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Palantir won a ÂŁ10.1M UK police deal, while its NHS cancer app has only six trusts using it. A watchdog is pressing 200 executives over 300+ patient-record snooping reports. Microsoft is retiring Word compatibility options, risking old-document layout shifts, and Germany lifted its Quantum Systems drone grounding after a malware scare. XRAID, a new XFS RAID, debuted; another overloaded Linux developer stepped back.
An Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital killed six, health authorities said. Researchers unmasked Qilin’s alleged administrator, Aleksey Yakovtsev, as the ransomware gang claimed 365 victims in three months. ConnectWise is investigating ScreenConnect attacks via risky extensions, while Amplifon disclosed a breach exposing customer health data. Leaked files also show a former US marine used Claude to mass-produce pro-Russian articles.
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.