Lummis and Tillis leave the Clarity Act to the next Congress. YouTube cuts reach for reposted Shorts clips. Every story that day, by desk. 251 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security7 stories
- Hidden Gemini Desktop setting would let Google's agent read, change and delete any Mac file
- Alleged ShinyHunters member detained in Jordan is reportedly helping the FBI find other members
- Manus agent ran attacker JavaScript from an email it had already flagged as suspicious
- Epic pauses most development for about six weeks over MyChart flaws an AI model found
- Compromised login to DTU's identity system put up to 200,000 people's records at risk
Build72 stories
- Agent budget gates must reserve units before the paid tool call runs
- Two-thirds of failed agent runs in ThinkingBox exited cleanly with the backend still wrong
- Frame-hash replays let CodeScene's agents refactor 300,000 lines of Street Fighter III for $4,000
- GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra turned public V8 patch commits into a working Chrome exploit for $1,597
- Aleph Alpha's open Kolibri model routes each token through 3.46B of its 78.1B parameters
- GPT-6 Astra cleared a WoW starting zone from packets and the server's own data files
- Zig 0.17 evaluates build.zig in a separate process from the one that runs the build
- Agent token scope decided how far the Codex branch-name injection could reach
Invest82 stories
- Toshiba puts 60 billion yen into doubling its AI data-center hard-drive capacity by FY2027
- Toshiba's $400 million plan to double hard-drive output knocks 10% off Western Digital and Seagate
- Korea treats four banks' data leaks as a problem for its whole financial industry
- Singapore hands its civil servants a free, one-match dating app as fertility falls to 0.87
- Trump's 300% tariff threat raises the price of Seoul saying no to Alaska LNG
- HD Hyundai Heavy will build and commission Taean's 500MW offshore substation on its own certified design
- Seoul shrinks bond supply by 8.5 trillion won as US 10-year yields hit their highest since 2002
- Tennessee cancels the rest of this year's executions after Christa Pike survives two pentobarbital doses
- Two more LNG carriers bring Samsung Heavy within $1.5 billion of its 2026 order target
- Hana Financial brings 2,200 finance staff to the Incheon site its data center has occupied since 2017
- KDB puts its 'Assassin(s)' film investment on the fund manager it backs
- Korea orders every bank and card firm to audit exposed systems after leaks at four lenders
- Sharon AI pays 9.95% to borrow $356m against its GPUs
- Bessent leaves the cost of AI system failures with the developers
- Scope Ratings says interest costs now drive US debt toward 160% of GDP
- Issuers and protocols have frozen about 0.2% of the $387 million taken from Bitget
- PewDiePie says OpenAI banned him twice as he trained his Ajax model on GPT-5.6 Sol outputs
- OpenPayd lists through Titan to pay for a US launch built on 43 acquired licenses
- Each crypto job listing drew about 16 applications in September, down from 67 in July
- ARK backs Cathie Wood's agent-spending thesis with $24.7 million of CoreWeave shares
- Barclays gives itself three months to put half its developers on Claude Code
- Federal judge freezes the Big Bend stretch of Trump's $46 billion border-wall programme
- Kim Yo-jong mocks Seoul and Tokyo's range estimates, says tracking was lost after missile's apex
- G7's 100-million-barrel oil release buys a short window of diesel relief
- Retiring senators Lummis and Tillis leave crypto's Clarity Act to the next Congress
- McKinsey's AI forecast needs near-pandemic rates of US career switching through 2035
- Tokenized stocks traded 11 to 15 times their outstanding value on DEXs in a year
- Grayscale's Zcash ETF would erase its net inflows within eight trading days at late-September redemption rates
Product22 stories
- US puts anti-ship missiles 62 miles from Taiwan for an 11-day exercise
- Google makes $19.99 a month the entry price for Gemini Pro
- Judge Sara Hill rules a deputy's warrantless search of Flock's cross-state network unconstitutional
- Capcom aims AI at the slow work of making Resident Evil-scale games
- YouTube cuts Shorts reach for reposted clips that carry only template edits
- Two of Taiwan's 66 F-16V jets reach Taitung after delay at Hawaii base
- Ban Flock Act would tie federal grants to states and cities banning license plate readers
Leadership25 stories
- Britain's refusal to tariff Chinese cars draws a reported 'made in Europe' threat from Brussels
- Altman warns against surrendering judgment to AI while OpenAI loses a safety leader
- UK diesel hits record 200.01p a litre, heaping 'misery' on motorists and fleets
- Tesla inches Austin robotaxi service to 11 p.m. as Musk names pets in the dark the main problem
- Merz lines up talks with both frontrunners to succeed Lagarde at the ECB