Access will be capped at 1% of Grindr’s global monthly users, even if demand exceeds supply, with early access opening Nov. 10 and rollout Nov. 17. The $120 tier adds AI tools Insights and Reconnect plus a redesigned app.
Using Claude’s Opus and Sonnet on a consumer laptop, Chris Nesbitt-Smith found vulnerabilities in roughly two-thirds of 349 UK public-sector codebases across 33 organizations. One exposed credentials with complete Entra ID access; the agency fixed it within 20 minutes.
Nearly 55,000 people signed a petition delivered to Google’s London headquarters in November 2026, opposing its planned Thurrock data center over habitat and pollution concerns. Google said the project prioritizes biodiversity and emissions reduction.
Launched November 5, 2026, the UK startup has raised tens of millions of dollars from SovAI and Twin Path Ventures. Its physics-based simulations will generate biochemical datasets to train models that predict drug–protein interactions and help compounds fail fast.
Executives at roughly 50 companies report negligible activity from AI shopping agents: DoorDash saw orders in the “hundreds,” while T-Mobile said “nothing of significance.” That contrasts with Mark Zuckerberg’s claim that 10 million+ people activated Muse in the US and Canada.
A tampered Claude Code extension reached up to 5,000 Cursor developer machines during an 11-hour window on Oct. 30, 2026, before removal. A flaw largely blocked its backdoor, and Anthropic said its systems were not compromised.
OTW says AO3’s user database does not appear to have been stolen, but urges all users to change their passwords after the October 29 security incident. The 18-million-work platform could return in a degraded state before the potential four-week outage ends.
Mistral says its finalized, freely available Le Chonk matches or beats DeepSeek and Z.ai on coding and cybersecurity after training on harder problems. The open-weight model has 1 trillion parameters and targets enterprise and government cyber defense.
AI-assisted formal verification cut one engineering project from five months of work by three experts to under half a day for less than $500. Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun’s team also used AI to verify part of Signal’s encryption code.
Bluesky says it blocked links to the Icepick archive because it exposes personal contact information without authorization, including names, emails, and phone numbers. The records cover more than 41,000 DHS employees and contractors.
A 16-year-old buffer overflow in EDK II’s PXE-Base Code driver enables code execution before Secure Boot or TPM defenses activate. CVE-2026-97631 is rated 9.5/10 and was disclosed in October 2026 after a premature leak.
Macmillan launched NOA in January 2024 with balloons and doughnuts, but staff called the Chaptr-built chatbot unreliable and largely ignored it. The publisher shut it down in October 2025, less than two years later.
