Hundreds of Artex AI hacking tools found publicly exposed to the web
Security researchers found hundreds of servers hosting the penetration testing tool Artex exposed to the internet, allowing anyone access to the hacking tool.
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Meta introduces Spaces, a new way to collaborate with your Muse agent
Meta’s Muse agents continue to get new features and integrations. Spaces promises to be a new way to interact with the AI helpers.
Lame-duck Congress might actually do something: speed up energy projects
A massive permitting bill that could help energy projects come online much quicker and potentially lower utility bills for Americans is advancing with bipartisan support. And while it could be a catalyst for lots of clean energy, it could also speed up polluting projects and limit oversight of new data centers. With data centers demanding … Read more
Bitcoin ETFs Bleed $430 Million as Tech Rout Tests Wall Street Buyers
Fidelity and BlackRock led Thursday’s Bitcoin ETF withdrawals as a technology-stock selloff rattled risk assets.
Strive buys 15,124 Bitcoin in October, closes in on top treasury holders
Bitcoin treasury company Strive reported $509 million in third-quarter net income and purchased 15,124 BTC in October, bringing its total holdings to 43,124 BTC.
Meta’s Muse AI can create custom ‘spaces’ for the version of the app you need right now
Meta will now allow you to build customized, app-like experiences within its Muse AI assistant. The new feature, called “spaces,” allows Muse to build things like a shopping hub, school dashboard, music tracker, trivia game, and more, which you can interact with directly in the app. If you connect your space to a relevant app, … Read more
SageMaker Inference now supports Multi-Instance GPU to maximize GPU utilization for model endpoints
When you deploy a model to a GPU endpoint, the smallest unit of GPU you can request is one whole accelerator. This constraint can cost you twice. First, you can’t host more models on an instance than it has accelerators. An ml.p4d.24xlarge has eight A100s, so it holds eight models, whether each one needs 40 … Read more
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Amazon is now making a Melania Trump TV series
Following the Melania documentary movie that premiered earlier this year, Amazon is now planning to release a two-part Prime Video series focusing on the first lady. The show, Melania: The Series, is set to debut on November 20th. “MELANIA, The Series reveals never-before-told stories, offering unprecedented insight into Melania Trump’s life, including the extraordinary days … Read more
Bitcoin price dips under $75K as crypto markets miss tech-stock rebound
BTC price action stayed weak after US nonfarm payrolls data significantly beat forecasts, increasing bets of a December interest-rate hike.
US Sanctions 45 More Targets Tied to Alleged Crypto Scam Empire Prince Group
OFAC targeted offshore companies and associates it says helped Prince Group executives hide assets and dodge earlier sanctions.
U.S. prediction markets regulator issues demand that clashes directly with courts
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said regulated exchanges can’t cut off customers state-by-state, but firms like Kalshi are under court orders to do so.
Just about anyone can rent access to White House IP addresses
Someone at the White House appears to be running software that could enable outsiders to rent access on the presidential network for just “a few dollars,” as reported by Krebs on Security and The Register. That’s according to findings from the security firms Layer3 Intel and Synthient, which discovered residential proxy activity on the White … Read more
Taxonomy of agentic primitives in Amazon Quick
Over the past year, as we built Amazon Quick, our agents went from answering questions to taking actions: scheduling meetings, running research, generating reports. As the system evolved, one problem kept resurfacing: there was no shared definition of the primitives that agentic work is built from. The same few ideas kept getting rebuilt under different … Read more
Kobo will soon let you upload and sync your own ebooks across devices, for a price
Kobo is launching a new monthly subscription service called Stack that lets you upload your own ebooks and documents to the company’s servers where they’ll be synced across multiple devices and apps, including your reading progress, highlights, and annotations. Kobo Stack is similar to Amazon’s Send to Kindle feature that allows users to upload a … Read more
After the midterms, is the AI industry in for a rough two years?
Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a … Read more
Serverless MCP server for AI agent data lake access on Amazon ECS Fargate
Organizations building applications powered by artificial intelligence (AI) face a recurring challenge: giving large language model (LLM) agents access to enterprise data lakes without duplicating integration logic across every agent and application. Most teams begin by wiring agents directly to databases and APIs, with no shared gateway such as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server … Read more
Govern AI agent access with Okta Cross App Access and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore – Part 2
In Part 1, you built a task agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model. The agent runs on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, and acts for signed-in users through Okta Cross App Access (XAA). Okta decided which … Read more
Govern AI agent access with Okta Cross App Access and Amazon Bedrock AgentCore – Part 1
An AI agent that updates a ticket or reads a customer record acts for a person, inside applications that person can reach. Your identity team then has to answer a question that per-app OAuth consent and shared service accounts leave open: which agent might act for which user in which application, and how you stop … Read more
How Greenlight Financial built an autonomous SOC solution on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Greenlight Financial resolves more than 90 percent of up to 4,000 security and risk cases each month without human intervention. Greenlight’s Luna uses Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, infrastructure for building, connecting, and optimizing agents at scale. Specifically, Greenlight uses AgentCore runtime, a capability of Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, to host Luna’s agent code. It uses AgentCore memory, … Read more
Pentagon offers battery startup 6K $250M loan to build U.S. factory
The Pentagon has conditionally approved a $250 million loan to help 6K scale up its microwave-plasma battery material manufacturing process.
Taxbit Assist: A grounded, role-aware AI agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore
Taxbit is a digital-asset tax and accounting compliance platform. Founded in 2018, Taxbit helps enterprises such as exchanges, payment services, and brokers calculate gains and losses, collect tax documentation, and file information returns at scale. Now, a cited, permission-aware AI assistant helps compliance teams find answers right inside the product dashboard. But the knowledge needed … Read more
Extend Claude Code to remote sessions on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore with security controls
You might already run Claude Code locally on your laptop, backed by Amazon Bedrock. This post shows how to go a step further: run it as a remote agent on Amazon Bedrock AgentCore, a platform to build, connect, and optimize agents at scale, with any framework or model. The sample uses AgentCore runtime, a capability … Read more
Crypto Card Provider Gnosis Pay Says Hackers Accessed Customer Data
Gnosis Pay said hackers accessed customer information on the legacy system behind its branded cards, though funds weren’t affected and its enterprise card platform was untouched.
Meta’s refurbished Quest 3S headset is nearly $100 off right now
If you’re curious about virtual reality, Meta’s Quest 3S is a good entry-level headset for dipping your toes in, especially now it’s on sale in refurbished condition for $255.99 directly from Meta’s eBay storefront through November 8th when you use coupon code SAVE20TECH. For comparison, the headset recently dropped to $300 in new condition as … Read more
Big Tech lost big in the 2026 election
On Tuesday, millions of American voters went to the polls and voted overwhelmingly for Democrats and against AI. The fight against Big Tech is about to come roaring back, and the fight over data centers is looking even harder for the folks trying to build them. On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David … Read more
How Akai and Moog are embracing vibe-coded mods
inMusic, the parent company of Akai, Moog, Native Instruments, and more, has decided to embrace the modding community. In an interview with The Verge, inMusic CEO Jack O’Donnell said, “We’re going to provide a toolbox to the community, we’re going to provide the inner workings of, say, an MPC or Sample so that people can … Read more
Crypto Liquidations Top $1 Billion as Bitcoin Tests 11-Week Low
Bitcoin fell toward $75,500 after AI stocks plunged, and over $1 billion in the crypto derivatives market has been wiped out.