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AI 10.0 · Breaking

Nvidia shares fall about 9.5% in two days amid Huang spy scandal

Nvidia shares closed down 5.5% at $168.89 on Tuesday after a 4.3% drop on Monday, leaving the stock about 9.5% lower since Friday's close and wiping out roughly $430 billion in market value, according to Yahoo Finance data cited by Decrypt. The sell-off follows CEO Jensen Huang's disclosure of a relationship with businesswoman Alice Huang, whom U.S. intelligence reportedly concluded was a Chinese intelligence asset.

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AI 10.0 · Breaking

Brazilian labor court fines lawyers over hidden prompt injection in filing

A Brazilian labor court censured and fined two lawyers after finding they hid a prompt-injection instruction in a court filing, according to a translated ruling. The concealed text, set in white font on a white background, was detected when the judge reviewed the petition through Galileu, a generative AI tool used by Brazil's National Justice Council.

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Tech 9.3 · Breaking

Black Lotus Labs: Volt Typhoon used 'Silent Train' relay framework in zero-day attacks

Researchers at Black Lotus Labs, Lumen's threat research division, say they have tracked a Volt Typhoon framework called Silent Train for three years and that the group exploited at least four zero-day vulnerabilities against edge and management infrastructure. The framework routes attacks through rotating chains of compromised devices that are cleaned up after each operation.

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AI 10.0 · Breaking

Apple's Claris reportedly previews Harbor, a Mac app for local AI inference

Apple subsidiary Claris is reportedly testing a Mac app called Harbor in a private preview. According to a leaker's findings reported by 9to5Mac, the app would run open-weight models locally on Apple silicon and pool the memory of multiple Thunderbolt 5 Macs into a cluster. Apple has not announced the app.

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Crypto 10.0 · Breaking

Криптокомпании просят суд поддержать CFTC в споре о бессрочных фьючерсах

Coinbase, Kalshi, Payward (материнская компания Kraken), DRW, Jump Trading и Paradigm обратились в суд с просьбой разрешить им выступить в поддержку CFTC. Регулятор оспаривает иск Capital Markets Alliance, в которую входят Cboe и Citadel Securities. Альянс считает, что бессрочные фьючерсы на отдельные акции поднадзорны SEC.

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AI 8.6 · Breaking

Preprint examines how two vision-language models handle race and sexual-orientation face edits

A preprint investigates how two well-known vision-language models encode protected identities when asked to transform human face images to reflect race identities or sexual orientation. The authors report that the models often comply, that compliance and refusal are non-deterministic and group-sensitive, and that generated images are statistically distinguishable and often accentuate stereotypes.

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Tech 8.9 · Breaking

FBI seizes Virtualine bulletproof hosting domain in multinational operation

U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums, according to the Department of Justice. The FBI action followed an investigation involving police agencies in Germany, the Netherlands and the U.K., plus private partners OverRIPE and Lumen.

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AI 10.0 · Breaking

Report: blacklisted Chinese university bought two Nvidia H200 chips

Northwestern Polytechnical University, a Chinese institution on the US export blacklist, bought two Nvidia H200 AI chips in October for 874,700 yuan ($123,000), according to procurement records cited by Reuters. The purchase went through a local supplier rather than directly from Nvidia, and the university also rented access to restricted Nvidia processors under several contracts this year.

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AI 10.0 · Breaking

Минпросвещения и Сбер готовят «суверенную» нейросеть для школ

Минпросвещения разрабатывает первую российскую «суверенную» образовательную нейросеть и планирует представить её до конца текущего учебного года, возможно раньше. По словам министра просвещения Сергея Кравцова, систему протестируют перед внедрением и будут рекомендовать как дополнение к традиционному обучению.

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Crypto 8.7 · Breaking

Wagyu подтвердила утечку данных о Monero-свопах за три месяца

Криптообменник Wagyu подтвердил утечку данных за три месяца работы, которая, по оценке Hudson Rock, может поставить под угрозу приватность пользователей Monero. Связанный с сервисом аккаунт PerpetualCow заявил, что средства не пострадали и свопы продолжили работу.

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Tech 10.0 · Breaking

Amazon's Ring drone priced at $250, per report

Amazon has a new Ring drone priced at $250 that is described as flying around a home and streaming video to a phone, according to Cybernews. The report gives no further details on availability, specifications or launch timing.

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Crypto 10.0 · Breaking

Former FBI agent pleads guilty to stealing about $2.5 million in crypto from investigated wallets

A former FBI agent, Patrick Steven Yaroch, 37, has pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering after admitting he used passphrases from FBI systems to move cryptocurrency from wallets tied to fraud victims and suspects under investigation into his own wallets. The Justice Department said he made roughly 100 fraudulent transfers across 35 FBI investigations, gaining about $2,474,380.66.

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Tech 9.5 · Breaking

Bluesky blocks links to DHS employee records leak

Bluesky is blocking users from opening links to a newly published archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, labeling the pages "malicious." The company says the files contain personal contact information shared without authorization, and that it blocked links rather than individual posts to avoid limiting public discussion.

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Tech 9.3 · Breaking

Researcher: internal Meta documents show plans to shape youth mental health science

A researcher says newly reported internal Meta documents, released through an ongoing lawsuit, describe company plans to discredit psychologist Jonathan Haidt and to shape research on social media and youth mental health. The researcher, who has published preprint work arguing tech firms follow a tobacco-style playbook on science, says a judge rejected Meta's use of attorney-client privilege over some internal correspondence.

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Tech 10.0 · Breaking

Apple to close 28-year-old Support Community forum on November 20

Apple has announced that its Apple Support Community forum will permanently close on November 20, 2026. The site is already read-only and no longer accepts new posts, with Apple directing users to its official support site instead.

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Tech 10.0 · Breaking

SpaceX proposes $24B gas plant and super-compute facility at Starbase, Texas

SpaceX has proposed building a gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility at its company town of Starbase, Texas, with an estimated $24 billion investment in the initial phases, according to a city public hearing notice. The Starbase City Commission is scheduled to review a property tax abatement and related economic development agreement on Dec. 9.

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Science & Space 10.0 · Breaking

SpaceX plans Starship Flight 15 with first attempt to catch both stages

SpaceX is targeting Starship Flight 15 from Starbase in Texas, a test that would attempt to return both the Super Heavy booster and the Starship upper stage to the launch site. The booster catch is planned about 6.5 minutes after liftoff, while Starship would spend more than 22 hours in orbit, deploy 26 Starlink satellites and then attempt its own tower catch if controllers judge it fit to return.

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Crypto 9.7 · Breaking

Суд США: фигурант дела о похищении ради биткоинов признал вину

В США мужчина признал вину в сговоре с целью ограбления по делу о похищении двух человек в августе 2024 года, сообщает bitsmedia.ru. По данным следствия, похищение было связано с попыткой заставить родственников потерпевших передать украденные биткоины.

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Tech 9.8 · Breaking

Meta suspends No Kings Instagram account during early-voting campaign

On 17 October, Meta suspended the official Instagram account of the No Kings Coalition while the group was running a nationwide campaign encouraging early voting ahead of the 3 November midterm elections, according to the organisers. The account became publicly visible again after about 90 minutes, but organisers say they could not publish until Meta restored access at 5:33pm.

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