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Microsoft and Japanese Police Take Down a Phishing Marketplace Behind 1 Billion Scam Texts
Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit and Health-ISAC seized domains behind YAM Store, CoGUI and Iron Man, Chinese-language phishing services tied to over a billion scam messages since January.
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Linux Kernel Drops Its AI Disclosure Tag as Torvalds Rejects "Stupid" Tool Rules
Kernel maintainers agreed to deprecate the "Assisted-by" tag that asked contributors to flag AI help, and Linus Torvalds says understanding the code is what counts.
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Jio Sets a $3.2B IPO That Would Be India's Biggest Ever
Reliance's Jio Platforms priced its offering at ₹1,065 to ₹1,119 a share, which would value India's largest carrier at about $108 billion.
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Ivanti Patches a Connect Secure Zero-Day Attackers Were Already Using
Ivanti fixed an authentication bypass in its Connect Secure VPN after Volexity caught a new group chaining it into root access, and a third bug in the chain still has no patch.
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iPhone Duo's China Filing Lists Apple Intelligence and Alibaba's Qwen
The China-market iPhone Duo's network license now carries filing numbers for Apple Intelligence and two Alibaba models, a sign the mainland rollout is close.
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iPhone Duo's A20 Pro Shows Up on Geekbench, Matching the iPhone 18 Pro
The first Geekbench 7 result for Apple's foldable scores 3986 single-core and 11067 multi-core, right in line with the iPhone 18 Pro.
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Google Messages Gets an Opt-In Gemini Mode to Catch Slow-Burn Scams
A new enhanced protection setting sends chats with unknown senders to Gemini in Google's Private AI Compute to judge whether they're a scam, rolling out in the coming weeks.
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GlobalFoundries Selected to Operate Two New Fabs in New York With Up to $21B From Japan
Japan will fund up to $21 billion for two new 300mm fabs at GlobalFoundries' Malta, New York site, with GF as technology provider and operator under a U.S.–Japan deal.
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Epic Says Fortnite Is Coming to Linux, and Its New Launcher Was Vibe Coded
Epic is rebuilding Easy Anti-Cheat so Fortnite can run on Linux, and the new Epic Games Launcher that will carry it is out in preview today after agents wrote all of its code.
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Eight States Sue OpenAI, Saying ChatGPT Isn't Safe for Kids
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana each filed suit, accusing OpenAI of misleading the public about ChatGPT's safety and collecting data from minors.
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Deezer Will Let Users Filter Out AI-Generated Music by Year's End
Deezer is building a toggle that hides AI-generated tracks, albums, and artists from search, with a rollout planned before the end of 2026.
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Colossal Unveils GenoMorph AI to Hunt Dodo Gene Edits From Sparse DNA
Colossal's GenoMorph AI flags about 2,300 dodo cranial-facial gene targets from a single genome, plus lipid nanoparticles for embryo tests and a 36-bird Nicobar pigeon colony.
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Bank of America Hired 1,000 Contractors to Patch Bugs Exposed by Anthropic's Mythos
CEO Brian Moynihan says the bank brought in 1,000 outside contractors in the second quarter to fix software flaws that frontier models like Mythos can find, on top of 3,000 staff already doing that work.
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ASML Says Chipmakers Want to Book Machines for 2029 and 2030 After a €5B Quarter
ASML posted record Q3 sales of €11.7 billion and €5.0 billion in net income, and says some customers already want to place orders for 2029 and 2030.
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Apple Moves the 12-Inch MacBook, iPad 6, and BeatsX to Its Obsolete List
The last 12-inch MacBook, the 2018 iPad, and BeatsX earbuds are now officially obsolete, which means Apple Stores generally won't repair them anymore.