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A trojanized coding extension, a $500 billion Alphabet sell-off, and Meta pulling a Muse Image feature after a privacy backlash.
October 31, 2026 · 6 stories
Samsung's in-app notice says its built-in news app, widget and home-screen feed shut down on December 21, 2026, with user data deleted after; confirmed so far only in India and South Korea.
Source: SamMobileA trojanized build of Anthropic's Claude Code extension (versions 2.1.312/2.1.313) was distributed via Cursor's marketplace on October 29, attempting to plant an SSH backdoor; Cursor says at most 5,000 users were exposed and the package is removed.
Source: The Hacker NewsMeta has withdrawn a Muse Image feature that let users generate images using public Instagram accounts as visual references, after backlash over the setting being on by default; new controls let users decide whether their public content can be used.
Source: Marketing-InteractiveOpenAI is tightening limits on the weapons-related information ChatGPT gives teens, even when a question appears harmless, and will auto-end chats where a user appears to be fixating on violence; the safeguards roll out over the next few weeks.
Source: Channel News AsiaAlphabet shares fell nearly 13% on Thursday, wiping out roughly $500 billion in market value — its worst day since going public — as record $51.4 billion quarterly AI spending and slowing search-ad growth rattled investors, despite cloud revenue doubling.
Source: The Motley FoolOpenAI has cut the target for its latest funding round by $10 billion to about $20 billion at a $1.25 trillion valuation, the Financial Times reports, down from the $30 billion at above $1.4 trillion reported earlier in October; OpenAI did not comment.
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