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AI uncovered long-hidden programming flaws, triggering a rare global cyber-security response.
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Via BBC News - Technology
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10/21/26
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A Scottish security company employing 40 people has been placed into administration
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Via The Herald Scotland
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10/21/26
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Swimming banned at Maroubra and Coogee while council prioritises ‘culturally respectful’ approach to remainsGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastA whale carcass has forced …
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Kat Wong (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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Famous shark has attracted more than 1.6m visitors since first getting trapped in the canal in September. On Thursday a new attempt was underway to free itA shark that became a viral sensation after …
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Guardian staff with agencies (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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Imperial Theatre, New York City
The veteran actor charms with stories about his colorful life and losing his home in the LA fires while taking jabs at TrumpIn his review of the 1986 buddy comedy …
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Juan A Ramírez (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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Democrat, in first interview since pre-dawn raid, denies immigration fraud and says ‘I have a legal right to be a member of Congress’The Minnesota congresswoman Ilhan Omar denied allegations of …
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Uwa Ede-Osifo (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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US envoy Witkoff presented Putin with proposals drafted by Zelenskyy and European leaders in Oslo earlier this week. What we know on day 1,702The Kremlin has criticised new peace proposals to end the …
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Guardian staff and agencies (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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The loudest story in agent infrastructure as AGNTCon opens this week is not what arrived, but what remains missing from the ledger. On October 22, 2026, as AGNTCon and MCPCon open in San Jose, the …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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Two theories of agent identity hit the stage this week, four days apart. The FIDO Alliance closed Authenticate 2026 on October 20 with a wallet-certification announcement that frames identity as …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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What an agent knows is decided before it answers. The embedding search that surfaces candidate documents, the reranker that orders them, and the parser that turns a page image into usable text all …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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The first real agentic commerce payments of the 2026 season cleared this week, but they did not happen in the consumer browser cart. Instead, money moved through governed invoice and bill workflows. …
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Tessa Vaughn (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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Frontier AI models have identified two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the PHP language runtime that remained undetected through a decade of manual security audits. The …
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Heath Callahan (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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Author withdrawn from France’s Prix Goncourt last month has repeatedly denied using artificial intelligence to write novelThe publisher of top-selling Haitian Canadian writer Thélyson Orélien, …
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Agence France-Presse (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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In this episode of Guardian Australia’s US politics podcast, co-hosts Jonathan Yerushalmy and Reged Ahmad look at how Katie Zacharia broke the record for shortest tenure as White House press …
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Presented by Reged Ahmad and Jonathan Yerushalmy ; produced by Lu Hill ; video production by Rachel Herron ; sound and mixing by Lu Hill ; executive producer is Hannah Parkes (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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Precautionary takedowns come as experts say bad actors could exploit vulnerability in language used by 70% of sitesWebsites around the globe have gone dark after a serious vulnerability was found in …
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Robert Booth and Aisha Down (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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Reports emerge of similar withdrawals in UAE, Jordan, Qatar and Bahrain amid concerns about a return to conflict with Iran after US midterm electionsThe US state department has ordered some diplomats …
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Jonathan Yerushalmy and agencies (via Guardian)
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10/21/26
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NVIDIA announced the OpenShell Reference Architecture at GTC Berlin today, the third act in a fast sequence: the OpenShell runtime shipped September 16, the Open Agent Safety Platform followed …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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Between October 15 and October 21, four shipments landed on the open-weight stack that deployers had been waiting on. StepFun’s Step-5-Preview-BF16 weights arrived October 15. NVIDIA shipped …
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Lena Park (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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On October 19, 2026, Notion released its gen-6 agent harness, changing how enterprise teams deploy autonomous workers. While much of the industry has been fixated on millisecond-speed responses and …
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Dana Ellison (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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While traditional financial institutions remain locked in a cycle of blocking agentic traffic, the open-protocol ecosystem is demonstrating a functional alternative. On October 19, 2026, at …
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Blair Hayes (via Forkast)
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10/21/26
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