Cyber Security
Hackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as SYSTEM, root
Attackers are targeting an OS command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard Server Edition that lets them execute commands as root or SYSTEM on affected servers. [...]
US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars
CyberSN’s Cybersecurity Jobs Report provides visibility into the US cybersecurity job market. It’s a mixed bag. The post US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack
ConnectWise has shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after hackers accessed application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. [...]
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
In Memoriam: Barry Steinhardt
Trump administration sues California over noncitizens on voter rolls
We’re Asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to End Warrantless ALPR Searches
DHS Inspector General Finds That TSA is Not Properly Safeguarding Passenger Facial Recognition Data
Enterprise Tech
Liquid AI caught its model cheating on coding tests — then it recognized the sandbox
Scale isn’t one number: three ways a Kubernetes control plane runs out of room
Here are the engineering lessons we learned when live-streaming sports to 32 million people
AI has lowered the barrier to building. Here’s what that means for engineers.
Developers
Google Adopts Pyrefly for Faster, More Accurate Python Type Checking
AWS Will Run Its European Sovereign Cloud Without the Global Backbone for Several Hours
Reverse Engineer Anything Project Brings AI Agents to Binary Analysis
Amazon Acquires DuckLabs and Integrates DuckDB in Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL
Policy & Regulation
Why the 26 secretary of state races this November matter more than they did before Trump’s drive to assert federal authority over elections
“Devoid of Any Factual Basis”: Again and Again, Judges Have Dismissed Trump’s Voter Data Lawsuits
Why the GOP’s voter fraud messaging may backfire
Trump Says the Border Is Secure. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Keeps Declaring an Emergency.
Markets & Economy
These surprising stocks could be some of the biggest drivers of S&P 500 earnings growth
Stocks are heading for a high-stakes showdown, as strong earnings collide with rising borrowing costs
There is a silent market rotation inside the S&P 500 that’s warning of more weakness ahead
Silver’s recent 50% drop from a record high hints that an economic slowdown looms
Tech Careers
‘Why haven’t you retired?’: Railroader gets $1.6M in age bias win
Judge declines to block Trump’s March anti-DEI order for federal contractors
Restaurant chain to pay $3M to settle EEOC allegations of rampant sexual harassment
CEOs eye C-suite shake-ups as pressures mount, report finds
Gadgets
Apple keeps making the Phone app better; here’s how
OnePlus 16 is official with 9,000mAh battery, Week 42 in review
Apple Watch Series 12 is excellent, but I find myself missing this one software feature
Apple’s first touchscreen MacBook could debut on November 6: Here’s what to expect
Technology
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile
Mister Organ is one of the most unsettling documentaries I’ve ever seen
Science
Earth’s oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it’s at risk of disappearing
Spatial genomics tool maps long-range DNA interactions while preserving cells’ locations within tissues
Climate change affects the quality of one of the world’s most important staple foods
A new way to detect stabilizing properties of optical devices
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Apple keeps making the Phone app better; here’s how
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Earth’s oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it’s at risk of disappearing
Today, our planet is teeming with life, but it has not always looked the same. Long before forests reached skyward, animals walked on land and dinosaurs rose and fell, our planet was shaped by… Read More about Earth’s oldest evidence of life is written in stone—but it’s at risk of disappearing
No agenda, no rush, no leaving San Francisco: Benchmark’s partners on investing in a frenzied market
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Anthropic says it’s committing 5% of its shares to a ‘public benefit fund’
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After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile
The studio celebrated Inscryption's five-year anniversary with a Twitch stream. Read More about After five years, Inscryption is finally coming to mobile
Spatial genomics tool maps long-range DNA interactions while preserving cells’ locations within tissues
DNA is not randomly distributed within the nucleus but is packaged with proteins into chromatin, which is precisely folded into complex three-dimensional structures. However, scientists have not fully understood how this complex three-dimensional (3D)… Read More about Spatial genomics tool maps long-range DNA interactions while preserving cells’ locations within tissues