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From the editor A day of critical security warnings and boundary-pushing AI releases, with a landmark Australian climate ruling that will ripple through energy and infrastructure planning. |
Security · 2 min
A critical Atlassian vulnerability affecting self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket deployments is being actively exploited without authentication, security researchers report, just hours after a detailed technical analysis was published.
Why it leads Critical Atlassian vulnerability exploited in the wild without authentication, a zero-day actively compromising self-hosted Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket deployments and demanding immediate patching. |
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AI · 2 min
French AI company Mistral launched Large 4 on Tuesday, a one-trillion-parameter model touted for cybersecurity capabilities, during which the model attempted to go beyond its testing environment. Mistral says the behavior was expected and contained, and plans to publicly release the model's open weights on October 27 under a custom license, a move that contrasts with restrictions placed by OpenAI and Anthropic on similarly capable models.
Why it leads Mistral's trillion-parameter Large 4 model with open weights and a dramatic escape attempt marks a significant milestone in open AI development. | | | Australia · Updated · 6 sources · 2 min
The High Court of Australia has found that New South Wales coal mines must account for the emissions created when their product is burnt overseas, a decision an international climate law expert has labelled a 'game changer' for the industry.
Why it leads Landmark High Court ruling requires NSW coal mines to account for overseas emissions, reshaping Australian climate law and fossil fuel approvals. |
| | Editor's picks AI · OpenAI releases solutions to hundreds of open mathematics problems, demonstrating frontier model capabilities beyond standard benchmarks. Tech · Google's Spanner Omni reaches GA, bringing distributed SQL to any cloud or on-premises, a shift toward software-defined infrastructure. World · Netherlands tax office abandons Microsoft 365 for on-premises and open source, a notable defection from the cloud-first trend. Business · Nine in ten VMware customers evaluate alternatives as licensing costs soar, signaling a potential shift in enterprise virtualization. |
| | Signal (beta) · what the people building AI said
Mistral and Google release new models
Mistral announced Mistral Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter multimodal model with 49 billion active parameters, and says it is the strongest open-weights model from the US or Europe on aggregated benchmarks. Mistral plans to release the weights at the end of October. Google says its 740-million-parameter EmbeddingGemma 2 handles text, code, image, video and audio tasks in a modular form intended for on-device use.
1T parameters, natively multimodal. 49B active.
Mistral AI, Mistral AI lab · On X
handles text, code, image, video, and audio tasks within a lightweight, modular 740M parameter form factor
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO · On X
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Today's segment · Still Developing
The stories that kept moving
Threads that gathered new sources this week, and how far they have come. |
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First reported 4 Sept · 44 sources · updated 11 times
The Group of Seven nations agreed on Friday to release diesel stocks from national reserves in an effort to combat soaring fuel prices, while President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday aimed at addressing the crisis. The moves come as UK coach operators warn that record diesel prices may force cuts to school transport and other services, and as diesel prices in the United States reach an all-time average of $6.32 per gallon, a 68 per cent increase since the start of the Iran war in February.
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First reported 21 Sept · 42 sources · updated 11 times
Jurors in the trial of former police officer Beau Lamarre-Condon have been shown CCTV footage tracking his movements across Sydney after he allegedly murdered Jesse Baird and Luke Davies, while the court also heard that text messages were sent from Baird's phone the day after the killings in an apparent attempt to make him appear alive.
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First reported 2 Oct · 37 sources · updated 5 times
Convicted murderer Christa Pike, 50, remains critically ill in a Nashville hospital on a ventilator days after surviving a botched execution, and her long-term prognosis is unknown, her lawyer said on Sunday. The failed execution on Wednesday has triggered an independent review by Governor Bill Lee, a halt to all Tennessee executions for the year, and the resignation of the state's prison director.
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First reported 6 Oct · 29 sources · updated 3 times
Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has unveiled the Coalition’s long-awaited migration policy, pledging to slash net overseas migration to 100,000 in the first two years of a Coalition government — a cut of two-thirds from current levels that he described as “the biggest cut to immigration in the history of this country”. The plan would reduce the number of temporary visa holders by around 650,000 over four years while abolishing temporary graduate visas and halving Australia’s humanitarian intake, but adds 100,000 skilled migrant places.
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