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Microsoft fixes a record 1,400+ flaws, and one is already under attack

“We’ve now crossed the 4,000 CVE mark with two months left to go,” Satnam Narang of Tenable told Brian Krebs. Microsoft has fixed more than 1,400 security flaws in one month, the largest Microsoft Patch Tuesday on record. The updates came out on 13 October, Krebs reported on Krebs on Security. They beat September’s record […]

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RapidCanvas raises $29M to build and run AI apps for enterprises

RapidCanvas, which pairs an AI agent platform with its own engineers to build business apps for companies, raised a $29M Series B led by Vertex Ventures SEA & India, with Hitachi Ventures joining. It will hire in the US, Brazil, and India. Total funding now stands at $52.5M. Austin-based RapidCanvas has raised $29M in Series […]

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Kroger will cut 37% of its corporate workforce as it leans on technology

“Our company has more layers, more handoffs and more overhead than we need, so we are addressing this issue.” Kroger chief executive Greg Foran wrote this in a memo to staff on Monday, 12 October. The US supermarket chain will cut about 3,000 corporate roles over the next three years. It is leaning on technology […]

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Torvalds calls AI disclosure rules ‘utterly stupid’ as Linux drops its tag

“Do you not see how UTTERLY STUPID those kinds of rules would be?” Linus Torvalds wrote this on the Linux kernel mailing list on 13 October. He was replying to a developer who wants contributors to keep declaring when they use AI tools. The Register first reported the exchange. The rule in question is the […]

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MI5 opens an AI threat centre as OpenAI tells MPs more incidents may come

“Human history has given us no experience of facing an actor which is smarter than we are. Is capable of out-thinking us.” Sir Ken McCallum, director general of MI5, said this about AI on 13 October. He was giving his annual threat update at MI5’s London headquarters. In the same speech, he announced a new […]

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Trump’s AI task force starts work and tells labs to report rogue behaviour

“Our message to all SI companies is clear: delayed notification, inadequate corrective action, and a failure to take responsibility will not be tolerated,” the task force’s leaders said. Jay Clayton, Andrew Ferguson, Scott Kupor and Emil Michael lead Donald Trump’s Super Intelligence Force. They sent that warning to AI companies this week. On Thursday, the […]

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Accenture caps staff Claude spending at $29 a month, 404 Media reports

“Providing a WBS and obtaining a license does not guarantee indefinite or ongoing access to Claude.” Accenture gave its staff that warning in an internal announcement about Claude, Anthropic’s AI model. The consulting firm now pays only $29 a month per person for Claude use, Joseph Cox reported for 404 Media on 15 October. Some […]

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Epic says it vibe coded its new launcher because ‘programming is hard’

“Programming is hard. So, instead of doing that, we vibe coded a new Epic Games Launcher.” Epic Games opened its launcher announcement with those lines on 14 October. Epic says the rebuilt app is faster than the old one and has a new look. It is out in Preview for Windows, macOS and, for the […]

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Geoffrey Hinton tells the Guardian humans are creating ‘alien beings’

“Now we’re creating alien beings … And the reality is, we only have a couple of years to adapt to that.” Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate often called a “godfather” of AI, said this to the Guardian. The interview ran on 13 October. Leyland Cecco interviewed him in Toronto. Hinton also answered Nvidia chief Jensen […]

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Schwab and JPMorgan are blocking AI agents from moving customer money

Charles Schwab is blocking unauthorised AI agents, including Meta’s Muse, that try to move client money, CEO Rick Wurster told Bloomberg Television. Schwab will instead let outside AI tools view balances through controlled MCP servers, and wants clients to use its own assistant, Charley. JPMorgan’s Jamie Dimon took a similar line this week. Charles Schwab […]

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