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Seabirds racing home over the ocean can get jet-lagged
A long flight home from feeding grounds messes with birds' internal clocks.
A Claude agent ran inside a Pentagon network for two months, WIRED reports
An Accenture contractor connected a sensitive Pentagon system to their personal Claude Code account. The AI agent then ran on a Defense Department network for two months, Vittoria…
The FDA wants to pull its approval of a drug. It’s not so easy.
The regulator says Tavneos was approved on the basis of manipulated study data. Should patients still have access to it?
John Ternus tells WIRED Apple won’t ship AI for AI’s sake
Apple wants people to love its products without having to think about whether AI made them work, chief executive John Ternus told Steven Levy for WIRED. The interview was publishe…
Google joins OpenAI and Anthropic in promising new scraping controls
Google, OpenAI, Anthropic and Microsoft pledge to support a new common signal for robots.txt that blocks scraping for AI training.
Nvidia in talks to guarantee debt for Nscale’s Anthropic data centre
Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt for Nscale, the UK AI cloud company. The money would build a West Virginia data centre that Anthropic plans to use. Pho…
Trump declares robot imports a national security threat
US President Donald Trump has ordered trade talks on robot imports. A Commerce Department investigation found that foreign-made robots and industrial machinery threaten national s…
Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (K…
A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats
A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the…
Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security comp…
Pile-ins, payouts, and pacing pressure: the investors behind the VCs open up
The money behind the money is thrilled, mostly.
Why North Korea's 'elite' hackers are the prime suspect in major Binance hack
If the accusations are true, the record-making heist shows how powerful suspected North Korean hackers have become.
Think you can save the Hubble Space Telescope? NASA wants to know.
The space agency solicited ideas for reboosting Hubble four years ago, but they didn't go anywhere.
Apple confirms its AI features reach China in December, with Qwen
Apple says its first Apple Intelligence features will launch in China with iOS 27.3 in December, with a developer beta from 4 November. Alibaba’s Qwen model will work inside Siri,…
Salesforce’s M&A spree continues with a reported $375M deal for defense tech startup Rune
The AI logistics startup will bolster the CRM giant's Missionforce defense platform.
Databricks and SAP expand their deal to put AI on SAP data
Databricks and SAP are expanding their partnership, with Genie, Lakeflow, Unity Gateway and Lakebase coming to SAP Databricks. SAP’s new Application Data Foundation will make data…
S&P turns negative on Meta as AI spending eats into its cash
S&P lowered the outlook on Meta’s AA- credit rating to negative from stable, citing heavy AI spending. It expects Meta’s leverage to rise above 1.0x as soon as 2027, from about 0.…
Flesh-eating screwworms are feasting on pets; 4 dogs and cat attacked this week
USDA has identified 74 animal cases in US since parasitic flies invaded in June.
Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple will launch Apple Intelligence in China with iOS 27.3, the company announced on its Chinese newsroom website, as reported by MacRumors. The Apple Intelligence features will …
Amazon can now borrow up to $80B against the AI hardware it buys
Amazon has set up a supplier financing facility to borrow up to $80B against the hardware it buys, usable from 2027 to late 2028. It had a $42.4B free cash outflow in the year to …
Oh captain, our captain: Ars staff remembers Patrick Stewart
"For huge numbers of people, I will always be Jean-Luc Picard. ... We created an admirable individual."
Big Tech has now committed more than $3 trillion to the AI build-out
Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and Oracle have committed more than $3T to future spending on data centres, leases, equipment and energy, Bloomberg reports. Alphabet leads with …
Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry gobbles memory and other components causing PC prices to rise.
Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, report says
The new report says the AI lab will likely qualify for a high junk rating.