Good Monday morning, I’m on my second coffee of the day already so please excuse any jitters that come through today’s newsletter. We’ve got a big constitutionality ruling on Flock, a scoop about a major fire Meta needed to put out pre-Muse launch, and a lot more from trawling the ...
Month: October 2026
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 ...
King’s funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against policeKing’s funding for Andrew not to be used for legal action against police
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking action over search warrants issued ahead of his arrest in February. ...
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 ...
No10 insists UK military base RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombersNo10 insists UK military base RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week. ...
No 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombersNo 10 insists RAF Fairford is safe after US withdraws bombers
US media reported a new threat led to the bombers being removed on Sunday, following an incident near the base last week. ...
What we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s legal action against policeWhat we know about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s legal action against police
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is taking legal action against Thames Valley Police over his arrest in February. ...
Twelve arrests after protest over migrant boat arrivalTwelve arrests after protest over migrant boat arrival
Flares were set off and there were a few scuffles with police during the stand-off in Gosport. ...
Washington has picked a side in Ethiopia’s new warWashington has picked a side in Ethiopia’s new war
There is new cause for alarm in the Horn of Africa. A week after a coalition of seven opposition groups announced an alliance to overthrow the government of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, fighting has broken out across several regions of the country of 130 million people. Led by the ...