Nvidia has announced that it is opening an investigation into CEO Jensen Huang and his relationship with Megaspeed executive Alice Huang, who was reportedly recruited by China's Ministry of State Security to spy on the company . A statement posted by the board of directors reads…
The Verge · Terrence O’Brien · · 6 sources
Bloomberg's Mark Gurman says CEO John Ternus is pressuring AI czar Craig Federighi to accelerate the Siri roadmap and deliver a powerful AI agent that can compete with OpenAI's Dots or Meta's Muse. While Federighi has delivered a functional version of Siri AI on an incredibly…
The Verge · Terrence O’Brien · · 2 sources
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Our honeypots use "Cowrie" to collect SSH data. With the emergence of the "sshole" vulnerability last week, we are now seeing an increase in attempts to exploit the vulnerability. Our data is a bit limited in this respect. Our honeypots collect only the first 255 characters of…
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DeepSeek, the Chinese AI disruptor, released striking adoption numbers for its AI agent infrastructure as it continues to challenge Anthropic PBC and OpenAI with an entire swath of applications built around open-source AI technologies.
Bloomberg Technology · Saritha Rai · · 2 sources
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Japanese manufacturer Iris Ohyama, the operator of the Iris Plaza shopping platform, disclosed that personal information belonging to about 7.7 million people may have been exposed after unauthorized access to a third-party cloud service the company used. [...]
Suno is facing yet another pair of lawsuits . A group of rights holders of Elvis Presley's music and the publisher of some of Eminem's biggest records are suing the AI music company, claiming it illegally generates music and lyrics that mimic those artists. The lawyers in the…
The Verge · Terrence O’Brien · · 2 sources
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Про нейросети на стороне хакеров говорят не первый год. Чаще всего речь о подсказках: модель сочиняет фишинговое письмо, разбирает найденную уязвимость, правит чужой код. Решения при этом принимает человек, он же и сидит за клавиатурой. 2 ноября Positive Technologies описала…
Between August 25 and September 10, 2026, Anthropic, OpenAI, and GitHub Copilot each changed the usage limits on their paid AI plans. Not one announcement said "we are cutting your access," and some presented the change as an increase. The math told a different story When three…
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What do you assign when a coding agent can finish last year s homework in one prompt? In the second run of Stanford s CS146S, Mihail Eric brought open-source maintainers into the course. Students have to learn an unfamiliar repo, propose a change, and ...
Anthropic PBC has agreed to pay $3.4 billion for gas-fired generators for data centers, the FT reported, in what it described as the largest known single purchase of power-generation equipment by an AI lab.
Bloomberg Technology · Eleanor Thornber · · 2 sources
Garance Burke / Associated Press : Sources: officials at the Commerce Department's AI safety center CAISSI were asked to informally report to a White House office, raising independence concerns — With public anxiety growing over mounting reports about out-of-control…
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Alex Eichenstein / The Information : Excluding Anthropic's IPO, AI companies sold or priced $300B+ of stock in 2026, with ~$100B more on tap, raising questions about how much the market can absorb — Volatile trading in AI-related stocks this past week has put a spotlight on…
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I’ve always enjoyed talking to security expert Alex Stamos because he’s so direct — and he doesn't mince words about how the multibillion dollar cybersecurity industry as we’ve known it is all but doomed thanks to the unrelenting, AI-boosted waves of hacks, breaches, and attacks. That much disruption means a lot of places where bad guys can get in while everyone else is left scrambling. Alex isn’t a doomer in the long run, but he does think we've got a dark age to get through before things get better. Read the full interview transcript on The Verge. Links: Attack of the killer script kiddies | The Verge Alex Stamos on AI's coming cybersecurity dark age | Ground Level AI Palo Alto’s CEO Said
Perplexity’s new Teammates can coordinate multiple agents, remember where previous sessions left off, and keep working without another prompt. The challenge is keeping everything in sync, especially when agents are working at the same time, sharing project state, and operating…
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Google Cloud has made a self-managed VMware solution generally available, running VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x on dedicated Z3 bare metal with root access across ESXi, vCenter and NSX in 22 regions. It sits beside the Google-managed VMware Engine and matches customer-operated…
In a recent article, Cloudflare shared the redesign of the control plane of its D1 serverless SQL database to support millions of databases, avoiding centralized bottlenecks, implementing retries and idempotency, and using eventual consistency. By Renato Losio
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json vs jsonb in PostgreSQL 17 and 18, measured on six document shapes: when jsonb is 23% smaller or 41% larger, read speed, GIN, and what it changes.
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Better Auth published a coordinated security release on November 3, 2026. It covers 12 advisories across core and its plugins : one critical, two high, eight medium and one low. If your SaaS uses Better Auth, upgrade today. For some setups, upgrading is not enough. The critical…
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Intro With all the noise about yet another shiny AI model, most of us completely missed a much bigger and more impactful announcement. Summer 2026 delighted us with Microsoft rolling out the TypeScript 7.0 RC. TypeScript, which was previously written in TypeScript itself, has…
On 300 public function-calling tasks, Mistral Small (2603) returned an empty reply 58 times, even after two retries. That is 19.3% of tasks with nothing to parse, and it is why a model priced at $0.15 per million input tokens ended up at $0.000098 per successful task against…
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Brenner Base Tunnel SE confirms a breach and Everest claims 812 GB. What we know, what we don’t, and why overblown alarm helps propaganda more than the attackers. Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) SE, the company building the Brenner Base Tunnel between Italy and Austria, has confirmed…
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French cooperative bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa was targeted in a cyberattack that enabled fraudulent transactions of up to $133 million, forcing it to respond by suspending certain systems.v [...]
BleepingComputer · Bill Toulas · · 2 sources
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Posted by Bram Matthys on Nov 08 Last Saturday, 7-Nov-2026, I put out a security release and hot-patch for UnrealIRCd. The CVE entry CVE-2026-114713 has been published now. This is an escaping bug in UnrealIRCd's implementation of the IRCv3 "label" message tag. Any user can…