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Coulthart argues the Pentagon likely holds more evidence on unexplained aerial phenomena

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PLUS: AI datacenter bubble wobbles in Australia; E-commerce app suggests it can detect diseases; India’s top telco to IPO amid investor frenzy; and more!

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YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.22.0 release brings 11 improvements and 9 bugfixes.

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A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week.

The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding, and an attacker who already controls one device that the network's access rules permit to connect to the target.

The findings were

Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619.

"In one case, the attackers targeted a government entity in Europe and within two hours of the initial exploitation they had successfully accessed password hashes and multi-factor

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"Despite massive investments and widespread hype around artificial intelligence, the technology has delivered zero financial payoff to corporate America outside of tech."

Israel is holding a general election this week after years of war. For many Israelis, shaken by the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and years of war, it is the most consequential in decades.

Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer's Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. […]

We compiled a list of all the hottest AI wearables, including Muse Charm, Bee, Friend, Plaud, and more.

VW investment, creating 4,500 jobs in Georgia, comes amid Trump’s damaging tariffs, intense Chinese competition and costly shift towards EVs

Audi has said it will spend $4bn (£3bn) to build its first factory in the US, as its parent company, Volkswagen, struggles with the impact of steep tariffs imposed by Donald Trump.

The German brand’s chief executive, Gernot Döllner, joined Trump on stage at a campaign rally on Saturday night to announce the factory in Macon, Georgia, in an unusual move by a big European brand just days before the US midterm elections.

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This gives the company an advantage in tracking objects in orbit, raising national security concerns and fears of greater control over the space industry

The US military has given Elon Musk’s SpaceX access to restricted space tracking data, raising a new round of questions about whether the Trump administration is attempting to hand over traffic control in Earth’s orbit to a controversial donor.

The access also raises new national security questions, industry observers say.

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Beyond naive chunk-and-embed: Six production architectures for turning enterprise lakehouses into governed AI platforms.

The post Data Enablement for AI: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Ross Coulthart tackles questions about whether the U.S. government has secretly worked with hybrid extraterrestrials.

Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks.

The post Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Minister insists responsibilities are clear as construction, telecoms, and energy fall under separate departments

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Intergalactic Space Warrior, or a bin in orbit?

Town announced a $108 million Series B at a $1 billion valuation. CEO Jean-Denis Greze says most people don't know what to do with AI agents. He says the company is betting it will make AI more accessible to small businesses. The startup is now in talks with tech giant Google and Microsoft.

Large language models (LLMs) have made the task of writing complaints easier. Councils, police forces, schools all report huge spike in complaints. Complaints are unnecessarily lengthy and inaccurate, often contain nonsensical ‘legalese’ Experts say people are making ‘petty and spurious’ complaints because process is less time consuming. But they warn genuine aggrieved people are blocked from getting resolution by backlogs. For example, employment tribunal cases filed in the UK soared by 39 per cent from January to March. But the surge in cases has seen cases pile up with complainants waiting until 2029 to get their case heard.

Columbia Banking System: Massive Share Repurchase And A 5% Yield. Management just announced a $1.2 billion share buyback. Pacific Premier Bancorp acquisition expanding Columbia Banking's geographic reach. Shares trade at a 20% discount to the median P/B and higher forward ROE. The stock is yielding 5% compared to financial sector median of 2.8%. COLB's 3Q26 results exceeded expectations with NIM above 4%, strong credit quality and efficiency ratio at 51.34%, outperforming industry benchmarks.

Put Your A.I. Agents to Work with These 4 Killer Tasks. When you start using Meta’s Muse and OpenAI’s dots for these tasks — like applying for jobs and booking hard-to-get restaurant tables — you may never go back.

New York Times reports Alpha School isn't meeting academic goals. The AI-based private school chain is largely gamified and app-based. Less than half of Alpha School's students didn't meet academic goals, the Times reports. The company says it won't respond to written questions about the report. It's expensive and has unconventional pedagogy like having kids "earn money by doing academics, so they can fund their passion projects’s projects” The company won't comment on the report, but says it's not talking to the Times.

We put “context matters” to the test ⚡ Amir Kessler , Director of Product Management at Torq, ran the Torq Auto Triage agent on 400 real customer alerts, twice: once with the Torq Context Graph and once without. The result? 23.9% of verdicts changed. That’s roughly one in every four alerts Read the research: https://lnkd.in/gY9M7w3m

SpaceX boss restored access to critical tech for Volodymyr Zelensky's forces. It comes after a ten-day freeze on top-speed service after Donald Trump complained about speed limits. Musk claims Ukraine exploited a 'loophole' to use commercial Starlink technology for drone strikes. He said Starlink remains critical to the defence of Ukraine, as it is the only system that cannot be jammed or blown up, at least for now. But Ukrainian experts say it is impossible for commercial platforms to use for strikes. They said the commercial platforms would be cut off from internet if it enters Russian territory.

BSE Sensex tumbled 1,605.44 points, or 2.15 per cent, in a holiday-time-truncated week. Total market capitalisation fell by ₹20,78,774.28 crore over four sessions to 4,51,83,393.14 crore. Eight of the top 10 most valuable firms in India lost 1,55,671.9 crore, while two, TCS and Larsen and Toubro, gained valuation gains. Reliance Industries, Bharti Airtel and ICICI Bank were the most valued firms.

A Bank of America study found 61% of ultra-high net-worth respondents are concerned about children's motivation. Some families are keeping full amount of wealth from their children. Only about a third of those respondents said their heirs are “very prepared’ for their inheritance. Wealthy worry their children will dull their ‘drive’ and not tell them how much they have.

Elon Musk unveils proposed X Money feature to allow users to send $1 by long pressing Like button. The feature is part of Musk's strategy to transform X into an "everything app" The payment mechanism would be part of X, formerly Twitter, which combines social networking and payments. Musk has not yet announced when the feature will be available in India. The company has also not disclosed a rollout timeline for the proposed payment feature. X Money recently launched in the United States and is currently focused on the US market, but has not said when it will be rolled out in India.

PM Narendra Modi to launch RBI’s mega Data Centre near Bhubaneswar. Facility designed to meet growing computing needs and provide future-ready ecosystem. Campus houses four state of the art data centres and Cybersecurity Training Institute. Facility is among the largest Tier IV-certified facilities in global banking, finance sector. It will reinforce RBI‘s position as leader in digital infrastructure among banks worldwide. The facility is expected to enhance reach, efficiency, reliability of digital services while providing secure digital foundation for India’s increasingly tech-driven financial ecosystem. The institute will serve as dedicated platform for research, capability building in cybersecurity.

NASA administrator Jared Isaacman provides an update on Artemis III lunar lander. The agency plans to dock with Elon Musk’s SpaceX and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin next year. Docking practices will involve astronauts launching aboard NASA's Orion capsule. The mission will complete with three launches from Cape Canaveral in quick succession. The Apollo 11 mission was completed in nine months and will take four astronauts to the moon. NASA plans to keep options open until 2028 before choosing between SpaceX and Blue Origin to build a lunar base that is scheduled for 2028. The “new space race” will be “much closer than it ever needed to be” due to slow going.

Bill Gates predicts 20 years before AI creates "true abundance" in 20 years. He predicts robots will displace humans and "build houses, grow food, do surgery" Some jobs might still be reserved for human workers. Gates says early retirement and limits on hours could preserve some level of employment. He says AI will be "winning and losers" in the 20-year transition period, but disruption will be a "tumeling" period for humans, he says. Gates: "None of the things that human labor provides to the economy will be necessary for most goods and services" He says he hopes AI will solve some of the world's biggest problems, but it will be jarring for someone like himself, like him.

Ocular Therapeutix closed at $6.61 on Thursday. The market is pricing in $1.26 billion in peak sales for OCUL. OCUL is rated Buy with a 12-month price target of $7.90. The company's strong Phase 3 SOL-1 results show it has a clear regulatory path. The potential 2027 launch could be $3 to $20+ per share, depending on launch execution.

Five companies set to launch initial public offerings next week. Aimed to raise nearly Rs 2,600 crore from the primary market. The IPOs will be used to fund business expansion and debt repayment. IPOs to give investors exposure to alternative investments and steel processing sectors. More companies gearing up for IPO launch set for November 5, with dates set for October 5. The companies are tapering the primary markets to raise funds to expand and settle debts.

Michael Catelani purchased 5,500 shares of Anixa Biosciences stock at a price of $2.84 per share. Following this transaction Mr. Catelani directly holds 50,000 shares of the company's common stock. H.C. Wainwright reiterated a Buy rating, though it has adjusted the price target from $7 to $6. The firm cited recent patent issuance for the company’s breast cancer vaccine technology as reason for the adjustment of price target.

Moonshot AI's new K3.1 Pro model is free to try on Kimi.ai and in Kimi apps, via the API. The company removed cyber attack-related data to hold back model's hacking skills. Moonshot says the model is close to Claude Opus 5.5 on coding, with a score of 65.7% on Terminal-Bench 4.0.