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AI and Espionage:
- Google reports that China-linked APT24 hackers are using a new malware called BadAudio in espionage campaigns. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Amazon reports that Iranian threat actors are engaged in cyber warfare to facilitate real-world attacks by mapping ship AIS data. 👉 thehackernews.com
Google Nano Banana Pro:
- Google launched Gemini 3 Pro Image, or Nano Banana Pro, with enhanced control, text rendering, and world knowledge. 👉 9to5google.com
- Nano Banana Pro supports multiple languages and is available on Vercel AI Cloud. 👉 x.com
- Nano Banana Pro combines text rendering with Gemini 3's reasoning for product mockups and infographics. 👉 x.com
- The Gemini app can now detect images created or edited by Google AI. 👉 theverge.com
Data Breaches and Ransomware:
- Salesforce investigates customer data theft via a Gainsight breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A hacker claims to have stolen 2.3TB of data from Italian rail group Almavia. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to Spanish media outlets for unfair competition practices and EU data protection regulation infringements. 👉 reuters.com
- Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics startup, raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- Source says that Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation. 👉 techcrunch.com
Vulnerability Exploits and Patches:
- CISA gives government agencies 7 days to patch a new Fortinet flaw. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A new SonicWall SonicOS flaw allows hackers to crash firewalls. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- D-Link warns of new RCE flaws in end-of-life DIR-878 routers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app. 👉 theverge.com
Malware and Botnet Activity:
- A multi-threat Android malware named Sturnus steals Signal and WhatsApp messages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Tsundere botnet expands using game lures and Ethereum-based C2 on Windows. 👉 thehackernews.com
- Google sues to disrupt a Chinese SMS phishing triad. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
- Hackers actively exploit a 7-Zip symbolic link–based RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-11001). 👉 thehackernews.com
- Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data. 👉 arstechnica.com
File Sharing:
- Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family. 👉 blog.google
AI Governance and Regulation:
- Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI. 👉 t.co
- President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force". 👉 theverge.com
- As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor; sources: OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte. 👉 t.co
- The European Commission postpones a key part of the AI Act. 👉 ft.com^$
Job Market:
- Verizon will cut more than 13,000 jobs as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations. 👉 wsj.com^$
- Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in its UK offices, following similar offers in several US divisions this year. 👉 businessinsider.com^$
Cyber Warfare:
- Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Gaming:
- Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads. 👉 theverge.com
- Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app. 👉 theverge.com
- Circana says EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Legal and Financial:
- A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices. 👉 reuters.com
- The FCC votes along party lines to repeal a Biden-era cybersecurity rule meant to address Salt Typhoon. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
- A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars is in U.S. custody. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
- Financial regulators in Canada levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform supporting Russian cryptocurrency exchanges. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
AI Models and Tools:
- OpenAI is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions. 👉 techcrunch.com
- OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously. 👉 zdnet.com
- The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights. 👉 geekwire.com
Security Incidents:
- GlobalProtect VPN portals are probed with 2.3 million scan sessions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A TV streaming piracy service with 26M yearly visits is shut down. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A Hacker claims Burj Khalifa’s fire security firm has been claimed by hackers (1 day ago). 👉 cybernews.com
- Former Xbox boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation: “Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room.” (1 day ago). 👉 eurogamer.net
Device Security:
- Cybercriminals are selling access to Chinese surveillance cameras (4 days ago). 👉 threatpost.com
- A new WrtHug campaign hijacks thousands of end-of-life ASUS routers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Marketing & Advertising:
- IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B. 👉 thewrap.com
- Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Social Media:
- Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales (3 months ago). 👉 threatpost.com
- Meta is starting to notify Australian teens of account shutdowns as a social media ban looms (1 day ago). 👉 theguardian.com
- Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk (3 days ago). 👉 threatpost.com
Other:
- Letterboxd says it will launch a rental platform called Letterboxd Video Store in early December. 👉 letterboxd.com
- Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026 (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com
- Financial Times says that Deloitte is OpenAI's auditor (1 day ago). 👉 t.co
- Verizon is laying off over 13,000 workers (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com
- Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com
- Report: Trump could sign executive order to preempt state AI laws (1 day ago). 👉 siliconangle.com
- Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a robot OS (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com
Cyber Attacks:
- Threat actors are leveraging bogus installers masquerading as popular software to trick users into installing malware as part of a global malvertising campaign dubbed TamperedChef. 👉 thehackernews.com
- A new Android banking trojan called Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- The US DOE is accelerating its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs (1 day ago). 👉 nytimes.com^$
- ""A recently disclosed security flaw impacting 7-Zip has come under active exploitation in the wild"" (1 day ago). 👉 thehackernews.com
Artificial Inteligence (AI):
- OpenAI is committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers. (1 day ago) 👉 ft.com^$
- President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com
- Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI (1 day ago). 👉 pcmag.com
OpenAI Safety:
- Source: OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte. (1 day ago) 👉 t.co
- OpenAI won't say who audits its books (1 day ago). 👉 ft.com^$
- OpenAI, has committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers (1 day ago). 👉 ft.com^$
Web Browsers:
- The EU proposes changes to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and watering down a key part of the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com
Finance:
- Why Verizon's new CEO is cutting 13,000 jobs at the wireless company (1 day ago). 👉 morningstar.com
Smart Home Devices:
- The CSA says that Matter 1.5 will add support for video cameras; Samsung has pledged its support, but Amazon and Google have not committed to interoperability (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Data Security:
- Multi-threat Android malware Sturnus steals Signal, WhatsApp messages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- Data from Italy's national railway operator, the FS Italiane Group, has been exposed after a threat actor breached the organization's IT services provider, Almaviva. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
- A federal judge in New York denied Disney's request to block Sling TV's short-term passes, which give viewers the ability to stream live content for as little as one day. 👉 theverge.com
Monarch Tractor:
- Monarch Tractor warned staff it may need to lay off more than 100 employees, or possibly even "shut down," according to a company-wide memo obtained by TechCrunch. (2 days ago). 👉 techcrunch.com
Vaccines and Autism:
- A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might (2 days ago). 👉 msn.com
Windows Backlash:
- Microsoft's push to transform Windows into an "agentic OS" that allows AI agents to control PCs is drawing user backlash similar to the Windows 8 controversy, as the company marks the operating system's 40th anniversary this week (2 days ago). 👉 theverge.com
Verizon Layoffs:
- U.S. wireless carrier Verizon said Thursday it will cut more than 13,000 jobs in its largest single layoff as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations (2 days ago). 👉 cnbc.com
AI Skepticism:
- A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash (2 days ago). 👉 pcmag.com
Education Standards:
- America has been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure in schools across the country, resulting in a decline in math skills (1 week ago). 👉 theatlantic.com
Roblox Age Verification:
- Roblox is rolling out mandatory facial age-verification for chat features to prevent children from communicating with adult strangers (3 days ago). 👉 bbc.com
Employee Well-being:
- New research shows an overall decline in employee well-being in America in 2024 compared to years prior (3 days ago). 👉 phys.org
Google TV Remote:
- Epishine's solar cells are being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices (3 days ago). 👉 theverge.com
Zork Source Code:
- Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License (3 days ago). 👉 opensource.microsoft.com^$

Tech News

AI and Espionage:

Google reports that China-linked APT24 hackers are using a new malware called BadAudio in espionage campaigns. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Amazon reports that Iranian threat actors are engaged in cyber warfare to facilitate real-world attacks by mapping ship AIS data. 👉 thehackernews.com

Google Nano Banana Pro:

Google launched Gemini 3 Pro Image, or Nano Banana Pro, with enhanced control, text rendering, and world knowledge. 👉 9to5google.com
Nano Banana Pro supports multiple languages and is available on Vercel AI Cloud. 👉 x.com
Nano Banana Pro combines text rendering with Gemini 3's reasoning for product mockups and infographics. 👉 x.com
The Gemini app can now detect images created or edited by Google AI. 👉 theverge.com

Data Breaches and Ransomware:

Salesforce investigates customer data theft via a Gainsight breach. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A hacker claims to have stolen 2.3TB of data from Italian rail group Almavia. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to Spanish media outlets for unfair competition practices and EU data protection regulation infringements. 👉 reuters.com
Physical Intelligence, an AI robotics startup, raised $600M led by CapitalG at a $5.6B valuation. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
Source says that Kalshi raised $1B led by Sequoia and CapitalG at a $11B valuation, less than two months after it announced a $300M fundraise at a $5B valuation. 👉 techcrunch.com

Vulnerability Exploits and Patches:

CISA gives government agencies 7 days to patch a new Fortinet flaw. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A new SonicWall SonicOS flaw allows hackers to crash firewalls. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
D-Link warns of new RCE flaws in end-of-life DIR-878 routers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app. 👉 theverge.com

Malware and Botnet Activity:

A multi-threat Android malware named Sturnus steals Signal and WhatsApp messages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Tsundere botnet expands using game lures and Ethereum-based C2 on Windows. 👉 thehackernews.com
Google sues to disrupt a Chinese SMS phishing triad. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
Hackers actively exploit a 7-Zip symbolic link–based RCE vulnerability (CVE-2025-11001). 👉 thehackernews.com
Microsoft warns that Copilot Actions in Windows, now in beta and off by default, can infect devices and pilfer data. 👉 arstechnica.com

File Sharing:

Google updates Quick Share to work with Apple's AirDrop to make file transfers between iPhones and Android devices easier, starting with the Pixel 10 family. 👉 blog.google

AI Governance and Regulation:

Josh Hawley, Ron DeSantis, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, and other Republicans publicly oppose President Trump's proposal to restrict US states from regulating AI. 👉 t.co
President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force". 👉 theverge.com
As OpenAI committed to spending ~$1.4T on data centers, it hasn't disclosed its auditor; sources: OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte. 👉 t.co
The European Commission postpones a key part of the AI Act. 👉 ft.com^$

Job Market:

Verizon will cut more than 13,000 jobs as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations. 👉 wsj.com^$
Google is offering voluntary buyouts to employees in its UK offices, following similar offers in several US divisions this year. 👉 businessinsider.com^$

Cyber Warfare:

Twenty, which uses AI to help hackers for the US military penetrate adversary computer networks, raised a $38M Series A led by Caffeinated Capital. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Gaming:

Nvidia and Google launch the GeForce Now Fast Pass to let Chromebook owners stream over 2,000 games directly from an existing PC game library without ads. 👉 theverge.com
Microsoft and Qualcomm release Windows updates to improve gaming on ARM, including a refreshed Xbox app. 👉 theverge.com
Circana says EA's Battlefield 6 became 2025's best-selling US game less than a month after its October 10 debut. 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Legal and Financial:

A Spanish court orders Meta to pay €479M to 87 Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition practices. 👉 reuters.com
The FCC votes along party lines to repeal a Biden-era cybersecurity rule meant to address Salt Typhoon. 👉 bloomberg.com^$
A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars is in U.S. custody. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com
Financial regulators in Canada levied $176 million in fines against Cryptomus, a digital payments platform supporting Russian cryptocurrency exchanges. 👉 krebsonsecurity.com

AI Models and Tools:

OpenAI is launching group chats globally to all users on Free, Go, Plus, and Pro plans, after piloting the feature in select regions. 👉 techcrunch.com
OpenAI says GPT-5 has demonstrated the ability to accelerate scientific research workflows but can't run projects or solve scientific problems autonomously. 👉 zdnet.com
The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) released a new generation of its flagship large language models, designed to compete more squarely with industry and academic heavyweights. 👉 geekwire.com

Security Incidents:

GlobalProtect VPN portals are probed with 2.3 million scan sessions. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A TV streaming piracy service with 26M yearly visits is shut down. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A Hacker claims Burj Khalifa’s fire security firm has been claimed by hackers (1 day ago). 👉 cybernews.com
Former Xbox boss Peter Moore sheds new light on its fierce battle with PlayStation: “Microsoft was afraid Sony was going to own the living room.” (1 day ago). 👉 eurogamer.net

Device Security:

Cybercriminals are selling access to Chinese surveillance cameras (4 days ago). 👉 threatpost.com
A new WrtHug campaign hijacks thousands of end-of-life ASUS routers. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com

Marketing & Advertising:

IAB: ad spend in the creator ecosystem in 2025 is expected to rise 26% YoY to $37B. 👉 thewrap.com
Analysis: YouTube's top conservative podcasters are driving a boom in host-read ads targeting right-wing audiences (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Social Media:

Telegram Fraudsters Ramp Up Forged COVID-19 Vaccine Card Sales (3 months ago). 👉 threatpost.com
Meta is starting to notify Australian teens of account shutdowns as a social media ban looms (1 day ago). 👉 theguardian.com
Twitter is blasted for security and privacy lapses by the company’s former head of security who alleges the social media giant’s actions amount to a national security risk (3 days ago). 👉 threatpost.com

Other:

Letterboxd says it will launch a rental platform called Letterboxd Video Store in early December. 👉 letterboxd.com
Sunday Robotics unveils Memo, a fully autonomous home robot capable of tasks like making espresso and loading a dishwasher, and plans to launch in beta in 2026 (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com
Financial Times says that Deloitte is OpenAI's auditor (1 day ago). 👉 t.co
Verizon is laying off over 13,000 workers (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com
Pornhub parent company Aylo sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft urging that they adopt device-based age verification across their app stores and OSes (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com
Report: Trump could sign executive order to preempt state AI laws (1 day ago). 👉 siliconangle.com
Google DeepMind hires former Boston Dynamics CTO Aaron Saunders as VP of hardware engineering, as Demis Hassabis envisions Gemini becoming a robot OS (1 day ago). 👉 wired.com

Cyber Attacks:

Threat actors are leveraging bogus installers masquerading as popular software to trick users into installing malware as part of a global malvertising campaign dubbed TamperedChef. 👉 thehackernews.com
A new Android banking trojan called Sturnus can capture communication from end-to-end encrypted messaging platforms like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, as well as take complete control of the device. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
The US DOE is accelerating its approach to equipping national labs with AI supercomputers by working with Nvidia, AMD, and Oracle, which will pay some of the costs (1 day ago). 👉 nytimes.com^$
""A recently disclosed security flaw impacting 7-Zip has come under active exploitation in the wild"" (1 day ago). 👉 thehackernews.com

Artificial Inteligence (AI):

OpenAI is committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers. (1 day ago) 👉 ft.com^$
President Trump plans to grant the US government sole power to regulate AI (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com
Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI (1 day ago). 👉 pcmag.com

OpenAI Safety:

Source: OpenAI's auditor is Deloitte. (1 day ago) 👉 t.co
OpenAI won't say who audits its books (1 day ago). 👉 ft.com^$
OpenAI, has committed to spending about $1.4 trillion on data centers (1 day ago). 👉 ft.com^$

Web Browsers:

The EU proposes changes to GDPR, including simplifying cookie permission pop-ups, and watering down a key part of the AI Act, after US and tech company pressure (1 day ago). 👉 theverge.com

Finance:

Why Verizon's new CEO is cutting 13,000 jobs at the wireless company (1 day ago). 👉 morningstar.com

Smart Home Devices:

The CSA says that Matter 1.5 will add support for video cameras; Samsung has pledged its support, but Amazon and Google have not committed to interoperability (1 day ago). 👉 bloomberg.com^$

Data Security:

Multi-threat Android malware Sturnus steals Signal, WhatsApp messages. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
Data from Italy's national railway operator, the FS Italiane Group, has been exposed after a threat actor breached the organization's IT services provider, Almaviva. 👉 bleepingcomputer.com
A federal judge in New York denied Disney's request to block Sling TV's short-term passes, which give viewers the ability to stream live content for as little as one day. 👉 theverge.com

Monarch Tractor:

Monarch Tractor warned staff it may need to lay off more than 100 employees, or possibly even "shut down," according to a company-wide memo obtained by TechCrunch. (2 days ago). 👉 techcrunch.com

Vaccines and Autism:

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention webpage that previously made the case that vaccines don't cause autism now says they might (2 days ago). 👉 msn.com

Windows Backlash:

Microsoft's push to transform Windows into an "agentic OS" that allows AI agents to control PCs is drawing user backlash similar to the Windows 8 controversy, as the company marks the operating system's 40th anniversary this week (2 days ago). 👉 theverge.com

Verizon Layoffs:

U.S. wireless carrier Verizon said Thursday it will cut more than 13,000 jobs in its largest single layoff as it works to shrink costs and restructure operations (2 days ago). 👉 cnbc.com

AI Skepticism:

A Microsoft executive is questioning why more people aren't impressed with AI, a week after the company touted the evolution of Windows into an "agentic OS," which immediately triggered backlash (2 days ago). 👉 pcmag.com

Education Standards:

America has been lowering standards and removing penalties for failure in schools across the country, resulting in a decline in math skills (1 week ago). 👉 theatlantic.com

Roblox Age Verification:

Roblox is rolling out mandatory facial age-verification for chat features to prevent children from communicating with adult strangers (3 days ago). 👉 bbc.com

Employee Well-being:

New research shows an overall decline in employee well-being in America in 2024 compared to years prior (3 days ago). 👉 phys.org

Google TV Remote:

Epishine's solar cells are being used in a new remote control for Google TV devices (3 days ago). 👉 theverge.com

Zork Source Code:

Microsoft has released the source code for Zork I, II, and III under the MIT License (3 days ago). 👉 opensource.microsoft.com^$