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1. Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace
Cursor issued a security notice after a backdoor was discovered in the Claude Code extension for VS Code distributed through the Cursor Marketplace, potentially compromising developers’ environments. The disclosure drew heavy discussion on Hacker News and highlights supply-chain risks in third-party extension marketplaces.
Source: Hacker News Best
2. Binance-hacker-1029 – $5.6B stolen from Binance
A Hacker News post links to an Arkham entity labeled “Binance-hacker-1029,” claiming that $5.6 billion was stolen from Binance. The post received 1,724 points and 1,213 comments; details have not been independently verified in the provided text.
Source: Hacker News Best
3. Apple Intelligence is finally coming to China with iOS 27.3
Apple announced that Apple Intelligence will arrive in China with iOS 27.3. The features will debut in a beta on November 4th, with the full release scheduled for December.
Source: The Verge AI
AI news
1. Anthropic expected to receive high ‘junk’ rating from credit agencies following IPO, FT report says
Anthropic is expected to receive a high junk credit rating from rating agencies after its IPO, according to the FT. Such a rating would make it harder and more expensive for the company to raise funds for its large spending.
Source: TechCrunch AI
2. Cracks are emerging in the AI spending boom
Big Tech is pouring billions into AI infrastructure, but mounting debt, negative cash flow and growing investor skepticism are raising doubts about whether the spending boom can be sustained.
Source: TechCrunch AI
3. Wikipedia’s operator says a bad AI copyright ruling could threaten the open web
The Wikimedia Foundation is urging courts to take a middle path in landmark AI copyright cases: protect LLM training on copyrighted works but not chatbots reproducing them. It warns that an overly absolute ruling could harm useful AI tools or the open web.
Source: The Verge AI
4. Intel’s stock crashes, knocking $12B from government’s stake
Intel shares plunged, cutting about $12 billion from the value of the U.S. government’s stake. The company is being hurt by PC sales as the AI industry consumes memory and other components, driving up PC prices.
Source: TechCrunch AI
5. The biggest names in AI are backing a new way to opt out of scraping
OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic say they will adopt a new standard letting publishers opt out of AI scraping. A shared “policy token” would apply publishers’ AI training preferences across multiple companies instead of setting them individually.
Source: The Verge AI
6. Google’s first data center satellite is online and writing poetry
Google’s first data center satellite is now online. Its first TPU in space is running a Google DeepMind Gemma 4 model, which has already produced cheesy poetry.
Source: TechCrunch AI
7. Pope Leo calls for the disarmament of AI: ‘Machines are tools, not persons’
Pope Leo XIV called for AI systems to be “disarmed,” saying machines are tools, not persons, and that humans must guide, change and if necessary reject AI applications. He urged UN member states to ban lethal autonomous weapons at their Geneva meeting next month.
Source: The Verge AI
Community picks
1. Introducing DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 Dynamic v3.1 Unsloth GGUFs
Unsloth released preview GGUFs for DeepSeek-V4.1-1017 Dynamic V3.1, claiming top accuracy for its size across seven benchmarks. It said it could not reproduce ISTA’s GSQ-RCO GGUF results, including a claimed 100% AIME25 recovery versus about 91.88% in its tests.
Source: Reddit r/LocalLLaMA Top
2. Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra independently audit 138 economics papers, flagging 2,035 potential problems and 147 potentially headline-changing findings. A third AI attempts to verify and refute them, fueling debate over AI systematically re-examining decades of published research.
Two AI models independently audited 138 economics papers, flagging 2,035 potential problems and 147 potentially headline-changing findings. A third AI tried to verify or refute them, sparking debate over using AI to systematically re-examine decades of published research.
Source: Reddit r/singularity Top
3. Patrick Stewart has died
Online reports and discussion claim that actor Patrick Stewart has died. The source provides no further details or official confirmation.
Source: Hacker News Best
4. Google Search is now less than half of Alphabet’s revenue
Google Search now accounts for less than half of Alphabet’s total revenue, reportedly the first time this has occurred. Growth in cloud and other segments is gradually diversifying the company’s revenue mix.
Source: Hacker News Best
5. Northflank Breached
Cloud development platform Northflank has suffered a security breach, with information posted on its status page. The incident drew heavy discussion on Hacker News; the scope and affected data have not been detailed.
Source: Hacker News Best