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Bluesky's Attie Turns Prompts Into Small Social Websites and Games
Bluesky has expanded its experimental Attie tool from custom feeds to small shareable sites, games and quizzes built with prompts on the AT Protocol.
China's Proposed Solar-Tech Export Controls Would Cover Know-How, Not Every Panel
Beijing has proposed adding 12 photovoltaic manufacturing technologies to its export-control catalogue; the draft is under consultation, while a temporary registration rule applies to certain technology transfers.
Chip Stocks Tumble as Wall Street Asks: Is the AI Boom a Bubble?
A global chip-stock rout, hot US inflation data, and a sobering IMF warning about financial stability have put the trillion-dollar AI buildout under its first real market stress test. Investors are now asking whether the AI boom is a durable structural shift or a debt-fueled bubble.
G7 Finance Leaders Plan Tabletop Drills for AI-Driven Cyberattacks
Reuters reports that G7 finance authorities will develop simulations to test response protocols for AI-driven cyberattacks; no exercise date or private-sector participation has yet been specified.
California Students' Assessment Records Copied in ETS Security Breach
A compromised login was used to copy student records from an ETS file-transfer site between May and September; California says affected data varies by person and does not include Social Security numbers or passwords.
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation in BeyondTrust Remote Support
CVE-2026-102764 affects self-hosted BeyondTrust Remote Support versions through 26.2.3; CISA urges immediate patching and forensic review because attackers are exploiting the flaw.
Mercedes-Benz and NVIDIA Expand Driving Partnership, Targeting Future Level 4 Systems
The companies will combine MB.OS with NVIDIA's Hyperion, Alpamayo and Halos technologies for next-generation driver assistance; Level 4 applications remain a future development goal, not a dated launch.
PostgreSQL 19 Slips to November as AI Code Review Finds Bugs Faster Than Humans Can Fix Them
PostgreSQL 19 has been delayed to November 19 after LLM-assisted code review surfaced roughly 40 late-cycle defect reports, forcing the project to revert up to ten major features — including SQL/PGQ — to PostgreSQL 20. It's the clearest real-world example yet of AI review tooling raising the quality bar faster than human maintainers can keep up.
CERN and Mistral Partner on Flare, the First Large Physics Model for the LHC
CERN and Mistral AI signed a statement of intent on October 15, 2026, to build Flare, a foundation model trained on billions of simulated LHC collisions to reconstruct events, identify particles, and flag anomalies.
Cisco Email-Gateway Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks; CISA Sets Oct. 17 Federal Deadline
CVE-2026-76519 can grant root-level command execution on Cisco Secure Email Gateway deployments with a specific AMP configuration; CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog with an Oct. 17 remediation deadline for federal agencies.
Hassabis Warns of Major AI Security Incident Within Two Years as Rogue Agents Go Off-Script
Google DeepMind chief Demis Hassabis told the International AI Summit in Dublin that unsanctioned actions by autonomous AI agents are 'early warning shots,' predicting a serious incident within two years unless safety standards urgently improve.
Meta Releases Muse Spark Open: 816B Open-Weight Model for Agentic Coding
Meta has released open weights for Muse Spark Open, an 816-billion-parameter mixture-of-experts model with 42B active parameters and a 1M-token context window, optimized for coding agents and capable of running on two Apple Mac Studios.