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Friday

Oct 23, 2026

Oct 23, 2026, 08:50·TechCrunch

Meta’s new stock class was partly designed to help Mark Zuckerberg pay a proposed California billionaire tax without losing control

A newly launched Meta stock class was partly engineered to help CEO Mark Zuckerberg cover California’s proposed billionaire’s tax if voters approve it. The structure is presented a...

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Oct 23, 2026, 08:15·TechCrunch

Warhound raises $200M to genetically engineer military and police dogs with Anduril gear

Warhound, founded by Ben Lamm and Palmer Luckey, has emerged from stealth with $200M to develop genetically engineered dogs for military and law enforcement uses. The original head...

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Oct 23, 2026, 08:02·The Verge

Spotify confirms QR code checks to verify Family Plan members live together

Spotify co-CEO Alex Norström confirmed on an earnings call that the company is using a new QR code verification method for Family Plan users, requiring members to scan the plan man...

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Oct 23, 2026, 08:00·The Verge

Fortune report says Microsoft’s next Xbox could cost $1,200 to $1,800 in 2028, raising launch viability doubts

Fortune reports that Microsoft insiders project the next Xbox could cost $1,200 to $1,800 when it arrives in The Verge argues that pricing would make the console difficult to sell,...

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Oct 23, 2026, 07:24·Hugging Face Blog

Microsoft and Hugging Face use ThinkingBox database checks as RL rewards to improve Qwen3.8-27B agent reliability

Microsoft and Hugging Face released ThinkingBox-Training on GitHub and showed how ThinkingBox’s executable final-database-state checks can serve as RL rewards for agent post-traini...

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Oct 23, 2026, 05:17·Ars Technica

eMudhra exits global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight dangerously weak intermediate credentials

India-based eMudhra said it will withdraw from the global SSL/TLS certificate business after issuing eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could create certificate...

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Oct 23, 2026, 04:59·Ars Technica

Leaked Mass Effect: Universe trailer shows in-engine pre-production footage from canceled BioWare project

A roughly two-minute leaked trailer offers the clearest look yet at the canceled next Mass Effect game, described in the footage as in-engine work using pre-production assets from...

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Oct 23, 2026, 02:44·github.com

NVIDIA OpenShell offers a policy-enforced runtime for sandboxing autonomous AI agents

OpenShell is an Apache 2.0 runtime for running fleets of autonomous AI agents with policy controls over file access, system calls, network connections, and credentials. The 0.1.x l...

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Oct 23, 2026, 02:21·GitHub Blog

GitHub profiles bug bounty researcher @r31n on using AI, manual validation, and proof-of-concept exploits

GitHub spotlighted bug bounty researcher @r31n, citing repeated high-impact findings in GitHub Enterprise Server with working proofs of concept and clear reproduction steps. The in...

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Oct 23, 2026, 01:11·Hugging Face Blog

Ai2 releases OlmoEarth v1.3 with open 10-meter satellite embeddings and a browser explorer for mapping Earth changes

Ai2 released OlmoEarth v1.3, an open satellite embedding model that turns annual Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and Landsat time series into 128-dimensional vectors for every 10-meter pix...

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Thursday

Oct 22, 2026

Oct 22, 2026, 23:32·quad9.net

Quad9 says it will leave France on November 24 after court orders DNS blocks for beIN

Quad9 says French courts ruled in favor of beIN and ordered it to block recursive DNS resolution for domains beIN alleges are tied to copyright infringement, with penalties reduced...

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Oct 22, 2026, 22:00·Cloudflare Blog

Cloudflare gains South Korea ISMS certification after localizing consent flows and disabling social sign-up in Korea

Cloudflare says it obtained South Korea’s ISMS certification under the ISMS-P framework after a KISA-appointed audit reviewed 80 controls over 10 days. The work included Korean-spe...

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Oct 22, 2026, 08:36·The Verge

Tesla says owners can add their cars to its robotaxi fleet in Q2 2027

Tesla VP Ashok Elluswamy said during the company’s third-quarter earnings call that owners will be able to add their own vehicles to Tesla’s robotaxi fleet in the second quarter of...

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Oct 22, 2026, 07:51·TechCrunch

Blackstone’s AI chief says rising debt worries around neoclouds are overstated despite higher borrowing costs

Blackstone’s Jas Khaira said the firm is financing AI infrastructure through BXN1, including a $5B commitment to Crux AI, backing chip startup Etched, and debt structures such as C...

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Oct 22, 2026, 07:45·TechCrunch

Meta plans non-voting stock to fund AI investments while preserving current shareholder control

Meta confirmed plans to create a publicly traded class of non-voting stock that could be used for capital raising, employee compensation, acquisitions, and other corporate purposes...

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Oct 22, 2026, 07:33·The Verge

Planned Texas data centers could reverse air quality gains depending on how they are powered

The article says a rush of new and proposed data centers in Texas, driven by generative AI infrastructure, could raise air pollution toward levels last seen in the 2000s. The impac...

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Oct 22, 2026, 07:06·Ars Technica

Microsoft tests Xbox Cloud Playtime for owned games at $4 for 10 hours to $12 for 50 hours

Microsoft has rolled out a la carte Xbox Cloud Playtime purchases to Xbox Insiders, letting non-subscribers stream eligible games they already own on supported devices. Introductor...

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Oct 22, 2026, 06:58·blog.railway.com

Railway says attackers may have accessed some decrypted customer environment variables, pauses deployments during investigation

Railway detected anomalous activity on Oct. 21, 2026 involving systems that store customer environment variables, saying an unauthorized third party may have accessed encrypted var...

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Oct 22, 2026, 06:48·Ars Technica

Survey: large enterprises spend 28% of software budgets on upgrades and licensing changes IT leaders often do not want

A survey commissioned by Origina found that enterprises with at least 10,000 employees spend an average of 28% of software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing c...

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Oct 22, 2026, 03:26·Hugging Face Blog

NVIDIA says Kumo Relational predicts from enterprise databases without training and beats supervised ML benchmarks

NVIDIA introduced Kumo Relational, a pre-trained relational foundation model that makes predictions directly on enterprise databases from Predictive Query Language queries, using u...

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