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 Hardware & Devices · 2 min
AI computing demand is eating into production capacity for PC, smart-device and gadget makers, with PCB shortages and price rises expected in coming months, according to a Nikkei Asia report. |
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AI · Developing · 7 sources · 1 min
Mistral AI said on October 29 that it had made the weights of Mistral Large 4 (Le Chonk) open, claiming the 1-trillion-parameter system ranks first among open models on Cognition's FrontierCode benchmark and is state-of-the-art in cyberdefense, after being put through its paces by vendors including CrowdStrike and Cloudflare. |
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Security · 2 min
A hacking group was observed exploiting a patched Cisco vulnerability to deploy a custom malware framework called KeyDrift in attacks on space and satellite services, defense and aerospace technology, and policy research organizations, Cisco Talos researchers reported. The group, tracked as UAT-11473, appears to overlap with the Chinese state-sponsored Volt Typhoon's 'Silent Train' covert access network, though Talos made no definitive links. |
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Tech · 2 min
Reddit announced plans to start requiring users to log in alongside its third-quarter 2026 earnings, a shift from its two decades of allowing logged-out access. There is no definitive timeline for a global rollout. |
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Editor's picks Programming · Topcoat brings server-side rendering to Rust, offering a new option for web framework developers. |
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Signal (beta) · what the people building AI said
Google starts Carbon rollout with cyber defenders
Google announced Gemini 4 Carbon and said access would begin this week with selected cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program before expanding. Sundar Pichai said Carbon leads the updated Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and improves on Argon in long-horizon tasks; he also said Google had strengthened its frontier safeguards.
We’re first making Carbon available to a subset of trusted cyber defenders in our Fairwind program. We’ll expand access as soon as possible.
Google AI, Google AI research · On X
It also leads across key cybersecurity evaluations scoring 88.2% on SEC-bench Pro for finding vulnerabilities, 54.8% on ExploitGym for exploitation, and 71.0% on CWE-bench for patching.
Sundar Pichai, Google CEO · On X
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Today's segment · Source Spotlight
The Sydney Morning Herald
Credibility 8/10 on the desk's rubric. 318 of this week's stories drew on it. |
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