2026 ED138 is way out beyond Neptune and perhaps the smallest known object of its type

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A group of hacktivists calling themselves Distributed Denial of Secrets, said the unmasking of ICE agents, DHS operatives and contractors was fair play, given the government's lack of transparency.

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Firm calls charges, which include violating state gambling ban and profiting from illegal activity, ‘crazy overreach’

Utah on Wednesday filed criminal charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and two of its executives, months after a federal judge rejected Kalshi’s effort to prevent Utah from enforcing its strict anti-gambling laws against the activity.

The felony charges could represent a new tactic in how states try to assert regulatory authority over the fast-expanding activity, a clash that appears headed to a showdown at the US supreme court.

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That’s a problem, cos it just spent $51 billion on infrastructure and still needs to rent compute from others to run its cloud

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The cloud security startup raised a Series C at a $3.8B valuation, instead of selling itself for the same price.

This Vulcan launch will be the first to utilize a full complement of six solid rocket boosters.

Europe's Pan-Arctic Cable will bypass US to link Canada, Japan, and South Korea.

Information released by Distributed Denial of Secrets is the third such government data disclosure in the last month

The leak website Distributed Denial of Secrets said on Wednesday it has released data on more than 40,000 Department ⁠of Homeland Security (DHS) employees, including details about officials working in sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence.

DHS did not immediately return a message seeking comment.

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The Department of Health and Human Services will let small compounding pharmacies make six peptides that haven't been approved by the Food and Drug Administration. It may not be enough to meet demand.

Seawater surges into low-lying communities from San Diego to San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, homes and businesses

Historic high tides have caused chaos up and down the California coast this week, as parts of the state were inundated by record-breaking water levels. Seawater surged into low-lying communities from San Diego to the San Francisco Bay Area, submerging streets, flooding homes and businesses, and jamming important transportation corridors and train routes.

Kayakers and paddle boarders could be seen gliding through typically busy thoroughfares in Marin county, north of San Francisco, on Monday and Tuesday. Several drivers had to be rescued from floating cars in the area, while cyclists who had attempted to cross the temporary lagoon that had formed quickly found themselves waist-deep. Further south, in cities such as Newport Beach, water pounded the emergency infrastructure set up to keep out the swelling sea, which seeped through berms, seawalls and sandbag blockades along the shoreline.

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Microsoft has never disclosed Azure's quarterly revenue in dollars. But for the first time, we can see just how close it is getting to besting the biggest competitor in the market, AWS.

The announcement came alongside parent company Alphabet's third-quarter earnings report, which saw revenue grow 25% year over year to $127.6 billion.

Microsoft said it made $10 billion in revenue from commercial arrangements with OpenAI, including revenue-sharing payments, in the quarter ending September 30. It underscores the still-enormous financial dependency of the partnership.

Whatever the future of AI might be, the current situation is still very good for Microsoft. The tech giant reported yet another record for quarterly revenue on Wednesday: $92.3 billion, a 19% increase over the year-ago quarter.

The article outlines methods for evaluating AI-powered Security Operations Center systems during proof-of-concept testing, emphasizing measurement of ground truth accuracy, false negative rates, evidence quality, and consistency against an organization's own alert data using a standardized scorecard approach.

A creature known as the "Beast of Bray Road" has Wisconsin residents divided on whether it is a myth.

The Trump administration wants to undo a Biden-era rule that would reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.

The article explains Mean Time to Contain (MTTC) as a security operations metric measuring how quickly a SOC stops an attack from spreading, contrasting it with Mean Time to Repair (MTTR), and discusses how AI-driven SOCs improve measurement and reduction of MTTC.

Sightings of the "Beast of Bray Road" have been reported for decades by residents of Elkhorn, Wisconsin.

U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. […]

The AI medical assistant is still being tested. Now the space boffins want to give it hands

Hackers stole passport numbers, frequent flyer numbers, email addresses and phone numbers for about 2,000 customers.

The critical flaw in UEFI firmware—used by most server vendors and data centers—allows attackers to execute code early in the boot process.

Why give people tests that AI aces?

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A hacker obtained personally identifiable information about more than 40,000 Homeland Security staffers, which has since been published online.

The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.

Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns

The Federal Reserve's interest rate decisions affect everything from mortgages to car loans

The supply chain attack campaign's shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit.

US agency has sued 10 states for trying to stop gambling on prediction markets.

Networks can be built from scratch, and AI can close the skills gaps a budding entrepreneur needs. But an MBA can still offer something else.

Article uses marionette metaphor to argue security operations need centralized orchestration connecting vulnerability scanners, firewalls, WAFs, endpoint security, network detection, and identity systems. Emphasizes interdependence of security tools and need for unified command structure.

It has been nearly a year since any space tourism flights occurred.

The frontier lab is lifting the curtain on how users spend money on its models ahead of a planned IPO.

The PHP scare may have faded from your feed, but the cleanup is far from over. Last week, two critical bugs in the open source language behind roughly 70% of websites left organizations scrambling to fix their systems, with some taking sites offline until the vulnerabilities could be patched. According to researchers who found the […]

Gemini 4 Carbon is essentially a slightly better version of Argon.

His arrival in the US ends speculation about his whereabouts after he failed to comply with an order to surrender his passports.

To experiment with AI’s predictive skills, I let Codex loose on a fantasy team. It tried to bench Erling Haaland at first, but it soon learned the error of its ways.

Chancellor John Healey has announced a “new course on energy” for the UK, focused on keeping bills low amid the…

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The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access.

"First identified in late 2023, Silent Train uses rotating chains of compromised SOHO, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure," Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared

Tomasz Tunguz suggests cybersecurity could become AI's third major product-market fit following coding and customer support, with AI converging across traditionally separate security operations disciplines.

The Federal Reserve opted to leave its benchmark interest rate unchanged — but investors widely expect the central bank to raise rates at its next meeting in December to combat stubborn inflation.

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Russian and North Korean nationals for allegedly laundering the earnings of illicit IT workers on behalf of Pyongyang.

Artemis Security was named to the 2026-2027 Fortune Cyber 60 list in its first year of operations, recognizing its AI-native defense platform for security teams against AI-powered attacks.

A new developer platform will let businesses bring their services to Google's AI experiences, potentially changing how consumers discover and use apps.

Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal information. […]