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Secondhand luxury retailer The RealReal has updated its bot defense system to stop AI agents such as Meta’s Muse from logging in, adding one-of-a-kind items to shopping carts, or completing checkouts.
SpaceX has signed a binding commitment with funds managed by Apollo Global Management for an estimated $40 billion lease of Nvidia Vera Rubin GPUs and data center equipment beginning in the first half of 2027.
OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, a compact reasoning model priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens that achieves 50.3% on Terminal-Bench 4.0 at maximum effort.
Emergency security updates have been released for Google Brotli (versions 1.0.10, 1.1.1, and 1.2.1), Node.js (v22.23.4, v24.22.1, and v26.12.1), Python’s Brotli package (v1.2.1), and Microsoft .NET to patch CVE-2026-111497, a critical buffer overflow dubbed HTTP2Shell in the C Brotli decompression library.
Two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities tracked as PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) have been confirmed exploited in the wild against an Apache mod_php server running PHP 8.4.26, days after the PHP security team released patches on Oct. 21.
Researchers at Forever Security discovered a real-world attack in which a malicious AGENTS.md file in a user’s ~/Downloads directory instructed an AI coding agent to install a rogue npm package, and demonstrated related instruction-injection attacks against OpenAI Codex and Claude Code.
Open-source AI developer tool LiteLLM reported that an unrevoked master key accidentally exposed in a configuration file in May allowed attackers to seize GitHub repository access and push credential-harvesting malware in version 1.107.0 to PyPI, where it was downloaded roughly 49,000 times.
Silicon Valley, Santa Clara, and San Jose quantization researchers fuse Fast Walsh-Hadamard outlier rotation into RMSNorm to unlock native 4-bit E2M1 matrix math on 405B LLMs.
