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Security48 stories
- Suspected China-nexus actor exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day from late August
- Reuters traces Ukraine's Starlink slowdown to an order from inside the White House
- Proofpoint signs a merger agreement to acquire Varonis
- Lookalike yay and paru packages on the AUR ran a remote script as root
- Accenture limits central funding for Claude to $29 a month per employee
- NjRAT-based KGB RAT, sold as a Windows admin tool, has been in development since at least 2022
- OpenAI lets advertisers target ChatGPT users by uploaded email, phone number or Android ad ID
- Police in 17 countries arrest 95 suspects in INTERPOL sweep of CSAM messaging groups
- CISA gives agencies until October 17 to fix four exploited bugs in Cisco, Palo Alto and Ahsay products
- Zero-click Candiru attacks on Al Jazeera devices ran through an ad vendor Google had approved
- Ukraine says Starshield works on the move again after a speed limit disrupted its drone missions
- Legal Aid Agency traces records stolen in April 2025 breach back to 1978
Build114 stories
- One early test puts a 120B model at 63 tokens per second on an RTX Spark laptop
- Mistral limits Timestral weights to companies with no more than $20M in monthly revenue
- Vercel sells Pro teams $80 of GLM 5.3 and Kimi K3 credit for $30 a month
- Torres bill would make the FTC set an offline-mode rule for games that depend on servers
- GhostAction's secret-stealing workflows reached 30,000 repos through hijacked developer accounts, researchers say
- Krea 3 edits a selected region in under 8 seconds at $0.06 per 2K image, Krea says
- DeepSeek's outage credit is sized by the week before a 4h52m partial failure
- Anthropic plans to put outside evaluators inside its labs, starting with Accenture
- Vercel's Daemons beta moves queue-consuming workers onto the platform that hosts the frontend
- Google's Willow chip cultivates magic states with about 40x fewer errors
- Muse Spark Open's license asks hosted-model sellers above $20M in revenue for a written deal with Meta
- Black Forest Labs' distilled FLUX.3 Image Klein renders in about 2 seconds on an H100 in Diffusers
- Codex agent solves 49 of 50 unpublished physics problems for under $3 each
- Cloudflare open-sources Void, a Vite plugin that provisions Workers resources during deployment
- Anthropic and OpenAI fund separate firms to station engineers inside customers
- Page-picking model Jev cut wrong-page retrievals from 33% to 3% in Sayora's receptionist test
- Workday ships Agent Harness as generally available, billed on Flex Credits
- Ubuntu 26.10 ships a near-final Linux 7.3 and finishes the Rust coreutils switch
- Musk calls Micron's memory prices reasonable at an 81% gross margin
- Private new housing was main drag as construction output fell 1.0% in three months to August 2026
- GLM-5.3 reasons about its own training updates in 1 to 2 of every 1,000 eval rollouts
- Claude Code Desktop's preview pane ran scripts in HTML files over 256KB
Invest213 stories
- White House AI task force has 120 days to turn three risk areas into one federal position on safety
- Hong Kong opens Embodied AI hub where mainland robot makers can train for international scenarios
- Network School restricts Farcaster accounts over past posts on the day it buys the app from Neynar
- Three Han Kang books are among the 482,460 works on Anthropic's settlement list
- Australia drafts a crypto reporting law with its first cross-border tax data exchanges planned for 2028
- MSCI's new screen could remove Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes after Nov. 30
- A day after a 7.65% plunge, KOSDAQ's 5.27% rebound trips a buy-side sidecar
- Schwab's net new assets jump 38% to 43% before AI agents have had time to move clients' cash
- Bitcoin bounces 3.5% off a $79,694 low as Seoul's chipmakers recover
- Asia stock pickers lost 2.6% in a day as hedge funds sold AI shares, Goldman data show
- General Atlantic targets a first-half 2027 IPO valued at up to $10 billion
- Kia is sending empty PV5s to Pangyo customers under remote control on 4G and 5G
- Hyosung Heavy doubles its 420 kV-plus breaker capacity with an export-only plant in Changwon
- Investors pay HD Hyundai Electric a six-point premium over the Kospi for an LG CNS memorandum
- Solana Foundation opens a Shanghai Tower office in a country that bans crypto business
- Samsung gives Qualcomm until mid-October to fix Galaxy S27 Ultra chip heat or consider Exynos
- Whales sent 1.669 billion XRP to Binance in 30 days, the most in seven months
- Record September exports of $120.9 billion hold up Seoul's 'steady recovery' call
- Seoul steps up real-time market monitoring after the KOSPI falls 20.7% from its October 2 level
- Judge Hellerstein rejects a joint Gemini and CFTC bid to vacate a $5 million consent order
- Kospi opens up 1.8% and regains about a fifth of Thursday's 7.57% plunge, with KB Financial and Hanwha Aerospace among big gainers
- EQX Labs plans 11 tokenized US stock and ETF markets on Hyperliquid at zero issuer fees
- Meritz Securities and Canton agree to study tokenized Korean debt as cross-border collateral
- Health and welfare job growth outran South Korea's whole 113,000 September gain
- Polychain leads a seed round that takes Multiliquid to $8 million in total funding
- Hot US inflation hit a Kospi whose 55 trillion won of chipmaker buybacks had wound down
- Jeff Yan pitches US oversight of the firms deploying markets on Hyperliquid
- Peter Rice replaces Bela Bajaria as Netflix content chief a day after the company's largest layoff
- CNN signs a multi-year Google licensing deal as the AI news program passes 400 publications
- Supermicro hires Mark Long as CFO after promising in December 2024 to begin the search immediately
- Sweden's Riksbank asks parliament to prepare digital krona law while taking no position on issuing one
- South Korea's FSC estimates 100,000 customer-data items exposed at 16 financial firms, Gopax among them
- CoreWeave's bond downgrade and AI-debt worries send investors into healthcare and Treasuries as yields fall
- Dubai crude's 28.1% jump lifts South Korea's September import prices 1.7%
- Intuit agrees to buy Sequence to bring usage and milestone billing into its mid-market ERP
- Bitquery counts $102 million drained from 324 Ledger-linked wallets across six chains
- Saudi energy ministry confirms an Aramco office building in Dhahran was hit
- Saudi Arabia blames Iran for the Houthi escalation after a deadly strike on Aden's palace
- Neonomics raises EUR 3.6 million entirely from existing backers after cutting costs by almost half
- Stripe's stablecoin cards will spend a euro balance in euros, with Plasma as design partner
- Taiwan blocks Coinbase and Kalshi under an election law that already caught Polymarket
- Grayscale offers three token funds on Republic from $2,500 to verified accredited investors
- Harvard's $2.2 billion SpaceX stake is under half its roughly $4.7 billion lead on the median endowment
- Sunbound buys Richter Healthcare Consultants after raising $24 million led by TTV Capital
- Accenture's CTO puts large enterprises truly rebuilt around AI at 'close to zero'
- PeakSpan leads $60 million for North.cloud's automated cloud cost cutting
- AirTrunk postpones its $1.5 billion Singapore REIT IPO into next year
- Nvidia's $250 million UK pledge comes to $50 million a year of compute
- Berlin plans to put hundreds of millions of euros into an Nvidia pact, Handelsblatt says
- Cross River Bank adds Ripple's RLUSD beside ACH and wires on its fintech platform
- Binance US courts $100 million at about 22% of its 2022 pre-money valuation
- DeepMind's own index puts AI progress at 0.1 points a month even with AI writing over 75% of its code
- Running Meta's Muse Spark Open locally costs at least $21,598 in Mac Studios
- Nvidia and Apple together account for 15% of the $333 million pledged to Trump's ballroom
- Ripple Prime opens weekend swaps on 100-plus markets that reference Hyperliquid perpetuals
- Dream Finders will pay 0.8 times book value for Beazer to reach sixth place among US homebuilders
- Crypto liquidations hit $948 million as Bitcoin dips under $80,000 after hot PPI data, 90.6% of them longs
- DeFi Development lifts the CHAD preferred dividend to 14% before up to $300 million of new issuance
- Tron Inc. can sell up to $200 million of stock into a share price down 67% in a year
- A Solana infrastructure founder now sits on NEAR's governing council
- Cohere plans senior roles for all three Aisle founders in its intended purchase of the security startup
- Binance's Bstocks have traded $40 billion against $1 billion of assets in four months
- Anthropic spends about $10,000 a head on forward-deployed engineers while AWS and OpenAI spend billions
- Noah says it won EU crypto and payment licences in one and two months
- Mastercard launches its BVNK stablecoin platform 73 days after closing a deal worth up to $1.8 billion
- September retail sales growth drops from 0.8% to 0.2% without gas stations
- China's permits for Apple Intelligence list two Alibaba models among three approved AI systems
- Stand wins a $1 billion valuation for pricing wildfire risk by simulating each home
- Bank of Russia gives peer-to-peer crypto trading until July 1, 2027
- CERN and Mistral sign a statement of intent to train one model on billions of simulated collisions
- Barclays warns a SpaceX merger vote at Tesla gets harder if the announcement slips into late October
- Nvidia's Huang urges US and UK talks with Chinese AI labs on safety
- Ledger plans to sell its Android-based Atom only from its own website after the CryptoBilis breach
- NatWest and Nvidia tune speech recognition to UK accents and cut misheard words by 20%
- NYC Comptroller Levine asks Anthropic to delay an IPO that could raise more than $100 billion
- Dragoneer leads $1.85 billion into Ramp at no more than 30 times annualized revenue
- Polymarket puts an IPO and a token on the table as valuation talks pass $20 billion
- Transfers above $10 million put the US back as a net bitcoin importer, Chainalysis finds
- AstraZeneca's insitro deal puts 2.7% of its disclosed value up front
- Long Treasury yields fell through an AI selloff that cut Samsung, SK Hynix and SoftBank by 9% or more
- Pantera leads $10 million round for a startup that buys tokenized fund shares on demand
- A BIS model of rising output and a thinner consumer market sits outside Bitwise's three Bitcoin paths
- Altcoins fell harder than bitcoin when the Kospi plunged 8% and buyers defended $80,000
- Solidigm makes a U.S. NAND fab conditional on export licenses for its Dalian plant
- EU leaders' draft conclusions would add new trade instruments to the existing China defences
- Anthropic keeps misuse monitoring in its offer to Singapore buyers of sensitive Claude workloads
- HD Hyundai's 1.4 trillion won energy outlay equals a fifth of its first-half operating profit
- Toronto police lay 82 charges over a kidnapping aimed at a man's crypto and security systems
- Korean Air's net income rose 838 billion won in a quarter when operating profit rose about 45 billion
- FTC subpoenas OpenAI and Anthropic for safety incident records
- Wei says TSMC must run the fab in any deal with Musk's Terafab
- Starknet asks STRK holders to back research into leaving Ethereum for a quantum-resistant Layer 1
- KOHO hands billing, servicing and reporting on new products to LoanPro
- Starling will train a model on more than 15 billion of its own transactions in a UK cloud
- JPMorgan lists three missing supports for a chip rebound after the SOX's 21% July fall
- Korea and Japan roll a $10 billion swap line to 2029, one-seventh of its 2011 size
- Nvidia's Huang says he would cut off an unsafe AI customer after a conversation
- Hyundai rebuilt GM's closed Pune plant around 204 welding robots, up from six
- Seoul halted trading for 20 minutes as chip stocks pulled the Kospi down 7.57% to 5,554
- Ericsson's 28% profit beat arrives with a gross margin warning for next year
- Bank of America's $1.21 billion fine gives crypto critics a comparison with Zhao's four months in prison
- A CPI print about 0.1 point above forecast closed out $106 million of Binance ETH longs in an hour
- SEC clears Cboe to list $1 binary options on Coinbase, MARA and Robinhood metrics
- Trump counts $50 billion from Seoul for Alaska LNG while Seoul says it has not decided
Product79 stories
- Perplexity open-sources SPACE, an agent sandbox it says held through 118 escape attempts
- Apple's A3632 Smart Folio listing hints that the next iPad mini needs a new case
- Mueon raises $65M Series A for a stacked server it says is up to 10x more efficient
- Bluesky's Attie now turns a typed prompt into a small social app on the AT Protocol
- Withings charges new accounts $99.50 a year to sync with Apple Health
- Ambrosia Energy starts a 10 GWh Texas battery factory to back $100 per MWh data center power
- Opera's Air clears the start page of shortcuts and builds in its own sound player
- Sony lists three new Walkmans from $1,899 to $5,899 without a ship date
- Volvo picks three Nvidia products for hands-free city driving before the end of the decade
- Google tests top-of-answer links for sites that are the official place to finish a task
- E Ink's Kaleido 4 debuts in a Hanvon note-taking tablet sold only in China
- TSMC's sixth straight record profit comes with a prudent plan for 2027
- A YouTube audiobook bundle would have to win over listeners who already hear books there for free
- More than three years after its first deadline, the Army is still fielding Dark Eagle
- Microsoft's 20% Windows 11 speedup was timed on six tasks, none of them a memory test
- Reviewers find Nvidia's RTX Spark well ahead on local AI and behind the top chips on CPU
- Google's Universal Cart saves products from multiple retailers in one cart across Gemini and Search AI Mode
- YouTube viewers hold back app updates to avoid GIF comments
- Starlink Wi-Fi reaches 37% of United's long-haul mainline flights and 68% of regional ones
- Apple makes wall-mounted HomeView buyers source their own power supply
- Amazon's Bee Pro plan puts shopping suggestions inside an $11.99-a-month bundle
- Ledger announces the Atom signer while sales stay paused after a reseller implant
- Which RTX Spark laptop a buyer picks may decide whether Nvidia's local AI pitch holds
- MacPaw ships Eney, a Mac assistant that prepares next steps and waits for approval
- Apple reportedly invites media to Oct. 28 Los Angeles event for touchscreen MacBooks, iPad mini and M6 Macs, per Gurman
- Google and Singapore's GovTech train a Gemma model to catch scams as a conversation unfolds
- Ads served by DiscoverTech delivered spyware to at least 45 Al Jazeera devices, Citizen Lab says
- Microsoft ties Remote Desktop error 0xC000000D to Windows 11 Administrator protection
- Eleventh Circuit finds Florida's feature-based social media age limits likely constitutional
- Cologne police investigate who controlled a robot that allegedly groped a teenage girl
Leadership69 stories
- Discrimination reported by women in tech rose to 47% in ISACA's 2026 survey
- Microsoft plans to license the weights of its 2.8T-parameter MAI-Base-2 through Foundry
- BMO and Intermountain govern Workday agents through forums, contracts and business cases
- Apollo skips on-cycle recruiting for its 2028 associate class, a second year in a row
- Warsh's Bangkok interview is the last Fed speech before the October rate meeting
- Carney campaigns in Calgary against Alberta's Monday vote on a legal path to separation
- Ramp attributes its 30% AI bill drop to Router as it opens the Glass workspace to other firms
- HHS sends the White House a peptide access policy for specialty pharmacies
- Anthropic seats six METR staff on its own hardware, with a redaction right but no publication veto
- BBC asks a Florida judge to make Trump sit for a deposition in his $10bn suit
- Healey is poised to tax banks harder in the 28 October budget, the Guardian understands
- OpenAI's London staff averaged £2.3m each in 2025, double the year before
- A note-card of outlets shows how Katie Zacharia planned her first press briefing
- Apple Intelligence clears China's regulators without Siri AI and with government sign-off on updates
- Nandy says she is minded to intervene in Sky's £1.6bn ITV deal
- Warren-Garcia bill would put Wall Street executives' Epstein ties under Fed and SEC investigation
- Richemont weighs joining the Penny-led consortium bidding for De Beers
- Tesla is due to unveil the Roadster at a SpaceX site six years after its promised deliveries
- Trade body for Amazon, Google and Meta funds study pricing EU cloud act at €115bn
- Hospitality employers pledge up to 100,000 short placements for young Neets
- Investors put $8M behind Othello's AI that tells sales reps what to say mid-call
Science147 stories
- Barn owls nesting on West 75th Street are a Manhattan first, Cornell's Andrew Farnsworth says
- More than 10,000 young faults put the moon's shrinkage at about 45 meters
- Landowner working his land at Behbeit El Hagar uncovers two giant Ramesses II statues
- Believers who put reason above church teaching are about twice as likely to lean toward magic
- Splicing code for microexons points to rare variants in autism cases without a known cause
- Google's Willow chip cultivates magic states with errors cut roughly 40-fold
- Genome-wide CRISPR screen implicates Wnt signaling in APOE4's myelin damage
- FAA begins environmental review of SpaceX plan to fly Starship 456 times a year from Starbase
- Of 774 assessable reef-building corals, 340 qualify as threatened under IUCN criteria
- Six southern English counties become the first placed in 'severe drought' under the post-2012 classification
- Health alliance's scorecard faults EU, China, Brazil and UK climate plans on emissions targets
- Shanidar A's shoulder-blade hole fits a wooden spear, Cambridge researchers say
- Delegates in Versailles vote to end the leap second from May 2027
- Young adults' pupils dilated every time they counted aloud and only once when they counted silently
- SpaceX's CRS-35 Dragon is due to dock at the ISS after a 51-hour chase