Month: October 2026

Air campaign against Houthis under way in Yemen, says Saudi-led coalitionAir campaign against Houthis under way in Yemen, says Saudi-led coalition

Operation supported by 100 fighter jets said to have secured ‘air protection’ of Bab al-Mandab strait and destroyed hundreds of targets Leaders of a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen claimed a broad air campaign involving 100 jet aircraft was under way on Monday against the Iran-backed Houthi rebels along the Red ...

arXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI SloparXiv Is Rate Limiting Submissions Because It Can’t Keep up With AI Slop

arXiv, an open-access repository where researchers publish preprint academic research, has announced it will rate limit submissions because it has been inundated with AI-written papers. A researcher can now only send in two pieces per calendar month and have a total of three active submissions at any given time. In ...

Meta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before LaunchMeta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape’ Vulnerability Soon Before Launch

In the immediate weeks before Muse’s launch, Meta engineers found several security vulnerabilities in the company’s viral AI agent product, at least one of which could have allowed malicious users to break outside of Muse’s intended environment and access Meta’s own sensitive databases and services, 404 Media has learned. The ...

Iran’s oil minister resigns as country’s economic crisis worsensIran’s oil minister resigns as country’s economic crisis worsens

Departure comes amid large drop in oil receipts, rampant inflation and shrinking economy Iran’s oil minister has resigned days after allegations that an intermediary trust selling Iranian oil abroad owed millions of dollars’ worth of export receipts to the state. Mohsen Paknejad’s departure comes as Iran grapples with a dire ...