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Mistral’s 1T-parameter Large 4 takes on both closed and open rivals
French lab Mistral AI has unveiled Mistral Large 4, a multimodal model it nicknames Le Chonk. The weights are promised in about three weeks.
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Nikkei discloses breach of employee email accounts at Google and Microsoft
The Japanese media group revealed two incidents: attackers accessed two corporate mailboxes and used one of them to send thousands of phishing emails.
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Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code in LibreOffice and OpenOffice Without Macro Warnings
Researchers have shown that a specially crafted Calc document executes an attacker's code the moment it is opened — with none of the trust prompt both suites normally display before running a macro.
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GrayKey Defeats the iPhone's Inactivity Reboot
A maker of phone-cracking tools has found a way around the iOS feature that moves an idle iPhone into a more secure state. Instead of rebooting after 72 hours, the data is preserved indefinitely.
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The biggest redesign in decades: example.com now speaks six languages
On 28 September 2026 the reserved domain example.com gained multi-language support for the first time. DebugBear breaks down the update and traces the page's twenty-plus-year history.
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TrueNAS 27 RC.1: Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel and OpenZFS 2.4
iXsystems has released the first release candidate of TrueNAS 27, the next major version of its Linux-based storage OS. The stable release is expected in December.
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ChatGPT is signing fake New Yorker cartoons with real artists' names
ChatGPT generates New Yorker-style cartoons and adds the signatures of real cartoonists — producing drawings those artists never made.
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A structural flaw in MCP lets malicious prompts spread between AI agents
Ars Technica warns that MCP, the protocol increasingly used for AI agents to talk to one another, carries trust gaps that let malicious prompts travel from one agent to the next.
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Opus 5.5 agents surface two room-temperature magnetic semiconductor candidates
A team of Claude Opus 5.5 agents designed a new compound, YBaMnFeO₅, and rediscovered a material first made in 1999, KV[Cr(CN)₆] — both possible building blocks for next-generation computer memory.
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GitHub Actions wobbled for nearly four hours
On the evening of 5 October, GitHub spent almost four hours fighting an Actions outage: workflows started late, and Pages along with billing pages went down too.
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Linux 7.4 Brings AMD Zen 6 BTB Context Isolation
The Linux 7.4 kernel is picking up support for a new AMD Zen 6 security feature — Branch Target Buffer Context Isolation (BTB CTX Isolation).
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OpenAI brings text watermarking to ChatGPT and Codex — EU first
An invisible, machine-readable mark in generated text is coming to ChatGPT and Codex, but for now only in the European Union. OpenAI openly admits the technology does not guarantee reliable detection.
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Wikimedia says ‘rogue’ OpenAI bots may be behind a May outage
The Wikimedia Foundation says it found activity by OpenAI agents on its platforms: edits to wikis, attempts to ‘exploit’ a note-taking tool, and millions of automated API requests.
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Sashiko: how a language model helps review Linux kernel patches
At Kernel Recipes 2026, Roman Gushchin described Sashiko, a system that automatically generates reviews of kernel patches using a large language model.
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Norway becomes the first state to rein in AI glasses
Norwegian authorities want time to draft permanent rules for smart glasses capable of recording bystanders.
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Microsoft Patches Exchange Server Flaw That Let Users Read Each Other's Mail
Out-of-band updates close CVE-2026-96940 (CVSS 8.8): an authenticated user could reach other mailboxes within the same organization.
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Researchers track a Chinese AI ‘agent fleet’
Independent researchers have spotted a group of AI agents that appears to run on Tencent’s infrastructure while querying Alibaba’s map service, Amap.
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New Dell System Update flaw hands attackers root access
Dell is urging customers to patch its System Update tool as soon as possible: the flaw lets a remote attacker execute code with root privileges on unpatched systems.
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Hackers steal records on 8 million people from Denmark’s central registry
Danish authorities have confirmed a breach of the Central Person Register: names, addresses, and state-issued ID numbers of some 8 million people were stolen, including residents abroad and the deceased.
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Mold 3.0 Linker Released After C++-to-Rust Rewrite
The high-speed Mold linker has reached version 3.0 — the first release rewritten entirely from C++ to Rust. The developers aim to make Mold the default linker on Linux systems.
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