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  1. Help Net Security

    Companies want autonomous IT operations but hesitate to let AI act alone

    Ninety percent of companies want to move toward autonomous IT operations over the next two years, with agentic AI, software that plans and carries out multi-step tasks on its own, doing the work. Yet 77 percent say their own organization hesitates to let AI make an operational decision without a...

  2. Security Week

    Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad

    Researchers from George Washington University have published a paper examining whether the time and cause of AI going rogue can be predicted. The post Formula Predicts When AI Chatbots Are at Risk of Turning Bad appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  3. Wired

    Livestream Replay: Watch ‘Uncanny Valley’ on Women, Tech, and Power

    Missed our latest WIRED@Night event? Enjoy an evening of podcasting in San Francisco right here.

  4. NY Times

    Before Computer Science Became a Boys’ Club, Margaret Hamilton Wrote the Code

    The woman who helped put astronauts on the moon was a software engineer when the field was not prestigious or lucrative.

  5. CIO

    Google wants to be the gatekeeper for enterprise AI agents

    Google seems to be making a strategic play to control the AI infrastructure layer, not just roll out another shiny new agent. At its Gemini at Work 2026 event this week, the tech giant unveiled what it calls a “single, universal agent” and API in Gemini that can be kicked off from a simple prompt...

  6. NY Times

    Clinical Trial Indicates A.I. Chatbots Could Aid Urgent Care

    Nearly 100 patients discussed their maladies with a Google bot, called AMIE, before meeting with physicians.

  7. Wired

    ICE Emails Discuss Using Palantir-Supported Tool to Investigate Voter Fraud

    Documents obtained by Democracy Forward show that ICE looked into feeding voter roll data into the ELITE tool, normally used to identify targets for deportation.

  8. Wired

    Inside Elon Musk’s Midterm Spending Spree

    This week on “Uncanny Valley,” we discuss where Elon Musk’s PAC is spending millions, the latest ideology Trump claims is dangerous, and the backlash against the designer behind Muse’s logo.

  9. Dark Reading

    'AgentCorruption' Puts AWS Environments At Risk With Single Prompt

    A now-patched vulnerability in AWS Bedrock AgentCore could allow an attacker to use one AI chatbot to take over an organization's entire fleet.

  10. CTO Magazine

    Is Employee Monitoring Creating a New Mental Health Risk?

    Technology, Work, and Organizational Change: Technology adoption continues to reshape how work is organized, performed, and managed across enterprises. This series examines the impact of automation, digital platforms, and intelligent systems on workforce structures, skills, and collaboration. It...

  11. CIO Dive

    Google unifies fragmented AI agents into a single hub

    The new offering signals a shift in agentic work from assistance to proactive task completion, according to Gartner Senior Director Analyst Joe Mariano.

  12. The Next Web

    Amazon builds 1,000th satellite, says space internet service is weeks away

    Amazon has built its 1,000th broadband satellite and says service is weeks away, having cut production from 27 satellites in six months to 27 a week, while the number in orbit is still 396. That shortfall cost it spectrum priority in July, and the FCC will hand it back early if Amazon proves it has...

  13. CIO Dive

    US authorities crack down on IT outsourcing

    The Department of Labor suspended Microsoft, Cognizant, Adobe and other IT services firms from the permanent labor certification program Thursday.

  14. Wired

    She Designed Meta’s New AI Logo. Then Came the Hate

    Jessica Hische knew working for Meta might upset some people. But she didn’t anticipate just how angry they would get.

  15. Wired

    Trump Administration Cuts Off Access to a Major Immigration Program for Workers at Microsoft and Adobe

    “There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.

  16. Dark Reading

    Venezuelan Cartel's Malware Honcho Nabbed for ATM Jackpotting

    The first cybercriminal to ever make the FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list allegedly infused Tren de Aragua's violent criminal operations with cash.

  17. CSO Online

    Growing PQC at the edge belies deeper quantum-readiness challenges

    The quantum threat is becoming an increasing concern for security leaders, but many may be mistaking protection at their website’s front door for quantum readiness across their business. More than half (54%) of the world’s top 1 million websites now support post-quantum key exchange, according to...

  18. The Hacker News

    FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails

    Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast Asia, the FBI and agencies in 6 other countries said on October 8. The company, Integrity Technology Group, has been...

  19. The Next Web

    Apple moves its deal team back under the CFO after seven years

    Apple is moving its mergers and acquisitions team back under chief financial officer Kevan Parekh, who ended the company’s net cash neutral policy in May in a move analysts read as room to buy things. It also promoted Carson Oliver to run the App Store, a job that is now mostly about European...

  20. Dark Reading

    Russian Spies Give 'MatchBoil' Malware a Stealthy Facelift

    Cyber-espionage actor UAC-0099 has been steadily refining its flagship dropper in campaigns targeting Ukrainian organizations.