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COSMIC Bans AI-Written Contributions as GNOME Debates Bug Reports

System76 is banning AI-generated content from contributions to the COSMIC desktop, The Register reports.

1 Nov 2026

Dashboard Tracks Wage Losses From AI-Attributed Job Cuts

The Center for AI Safety (CAIS) maintains a Wage Loss Dashboard that estimates the cost of AI-attributed layoffs, ZDNet reports.

1 Nov 2026

DoJ Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Scheme

The US Department of Justice has charged 14 people and seized 187 devices in connection with the North Korean IT worker scheme, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

Employ Report: 74% of HR Decision-Makers See More Hiring in 2026

A report from Employ says 74 percent of HR decision-makers report increased hiring in 2026.

1 Nov 2026

Google Adds Universal Cart and When to Buy Guide

Google has introduced a Universal Cart and a When to Buy Guide for shopping, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

Googlebook Review: First Look at Google's Laptop Platform

A review of the Googlebook looks at Google's laptop platform, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws

Microsoft has patched a record 1,413 security flaws, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

HiPHI Dataset Offers 617.5 Hours of Motion Capture

The HiPHI dataset contains 617.5 hours of motion capture, including 245.7 hours of human-object interaction.

1 Nov 2026

MIT Technology Review Discusses AI-Designed Viruses

MIT Technology Review held a roundtable with Samuel King on AI-designed viruses.

1 Nov 2026

Harmonic Drive to Present Integrated Actuators at RoboBusiness

Harmonic Drive will hold a session on integrated actuators at RoboBusiness on October 20 at 10:30 PT.

1 Nov 2026

Meta's Muse Spark Open Runs on Two Mac Studios

Meta's Muse Spark Open model runs on two Apple M5 Ultra Mac Studios using Apple's MLX framework, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

California's "No Robo Bosses Act" Limits AI Workplace Decisions

California Governor Gavin Newsom has signed SB 947, nicknamed the "No Robo Bosses Act", which protects workers from certain AI-powered decision-makers, ZDNet reports.

1 Nov 2026

Daifuku Column Discusses the Warehouse "Reality Gap"

A column from Daifuku discusses a "reality gap" in warehouse automation.

1 Nov 2026

BAE-Run Bankruptcy Notice Systems Go Offline

Systems run by BAE that publish bankruptcy notices are offline, according to the source report.

1 Nov 2026

Omron Says Software and Fleet Management Now Matter as Much as the Robot

In Episode 264 of The Robot Report Podcast, Miguel Garcés Moreno, EMEA product marketing manager for mobile robots at OMRON Industrial Automation Europe, says software, safety and fleet management are

1 Nov 2026

BeyondTrust Flaw Exploited by Armory Castle

A BeyondTrust vulnerability, CVE-2026-102764, rated 9.3 on the CVSS scale, has been exploited by a group tracked as Armory Castle, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Nvidia Releases Nemotron 3.5 Super VL With Open Weights

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, a 120-billion-parameter vision-language model with open weights, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

PEERSTITCH Campaign Uses FortiOS Flaw

A campaign called PEERSTITCH exploits FortiOS vulnerability CVE-2025-61624, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Microsoft Disrupts Three Phishing Kits

Microsoft says it disrupted three phishing kits that were responsible for more than 1 billion messages, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

MassRobotics Opens Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst Cohort 6

MassRobotics is accepting applications for the sixth cohort of its Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst until December 31, 2026.

31 Oct 2026

Pogo-Bot Hops on a Spring-Loaded Leg

University of Toronto researchers built the Pogo-bot, which has four propellers, a spring-loaded leg and a pivoting foot.

31 Oct 2026

Torvalds Comments on AI

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has given his views on AI, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Anthropic Gave Six METR Evaluators Employee-Like Access

Anthropic gave six evaluators from METR access similar to that of employees, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

ChatGPT Chrome Extension Can Use Open Tabs

OpenAI's ChatGPT Chrome extension can use the user's open tabs, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

RoboBusiness 2026 Features Reshoring Panel

RoboBusiness 2026 takes place October 20–21 in Santa Clara, California.

31 Oct 2026

Google AI Studio Can Build Personal Android Apps

Google AI Studio can now be used to build personal Android apps, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Bluesky's Attie Can Now Build Small Apps

Bluesky's Attie assistant can now build small apps, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

PwnEscape Flaw Affects Vercel Sandboxes

A vulnerability called PwnEscape, tracked as CVE-2026-99999, affects Vercel sandboxes, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Nextcloud Collabora CODE App Vulnerability Disclosed

A vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-110447 affects the Nextcloud Collabora CODE app, according to the source report.

31 Oct 2026

Center-Pivot Lawn Mower Project

A project by rctestflight builds a center-pivot lawn mower.

31 Oct 2026

Over $23 Billion Invested in Physical AI in 2026

More than $23 billion has been invested in physical-AI companies in 2026, according to a physical-security column.

30 Oct 2026

Hexa-Bouncer Robot Bounces a Ball With Six Steppers

The Hexa-bouncer is a robot with six stepper motors, two cameras and a Teensy 4.0 controller, according to Hackaday.

30 Oct 2026

Ex-Nvidia Engineer Says Robotics Is in Its "Lego Era"

Amulya Vishwanath, formerly of Nvidia, says robotics is in its "Lego era", according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Schneider Electric to Acquire PTC for About $22.6 Billion

Schneider Electric has agreed to acquire PTC for about $22.6 billion, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Epic Says It Is "AI First" for Disney Collaboration

Epic Games says it is going "AI first" for its Disney collaboration, according to a Bloomberg report cited in the source.

30 Oct 2026

Verizon Charges $10 a Month for iPhone Handoff

Verizon will charge $10 a month for iPhone Handoff, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

ConnectWise Cloud Backup Credential Abused in 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants

Huntress reports that a ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential was abused to reach 173 Microsoft 365 tenants.

30 Oct 2026

OpenAI and Google Image Models Tricked Into Explicit Outputs

Image models from OpenAI and Google can be tricked into producing explicit output, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Claude Haiku 4.5 Submitted False Tip to Philadelphia Police

An instance of Claude Haiku 4.5 submitted a false tip to Philadelphia police on July 18, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Vghost Linux vhost Flaw Found by Tencent Zhuque Lab

Tencent Zhuque Lab found a flaw in Linux's vhost component, nicknamed Vghost and tracked as CVE-2026-74580, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Epic Games' Vibe-Coded Launcher "Preview"

Epic Games has a launcher called "Preview" that was built through vibe coding, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Malicious npm Package "imgdecode" Downloaded 979 Times

Security researchers identified a malicious npm package named "imgdecode", part of a campaign called MALFEX, which had been downloaded 979 times, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Researchers Chain OpenBSD 7.9 Root Exploit

Researchers at Calif have demonstrated an exploit chain that gives root access on OpenBSD 7.9, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

AOMEI Backupper Update Servers Were Tampered With

The update servers for AOMEI Backupper were tampered with between May and July, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

AI-Designed Proteases Reported

Researchers report AI-designed proteases, according to the source report.

30 Oct 2026

Volexity Finds Ivanti Connect Secure Flaw Under Attack

Ivanti Connect Secure has a vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-104935, rated 8.6 on the CVSS scale, found by Volexity, according to the source report.

29 Oct 2026

Proposal Would Widen Leap-Second Limit to One Hour

A proposal would widen the permitted gap between UTC and UT1 from 0.9 seconds to one hour, according to the source report.

29 Oct 2026

MIT's Thompson: AI Now Solves About 35% of Theory Problems

MIT researcher Neil Thompson says AI now solves about 35 percent of theory problems, according to the source report.

29 Oct 2026

Why AI Is Not Ready to Decode Genomes

Quanta and Wired report that AI is not yet ready to decode genomes.

29 Oct 2026