Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio sells 512GB of memory, and the options list is the risk. Every story that day, by desk. 361 stories in all. Times are Pacific.
Security45 stories
- Encrypted DNS in Russia is now a reachability problem, not a privacy win
- SLEEPWALKER: a backdoor that ships its own 23-instruction language, and nothing to block until it wakes
- Ten cents a call: Activation Lock bypass now ships with its own voice agent
- Uber's 825 million euro lesson: the missing human is the violation
- Norway's shared login layer failed for the third time since June, and nobody broke in
- WhatsApp trades a six-digit PIN for a real password, and a passkey for each platform
- NemoClaw's wide Ollama bind lets a webpage rewrite your model's chat template
- CISA ran the same tradecraft at two organisations; only the water utility caught it
- Two miniOrange SAML bugs under attack, and 30,000 paid installs were never told
- npm as free hosting: 24 packages whose only job is rendering a fake Cloudflare page
- Jackal IV's arithmetic: three quarters of the suspects sat with the vendors, not the syndicate
- Attackers bought the top result for "codex macos download" and kept the payload swappable
- 405 AI malware samples, 12 sightings: Unit 42's own count argues against an AI defence line item
- ShinyHunters phished the firm that had just profiled it, and device trust was the only thing that mattered
- Calix fiber gateway takes port-forward orders from anyone, and the vendor has not answered
- WeedHack lost its C2 and kept its funnel: ten fake Minecraft sites still convert victims
- New Zealand's under-16 bill makes age checks a statutory duty, and someone has to hold the scans
- Five new Iran determinations widen the sanctions perimeter to eight lines of business
Build120 stories
- OpenAI's agent can sign in to your dashboards, and your access log will call it a user
- Cerebras moves its product line from the wafer to the rack, and the CS-5 number carries a 2027 date
- Sony, Universal, Warner and EA buy into Stability AI: equity now, terms later
- SpaceX's $100B Louisiana pad farm bets on a turnaround Starship has never shown
- OpenAI's Premium seat charges exactly five times Standard for five times the usage
- OpenAI's first Jalapeno numbers buy it leverage, not a procurement input
- Pacific Fusion pours concrete in Albuquerque; the yardstick is 500 megajoules at one shot per second
- IBM's 20x speech gain came from deleting the decoder, not adding parameters
- On-prem agents are now a purchasing decision: Perplexity's local Computer needs $4,800 of Nvidia
- Granite 4.2 ships a self-hostable reasoning tier under Apache 2.0, and its data says coding agent
- Apple's local-AI Mac Studio starts at $5,499, and the price that matters is still blank
Invest74 stories
- LayerZero's ATLAS asks venues for 1% of ZRO supply, then burns less the more they stake
- Grayscale's ZCSH puts Zcash in brokerage accounts, and none of its ZEC is shielded
- The 90% that covered 1.8%: Meta's Take a Break gap hands the states a paper case
- The $24M "AI mining" Ponzi: the wrapper was new, the payment schedule was not
- The charter, not the volume: a Trump-linked issuer gets a federal route to mint USD1
- OpenAI's first chip beat merchant silicon in 16 months. The moat was never the fab
- Alice's $140M round prices a decade of abuse data at seven to eight times revenue
- Meta's Hatch agent tops out at $199.99 a month, with DoorDash and Etsy behind the meter
- A 37-association bank consortium picks 2027 to stop waiting in the core vendors' line
- CME lists GPU futures on Oct. 5; the CFTC's comment window closes about two weeks later
- Unitree's 45% slide has unwound the abnormal half of a 460% pop, and none of the price
- OFAC hands itself oil-grade reach over Iran's crypto sector
- Ex-Lunar founders raise EUR 8.2m to sign audit opinions, not sell software to the Big Four
Product71 stories
- ARIA's chart rule is a provenance test, and the credits field is where it lands
- Perplexity makes "ask before the cloud" a feature, and prices it at DGX Spark
- The labels bought equity, not just injunctions, in Stability AI's $76mn round
- OpenAI breaks up its data centre job and goes back to renting whole buildings
- Claude's memory now writes while you talk, and it crosses products by default
- A 100-billion-document index for rent, and retrieval turns into a thing labs buy
- Apple's M5 Ultra Mac Studio sells 512GB of memory, and the options list is the risk
- OpenAI's Black Hat account gives agent containment a timeline, two zero-days and a body count
- Fitbit's founders bet on the caregiver, not the runner: a $250 LTE band with no phone
- Oura wants $16bn for a $399 ring and a subscription line nobody has seen
- The Mac mini is sold by the gigabyte, which makes its refresh a DRAM story
- The export control that failed was Super Micro's own audit, and nine people are charged for it