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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Limits Cyber Model to Selected Defenders
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon launches first to a small group of cybersecurity defenders, and the benchmark wins behind it come from Google alone.
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Meta Settles Second Teen Social Media Addiction Case Before Trial
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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California's New AI Health Care Law Faces Sacramento Strike Reports
Governor Newsom signed AB 1979 in September, and its clinical-judgment rules take effect January 1, 2027, as reports of Sacramento healthcare strikes over AI surface.
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Amadeus Breach Exposes Passport Data at Japan Airlines, ANA and Cathay
Amadeus, the travel-tech vendor behind airline reservation systems, has exposed passenger records at several Asian carriers over an access window that ran nearly three years.
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AI-Made Midterm Ads Top $137 Million, Most Without an AI Label
Campaigns and outside groups have spent more than $137 million on AI-made or AI-enhanced midterm ads, and most carry no clear AI label before Election Day.
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Trezor Warns Safe 5 Buyers of Suspected Implant, Says Move Funds
Trezor says a suspected hardware implant in a Safe 5 wallet bought through reseller CryptoBilis may have leaked recovery phrases. The company is urging buyers to move their funds.
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Anduril and Qualcomm Unveil BlueChip, a US-Made Rugged Laptop for 2027
Anduril and Qualcomm's BlueChip is a rugged laptop for military and first-responder buyers, with most parts sourced from US and allied suppliers and preorders set for 2027.
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Anthropic's S-1 Shows $16.3 Billion Revenue and an $80.7 Billion Loss
Anthropic’s public S-1 shows $16.3 billion in first-half revenue, an $80.7 billion net loss and compute deals with Google, Amazon and Microsoft before a planned Nasdaq listing as ANT.
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Open CitySourced Database Exposed 42 Million Documents and Resident Data
An unlocked online database tied to Granicus-owned CitySourced held about 42 million documents and resident contact details, and the company has since locked it down.
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Apple Overtakes Nvidia as World's Most Valuable Company at $5.03 Trillion
Apple finished Friday as the world's most valuable company at $5.03 trillion, but the lead came from Nvidia's 4.2% drop, and the title has changed hands before.
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FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain, Disrupting a Bulletproof Hosting Provider
The FBI seized virtualine.net, a domain prosecutors say served ransomware gangs and infostealers. The provider denies the allegations, and officials have not said who runs the service.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Rosalind Opens Biology Model Only to Approved Customers
OpenAI's new biology model runs on the same weights as GPT-6 Astra but refuses fewer dual-use questions, so only approved life-sciences customers can use it.
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More →Critical LXD and MicroCloud Flaw Lets Attackers Impersonate Clients
Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud flaw CVE-2026-112816 scores 10.0 on CVSS and lets attackers log in as trusted clients without their private keys. Patched releases are out now.
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Microsoft's AI Standard for U.S. Schools Takes Effect November 1
Microsoft's National AI Safety & Privacy Standard, negotiated with the AFT and UFT, reaches U.S. school districts today. Here is what it bans, what it requires and what remains unclear.
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OpenAI and Anthropic Claim AI Disproved a 27-Year-Old Conjecture
OpenAI says its internal models refuted a 27-year-old computer science conjecture, and Anthropic claims a parallel result. Independent experts are now checking both.
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California's New AI Health Care Law Faces Sacramento Strike Reports
Governor Newsom signed AB 1979 in September, and its clinical-judgment rules take effect January 1, 2027, as reports of Sacramento healthcare strikes over AI surface.
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AI-Made Midterm Ads Top $137 Million, Most Without an AI Label
Campaigns and outside groups have spent more than $137 million on AI-made or AI-enhanced midterm ads, and most carry no clear AI label before Election Day.
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More →Anduril and Qualcomm Unveil BlueChip, a US-Made Rugged Laptop for 2027
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Meta Settles Second Teen Social Media Addiction Case Before Trial
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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FTC and States Sue Toast Over Hidden Fees and Hard-to-Cancel Plans
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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FTC Orders Walmart, Uber, Delta and Six Others on Personal Data Pricing
The FTC has ordered nine companies, including Walmart, Uber, Delta and Instacart, to disclose whether they use personal data to set individual prices.
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DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17 Billion, Mostly in Cash
DoorDash agreed to buy Instacart for $65 a share, or about $17 billion, in a deal that is at least 75% cash. Shareholder approval and antitrust review still stand between the terms and a close.
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Ransomware Gangs Exploit Palo Alto GlobalProtect Flaw CVE-2026-0257
Qilin and INC ransomware operators are exploiting a Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect flaw, CVE-2026-0257, to bypass multi-factor authentication and reach corporate networks.
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Copilot and ChatGPT Cited a Flawed Site in Midterm Voter Guides
Copilot and ChatGPT often sourced midterm voter guides from Ballot Brief, an AI-built site with documented district errors, days before the November 3 elections.
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BAE Systems Cyberattack Halts Bankruptcy Court Notices Nationwide
A cyberattack on the contractor that runs the Bankruptcy Noticing Center has stopped notices from every federal bankruptcy court, and no restoration date has been set.
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Big Tech's $3 Trillion AI Spending Pledges Test Investor Patience
Five tech giants now hold more than $3 trillion in future AI commitments for data centers, leases and equipment, as buybacks shrink and investors question how it gets paid for.
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DHS Orders Civilian Agencies to Drop Acronis Products Within 180 Days
DHS has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove Acronis products within 180 days, citing privileged access to customer systems.
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Google DeepMind's Genie 4 Brings Real-Time Audio to World Models
Google DeepMind's Genie 4 generates interactive environments with native audio in real time, but only trusted testers can use it so far. Here is what it does and who gets access next.
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FTC and States Sue Toast Over Hidden Fees and Hard-to-Cancel Plans
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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FBI Blames North Korea's TraderTraitor for $6.3 Billion Binance Hack
The FBI says North Korea's TraderTraitor group stole more than $6 billion from Binance, the largest crypto theft on record. Binance says it will cover the losses.
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Five Major U.S. Banks Are Blocking Outside AI Agents From Accounts
Five major U.S. banks are blocking outside AI agents that log in with customer credentials, while the open-banking rule meant to give agents a regulated route is on hold.
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WordPress 7.1.4 Fixes a Core Flaw Under Active Attack, Update Now
Attackers began probing WordPress sites within days of the October 28 release of 7.1.4, which patches an unauthenticated code-execution flaw in the core update process.
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CoreWeave, Nebius and Nscale Are Locked Out of the AI Bond Market
Lenders have largely shut CoreWeave, Nebius and Nscale out of the bond market, pushing yields higher and squeezing the debt behind AI data centers.
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Google's Suncatcher Satellite Is Online and Running AI Chips in Orbit
Google's four-TPU Suncatcher prototype is online and talking to ground stations after an October 1 SpaceX launch, an early test of whether AI chips can run in orbit.
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