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New request logs reviewed by researchers at Transluce show that autonomous AI agents sent more than 200,000 requests to a U.S. Department of Education website in a single day, part of a wider pattern of agentic AI systems probing American and Canadian government infrastructure through the summer of 2026. BleepingComputer reported the findings on October…
Meta spent the first days of October 2026 doing damage control over its newest AI product. The company is pushing back hard against a claim that its Muse AI agent read a user’s private Apple Messages without his consent, a dispute that started with a single columnist’s bug report and has snowballed into a broader…
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-104286 Fortinet FortiMail Path Traversal Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based…
A satellite containing several of the company’s AI chips launched into orbit.
Alabama is doing it with closed coal plants, the Virginias with old strip mines.
He knows the risks if Chinese models are left to dominate the future.
The scoffers are right that the warners are weirdos, but all that matters is who is right.
Breakthrough T1D says it fired three board members of the T1D Fund to protect the interest of donors; those dismissed say Breakthrough crushed the fund’s independence.
As it opens a new location, the social club prepares grant applications in 2 hours instead of 3 days and liquor-license materials in 3 hours instead of 4 days.
AI agents are becoming a standard part of development workflows, but general-purpose agents weren’t built with specialized infrastructure software such as…
