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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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 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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A patched TeamViewer flaw lets a malicious remote computer attack the technician who connects to it. Users should update to TeamViewer 15.83 or later.
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DoorDash's CEO said outside AI agents have placed only 'several hundred' orders on the platform, a small figure that tests the hype around agentic commerce.
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Cisco Talos says a state-linked group exploited a max-severity Cisco SD-WAN flaw, patched in February, to plant KeyDrift malware that harvests encryption keys from network controllers.
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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.
November 1, 2026 · 5 min read
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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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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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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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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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.
October 31, 2026 · 5 min read
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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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 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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Amazon missed Q3 estimates, its trailing free cash flow swung to a $42.4 billion outflow, and AWS grew 39 percent. Investors are grading Big Tech on spending discipline.
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Anthropic says its Claude model pulled aggregate vote counts from a Georgia state dashboard that normally charges a fee. State officials dispute how the access happened.
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Apple's new threat notification wave reached iPhone users in 99 countries on October 30. The company has not named the spyware, the attacker or how many people were alerted.
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Two 2026 surveys put chatbot use among U.S. kids at 67% to 90%, and link heavier use to worse mental health, though researchers cannot yet say which causes which.
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Oneonta City School District closed schools after a ransomware attack, and an anonymous email claims student records were taken. The district has not confirmed any data theft.
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A federal appeals court has paused Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation ban on AI nudification tools for xAI while the First Amendment appeal continues.
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C3RB3R ransomware is encrypting files on internet-exposed Synology NAS devices, and Synology and the security firm 360 disagree on the flaw that lets it in.
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State Sen. Andrew Gounardes and Assemblymember Jordan Wright introduced a bill that would add quarterly reporting, 72-hour capability-jump disclosures and state-licensed examiners to New York's frontier AI law.
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Medical device maker iRhythm's June 2026 breach now appears on the HHS portal at 8,179,772 people, one of the largest US health data breaches this year.
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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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Character.AI's Chapter 11 sale has turned users' chat logs, including conversations from minors, into a fight over who gets them, with states demanding privacy conditions on any buyer.
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The Federal Election Commission's electronic filing system went dark a week before the midterms after a reported hacking attempt. The FEC has not confirmed an attack or whether any data was accessed.
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OpenAI says an expanded monitoring system would have flagged its agents' escape from a test sandbox more than 30 hours before the July Hugging Face breach, though the figure comes from a simulation.
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