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Steam's Linux Client Finally Goes 64-bit
Valve has released a Steam client beta for Linux in which the main client binary is now a 64-bit application and runs inside the Steam Runtime container.
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ChatGPT's Chrome extension can now read your open tabs
OpenAI has shut down its Atlas browser, but its Chrome extension now gains the ability to work with tabs you already have open and control them from the sidebar.
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Targeted ads used to deliver 0-click exploits and install mercenary spyware
Researchers report what appears to be the first confirmed case of commercial spyware delivered through targeted advertising.
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Anthropic Gives METR Researchers Employee-Level Access to Its Systems
The nonprofit METR gets employee-level access to Anthropic's internal tools and the right to publish its own risk assessments — with the company surrendering any veto over publication.
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Meta releases Muse Spark Open, a model built to run on Macs
Meta and Apple have teamed up on a new open-weight model that runs locally on Apple silicon — provided you can supply at least a terabyte of RAM.
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Critical PwnEscape Flaw in Linux Kernel Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory
A critical bug in the Linux kernel's networking code lets code inside a virtual machine read the host's memory. The leak was demonstrated against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes.
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Game Reverse-Engineering Community Shuts Down as AI Makes Decompilation Too Easy
The site decomp.dev is closing its doors, saying AI has broken the very spirit of decompilation — work that once took engineers years can now be done trivially.
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Fake Arch Linux packages delivered root-level malware
A threat actor uploaded AUR packages posing as the popular yay and paru helpers, bundling legitimate code with a malicious script that ran with root privileges.
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FTC Launches Investigation into Anthropic and OpenAI
The US Federal Trade Commission is reportedly examining whether security incidents at the largest AI developers have harmed Americans.
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Seven stable kernels patch a critical flaw in the Linux network stack
Greg Kroah-Hartman has released stable kernel updates across seven branches at once. Among the fixes is a critical vulnerability in skb_checksum_help() tied to how IPv4 checksums are handled.
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NGINX Patches Five Bugs, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Flaw That Can Skip Client-Cert Checks
On October 14, NGINX shipped versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 fixing five vulnerabilities — one of them present in every release since May 2005.
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Next.js Ships Out-of-Band Patch for Two Critical RCE Flaws
On October 14 Vercel fixed two critical remote-code-execution flaws — in React Server Components and in the librsvg library — plus a high-severity denial-of-service bug.
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Microsoft Ships Defender for the Linux Desktop
Microsoft's Defender anti-threat product now runs on desktop Linux too — the company points to a growing number of developers who pick Linux as their working machine.
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Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Lands With Linux 7.3, GNOME 51 and a Finished Rust Coreutils Switch
Canonical has shipped its latest six-month, non-LTS release. The headline changes are a fresh kernel, the GNOME 51 desktop and the fully completed move to Rust-based core utilities.
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Citizen Lab: governments are hacking devices through ads and zero-click spyware
Digital rights researchers have confirmed for the first time that government spyware is being delivered through online ads. Dozens of devices at Al Jazeera have already fallen victim.
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UK Legal Aid Agency: Stolen records reach all the way back to 1978
A deeper look into the April 2025 breach of the UK's Legal Aid Agency reveals that attackers made off with records stretching back nearly five decades.
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Liquid AI's LFM2.5-24B-A2B: a 2B-active model built for on-device agents
Liquid AI has released a 24B-parameter reasoning model that keeps only 2B parameters active per token. It rivals models with 50% more parameters on agentic tasks while running locally.
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Ricursive Intelligence bets on AI-designed chips to ease the compute crunch
The startup founded by Anna Goldie and Azalia Mirhoseini is building AI that designs chips, learns from each iteration and improves the next one — aiming to automate and accelerate chip design.
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Flock CEO defends surveillance tech: ‘We shouldn’t pause progress’
On stage at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, Flock founder Garrett Langley defended mass surveillance technology, insisting its crime-fighting payoff outweighs the risk of abuse.
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OpenCode 2.0: an agent that drives its own interface
A major overhaul of the open-source AI coding assistant is out. A background service, a rewritten API, Code Mode and background tasks turn OpenCode into a system the agent can operate on its own.
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