Security
Palo Alto Networks patches a PAN-OS zero-day that attackers are using to run code as root on firewalls
CVE-2026-0322 affects the management interface. CISA has given federal agencies until October 17 to fix it.
Thursday, October 15, 2026
Business & Policy
Eight US states sue OpenAI, accusing it of misleading parents about ChatGPT's safety for children
Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, West Virginia, Arkansas, Arizona, Idaho and Montana filed coordinated but separate lawsuits on Wednesday.
Security
North Macedonia charges alleged administrator of the OLVX stolen-data marketplace in a joint case with the FBI
Officials say the 20-year-old suspect's site sold credentials and personal data through more than 1,500 seller accounts.
Security
Android malware 'Hirudo' replaces Indonesian banking apps with trojanized copies
ThreatFabric says the malware combines credential theft with live remote control of the infected phone.
Research
Google DeepMind engineer says AI is not yet speeding up AI research, even as it writes most production code
Haydn Belfield says the share of code changes handed fully to AI rose from 7.5 to 11.9 percent, and every change still gets human review.
Research
Paper Instruments trains Ultramarine 1 Flash with reinforcement learning on work that has no single right answer
The company says the model, built on GLM-5.3 Flash, costs $0.13 per task on its internal suite and beats Claude Fable 5.
Models
OpenAI reportedly plans one or two new models before year end, but its next flagship still needs alignment work
According to The Information, the flagship uses the same looped transformer technique as Astra, which makes safety monitoring harder.
Business & Policy
Anthropic tells potential investors its third-quarter revenue reached $16.8 billion as growth slows before a planned IPO
Revenue rose about 45 percent from the second quarter, well below the more than 140 percent jump the quarter before.
Sources in this edition
Eight US states sue OpenAI, accusing it of misleading parents about ChatGPT's safety for children
Palo Alto Networks patches a PAN-OS zero-day that attackers are using to run code as root on firewalls
North Macedonia charges alleged administrator of the OLVX stolen-data marketplace in a joint case with the FBI
Android malware 'Hirudo' replaces Indonesian banking apps with trojanized copies
Google DeepMind engineer says AI is not yet speeding up AI research, even as it writes most production code
Paper Instruments trains Ultramarine 1 Flash with reinforcement learning on work that has no single right answer
- Paper InstrumentsUltramarine 1 Flash: Scaling Non-Verifiable RL — Paper Instruments
- Paper InstrumentsUltramarine 1 Flash — Paper Instruments