Cyber Security
US posts $10 million reward for accused Chinese ‘Hafnium’ hacker
U.S. officials say Zhang Yu was a prominent figure in the Hafnium campaign, which saw hackers breach thousands of computers and steal troves of documents.
$11 million plan for psychological support at Cyber Command gets fresh boost from lawmakers
Lawmakers who oversee military cyber policy as well as the Fort Meade, Maryland, hub for those agencies say an $11 million mental health program should be locked in to defense spending legislation.
Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November
Microsoft announced that it will add .msix and .msixbundle attachments to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook Web and the new Outlook Windows client starting next month. [...]
AI & Automation
Is Claude Conscious? Inside Anthropic’s Quest to Instill Morality Into Its A.I. Models
Elizabeth Dias, our national religion correspondent, and Cade Metz, one of our technology reporters, discuss Anthropic’s approach for instilling morality into Claude — which has involved consultations with religious leaders, including ones at the Vatican — and why it’s raising questions.
Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers
Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect AI agents to their APIs while…
Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Sonnet 5.5 model, details here
Anthropic on Monday launched Claude Sonnet 5.5, the latest version of its workhorse model and the second model in the The post Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5.5 with near-Opus performance at half the price appeared first on The New Stack .
Privacy & Identity
Site-Blocking Will Not Defend IP, No Matter the Bill’s Name
Congress Has Another Site-Blocking Bill, And This One Targets VPNs
Victory! Court Rejects Government Effort to Dismiss Social Media Surveillance Lawsuit
Ola Bini Ordered to Leave Ecuador Under Obscure Accusations
Enterprise Tech
Decision models are suddenly everywhere. OpenAI’s is now public.
Kubernetes won the orchestration wars. Its teams are still fighting.
OpenAI’s former safety lead says it’s shipping ‘new capability and risk every Tuesday’
OpenSearch veterans launch Infino. Here’s why it matters for agent builders.
Developers
Part 3: Knowing when your agent doesn’t know: the confidence layer
Evals as a deployment gate — and how to know when they drift
Part 1: Make your AI agents boring: the determinism layer
Implementing a Modular Master-Agent Telemetry & Diagnostic Framework in Python: Prime-Sentinel Command (PSC)
Policy & Regulation
Homeless Shelters Around Phoenix Are Full. His Phone Is the Unofficial Hotline for Struggling Families.
More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown
Our Reporter Spent 10 Weeks Gambling on DraftKings. Here Are 5 Things He Learned.
How ProPublica Reporters Became Private School Owners in 24 Hours
Markets & Economy
Higher yields are taking their toll on all areas of the stock market, except the one that matters
Stocks are increasingly their own best hedge. This chart shows why.
The ‘Magnificent Seven’ are now big enough to move the economy. Why that could be a problem.
More college students have to use credit cards just to cover basic living expenses. Here’s what it’s costing them.
Tech Careers
Supreme Court sidesteps employment law cases on disability bias, vaccines
DOL to up minimum wage to $14 per hour for federal contractors
Republicans, Democrats alike more bullish on DEI in 2026
AI adoption may be hampering future organizational growth
Gadgets
Garmin announces the Enduro 4 with more RAM, storage and features, the Approach S72 tags along
Hands-on: Sonos Ace Ultra fix nearly everything I wanted from the original [Video]
Apple releases free chapter from Ted Lasso ‘The Richmond Way’ book
Google Home update fixes broken smart light color control
Technology
The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths
Nous Research confirms it hit $1.5B Valuation, launches AI agents for business users
World
South Africa host Australia who battle more than ‘Sandpapergate’ memories
Labour Send changes at risk as parents rush to secure support, say experts
Trump backs away from top aides who reportedly advised pro-Russia government
Chinese runner dropped by sponsor after riding bike during marathon
Science
‘Self-blinking dyes’ simplify nanoscale imaging without sacrificing precision
Undergraduate student may have solved puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars
New approach to plant stress studies could yield hardier crops and medical insights
New polystyrene uses 50% plant-based material and breaks into fragments for potential recycling
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The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
The agency is doubling down on direct-to-device service. Read More about The FCC proposes new mid-band spectrum auction and unlocking 800MHz for drones
How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
At a recent event for security firm NordVPN, NBA superstar Shaquille O’Neal revealed that he got hacked—and warned the public about the need to “have control of their own information.” Read More about How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
‘Self-blinking dyes’ simplify nanoscale imaging without sacrificing precision
Nanobodies are extremely small antibody fragments that bind to specific molecules. When nanobodies are labeled with dyes, they can be used as probes to enhance super-resolution microscopy. However, conventional blinking dyes often perform poorly… Read More about ‘Self-blinking dyes’ simplify nanoscale imaging without sacrificing precision
Undergraduate student may have solved puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars
An undergraduate astrophysics student at UC Berkeley has found three unusual galaxies—cataloged as Shapiro Dwarf Galaxies I, II and III. Each galaxy is far from other galaxies and has stopped making stars, a combination… Read More about Undergraduate student may have solved puzzle regarding isolated galaxies that have stopped producing stars
New approach to plant stress studies could yield hardier crops and medical insights
At the University of Missouri, plant scientist Ron Mittler is rewriting the playbook for how scientists study life by asking what happens when living organisms face multiple stresses at once. Read More about New approach to plant stress studies could yield hardier crops and medical insights
Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths
Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map. TE isn't just a… Read More about Teenage Engineering’s CEO says it’ll stop making synths