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Chatbot answers built on news content may clash with European press rights, Advocate General finds in Google case
Training on news articles is allowed according to Advocate General Maciej Szpunar, but retrieving articles and reusing them recognisably in a chatbot answer may break the rules.
2 sources · Reuters, DataconomyA single OpenAI experiment uncovers 948 exploitable holes in the Linux kernel
The experiment cost about 1.2 million dollars in compute according to OpenAI, but the figures have not been independently checked and most fixes have yet to land in the kernel.
2 sources · SecurityOnline, Startup FortuneAssociated Press becomes the first publisher with a paid agreement at Anthropic
According to Adweek, the AI company signed a licensing agreement with the news agency just before the US midterm elections, after long holding to the principle of free use.
2 sources · Adweek, RuntimeWireApple
Files shared publicly through iCloud face Apple screening from iOS 27.3
From iOS 27.3 and macOS 27.3, Apple will check photos and files shared with the anyone-with-the-link option; the company does not say what counts as harmful.
3 sources · 9to5Mac, MacRumors, iPhone in CanadaApple gives staff less room to spend money on AI services each day
According to Bloomberg, Apple lowered the daily limit for some engineers from 300 to 200 dollars and it may fall further to 100 dollars, or 25 dollars outside the technical teams.
3 sources · Reuters, TechCrunch, StocktwitsProgramming languages
Pando is meant to keep OpenAI's central code repository standing under the flood of agent work
The new system, Pando, keeps the standard Git protocol intact but lets each branch work independently and cuts push wait times by about 80 percent.
2 sources · GIGAZINE, QodoPopular jailbreak bundle for Codex plants lasting adverts in the coding agent's instructions
Check Point Research describes a new form of adware that does not live in a program but in plain language inside the AI agent's configuration.
2 sources · The Hacker News, MalloryOther tech
Copy function in Xen contains two critical bugs that give guest systems access to each other's memory
The Xen project is fixing the bugs in the copy function between virtual machines and credits Anthropic, which found them with Claude.
2 sources · The Hacker News, XCP-ngTakeover of Canadian chipmaker Taalas will cost AMD up to 2.9 billion dollars, quarterly report shows
Almost half of the amount depends on conditions AMD does not explain; the company expects to complete the deal by the end of this year.
2 sources · Securities.io, BetaKit