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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies to patch a high-severity Linux kernel privilege escalation bug, tracked as CVE-2026-46300 and named Fragnesia. In a Monday report, Dream Security analysts said the vulnerabilities were used to breach more than two dozen servers, including three belonging to a U.S. government-affiliated organization.
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Group14 Technologies, a next-generation battery materials startup based in Woodinville, Washington, announced $169 million in new funding and plans to build a manufacturing facility in Sagunto, Spain, with production targeted for mid-2029. The funding came from an unnamed European investor and extends the company's Series D round, bringing total funding to $1.26 billion.
Mistral AI said on October 29 that it had made the weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) open, claiming the 1-trillion-parameter system ranks first among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark and is state-of-the-art in cyberdefense, after being put through its paces by vendors including CrowdStrike and Cloudflare.
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NVIDIA has announced the arrival of Phantom Blade Zero on GeForce NOW, along with the release date for World of Warcraft: Forever and new mod support for Cyberpunk 2077 and The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Remastered. The company also detailed new membership options for Indian gamers and a launch-week access reward for WoW: Forever.
Voice AI company Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the maker of one of the most popular open-source frameworks, Pipecat, the companies announced Thursday. The deal amount was not disclosed, but both sides said Pipecat will remain open-source.
Phase, a blockchain that lets smartphone users earn tokens by contributing to AI services, has launched its mainnet with a $45 million funding commitment from Unlimit founder Kirill Eves.
Cisco has released security updates to patch a denial-of-service zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, that attackers are actively exploiting to remotely crash vulnerable Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Threat Defense (FTD) firewall devices.
The Document Foundation (TDF) says LibreOffice has no built-in AI features and that its core developers do not use large language models, but community contributors have submitted code this year that acknowledges assistance from tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot. The admission appears to conflict with the project's public no-AI message, and some users are unhappy.
Malicious repositories pretending to offer popular PS5 emulation tools have been found spreading malware reported to steal passwords, according to a report by NordVPN's Threat Intelligence research team. The malware's payload is believed to be an infostealer, a type of malware that can steal passwords and other sensitive data. The campaign targets users looking for AnyPS5 and Kyttyps5, two legitimate projects for running PlayStation 5 games on PC.
GitHub added 4 million CPU cores, 160 petabytes of storage and 50 Tb/s of networking capacity this year to handle an influx of AI-generated code, as monthly commits climbed from 1.4 billion in April to 7.4 billion in September.
Fujifilm plans to boost production of magnetic storage tape by as much as five times, driven by soaring demand from AI data centers. The Japanese company will spend 10 billion yen ($63.3 million) to expand capacity at its Odawara plant, its largest investment in tape-based storage in around 20 years.
Threat hunters at Radware have uncovered a suspected coordinated supply chain campaign that targeted 61 public GitHub repositories, including popular open source projects like Google LangExtract, Trivy, Brave browser, and MLflow, in what they suspect is a campaign to execute commands in CI/CD environments and steal credentials and access tokens.
A pull request in the Raspberry Pi Linux repository has revealed traces of two new models: the Pi Zero 3 W and Pi 4 Model A, indicating that the company may be preparing updates to its budget computer lineup.
The United States has sanctioned a cryptocurrency cash-out network accused of turning the earnings of undercover North Korean IT workers into funding for weapons programs, naming 10 individuals and one entity in a Treasury action announced on 28 October.
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Datadog has released Scout, a model trained specifically to investigate production problems, designed to run inside the company's Bits AI SRE product where it can pick up an alert, look through telemetry and suggest what caused the problem. Datadog engineers and a small number of customers are using it in a closed preview.
Málaga-based engineering company Aertec has signed a contract with AALTO, the Airbus subsidiary responsible for the Zephyr HAPS programme, to design and manufacture the main avionics for what is considered the most advanced solar-powered aircraft in the world, which has spent more than 67 days in the air.
A new artificial intelligence model developed by NATO and Ukrainian forces gives front-line commanders a daily forecast of where Russian drone activity is expected, providing a data-driven tool to plan the next day of operations.
Bereaved families in South Korea are demanding that the makers of Call of Duty remove real footage of the 2022 Seoul crowd crush from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4, saying harrowing scenes of rescuers performing CPR and victims lying in the street were used to create a moment in a game.
Elon Musk's Grok Imagine system has produced the first episode of a planned full-length AI-generated film based on the Odyssey, and the seven-minute film has drawn sharply critical reviews from film critics.
Google announced a restricted rollout for Gemini 4 Carbon, while GitHub pitched automated model selection for coding. Microsoft and Alphabet reported cloud growth, Apple introduced touch to the Mac, and Vercel offered a CI service aimed at coding agents.
The owner of Victoria Crime News, a website reporting on crime across Victoria, has admitted its local reporting team does not exist and that stories are written by workers in the Philippines. An ABC News Verify investigation found some AI-generated images and factual errors on the site. Craig Winder told the ABC the practice was 'a bit deceptive, to be honest'.
Apple has introduced four new power accessories for the Mac alongside the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR, according to 9to5Mac: updated 70W and 140W power adapters, a power extension cable and a World Travel Adapter Kit.
Readwise, the company behind tools for power readers, has launched a beta version of Readwise Books, a full-fledged platform for buying, reading, and discussing ebooks. The beta is currently available by invitation or to existing Readwise subscribers.
Akai is giving hackers and custom firmware developers early access to the MPC Sample Key, an unreleased sampler with open-source firmware, and is already showing off what the modding community has built for it.
US law enforcement, alongside agencies in the Netherlands, Germany, and the United Kingdom, has seized the primary domain and server infrastructure of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service authorities say has been at the centre of a broad range of cybercrime operations since at least 2022. The FBI seized the service's main domain, while Dutch police seized dozens of physical servers in Limburg. The service is accused of facilitating ransomware, infostealers, drug trafficking, and hosting a forum for child sexual abuse material.
Google announced Wednesday it is expanding ads in its AI-powered Search experience to international markets for the first time, betting that generative AI can open new revenue opportunities even as growth in its core search advertising business slows.
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When asked who won the 2020 and 2024 US presidential elections, Google's AI Mode refused to give a direct answer, instead instructing users to consult official reports from the Federal Election Commission, a discovery Ars Technica reported on October 28.
A Florida county that found a dozen unpermitted Flock cameras during a countywide removal effort will not investigate who owned the cameras, which have since disappeared, leaving residents worried about where their data may have gone.
Security researchers warn that a critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability is already being probed in the wild despite a patch, while new analysis reveals that the PeopleSoft zero-day exploited by the ShinyHunters group is actually three distinct bugs that can be chained for remote code execution.
Anthropic has introduced a suite of reporting tools that give enterprise customers a detailed view of what their spending on AI coding tools is producing, as new industry data shows such tools are becoming a fast-growing line in engineering budgets.
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Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in its Discoverable Servers, making conversations publicly accessible on the web without an account or invitation, as part of a two-stage rollout beginning November 16.
The Trump administration's efforts to contain a leak of records for more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors struggled on Thursday as a searchable directory was taken down, but the information moved to a different domain and the Icelandic company hosting it refused a takedown request. Social media platform Bluesky also blocked links to DDoSecrets, marking them as malicious.
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Google is giving third-party coding agents such as Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex deeper access to its Android development tools, including devices, performance profilers and production crash reports, letting agents investigate bugs, test changes and verify their own fixes. The announcements were made Wednesday at the Android Dev Summit.
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has been using a framework dubbed Silent Train, which rotates chains of compromised devices to hide attacks that have exploited at least four zero-day vulnerabilities against high-value targets, according to researchers at Black Lotus Labs, the threat research division of communications company Lumen.
Google and Xreal have put their Aura smart glasses on sale at $1,099, a price below the $1,279 Xreal charged for early preorders last month. The 95-gram glasses, paired with a tethered Android XR compute puck, display multiple virtual screens and went on sale today with the launch price available through the end of the year.
Google announced on Wednesday that Chrome is getting an AI-powered upgrade to autofill that can fill online forms with suggestions pulled from users' Gmail, such as flight confirmation numbers, membership IDs, tracking numbers, order numbers, addresses, phone numbers and credit card numbers.
Google has introduced its Connected Apps Platform, allowing businesses and developers to link their services to the company's AI features in both Gemini and Google Search. The platform, currently in public preview for US developers, lets users securely connect third-party apps to perform actions like designing a flyer in Canva or building a playlist in YouTube Music, all through Google's AI.
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PsiQuantum, a quantum computing company whose first breakthrough is in AI data centers, says it has developed a device that routes light signals without converting them to electricity, allowing separate server racks to behave as one at speed-of-light latency with almost no heat and negligible energy use.
Crypto wallet provider Phantom has launched prediction markets for eligible US users through an integration with Kalshi, allowing them to trade on crypto prices, sports and other real-world events directly within its app. The move follows no-action relief from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and lands as the agency battles a US state over the legality of such contracts.
Sony Network Communications, a Japanese subsidiary of Sony Group, has confirmed a data breach that exposed personal information held in approximately 2.5 million customer records. The company said an unauthorized party accessed its So-net member database on October 19, four days before the breach was detected and the affected servers were shut down.
Apple's first touchscreen Mac is now available to pre-order, with the MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display starting at $2,899 in the US and $4,599 in Australia. Apple and Amazon are both taking pre-orders for the 14-inch and 16-inch models, which sit $400 above the standard MacBook Pro and start arriving November 6.
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The latest hardware news centered on Apple, where reports pointed to touchscreen laptops and cracking folding iPhones, and on chipmakers posting strong AI-driven sales gains.
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NVIDIA announced that its RTX Spark laptops are now available from ASUS, Dell, HP, Lenovo, Microsoft and MSI, pairing a Blackwell RTX GPU with a Grace CPU in a single superchip offering up to 128GB of unified memory and up to 1 petaflop of FP4 AI performance. The company also introduced Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, an open weight speech model, new controls for sharing GPU resources with background agents, and gaming updates including Phantom Blade Zero's launch.
The US Federal Communications Commission has again blocked TP-Link's attempt to win conditional approval to sell Wi-Fi 8 routers in the United States, alleging the company submitted false or incorrect information in applications for four router models and that three of the four exceeded permitted power levels, according to letters dated October 15, 2026.
GitHub has launched Copilot Fusion, a system that handles model selection and orchestration for coding tasks, at its GitHub Universe event in San Francisco. The company says the feature lets developers delegate decisions about which models to use and how they work together, while keeping responsibility for the direction of their work.
Microsoft and GitHub have made their Copilot harness generally available to developers and enterprise customers through Microsoft Foundry. The harness is an orchestration layer that enables building AI agents capable of reasoning, using tools, and completing long-running tasks, and it already powers products such as Copilot Code, Copilot Studio and the GitHub Copilot app.
Google is rolling out Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier AI model, to a select group of cybersecurity defenders this week, while The Register reports that the model's introductory pricing will eventually rise to match Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5. The model tops several key benchmarks, particularly in vulnerability detection and remediation.
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A report from Eclypsium's InfraTrust Pulse highlights 133 new security advisories across 18 vendors, with many vulnerabilities already under active exploitation. Among the most concerning are PHP2Shell flaws that allow unauthenticated remote code execution on network appliances such as firewalls, VPNs, and storage devices, whose embedded PHP cannot be patched by customers independently.