OpenAI launched GPT-6 Cyber on November 5 for vetted Daybreak Red customers and rates it Critical for cyber capability. Its benchmark and vulnerability claims come from the company.
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Binarly says a Zyxel GS1900 zero-day exploited against nearly 1,000 switches got past the June patch. Zyxel's 2.90 Patch 3 firmware is the fix administrators need.
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Zipline raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation, tied to 300 new Walmart sites and a nationwide US network, while FAA rules and local noise fights stay unsettled.
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Developers say OpenAI's Codex turned model training back on for accounts that had opted out. OpenAI has not confirmed the reports, so users should check their settings now.
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WorkOS says an AI-assisted attacker reached an internal sales app and took CRM records and support conversation summaries. Business customers should expect convincing phishing.
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Voters in roughly 10 states rejected 40 of 41 local data center ballot measures on Election Day, and Ohio supplied 21 of them, a direct warning to AI builders.
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DigiCert says a server migration left an internal system exposed for months, and some archived records held passports, driver's licenses and utility bills. No victim count has been published.
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The Justice Department created a Super Intelligence Task Force on November 5 to police advanced AI misuse by foreign actors, criminals and fraudsters. Key details remain unconfirmed.
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Mindbloom Provider Group, PA disclosed a health-records breach to Vermont's attorney general on November 3. The filing lists one Vermont resident, and the scale and cause remain undisclosed.
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Democrats set to control Congress in January want a federal pause on advanced AI training and a ban on superintelligence. The Sanders-Casar bill sets the template, but the fight over scope has only begun.
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Federal agencies warn that attackers are manipulating internet-exposed refrigeration controllers, after spoiled food at European supermarkets and a suspected hack at U.S. military commissaries.
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Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 employees while it sells $25 billion in bonds to fund AI data centers. Here is what is confirmed and what is not.
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OpenSSH has shipped an emergency fix for a flaw that may let attackers get past SSH password checks on some Alpine Linux servers, including password-less accounts.
November 6, 2026 · 4 min read
Anthropic's read-only Personal Finance beta lets US Pro, Max and Ultra subscribers analyze spending from linked bank and card accounts through Plaid. It cannot move money.
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Images 2.6 lets users turn prompts or photos into animated GIFs, edit individual frames and reuse reference images, with access reaching free accounts.
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Developers say OpenAI's Codex turned model training back on for accounts that had opted out. OpenAI has not confirmed the reports, so users should check their settings now.
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Voters in roughly 10 states rejected 40 of 41 local data center ballot measures on Election Day, and Ohio supplied 21 of them, a direct warning to AI builders.
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Zipline raised $1.5 billion at a $21.5 billion valuation, tied to 300 new Walmart sites and a nationwide US network, while FAA rules and local noise fights stay unsettled.
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The FTC and 22 states say Amazon's search ad auctions carried hidden surcharges of up to 250% on Prime Day and Black Friday. Here is what the unredacted filing shows.
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The Nasdaq Composite closed 5.5% lower and into correction on Thursday as AI chip stocks posted their worst day since March 2020, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom leading the drop.
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Meta settled a second teen social media addiction case days before opening statements, leaving Snap to face a Los Angeles jury alone. Plaintiffs call the trial a test for thousands of similar suits.
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The FTC and several states say Toast charged restaurants hidden fees, enrolled them in unwanted add-ons and made cancellation hard. Toast disputes the claims.
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Apple will check photos and files shared through public iCloud links for harmful content starting with iOS 27.3, and sharing a link turns off end-to-end encryption.
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OpenAI says it will pay full power and grid costs for campuses it owns and stop signing NDAs with public officials, two days after voters backed limits on nearly every local data-center measure.
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The Nasdaq Composite closed 5.5% lower and into correction on Thursday as AI chip stocks posted their worst day since March 2020, with Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom leading the drop.
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Frontline Education says a breach that began August 14 exposed Social Security numbers and Medicaid IDs of students and school staff across the US, with reported totals above 1.3 million.
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Apple's annual SEC filing says AI agents could act without authorization and expose the company to lawsuits, a rare admission from a major consumer platform.
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Google's latest Android bulletin patches CVE-2026-58868, a critical flaw that can run code on a phone without any tap or click. Here is how to check whether your phone is covered.
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Marvell will buy optical-chip maker Lumentum in a $115 billion all-stock deal that pays a 23.9% premium, and both stocks fell sharply after the announcement.
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Anthropic's amended IPO filing says its own models may soon meet its threshold for AI-driven acceleration of AI development, a step toward recursive self-improvement.
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Ransomware has taken down the website, Wi-Fi and checkout machines at all 66 Queens Public Library branches, and no gang has claimed the attack.
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Google will provide credit support for about $19 billion in Anthropic lease commitments at TeraWulf's 401 MW Kentucky campus, a backstop that lenders and investors are now weighing.
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Elastic's new quarterly report finds attackers running commands through Claude Code and the ChatGPT desktop app, with stolen logins used about eight minutes after infection.
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Anthropic reportedly signed its first content licensing deal, with the Associated Press, letting Claude show attributed AP election data on midterm Election Night. Neither company has confirmed it on the record.
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