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State of (in)security - Week 41, 2026

In week 41 of 2026 (Oct 5-12), advisories rose to 22 from 15 and incidents is slightly lower to 25 from 26. The known impacted individuals jumped to 11.3 million, driven mostly by the Denmark Population Registry breach (8.8 million). Unauthorized access and third-party compromise were the leading causes. Key threats are actively exploited flaws in Atlassian, Citrix NetScaler, AhsayCBS, and Rejetto HFS, an autonomous AI agent chaining Zammad zero-days. Note the DNS hijacking of three national top-level domains, and an IDC Frontier ransomware attack that disrupted 495 organizations in Japan.

**Update Google Chrome to version 155.0.8059.39/.40 now, along with Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldi and any other Chromium-based browser, since your tabs reopen after the restart. Treat any unexpected partnership or “new markets” offer as a possible attack until you’ve verified the company yourself in the official business register. Never install meeting software, open documents or log into portals they send, and never share registration papers, director IDs or bank details with an unverified partner.**
#cybersecurity #infosec #knowledge #weeklyreport
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/state-of-in-security-week-41-2026-6-x-q-6-p/gD2P6Ple2L

Interesting article: what is currently known as "reasoning" in LLMs really isn't. The author suggests to introduce a new form of reasoning inspired by how AlphaGo did it (on which the author worked on).

I think that the last two or three years that has been already happening, although on a much less tighter loop: the recent improvements in coding and math can be traced back to such approaches. The question is how to generalize this to the general domain. The article doesn't offer much detail there (I mean, it's an article in Technology Review, I wouldn't expect it), but that would be interesting.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/10/02/1145639/dont-be-fooled-llms-dont-reason/

#ai #reasoning #alphago #knowledge

👩‍🦳 Menopause-related changes to the body may happen suddenly, rather than being a gradual part of aging, a new study shows. Researchers analysed the results of over 300 million lab tests - for bone health, liver and kidney function, the immune system, and more. Around the time of menopause, the results of more than half of the tests tended to suddenly shift for women, whereas changes happened gradually in men. However, the size of the sudden changes was smaller in women taking menopausal hormonal therapy. The researchers also found that levels of reproductive hormones started changing over a decade before women's periods stopped.

🗨️ University of the Sunshine Coast, The University of Melbourne, and Macquarie University experts have responded to the research.

✨Follow the link to read the full expert reaction✨

https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/menopause-linked-to-physiological-cliff-across-the-body

#science #sciencenews #research #stem #facts #knowledge #sciencefacts #menopause #womenshealth

https://www.europesays.com/africa/470123/ Major diamond discovery revitalises Namibia prospects #b2b #bangles #BusinessToBusiness #chain #charms #consumer #DeBeers #DeBeersGroup #Directory #Fairs #industry #Information #JAA #Jeweller #jewellery #Knowledge #magazine #Namibia #NamibianGovernment #NetumboNandiNdaitwah #news #Oranjemund #Oshiwambo #Owishi #productivity #products #retailers #sales #services #SouthernCoastalMine #stores #Subscribers #suppliers #trends #Watches

Tru2Day2746

https://tapan4evr.blog/2026/10/12/tru2day2746/

When Physics Runs Out of Answers, Does Metaphysics Have Any? Does science explain reality, or merely describe it? And what happens when our questions outlive the frameworks that make them intelligible?

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/when-physics-runs-out-of-answers?r=pvxh5&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#philosophy #science #writing #video #epistmology #language #ontology #realism #physics #limits #knowledge #blog #substack #podcast

The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/2109361546505966046

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50047422

#HackerNews #LLM #capabilities #AI #understanding #knowledge #gap #technology