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Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on Octob…
Japan to set up AI hacker team as PHP flaws knock services offline
Japan plans to create a team of ethical hackers that will use AI to attack the country’s own systems and find vulnerabilities before criminals can exploit them. The announcement c…
Meta fixes Muse links that let anyone find loan files and revenue data
Meta has switched Muse sharing back on. It paused the feature on Tuesday. That came after Ars Technica asked about research showing that anyone could find pages shared from its AI…
Microsoft AI tool beat generalist doctors at step-by-step diagnosis
Microsoft has developed an AI diagnostic tool that solved complex medical cases more than twice as accurately as generalist doctors in a study published in Science. Unlike many me…
PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Pot…
Greece passes law banning social media for children under 15
Greece has passed a law banning children under 15 from using social media, with the restrictions set to take effect on January 1, 2027. Parliament approved the bill late on Octobe…
Rhode Island sues Meta, alleging it profits from scam ads
Rhode Island has sued Meta, alleging the company profited from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp and helped to create some of them. Attorney General Peter Neronha file…
Oura sues rival Ultrahuman again, threatening its U.S. smart ring comeback
Oura alleges in its newest lawsuit that Ultrahuman's Ring Pro infringes two of its patents.
Uber rival inDrive eyes 2027 robotaxi tests in Central Asia with Pony.ai and Nvidia
inDrive plans to begin testing Pony.ai's robotaxis in Kazakhstan's capital in the first half of 2027.
Left alone with nothing to do, AI agents started playing
MIT researchers marooned 13 AIs on a virtual island, and they responded by inventing games, mourning a lost ring and, eventually, getting better at their jobs.
Etsy is cracking down on AI slop listings
Etsy is announcing stricter rules about how AI can be used in listings to reduce the volume of AI slop on the platform. In a post, the company says that "many active buyers say th…
Mark Zuckerberg’s creative plan to pay California’s proposed billionaire tax without losing control of Meta
A newly launched stock class being offered was partially engineered to help Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg pay the "billionaire's tax," should the measure be voted into law.
Warhound raises $200M to engineer war dogs and arm them with Anduril gear
Warhound, the brainchild of Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, emerges from stealth to genetically engineer dogs for military and law enforcement.
Spotify says yes, it is busting people for using Family Plan sharing too widely
Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on this week's earnings call that the company is trying to catch Spotify Family plan users who don't actually live together with a new QR co…
The next-gen Xbox won’t cost you $1,800. It can’t. Can it?
Fortune dropped a bombshell report on the future of gaming this week. According to the publication's Microsoft insiders, the next Xbox is projected to cost between $1,200 and $1,8…
As blockchain investing falls out of vogue, a16z Crypto rebrands as a16z Frontier
The digital asset unit, helmed by Chris Dixon, broadens its scope.
Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access
"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.
Moderna and Merck say their mRNA cancer vaccine cut death, recurrence by 42%
Markers released top-line results today after previously reporting the trial succeeded.
OpenAI working on new $30B raise at $1.25T valuation ahead of IPO
Should OpenAI command an over $1 trillion valuation with this round, it would break records as the mostly highly valued private company ever.
Latest estimate for Starship launches required to support a Moon landing? 22.
"We need to keep our eyes on numerous required fuelings for the lander."
Canva’s first AI image model plans designs before generating them
Canva is diving even deeper into AI with the launch of an image generation model that competes directly with those from OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google. The model, called Canva Craf…
PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikes
Demand for new PCs took a hit after months of price hikes, with Counterpoint Research reporting global PC shipments fell 21 percent year-over-year in Q3 2026. That's in line with …
Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach
Cloud platform Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. [...]
Fall 2026 earnings watch
Every company is suddenly an AI company. Compute is an asset. Cars are flying. We’ve been promised robots — again. It’s time again to dig through earnings reports, listen to inves…