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Hackers defrost fridges at hundreds of French supermarkets, Bloomberg says

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Hackers broke into the refrigeration systems of hundreds of French supermarkets on Sunday night. Stores had to throw out meat, frozen goods and vegetables. About 150 Intermarché stores were hit, a spokesman for owner Groupement Mousquetaires told Bloomberg. The attackers set the cooling systems to defrost. Fridges and freezers heated to 50°C for around six hours, […]

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Trump’s AI liability push leaves rogue-agent blame unclear, Bloomberg says

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The Trump administration is betting that the threat of lawsuits will keep AI companies honest. But it is far from clear who would pay when an AI agent goes rogue, Maggie Eastland reported for Bloomberg. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and former White House AI czar David Sacks argue that existing liability laws work better than […]

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Goldman’s Marco Argenti says AI turns developers into managers of managers

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Goldman Sachs is entering a third phase of AI adoption, in which the goal moves from saving money to making it, the bank’s chief information officer Marco Argenti said. He spoke with Bloomberg anchor Tom Mackenzie at Wave by Vento in Turin on Friday, in a session titled “Mindset, not skillset”. “How do you make […]

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Spirit’s privacy ombudsman backs Google’s $10m data deal

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The privacy official in Spirit Airlines’ bankruptcy has recommended approval of the sale of deidentified Spirit Airlines data to Google. In a report filed on 5 October, ombudsman Lucy Thomson said Spirit and Google had taken passenger databases out of the deal. Google won the auction with a $10m bid, Business Insider reported. A hearing […]

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Giorgia Meloni files to trademark her voice against AI deepfakes

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has applied to trademark her voice at the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO). The EUIPO record lists a sound mark filed on 5 October in her own name, as an individual, through the Italian firm Praxi Intellectual Property. As of 9 October, the application was still under examination. The […]

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AI model evaluator Arena nearly doubles its valuation to $3.1B

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Arena has raised $200M at a $3.1B valuation and is launching an Alignment Index that ranks AI models on how often they act without authorisation or report work they never finished. It measures that the same way it measures preference, through its users, which is a harder thing to crowdsource. Arena has raised $200M at […]

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Google launches workplace AI agent that gets its own email address

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Google’s new Gemini agent gives each coworker agent its own Workspace account, email address, calendar and entry in the company directory, and runs work for days after the laptop closes. Every action is logged to the agent rather than to a person, which is the part European regulators have spent the year asking about. Google […]

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One prompt let researchers take over every AWS AgentCore agent in a region

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Researchers at Zenity Labs used a single prompt to one public-facing AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore to take over every AgentCore agent in the same AWS account and region. The security firm published the research on Thursday, alongside a talk at the SecTor 2026 conference in Toronto. AgentCore is AWS’s managed service for building […]

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Swiss prosecutors investigate data leak at federal pension fund Publica

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Publica, the pension fund that provides pensions for staff of the Swiss federal government, has confirmed today that a data leak occurred as a result of a cyberattack on one of its external software suppliers. The Swiss government stated that the supplier discovered the attack at the end of September and then filed a criminal […]

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Microsoft will block two Windows installer formats in Outlook from November

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Microsoft will add .msix and .msixbundle to Outlook’s blocked attachment list in early November, closing an email route for a packaging format its own threat researchers watched four criminal groups abuse in 2023. Renaming the extension still gets a package through, and the change lands as a default policy edit in every Exchange Online tenant, […]

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