OpenAI says an autonomous AI pipeline built working exploits for 948 Linux kernel flaws in one run that cost about $1.2 million. Only 61 had been fixed upstream at announcement.
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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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A hacktivist group calling itself the Department of Peace says it pulled 41,000 Homeland Security staff and contractor records from an Okta login service. DHS says it is aware of a potential breach.
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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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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, 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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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 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'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 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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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 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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Russia-linked APT29 hackers used patched Safari and Chrome flaws to push data-stealing malware through trusted websites. CISA now lists Apple's CVE-2024-27834 as exploited, with federal patches due November 18.
November 5, 2026 · 6 min read
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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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 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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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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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.
November 1, 2026 · 5 min read
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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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