Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say there are working exploits for the flaws, and that these critical bugs are already being exploited in the wild.
A quilt artist who spent decades on death row now has his first solo exhibit at the Grand Rapids Art Museum.
OpenEvidence is booming despite questions about accuracy and ads.
US president has continued to support data centres in advance of midterms, despite growing opposition from Republicans.
Intel has installed the first major structural truss at its delayed Ohio chip fab, but the company has yet to announce a major outside customer.
After introducing its Gemini AI assistant to Android Auto last year, Google is now bringing it to Apple CarPlay users. The conversational Gemini in navigation is available today for US drivers, with "rollout happening globally too," according to Google (we've asked for specific regional availability details). It's taken almost 12 months for Google to bring […]
Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold. The post ‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets appeared first on SecurityWeek .
An intelligent email inbox that works for you Discussion | Link
Hugging Face Blog published: Granite Speech 5.0: Transcribe, Translate, and Attribute more Accurately and Faster
Russia will send on Thursday its first diesel tanker to the US to an undisclosed port.
There are quite a few 5K monitors out there. Many of them are designed to appeal to Mac users who are looking for cheaper Studio Display alternatives without giving up the pixel-dense 218ppi screen. However, if you’re interested in hearing about one with gaming chops, Samsung’s 27-inch Odyssey G80HF seems like one of the best […]
Preserve source tool JSON alongside decoded API values so Flint can retain numeric types and schema order in prompts. Existing API marshaling is unchanged. Assemble ModelOpt expert banks during safetensors import, and reject direct Flint NVFP4 creation before conversion. Other models retain their existing import and quantization paths. Add optional learned sinks and device causal masks to shared MLX attention. Existing callers retain the no-sink and host-mask paths; Flint opts into the new behavior.
Recursive Flint Flint brings Recursive's coding model to Ollama. It is designed for the work coding agents do across a repository: understanding unfamiliar code, tracing bugs, implementing features, and adding tests. Reasoning, multi-turn tool use, and a 262K-token context window support longer tasks across files and tool interactions. Flint is an Apache 2.0-licensed, 40B-parameter mixture-of-experts model with approximately 2.5B parameters active per token. In its release evaluations , Recursive reports 54.9% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 74.2% on SWE-bench Verified. ollama run flint Note: rc0 supports Flint on MacOS. Other GPU support will be enabled in later RC builds. Full Changelog : v0.40.7...v0.40.8-rc0
Inception says Mercury 3 is the most capable diffusion language model released so far. The company claims it runs four to eight times faster than GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 and beats both in eight of 12 benchmarks. There are no independent tests yet. The article Inception's Mercury 3 diffusion model claims to beat GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at a fraction of the wait appeared first on The Decoder .
Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents. The post High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Mistral and Nvidia are teaming up to speed up engineering simulations and industrial product design with AI. The article Mistral and Nvidia want to speed up industrial design with physics AI appeared first on The Decoder .
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As US support ebbs away, looming European elections and growing financial strains across the continent could fracture the precious coalition that has kept Ukraine afloat Europe woke up last Friday to another belligerent outburst from Donald Trump – this time berating Ukraine’s wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy again. Just a few days after his diesel deal with the Kremlin, the US president said Zelenskyy was more difficult to deal with than Vladimir Putin and blamed Ukraine’s leader for rocketing oil prices – without any reference to the impact of his own war on Iran. The contrast in Europe was obvious. When Zelenskyy walked into the multi-coloured summit room of the European Council headquarters in Brussels that Friday morning, the EU’s 27 leaders burst into applause, getting to their feet to offer big hugs and brisk handshakes. European Council president António Costa told Zelenskyy and the media: “This is no time to withdraw the support to Ukraine,” calling instead for increased pressure on Russia. Zelenskyy was thankful, pointedly saying he was happy to have “huge support” from “real leaders”. Continue reading...
Russian FSB agents have arrested a German national and accused him of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine's military. They claim he deserted over unpaid wages and say he was a sniper who once served in the Bundeswehr.
Apple says it will have "limited" iPhone Duo models for sale in stores, according to a report from Reuters. The iPhone Duo launches on Friday, October 23rd, but online preorders quickly sold out, with some delivery estimates extending into next year. The iPhone Duo is Apple's first foldable, offering a 5.4-inch outer display and 7.6-inch […]
Former art teacher, who cared for her disabled son, ‘received almost no support’, said her local MP Manuela Perteghella Andy Burnham has backed mandatory suicide prevention training for social workers after the “devastating” death of Matilda Davis, a parent-carer who killed herself minutes after meeting professionals. The Guardian revealed in August how the “absolutely inspirational” 36-year-old had taken her life after feeling “completely exhausted” and failed by England’s social care system. Continue reading...
Cloudflare's web application firewall can now correlate an HTTP request with its response. Full transaction detection helps every customer find successful exploits, data exposure, and risky misconfigurations that request-only inspection can miss.
The comment is an apparent swipe at Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, who both face elections in coming weeks.
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