Gemma in Space, France Taxes the Gigabyte, and ChatGPT's Share-Link Oopsie

▸ • Google's Project Suncatcher satellite successfully booted up its TPUs and Gemma 4 model in space, generating a haiku from orbit.

▸ • French lawmakers narrowly approved a controversial tax of 5.5 cents per gigabyte of internet traffic, potentially costing 11 euros just to download GTA 6.

▸ • A critical vulnerability in ChatGPT's share-link feature allowed attackers to run code in logged-in sessions, which OpenAI has now patched.

🛰️ Google's AI Goes to Space

Google's Project Suncatcher satellite successfully booted up its TPUs and Gemma 4 model in orbit. Its first act? Generating a haiku about being in space, proving that even in the cold vacuum of the cosmos, AI is still a poet at heart.

🍎 Apple Intelligence Heads to China

Apple is finally bringing its AI features to China with the upcoming iOS 27.3 release. The beta drops November 4th, proving that even walled gardens need to expand their borders eventually.

OpenAI, Google, Microsoft, and Anthropic are backing a new standard that lets publishers opt out of being scraped by AI. It's like a 'Do Not Call' registry, but for hungry language models.

💼 Salesforce's Defense Tech Play

Salesforce is reportedly dropping $375M to acquire AI logistics startup Rune. The move will bolster their Missionforce defense platform, because CRM apparently stands for 'Combat Readiness Management' now.

🔓 The ChatGPT Share-Link Hijack

Security firm Parameter.ai discovered a nasty flaw where a malicious ChatGPT share link could run attacker code in a logged-in session. The exploit combined MathLive with an HTML preview to bypass sandboxing, letting attackers read private chats. OpenAI patched it and paid out a $5,000 bounty.

🧠 Sam Altman Wants Your RAM

Amidst an ongoing RAM shortage, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman went on a podcast to declare that it's 'terrible' to have RAM in personal PCs instead of data centers. Because why own your hardware when you can rent it back from the cloud at a premium?

💰 Nvidia the Cosigner

When investors get jittery about AI spending, it helps to have the chipmaker step in. Nvidia is reportedly weighing playing cosigner for Nscale's new AI data center in West Virginia, proving they're not just selling the shovels, they're financing the gold rush.

🔑 The Certificate Authority That Used '4' as a Key

Cloudflare is tracking the fallout from eMudhra, a Certificate Authority that shockingly used the number '4' as a private key instead of a 115-digit number. Cloudflare has patched their systems, but embedded browsers and bots are still lagging behind in rejecting the weak keys.

☁️ Cloudflare Opens Up Private Origins

Public traffic to private origins, complete with WAF, bot management, caching, and Workers, is now generally available for all Cloudflare One customers.

📱 Molly (Signal Fork) Left Vulnerable

The privacy-focused Signal fork Molly hasn't seen an update in three months and is currently sitting on known vulnerabilities. A stark reminder that open-source forks are only as secure as their maintainers' free time.

🇫🇷 France's Gigabyte Tax

French lawmakers narrowly passed a bill taxing internet traffic at 5.5 cents per gigabyte. If it survives the Senate, downloading the 200GB GTA 6 could cost platforms an extra 11 euros in taxes.

🎓 Serbia's Brainy Parliament

In a bizarre twist of electoral politics, Serbia just elected what is being called the 'world's brainiest parliament.' We're not sure what the IQ cutoff was, but we're taking notes.