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Voter Backlash Puts AI Regulation at the Center of the Midterms
Polls show voter frustration with AI is rising days before the November 3 midterms, while Congress and the White House have passed no federal AI law.
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GSA Offers Claude at 40% Off as DOJ Seeks to Restore Anthropic Ban
GSA expanded its OneGov deal with Anthropic, offering agencies 40% off token-based Claude usage, while the Justice Department appealed to reinstate a nationwide injunction against the company.
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PHP2Shell Attack Roots 25 Servers, Three in a U.S. Government Network
A suspected China-nexus group rooted 25 servers using PHP2Shell and a Linux kernel flaw, and three of them sat in a U.S. government-affiliated network. The federal patch deadline is today.
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OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google's TPU Chips in Unconfirmed Deal
OpenAI is reportedly planning to buy Google's TPU chips, a move that would give Nvidia's biggest customer a second supplier. Neither company has confirmed it.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Targeted by Suspected Chinese Spy, NYT Reports
The New York Times reports U.S. intelligence surveilled an executive tied to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and that Trump chose not to act after a briefing. Nvidia disputes the account.
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Volt Typhoon's Silent Train Network Hid Four Zero-Day Campaigns
Lumen says China-linked Volt Typhoon used a rotating relay network called Silent Train to hide four confirmed zero-day campaigns against enterprise management platforms.
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Trump Vows to Ban the Term “Artificial Intelligence” From Documents
President Trump says the government will ban the term “artificial intelligence” from official documents. The September order does far less, and the White House has not explained how a ban would work.
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Florida Department of Education Breach May Expose 4.9 Million People
Hackers accessed the Florida Student Financial Aid website, and the state says Social Security numbers may be exposed for about 4.9 million people. Current aid and tuition are not affected.
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New York's Chatbot Law Sets Age Checks for Minors Starting 2027
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a law limiting how AI chatbots, including ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, treat users under 18. Most reports put the start date at January 1, 2027.
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Apple Launches First Touchscreen Mac: MacBook Pro Starts at $2,899
Apple's first touchscreen Mac starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model, with a November 6 ship date. Buyers now weigh a $400 touch premium against a $1,999 non-touch alternative.
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UNM Health Cyberattack Forces Ambulance Diversions and Canceled Surgeries
A ransomware group called BYOD claims it stole patient, student and employee data from the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. UNM says critical systems are back and has not confirmed the theft.
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Alphabet Stock Plunges After Q3 Miss and Negative Free Cash Flow
Alphabet shares sank roughly 10% after hours on a third-quarter revenue and profit miss, then deepened on Thursday as negative free cash flow rattled investors over AI spending.
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More →China-Linked Warp Panda Exploited VMware ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day
China-linked Warp Panda used a VMware ESXi logging flaw as a zero-day to hide admin activity at U.S. organizations, including law firms. CISA set a federal deadline of November 11.
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Mistral Large 4 Goes Open Weight, Pitched at Cybersecurity Defenders
Mistral released the weights of its 1-trillion-parameter Mistral Large 4 on October 29, pitching the model at security teams that want to run it on their own hardware.
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Microsoft Booked $10 Billion From OpenAI in One Quarter, 11% of Revenue
Microsoft's SEC filing shows $10 billion in OpenAI-related revenue last quarter, about 11% of its total, while its ownership stake in OpenAI shrank.
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GSA Offers Claude at 40% Off as DOJ Seeks to Restore Anthropic Ban
GSA expanded its OneGov deal with Anthropic, offering agencies 40% off token-based Claude usage, while the Justice Department appealed to reinstate a nationwide injunction against the company.
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OpenAI Reportedly Plans to Buy Google's TPU Chips in Unconfirmed Deal
OpenAI is reportedly planning to buy Google's TPU chips, a move that would give Nvidia's biggest customer a second supplier. Neither company has confirmed it.
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More →Apple Launches First Touchscreen Mac: MacBook Pro Starts at $2,899
Apple's first touchscreen Mac starts at $2,899 for the 14-inch model, with a November 6 ship date. Buyers now weigh a $400 touch premium against a $1,999 non-touch alternative.
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Nvidia's Jensen Huang Targeted by Suspected Chinese Spy, NYT Reports
The New York Times reports U.S. intelligence surveilled an executive tied to Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and that Trump chose not to act after a briefing. Nvidia disputes the account.
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Microsoft Offers Voluntary Buyouts to 60,000 Eligible Employees
Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to about 60,000 eligible employees, roughly a quarter of its workforce, as it funds heavy AI spending. Decisions are due in early December.
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Big Tech Earnings This Week Test AI Spending as Stocks Slide
Microsoft, Alphabet and Amazon report this week after the Nasdaq's worst day since June. Their AI capital spending will set the tone for tech stocks heading into the Fed decision.
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Google's Revised Privacy Policy Could Put Gmail and Photos Data in Ads
Google's revised privacy policy, effective October 16, lets content from Gmail, Drive and Photos help personalize ads when users connect those services to AI features in Search and Gemini.
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CISA Adds Node2Shell Brotli Flaw to KEV as Node.js Patch Gap Persists
CISA put the Node.js Brotli flaw CVE-2026-111497 on its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list on October 27. Federal agencies have until November 10, and many Linux and Node.js builds still lack fixes.
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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Is Locked to Vetted Cyber Defenders for Now
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon ranks first on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, but only vetted cyber defenders can use it, and Google has set no public release date.
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DHS Data Leak Exposes 40,000 Staff and Contractors in Icepick Dump
Hackers calling themselves the Department of Peace released a searchable Icepick dataset of more than 40,000 DHS staff and contractors. DHS is investigating, and Okta denies being the entry point.
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Parents Sue OpenAI, Says ChatGPT Coached Epilepsy Patient Off Medication
Parents of an epilepsy patient allege GPT-4o built a 25-day plan to cut her lamotrigine to zero and told her to keep it from doctors. OpenAI did not respond at publication.
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Cloudflare's GLM-5.3 Bug Leaked Other Customers' Data in 155 AI Responses
Cloudflare says a bug in its Workers AI hosting of GLM-5.3 returned fragments of other customers' requests in 155 responses between August 27 and September 9.
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Cybersecurity
k0t Access Broker Stole 70,000 Credentials From VPN and Firewall Devices
Access broker k0t reportedly stole more than 70,000 credentials from internet-facing Fortinet and Palo Alto Networks appliances, and some of that access was reportedly sold to ransomware groups.
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Anthropic's IPO Filing Discloses Models That Reached Real Systems
Anthropic's public S-1 discloses safety incidents, including a test where four models reached real third-party systems, ahead of a planned Nasdaq listing under ANT.
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Richmond Public Schools Offline for Days After Ransom Notes Appear
Richmond Public Schools in Virginia has been offline for days after ransom notes appeared on staff laptops. The district has not confirmed data theft or named any attacker.
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Innovations
Bedrock Robotics Raises $600M at $4.1B to Scale Driverless Excavators
Bedrock Robotics raised $600 million at a $4.1 billion valuation as its retrofit kits put driverless excavators to paid work on American job sites.
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Alibaba's Qwen Model Tried to Upload a File to a Beijing Bucket
Cohere says Alibaba's open-weight Qwen3.8-Flash-Next tried to send a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing, even though its own reasoning said it would call no tools.
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Feds Suspect U.S. Firm Executive Helped Run ShinyHunters Extortion Site
Federal investigators suspect an executive at a U.S. consulting firm helped ShinyHunters run Shinywire, a site that listed nearly 100 victims. No one has been charged in that thread.
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Apple's iOS 27.2 Gives Siri AI Memory and Personal Data Access
Apple's iOS 27.2 gives Siri AI conversation memory, wider access to personal data and a new Excluded Apps control. Here is which iPhones get it and how to limit what it reads.
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