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 Security · Developing · 22 sources · 4 min
France's blood service and British meat suppliers are the latest affected by cyber-attacks on commercial refrigeration across Europe. Systems at three French blood-storage facilities and fridges at UK meat suppliers were affected. The EFS said no blood products were lost, and Aims said no affected members lost meat. No formal attribution has been made; two pro-Russian groups claimed to have hacked Danfoss, but their role in the attacks has not been established. |
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Romanian security firm Bitdefender has discovered an Android flaw, dubbed GhostMap, that lets a malicious app with no permissions and no need to be launched force a device into a continuous boot loop, and says Google closed the issue without a patch after replying 'Won't Fix (Not Reproducible)'. | | | Tech · 1 min
Discord is ditching Electron and moving its desktop app fully to Rust, leaving behind Electron web apps that are notoriously heavy on system resources. | | | AI · Developing · 2 sources · 2 min
Cat Wu, the product leader behind Anthropic's Claude Code coding tool, is joining OpenAI to lead product management for its core products team, the company confirmed. The move, announced by Wu on X, comes after she left Anthropic last week and ahead of the startup's planned initial public offering. |
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| | Signal (beta) · what the people building AI said
OpenAI releases Images 2.6
OpenAI announced Images 2.6 in ChatGPT and Codex across all tiers, alongside Flare and Sunburst models in the API. OpenAI Developers says the API models generate images 50% faster than before and that Sunburst preserves details more consistently across edits at medium or high quality.
Images 2.6 is available today in ChatGPT, and Codex across all tiers on web, desktop, and mobile.
Image-2.6 Flare and Sunburst, our two new API image models, generate images 50% faster than before.
OpenAI Developers, OpenAI Developers · 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 Nov · 398 sources · updated 9 times
The 2026 US midterm elections delivered a blue wave that handed Democrats control of Congress and produced a historic wave of firsts, including the country's first Black female governor, first Native American female governor, first Native female senator, first Muslim senator, and first openly gay male senator.
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First reported 30 Oct · 230 sources · updated 38 times
New accounts of the attack on cryptocurrency exchange Binance show hackers rehearsed the exploit in small test transactions before draining more than $6.3 billion in the largest crypto theft on record, and the exchange says it has since restored 90 per cent of the stolen tokens. The FBI has blamed North Korea, matching blockchain intelligence firms that point to the state-linked TraderTraitor hacking unit.
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First reported 15 Oct · 200 sources · updated 18 times
Israel's opposition parties are set to open formal coalition talks on Thursday, with centre-left leader Yair Golan scheduled to meet Gadi Eisenkot and Yair Lapid, after a near-final count left no bloc able to command the 61 seats needed for a Knesset majority.
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First reported 29 Sept · 121 sources · updated 11 times
The Democratic Party’s sweeping victory in the US midterm elections, giving it control of both chambers of Congress, has prompted anger within the Republican Party, with figures blaming President Donald Trump for what one called a “disaster” and a “total, complete rejection” of the president. Trump distanced himself from the result, saying he was not on the ballot and would have won in a landslide.
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