Cyber Security
Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or…
Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers’ AI API keys
Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized use of customers' AI API keys. [...]
New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones by sending a specially crafted text message. [...]
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
Rewriting Copyright Law for Generative AI Would Hurt Everyone
Why VPNs Are Worth Defending
Tech Tips for Parents this Digital Parenting Week
Court Should Curb Abuse of Grand Jury Subpoenas Targeting Social Media Users
Enterprise Tech
The context problem: How Docusign built agents that understand the business behind contracts
Five years after the fork, OpenSearch is slowly stepping out of AWS’s shadow
Developers ask AI which tool to use. Here’s how we track the answer.
Shielding the patch gap: The exploit doesn’t wait for Patch Tuesday
Developers
AWS Capacity Largely Sold Out Through 2027, With On Demand Headroom Reserved
File Mover Express: AWS Releases Open-Source Tool for S3 File Transfers
Cloudflare’s Post-Quantum GeoKey Manager Enters Closed Beta Without Attribute-Based Encryption
OpenBSD 8.0 Brings Expanded Hardware Support, Security Enhancements, and Virtualization Improvements
Policy & Regulation
How a Secret Vote by U.N. Scientists Legitimized Carbon Capture and Skewed Decades of Climate Policy
Federal and State Officials Ramp Up Scrutiny of DraftKings, Other Sports Betting Apps
Search More Than 500 Cases of U.S. Citizens Detained by Immigration Agents
Federal policy helped widen rural America’s fresh food gap, but a 90-year-old law could help close it
Markets & Economy
Your stock portfolio increasingly hinges on the bond market — and the midterm elections
Google taught the world how to search. Now it faces a revolution it can’t afford to lose.
The stock market’s front-runners stumbled in October. Here’s where the smart money is moving now.
If you really want to help your adult kids and grandkids, give them money while you’re still alive
Technology
These firms you’ve never heard of are feeding fears the AI bubble could burst
5 expensive hobbies where owning a 3D printer actually saves you money
How big and powerful is SpaceX’s Starship rocket?
The Slate vs Ford Fathom debate might be settled by this one key tech feature
World
Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended
Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit
Trump at Halloween party ‘as himself’ says he’s ‘in no hurry’ with Iran
Bangladesh forms wage board as garment workers protest
Latest News in details
Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended
Guardian understands Home Office continues to detain dozens of people, with one group forcibly removed this week The Home Office is still putting asylum seekers on to planes to France weeks after the controversial… Read More about Asylum seekers still being sent to France under ‘one in one out’ weeks after scheme ended
Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open… Read More about Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability
Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit
Former chancellor says leaving European Union has made Britain ‘poorer, weaker and less secure’ The former chancellor Rachel Reeves has argued the UK’s future should be inside the EU, saying Brexit has made the… Read More about Rachel Reeves says UK’s future is in EU as she backs Andy Burnham on Brexit
Trump at Halloween party ‘as himself’ says he’s ‘in no hurry’ with Iran
Trump, who came to his Halloween party dressed as himself, says US not in a hurry to make a decision on striking Iran. Read More about Trump at Halloween party ‘as himself’ says he’s ‘in no hurry’ with Iran
Bangladesh forms wage board as garment workers protest
Demonstrations held in industrial cities as workers demand wage increase as cost of living rises. Read More about Bangladesh forms wage board as garment workers protest
Germany’s search for a nuclear waste site
Finland has become the first country with a final storage facility for nuclear waste. Germany is still searching for a site, while some countries have yet to start. Costs are expected to total many… Read More about Germany’s search for a nuclear waste site