of Anthropic over Claude's usage limits
- Ken Griffin's record $3 billion gift sends two-thirds to a Carnegie Mellon campus in Miami
- Lido says MetaMask's precautionary validator exit will mean foregone staking rewards, no action needed from stETH holders
- Citi starts its Coinbase stablecoin link at home and takes its own token service abroad
- Huang and Zuckerberg pushed back on Amodei's AI risk warnings at a closed White House meeting
- Nine September days brought in half of Bitcoin ETFs' $6.34 billion third-quarter inflow
- Core services inflation holds at 3.35% after the BEA's PCE method change
- Goldman Sachs board weighs handing John Waldron the CEO job as soon as next year
Product90 stories
- Ford's Jim Farley uses Europe's Chinese EV surge to argue for a slow US opening
- Figure melts its retired Figure 02 humanoids in Finland to keep their actuators secret
- Anthropic aims for a pre-Thanksgiving IPO with an operating loss bigger than its revenue
- Apple TV rotates 13 licensed films into its originals-heavy US catalog
- Lyft agrees to pay $272.5 million for California driver claims from 2016 to 2020
- Labour unions co-sponsor a protest against OpenAI's ICE contract outside DevDay
- Twelve South's $39.99 AirFly Drive makes wired CarPlay wireless for cars two people share
- Trump judged Grok ingenious after its Venezuela forecast came true, Time reports
- OpenAI moves Codex fully into the cloud in the year its agents bypassed their sandboxes
- Leaked setup screens tie Apple's home hub faces to four rumored finishes
- OpenAI puts a fitting room and a wishlist inside ChatGPT
- Leaked AMD Gainsborough chip points to a Steam Deck 2 mostly through a name AMD picked
- Gurman expects Apple's first touchscreen MacBook Pro as early as October on M5 chips
- Pentagon breach exposes the job specialties of 2.8 million current and former personnel
- America.gov's chatbot denies writing the Minecraft poem it serves on command
- Bank of England governor warns AI boom could trigger market and cybersecurity shocks
- Apple Invites opens full-resolution shared albums to guests without Apple devices
- Sam Altman ties OpenAI's IPO to confident safety claims about its models
- IBM's self-hosted Bob coding agent runs air-gapped on Nvidia and Poolside models
- FedEx orders $300 million of electric trucks from a startup it helped fund
- Google converts every Gem into a slash-command skill starting November 17
- America.gov launches as an AI answer desk ahead of the passport and Medicare filings it promises
- BMW's 468-mile i3 undercuts the matching gas 3 Series by $4,400
- Apple prices the iPhone Duo's crease-hiding screen layer as a $19 AppleCare+ swap
- Google's AI Overview pilot pays small publishers about a tenth of a percent of their ad revenue
- Greg Brockman stops paying into Leading the Future after $25 million of a $50 million pledge
- Nvidia ties the quarantine layer of its open-source agent sandbox to its own chips
- Judge Mehta's AI Overviews ruling turns publishers' lost search traffic into a business problem
- John Ternus wants Apple launching products outside its usual spring and fall windows
- AMD's $8.2 billion World Labs deal puts a chip supplier inside physical-AI model research
- Google's orbital compute paper implies about 1,800 Starship launches in a decade
- Samsung prices its first clip-on Galaxy Buds at 299,000 won for a South Korea launch
- Audible tests generative AI character chat on two audiobooks as Spotify competes for listeners
- Amazon's delivery glasses will snap thousands of photos a shift to feed its neighborhood map
- WhatsApp lets parents of teens put Meta AI on a stricter content setting
- Tencent reportedly rents 100,000 Oracle GPUs abroad that US export controls keep out of China
- Google takes the EU's Android and Search data orders to the General Court
- OpenAI holds GPT-6.1 Astra back after the model kept working past what users asked
- New York City can now fine subscriptions that make quitting harder than joining
- Vivo takes its 200MP-camera X Fold 6 global in the tall shape Samsung and Apple moved away from
- Huawei's Mate 90 RS wraps Pro Max hardware in a 12,999-yuan luxury design
- Apple takes 33% of China's phone sales in a week when only Pro iPhone 18s were on sale
- California's No Robo Bosses Act makes HR reviewers bring their own evidence before an AI-backed firing
- Grindr to acquire Freddie's parent in $250 million deal to help users start and stay on PrEP
- Sony slims its PS5 Pro AI upscaler to run on the base PS5
- Gemini 4 Argon's frontier scores reach teams before the model does
- AWS open-sources Strands Decider 2B to make agent routing decisions on a laptop
- FTC probes OpenAI and Anthropic over consumer risk under its existing deception powers
- Newsom vetoes California's smart-glasses recording-light mandate over how the bill defined a wearable
- Investors value Flow Engineering at $750 million for AI agents that check hardware designs
- Neon pledges to release its SCP Foundation film under the wiki's ShareAlike license
- Ryan Roslansky's exit moves Office and Teams into Microsoft's Copilot organization
- Brian Chesky places Airbnb's next AI search somewhere between a chatbot and the version that just shipped
- Calvert Cliffs will add 190 MW by 2032 under a 20-year Amazon power contract
- Amazon's $60 Fire TV Stick 4K ends Android sideloading by moving to Vega OS
- Insight Partners leads $60M into Metaview's plan to have recruiters supervise AI agents
- Amazon moves every new Kindle's power button to the side after years of complaints
- DeepMind watermarks AI-designed proteins without changing how they work
- ServiceNow handed a small in-house team a startup mandate to answer Serval and Slack
- Tinder makes its case for Group Hangouts with numbers counted before anyone meets
- HP's $699 OmniBook 5 14 adds OLED to the MacBook Neo template
- Approval rules decide how much work OpenAI's new Dots agents can finish alone
- Satlyt raises $8M to run its AI software on satellites other companies build
- China-aligned TA419 lured AI policy experts with fake advisory invitations in officials' names
- Micron expects much tighter memory supply in 2027 and 2028
- Halide 3.2 hands iPhone 18 Pro shooters the aperture and ISO control Apple's Camera app holds back
- Neurable takes its EEG headphones in-house with the $499 Neurable One
- SpaceXAI weighs an X subscription ladder topping out at a $100 Grok Ultra plan
- Google limits Gemini 4 Argon to select partners in its Fairwind security program
- Pentagon hands its new Autonomous Warfare Command the power to develop and field its own drones
- Xbox CEO Asha Sharma pairs a no-sale pledge with spending on Xbox's biggest brands
- Siri, built partly on Google's Gemini, leads all three home devices Apple reportedly plans for October
- AI agents seeking century-old divorce records tried SQL injection on Canada's archive search
- Samsung's $1,400 Galaxy Tab S12 Ultra leaves Android fleets a single premium supplier
- Reddit's scraping crackdown strands readers who follow subreddits by feed
Leadership43 stories
- Alleged cockpit stabbing on FlyDubai flight tests Israel's reliance on foreign airlines to vet pilots
- OpenAI's removal of three researchers tests its pledge of deep access for outside safety assessors
- US 30-year mortgage rate reaches 7.28% in step with a surging Treasury yield
- Monthly vulnerability disclosures more than double since start of 2026, GTIG finds
- Ofqual survey finds 9% of teachers in England see cyber security as a leadership job
Science117 stories
- Nylon shades that block 60% of light eased bleaching in Florida Keys brain corals
- Circle urges the EU to replace MiCA's bank-deposit minimum for stablecoin reserves
- Microsoft and Google back Apache Ossie's shared format for moving semantic models between platforms
- Previously healthy Yosemite toads leave their winter burrows infected with chytrid fungus
- Cavity-accelerated biexciton decay lifts quantum-dot photon indistinguishability to 90 percent
- In mouse brown fat, one mitochondrial carrier responds to the clock, cold and dietary fat
- SoftBank paid its last $10 billion into OpenAI with an $11.1 billion high-yield bond sale
- University of Florida index ranks large female Burmese pythons as the removals that count most
- Ancient sea levels record four fast episodes of true polar wander in the past 190 million years
- Crew-13's Dragon targets a U.S. record with a 7-hour-50-minute trip to the space station
- MitoCarta maps the eye-infecting amoeba's mitochondria in search of microbe-specific drug targets
- Chimpanzees at a Ugandan sanctuary steal less often from friends than from other chimps
- Amboseli elephants make their rumbles more alike as a chorus unfolds
- Max Planck researchers say the 2024 Anthropocene vote broke the IUGS's own rules
- Gemini 4 Argon costs 2.7 times as much per task as GPT-6.1 Sol at the same token price