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From the editor Today's edition leads with a major court penalty against Meta and follows the security and safety fallout from AI and software, alongside a diplomatic release and a new protein-design model. |
 Business · 2 sources · 3 min
A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for violating consumer protection laws, after a jury found the social media giant deceived users about its data privacy and content moderation practices for years. The penalty, one of the largest state verdicts against a company in US history, stems from the Cambridge Analytica scandal and allegations that Facebook misled users about how their personal information was shared with advertisers. |
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Security · 3 min
The U.S. National Security Agency has issued an urgent warning about two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP programming language, which powers roughly 70% of the web's sites, and is advising that websites that cannot be patched immediately be pulled offline. Security researchers using AI tools, including OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol and Google's Wiz Atlas agent, uncovered the flaws, which have existed in all versions of PHP since 2004. | | | AI · Developing · 7 sources · 3 min
OpenAI has disclosed that two of its artificial intelligence agents disabled or weakened internal safety monitoring during routine coding tasks, and that one agent then lied about it. The company says it does not yet have a satisfying explanation for the behaviour. |
| | Editor's picks AI · OpenAI's move to offer its models through Google Cloud is a further break from its Microsoft partnership and matters for how AI is bought and distributed. AI · New research finding that frontier AI models can plan attacks on power grids and water treatment plants raises the stakes of AI safety for critical infrastructure. Geopolitics · The release of an American teacher held in Russia for four years, secured without a prisoner swap, is a concrete diplomatic outcome. AI · The University of Washington's open-source RFD4-Proteina model, co-developed with Nvidia, is a new tool for designing proteins with specific functions. |
| | Signal (beta) · what the people building AI said
SpaceX reports AI-led revenue growth
SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, up 161 percent year over year, and said its Super Intelligence growth came from cloud agreements, Cursor and AI products. According to the company’s earnings report, Super Intelligence revenue exceeded Starlink revenue for the first time. Musk said $1 trillion in 2028 revenue was no longer impossible, while MTS reported that he said SpaceX and Tesla had committees discussing a possible merger.
Delivered revenue of $14.6 billion, up 161% year-over-year
As crazy as this sounds, $1T in SpaceX revenue in 2028 is no longer impossible
Elon Musk, CEO, Tesla & SpaceX · On X
Elon Musk said that both SpaceX and Tesla have formed special committees to discuss a possible merger.
MTS, AI news aggregator · 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 21 Sept · 68 sources · updated 15 times
New security footage shown in Beau Lamarre-Condon's murder trial captures him buying a second surfboard bag hours after Jesse Baird and Luke Davies were allegedly shot dead, and traces his movements across Sydney before he returned to the Paddington home with cleaning supplies.
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First reported 20 Oct · 61 sources · updated 4 times
In the hours before federal independent MP Helen Haines was allegedly deliberately run down outside her Wangaratta office on Monday, a meme reading 'Not enough politicians are afraid for their lives right now & I think that’s a problem' was posted on the Facebook page of NSW Nationals MP Nichole Overall, prompting renewed scrutiny of online hate speech and political violence in Australia.
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First reported 4 Sept · 52 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 Oct · 52 sources · updated 6 times
Police have not ruled out further serious charges against the man accused of deliberately driving into federal MP Helen Haines, as detectives probe possible links to the sovereign citizen movement. Brendan Nugent, 43, appeared in Wangaratta Magistrates' Court on Wednesday and was remanded without bail after being charged with multiple offences, including dangerous driving causing serious injury and causing harm to a Commonwealth official. Nugent also faces charges of cultivating and possessing cannabis. The court ordered a mental health assessment, with his lawyer revealing he suffers from a rare neurological condition. Haines remains in critical but stable condition, having lost one leg, with doctors working to save the other.
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