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Atlanta-based Tractian, which uses AI and sensors to predict machine failures and recommend maintenance, raised a $130M Series D at a $1.4B valuation (Rocket Drew/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/exclusive-physical-ai-s…

Exclusive: Physical AI Startup Tractian Becomes a Unicorn
Tractian, a 7-year-old physical AI startup based in Atlanta, Georgia, has raised $130 million at a valuation of $1.4 billion in a Series D funding round led by Sapphire Ventures. Tractian provides sensors to assess the condition of machines, predicting how long it will take for them to fail and recommending maintenance plans. Many machines are “completely naked in terms of hardware

Oh ffs, Python's certificate storage is more fucked up; If you think your updated ca-certificates were enough, nope, still fucked:
https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsig…

Information for Python users regarding eMudhra / emSign CA certificate security incident
A security incident affecting eMudhra intermediate certificates has required removing the emSign root CA certificate from CA bundles such as “certifi”. It’s important to immediately upgrade the software packages below to at least the versions specified and rebuild container images to fetch the latest system certificates. Failure to do so could result in monster-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks against TLS clients, including python.org and pypi.org . certifi 2026.10.19 (1) pip 26.2.2 uv 0.13…

Great coverage of the botched Christa Pike execution and how it pertains to the death penalty overall. And why the secrecy surrounding the process?
https://www.propublica.org/article/christa-pike-tennessee-execution-lethal-injection-failure

Why Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen Anywhere
The complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida.

I criticize #Japanese companies a lot, but I do like this aspect of #Japan corporate culture - executives taking pay cuts in response to #company failures - in this case, actions by subordinates.
Can you even …

Whatever the arguments about the usefulness (or not) of #LLM's in coding it won't be long before we start seeing some truly spectacular failures from those orgs that have wired up agents to approve other agents work.

Performance by model. Zero failure rates indicate the two models that refused to provide an answer when the task was too long.

Don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial infosec developments you should know today, including
--DHS orders DeepSeek out of federal civilian systems,
--FBI probe uncovers ransomware negotiators’ close ShinyHunters ties,
--Army wants AI agents to hack and disable enemy systems,
--OpenAI bugging suspect held without bail amid Saudi royal ties,
--WhatsApp chatbot instructions told users not to contact regulators,
--Hackers reportedly steal 421k emails from Germany’s far-right AfD,
--Nikkei’s third breach in a month exposes 1.83m records,
--China-linked AI agent tied to attacks on Japanese firms,
--Microsoft treats AI agents as potential insider threats,
--MiniMax touts cybersecurity gains and 70% cost cut for M3.1 Flash,
--Hackers hit unpatched Plex servers with cryptominers,
--ConnectWise breach compromises at least 162 Microsoft 365 tenants,
--Ahold Delhaize confirms cyberattack behind US and European outages,
--Vibe coders strip smart TVs of ads and tracking,
--Wyden flags encryption gap across 350 federal web addresses,
--UK financial regulator calls for reporting AI failures and near-misses,
--Australia plans to sue social platforms over under-16 ban violations,
--Muse sells a keyboard and sends a stranger to the seller’s home
https://www.metacurity.com/dhs-orders-deepseek-out-of-federal-civilian-systems/

I'm working on a paper on the limits of AI "annotations" substituting for human judgement and informed coding, especially in the social sciences.
Please share examples of (1) LLMs being used as primary sources of evaluation in published research; (2) experiments demonstrating failure modes. «

#AI

Well this is annoying: https://blakecrosley.com/blog/xcode-27-build-failures-ld64-clang-modules