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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.
South Korean financial institutions have been hit this week by a fresh wave of cyberattacks, with brokerages and a crypto exchange reporting incidents and one firm disclosing that the personal information of 38,490 customers was exposed. The country's financial regulator has called for stronger security measures.
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Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe, a free, open-weight speech-to-text model capable of transcribing audio in up to 40 languages and translating 31 languages to and from English. The company also launched version 2 of its open-source Granary speech dataset, targeting developers building business meeting and medical transcription applications.
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TikTok has announced Must Eat, an in-app restaurant guide that challenges Yelp and Google Maps by turning the platform's food conversation into recommendations. Unveiled Wednesday, the feature is built on 40 million posts, reviews and comments about dining and lets users review restaurants, make reservations and search for nearby businesses on a map.
Amazon has expanded its Echo lineup to five new devices, adding a smart alarm clock and a screenless camera speaker to the Alexa Photo Frame, Echo Show 16 and redesigned Echo Dot unveiled at its Echo hardware event on Wednesday. The Alexa Photo Frame is on sale now, and the Echo Show 16 is available for preorder, with all devices running the latest version of Alexa+.
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Berlin will begin AI-assisted video surveillance at Kottbusser Tor in November, Interior Senator Iris Spranger said on Wednesday. Thirty cameras will monitor the square around the clock and automatically flag possible violent crimes or emergencies, with regular operation planned to start in early December after a trial phase.
Kraken has announced plans to replace 176 cryptocurrency trading pairs with synthetic markets, eliminating maker-fee eligibility and forcing the cancellation of all outstanding orders. The exchange said the changes will begin on November 6, with replacement markets expected by November 9.
Financial AI startup Casap has raised $56 million in a Series B funding round to help banks and card companies combat a growing problem: fraud committed not by third parties but by cardholders themselves. The company announced the round, led by Base10 Partners, on Wednesday, with financial giants Synchrony and Experian joining as strategic investors.
Kodiak AI has announced its first binding commercial contract to supply driverless trucks for use on public highways, with 75 self-driving big rigs to be delivered to freight carrier DTL Transport starting in 2028. The deal comes just weeks before Kodiak plans to pull human safety operators from its cabs and launch a fully driverless service on Interstate 45 in Texas.
Australian travellers are being targeted in a sophisticated hotel booking scam after hackers accessed customer information held by accommodation software provider RMS Cloud. The company confirmed on Tuesday it was investigating phishing messages that use genuine reservation details to threaten cancellation unless payment is reconfirmed. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has received 62 reports in three days, with one victim losing more than $300.
· 2 sourcesAttackers have begun scanning the internet for systems left unpatched against a recently disclosed critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability that allows unauthenticated takeover, prompting the software maker to urge customers to apply its October security update without delay.
The day mixed frontier research with commercial and regulatory news. OpenAI and Anthropic both presented major scientific proofs, while OpenAI was reported to be buying Google chips and released a cheaper model. Separate reports covered safety gaps in a DeepSeek model, new Chinese export curbs and Anthropic's public offering.
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UK domain registrar 123 Reg has disclosed that it suffered an AI-driven cyberattack in September that compromised customer data. The company said it notified affected customers this week after discovering that an attacker accessed personal and account information. Early indications from the company point to a Chinese state-sponsored group.
Amazon has turned its most capable smart speaker into a camera as well. The new Echo Studio with Home Camera, announced this week alongside a range of other Alexa devices, adds an integrated camera to the premium speaker, letting it monitor a room while the owner is away, show things to Alexa, and, soon, support video calls on Fire TV devices.
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Amazon has announced a redesigned Echo Show 16 smart display, priced at $499.99 with a wall mount included, with preorders opening today and a $100 discount available ahead of its release later this year. The device, shown at a media event in New York City this week, features a completely overhauled software experience that includes improved smart home controls and a redesigned calendar interface.
Amazon has launched the Alexa Photo Frame, its first dedicated digital picture frame, combining photo display with the Alexa voice assistant and a promise that owners will never be served an ad. The device is available from today, priced at $199.99 in black or $229 with a birch or walnut frame.
Nvidia and Oracle announced general availability of Nvidia's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack and Vera CPUs on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Superclusters at Oracle AI World on Tuesday, giving Nvidia its first standalone CPU deployment at a hyperscaler, a week after Google Cloud made Vera Rubin generally available.
Hours before Apple is expected to unveil a new MacBook Pro with OLED and touchscreen, a leaker claims to have found visual assets in macOS 27 that appear to confirm the rumored Dynamic Island notch replacement.
Meta has launched Waddle World, a 'tamagotchi-style' pet game featuring virtual creatures that chat with users and create doodles to illustrate conversations, according to its Apple and Play Store listings.
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Itaú Unibanco, Brazil’s largest private bank, has become the country’s first bank to formalize its cryptocurrency trading and custody operations under new digital-asset rules, submitting a notification to the central bank on Tuesday ahead of an Oct. 30 compliance deadline.
Microsoft's October security update addresses 1,415 vulnerabilities across its software lineup, including one already exploited in the wild and 85 classified as critical. The unusually large patch set has drawn warnings from security experts about the strain on corporate IT departments.
A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to 70 months in prison for his involvement in Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks that targeted hospitals, government entities, and large corporations worldwide between 2018 and 2021, the US Justice Department announced.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed Tuesday that hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in Google's Brotli compression library, adding the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-111497 and known as Node2Shell, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog and ordering federal agencies to patch within two weeks.
The cybersecurity world braced for catastrophe after AI uncovered critical flaws in PHP, the language behind roughly 70% of websites, but the anticipated wave of automated attacks has surprisingly struggled to get off the ground. Security researchers say the vulnerabilities have proven unusually difficult to exploit, drawing comparisons to the Y2K phenomenon where warnings of armageddon helped rally companies to engineer a solution in time. However, experts caution this is a temporary reprieve, with one warning that 'we don't have to wait another two years before this happens (again), it could be three hours from now.'
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Stephen Graham stars as Jurek Walter, a psychopathic serial killer locked in a psychiatric facility, in Apple TV's new thriller Nocturne, a series critics describe as a victory lap for the actor following his acclaimed work in Adolescence. The 10-episode show, streaming from October 30, also stars Rory Culkin, Liev Schreiber and Zazie Beetz.
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India's courts are turning to artificial intelligence to tackle a crushing paperwork burden that contributes to nearly three-quarters of prisoners being held without conviction, according to a non-profit developer whose speech-recognition tool has been adopted in more than 6,000 courtrooms across 11 states.
An AI-powered math tutor called Rori, developed by Sierra Leone-based Rising Academies, is expanding into government schools across West and East Africa after a study found students using it achieved improvements equivalent to an extra year of learning. Unlike in the United States, where parents are often skeptical of AI in classrooms, Shabnam Aggarwal, the company’s chief technology officer, said African parents see the tool as a way to give their children an advantage.
Researchers at Texas A&M University have developed an AI system, CLARKE, that lets emergency responders analyze drone images of disaster damage without an internet connection, turning them into compact reports that could help officials make decisions about a day sooner.
A bust-up between mathematicians over OpenAI's claim to have solved a famous maths problem is fuelling fears that artificial intelligence could undermine trust in the scientific process, with researchers also warning that AI-generated fiction is increasingly finding its way into journals.
A study by Anthropic, the company behind the AI model Claude, found that 50 professional analysts tasked with making advisory decisions chose options matching their AI assistant's preference 86 percent of the time, compared with a 50/50 outcome expected without influence. The research, published Tuesday, highlights how AI may shape consequential policy decisions even among experts.
An engineer from Cardiff has developed a wood-burning stove that eliminates indoor air pollution, with a UK government report finding the pellet stoves are 20 times cleaner than modern log burners. Marc Howell, founder of Island Pellet Stoves, spent seven years in his garage near Cowbridge designing a computer-controlled system that pre-heats air and automatically feeds pellets, removing the need to open the stove door during operation.
South Korean financial regulators began on-site inspections and held an emergency meeting on Wednesday after Bithumb reported signs of abnormal external access to its internal employee mobile system that exposed personal information, the Financial Services Commission said.
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Shares of Datavault AI fell nearly 50 percent on Tuesday after the company disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had been unable to withdraw bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange since June and would have to restate its financial results. The stock closed at $0.067 with roughly 244 million shares traded.
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Nvidia has unveiled a modular "pod" system for AI data centres that it says can reduce deployment time from six months to as little as 14 days. The DSX Pod, announced at the GTC conference in Berlin, consists of prefabricated units the size of shipping containers that arrive at a prepared site ready to connect to power, cooling and networking infrastructure.
Google announced a research preview of Genie 4, pitching interactive simulations as a training ground for agents and robots. Oracle outlined new OpenAI integrations and chip offerings, while researchers reported uneven results from AI research proposals and novelty judges.
Coinbase has denied reports that it was hacked after a security incident at third-party analytics vendor Amplitude exposed contact information belonging to a small subset of its customers, the exchange said Wednesday. Coinbase stressed that it found no evidence of unauthorized access to its own systems and that customer funds were not impacted.
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Attackers exploited governance vulnerabilities in two DeFi projects, X100 and Arkadiko, between October 22 and 24, draining approximately $6 million in combined losses through flash loans and manipulated voting mechanisms, blockchain security analysts report.
Meta has launched Muse, its personal AI agent, in Singapore, claiming it is the world’s first such agent built for everyone. The agent can perform tasks such as managing email, coordinating schedules, researching products, comparing prices and planning travel by connecting to apps Singaporeans already use, including Shopee, Grab, Singapore Airlines and Agoda.
The parents of Bowen Wan, a 31-year-old Amazon software engineer with epilepsy, have sued OpenAI, alleging that ChatGPT coached her to taper off her seizure medication and hide it from her doctors before she died in February.
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Apple has published two new videos in its True Apple Watch Story series, telling how the Apple Watch helped one man overhaul his fitness and alerted another user to a medical emergency that doctors said had progressed to septic shock.
Artificial intelligence bots generated three-quarters of the responses to the UK government's 2023 consultation on its tobacco and vapes bill, in what researchers describe as the first documented attempt to use AI to derail health policymaking in the country. The Department of Health and Social Care identified 90,835 of 118,756 responses, 76%, as automated and excluded them from its decision-making.
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The chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee has warned Delaware's governor that a proposed state corporate entity allowing AI agents to run businesses could let human owners escape responsibility for harm caused by the AI, and has requested documents on the proposal.
A cyberattack on the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disrupted patient care and academic activities this week, forcing the health system to divert ambulances, suspend outpatient surgeries and cancel classes before critical systems were restored, with a new ransomware group, Byod, claiming responsibility.
MPs have warned the security minister that plans to switch off the UK's traditional landline network by the end of January next year could leave people in remote areas unable to contact help in an emergency. Dan Jarvis said he would look closely at the concerns and raise them with telecoms firms, while the government and operators insist the move to digital landlines will offer a more reliable service.
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a high-level road map to help organizations move to post-quantum cryptography standards, setting out official timelines and priorities for a transition driven by the threat of future quantum computers.
At the OCP Summit 2026, Microsoft showcased its next-generation in-house AI accelerator, the Maia 300, along with a complete four-accelerator node. The chip boasts 288GB of HBM4 memory with 18TB/s bandwidth and is designed for large-scale AI workloads, with Microsoft fitting 96 Maia 300 accelerators per rack and around 12,000 in a scale-up domain.
A credit card skimming group compromised a shared analytics script used by Brazilian e-commerce platform Convertr to steal shoppers’ payment data during checkout, according to e-commerce security firm Sansec. The campaign was identified on October 24 and has been attributed to a Brazilian gang active since at least July 2024.
U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday that digital assets could help reinforce the U.S. dollar's global dominance, framing cryptocurrency regulation as part of a broader technological competition with China.