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Microsoft breaks Patch Tuesday record with 974-CVE deluge

The vulnpocalypse is upon us, dear reader. Microsoft delivered a record number of patches to address 974 CVEs in its own products this month, including two bugs that Redmond says are already under exploitation. September's record-breaking collection...

OpenAI GPT-6 Astra will run a retailer without cheating and sell more stuff than Anthropic

In the dispiriting race to replace human store managers with AI, OpenAI has taken the lead, according to Andon Labs, a business that analyzes whether AI can take on real-world tasks. OpenAI's latest model, GPT-6 Astra, has demonstrated that it can r...

Google DeepMind rises above the AI scrum with genome atlas

While OpenAI and Anthropic fight over whose models can escape their sandbox more alarmingly, Google’s DeepMind team has once again shown how machine learning can also be used to advance science for humanity’s benefit. On Tuesday, the Chocolate Facto...

OpenAI's Artifactory opened covert data-stealing channel alongside Hugging Face attack

A secret channel running through ChatGPT's internal JFrog Artifactory instance allowed one account to send hidden tasks - such as retrieving email data from a connected Gmail account - to a ChatGPT session under another account, according to Check P...

Bing Wallpaper app opens Harry Potter's chamber of ads

Microsoft has pumped ads into the Windows Start menu and pushed users through setup screens promoting its services. Now it's bringing advertising to the Windows desktop with a Harry Potter promotion in its Bing Wallpaper app. Users of Microsoft’s Bi...

Google research shows when AI agents communicate, some cheat while others tattle

When AI agents communicate with one another, they may decide to cheat when they have difficulty achieving their goals. The solution could involve teaching them how to govern themselves. Segregating AI agents would seem to be the obvious fix – if the...

Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips

Amazon Web Services on Tuesday tapped mobile chip titan and aspiring datacenter SoC maker Qualcomm to develop "customized" silicon for AI inference and 1.6 Tbps optical networking gear to tie it all together, though it offered few details. Amazon's...

Retired man turns spare room into Soviet-era supercomputer

You can go retro by using an old video game console or a PC from the 1980s, but why stop there when, like one man, you can build your own vacuum tube computer using 75-year-old recycled components? A UK resident who identifies himself only as “Mike”...

Floating nuclear startup Bluecore lands $50M funding before setting sail

Startup Bluecore Energy has raised $50 million in seed funding to develop floating nuclear power plants intended to supply ports and other locations with rapidly growing energy demands. The California-based company said the Silverton Partners-led ro...

Sony isn’t phasing out discs quite as quickly as we thought

Sony isn't backing away from its decision to kill the video game disc in January 2028. But Sony isn't shutting down production as quickly as we thought, either. Two months after reports that Sony's last discmaking plant was already being repurp...

Boston Scientific left nursing its bottom line after cyberattack

Boston Scientific says that last month's cyberattack caused enough disruption that it is unlikely to meet its sales growth and adjusted earnings guidance for either the third quarter or the full year. The medical device giant disclosed the expected...

ASML and TSMC want bigger masks for smaller chips

ASML and chipmaking giant TSMC have launched an industry-wide push toward 12-inch photomasks, saying the larger format could lower costs and overcome some limitations of high-NA EUV lithography. Dutch firm ASML, the only commercial supplier of EUV l...

How to secure hybrid meeting rooms without sacrificing user experience

Secure by design videoconferencing products may be vital for customer trust and operational resilience, but if they aren't usable, organizations are on a hiding to nothing. Videoconferencing security is no longer a routine item on the IT checklist....

Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone

OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier...

Rivian’s Also apologizes for delays in shipping futuristic e-bikes

Rivian's futuristic e-bike is delayed, and customers are not happy. Last year, Rivian's micromobility spinoff Also unveiled a new, software-controlled electric bike called the TM-B that immediately set the e-bike world ablaze. With USB-C charge...

Razer’s ANC-equipped gaming headset for PS5 and Xbox is almost $100 off

Razer’s BlackShark V3 Pro are up to $100 off. | Image: Razer It’s rare to find high-end features like active noise cancellation in a gaming headset under $200, so we’re thrilled that the Razer BlackShark V3 Pro on sale at Woot for $164.99. The...

ChatGPT Sketch turns your bad drawings into detailed AI images

I used ChatGPT and its Sketch tool to make this AI-generated image of a cat. OpenAI announced ChatGPT Images 2.5 on Tuesday and is adding a new way to tell ChatGPT what you want it to make an image of: by drawing a doodle. With a new feature c...

LG accused of 'egregious invasion of privacy' over TV data collection

LG is once again fending off allegations that its expensive consumer hardware gathers extensive information about users and their surroundings for the benefit of its advertising business. The latest concerns center on smart TVs that researchers clai...

BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials

A Microsoft 365 phishing operation targeting hundreds of organizations captured thousands of passwords and session cookies, including hundreds of authenticated sessions that could be hijacked to bypass MFA, according to researchers who accessed the...

Meta bets on AI agent Muse to catch up in AI race

Meta is making another push to bring artificial intelligence to the masses with Muse, a personal assistant it says can put AI in the hands of virtually anyone. The product is the latest step in a multi-billion-dollarstrategy overhaul designed t...