Cyber Security
Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months
Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and information for 321,810 accounts. [...]
California warns all public school students of data stolen in contractor breach
The CDE released multiple statements over the last week warning the state’s students that assessment contractor Educational Testing Service (ETS) suffered a months-long data breach.
Ex-OpenAI Engineer Held Over Secret Recorder, Saudi Ties
A judge ordered that Abdulrahman Alfozan be detained after he was arrested earlier this month for allegedly bugging an OpenAI conference room.
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
Require Police to Get a Warrant to Search ALPR Data
Announcing Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
EFF Launches Privacy Badger for Safari on macOS
In Memoriam: Barry Steinhardt
Enterprise Tech
DeepSeek open-sources the inference engine behind its API. And Huawei gets equal billing with Nvidia.
MiniMax just halved its token prices. Your AI agent bill may not follow.
One sentence changed Claude Code’s overreach rate from 0% to 17.1%
US bans DeepSeek AI from government use as tech tension with China continues
Developers
GitHub Actions Runner Controller 0.15.0 Targets Reliability at Scale
Presentation: Beyond the Prototype: Scaling Framework Agnostic AI Agent Infrastructure with Ray
Don’t forget about the UI for AI
Java News Roundup: JEPs for JDK 28, Azul Payara, Gatherers4j, Google ADK, Yupiik, Apache Camel CVEs
Policy & Regulation
How Trump’s FBI Purge Saved Lindsey Graham and James Clyburn From a Bribery Investigation
Citing ProPublica, Lawmakers Introduce Bill to Help U.S. Citizens Sue ICE for Wrongful Detentions
He Tried to Set Limits on His State’s School Vouchers. Billionaires Helped Bankroll a Campaign to Unseat Him.
This Cybersecurity Agency Is Supposed to Protect U.S. Elections. Officials Fear It’s Been Compromised by Trump.
Markets & Economy
Bull markets tend to peak with a whimper, not a bang — but a 15% correction for the S&P 500 may be next
The Social Security Administration corrected millions of records, and says there’s more to fix
Wall Street researchers just used Claude to design a drug. The experiment has spawned a new investment thesis.
Here’s what matters most to Tesla investors heading into earnings
Tech Careers
Nearly half of employers say AI will make college degrees more important
Large employers are hiring part-time workers over seasonal ones, Indeed data shows
HR pros’ fall reading list 2026
DOL rescinds potentially ‘misread’ tip rule opinion letters in FLSA enforcement shift
Science
Machine learning reveals potential warning signal for polar vortex disruptions
‘Terror of kings’: Why the 1066 appearance of Halley’s Comet terrified the medieval world
New study reveals the high financial value of privacy in legal proceedings
Oxygen collisions show evidence of jet quenching, a signature of early-universe matter
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Machine learning reveals potential warning signal for polar vortex disruptions
The polar vortex, a swirling mass of cold air encircling the North Pole, is sometimes disrupted by sudden stratospheric warming (SSW) events, unleashing waves of frigid air that penetrate farther south than usual. Temperatures… Read More about Machine learning reveals potential warning signal for polar vortex disruptions
The latest PlayStation firmware may have already been cracked ahead of GTA 6
Hackers aren't giving up at cracking the Playstation 5's latest firmware as evidenced by a new video showing an apparent kernel exploit. Read More about The latest PlayStation firmware may have already been cracked ahead of GTA 6
‘Terror of kings’: Why the 1066 appearance of Halley’s Comet terrified the medieval world
A sequence on the Bayeux Tapestry shows King Harold alongside a crowd gazing at the sky, beneath the embroidered caption Isti mirant stella ("those people marvel at the star"). Above Harold sits Halley's Comet,… Read More about ‘Terror of kings’: Why the 1066 appearance of Halley’s Comet terrified the medieval world
Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
Anthropic is reportedly struggling to secure enough compute from cloud providers that increasingly view it as a competitor, even as its infrastructure spending balloons ahead of a planned November IPO. Read More about Anthropic’s cloud partnerships are getting messy
New study reveals the high financial value of privacy in legal proceedings
A new Management Science study provides rare real-world evidence that people are willing to give up thousands of dollars to prevent sensitive information about their health and income from becoming public. The research, developed… Read More about New study reveals the high financial value of privacy in legal proceedings
Oxygen collisions show evidence of jet quenching, a signature of early-universe matter
New results from the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) provide strong evidence that smashing oxygen nuclei together at nearly the speed of light generates a quark-gluon plasma (QGP), a type… Read More about Oxygen collisions show evidence of jet quenching, a signature of early-universe matter