Tech

Dell asks admins to patch max severity CSM flaws as soon as possible (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2

Flash sale: get years of Surfshark VPN on unlimited devices for $84 (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2 VPN

AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon form a JV that aims to expand US satellite coverage and eliminate dead zones, appointing industry veteran Paul Roth as interim CEO (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-2 Mobile AT&T

20% of Swiss Glaciers Lost In Five Years (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 Switzerland

Halluminate, which builds AI training environments for complex financial work, raised a $30M Series A led by Oak HC/FT, bringing its total funding to $38.5M (fortune.com)
2026-10-2 AI

Tether's USDT stablecoin is set to return to the Bitcoin network through Tether-backed Utexo, which will keep most transaction data off Bitcoin's public ledger (www.coindesk.com)
2026-10-2 Bitcoin

Amazon plans to spend $1B+ over five years for infrastructure upgrades and other projects in US communities that host its data centers, amid a growing backlash (www.geekwire.com)
2026-10-2 Amazon

OpenAI says it learned this week that its AI agent hacked Australia's NSW state government in June, following a similar hack on Australia's federal government (www.theguardian.com)
2026-10-2 Australia AI

US authorities arrest a California man suspected of smuggling $300M+ worth of restricted Nvidia AI chips to China via Malaysia and Singapore from 2023 to 2024 (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-2 China AI Singapore Malaysia Nvidia California

Microsoft's X account hacked in crypto pump-and-dump scheme (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2 Microsoft

A profile of Larry Ellison, including his octopus fixation, influence across Oracle, data centers, TikTok, politics, and support for David's media ambitions (www.vanityfair.com)
2026-10-2 Oracle

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity (it.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 AI

ArXiv limits preprint submissions to two per month per submitter, as AI access fuels a record 40,363 submissions in September 2026, vs. 20,569 in September 2024 (blog.arxiv.org)
2026-10-2 AI

Sources: Amazon has held talks with investors about a deal to spin off $8B of Grace Blackwell chips into an SPV, then lease them back for its US data centers (www.ft.com)
2026-10-2 Amazon

Meta may never need ads to monetize Muse, instead focusing on building trust in the near term and possibly monetizing it through merchant transaction fees later (www.mbi-deepdives.com)
2026-10-2

Experts say mounting cases of Nvidia chips reaching Chinese AI companies despite US export controls are increasingly pointing to gaps in Nvidia's due diligence (www.bloomberg.com)
2026-10-2 China AI Nvidia

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 California

Cloudflare debuts open-weight multimodal decision models Clef and Clef-flash, claiming they are smarter and faster than Jev, based on Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B (www.theregister.com)
2026-10-2

OpenAI says that as of September 26, it has informed 100+ third-party organizations about unauthorized activity involving its AI agents (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-2 AI

Sources: Jay Clayton will likely be the White House's pick for AI czar, and he may remain in his current role as director of national intelligence (www.cbsnews.com)
2026-10-2 AI Intelligence

Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls (news.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 Amazon

Survey of 37 countries: the share of people who say social media is bad for democracy has risen significantly since 2022-23; a median 55% still say it's good (www.pewresearch.org)
2026-10-2

A look at two opposing perspectives on AI agent sandboxing: infosec says labs need better containment, AI alignment says sandboxes can't fully contain agents (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
2026-10-2 AI

Fortinet warns of critical FortiMail flaw exploited in zero-day attacks (www.bleepingcomputer.com)
2026-10-2

California AG Rob Bonta issues an investigative subpoena to OpenAI, as part of a broader inquiry into cybersecurity incidents and risks related to its AI models (www.reuters.com)
2026-10-2 AI California

Microsoft launches MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming, a model for low-latency, real-time transcripts, and two new voice models, MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash (microsoft.ai)
2026-10-2 Microsoft

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service (yro.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2 Russia

New Mexico asks a judge to order Meta to pay up to $40B after a jury found it willfully deceived customers, in what could be the biggest US court penalty ever (www.krqe.com)
2026-10-2 Mexico

The US sanctions Russia-backed payment network A7, freezing its US assets and accusing it of enabling Iran and its proxy groups to evade western sanctions (www.ft.com)
2026-10-2 Russia Iran Asset

Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models (tech.slashdot.org)
2026-10-2

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