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Palantir CEO Alex Karp bought 15,000 hectares of Swedish forest for $22M. World Labs, Fei-Fei Li’s spatial-AI startup, is joining AMD. California grape growers are ripping out vineyards as wine sales fall over 20% in five years. SB 923 expands CCPA deletion rights to third-party data. Scientists say an 1841 Exeter rail space-weather report was misdated. An article urges Congress to investigate AI labs’ safety claims.
Hackers breached Arizona’s court system, stealing personal data from many Arizonans, including protective-order holders. In Italy, fraudsters used an AI-cloned voice to trick Fideuram bank out of €95 million; about €36 million is still missing. In Quebec’s election campaign, alleged U.S. interference prompted CAQ Leader Christine Fréchette to seek meetings with PM Carney and CSIS ahead of the Oct. 5 vote.
A jury found Meta deceived Facebook users over privacy, while UpGuard said about 16,000 Supabase databases exposed sensitive data. Google warned ShinyHunters is exploiting an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day; Kiteworks urged customers worldwide to shut all systems for six hours Saturday over an imminent attack. The UK launched a space squadron to guard satellites via electronic warfare.
Oura’s IPO is about 4x oversubscribed, offering 50M shares at $40–$44 to raise up to $2.2B. Nscale raised $3.36B in convertible financing ahead of its US IPO. A court upheld Anthropic’s Pentagon supply-chain blacklisting. Trump said Bessent won’t be AI czar. Tesla ramped Optimus output to hundreds weekly. Gates warned AI could let ill-intent actors cause a billion deaths.
DraftKings is using AI to target likely losing gamblers with promotions, EFF warns, urging a ban on behavioral ads. Researchers found sophisticated malicious npm packages that evade defenses, possibly nation-state. The Linux kernel added a taint flag for sysfs bind/unbind writes to curb fuzzing-bot reports. KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 arrived, and Ubuntu 26.10 showed Intel Panther Lake performance gains.
A leaked GitHub key left CDC-linked code and Azure systems potentially poisonable until it was revoked. Separately, an AI-driven campaign stole over 600,000 credit cards from online retailers, and a 292GB MongoDB leak exposed at least 30 million records, heavily affecting PepsiCo’s Latin America operations. Dutch privacy groups also pressed for bans on camera glasses over consent concerns.