Cyber Security
Week in review: Researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service, NetScaler RCE 0-day exploited
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read…
ShinyHunters hacker reportedly detained in Jordan, aiding FBI
A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. [...]
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
Agents have made CI the bottleneck. Faster pipelines are the wrong fix.
AI is speeding up exploits. Vulnerability spreadsheets can’t keep up.
GitHub’s advice for its new Copilot feature is to try something else first
What Kubernetes’ “monolith” lesson means for AI agent harnesses
Developers
Google’s Android Security State Libraries Enable Component-Level Security Verification
Pizza Bot: Open-Source Inbox for Background AI Agents
New Archestra’s OpenAPPA Saturates Two Major Security Benchmarks with a 0% Attack Success Rate
GitLab Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation Enables Unauthenticated Data Exfiltration
Policy & Regulation
Watch: We Uncovered Bribery Allegations Involving Susan Collins
We’re Reporters, Not Teachers. We Were Able to Start Private Schools Anyway.
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Her Agency Distributes Billions for Housing Projects. Her Husband’s Company Helped Develop Some of Them.
Markets & Economy
Corporate America has never been this upbeat about future profits
October can be a scary month for stocks. Here’s what investors need to watch this year.
Fed minutes coming this week could give markets important clues about future rate hikes
You might be shocked by how many stocks are in a bear market right now
Tech Careers
Firm settles EEOC charge that it let Indian staff work remotely, but not US employees
EEOC takes aim at trans rights in investigations involving ‘biological’ pronouns, single-sex spaces
EEOC sues Harvard to obtain hundreds of documents in DEI-related investigation
Sociable: LinkedIn updates its AI-powered hiring bot
Gadgets
This is my biggest AirPods complaint, and it’s not necessarily about the hardware
‘Fitbit Edge’ leaks as Google’s next fitness tracker with ‘Apps’ & ‘Notifications’
John Ternus is taking a more ‘hands-on’ role in Apple’s design teams as CEO: report
Google Pixel at 10: Successes, failures, and fun along the way [Video]
Science
Nanoneedle arrays map RNA in fresh tissue without sequencing or amplification
Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues
Too many males to choose from can overwhelm female frogs—and change who gets to mate
Gamma-ray search sets new limits on dark matter annihilation in the inner Milky Way
Latest News in details
The new Fitbit Edge leaks
We don't know a ton about the Fitbit Edge, but it appears to be a successor to the midrange Charge line. It had leaked previously, but we can clearly see in these images posted… Read More about The new Fitbit Edge leaks
Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Shadow chancellor will also promise to scrap affordable homes regulations as part of strategy to refocus on growth The Conservatives will announce a bonfire of regulations including abolishing affordable homes and community funding rules… Read More about Tories to pledge to scrap Environment Agency and Natural England
Nanoneedle arrays map RNA in fresh tissue without sequencing or amplification
Recently, spatial omics has become a powerful tool, enabling researchers to see not only what molecules are present in a tissue, but also where they are located and how they are organized across cells,… Read More about Nanoneedle arrays map RNA in fresh tissue without sequencing or amplification
Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues
A systematic review of informal businesses published in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Small Business argues that they should be treated as part of the larger entrepreneurial ecosystem rather than as a peripheral… Read More about Informal businesses belong in entrepreneurial ecosystems, review argues
The Return of Middle East Oil
More oil is moving through the Strait of Hormuz. What does that mean for Iran’s wartime leverage? Read More about The Return of Middle East Oil
U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats
The withdrawal came with unusual speed, following what U.S. officials said were threats of an Iran-based plot against the installation. Read More about U.S. Rushes to Withdraw Bombers From U.K. Air Base After New Threats