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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.
An autonomous AI agent has identified four previously unknown security vulnerabilities in the Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System (EPICS) open-source software toolkit, including a critical flaw that could allow remote code execution on systems controlling particle accelerators and fusion experiments.
A critical vulnerability in the boot-time firmware used by most of the world's server vendors and data centers could let attackers execute malicious code before operating system defenses load. Tracked as CVE-2026-97631 and rated 9.5 out of 10 in severity, the flaw is a memory-corruption bug in TianoCore EDK II, the open source codebase behind most UEFI firmware.
Anthropic’s engineering and product leads have described how the company ships its flagship Claude models by separating the model’s reasoning, the ‘brain’, from the execution environment, the ‘hands’, a design choice they say improves both security and latency. The insights come from a podcast interview with Katelyn Lesse and Angela Jiang, heads of Engineering and Product respectively, as Anthropic prepares for its expected IPO.
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The Pentagon has approved a drone armed with a shotgun and grenade launcher for purchase by the US military and federal agencies, adding Skyborne Technologies' Cerberus MI to its Blue UAS List of vetted uncrewed systems.
Intel, Oracle, IBM and IonQ have objected to plans by crypto exchange OKX and NYSE parent Intercontinental Exchange (ICE) to offer blockchain-based trading of their shares, bringing the total number of issuer objections to 26, according to an updated public notice from the joint venture OKXICE.
Norway's National Security Authority (NSM) said on Tuesday that the number of successful cyberattacks targeting Norwegian organisations has trebled in the last six months, warning that the rapid growth of artificial intelligence technology poses a serious risk to businesses and critical infrastructure.
Brazilian companies rushed into stablecoins on election day to protect their treasuries from the fallout of an election that saw incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva unexpectedly defeat challenger Flávio Bolsonaro. Corporate accounts generated 78% of trading on crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin, with USDT volume jumping nearly 800% and bitcoin volume surging 865% from the previous Sunday, the exchange said.
Warp, the developer tool that evolved from a terminal into an agentic development environment (ADE), has disclosed a security breach involving a third-party vendor that exposed agent decision logs and telemetry data. CEO Zach Lloyd estimates that roughly 1% of Warp’s users may have been impacted, and said the company detected the exploitation within hours and mitigated the incident.
Ben Groundwater, a travel writer for The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald, argues that algorithms and artificial intelligence have replaced Lonely Planet guidebooks as the primary force shaping where people travel, and the effect is now "infinitely multiplied." In an opinion piece published Wednesday, he writes that whereas Lonely Planet was once criticized for sending everyone to the same places, modern social media feeds and AI tools such as Google Gemini and ChatGPT dictate travel choices on a far larger scale.
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Apple's second-generation AirTag has hit an all-time low of $23, down from $29, at Amazon and Walmart. The deal arrives as holiday travel season approaches, offering iPhone users an affordable way to track luggage and other belongings.
A coalition of ten Norwegian media organisations has filed a request with the Oslo District Court for a provisional injunction to prevent Meta from introducing new commercial terms that would give it the right to scrape their articles, photos and videos, including paywalled content, for use in developing artificial intelligence products. The legal action comes after Meta postponed the rollout of the terms, originally set for 30 October, to 20 November, following pushback from European publishers and antitrust authorities. Users in the European Union and United Kingdom have meanwhile discovered they can object to the use of their data for AI training.
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Google DeepMind released Genie 4, its latest world model, in research preview on Tuesday, giving trusted testers early access to a system that generates interactive scenes with real-time audio and can be redirected by text prompts mid-simulation. The company is pitching it as a training ground for AI agents and robots, while conceding that its physics can drift over longer sessions.
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Tailscale is working to patch nearly a dozen security vulnerabilities in its mesh VPN software, including critical flaws in its SSH server that could allow authorized attackers to gain root-level code execution, steal credentials, and crash servers.
Janus Henderson, the London-based asset manager overseeing roughly $500 billion, has teamed up with tokenisation platform Centrifuge to launch JQQQ, an issuer-sponsored fund on the Stellar blockchain that tracks the Nasdaq-100 Index, the companies said Tuesday. The fund marks the expansion of Wall Street's tokenisation push into stock-market products and brings Janus Henderson's onchain investment platform to more than $1 billion in assets across Treasuries, structured credit and equities.
Ford has announced that its next-generation electric pickup, the Fathom, will include bidirectional charging capabilities, allowing owners to power their homes from the truck's battery. Priced under $30,000, the vehicle is expected to be officially revealed in the coming months.
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Apple has introduced an AI assistant for its productivity suite, including Keynote, Pages and Numbers, powered by models from Apple and OpenAI. The assistant can understand document context to help with slide design and animation in Keynote, draft and restructure text in Pages, and visualise and organise data in Numbers.
Apple has released iOS 27.2 for iPhones and iPads, adding support for Siri AI in five new languages, memory features that let the assistant recall past conversations, and more than 160 security patches including a fix for a vulnerability that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The update also adds Apple Pencil support for the foldable iPhone Duo, Multiview for watching up to four live sport streams, and several enhancements to Messages, FaceTime, Podcasts, and Photos.
CF Benchmarks, the pricing index provider whose data underpins BlackRock's bitcoin ETF and CME Group's crypto futures, has launched a service that makes its benchmarks available on blockchain networks, opening the door for developers to build traditional investment products in decentralized finance.
Japanese internet giant GMO Internet has told customers of its Onamae Desktop Cloud service to disconnect their computers, shut them down and unplug all cables, after a threat actor who breached the service published stolen company and customer data and threatened to trigger a ransomware attack. GMO confirmed the publication in a report on Tuesday and said it was verifying whether the leaked information was genuine.
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The American Civil Liberties Union has released a report warning that police are increasingly using artificial intelligence algorithms and automated license plate reader data to flag motorists as suspicious without evidence of wrongdoing, leading to what it calls a rise in pretextual traffic stops.
A security researcher using an artificial intelligence language model discovered a hypervisor vulnerability in Sony's PlayStation 5 that allowed Linux to be loaded on the console. The researcher, who goes by Jordy on social media, reported the flaw to Sony and received a $50,000 bug bounty. The disclosure has drawn strong criticism from members of the jailbreaking community.
Ripple and Robinhood have expanded their partnership, with Ripple's RLUSD stablecoin expected to reach Robinhood's main app later this year and gain access to the brokerage's roughly 28.6 million funded customers. The agreement, announced Oct. 27 at Ripple's Swell 2026 conference in New York, also covers institutional settlement, treasury management and trading financing.
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The Netherlands has announced plans to cut 25,000 government jobs, more than 15 per cent of its civil service workforce, tying the reduction directly to the adoption of artificial intelligence. The move is part of a wave of governments rethinking public sector employment in the age of AI.
Apple has announced a major update to its Creator Studio suite of creative apps, bringing built-in MotionVFX content to Final Cut Pro, an intelligent assistant to Logic Pro, and generative AI fill tools to Pixelmator Pro, among other features. The updates, described by Apple as the most significant since Creator Studio launched, will be released as a free update for subscribers in November.
General Compute, a startup building cloud infrastructure around specialised AI inference chips, has announced a $100 million Series A funding round led by Blackbird Ventures and Abstract Ventures. The company, now valued at $800 million, is positioning itself as a counterpoint to the struggling neocloud market, where high debt and falling stock prices have prompted predictions of a shakeout.
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A cyberattack on the email hosting provider of Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party exposed more than 345,000 unique email addresses and a large volume of confidential emails and attachments, Have I Been Pwned confirmed. The party disclosed the September attack on its own hosting provider, Alternita Dienstleistungs GmbH, last week and said it is 'deeply concerned', describing the incident as an illegal attack on democracy.
Browser maker Opera has introduced a new web standard, WebAI, that allows users to run AI models directly in its browser without sending data to cloud servers. The standard supports a variety of open-weight models, including Google's Gemma and Apple's on-device foundation model on Macs, and is available as an early preview in Opera One.
· 3 sourcesMicrosoft has released an out-of-band Windows update that removes seven certificates from the Windows trust list, including six eMudhra G3 root certificates and an AAA Certificate Services cross-sign, as part of its response to the compromise of eMudhra intermediate certificate authority private keys. The company plans to remove the same certificates from the Microsoft Edge trust list on October 27.
· 3 sourcesApple on Tuesday unveiled a new iMac and a 14-inch MacBook Pro powered by the M6 chip, holding prices at $1,499 and $1,999 and bucking the increases Apple has applied to other products this year. Pre-orders open Wednesday, October 28, and both machines arrive Friday, November 6, with a redesigned MacBook Pro reported to follow as soon as Wednesday.
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Nvidia announced a series of multi-billion-dollar agreements with supply chain partners at GTC Berlin on October 21, aimed at overcoming severe bottlenecks in the production of AI accelerators. The deals span substrates, co-packaged optics, advanced packaging, and semiconductor testing, with commitments and production roadmaps stretching through 2028.
A burst of AI investment and oversight, centered on Anthropic, set the tone: the Claude maker moved toward a blockbuster public listing, banks assembled $63 billion in chip financing, and regulators demanded testimony from its leaders, while rivals pulled in billions more for AI infrastructure.
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Jordan Hubbard, one of the original founders of the FreeBSD project, has released Daemonarchy, an independent port that brings the Linux-based Omarchy desktop to FreeBSD. The project has gone through 10 releases in approximately 10 days and currently sits at version 1.3.1, adapting Omarchy's tools and components as FreeBSD ports collected into an installable ISO image.
French energy giant ENGIE has confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by its business partners, according to a company spokesperson. The breach is limited to customers in France and did not involve the company's internal systems, ENGIE said.
Apple has released security updates for older iPhones and iPads, backporting patches for a CoreGraphics zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-86950) that the company says was exploited in highly targeted attacks against specific individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27.
London-based robotics startup Machenta has raised $40 million in seed funding to build an AI model that can teach robots new physical tasks after a single demonstration, using a model trained entirely in simulation. The round was co-led by venture capital firms Creandum and Union Square Ventures.
Nvidia has invested in Indian startup Simplismart as part of a $14 million Series B funding round, betting on software that helps companies run AI models more efficiently and, in some cases, with fewer GPUs.
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Engineers from Amazon Web Services (AWS) have outlined the team's process for handling Linux kernel Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs), using an automated filter, an AI agent and human review, during a talk at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague. Dylan Johnson and Justinien Bouron described how the team manages the kernel used in EC2 infrastructure, separate from Amazon Linux or customer virtual machine kernels, as the number of CVEs has soared since the kernel project became a CVE Numbering Authority in February 2024.
Ethereum developers have patched a vulnerability in the upcoming Glamsterdam upgrade that could have allowed an operator to withdraw ETH intended for new validators. The fix, which changed how validator deposits are handled, was merged Monday after being initially turned down. No losses have been reported.
The UK government developed its AI datacentre policy after meetings with 137 businesses and no environmental organisations, according to an investigation by Spotlight on Corruption, which also found 38 ministers, civil servants and special advisers moved into jobs with AI companies between July 2024 and September 2026.
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A group of Elvis Presley rightsholders have filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against AI company Anthropic, alleging it used the musician's songs to train its models without permission. Filed last Friday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, the complaint seeks damages worth $41.1 million, or $150,000 per work.
Simile, an AI startup building models that simulate consumer behavior, has raised $300 million at a $2 billion valuation, CEO Joon Sung Park said on the Sourcery podcast. Park said the company is creating a foundation model of human behavior that allows businesses to define an audience and ask simulated consumers questions about products, marketing campaigns and store layouts.
The first person charged under Australia's laws against deepfake pornography has been sentenced and will not serve time in jail. William Hamish Yeates, 20, of Netherby in South Australia, was handed a two-year and three-month term by District Court Judge Anne Barnett, who released him on a three-year recognisance release order on the condition he be of good behaviour.
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OpenAI’s Terra launch paired lower prices and reported coding gains with restrictions its own safety tests found the model could bypass. Anthropic’s IPO filing prompted competing assessments of its growth prospects and the scope for further enterprise spending.
A self-replicating npm worm that initially appeared to be a harmless test had in fact compromised 42 GitHub repositories belonging to 11 owners, with accounts hijacked as early as July, according to security researchers at JFrog.
Keystone will destroy nearly 19,000 unsold hardware wallets and suspend shipments after attackers stole a factory-set key used to verify device authenticity, widening a breach first reported as a customer data leak.
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has granted Ripple final approval to operate Ripple National Trust Bank, a federally supervised trust bank that will manage the reserves behind its RLUSD stablecoin and provide digital asset custody. Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced the approval on X late Monday, completing a process that began with an application in July 2025 and conditional approval last December.
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Computer scientists are organising a community review of OpenAI’s claimed refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, with MIT professor Ryan Williams identifying unfamiliar steps that require collective scrutiny. Anthropic has published its own claimed refutation, raising the stakes for research into how quickly computers can solve difficult problems.
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