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20 October 2026 · 5 min read
Softwarecurl takes low-severity bugs public: when triage costs more than the bug
From 26 October, curl handles low and medium severity reports in the open. The reason isn't ideological: over 90% of what arrives isn't serious, and the maintainers are at breaking point.
19 October 2026 · 5 min read
ITThree days to patch BIG-IP APM: you no longer set the schedule
CISA added the F5 BIG-IP APM flaw to its known-exploited catalogue on 22 September, with a 25 September deadline and mandatory evidence collection before patching. Three days. In 2023 it was twenty-one.
18 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic sets aside 5% of its shares for a public benefit fund, with more to come if it grows
Anthropic has created the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund and committed 5% of the company's shares to it, plus a further 2% for every 50% rise in value above a baseline that has not been published. It is a limited company wholly owned by Anthropic rather than a charity, and the move still needs stockholder approval.
16 October 2026 · 5 min read
SoftwarePostgreSQL 19 slips because AI review finds more bugs than anyone has time to fix
Version 19 moves to mid-November and loses eight to ten features. The stated reason is the interesting bit: finding defects has become cheap, fixing them hasn't. What that means for anyone wiring an automated reviewer into their CI.
15 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic embeds six external evaluators inside the company: METR will publish its findings, with no veto
On 15 October 2026 Anthropic announced that a METR team is already working with company hardware, desk space and access to internal tools roughly on a par with its own risk teams. It can publish its analyses without prior approval; the company can only require redactions from pre-agreed categories.
15 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic measures political use of Claude: 5.75% of US conversations, and 0.002% that break the rules
On 14 October 2026 Anthropic published its election safeguards update ahead of the US midterms: usage data on political conversations, official voting information inside Claude's answers, three external bias audits and new classifiers against multi-step campaigns.
14 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic opens Singapore office and signs memorandum with the Government: model evaluation, red teaming and 1,500 public-sector engineers using Claude Code
On 14 October 2026 Anthropic announced its fifth office in Asia-Pacific, in Singapore, along with a memorandum of understanding with the Ministry of Digital Development and Information covering safety, model evaluation and responsible adoption across the public and private sectors.
14 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceGemini 4 Argon launches cheap and goes up on 1 December: the price with an expiry date
Simon Willison has updated llm-gemini for Google's new model. The interesting bit isn't the SVG pelican: it's that the launch price doubles in December, and that the number that actually matters isn't the one in the pricing table.
12 October 2026 · 6 min read
Artificial intelligenceA photo of a bathroom and the exact house: stripping EXIF no longer anonymises anything
Raven, the Graylark tool already bought by two US law enforcement agencies, pinpoints the specific home where an interior photo was taken by matching it against Airbnb or Zillow listings. No metadata involved. What actually changes for anyone storing users' photos.
9 October 2026 · 5 min read
ITA 17,600-dollar bill and two support teams passing it back and forth: Azure credits didn't cover Claude
A Norwegian startup deployed Claude inside Microsoft Foundry assuming its Azure credits paid for it. They didn't: it went through Marketplace, on a separate billing pipeline. Now Microsoft points at Anthropic and Anthropic points back at Microsoft.
9 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic commits 150 million dollars to the Genesis Mission: Claude enters fifteen federal agencies
The company announced on 8 October 2026 a three-year commitment to the US federal science programme. The money will fund credits, licences and support for several hundred research projects, with fusion energy and quantum computing named as priorities.
9 October 2026 · 5 min read
Artificial intelligenceAnthropic launches the Cyber Mission: eleven partners for critical infrastructure and a free scanner for open source
On 8 October 2026 Anthropic unveiled the Anthropic Cyber Mission, on two fronts: an operational technology defence programme with eleven founding partners, and OSS Scanner, a free service that scans open-source projects with its most capable models and sends reports with no human review.