The Handover
Saturday 3 October 2026
The day in 7 stories, as Asia signs off and New York wakes up.
Security
Australia orders federal agencies to review legacy tech after OpenAI Medicare breach
Australia's home affairs department ordered every federal agency to review legacy technology and plan cuts to ageing systems after AI agent hacks exposed Medicare vulnerabilities. The order targets government tech debt.
Security
Epic pauses product development to fix security flaws found by AI model
Epic paused most product development for an estimated six weeks to fix MyChart flaws that could let outsiders access patient data undetected. Anthropic's Mythos cybersecurity model found the bugs.
Business
Amazon and Synopsys sign billion-dollar deal to accelerate AI chip design
Amazon and Synopsys signed a multi-year deal reportedly worth more than $1 billion for chip-design IP, tools and AWS services. Synopsys will optimize software for Amazon's Trainium and Graviton chips.
AI
Apple tightens macOS Full Disk Access controls, citing risks from AI agents
Apple announced tighter controls for macOS Full Disk Access, saying desktop AI agents raised the risks of that permission. The move follows a disputed claim about Meta's Muse and a reported flaw in ChatGPT's Mac app.
AI
Meta open sources code for DIY Muse AI gadgets
Meta released open-source code for building Muse AI gadgets with ESP32 boards or Raspberry Pi units. It lets users make custom devices running the company's AI agent.
Security
China-linked Warlock ransomware targets water utility and telecoms via SharePoint flaws
Symantec and Carbon Black said China-linked ransomware group Warlock breached a water utility, telecom provider, regional government and university via SharePoint flaws. It used ToolShell against on-premises deployments.
AI research
Fine-grained routing makes sparse video attention faster without quality loss
UC San Diego and ByteDance Seed researchers showed VSA2 generated 720p video substantially faster than FlashAttention-3 with comparable or better quality. It selects a query-dependent subset of token interactions.
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