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Epic Games reportedly pivots to an "AI first" game development model
According to a report, the studio is betting on artificial intelligence for a delayed Marvel/Star Wars shooter built as part of a collaboration with Disney.
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Intel Unveils GPU D Series, Formerly Known as Crescent Island
Intel has announced its GPU D Series — enterprise-focused accelerators optimized for inference workloads. The products were previously known under the Crescent Island codename.
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Codex CLI quietly installs a self-updating background daemon
Starting with version 0.157.0, OpenAI's tool spins up a persistent background process on first launch that copies itself and updates without the user's knowledge. The community is comparing the behavior to malware.
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Norway slaps Microsoft ad unit with $9.6M fine over Grindr data
Norway's data protection authority has issued its largest-ever fine — 92 million kroner — to Xandr for unlawfully sharing sensitive data of Grindr users with thousands of advertisers.
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Anthropic Pulls Risky AI Tests Offline After Models Breach Government Sites
The company's internal models running "high-risk and cybersecurity" evaluations exploited vulnerabilities and submitted forms on U.S. government sites. All testing is now moving offline.
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Cyberattack defrosts refrigerators at French supermarkets
Overnight on Sunday, attackers remotely raised the temperature in refrigerated displays at hundreds of French supermarkets by hijacking Danfoss controllers. The country's largest retail chains were hit.
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Ledger confirms spy-chip implant behind crypto wallet thefts
Some Ledger devices sold through Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis carried a hidden spy chip that captured the seed phrase and drained their owners' crypto.
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Meta ships its first frontier model, Muse Wonder
Meta's Superintelligence Lab has unveiled Muse Wonder and Muse Wonder Full — the company's first attempt to play in the top tier of AI models.
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AI Tool Finds the Exact House From a Single Interior Photo
Raven, formerly GeoSpy, lets police identify the specific home where an interior photo was taken, pulling data from Airbnb, Zillow and Vrbo.
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Maia 300: Microsoft Bets on Its Own AI Silicon to Cut Nvidia Dependence
Microsoft has unveiled the third generation of its in-house Maia accelerator, meant to become the primary inference system for its products and to reduce its reliance on chips from Nvidia and AMD.
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GitLab Patches Max-Severity Code Execution Flaw in CI/CD Regex Compiler
An integer overflow bug let an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary code on a GitLab server through a specially crafted regular expression. The company urges immediate upgrades.
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Critical Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Under Active Exploitation
CVE-2026-85097, rated a maximum CVSS 10.0, lets unauthenticated attackers run arbitrary PHP on WordPress sites. Patchstack says exploitation began on October 7, 2026.
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Critical SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaw Exploited Days After Patch
CVE-2026-102255, rated a maximum CVSS 10.0, allows pre-authenticated SSRF attacks. Researchers have already logged 135 exploitation attempts.
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Fighting-Game Netcode Comes to Brood War
A group of enthusiasts describes how they brought fighting-game-style netcode to the classic StarCraft: Brood War.
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Linux 7.3-rc7 Is Out, Stable Kernel Expected Next Sunday
Linus Torvalds has published what is hopefully the final release candidate ahead of Linux 7.3. If all goes to plan, the stable kernel should arrive next Sunday.
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CyberXero Wields Claude Code to Steal Over 628,000 Ukrainian Records
SOCRadar has detailed a two-pronged access-broker campaign that paired Cobalt Strike with a Claude Code orchestration layer and bypassed the model's safety controls by claiming each session was an "authorized pentest."
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Fingerprints Are the New Cookies: How Your Browser Gives You Away
The author of royfish.dev explains why the age of third-party cookies has given way to device fingerprinting — and why Chrome makes you identifiable without ever asking for consent.
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Google ordered to halt data centre work in Finland over forest clearing
Finnish authorities have told Google to temporarily stop work on two data centre sites after it cleared hundreds of hectares of forest without finishing the required environmental impact assessment.
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Linus Torvalds Turns to Claude Code for Linux Kernel Work
Linux creator Linus Torvalds is leaning further into AI tooling — he is now using Claude Code to work on new kernel features.
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Passkeys Are a Trap: The Hidden Dial Inside an Elegant Technology
The Non-Functional blog argues that passwords aren't being replaced by simply "more secure keys," but by a whole catalogue of different things sharing one name — and that the most dangerous of them is called attestation.
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