Cyber Security
Court strikes down West Virginia law barring disclosure of public officials’ personal data
A federal appellate court panel said West Virginia's version of Daniel's Law — meant to shield the personal data of police and other officials — is unconstitutional.
Police seize Virtualine bulletproof service tied to ransowmare, cybercrime
U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. [...]
Japan Airlines warns of data breach as country grapples with multiple cyber incidents
Hackers stole passport numbers, frequent flyer numbers, email addresses and phone numbers for about 2,000 customers.
AI & Automation
An AI model’s false tip to Philadelphia police reveals how digital agents can do as they’re told and still cause trouble
An expert on AI governance explains why these rare mistakes may soon be common, and with much higher stakes.
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…
Privacy & Identity
Court Should Curb Abuse of Grand Jury Subpoenas Targeting Social Media Users
💾 Fighting DOGE’s Data Grab | EFFector 38.19
Social Media When Elections Are Close: Doing the Impossible Better
New Records Obtained by EFF Expose More Problems with Medicare’s AI Experiment
Enterprise Tech
GitHub debuts Copilot Fusion, a new model selection & orchestration system that beats Claude Code for half the API cost
GitHub saw 7.4B commits in September, adding 4M CPU cores and 160 PB of storage to keep up
Voice AI in vogue: Nvidia releases new open transcription model
What happens when the agent is long gone, but its access key lives on?
Developers
GitHub Universe 2026: Evolving every layer of the stack
Octoverse: Commits, pushes, reach new highs in 2026 as developers build with agents
Delivering controlled and concentrated context
Airbnb Cuts Recommendation Staleness from 2 Days to Seconds with Chronon
Policy & Regulation
Meet ProPublica’s 2026 Class of Emerging Reporters
How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement
This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.
Congress is freeing Trump of the limited legal requirements left on him by the Supreme Court
Markets & Economy
Chipotle expects modestly higher sales this year as drive-thru ‘Chipotlanes’ come to more stores
ServiceNow’s stock slides as earnings miss clouds a raised AI outlook
U.S. oil-refinery stocks are up roughly 150% this year. How long could this historic run last?
The cost of money itself is on the ballot as voters struggle with pricey car loans, mortgages and credit-card debt
Technology
Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row
Readwise is taking on Kindle and Kobo for ebook supremacy
Most tweens and teens use AI for schoolwork and emotional support, a new survey shows
World
Indonesian students demand action on wildfires and rising costs
Death of US actress Hayden Panettiere ruled accidental, ending local police probe
EU backs away from offer to Canada to start ‘associate member’ talks
‘Worldwide legacy’: almost $20m raised to protect majestic tract of land in far north Queensland
Science
Q&A: Decoding the cell—a conversation with a computational biologist
Chornobyl dog population shows genetic signatures of directional selection
Could next-gen artificial intelligence help map out future space outposts?
Same radical, different paths: X-ray snapshots reveal how neighboring molecules shape its movement
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Q&A: Decoding the cell—a conversation with a computational biologist
Computational biologist Christina Leslie, Ph.D., has spent nearly two decades at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) building computational tools that help make sense of some of the most complex data in biology. Read More about Q&A: Decoding the cell—a conversation with a computational biologist
Chornobyl dog population shows genetic signatures of directional selection
The latest research on the wild population of dogs in Chornobyl reveals that the genetic differences between these dogs and other similarly isolated dog populations are likely evidence of directional selection, not mutation. The… Read More about Chornobyl dog population shows genetic signatures of directional selection
Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
The MPC Sample Key isn't even formally announced yet, but Akai is already showing off what the modding community is cooking up through vibe coding. Akai has decided to embrace the explosion of hackers… Read More about Akai is embracing vibe-coded mods with an open-source MPC
Could next-gen artificial intelligence help map out future space outposts?
Planning a successful trip can be challenging, especially when your destination is in outer space. Even before liftoff, space missions require extraordinary amounts of scientific preparation and data analysis to succeed, which can take… Read More about Could next-gen artificial intelligence help map out future space outposts?
Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row
Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over… Read More about Microsoft hits 10 quarters of record- breaking revenue in a row
Indonesian students demand action on wildfires and rising costs
Hundreds of Indonesian students protested against the government's handling of forest fires and rising costs. Read More about Indonesian students demand action on wildfires and rising costs