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Security26 stories
- ClickFix hides its payload in the browser cache before the victim pastes anything
- Malwarebytes releases a free paste-in checker for suspected scam links
- Dell patches unauthenticated root flaw CVE-2026-86360 in its PowerEdge update tool
- Milk Dragon phishing kit relays shoppers' 3D Secure codes from fake brand discount shops
- US arrest removes the alleged author of Ploutus from a $5.4 million ATM jackpotting ring
- ClingSTUN backdoor turns vulnerable Linux devices into proxies that check in through public STUN servers
- Free RemoveMacAI tool deletes 12 GB of Apple Intelligence models from macOS 27
- Healthcare cybersecurity bill that lapsed in 2024 clears the Senate by unanimous consent
- Out-of-band Exchange Server patch closes a flaw that exposes colleagues' mail to signed-in attackers
- OpenAI ties ChatGPT ads to purchase tracking through LiveRamp, Tealium and Hightouch
- China-based actor targets U.S. Rejetto HFS servers through a forgeable admin cookie
- Attackers used hijacked Nikkei accounts to send 9,000 phishing emails to staff and sources
Build73 stories
- Connected-product makers now have 24 hours to report exploited flaws under the EU Cyber Resilience Act
- Reka's 19B Rho-1 folds video generation and robot actions into one shared context
- Bedrock serves Z.ai's 753B-parameter GLM 5.3 to eligible enterprise customers
- OpenAI opens its 28-day Codex pledge by speeding GPT-6 Astra and Sol to about 50 tokens a second
- Card-spend data puts 29 of the 50 top-spending AI vendors off a16z's traffic charts
- Reflection sells Beam to sovereign-AI buyers on a 3-to-4x inference compute claim
- Instinct opens its AI agent's group chats to friends who have no account
- Modder DallasGrave splits RTX 5090 power across two added 8-pin connectors
- Wikimedia ties proxy attempts on its citation tool and Etherpad to suspected OpenAI agents
- OpenAI makes textGrain watermarking opt-in for API customers everywhere
- SWK Energie's gamer tariff trades a higher fixed charge for cheaper kilowatt-hours
- Finland's permit agency questions Google's operator over 300 hectares of felled forest
- 32GB overtakes 16GB as the most common gaming PC memory size on Steam
- Franchise games and free-to-play item sales carry Steam toward its first $20 billion year
- Pentagon's removal of Claude ran past Hegseth's six-month deadline
- GitHub's ReviewBench grades AI code reviewers against 219 public pull requests
- Hark's terms let its assistant read connected email and make authorized purchases
- Anthropic's referral of a user's Claude threats to police ends in a Florida felony charge
- Google halts product reports to its open-source bug bounty after a flood of invalid AI submissions
Invest171 stories
- South Korea funds about 69% of Doosan Robotics' 98.9 billion won plan for AI chips and nuclear welding robots
- Doosan ships SpaceXAI the first of 12 gas turbines it has contracted to US buyers
- Better Markets says the CFTC lacks the investor-protection mandate to police retail crypto leverage
- Polymarket retires its old data API nine days before new markets tentatively move to V2
- DeepSeek's second round prices the lab at about 75 times its $1 billion revenue run rate
- Ethereum puts Sepolia validators under 200 million gas blocks, 3.3 times the old ceiling
- Samsung Electro-Mechanics books 290 billion won of AI-server capacitors for 2027 delivery
- Korea puts 28 police officers and its science ministry on a breach at seven financial firms
- Rain files for a stablecoin trust bank three days after community bankers sued to stop new charters
- Hyundai Glovis moves its reactor-powered car carrier from design approval into a Korea-US feasibility study
- Heavier spending per visitor drives most of Seoul's 59.9% jump in foreign card payments
- OKX pays up to 10% to pull emerging-market savings into dollar stablecoins
- Moonshot's last private round values it at about 167 times revenue ahead of a Hong Kong IPO
- LG rides a startup's CubeSat to test five off-the-shelf parts from three affiliates in orbit
- Google reportedly nears a $1 billion Constellation nuclear deal days after Amazon's 690 MW contract
- Solana Foundation open-sources the settlement method behind a $50 million Galaxy Digital note arranged by J.P. Morgan
- A 48-point drop in Fed hike odds fails to stop the 10-year yield's climb to a 2002 high
- Nvidia and Sapphire add about $15 million to Reactor, a startup that runs other labs' world models
- U.S. 10-year Treasury yield climbs to 5.349% amid inflation data and European political turmoil
- Compound's Proposal 612 would hand COMP voters a ten-day veto over treasury moves
- Nokia's CEO says customers would build AI data centers twice as fast if memory and power allowed
- US bombers leave RAF Fairford for home bases after a threat Trump ties to Iran
- Russia quarantines dozens over a Siberian lab death it says was not plague
- Trump's 24-cent red diesel tax break lands on a stockpile at a record seasonal low
- Strive buys 2,000 more bitcoin with its Sept. 30 stack about $117 million below cost
- Nvidia, Microsoft and Meta supplied nearly half the S&P 500's gain against multiyear-high yields
- Nscale heads for the NYSE with 2.5% of its $103.4 billion contract book active
- Morgan Stanley ties its $300 SpaceX target to Starship Flight 15 and late-October earnings
- London court weighs how much moderation data Ofcom can force from Meta, TikTok and X
- Korea's science ministry tries to line up five AI chip startups to meet AMD's Lisa Su
- Korea pays its first $2.4 billion U.S. investment out of foreign exchange reserves
- Mega-cap tech carries the Nasdaq to a record against a 5.31% 10-year yield
- Brazilian stocks and the real price in a Bolsonaro runoff win before October 25
- Ex-OpenAI researcher tells New York's council that AI labs may miss their own safety failures
- Modern Treasury asks the OCC for a trust bank to hold its payment clients' stablecoins
- Valon's $2.3 billion valuation works out to about 11.5 times its contracted servicing revenue
- Fairshake puts $1 million apiece behind six House incumbents expected to keep their seats
- Reflection AI pitches Beam as a US open model level with China's GLM-5.2
- Wikimedia says 'rogue' OpenAI agents may have helped cause a partial Wikidata outage in May
- ZachXBT staked $349.7K of his own money to pose as a client of North Korea's launderers
- Deblock, Lyzi and Waltio chiefs ask France to tax swaps from crypto into stablecoins
- Aave's 4.5% GHO borrow rate aims to help refill its depleted USDC module as borrowers swap in stablecoins
- China's self-custodied stablecoins turn over 33.2 times a year, Chainalysis finds
- C.H. Robinson's $5.8 billion RXO purchase rests on at least $300 million of synergies
- Bitcoin rallied through the Fed's first hike since 2023 on a $6 billion ETF flow swing
- Former Groq engineers ask Delaware to treat Nvidia's $17 billion license as a sale of the company
- Payroll revisions shift the case for another Fed hike onto inflation
- CFTC proposes a narrower crypto exchange license built on its power over leveraged trades
- Ricketts takes Trump's rally help while urging the White House to drop its beef import plan
- Basware buys Trustpair to check the supplier bank accounts behind approved invoices
- BlackRock's IBIT draws $450 million in a week when all US bitcoin ETFs net $241 million
- Goldman's 'largely unchanged' data-center forecast cuts 2027 capacity additions by more than a quarter
- Bitmine has staked ether equal to 4.15% of Ethereum's supply
- Stripe plans stablecoin cards in more than 100 countries by year-end under Privy's Henri Stern
- LG wins a multiyear order to cool 5 gigawatts of North American AI data centers
- RobCo's employee share sale values the Munich robot maker above $1 billion
- Strategy puts six times as much cash into STRC buybacks as into bitcoin
- Partners Banka keeps three-quarters of the 2% markup on bitcoin that Anycoin holds
- Visa's survey puts Asia Pacific stablecoin intent at nearly three times last year's use
- FAA ruling on a 737 Max software bug puts the Max 10 back in line for certification
- Visa's Abu Dhabi blockchain pact with ADI Foundation stays at the memorandum stage
- Bessent retreats to 'you win over time' as the 30-year Treasury yield reaches 5.683%
- Yemeni government forces claim Bab el-Mandeb as oil holds near $100 on a closed Hormuz
- OPEC+ freezes November quotas with core output 5 million barrels a day below pre-war levels
- Plume wraps Fidelity's actively managed bond ETF in a vault that adds duration and credit risk onchain
- Katerini's AI club allegedly recruited members for an $8 million Greek crypto pyramid
- Altman's 'close partner' post adds about $2.5 billion to Cerebras after a 20% slide
- Musk's Terafab courts TSMC for Texas chipmaking months after naming Intel its first partner
- Metaplanet spends $73 million proving to creditors it will sell its bitcoin
- Metaplanet hands its bitcoin buying to preferred stock under a 10% borrowing cap
- Sanchez takes Spain's defeated housing decrees to a November 29 election
- Daewoo E&C's new CEO promises pickier bidding in the same speech that floats acquisitions
- Bloomberg Terminal now streams prices from Hyperliquid's $18 billion perpetuals market around the clock
- Kelsier Ventures' LIBRA wallets shrink to $2 million from a stash that included $100 million in USDC and SOL
- Woori Bank hedges a UK borrower's 70 million pound swap on its own London book
- AMRO lifts Korea's 2027 growth forecast by more than twice its 2026 upgrade
- OFAC puts two French charities on the screening lists of US crypto exchanges over Hamas funding
- France's widest bond spread since 2011 drags the euro to a 17-month low
- DBS rests its case against an AI bubble on Nvidia's 17x forward earnings multiple
- More than half of Gen Z investors moved investing money into sports bets that lose every month
- Bitcoin stalls under its $87,400 high a second time as futures leverage rebuilds
- Zcash's NU7 puts a tentative Nov. 5 deadline on ZEC left in Sprout
Product57 stories
- Apple will require iPhone Duo screenshots on every App Store submission from April 2027
- Nscale's IPO filing shows just 2.5% of its $103.4 billion in contract value is active
- W Group puts $400 million behind SignSplit's wager that AI developers will pay for consented data
- Google, JPMorgan, Weaviate and two governments shipped the same SSRF flaw in their MCP servers
- Texas cities set their own price on police Flock records, up to $2.3 million
- TikTok brings one-click checkout and an AI shopping agent into the For You feed
- Lego prices its $170 Joker wall art at roughly the per-brick rate of a $30 Batmobile
- Utah lets Nolla Health's AI write first acne prescriptions as physician review tapers to a 10% sample
- Russia puts 200 people under medical watch over a plague-lab death it calls pneumonia
- Apple's third iOS 27.2 beta leaves app teams testing three iOS builds before iPhone Duo ships
- Ghost asks $3,499 for a dedicated box that keeps personal AI agents running
- Green Dot extends Apple Cash's ID check to every reload starting November 9
- Pentagon says it has stopped using Anthropic's Claude months after labelling it a supply-chain risk
- Jagex pairs RuneScape with MoistCr1TiKaL's company and the studio already making his Godslap film
- Norway's planned AI glasses ban makes bystander consent a question of place
- Three of five Googlebooks still run Android apps through Chromebook-style translation
- Cohere pitches its North 2 agent platform to the administrator who has to cap the token bill
- Safeworld's simulated humans test whether AI-driven robots will stop in time
- iPhone Duo simulator reveals a Lock Screen Focus switch built for Apple's foldable
Leadership54 stories
- FCA opens an internal review of how it handled a whistleblower it wrongly told had no protection
- OpenAI tells Australian MPs its weeks-late breach notice should have reached ministers
- Trump's red-dye diesel order leaves fleet savings to four federal departments and the states
- SpaceX's listing puts Musk's $1 trillion fortune on a daily public price
- Starbucks' own menu lists up to 21 grams of sugar in a protein drink it calls sugar-free
- PepsiCo pulls 122,000 Gatorade cases from 37 states over yellow dyes missing from the label
- Badenoch's £1bn aid cap falls short of the £1.6bn Britain has already committed to global funds
- Sainsbury's explored a Morrisons merger that would still have trailed Tesco
- AI-guided gun turrets give Ukraine its first kills of jet-powered Geran-5 drones
- Bond-market turmoil lifts UK five-year mortgage rates to 6% ahead of any Bank of England move
- Conservatives would scrap Natural England and the Environment Agency under Griffith's plan
- Telecare safety joins competition in the review of BT's £400m TalkTalk rescue
- Lidl GB spent more on price cuts than it earned in pre-tax profit
- Apple's iPhone 18 Pro costs £100 more than last year's model
Science114 stories
- Four AI labs raise no hands when New York's council asks who insures against catastrophe
- Optogenetics Nobel adds millisecond control to a line of brain-tool prizes dating to 1906
- CFTC lets U.S. exchanges strip expiry dates from perpetual-style index futures
- CFTC's crypto leverage notice ties delivery to who holds the private keys
- Birmingham team halts inflammatory signalling in surgical human brain slices by blocking P2X7
- DNA from bone scraps too small to identify turns up an extinct yak relative in Siberia
- Niobium-rich white dwarf points to a planet built from material its own star cast off
- A lab worker's plague death in Irkutsk puts handling procedures under scrutiny
- Astronomers place a candidate microblazar inside the Milky Way, with one jet aimed at Earth
- Vaxcyte says its 31-strain pneumococcal shot met Phase 3 goals against Prevnar and Capvaxive
- Deisseroth, Nagel and Hegemann win the 2026 medicine Nobel for controlling cells with light