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 Security · Developing · 5 sources · 3 min
A MECOOL Android TV box carried the XCPE backdoor that Google attributes to Chinese manufacturer Videostrong Technology, according to a report from security firm Synthient, whose founder says Google's figure of more than 1.3 million infected devices is 'highly conservative'. |
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AI · 2 min
Mistral has released Mistral Large 4 (ML4), an open-weight multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 52 billion active parameters and 1 trillion total parameters, designed for reasoning and long-horizon agentic tasks. The model achieves competitive scores on code, cybersecurity and agentic benchmarks, including 19.7% on FrontierCode 2.0, 41% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 and 50.9% on the Artificial Analysis Cyber Index. |
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AI · Updated · 3 sources · 2 min
Brookfield, through its Radiant platform, has signed an agreement with Drax Group to develop a massive artificial intelligence data centre at the Drax Power Station estate in North Yorkshire. Total investment could exceed £20 billion ($26.8 billion), with an initial 100 MW phase targeting commercial customers from early 2028, subject to government approvals and securing a tenant. |
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Security · Updated · 3 min
Businesses in Britain’s food supply chain have been affected by the cyber-attack that hit supermarket refrigeration across Europe, the BBC reported on 3 November. Its chief executive, Richard Horne, told the BBC that the NCSC had worked overnight to alert potentially affected UK organisations. |
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Editor's picks |
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Signal (beta) · what the people building AI said
Anthropic’s spending commitments face scrutiny
According to the amended IPO prospectus covered by Zotpaper, Anthropic reported $17 billion in third-quarter revenue, a $567 million operating loss and roughly $895.4 billion in compute and infrastructure commitments. Rohan Paul, citing the Telegraph, said additional unpriced commitments could bring the bill to $1.07 trillion, with payments stretching to 2045. Gary Marcus argued that the figures point to financial trouble rather than a strong business.
Aggregate purchase/lease commitments of ~$895.4 billion.
MTS, AI news aggregator · On X
Those payments stretch to 2045, with $69.8B due within a year, against $131.9B in cash and short-term investments.
Rohan Paul, AI news curator · On X
Anthropic’s true genius in making people think that these numbers add up to its being a world-class business, when in reality it is teetering on fiscal disaster.
Gary Marcus, AI skeptic · On X
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Today's segment · Paper of the Day
Most AI coding agents overrun a disk limit before reading the file
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Preprint 2611.01953v1
Tian Qin, Yuhang Jiang et al. — Tsinghua University · The University of Sydney
Qin et al. describe what they call the Step-Zero attack: an agent given only a path or URL must open an unknown archive, fetch a response or decode an image to learn what is inside, and that opening is itself an action on the user's machine. Testing 42 harness-model combinations with crafted inputs paired against benign twins, they found 32 pairs exceeded a 4 MiB disk budget, 26 of them before any content reached the model. A byte-counting gate at the processing step kept every routed extraction within budget while agents still completed 25 of 28 tasks.
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