News · 2026-10-24

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Technology & AI (10)

▸Illegal Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 GPUs found inside state-owned China Telecom's networkTom's Hardware · yesterday
Israeli firm Lava identified 32 Nvidia Blackwell Ultra B300 chips inside state-owned China Telecom's network.
▸Leaked video exposes how industrial-scale Chinese factories are dismantling RTX 5090s by the thousands to fuel AI serversTom's Hardware · today
Leaked video shows Chinese factories dismantling thousands of daily GeForce RTX 5090s to repurpose GB202 silicon and GDDR7 memory for AI servers.
▸Gemma-4-26B-A4B with 39-69% less thinking at same accuracyHacker News · yesterday
Gemma-4-26B-A4B reduces thinking tokens by up to 69.1% while maintaining accuracy.
▸Micron's next-generation 3D NAND to double bit density with over 400 layers, offering extreme performanceTom's Hardware · yesterday
Micron's G11 3D NAND doubles bit density to 42 Gb/mm² with over 400 layers.
▸PHP2Shell exploit bypasses protections designed to stop remote code executionThe Register · yesterday
VulnCheck researchers bypassed ASLR on x86-64 systems to achieve remote code execution via CVE-2026-109618 in PHP 8.4.26.
▸Amazon’s Trainium Takes a Strike at the Training KingSemiAnalysis · today
Amazon's Trainium3 racks utilize up to 80,000 physical cores for automated quality control.
▸Hackers pile on PHP2Shell as AWS reveals attacks began before disclosureThe Register · 2d ago
Hackers launched millions of attempts to exploit critical PHP2Shell flaws before Amazon detected attacks starting October 17.
▸Microsoft says ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose on 2,250 cloud tenantsThe Register · 2d ago
Microsoft says China-aligned Storm-0940 spies breached 2,250 tenants using ARTEX and ConnectWise credentials.
▸Designing an AI serving harness built to lastMIT Technology Review · yesterday
Enterprise AI success depends on serving harness architecture optimizing for latency, concurrency, memory pressure, and cost rather than model selection.
▸PC shipments dropped over 20 percent in Q3 due to RAM price hikesThe Verge · yesterday
Global PC shipments fell 21 percent in Q3 2026 due to RAM price hikes from Intel, AMD, and Qualcomm.

Finance & Markets (8)

▸LH 사장 "집값 상승은 공급부족 탓…前정부 폭등 시한폭탄 설치"연합뉴스 (Yonhap, 경제) · yesterday
LH president Lee Sung-hoon blames supply shortages for rising prices and says he has sold two inherited units.
▸Nvidia's role as AI financier faces first big test as neoclouds take market hitCNBC · today
Nvidia's $99 billion portfolio faces stress as CoreWeave shares fell 30% and credit markets tightened for its neocloud partners.
▸Trump is pushing a massive AI buildout. His own voters are wary of what comes with itCNBC · today
A CNBC survey of 1,000 voters shows 55% support AI but only 29% accept a nearby data center.
▸Europe’s non-sponsored lending adds ballast as market risks multiply: PCPKED Global · undated
PCP's Robert Heaney says Europe's non-sponsored lending offers 7% margins to Korean investors.
▸US Banks Scramble to Shut Down AI Access to Customer AccountsNaked Capitalism · yesterday
US banks including Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, JPMorgan, and Wells Fargo scramble to shut down AI access to customer accounts.
▸“Neoliberalism Is Over”Naked Capitalism · yesterday
Richard Murphy argues neoliberalism is not over despite protests in France, Italy, Spain, Albania, and elsewhere.
▸무역위원회, 중국산 아연도금냉연에 최대 33.67％ 덤핑방지관세연합뉴스 (Yonhap, 경제) · yesterday
KFTC recommended 22.34% to 33.67% anti-dumping duties on Chinese galvanized cold-rolled products.
▸Prediction Markets Are AccurateMarginal Revolution · yesterday
A new paper analyzing over one million resolved contracts from Polymarket, Kalshi, Manifold, and Metaculus argues that prediction markets are accurate.

Science (8)

▸Where Did the Light Come From? Diagnosing Cast-Shadow Reasoning in VLMs and Borrowing the Missing Shadow Prior from Image Generation ModelsarXiv cs.CV · yesterday
ShadowBench evaluated 19 VLMs and found only Gemini-3.1-pro exceeded chance on physical consistency, though routing VLMs through image generation models improved inference.
▸A Quadratic Lens on Muon's Polar Update: Benefits, Pitfalls, and the Role of Newton-SchulzarXiv cs.LG · yesterday
In a transformer trained with Muon, about a quarter of attention matrix singular values fall in a slow regime where few Newton-Schulz iterations converge faster than exact orthogonalization.
▸SWE-VERIFIER: Selective Verification for Cost-Efficient Coding AgentsarXiv cs.LG · yesterday
Researchers introduced SWE-Verifier, a Qwen3.5-4B model, which improved DeepSeek-V4-Flash resolution from 72.60% to 74.27% while verifying fewer than 4% of steps.
▸UniGuard: Multi-View Guardrail Learning for Cross-Interface Safety GeneralizationarXiv cs.CL · yesterday
Researchers proposed UniGuard-0.6B, which improves over pretrained guardrails by 45.12 F1 points on unseen-interface benchmarks using only synthetic data.
▸Guilt by Association: Semantic Leakage Drives Associative Gender BiasarXiv cs.CL · 2d ago
The study found that both engaging with and merely having gendered concepts in a scene shift model generation toward stereotypes to a similar extent.
▸Metric Conformal Prediction via the Conditional Expected Local RadiusarXiv stat.ML · yesterday
Authors introduce the conditional expected local radius (CELR) method for non-Euclidean responses in general metric spaces.
▸Dimension-free regimes for unadjusted Langevin in ridge-separable models: A subspace robust Wasserstein analysisarXiv stat.ML · yesterday
Authors proved dimension-free complexity for Unadjusted Langevin Algorithm in ridge-separable models when data points $N$ exceed dimension $d$.
▸PerMIT: Securing Persistent Memory for LLM Agents via Machine-Checked Integrity Theorems and Scalable Community TrustarXiv cs.AI · 2d ago
PerMIT secured persistent memory for LLM agents, achieving zero attack successes on the Trojan Hippo benchmark and enabling 90-agent communities on the $\tau^2$-bench.

World (8)

▸Iran war live: Trump hints new strikes, says US knocked ‘hell out’ of IranAl Jazeera · yesterday
Trump indicates new strikes on Iran, saying the US has knocked the 'hell out' of the country.
▸Ukraine says Starlink still restricted after Trump says limits liftedBBC News · yesterday
On October 22, Ukraine reported Starlink restrictions persisted at 161km/h despite Donald Trump claiming Elon Musk lifted them.
▸Iran war live: Tehran says US military banned entirely from Gulf entryAl Jazeera · today
Iran top general says US military vessels will not be allowed to enter the Gulf "under any circumstances."
▸Who actually controls Ukraine's access to Starlink?BBC News · today
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky claims unexplained limits affect forces using the 10,000-satellite network, while US officials and Elon Musk offer conflicting accounts on who controls access.
▸Israeli soldiers raze neighbourhood in Hebron, driving families from homesThe Guardian · today
Israeli troops razed 35 hectares in Hebron's Ein Deir Baha, driving out 1,500 people in collective punishment.
▸As a divided Israel prepares to go to the polls, can Netanyahu pull off his greatest political trick yet?The Guardian · today
Benjamin Netanyahu faces Gadi Eisenkot in Tuesday's Israeli general election as the former prime minister prepares for his greatest political trick yet.
▸Seoul mayor acquitted on appeal in political funds caseThe Korea Herald · yesterday
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon was acquitted on appeal after the court found insufficient evidence he asked broker Myung T to solicit funds, canceling a 10 million won fine.
▸Seoul proposes military talks with Pyongyang as border tensions riseThe Korea Herald · yesterday
South Korea proposed military talks with North Korea after a mine blast injured troops, with Kim Hong-cheol suggesting UN Command involvement.

Today's digest, illustrated

A chaotic editorial illustration blending a server room filled with dismantled RTX 5090s and glowing Blackwell GPUs with a fractured map of the Middle East where Israeli tanks and Iranian missiles collide in a storm of digital code and smoke, all under a harsh, flickering fluorescent light that casts long, anxious shadows across a desk cluttered with crashing stock tickers, leaking PHP exploits, and abstract data streams representing AI bias and memory integrity, rendered in a gritty, high-contrast style that evokes the tension of a breaking news cycle.