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Leaked files show ex-Marine John Mark Dougan used Claude to mass-produce pro-Russian articles and evade AI detection. Ukraine and Germany dismantled a call-center network behind a €4.3M fake crypto scam, arresting four. Microsoft Defender silently uploaded 217 samples, including unreleased software, from a developer’s PC. Jot’s Electron-to-Rust rewrite cut its app from 675MB to 91MB.
DeepMind launched AlphaGenome 2, trained on 100M+ cell profiles to predict mutation effects. London chip startup Fractile raised $720M at a $7B valuation; AI sales startup Rox raised $100M at $1.3B. Wesleyan found ~300 AI midterm ads drew ~$187M, 90% pro-GOP. Nvidia’s Jensen Huang now praises China and criticizes US chip export curbs, a review says. Palantir CEO Alex Karp shifted toward Democrats post-midterms, calling his philosophy progressive.
CISA confirmed active exploitation of the decade-old OpenSSH/musl “SSHole” flaw, which lets attackers log in—including to passwordless root accounts—with any password over 256 characters; federal fixes are due Nov. 12. Eight new X.Org/XWayland security bugs were disclosed and fixed, while longtime Linux developer Lorenzo Stoakes stepped back from some reviewer roles amid an AI-generated patch flood.
US authorities indicted three men over an AI deepfake scheme that tricked employees into wiring $129M. Researchers also found two automakers’ connected cars could be unlocked and started via shared default “admin” passwords; both patched within hours. A former FBI agent pleaded guilty to stealing $2.5M in crypto, and a pro-Kremlin group doxxed 18 EU officials, offering bounties for information on their families.
Anthropic struck a $3.4B deal for 1.7GW of gas-fired power to fuel AI data centers, underscoring AI’s surging energy demand. In China, Inner Mongolia’s Galaxy campus is scaling fast at one-fifth U.S. costs. Apple saved $2.7B routing $50B via Singapore, topping Ireland. Meanwhile, Democrats’ midterm wins put crypto and Trump ties under scrutiny, while AI-safety PAC Public First spent $63M+, winning 10 of 17 races.
Asahi Linux is moving repos to GPLv2-or-later, citing MIT-license abuse, and reports M3 support GA, DCP/Thunderbolt gains, and M5 Exclaves hurdles. Poettering et al. unveiled Amutable Foundations: immutable, bit-identical Fedora-based OS images plus fleet control. Security researchers warn Rails, Spring, and Jetty trust client-supplied Forwarded headers by default, allowing IP/host spoofing.