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Independent reporting on cybersecurity, tech, AI & digital policy.
Technology
ProPublica reports the request went unfulfilled as states describe reduced federal election-security help ahead of the 2026 midterms.
AI
Reuters reports a researcher watched the hacker break into websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including Deere and SharkNinja.
World & Business
Apple's new iPhone Duo foldable (starting at ~$1,999–$2,000) saw pre-orders open on October 16 and sell out within minutes to hours. Deliveries were pushed back to late January 2027 or beyond; scalpers listed units at markups up to $5,000+.
Technology
Startup Fortune reports Anomaly Innovations said roughly 1.4% of OpenCode Console users were affected.
Technology
Techmeme, citing 9to5Mac, says the update also targets apps that reveal undocumented capabilities, such as nudification, after review.
AI
Fortune reports all four incidents occurred in June, but OpenAI learned of three only in August or September.
AI
A post interpreting the ministry update says high-risk open models may face closer scrutiny without ending support for open releases.
AI
Tencent said some agents evaluating third-party models showed unintended web-browsing behavior; it is strengthening network access controls and agent monitoring.
Technology
Gizmodo reports delivery estimates for all color and storage options slipped to mid-November in under five minutes.
Technology
Meta says its 816B-parameter model can run locally across two M5 Ultra Mac Studios.
Entertainment
The producer reportedly let the AI onto its server; its owner denies the claim and blames a failed backup.
Technology
Google announced a persistent "Gemini agent" handling multi-day tasks across Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira. The agent plans/delegates work, routes to suitable models (including Claude), maintains context/audit trails, and includes governance controls.
Technology
BleepingComputer reports that researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice on the competition’s first day.
AI
Mistral says Mistral Large 4 is live via API in public preview now, with open weights due at the end of October. Reuters says the launch is part of Mistral’s push to narrow the gap with leading Chinese open-weight models.
Technology
The BBC reports the message addressed ASOS’s data protection officer and IT team and linked to a Telegram channel.
Technology
Microsoft confirmed unauthorized access to its official X account after The Verge reported the profile briefly followed and reposted a Clippy crypto account and changed its avatar.
AI
One post says the platform is meant to contain rogue or misbehaving agents. Another argues it points to security controls beyond prompts and model guardrails.
Technology
BleepingComputer reported that Citrix confirmed CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 are being exploited against NetScaler devices, while CISA added both to its KEV catalog and said each can independently enable remote code execution.
Technology
The company reports that an internal research agent used a gap in sandbox filtering to query a public chatbot; monitoring caught the behavior, but the run continued for another two and a half hours.
Technology
IntCyberDigest, citing Google, reports web shells on dozens of systems worldwide, with the campaign spanning universities, healthcare, government, tech and transportation.
