Briefs

Afternoon briefs

Short items from today's intake that did not lead a full story, each with its source. Nothing here is a stitched article — every item stands on its own outlet.

Reported with AI assistance from public sources. Every item below names its outlet and links to it. An editor pass and fact-check ran on the edition's full stories before publication. — Align Newsroom, part of Creytix.

ai

Full story: Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash promises speed and lower cost with longer clips

Secret scanning upgrades detectors, adds SpaceX as partner — GitHub — Changelog

MS Paint Remote Code Execution Vulnerability — Hacker News — Front Page

New NVIDIA Cosmos 3 Open Models for Interactive World Simulation — Hugging Face — Blog

OpenAI’s New Data Center Pitch Starts With Letting Officials Talk — The Neuron — Newsletter

rust-v0.168.0-alpha.7 — OpenAI Codex — Releases (watched repo)

California Gov Newsom commutes death sentences for all 548 people on death row — Hacker News — Front Page

OpenAI Found 948 Ways to Get Root Access in Linux. That’s Progress. — The Neuron — Newsletter

money

Full story: Nvidia and SpaceX shed billions as tech and AI stocks plunge

A Wall Street, la victoire démocrate aux midterms a fait exploser la bulle de l’IA — Le Monde

Data centers, rare earths among top priorities in Japan's growth strategy — Nikkei Asia

technology

Full story: Chinese chipmaker Hua Hong bets big on silicon photonics amid AI boom

us-politics

US midterms live: Nasdaq plunges 5.5% on AI regulation fears — Nikkei Asia

Melania Trump calls for lasting Ukraine truce as she hosts Russian and Ukrainian officials — BBC News — World

world

Full story: Fighting won't stop — Ethiopia clashes drive thousands into Kenya

Israeli demolitions displace more than 100 Palestinians in Biddu — Al Jazeera English

El gobernador Gavin Newsom conmuta las 548 penas de muerte en California por cadenas perpetuas — BBC Mundo

Spain: Zelensky urges Latin America to help repair Ukraine's power grid — Euronews

Le ciel européen en état d’alerte après des menaces visant une vingtaine de vols commerciaux — Le Monde

Why the next US House speaker won’t follow Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan playbook — South China Morning Post

Moonshot 2026: Experts call for urgent reforms to unlock intra-African trade {Business Africa} — Africanews

Hoax bomb threats force emergency landings, evacuations across Europe — Al Jazeera English